With so much going right for the Rams thus far from a talent and coaching standpoint, it’s easy to forget they’ve also been the beneficiaries of good health.

Yes, there have been injuries to starters such as Kavon Webster and Lamarcus Joyner in which games were lost and backups were pressed into duty. But even in Webster and Joyner’s case, the problems were minimal and mitigated and both returned.

Such seems to be the case as the Rams head into their bye week, with only center John Sullivan among the walking wounded upon returning home from London and even in his case — a leg injury — the issue seems minimal rather than worrisome.

“I haven’t had a chance to sit down with (the training staff), but … I think he’s going to be OK,” Rams coach Sean McVay said. “I think the early results – I haven’t talked to him since we got the MRI back, but I think he’s going to be OK.”

From McVay’s vantage point, the injury to Sullivan appears the only issue heading into the bye week.

“Yeah, that’s the only injury,” he said. “Everybody else came out clean and I think he should be good to go.”

And that’s a major positive as far as McVay is concerned. As the second half approaches the Rams seems perfectly positioned from a health standpoint. For which McVay pays a big tribute to the Rams training staff.

“Yeah, I think really you go back to it and I think when you look at what Reggie Scott and Ted Rath have implemented in terms of guys following their processes, their procedures for trying to stay as healthy and as fresh as possible, I think that’s been instrumental,” McVay said. “Fortunately, we’ve gotten some luck, too, because I think you look at just some of the injuries around the league and they’re unfortunately unavoidable with the collisions and the types of things that do occur. So, I think we’ve gotten some fortunate luck with that, but then I think also a large part of it, especially with the soft tissue injuries, those things that you do feel like can be avoided by taking great care of yourself is a real credit to our training staff and really our strength staff.”

BUY-IN FACTOR

McVay had major work ahead of himself when he took over the Rams last January, A wounded franchise needed major rehabilitation, with a new message and approach the key to everything. The key for McVay was the willing ears he encountered upon taking over.

These Rams, it seemed, wanted to be led.

“Well, I think when you get good people that are bought in, it’s just taking it one day at a time. I think we’ve got a lot of people pushing in the same direction and I think that’s very critical for what we want to try to accomplish both as a coaching staff and with our players,” McVay said. “Then you talk about it, I think it’s been instrumental being able to bring in some of the veteran players that we have, accompanied with some of the players that were already in this locker room. I think you look at bringing in an Andrew Whitworth, a John Sullivan, a Connor Barwin, the Kayvon Webster and then you combine them with Jared Goff, Todd Gurley, Robert Woods, bringing him in and Sammy (Watkins).

“Then you look at some of the other guys on the defense with Aaron (Donald), Alec (Ogletree), Michael Brockers, so I think when you combine a lot of the strong pieces they had in place with some guys outside of the organization and then you draft people that you feel like are good people, but then also good football players, I think you give yourself a chance to do things the right way.

“We’re only seven games into this, but I think being focused on that process and then having some of your best players and your leaders set the standard day-in and day-out is going to be key for us moving forward. Really, I’ve talked about my grandfather’s influence on me going back to just his experiences with the 49ers and I think you try to kind of mimic and emulate some of those things that you believe in, and that’s what we feel like we’re trying to do here.”

TIME OFF, BUT WHAT TO DO?

No one has earned time off more than McVay. And he’s looking forward to some down time.

“I think really after today we’re kind of going to get things wrapped up. I think the nice thing about living in this area is that you don’t have to go too far to feel like you can still get away and enjoy the beach or whatever that might be,” he said. “But, I think it will be important for me to be able to get away for a couple days and just like we talk about with the players, get refreshed and get recharged.

“We’ll do a little work here and there because you do enjoy doing some things, but I will try to catch up on some rest and get away, whether you go to Santa Barbara or somewhere like that – I’ll figure that out a little bit later this afternoon and those are good things when you live in such a nice area.”