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Jon Gruden left Football Night of Monday stand for an NFL head coach job and another NFL head coach apparently got a pitch from ESPN over making the opposite move.
Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that ESPN approached Rams head coach Sean McVay about taking an analyst job for Monday’s slate games. Per Marchand, the network thinks McVay would be a ‘standout’ in that role.
McVay did not take the job and is preparing for his fourth season as head coach of the Rams. While it may seem like a long shot that McVay would be looking for another line of work at 34, he did talk about the possibility that the workload required of an NFL head coach could lead to him burning out. A TV show would offer a lot of money and a much less tax scheme, so it would come up for discussion again in the future.
With McVay staying in Los Angeles, ESPN will advance with Steve Levy, Louis Riddick and Brian Griese as the main broadcast team on Monday nights this season.
