The NFL world is grappling with how to best handle health and safety protocols given the persistent public-health crisis that is COVID-19. For Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay, that could mean postponing some events, via McVay's appearance on podcast “The Helliepod”:

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“Something about it tells me that maybe there’s a chance that things get moved back,” McVay said, via ProFootballTalk. “We’re gonna have a great plan. Whether we get a chance to execute that plan now or a little bit later remains to be seen. But I am confident we’ll have a season. We’ll be able to play football. Whether or not it goes exactly on the schedule that we’ve all seen, that’s something I’m a little skeptical of right now.”

McVay, 34, entering his fourth season in charge of the Rams, expressed skepticism in the current schedule for NFL events. Already, the league has seen the players union (the NFLPA) push for a reduction in preseason games, which originally started at four and now could just be two per team—with the union pushing for no exhibition contests at all.

The Rams are coming off a 9-7 season one year removed from making their first Super Bowl appearance in 17 years. A Coach of the Year for the Rams in his debut season in 2017, McVay is among NFL coaches who have to adapt on the fly with changing protocols and measures by the league with coronavirus threatening to change the normal routine of spring and summer workouts and the preseason training camp.