Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay wants QB Jared Goff to attack opposing defenses more aggressively, evidenced by one particularly play in the team's Sunday night win over the Dallas Cowboys.

On first down with 3:34 left in the game, Sean McVay called a play-action bootleg for Goff. The defenders bit on the fake, leaving open the left side of the field. Goff scrambled for a four-yard gain and slid down, but he missed WR Cooper Kupp streaking across the middle of the field after he had dusted Dallas' Anthony Brown.

Goff was trying to play it safe and not force a turnover, but, as Chris Collinsworth noted on the Sunday Night Football broadcast, Goff could have hit Kupp deep and iced the game.

On the Coach McVay Show this week, Rams announcer J.B. Long began to ask McVay about the bootleg, but McVay jumped the question to encourage his QB to make the bold throw in future instances.

“Don’t say it. I mean, come on,” McVay said. “We gotta make a play! We gotta do it! If you’re asking, you know the question, baby. Let’s go. You want a walk-off and go up 10 or freaking have to punt it back and watch your defense get a stop?”

The Rams coach added that his desire for Goff to make those plays is reflective of his confidence in the fourth-year QB.

“It was a smart decision but in all seriousness, that’s a reflection of the confidence I have in Jared to be able to make those plays,” McVay said. “He’s got such an ability to boot either way – that gives us a big difference. Got ‘em in a man-coverage situation and Cooper won his route and those are plays that [I] want him to be able to aggressively compete because he can make those and that’s a reflection of the confidence we have in him.”

In the end, the Rams held on for a 20-17 victory. Goff threw for 275 yards on 20-for-31 passing and an interception.