Sean McVay has never been reluctant to put the quarterback front and center of the Rams’ universe. “The quarterback is always the first thing in mind as it relates to how you move forward with the team,” he said this past winter. A statement that seems even heavier now. It wasn’t a boilerplate philosophy; it was an insight into the sort of choice that can determine L.A.’s short-term fate. And with the Rams approaching a make-or-break portion of training camp. That philosophy will soon be tested in a manner McVay hasn’t experienced since his earliest days on the job.

In the NFL, preseason can be used as a laboratory for solving problems, but with McVay, this August is about emergency preparedness rather than experimentation. Thursday’s joint practice against the New Orleans Saints cre

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