LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean McVay had to smile when he was asked how he managed to tear the plantar fascia in his left foot while running to call a timeout.

“I’m telling you it was because of the pure twitch that I still have,” McVay said with a laugh Wednesday.. “It just snapped. … I did have to hop down there. I got the damn timeout, even on one leg.”

The Los Angeles Rams’ longtime boss got injured last Sunday during his team’s 33-19 win at Tennessee, but he won’t need surgery or a walking boot before he leads the Rams across the country to face defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia this weekend.

The 39-year-old McVay works out regularly, but his career as a receiver at Miami (Ohio) ended in 2007. He says he had felt previous pain in the band of tissue that runs along the sole of the

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