The NFL season is upon us and for the few brief weeks before the NBA season begins, football will only have to split the spotlight with the final weeks of baseball, but that doesn't mean that Denver Nuggets' star Nikola Jokic can't grab any headlines. 

In a recent press conference, Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay, whose team shares an ownership group with the Denver Nuggets, was asked about one of his most notorious quirks and shared the exchange he had with Jokic that made him reevaluate his habits. 

There's an NFL rule that penalizes coaches for stepping onto the actual field from the sideline during gameplay, but McVay often found himself lost in the thrills of the game and would come close to stepping onto the field and risking those penalties. 

To try and prevent McVay from racking penalties, the Rams had a designated "get-back" coach, often strength and conditioning coach Ted Rath, whose main responsibility during games seemed to be to stand behind McVay and pull him back when he veered to close to the edge of the sidelines. 

McVay said that he won't need a "get-back" coach this season and shared an anecdote where he met with Jokic after seeing the Nuggets get eliminated from the playoffs via sweep in the Western Conference semifinals in 2021, the first season that Jokic won MVP, and McVay, donning an imitation of Jokic's Serbian accent, said that Jokic only had one thing on is mind.

"This is when I thought I gotta really reevaluate my priorities, when Jokic won the first MVP of his career... I got to the locker room afterwards and Nikola sees me and he says, 'Where is your get-back coach?'" McVay said (via DNVR Nuggets on X). "And I said golly, this what the NBA MVP knows me as. I am a failure."

There's nothing like some harsh honesty from one of the best players in their respective craft to make you take a good, hard look at yourself and it's clear that Jokic's comment, along with the viral gifs and jokes made at McVay's expense, the 2017 NFL Coach of the Year was motivated to change his ways. 

It'll most likely still be hard for McVay to keep himself on the sideline while he's so locked in on the Rams' pursuit of another Super Bowl, which would be the 11th major championship for teams owned by Stan Kroenke, but for the sake of his coaching staff maybe Jokic's words will continue to stick in McVay's mind and keep him a little more restrained. 

If that isn't the case though and McVay falls into his old wandering ways, maybe a call from Jokic to get him back in track might be in order to help give McVay's assistant coaches a little bit lighter of a workload on game days. 

It seemed to have worked at least once before.