Sean McVay looking forward to Rams getting “good work” in with Bengals in joint practices

The pair of joint practices will be the closest to the Rams’ starters playing a preseason game, or a live game environment for that matter, which only further underscores McVay’s emphasis on clean practices. A controlled setting like those practices allows for simulating game-like situations while minimizing injury risk.

“That’s the goal that we’re really hunting up,” McVay said. “You can get good competitive work, a lot of situational stuff where we can kind of manipulate it that sometimes doesn’t always unfold the way that you’d like ideally offensively and defensively. You’ll end up accumulating over 90 reps over the course of a couple days or almost a hundred reps if you just bucket it out. That’ll be really beneficial to us and then we’ll be able to start our Buffalo prep after that.”

It will be an especially valuable opportunity for a pair of Los Angeles newcomers in wide receiver Allen Robinson II and rookie running back Kyren Williams.

For Robinson, the practices offer the chance to continue building chemistry with quarterback Matthew Stafford in a more competitive setting than an intrasquad scrimmage. Williams, who McVay said will participate in the two joint scrimmages, will get his closest experience to a live game setting yet. The goal is for Williams to also play in Saturday night’s preseason finale against the Bengals, according to McVay.

McVay said he wants to see “good rapport” between Robinson and Stafford in those practices.

“There’s been a lot of opportunities even in the practice settings, but you’re seeing some different matchups, some different concepts that maybe we would activate against the Bengals that we wouldn’t against our guys,” McVay said. “But I think you know what it looks like, just a good rapport between those two. Sometimes the best thing that can occur are staying within the framework or the structure of what we’re trying to get done, but where they put their own ownership on it, similar to what you’ve seen with Matthew and (wide…