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GORAMS!!! Superbowl Baby!!! :cheers:

Looks like a new one taken at the Super Bowl.

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ATLANTA -- Aaron Donald was the best defensive player in football during the entire 2018 season, and he was rewarded for it on Saturday night at the league's annual NFL Honors ceremony, when he was named as the 2018 NFL Defensive Player of the Year.

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Super Bowl 2019: Someone put a $1.5 million bet on the Rams to beat the Patriots
And get this: It's the same person who bet $1 million on the Eagles in Super Bowl LII
by Cody Benjamin

The New England Patriots are favored in the Super Bowl for the third year in a row, but that isn't stopping people from betting on the Los Angeles Rams.

It's especially not stopping the person who went all in on the Philadelphia Eagles a year ago with a $1 million wager.

As SB Nation reported Saturday, sportsbook operator William Hill has received another substantial bet from the same person responsible for the Eagles bet -- this time with a $1.5 million wager that the Rams will upset the Patriots on Sunday.

"The money-line wager came with a price of +120, which means [the bettor] would net $1.8 million" if Los Angeles wins, SB Nation's David Fucillo noted. "The Patriots had been getting 73 percent of the money-line wagering earlier this week. That number has now swung to 72 percent Rams. A $1.5 million wager will do that to the handle."

Who wins Patriots vs. Rams? And which side of the spread has all the value, making it a must-back? Visit SportsLine now to see which side of the spread you need to jump on, all from the computer model that has returned nearly $4,000 to $100 bettors over the past two seasons!

It's not the only big bet on the Rams' side entering Super Bowl LIII, which you can stream right here on CBSSports.com. According to Fucillo, South Point recently received its own $300,000 moneyline wager on the Rams.

The Patriots are currently 2.5-point favorites entering Sunday's showdown. They were also favored in Super Bowl LI and Super Bowl LII, the first of which they won against the Atlanta Falcons followed by last season's loss to the Eagles.

I'm curious what's the décor is looking like around Rams' Nation for tomorrow's event?!

My wife got me fired up with this surprise set up in our living room:



Go RAMS!!!!!!

A Rams Super Bowl win could be sequel to ‘Heaven Can Wait’

By BILL PLASCHKE
FEB 01, 2019 | 12:35 PM
| ATLANTA



Dick Enberg interviews Warren Beatty after a Super Bowl victory in a scene from the 1978 film "Heaven Can Wait." (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)



The Rams win the Super Bowl.

They win it wearing bright blue and yellow throwback uniforms, in overtime, against a favored traditional powerhouse.

They win it with a play made by a quarterback wearing the number 16 whose name sounds like “Jared.’’

This is not a prediction. This is recorded history. This actually happened 41 years ago in a Super Bowl game that was viewed on big screens all across the country.

Warren Beatty laughs: “Pretty interesting, huh?’’

Only in Hollywood could a football team make it to the Super Bowl and discover that Hollywood already beat it there.

Only in Hollywood could a sports franchise play in a championship game and have it be considered a sequel.

Only in movie heaven could actual movie heaven provide the stage for the reality of Super Bowl LIII Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where the Rams will try to be the only Los Angeles Rams team to match the mystique of its ancestors.


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“Heaven Can Wait’’ is still waiting, but maybe not for much longer.

“You never know,’’ Beatty said, laughing again during a phone interview. “You never know.’’

Beatty is having a good chuckle these days over his involvement in what was a fantasy football movie that could soon be reality. He starred, co-wrote and co-directed “Heaven Can Wait,’’ a 1978 movie that won an Academy Award.

“I can’t help but be fascinated,’’ Beatty said.

The movie, the second film adaptation of a Harry Segall play, is about a veteran Rams quarterback who is killed and taken to heaven just before the start of what he thinks will be a Super Bowl season. But it turns out, he wasn’t supposed to die, and the movie centers around the efforts of his guardian angel to place him back into an available earthly body.

Everyone tells us we are a Hollywood story. Well, this is a story Hollywood has told before.

KEVIN DEMOFF, RAMS' CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
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At first, Beatty’s character is given the body of millionaire industrial Leo Farnsworth, who buys the Rams and installs himself as quarterback just in time for the Super Bowl. But then Farnsworth is murdered, and Beatty needs another body to fulfill his Super Bowl dream.

In both movie magic and horror, Rams quarterback Tom Jarrett is killed by a vicious tackle during the Super Bowl, so Beatty is given his body as the game heads into overtime. He then leads the Rams downfield to victory.

There is a love story in there, and lots of comedy, particularly from Farnsworth’s scheming wife, played by Dyan Cannon. But Rams fans will be most interested in the football.

“Everyone tells us we are a Hollywood story,’’ said Kevin Demoff, chief operating officer of the real Rams. “Well, this is a story Hollywood has told before.’’

It is eerie watching the “Heaven Can Wait’’ climactic scene, the Rams driving for the winning score against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Suddenly, the old movie plays like a current highlights video.

It shows the Rams wearing basically the same uniforms you will see on Sunday, with quarterback Beatty wearing the same No. 16 of current Rams quarterback Jared Goff. And it gets even weirder.

Because the movie’s radio broadcaster only uses the quarterback’s last name, Jarrett, it sounds like he is saying “Jared’’ as No. 16 leads his team down the field.

“Sudden death overtime, ‘Jared’ is sending this crowd into delirium, he’s guiding the Rams … remarkable comeback by ‘Jared’ … ‘Jared’ trying to get them into field-goal position!’’

To add a final bit of the supernatural to the scene, it was filmed at the Coliseum during halftime of a Rams exhibition game before the 1977 regular season, and you’ll never guess the opponent.

It was the San Diego Chargers. It turns out, by knowing there would be enough screaming fans to support a football scene, Beatty understood the Fight for L.A. before there was a Fight for L.A.

“It’s amazing we were even able to pull that off,’’ said Buck Henry, who co-wrote the film and had a supporting role.

That’s only one of the amazing things about that scene, which ends when Beatty’s character, Jarrett, completes a pass to a running back, the running back fumbles, and Jarrett picks the ball up and carries it 50 yards for the game-winning touchdown.

First, that was actually Warren Beatty playing quarterback. The former high school football center and linebacker hired a Canadian Football League quarterback to throw the ball, but then changed his mind when he realized he could do it himself.

“I told the guy, ‘I’ve got 12 plays here. I’m going to do the first play, see what happens. I’m sure I’ll be calling you to come onto the field,’ ’’ Beatty recalled. “I did the first play, and to my surprise, it worked quite well. I thought, ‘What the hell, I’ll do the second play.’ Then I did a third one. Then I ended up doing all 12.’’

He is three-for-three passing in the shots that appear on film, completing one deep ball and two short throws while absorbing a sack. But equally as impressive, he was doing it in a hurry-up offense, because they had to get off the field before the second half of the real game began.


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“People joke about the fact I like to do a lot of takes,” Beatty said. “Well, we only had a few minutes, there was no time.’’

When the scene ended with his 50-yard sprint, Beatty was so wiped out that his character’s gasping breaths were real.

“I’m pretty winded, they’re carrying me off the field on their shoulders, and [co-star] Julie Christie is saying to me, ‘You’re not going to do 10 takes of that,’ ’’ he said.

As Beatty’s character sat atop his teammates’ shoulders and he thrust his hands to the sky, the crowd stood and roared, which might be the most impressive part of the scene because the fans had no idea they were watching the filming of a movie.

“We didn’t tell them what was happening, we just did it,’’ Beatty said.

Both teams in the scene were composed of retired football players, former Rams stars such as Deacon Jones and Jack Snow among them, further confusing the crowd.

”It was really strange. It’s halftime of a real game, and all of sudden all of these old players run out on the field in uniform,’’ recalled Les Josephson, former Rams running back, who acted in the movie. “It took the fans a few minutes to recognize some of us and realize what was happening.’’

Josephson caught 194 passes in his 10-year Rams career, and it appears that he is the running back who catches the pass and then fumbles, setting up Beatty’s recovery and winning touchdown. This would make Josephson a cool part of the movie, except, well, just don’t expect a former football player to ever celebrate a turnover.

“I don’t remember if that was me,’’ he said. “But if I fumbled, it was only because the script told me to fumble.’’

Beatty, who says he is a “loyal Rams fan,’’ will be watching Sunday’s game as the Rams take on the New England Patriots. And he will be rooting especially hard for his sound-alike namesake.


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“For Jared Goff, I remove my chapeau. He’s really terrific, but he’s so young, and you’ve got Tom Brady, who is a veteran and … I would not want to be so arrogant as to make a prediction,’’ Beatty said.

Also cheering for the Rams will be the most notable Los Angeles sports fan from “Heaven Can Wait,’’ although Dyan Cannon looks back on the film with a twinge of regret. Because of a communications breakdown, she never appeared in the football scenes.

While Cannon was vacationing in Big Sur during a break in the shooting, her character was written into an extra scene on the football field, but there was one problem.

“We didn’t have cell phones back then, and they couldn’t reach me in Big Sur. And by the time I got back, it was too late,’’ she said. “It was so sad.’’

Cannon, a legendary celebrity Lakers fan who also sat at Dodger Stadium for all 18 innings of Game 3 of last October’s World Series, plans to support the Rams during the Super Bowl.

“I’m buying a Rams jersey just for the game,’’ she said.

The number? Good Heavens Can Wait, what number do you think?

Tom Jarrett, Warren Beatty and Jared Goff could all be coming together Sunday under one magical integer, and the wait for a Super Bowl champion Rams team in Los Angeles could finally be over.

“There is no question,’’ she said. “I’ll be wearing No. 16.’’

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Aaron Donald Doesn’t Look Like a Defensive Tackle. So He Reinvented the Position.
The speed and power of the Rams’ wrecking-ball lineman show that size isn’t everything in the N.F.L.



ATLANTA —The Rams selected defensive tackle Aaron Donald with their second first-round pick in 2014, No. 13 over all, which means that 11 other teams, after assembling draft boards and consulting scouts and analyzing a trilogy’s worth of film of his demolishing offensive linemen, decided against taking a player whose dominance has since redefined his position.

“I think,” said Mike Waufle, the Rams’ defensive line coach at the time, “people were scared of his size.”

Donald is 6-foot-1 and, coming out of the University of Pittsburgh, was listed at 285 pounds. That is enormous in human terms, but smallish for a defensive tackle, whose function in a 3-4 defense is to blot out the sun.

Not everyone with the Rams coveted Donald, but Waufle was undeterred. He had long prized speed over size, and from the start, he viewed Donald as an outlier, grading him as the best prospect he had seen since 1998, his first season coaching in the N.F.L. Donald generated so much power that he reminded Waufle of the Russian boxer Ivan Drago in “Rocky IV,” who punched a computerized meter with such force that Drago’s manager remarked, “Whatever he hits, he destroys.”

In his first season, Donald was selected as the top defensive rookie. Last season, he was defensive player of the year. After registering 20.5 sacks this season, the most ever by a defensive tackle, Donald will almost certainly repeat.

The Rams’ ascent to a Super Bowl berth against the New England Patriots on Sunday from 4-12 buffoonery in 2016 reflects a certain harmonic convergence — the confluence of foresight, audacity and good fortune, with Donald embodying it all.

Donald sacking the Seahawks' Russell Wilson in November. Defensive tackles have traditionally generated fewer sacks than players at other defensive positions.

Coach Sean McVay, a brilliant communicator whose football acumen pushed the Rams to the forefront of the league’s offensive frenzy, has already spawned a coaching tree, and the team has traded precious draft picks to acquire volatile personalities who have meshed in a cohesive locker room. But before all that, the Rams had the conviction to draft Donald. In 2014, he was an excellent defender. In 2019, he is the avatar for defensive disruption.

With N.F.L. teams eschewing downfield passes for underneath routes, and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady averaging a mere 2.18 seconds per postseason throw in the pocket, according to Pro Football Focus, interior pressure is ever more critical. And no one plows into the backfield faster than Donald, a player New England Coach Bill Belichick called “pretty much unblockable.”

“If he keeps this up,” the Hall of Fame defensive tackle John Randle said, “he can change the game almost like a Lawrence Taylor.”

Randle transformed the position, too, playing at 6-1 and 285 pounds, but in a different era, when teams prioritized space-choking interior tackles to stop the run and tended to harass quarterbacks from the outside. Of the 54 instances in which a player had at least 16.5 sacks in a season since the statistic was first tracked in 1982, 50 came from defenders who didn’t play tackle, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Randle never quite reached that total, topping out at 15.5. But contemporaries like La’Roi Glover and Warren Sapp did, and Randle viewed them, and himself, as misfits, fueled by the perception that they weren’t fast enough to play linebacker, big enough to play offensive line or nimble enough to play running back.

Across 14 seasons with Minnesota and Seattle, Randle amassed the most sacks by a defensive tackle in N.F.L. history — 137.5 — by destroying quarterbacks and game plans much as Donald does now, just with less time to get to the quarterback. Donald had a league-leading 106 pressures, according to Pro Football Focus. The next closest player, Fletcher Cox of Philadelphia, had 95.

“When you get that interior pressure, they can’t run the sweep, the center can’t pull,” Randle said. “When you’re in the inside, you may not get there, but you’re in the quarterback’s face, and he can’t see because the pressure’s there. He sees you, and he’s more conscious of you. You’re right there in front of him.”

When watching Donald, Randle notices how his feet, hands and eyes work in concert, with a first step so quick that it can be mistaken for reflex. Donald’s arms allow him to get leverage on taller linemen — plural, considering the double teams he faces — beneath their pads, taking away their strength.

“Some guys at that position are top-heavy with skinny little legs, or are big down below but have nothing up top,” Dewayne Brown, who has helped train Donald since 2009 in their native Pittsburgh, said in a telephone interview. “He’s built like a block, totally proportional.”

A secret: Donald may be listed at 285 pounds, but, he said Tuesday, he has been playing at 270, maybe 265. (The Rams’ other defensive tackle, NdamukongSuh, is listed at 6-4 and 307 pounds.) Over texts, Waufle calls Donald a male model and tells him he’s pretty. Donald’s father, Archie, asked Brown to remind his son that he’s not a bodybuilder. In a photo he posted to his Instagram story Monday, a shirtless Donald is shown flexing, muscles bulging, his abdominal muscles clearly defined. Celery has more fat than he does.

“He’s got, like, an eight-pack,” Rams defensive tackle Michael Brockers said.

In the off-season, Brown helps Donald refine his speed and agility with45-minute workouts laden with core exercises and resistance training, like the drill he performs wearing lateral resistors on his ankles. As someone drops a tennis ball eight yards away, Donald must sprint to grab it before it bounces a second time. Go on, try it.

To increase his strength, Donald works with Dave Andrews, the strength and conditioning coach at Pitt, who called him “a genetic mutant” and “a ball of dynamite.” Andrews challenges him with exercises in which he provides Donald with resistance throughout the entire movement to isolate a particular muscle group.

“It’s no different than when they’re in hand-to-hand combat on the field, and they’re manually trying to resist what he’s doing,” Andrews said. “Most likely, it takes two, maybe three guys, to slow Aaron down. You can imagine what it’s like in the weight room. Like, good luck. I walk out in a full sweat.”

Donald has long been strong and thick; as an adolescent, he would wake before dawn to lift weights with his father. But Donald was “real chunky,” Brown said, when he first encountered him as a junior at Penn Hills High School.

That season, Greg Gattuso, then the defensive line coach at Pitt, attended a Penn Hills game to scout one of Donald’s teammates. He had heard of Donald but had never watched him. Before leaving, Gattuso offered him a scholarship.

With each successive season at Pitt, Donald had more tackles for loss. His senior year, nearly half of his 59 tackles — 28.5 — came behind the line of scrimmage. At the N.F.L. scouting combine, Donald ran the 40-yard dash in 4.68 seconds, faster that year than Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (6-2, 214), Patriots linebacker Kyle Van Noy (6-3, 243) and Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence (6-3, 251). His 10-yard split, which gauges short-area quickness, was a solid 1.65 seconds.

From afar, Waufle yearned. As defensive line coach for the Giants, he replaced interior linemen with speedier ends to overwhelm Brady and unbeaten New England in Super Bowl XLII. He said he studied more game tape of Randle than Randle himself.

Waufle wanted a Randle of his own.

On draft night, Waufle was working on a project in his office when, around the eighth pick or so, he glanced at the television and noticed Donald was still available. He cycled through scenarios in his head.

He thought Detroit, picking 10th, would grab him. He thought the Giants, picking 12th, would, too. When the Rams were on the clock, he sneaked into the draft room, hoping for good news. When he got it, he nearly yelped inside.

Patriots Coach Bill Belichick called Donald "nearly unblockable."

The next time he saw Donald, told him something he had never said to another player: Don’t listen to anything I say.

“We’ll get you lined up, and you just go, man — you just go,” Waufle said, relaying their conversation. “And he did. He tore the league up.”

Waufle left the Rams when McVay was hired, after the 2016 season, but his successor, Bill Johnson, marvels daily at Donald.

“What makes him different is no different than what makes a racehorse so great,” Johnson said. “They’re just sort of made to be, I guess. I don’t know. If I knew, I’d be cloning it.”

Donald’s trajectory might have made teams reassess their evaluations of him. It might have even made them more likely to consider undersized defensive tackles in the future — imitation and flattery, and all that.

But there is only one Aaron Donald, and to the dismay of every other team, but most of all New England this week, he plays for the Rams.

Based on the fact that no one is mentioning Bruce and keep talking about Ty Law, I have a feeling that Bruce gets snubbed again.

Gonzalez and Ed Reed def getting in. Bailey is close to certain.

Seems Law and the guards are getting all the attention.

Anyone have any info?

The Iron Hills Dwarf army has arrived. Armored, mounted and filthy.

TO VICTORY! :cheers:

I’ll admit to being superstitious, but I have a good feeling about this Super Bowl. 17 years ago to the day a dynasty was begun against the Rams, I feel tomorrow’s game is the bookend to that dynasty.

The Patriots wouldn’t even be in the game but for a controversial no call, the Tuck rule whatever that was. Same with the Rams. Back then the narrative was all about 911 and pulling the country back together, I don’t know why the Patriots symbolized that more than the Rams, the name maybe. This year the Rams players and team personnel were directly effected by the California wildfires.

Now we have the proven, battle tested old guard against the new vanguard. I sense excitement on our side, but with a sense of Goff calm. For some reason I feel more confident about this team. Brady-Billicheck are the monster that keeps coming back, so you can never relax, but I think we’ve got this.

All I've been hearing this week is how great Belichick's defense is, especially when he has two weeks to prepare for a team. Well, I don't recall but I'm sure we heard the same talk prior to the last two Super Bowls as well. Against the Falcons, Bill's defense gave up 28 points and, last year against the Eagles they gave up 41. That's an average of 34.5 points/game. That doesn't sound that great to me. Maybe it can be argued that when teams have two weeks to prepare for Belichick's defense, they find weak spots they can take advantage of.

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ATLANTA — Jared Goff was moments away from taking the field against the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship Game when crisis arrived. Given the way the Saints and the Superdome devours opponents with a lethal combination of noise, energy and talent, the Rams had been on emergency watch all week. But this was pushing it. Not even one play into the game and it was already DEFCON 1 level anxiousness.

Only you wouldn’t have known by looking at Goff.

His in-helmet communication system has malfunctioned, with the audio from head coach and play caller Sean McVay cutting out. Rather than turn his own emergency into a full-blown panic, Goff calmly, almost discreetly, traded helmets with backup quarterback Sean Mannion and carried on.

Imagine heading to the altar to get married and having to switch suits at the last second with your best man. The fit isn’t perfect. It’s a little too tight in the waist and not quite as long as needed in the leg. Everything just feels … off. Not exactly the way to start off your wedding day, right?

Yet as much as Goff could, he kept it all to himself and soldiered on.

“I didn’t even know about that until after the game,” Robert Woods revealed this week.

Woods still marvels at how Goff managed the situation on the go and overcame future Hall of Famer Drew Brees to help push the Rams into Super Bowl LIII.

“To play in a championship game (and) your microphone’s not working. You’ve got to switch helmets. It’s not yours. It doesn’t fit correctly,” Woods said. “To go through all that and remain poised and lead us to a victory, that’s a total leader. That’s a leader. That’s a warrior.”

“He just kind of handled it exactly like a veteran — even-keeled, calm demeanor — kind of like what we talk about all the time,” McVay said. “We’re very confident in his ability to lead us, knowing that it’s a big game like we’ve said, but I think Jared will be himself, which is exactly what we want him to be.”

For those who know him best, it was peak Goff.

“Unflappable” is how right guard Austin Blythe describes the Rams’ third-year quarterback.

“Calm. Cool. Collected,” right tackle Rob Havenstein said. “And always the same guy, no matter what.”

And maybe that is the biggest takeaway from the Rams’ magical march to Super Bowl LIII and the remarkable transformation of Goff from potential bust to a quarterback who has led his team to the pinnacle of pro football.

The more details are revealed — both in how he plays and the way his teammates describe him — the more we understand and know him.

“And it’s one of the things you really appreciate about him,” Sullivan said. “There’s nothing that you can question from the start. He’s just a genuine, authentic guy. The first time you meet him, Jared is unapologetically Jared.”

Goff’s persona, as teammates have come to know, is a little bit of California cool and an unassuming nature that can sometimes be construed as goofy. But it’s so genuine and unpretentious that it is looked upon as a strength and not a weakness.

Said Woods: “You want someone who is a little quirky and nerdy, of course. Like Jared. Very smart.”

In many ways, Goff is your typical 24-year-old kid. He also just happens to have a razor-sharp football mind that can decipher defenses and coverages and a cannon arm that allows him to make every throw.

And in his own way — through performance and just being himself rather than trying to be someone he’s not — Goff has become a leader who his teammates willingly follow.

He is not a dynamic personality who plays with a fire in his stomach and inspires his teams with bravado and personality. But he is someone who conducts himself with about as much stress as someone lifting themselves out of a deckside chase lounge to go take a dip in the pool.

“That was kind of evident in the Saints game,” Blythe said. “Just the way he can remain calm and gave us the encouragement we needed.”

So unfazed by everything that’s happened to him leading up to this point, Goff has been able to process and compartmentalize it all into a steady stewardship that his teammates follow.

“It’s just Jared being Jared,” Sullivan said.

Jared Goff’s cool demeanor keeps the Rams calm. (Kirby Lee / USA TODAY Sports)
Goff has endured his share of difficult challenges. First, there was the disastrous one-win freshman season at Cal when he was constantly under siege and victimized by an inexperienced and ineffective offensive line. The eventual turnaround in Berkeley saw him rise from the chaos to lead the Golden Bears to a bowl game his final season and distinguish himself as the No. 1 overall selection in the 2016 NFL draft.

Then, there was the catastrophic rookie year in Los Angeles that resulted in the firing of head coach Jeff Fisher and the raising of legitimate doubts about Goff’s ability to be a franchise quarterback befitting the draft’s top pick. He helped orchestrate a swift and decisive personal and team turnaround that earned him Pro Bowl honors and placed the Rams on the doorstep of a Super Bowl championship.

Through it all, Goff has remained the same chill kid from Marin County. The effect his presence has on the Rams is one his teammates appreciate as much as they respect.

“Do I think Jared’s demeanor helps this offense? Absolutely,” Sullivan said. “I think him being so calm and cool is a really calming influence on everybody. Because we’ve got a lot of Type A guys that are high strung. Jared kind of levels everyone out. So I think he’s done an amazing job and his personality is a huge part of his success.”

“He’s just a special kid,” left tackle Andrew Whitworth said. “I’ve said it since the first day I came to training camp and really since the first day I met him. I realized that he’s a special kid. I told my wife before these playoffs started that it’s the first year it really wasn’t about me. I was more nervous for these playoffs because I believe in Jared Goff and I believe he deserves to win, and I want to be right about that. That’s what means most to me.”

What we’ve learned, ultimately, is that Goff isn’t shaped or defined by what happens to him as much as how he copes and processes situations by applying his own personality.

It’s why his struggles at Cal and in his rookie season with the Rams didn’t crush him. And why the incredible high of quarterbackinng the Rams to the Super Bowl won’t change him. Goff has floated around Atlanta this week as if he just dropped into town for a two-day minicamp.

Almost by osmosis, that personality has rubbed off on his teammates.

“Vinny, this isn’t much different than open locker room in Thousand Oaks, right?” Sullivan asked me during one of the Rams’ media availabilities this week.

There were at least three hundred reporters swarming around. It was chaotic and claustrophobic. Sullivan looked on with a smile. Just around the corner, Goff held court with his typical easy smile.

“Just a few more people,” Sullivan continued, laughing. “We’ve traveled all over the place. We’ve played out of the country. We stayed in Jacksonville for a week. We got displaced by wildfires. We went to the Broadmore in Colorado. We were supposed to play in Mexico City, had to adapt and go back to play in L.A. I mean, look I understand there’s a lot of hoopla around this, but at the end of the day, it’s a football game.

“We’ve traveled a ton and done a bunch of crazy stuff in two years as a team. I promise this is having no effect on us.”

That’s the influence Goff — in his own unique, laid-back way — can have on a team.

“I get that question a lot,” Goff said of why he has that effect on teammates. “I don’t have a good answer for you. Because I don’t know.”

If You Don't Care About Super Bowl LIII Maybe You Will After Reading This History Of The LA Rams

Sunday afternoon in Atlanta, the Rams will make their second appearance representing Los Angeles in the Super Bowl.

To be fair, L.A. does have a Super Bowl win on its resume when the Raiders won in 1984.

But if the Rams pull it off this Sunday, for many Angelenos with family ties to when the Rams L.A. history, this moment will have been over 70 years in the making.

It's a big deal, because for many longtime L.A. sports fans, the Rams are the city's O.G. team.

Where To Watch The Rams Upset The Patriots In Super Bowl LIII In LA

Their L.A. story started in 1946 when they moved from Cleveland, way before the Brooklyn Dodgers or Minneapolis Lakers came west.

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I think it will be great seeing Bill Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the Patriots Pass their recent Dynasty (If they have not been a Dynasty they have been pretty darn close!) Torch over to Sean McVay, Jared Goff and the Rams Tomorrow! I think the Rams will be very good for at least the next several seasons! Just need to keep Sean McVay and some of their key players around!

I apologize if this has been discussed a 1000 Times BUT I really hope the Rams give Coach McVay an Extension (A VERY LONG EXTENSION!) ASAP after tomorrow’s Super Bowl! I would hate to see some other Team steal him from the Rams! I have no idea what his current contract is or how many years it is for but I will be totally surprised if he doesn’t get a ton of offers from other teams if the Rams don’t get him to sign a long term contract!

To all -

I tweaked a few things for game day and took the site offline longer than expected.

If you noticed the outage; My apologies.

A website can be a humbling experience.

CGI

Our offense was one of the highest scoring offenses in the NFL, and I think they have been #1 in making "big plays." But, they often get hammered for red zone efficiency. It pisses people off when the kick FG's, even though kicking FG's is so important in point totals.

Don't opposing defenses get paid too? If a team averages 30+ points a game in this day and age, it doesn't get much better than that in an NFL driving towards parity. Is it an unreal expectation for the Rams to score TD's every time in the red zone? if it isn't, are you saying that our average per game should be 40+ points a game?

I've been seeing this icon splashed all over the screen lately and can't help but see an LA in there when I look at the first two letters. It's only fitting. The last time we went 13-3 and played the Super Bowl in Atlanta we won. I'm taking the Rams big in this one, 38-24.

Hey guys. I'm some what knew to Phoenix area (Queen Creek). Can anyone recommend the best place to watch the Super Bowl? I'm stumped at this point where to go.

one more beer they said.....

https://www.spreaker.com/user/downtownrams/dtr-podcast-153

Jake and Joe Curley breakdown the Rams and Patriots Super Bowl in depth. Hall of Famer Anthony Munoz comes on the show (61:42) to talk about the big game, Built Ford Tough's Offensive Line of the Year award given out at NFL honors, the importance of an OL, OL coach and what it's like to play in a Super Bowl. Rams SBXXXVI starting CB Dexter McCleon (72:34) gives his thoughts and outlook on the Super Bowl as well.

Looks like a hood to a sweatshirt he is wearing. Has anyone seen this before?
If it is custome made he will be able to add World Champions after Sunday

That's right THE LA RAMS!

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/pa...owl-liii-one-map-showing-lot-rams-support?int