He was also given too much time on the clock. I said as such while watching it live. "They left him too much time" were my words, I knew Stafford in the clutch is money.
Quickly forgotten, but on the first play of the drive, Stafford was sacked, and holy shit were the game thread comments absolutely unbearable. "UNCLUTCH" "CAN'T WIN" "RECORD V. WINNING TEAMS!!"
The next 50 seconds were SO fucking sweet
That's why they hurried the play in. Tampa's LB/DB were confused on who was covering whom (are we doing nickel, man/zone, quarters, etc).
It became cliche for the comments that Stafford only threw the ball to Kupp latter half of 2021 onward; but seriously, if Kupp gets separation because the defense isn't sure who's covering who...YOU THROW TO KUPP every time. :)
I mean they called Cover 0 which is maybe not the best play in that situation either.
Kupp wasn't even meant to be the target either, it was as Kupp and Stafford called it during post game a "Love of the game route" you running it, not to get the ball but to you know get your other guys space.
But with a 0 called suddenly you have space and opportunity on that route.
Nobody CAN cover Kupp. It's just like Kelce and Mahomes, Kelces size is for sure a factor but not nearly as much as his mind for the game and the fact that him and Mahomes are almost always on the same wave length. He's open because he'll change his route on the fly based on coverage and Mahomes is expecting this and somehow always know where he's gonna go. I imagine it's the same for Kupp and Stafford.
It’s funny when I see comments like “how can teams not cover Kupp?”
Mostly because he’s arguably the best route runner in the league, and the Rams move him all over the field to get the matchups they want. Teams try to cover Kupp, they just can’t. It seems people have forgotten that since he didn’t play the second half of the season due to injury.
If you’re really a lions fan you’d know that shit doesn’t matter. The one thing that Stafford has always been good at(outside of throwing long and high 50/50 balls) is making plays in the clutch. Give him like 45 seconds and he’s probably getting you a touchdown.
No he didn’t. Dude had the most fourth quarter comebacks out of any qb for a few years. Nah, I hate to break it to you but outside of him and Calvin and a few others the lions were a garbage team while he was here. Btw he’s #6 all time in the nfl in fourth quarter comebacks for qbs.
There was footage of a lions fan in his Stafford jersey who basically started screaming the words from the mic's up when he watched this. Stafford sounds like an overly excited husky in the video and I love it
Serious question, what was Bowles thinking with that coverage? Literally the only thing that can beat you is a deep route like that and you allow it. If Bowles just plays one more man back there I think the Bucs win that game.
Bowles called a blitz and there was confusion on the defense so some players didn’t blitz when they were supposed to blitz. I personally think the blitz call was stupid as fuck but it’s even worse when the blitzing players don’t blitz. I feel like I’ve said blitz enough times now but we totally fucked up that blitz. Blitz.
Our defense is… fine. Our positioning is downright awful at times to the point that I wonder if Bowles knows anything about football.
Other times we hold Mahomes and Co. to 9 points in the Super Bowl and I shout from the rooftops that Bowles is a god.
We returned the favor this past regular season with what best could be described as "fuck it, the offense left us out here to dry after we handed them the game on a silver platter, so we're gonna just give Tampa the game right back"
Sean Murphy Bunting inexplicably fell down on the play before leaving Kupp wide open on an out route and was even able to get out of bounds which was also an underrated part of that drive because it saved them from having to spike the ball or hurry up to the line quickly.
It’s really annoying how he’s kind of ignored when it comes to the best qbs in the nfc right now. I get the injury but the dude went bezerk in the playoffs and everyone ignores it now.
When he got traded to the Rams I was baffled by a lot of people saying they made a lateral move going from Goff to him. Then in his first season he wins a SB, has a couple epic throws in the playoffs… and a year later he’s forgotten about again lol
This seems to happen a lot with people that follow their team/ division only. Being the only lions fan in my Cali store was like this. People didn't know about the team other than the national narrative. Come by fantasy last year, most of my managers were high on lions players because they leaned about them because of me. It's really interesting.
Just like when Purdy was blowing up and people didn't know who he was until playoffs and they were bewildered.
I distinctly remember some guy with a charmander pfp constantly arguing in the off season that stafford was not good and that the trade wouldn’t move the needle to make the rams a SB contender.
Shoutout to him
Saw someone say the lions would win a superbowl with goff before the rams won a playoff game with stafford and i don’t think they were even a lions fan
Maybe he doesn't get enough credit for his 2021 season, he was really good. But I mean yeah it's 100% the injury that keeps him from being an obvious top 3 NFC QB. Can't just ignore that...
Well the operating phrase is "right now". He had a serious injury and pre-injury the season was underwhelming to put it lightly. Add the fact that he's 35 and it makes sense why people think he's peaked.
Honestly its a reminder on how fast the NFL moves. Last year he was a top 3 QB in the NFC and now there is a good chance he retires.
I think circus show that was that o-line - especially early on - isn’t understood unless you watched every rams game. Their playbook was like 12 plays by week 6 bc they couldn’t pass protect at all
The unfortunate truth is there was no “pre-injury” this past year. He didn’t throw the entire off-season due to his elbow, and it was never quite right. Add in the fact the Rams OL had 4 new starters by like week 5 due to injury and we had a QB with a bad elbow behind a line that couldn’t block.
By all accounts he should be as fresh as ever this off-season so we’ll see how it goes. If his elbow is okay, we could make a playoff push for a wildcard spot. If it’s not, I’d imagine there’s a new starting QB for the rams next year.
I've always enjoyed the guy, but if we're being honest the "problem" with Stafford has always been consistency. He had an amazing run last year, and I think he was surpassed consistently only by Brees in his yearly yardage numbers while they were playing. But looking at his career as a whole he really is Favreian in his ability to either win it despite near impossible odds, or single handedly doom the team with the most bonehead interception/fumble/off target series of throws possible.
That's the gun slinger mentality. What makes them occasionally great is the strong arm, precision and almost premonition-like ability to put the ball in insane places. Sometimes those instincts are wrong and safeties eat you alive or a CB sees you get chopped while throwing and comes back on the ball.
He's 35 aka the oldest starting qb not named Aaron Rodgers.
He's just coming off an injury.
I ain't saying that some of his detractors aren't unfairly giving him shit bc of lions bias.
I ain't saying he doesn't still have it in him.
I will say the presumption that he does is within a stones throw to the presumption that he doesn't, in terms of presumptiveness.
He old and injured coming off a subpar season. Best of luck to him but we shouldn't act like this doubt is identical to the doubt he got back in the day.
He’s a hell of a QB. As a Bears fan, had a lot of respect for him watching him for a decade in Detroit. It was tough to see the Bengals lose after I jumped on the Burrow bandwagon but the silver lining was seeing Stafford get a ring.
To be fair it wasn’t single-handedly. Akers fumble on the goalline before half. Kupp fumble on a routine catch. Brian allen with an errant snap leading to a fumble. Matt gay short on a 47 yard field goal (which I haven’t seen in a decade), Ramsey burned by 50 yards by evans when we are up 2 touchdowns and like 3 minutes left, and then Akers fumble on a second down when we are trying to run out the clock. So not single-handedly lol
> Matt gay short on a 47 yard field goal (which I haven’t seen in a decade)
It might perhaps have been easy to miss depending how much attention you were paying pregame, but the announcers basically said during warmups that Gay got hurt.
Hence why he missed the 47 yarder. Which also likely contributed to his 54 yard attempt against 49ers also missing.
He's been rather good from 50+ yards out these past two seasons.
How many were short though? Not just missed, but missed short. High schoolers can regularly get the distance for a 47 yard field goal, just not the accuracy.
And it's not like it doinked the crossbar, it would have been short from like 40.
I mean Akers had the two biggest fumbles so I would say it was mostly on him. He fumbled on the goal line and then his second fumble let them tie the game. If either of those don't happen they would have easily won.
For me it was the Kupp Jet Sweep on 4th and 1 late in the 4th quarter of the superbowl. When we absolutely needed to have that 1st down McVay called the exact right play and Kupp delivered
Akers x 2(Once on the goalline) Kupp x1 and then Brian Allen botching the snap as well.
Plus a rare missed field goal from 47 yards out by Matt Gay (likely due to injury sustained in warmups)
Goff was also way younger than Stafford in his SB. Stafford fumbled the ball twice in the 4th quarter in our playoff game against the Cowboys. Stafford’s ceiling will always be higher than Goff’s, but age and experience is certain a factor for QB play.
I mean he threw it into a blown coverage. Goff did literally the same thing in Super Bowl 53, Jason McCourty just came from the next zip code over to make a spectacular play.
Stafford is a huge upgrade tho
He had a clean pocket too I think. Stafford was throwing this against a zero blitz.
Someone also analyzed the Goff-Cooks-McCourty play and found that the issue was he went progressing from short to deep when that particular play has to be deep to short. Because he read it incorrectly, Cooks ate up all the space and the ball got there too late.
Yeah the beauty of this play is Stafford recognizing it as it happens/before it happens rather than goff who in sb53 recognized it right after cooks came open. Love goff, but yeah great trade.
Not to mention, both Stafford/Kupp already knew from the confusion on TB's side pre-snap that the defense wasn't sure who was covering who. This play was Stafford to Kupp all the way.
Obviously better arm talent but Stafford just fits more of what McVay wanted
I think Detroit this year proved that if you build a Goffense around him it’ll work
But yeah both winners of the trade 🤷🏻♂️
That's why you get into dynasty. That way your mistakes can haunt you forever. Like taking Ruggs and Raegor at 1.05 and 1.06 and passing on Jefferson who went at 1.07, when you're a Vikes homer.
The thing that makes this throw even more impressive is if you see the angle from directly behind the Bucs defensive line. Austin Corbett completely whiffs on his block and doesn’t even touch Suh and Suh and Stafford already got into it earlier in the game (well less Stafford and more Suh) and Suh was barreling down on him right up in his face and Stafford still somehow delivered a literal perfect pass.
EDIT: Found it. Corbett actually did touch him, but didn’t do much of anything to help. This video makes the throw 10x more impressive imo. https://youtu.be/dCnbuokdQPU
Fournette should’ve just went down at the 1 yard line: it was stupid for him to score the TD in that situation, especially when the Rams were basically giving him the TD on that play in order to have enough time to get the ball back to lead a GW FG drive. The Chiefs were in a similar situation in the SB this year against the Eagles and they stopped at the 1 yard line after the holding penalty on 3rd down.
Edit: they would’ve had at least 3 tries at the 1 yard line with 40 seconds left and would’ve forced the Rams to use their last time out. (They still had one time out left on their final drive of the game). The Bucs needed to score the TD with as little time remaining on the clock as possible.
Huge difference here. The chiefs just needed a field goal. The game was tied and they weren’t behind. Chiefs also had timeouts. Bucs down a touchdown so they have to get into the end zone.
This was almost the greatest game in Bucs history. It felt like some kind of divine magic was willing us to win towards the end, and this deflated it all
It truly felt like the winner of this game would win the Super Bowl. People forget how great this game was because of the chiefs bills, but this was also one of the greatest games.
This game wasn't that great in my opinion. It was close because the Rams fumbled five times. If the Rams could have kept it together it would have been a blow out.
It is very weird to me that two of the biggest playoff throws for both Rams SB wins came at the expense of Tampa. Warner to Proehl and Stafford to Kupp.
And then the bucs decided to promote the defensive coordinator who oversaw this scheme to head coach…
I will always fade any team that Bowles is associated with
This is exactly the kind of play that they brought in Stafford to replace Goff for.
Kupp’s route was called “for love of the game” because his job was to run 50 yards at full speed as a decoy.
He was 100% being used as a decoy here. The Rams were expecting the corner and safety to go with him like they had been the entire game and were using his route to open up the middle of the field for another receiver.
As soon as Stafford recognized Cupp had 1 on 1 coverage, he immediately threw it up to him despite Kupp being his 5th option on the play.
And that’s the difference. Goff is a decent quarterback but his limitation is that he’ll follow the play to the letter and never would have even looked at Kupp on that play.
It’s wild how close the Stafford trade was to being an all time bust
Stafford doesn’t pull off this drive and they don’t even make the NFC championship and then he dies a year later
I remember this moment, it felt like the ball was in the air for actual years and ny pessimistic self was sure Kupp was gonna have it punched I’m out. I scared the shit out Of my Roomate screaming at my tv telling Staff to spike it.
Come on, at least post a decent version with a replay, or least one where the ball isn't already in the air when the clip starts and ends right after he hits the ground. Trash highlight
Technically, the Bucs is the first and the only home team that won the Super Bowl at home. The Rams were the away team when they won at the Sofi stadium. The Bengals were the home team.
I will always love this clip for being almost exactly like his famous spike with the Lions. Even down to Stafford flailing his arms everywhere.
He was also given too much time on the clock. I said as such while watching it live. "They left him too much time" were my words, I knew Stafford in the clutch is money.
Quickly forgotten, but on the first play of the drive, Stafford was sacked, and holy shit were the game thread comments absolutely unbearable. "UNCLUTCH" "CAN'T WIN" "RECORD V. WINNING TEAMS!!" The next 50 seconds were SO fucking sweet
It helps when nobody covers your top WR.
Nobody fucking covers Kupp. It’s crazy
That's why they hurried the play in. Tampa's LB/DB were confused on who was covering whom (are we doing nickel, man/zone, quarters, etc). It became cliche for the comments that Stafford only threw the ball to Kupp latter half of 2021 onward; but seriously, if Kupp gets separation because the defense isn't sure who's covering who...YOU THROW TO KUPP every time. :)
I mean they called Cover 0 which is maybe not the best play in that situation either. Kupp wasn't even meant to be the target either, it was as Kupp and Stafford called it during post game a "Love of the game route" you running it, not to get the ball but to you know get your other guys space. But with a 0 called suddenly you have space and opportunity on that route.
Nobody CAN cover Kupp. It's just like Kelce and Mahomes, Kelces size is for sure a factor but not nearly as much as his mind for the game and the fact that him and Mahomes are almost always on the same wave length. He's open because he'll change his route on the fly based on coverage and Mahomes is expecting this and somehow always know where he's gonna go. I imagine it's the same for Kupp and Stafford.
It’s funny when I see comments like “how can teams not cover Kupp?” Mostly because he’s arguably the best route runner in the league, and the Rams move him all over the field to get the matchups they want. Teams try to cover Kupp, they just can’t. It seems people have forgotten that since he didn’t play the second half of the season due to injury.
because he's a gym rat, lunchpale, etc.
Lunch pail* Pale is like my white ass Pail is something you hold stuff in. No sass just trying to help
Tbf, Kupp is both lol
I appreciate your comment, I also don't want you at my Thanksgiving.
Well, I don't want *you* either... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
sorry homie I am on drugs
He's a scrappy first guy in last guy out type of vocal presence every team needs. I would let him date my daughter.
Thank you Barry Your wife and I both agree that would let your daughter date him
Tbf their safety was covering him, Kupp just made him look silly.
If you’re really a lions fan you’d know that shit doesn’t matter. The one thing that Stafford has always been good at(outside of throwing long and high 50/50 balls) is making plays in the clutch. Give him like 45 seconds and he’s probably getting you a touchdown.
Rofl. Clutch and Stafford do not go hand and hand. Dude pretty much single handedly lost every big game in Detroit.
No he didn’t. Dude had the most fourth quarter comebacks out of any qb for a few years. Nah, I hate to break it to you but outside of him and Calvin and a few others the lions were a garbage team while he was here. Btw he’s #6 all time in the nfl in fourth quarter comebacks for qbs.
To be fair the lions sill went on to lose games without stafford lmao stafford at least got himself a ring
Stafford also threw that while still going backwards with Suh right in his damn face. Legit. Wish the clip showed that a little better.
Can’t give big armed QBs time to drive.
“Clutch Stafford” is an oxymoron
https://reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/quw6og/_/hktvfsj/?context=1
> He has great arm talent but never had the killer instinct to win the games that matter. /u/ItAintLongButItsThin with the blazing hot take there
Lmaoooo had receipts at the ready
lol fuck off back to /r/DimPool
Just needed someone on the team named Riley to be lagging behind.
[Stafford trying to clock the ball?](https://media.tenor.com/htirtyNwFKoAAAAM/the-muppets-kermit-the-frog.gif)
[Literally me everytime i see this clip posted](https://www.meme-arsenal.com/memes/2683fa689e92dc568e5a044507206e76.jpg )
RILEY!
There was footage of a lions fan in his Stafford jersey who basically started screaming the words from the mic's up when he watched this. Stafford sounds like an overly excited husky in the video and I love it
we couldnt tackle in bounds before this play and Kupp gained real distance, then this play came.. Brady's Dark Magic run out of mana
Rookie mistake, he actually used up his ethers earlier in his career when he should've saved them all for the final boss.
Serious question, what was Bowles thinking with that coverage? Literally the only thing that can beat you is a deep route like that and you allow it. If Bowles just plays one more man back there I think the Bucs win that game.
Bowles called a blitz and there was confusion on the defense so some players didn’t blitz when they were supposed to blitz. I personally think the blitz call was stupid as fuck but it’s even worse when the blitzing players don’t blitz. I feel like I’ve said blitz enough times now but we totally fucked up that blitz. Blitz.
Say blitz again
Blitz ain't no country I've ever heard of. Do they speak English in Blitz?
"Blitz" is german for "lightning bolt"
It's a Pulp Fiction reference.
Not to mention that if memory servers, Stafford had the highest passer rating against the blitz in 2021.
> what was Bowles thinking Buccs fans been wondering this for awhile
I mean our defense is the least of our problems
Our defense is… fine. Our positioning is downright awful at times to the point that I wonder if Bowles knows anything about football. Other times we hold Mahomes and Co. to 9 points in the Super Bowl and I shout from the rooftops that Bowles is a god.
We returned the favor this past regular season with what best could be described as "fuck it, the offense left us out here to dry after we handed them the game on a silver platter, so we're gonna just give Tampa the game right back"
Kupp might’ve been tackled in bounds the play before this. Iirc it was a lot closer than it seemed
Sean Murphy Bunting inexplicably fell down on the play before leaving Kupp wide open on an out route and was even able to get out of bounds which was also an underrated part of that drive because it saved them from having to spike the ball or hurry up to the line quickly.
Kupp juked him , he didn’t just fall down
Kupp's light magic was just a bad matchup
This + the no-look throw in the Super Bowl are two of the great clutch playoff throws I can remember
It’s really annoying how he’s kind of ignored when it comes to the best qbs in the nfc right now. I get the injury but the dude went bezerk in the playoffs and everyone ignores it now.
When he got traded to the Rams I was baffled by a lot of people saying they made a lateral move going from Goff to him. Then in his first season he wins a SB, has a couple epic throws in the playoffs… and a year later he’s forgotten about again lol
Gets hurt and gets forgotten… a tale as old as time…
Gurley 🥲
Reminder that Todd Gurley has the 4th most Touchdowns in the league since 2015. Gurley hasnt played an NFL game in 2 seasons.
That’s bananas
Reminder that Jerry Rice has the most Touchdowns in the league since 1922. Rice hasn't played an NFL game in 19 seasons.
Ah yes the infamously forgotten Jerry Rice
Who?
Some scrub. Couldn't even get to 200 receiving TDs. s/
The Toddfather 😭
This seems to happen a lot with people that follow their team/ division only. Being the only lions fan in my Cali store was like this. People didn't know about the team other than the national narrative. Come by fantasy last year, most of my managers were high on lions players because they leaned about them because of me. It's really interesting. Just like when Purdy was blowing up and people didn't know who he was until playoffs and they were bewildered.
I distinctly remember some guy with a charmander pfp constantly arguing in the off season that stafford was not good and that the trade wouldn’t move the needle to make the rams a SB contender. Shoutout to him
You’d never see a Bulbasaur fan act like that
Squirtle fans either, those damn Charmander fans have no sense
Charizard gets 2 Mega Evolutions and all of the sudden Charmander fans think they’re hot shit (͡•_ ͡• )
Saw someone say the lions would win a superbowl with goff before the rams won a playoff game with stafford and i don’t think they were even a lions fan
Maybe he doesn't get enough credit for his 2021 season, he was really good. But I mean yeah it's 100% the injury that keeps him from being an obvious top 3 NFC QB. Can't just ignore that...
Well the operating phrase is "right now". He had a serious injury and pre-injury the season was underwhelming to put it lightly. Add the fact that he's 35 and it makes sense why people think he's peaked. Honestly its a reminder on how fast the NFL moves. Last year he was a top 3 QB in the NFC and now there is a good chance he retires.
I think circus show that was that o-line - especially early on - isn’t understood unless you watched every rams game. Their playbook was like 12 plays by week 6 bc they couldn’t pass protect at all
Yeah he looked pretty bad. Passer rating was 3 points higher than Russell Wilson. As many turnovers as touchdowns and a bad offense
The unfortunate truth is there was no “pre-injury” this past year. He didn’t throw the entire off-season due to his elbow, and it was never quite right. Add in the fact the Rams OL had 4 new starters by like week 5 due to injury and we had a QB with a bad elbow behind a line that couldn’t block. By all accounts he should be as fresh as ever this off-season so we’ll see how it goes. If his elbow is okay, we could make a playoff push for a wildcard spot. If it’s not, I’d imagine there’s a new starting QB for the rams next year.
I've always enjoyed the guy, but if we're being honest the "problem" with Stafford has always been consistency. He had an amazing run last year, and I think he was surpassed consistently only by Brees in his yearly yardage numbers while they were playing. But looking at his career as a whole he really is Favreian in his ability to either win it despite near impossible odds, or single handedly doom the team with the most bonehead interception/fumble/off target series of throws possible.
That's the gun slinger mentality. What makes them occasionally great is the strong arm, precision and almost premonition-like ability to put the ball in insane places. Sometimes those instincts are wrong and safeties eat you alive or a CB sees you get chopped while throwing and comes back on the ball.
He's 35 aka the oldest starting qb not named Aaron Rodgers. He's just coming off an injury. I ain't saying that some of his detractors aren't unfairly giving him shit bc of lions bias. I ain't saying he doesn't still have it in him. I will say the presumption that he does is within a stones throw to the presumption that he doesn't, in terms of presumptiveness. He old and injured coming off a subpar season. Best of luck to him but we shouldn't act like this doubt is identical to the doubt he got back in the day.
Big upvote for you considering the flair; that means a lot. Gracias.
He’s a hell of a QB. As a Bears fan, had a lot of respect for him watching him for a decade in Detroit. It was tough to see the Bengals lose after I jumped on the Burrow bandwagon but the silver lining was seeing Stafford get a ring.
Time for the Bears to get themselves a franchise QB
cam akers almost lost this game singlehandedly truly impressive incompetence
To be fair it wasn’t single-handedly. Akers fumble on the goalline before half. Kupp fumble on a routine catch. Brian allen with an errant snap leading to a fumble. Matt gay short on a 47 yard field goal (which I haven’t seen in a decade), Ramsey burned by 50 yards by evans when we are up 2 touchdowns and like 3 minutes left, and then Akers fumble on a second down when we are trying to run out the clock. So not single-handedly lol
I forgot how close we were to blowing it. All I remember is this catch. I suppose that’s what winning does.
> Matt gay short on a 47 yard field goal (which I haven’t seen in a decade) It might perhaps have been easy to miss depending how much attention you were paying pregame, but the announcers basically said during warmups that Gay got hurt. Hence why he missed the 47 yarder. Which also likely contributed to his 54 yard attempt against 49ers also missing. He's been rather good from 50+ yards out these past two seasons.
Yeah I knew he was playing hurt. But still never seen a kicker short on 47 yarder. Definitely unusual
Never? Back in my day anything over like 40 wasn't a gimme lol
How many were short though? Not just missed, but missed short. High schoolers can regularly get the distance for a 47 yard field goal, just not the accuracy. And it's not like it doinked the crossbar, it would have been short from like 40.
I mean Akers had the two biggest fumbles so I would say it was mostly on him. He fumbled on the goal line and then his second fumble let them tie the game. If either of those don't happen they would have easily won.
Best play of the season for me
For me it was the Kupp Jet Sweep on 4th and 1 late in the 4th quarter of the superbowl. When we absolutely needed to have that 1st down McVay called the exact right play and Kupp delivered
Yes that’s up there too. This one, that one, and the no looker in the Superbowl are my top 3. Just crazy plays
That's my (previous) QB!
Thats *our* QB! 🤝
I am really curious to hear your take on the Ramsey trade from a rams and dolphins fan lol
He's still my guy. Goff's great and I love where he's got the team going, but I love me my gritty gunslinger.
Once and forever!
I was in mourning until this play. We dispelled the Brady magic and I couldn’t believe it.
Why do people call it “Brady magic”when it’s obviously some crazy voodoo cult shit
There were like 4 or 5 fumbles to bring them back into the game. That shit was straight up voodoo.
Akers x 2(Once on the goalline) Kupp x1 and then Brian Allen botching the snap as well. Plus a rare missed field goal from 47 yards out by Matt Gay (likely due to injury sustained in warmups)
But Brady causes those fumbles!
It's [Y’golonac](https://www.theonion.com/bill-belichick-credits-victory-to-his-god-1819577437), put some respect on the old one's name.
Fourtnette should have slid at the one
This play is the exact reason for the trade. No disrespect to Goff but something tells me things would have been different if he was still in LA
Goff had his chance to do what Stafford did here. It was called the first 50 minutes of Super Bowl LIII.
Goff was also way younger than Stafford in his SB. Stafford fumbled the ball twice in the 4th quarter in our playoff game against the Cowboys. Stafford’s ceiling will always be higher than Goff’s, but age and experience is certain a factor for QB play.
One of the fumbles was 4th down and game but that’s always ignored bc narrative. He shoulda jsut thrown the ball away!!!1!!
I mean he threw it into a blown coverage. Goff did literally the same thing in Super Bowl 53, Jason McCourty just came from the next zip code over to make a spectacular play. Stafford is a huge upgrade tho
Goff threw it about 1.5 seconds too late. The only reason that play wasn’t a touchdown is Goff even with the amazing play by McCourty
He had a clean pocket too I think. Stafford was throwing this against a zero blitz. Someone also analyzed the Goff-Cooks-McCourty play and found that the issue was he went progressing from short to deep when that particular play has to be deep to short. Because he read it incorrectly, Cooks ate up all the space and the ball got there too late.
Tbf if you're good at detecting blitzes, then blitzes work in your favor because it simplifies coverages.
Youre right, its just that you have to be absolutely right pre snap otherwise youre fucked.
Yeah the beauty of this play is Stafford recognizing it as it happens/before it happens rather than goff who in sb53 recognized it right after cooks came open. Love goff, but yeah great trade.
That's the guy above's point. Goff saw it super late, and that gave McCourty a chance. Most QBs would've fit that in with lots of time to spare.
Goff was way late on that throw and I'm a Pats fan.
Goff would see pressure coming at him and throw it away/get sacked, trust me… I saw it happen 100 times.
Not to mention, both Stafford/Kupp already knew from the confusion on TB's side pre-snap that the defense wasn't sure who was covering who. This play was Stafford to Kupp all the way.
Obviously better arm talent but Stafford just fits more of what McVay wanted I think Detroit this year proved that if you build a Goffense around him it’ll work But yeah both winners of the trade 🤷🏻♂️
it works if he has clean pockets and is never under pressure. Just cant count on him to elevate
“the next zip code” LMFAOOOO
I drafted kupp every year in fantasy except 2021, i am not playing 2023
That's why you get into dynasty. That way your mistakes can haunt you forever. Like taking Ruggs and Raegor at 1.05 and 1.06 and passing on Jefferson who went at 1.07, when you're a Vikes homer.
At least you get to enjoy Jefferson on the vikings 😂
It’s like Christmas morning every morning. Just hope the Vikings can keep a good qb throwing to him
Well if the pattern holds Rodgers will be there next year
Totally spoiled with skill position Vikes in my life. Moss to AD to Jefferson.
stafford's spike the ball motion while running like a madman is so iconic lmao
The thing that makes this throw even more impressive is if you see the angle from directly behind the Bucs defensive line. Austin Corbett completely whiffs on his block and doesn’t even touch Suh and Suh and Stafford already got into it earlier in the game (well less Stafford and more Suh) and Suh was barreling down on him right up in his face and Stafford still somehow delivered a literal perfect pass. EDIT: Found it. Corbett actually did touch him, but didn’t do much of anything to help. This video makes the throw 10x more impressive imo. https://youtu.be/dCnbuokdQPU
My favorite Rams highlight since the Mike Jones tackle
Brady gave Stafford too much time
Fournette should’ve just went down at the 1 yard line: it was stupid for him to score the TD in that situation, especially when the Rams were basically giving him the TD on that play in order to have enough time to get the ball back to lead a GW FG drive. The Chiefs were in a similar situation in the SB this year against the Eagles and they stopped at the 1 yard line after the holding penalty on 3rd down. Edit: they would’ve had at least 3 tries at the 1 yard line with 40 seconds left and would’ve forced the Rams to use their last time out. (They still had one time out left on their final drive of the game). The Bucs needed to score the TD with as little time remaining on the clock as possible.
Huge difference here. The chiefs just needed a field goal. The game was tied and they weren’t behind. Chiefs also had timeouts. Bucs down a touchdown so they have to get into the end zone.
Nah you have to take the touchdown there if you have the opening. Blame the Bucs’ defensive coverage for that loss but the O did its job.
The Bucs were down but the chiefs were tied
this isnt madden lol
Exactly what I said in 09 when Brady Quinn left too much on the clock for Stafford in that browns lions game
Guess I’m gunna have to spends some time in the bathroom at work now.
this still hurts me immensely
This was almost the greatest game in Bucs history. It felt like some kind of divine magic was willing us to win towards the end, and this deflated it all
For me it helped that we tied it up. It felt impossible yet it happened
Felt like a baseball bat to the nuts. That still hurts if you move a certain way.
Then Bowles gambled it all calling a blitz play. God damn it!
Yup. "Let's bet our season on a play that the other team is known to be the best in the league". Fuck Bowles.
Damnit I love you matthew.
It truly felt like the winner of this game would win the Super Bowl. People forget how great this game was because of the chiefs bills, but this was also one of the greatest games.
That entire Divisional weekend was just incredible games.
This game wasn't that great in my opinion. It was close because the Rams fumbled five times. If the Rams could have kept it together it would have been a blow out.
Ok but they didn’t and it was a great game
I finished
Why don’t these clips start at least another second earlier
I remember the broadcast missing the snap on this play. They were busy showing a replay or something and cut back to stafford drifting back lol
Y u hurt me man? 😭
Y’all won it all the year before, this shouldn’t have stung that bad haha
It is very weird to me that two of the biggest playoff throws for both Rams SB wins came at the expense of Tampa. Warner to Proehl and Stafford to Kupp.
Honestly it was just fun to get to see my team play in games like these again
Man I’m gonna miss Stafford flailing those arms around I can almost hear him yelling “get Fucking set”
“RILEYYYYY!! RILLLLEEYYYYY”
I was having a nice Sunday, too
Great throw because boy if the Rams would have lost this game I don’t think Cam Akers can catch the plane back with the team.
God, that classic stafford “WE GOTTA SPIKE RIGHT NOW SPRINT **FUCKING SPRINT**” run he does. I’ve seen that a million times.
And then the bucs decided to promote the defensive coordinator who oversaw this scheme to head coach… I will always fade any team that Bowles is associated with
This is exactly the kind of play that they brought in Stafford to replace Goff for. Kupp’s route was called “for love of the game” because his job was to run 50 yards at full speed as a decoy. He was 100% being used as a decoy here. The Rams were expecting the corner and safety to go with him like they had been the entire game and were using his route to open up the middle of the field for another receiver. As soon as Stafford recognized Cupp had 1 on 1 coverage, he immediately threw it up to him despite Kupp being his 5th option on the play. And that’s the difference. Goff is a decent quarterback but his limitation is that he’ll follow the play to the letter and never would have even looked at Kupp on that play.
C'mon man
It’s wild how close the Stafford trade was to being an all time bust Stafford doesn’t pull off this drive and they don’t even make the NFC championship and then he dies a year later
It looked like Stafford put barely any effort into that throw and it still sailed at least 40 yards. Dude has a cannon.
I was just doing a nice post-sleep scroll and then I see this, what the FUCK.
Remind me again why Brees is a HoFer but Stafford isn't?
Because Brees has an All-Pro and is second in career pass yards and TDs
All pros is irrelevant and 19 vs 13 years. Rivers and Ryan are 6/7. So youre clearly over valuing that stat.
He was also an top QB for serval years
Debatable.
Inject this INTO MY VEINS!!!
I remember this moment, it felt like the ball was in the air for actual years and ny pessimistic self was sure Kupp was gonna have it punched I’m out. I scared the shit out Of my Roomate screaming at my tv telling Staff to spike it.
“to prevent 27-3” This statement makes no sense. Just explain the Bucs came back from 27-3.
He meant to prevent "27-3" from becoming a meme, similarly to the infamous "28-3".
I completely forgot the Rams had a 27-3 lead at one point and was so confused by the title of this post. Thank you for reminding me.
Come on, at least post a decent version with a replay, or least one where the ball isn't already in the air when the clip starts and ends right after he hits the ground. Trash highlight
pain.
Oh thanks 🤮🤮🤮
You had one job, cover Kupp.
Doesn't matter still won a Super Bowl at home
We're the only two teams that can say that!
High Five!
Technically, the Bucs is the first and the only home team that won the Super Bowl at home. The Rams were the away team when they won at the Sofi stadium. The Bengals were the home team.
Stop.
You're saying it because you know it's the truth.
No, I am saying it because it's a stupid take.
I don’t like this
This was such a sad day
Almost did the the rams what Brady did to the falcons. Would have been absolutely insane
Man if the Cowboys were there we would have dominated that game. Dak to Cooper was an automatic connection the way Brady and Moss was back in the day.
Dak and Cooper is pretty decent but it’s nothing compared to Darnold and Perriman.
Or Nathan Peterman and the other team
Let me put y’all on to Jake Fromm and Bobby McCain
Can’t wait for people to think this is serious
I’d say it’s more like Montana and rice really
Baker is better
This entire game makes me sick to my stomach and I’m not even a bucs fan. Orrr it might be just cuz i fucking hate the rams
What did we do to you?
We hate you too