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On Thursday, the Baltimore Ravens announced that they have chosen defensive coordinator Jesse Minter to be their next head coach, a decidedly obvious move to address their loss of Mike Macdonald when he left for the Seattle Seahawks in 2024. Minter is Macdonald in a different form as both were “raised” by John Harbaugh on […]
For the third time in nine seasons as the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams, Sean McVay will be coaching in the NFC Championship. McVay and the Rams have been here before and this is a stage of the playoffs in which he’s never lost. His first win came with controversy as the Rams […]
And then, there were four. With the Divisional Round in the rearview, we have just four teams left in the NFL’s tournament to see who gets to play in Super Bowl LX on Sunday, February 8. The NFC Championship game is a particularly interesting pier-sixer in that it has two teams that have already faced […]
The Rams hope to have both Byron Young and Quentin Lake available for Sunday’s NFC Championship game against the Seahawks, although both are dealing with health issues this week. Head coach Sean McVay told the media on Thursday that Lake, who has an illness, returned to practice, but Young won’t practice due to a knee […]
It’s only fitting that the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks are playing for the NFC Championship this year. Both games were among the best in the NFL this year. Both teams are 1 and 2 in DVOA. Both teams have been considered by the media to be the best. The Rams are battle tested […]
Survive and advance has been the Los Angeles Rams playoff mantra and the mystical potentialities are still in force. This Sunday it’s on to the NFC Championship and a third matchup of the season with the Seattle Seahawks. The game pits the League’s #1 offense (L.A.) against the #1 defense (Seattle). While the Seahawks have […]
The Los Angeles Rams may not beat the Chicago Bears in the NFC divisional round of the playoffs without the key contributions of second-year linebacker Omar Speights. Speights’ standout play last weekend was an important fourth down stop at the goal line to slow Chicago’s comeback attempt. He stepped in front of a Caleb Williams […]
It’s Thursday, we’re closer to the AFC and NFC Championships then we have been all season, and I still see people talking about last week’s Divisional Round games (for good and fair reason!), and some pivotal/controversial plays which helped to decide the contests. For the Buffalo Bills and the Los Angeles Rams, there were two […]
Only one of the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks can earn a trip to the Super Bowl out of the NFC. Whichever team claims victory on Sunday evening is likely to become the presumed favorite over the entrant from the AFC conference—either the Denver Broncos or the New England Patriots. As of today, these […]
Tom Brady posted his top-10 throws of the NFL season and broke down what made each pass so special, including several by Matthew Stafford. In fact, Brady also said that the best throw of his career came against the Rams in the 2021 playoffs, a deep shot bomb to Mike Evans for a touchdown over […]
The NFL is on the verge of a third generation of a Shula head coaching regime. The Los Angeles Rams are always a hotbed for coaching searches and that’s been no different in 2026 with Chris Shula, Nate Scheelhaase, and Mike LaFleur combining for at least a dozen interviews and interview requests. Though nothing can […]
The Los Angeles Rams are set to play the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday in the NFC Championship game after defeating the Chicago Bears in overtime, 20-17. However, if one thing is certain, it’s that if the Rams perform as they have over the last four weeks, and especially over the last two, it won’t be […]
Conference championship is just a few days away. The New England Patriots will travel to Mile High to face the Denver Broncos for the Lamar Hunt trophy for the AFC Championship, while the George Halas trophy of the NFC Championship will be played at Lumen Field between the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks. Who […]
The NFL has had wild card playoff teams since 1970 and expanded the wild card to three teams per conference in 2020 but despite the league’s best efforts to give more teams a chance to win the Super Bowl, very few wild cards have made it that far. If the Los Angeles Rams beat the […]
It’s another week which means more questions at cornerback for the Los Angeles Rams as we head into the NFC Championship. Unlike previous weeks, this isn’t necessarily because the cornerbacks played poorly in the divisional round against the Chicago Bears. Outside of Cobie Durant’s gaffe while covering tight end Cole Kmet on Caleb Williams’ touchdown […]
The Los Angeles Rams are being picked by Bruce Arians to win the Super Bowl. Arians coached against the Rams many a time, and perhaps most notably when he was the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, of course he also had some epic matches against Sean McVay and the Rams when he was with […]
With the 20-17 win over the Chicago Bears in the NFC Divisional Round, Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay earned his 10th playoff win of his career. It moved him into a tie for 14th all-time with coaches like Bill Walsh and George Seifert. What’s unique about McVay’s playoff record is that all 10 […]
Matthew Stafford hasn’t been playing his best football recently, but he’s one win away from becoming the 25th starting quarterback in NFL history to reach a second Super Bowl. Would redeeming the Rams’ loss to the Seahawks a month ago and reaching the Super Bowl put any debate to rest on Stafford’s place in the […]
One of the underrated aspects of the Los Angeles Rams’ divisional round playoff win over the Chicago Bears was how they adjusted at corner and forced three interceptions on Caleb Williams. Corner has been the Achilles heel of the Rams team for the 2025 season. Bigger receivers—AJ Brown, Michael Wilson, and others—have abused this secondary […]
When the Los Angeles Rams were set to take on the Chicago Bears in the NFC Divisional Round of the playoffs, many assumed there would be a lot of points. After all, this was a matchup between two of the best offensive minds in the NFL going head-to-head in Sean McVay and Ben Johnson. Instead, […]
The Los Angeles Rams are taking on the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle, and historically (at least according to the information I am sharing below), it is the home and favored team who wins the NFC Championship Game more often than not. Will history have any impact on this Sunday’s contest? Not exactly, but it’s still […]
The Rams hold two first round picks. Will they use either of them on players from the Indiana-Miami national championship game? Talk about it with your fellow TST community members in the comments section!
The Seattle Seahawks wanted these kinds of matchups when they hired defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald to replace Pete Carroll as the head coach two years ago, to go up against the league’s top offensive gurus like Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan in the NFC West and the playoffs. Now a week after the Seahawks defeated […]
One of main negatives constantly tossed about is the Rams defensive pass coverage. In reality, the 2025 secondary has statistically improved over each of the last two seasons. Even so, it’s still a middle of the NFL pack unit and may need a total rebuild for 2026. The Rams have two corners currently under contract […]
The Los Angeles Rams are a 2.5-point underdog against the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship this Sunday, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. L.A. is coming off a terrible showing in the Divisional Round in Chicago, but will have to step up their game against their red-hot NFC West rival. Los Angeles defeated the Cardiac Bears […]