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It's Friday, December 22nd, the Friday before a very special holiday weekend for all of you.

We hope you've had a wonderful holiday season thus far. I'm J.V. Erdahl. There's Kyle Brand, Peter Schrager, and Jason McCordie. All right, time for the lead block. I guess Jason had Alvin Camara and fantasy. All right, let's go to Los Angeles. I show you, Shohei Otani. $700 million. Congratulations to he and his Asian son Stolato for getting that deal done. Amazing work by both those guys. 30 to 22, the Rams win. It's Kyrin. It's Puka. It's Stafford. Guys, this is pretty cool. Puck and a cool with this, Ricky Widerceiver in California. You don't hear him talk much. Steve Weiss caught up with him and Puka sounds exactly like you want him to, like really fun. A huge game for you, go over 100 yards again, but to get the win and to move you guys a little bit closer to the playoffs, how much does that mean? So excited and super fun. I feel like we're playing our best football right now and everybody's just enjoying the moment. We go out there and just the confidence we have in each other is making playing football so much fun. We're able to execute and perfect the game plan that Coach McVeigh has dialed up for us. It makes everything super fun. You know number nine is ever going to miss out there. He makes a job as a wide receiver super easy. And then when 23's running the way he does, it makes blocking so much more fun. I got to do a better job of blocking. There's some ones that left out there. But when we're able to get the dub, it makes everything feel better. Career game, he says, I got to do a better job blocking. I love this. What a dream come true. I love Nakuwa. Unbelievable. Of course, they find him in the fifth rounds what It's what the Rams do. They'll find you day three picks all over their roster.

Rams, huge win. We're going to break it all down, but let's see where the playoff picture has us now. The Saints, they take that L. That makes next week's game against Tampa. It's about it for them. If they don't win that game, they're eliminated. The Rams, meanwhile, go to the six seed.

If the plows were tomorrow, they're not.

They would play the Lions, which would mean Stafford at Detroit. Golf versus McVeigh. Sign me up. Let's go. Wildcard weekend. Unbelievable win. Let's go. Oh my God. Let's go. That would be great. Peter, you talked about it yesterday, Sean McVeigh, being so cool under pressure.

What is he now, 7 and 1 on the short week? 7 and 1 on the short week. 4-0 at home in those games. Look out. Oh my goodness. Don't let him get hot when he's at home. The Rams are hot right now. They've won 5 with their last 6. Jason, it was a dominant performance specifically by the quarterback. From the first possession of the game, they got the ball and they went straight down the field and Kyle showed it in the highlights.

It gets to fourth down.

No, we're straight down the field

and Kyle showed it in the highlights.

It gets to fourth down. No, we're not kicking the field goal. We're going for it. And it hits Puka and they scored a touchdown. But Matthew Staffer and a lot of people haven't seen them and we talked about it yesterday. He hadn't been on prime time since that Bengals game earlier in the season. and that one was kind of a snoozing when it came to the office when you were watching it.

But if you haven't watched this guy over the last several weeks, he has been outstanding. The last five games, 14 touchdowns, only one interception. But I was more impressed with us. You watched him last night. We know he can play. We know he's a veteran. We know he's a Super Bowl champion. But some of the throws he was making, the sidearm one, he threw to DeMarcus Robinson over the middle that he kind of snagged with one hand. Him rolling out to the left throwing the ball. Stafford is a quarterback. Now, Valde, the Rams are hot to finish this season. You have to start to talk about them and the damage that they can cause within the playoffs. This football team is fun.

There's young guys with the right mix of veteran guys. What was so impressive, although also with Matthew Stafford last night is usually you see a quarterback and we're talking about how this guy

threw the ball all around the field. Now he hit multiple wide receivers and got the running backs.

Four people caught a pass last night from Matthew Stafford. Four people. Cup Nicola, Robinson, and just Higbee. Those are the four guys over 300 yards, and the Saints haven't given up 300 passing yards in 40 consecutive games. And last night, Matthew Stafford tore them up, throwing a ball all around the field. He's a great statch, right? And he has the greatest rookie wide receiver in the history of the sport. I mean that without a joke or a smile. Puka Nakua right now is 95 catches, 1,327 yards and five touchdowns on the season. And last night put on a national performance for everybody to show that he is better than Randy Moss's rookie year, better than Jamar Chase's

rookie year, better than Jalen Waddell's rookie year, Jefferson's rookie year. Guys, look at the

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