The Rams Won The Super Bowl — Then The Real Drama Started
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🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Rams begin their Super Bowl title defense on Thursday night against Josh Allen and the Bills, but to get to this point, they’ve had to navigate an offseason filled with drama. There were concerns that Aaron Donald and Sean McVay might retire (and All-Pro left tackle Andrew Whitworth did retire). Then Von Miller stunned the Rams by signing with the Bills, while Matthew Stafford (and McVay) have had to answer questions about the quarterback’s lingering elbow issue. Today, The Athletic’s Jourdan Rodrigue joins us to break down some of the big storylines following this chaotic/extremely talented team as they get ready to try to run it back.
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| 0:42.0 | Borough trying to keep it going, it's spun out, gets it away, and incomplete. |
| 0:46.0 | It looked like Team Rhine might have had a shot to make the grab at the Rams now running down to celebrate with a defensive play. |
| 0:55.0 | And guess who? Guess who? I mean, you're going to have to think about it. |
| 1:01.0 | The final images of this past NFL season had Aaron Donald and the Rams closing out a dramatic Super Bowl victory over the Bengals. |
| 1:09.0 | The celebration took place and then a very eventful and pretty suspenseful off season got underway. |
| 1:16.0 | The fact that both Aaron Donald and Sean McVey are rumored to be thinking about stepping away and neither of them have tamped down the rumor. |
| 1:26.0 | Neither of them are like, that's crazy. |
| 1:29.0 | So exactly why is Von Miller in Buffalo and not back for another year in LA? He's got reasons. That's next. |
| 1:35.0 | So I am a little concerned. I am a little bit with Stafford. |
| 1:39.0 | And this is one of those where I don't think rest is going to just totally do it. |
| 1:43.0 | I just my experience with this injury is there's usually something else that's causing it. |
| 1:49.0 | As their Super Bowl title defense gets underway Thursday night against the bills, today we are joined by the Athletics Jordan Rodriguez to look at all the questions the Rams had to face during a very hectic championship off season. |
| 2:02.0 | And the big question. Can this team get it done again? |
| 2:07.0 | From Wondry, I'm Matt Stroup. It's Wednesday, September 7th. And this is the lead. |
| 2:16.0 | Jordan Rodriguez, welcome back to the show. And thank you for taking the time during what is probably an absurdly busy stretch for you. |
| 2:22.0 | Yeah, thanks for having me. I always love jumping on with you guys. One of my favorite podcasts. So appreciate you having me. |
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