One thing that needs to be said: Faced with losing his job, Jared Goff came off the bench, weeks after surgery and played very well in two playoff games this month.
Hekker, on his day off, headed down to the Target in Newbury Park. Makayla, who is 7-months pregnant, came home from her baby shower and joined him. They loaded up 4 carts with sweatpants, underwear, shirts, socks, diapers, baby wipes, even some sporting equipment.
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The Rams have asked members of the Cal Lutheran University choir to perform the national anthem on Monday Night before the game against the Chiefs. Borderline shooting victim Justin Meek was a soloist in the choir and the men's quartet.
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Sean McVay says the Rams have been checking goals off throughout the season. “Make no mistake about it. Got a lot of respect for the Patriots, but we’re going there to get this last check!”
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Asked why the Rams haven’t joined the celebration fun sweeping the rest of the league, Todd Gurley says, “We get in there so much, we don’t have to do it every time... I don’t have all day to do a whole cha-cha slide, electric slide.”
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Usually a Rams alumni gives the signal lighting the Coliseum torch before kickoff. Tonight, before Monday Night Football against Kansas City, it’ll be Karen and Jordan Helus of Moorpark, wife and son of fallen Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus.
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"When a player is holding the ball to pass it forward, any intentional movement forward of his hand starts a forward pass." In
#LARvsPIT
, Jared Goff's arm appears to be moving forward when that ball comes loose.
Members of the
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choir, the combined men’s and women’s quartets, sing the national anthem at the Coliseum ahead of Chiefs at Rama on MNF. Here’s what it sounded like in the stadium.
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Rams head coach Sean McVay called the Brandin Cooks trade “a big vote of confidence” for WR Josh Reynolds and his potential. “We just feel he’s a capable starting receiver.”
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Rams defensive linemen Michael Brockers, Sebastian Joseph-Day and Tanzel Smart are the Target in Newbury Park providing a Holiday Shopping Spree for members of the Boys and Girls Club of the Conejo Valley
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Todd Gurley: “We going to go back to the A and bring a Chip back to LA.” Then Jared Goff asks the crowd if they wanted to hear from Marcus Peters — which would have been awesome — instead, Brandin Cooks steps forward to say something about what happened earlier today in Foxboro.
Rams announce they will continue to wear the throwback uniforms, this weekend. Which means, two of the NFL’s all-time classic uniforms will be in the primetime spotlight.
Go ahead and buy the jerseys, folks. The Rams now have the GM (Les Snead), head coach (Sean McVay), quarterback (Jared Goff), running back (Todd Gurley) and top receiver (Brandin Cooks) signed through the 2023 season.
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Met Stanford goalkeeper Katie Meyer tonight in Newbury Park to get her first person account of her College Cup heroics for the national champion Cardinal. It was as entertaining as you’d expect.
Jim Bittner, who turned Moorpark College into consistently one of the best football teams in the state of California, died on Tuesday, according to his daughter Mary. He was 88. When his tenure ended in 2011, he was Ventura County’s winningest football coach at any level.
Joe Buck wraps up the
#TNF
broadcast with the bottom line: "If you didn't think the Rams were the best team in the NFL before tonight, and you watched tonight, I think you'd come out of here thinking the Rams are clearly the best team in the NFC, if not the NFL."
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Aaron Donald on the reports he may retire if the Rams win today, “I’m just on the moment… I’m going to enjoy this with my teammates and my family for a couple days, how about that?”
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USC head coach Lincoln Riley is at Pacifica High in Oxnard tonight to watch Pacifica WR Isaiah Dillon play basketball. Dillon’s father Charles played for Washington State and the Green Bay Packers.
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I can confirm the report that Camarillo High graduate Gabriela Jaquez, the Star’s 2021 All-County Girls Basketball Player of the Year, has been offered a scholarship from UCLA. Her brother Jaime helped the Bruins to the men’s Final Four in April.
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Johnny Hekker said the Rams appreciated the diehard fans who came out late last night to welcome the team back home after the NFC Championship game
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The Rams will be joined on the sidelines tonight by honorary water boys Dylan, 17, and Derek Adler, 12, of Simi Valley, who lost their father Sean in the Borderline shooting. Sean Adler was a former wrestling and strength coach at Royal High.
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Utah QB Cameron Rising last month on playing with WR
@theohoward2
for a year in SLC. The duo played against each other in the Marmonte League for Newbury Park and Westlake, respectively.
University of Utah will always hold a special place in my heart. Really appreciated my time here and this year was one of the most special years I’ve had playing football. Been real Salt Lake City✌🏾
This doesn't sound like the Jared Goff we've known for nearly five years. More importantly, how do the Rams give $134 million to a player who lacks "work ethic, football IQ... (and) accountability?" That seems like a really bad decision that isn't getting enough attention.
Was told by very good sources
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were frustrated at Goff’s lack of work ethic, football IQ, mobility, accountability and he simply wouldn’t take chances on explosive plays. Locker room respected Wolford more.
Rams arriving back at Cal Lutheran after winning the NFC Championship. From the first bus, John Fassell waves to the crowd and points behind him to Greg Zuerlein
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Peters on Rams new secondary: "I get to have another All-Pro corner on the other side? So now you don't know where you're going to go. And then you have a safety like Joyner? You add in Sam Shields? And you keep Roby? Come on now. It's going to be fun. Pick your poison."
Sean McVay told Todd Gurley before Sunday night’s game with Chicago that he was going to “pound the rock.” The result was the running back’s biggest workload in more than a calendar year.
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Rams agreed to give WR Robert Woods a raise for this season, adding an additional $1 million to 2019 Base Salary, and fully guaranteed a new $2 million Roster Bonus for next year, per source, without adding any new years added to the deal. A true raise.
Oxnard High has hired Ventura College special teams coordinator Lonnie McCowan as its head football coach. The former Oxnard High, VC and Marshall University safety has also coached at St Bonaventure and Pacifica.
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BREAKING: Congrats to all the old school Rams fans. Team will wear throwbacks for five home games this year after NFL gives them permission to wear them whenever they want.
Jared Goff on Jalen Ramsey calling him "average to above average" in his famous GQ interview last year. "In relation to what he was calling a lot of people, that wasn't half bad... That's part of Jalen's attitude and it doesn't bother me one bit."
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Brandin Cooks explains how Bill Belichick broke the news of his trade to Los Angeles and what lessons learned in New England he will bring with him to the West Coast
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Utah QB Cameron Rising warming up for his second straight Rose Bowl start. Ventura native and Newbury Park High grad will give Ventura County a third QB start in the Rose Bowl.
Just to head off those “future cap jail” tweets, Rams were $58m under the cap for 2019 per
@Jason_OTC
. Don’t know next year’s AD cap number yet, but even after subtracting Donald’s $22.5m AAV from that figure, the Rams would have more cap room in 2019 than 20 NFL teams.
Channel Islands High playmaker Danny Orozco, who led the Raiders to the 2020
@CIFSS
Division 2 championship, has signed his letter of intent to play men’s soccer at the University of San Diego
With that secondary, the Rams are going to be ready for whatever the Niners are able to put around Jimmy G. LAR remain one step ahead of SF in this process.
Aaron Donald was emotional holding his DPOTY award, saying “It's a dream come true. This is what you dream about as a kid, dreaming about playing in the NFL to have success like this, to be able to be up here right now holding this trophy.
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Heat coach Eric Spoelstra on Jaime Jaquez’s performance tonight: “He has competitive toughness. He makes winning plays… He did a lot of winning things tonight.”
One thing about the loss, football teams need to lose once in a while. They need the lessons a loss can provide to keep evolving. They need to be humbled sometimes to stay sharp. This hurts the Rams in terms of their seeding, but may make them a better team for January.
Matthew Stafford on winning his first Super Bowl, “On that last drive, I couldn’t watch. How fitting for Aaron (Donald) to do what Aaron does.”
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The Rams moved to L.A. 3 years ago after being in St. Louis for 21 years. The Patriots have been in New England for the past 60 years and have won 6 Super Bowls and played in 9 Super Bowls over the past 18 years. In case you're wondering why ratings in the markets are different.
Uhh I’d list what Los Angeles has (Gurley, Donald, Gordon, Bosa, Kershaw, Machado, Lebron, Kopitar, Doughty, Zlatan, Vela, plus Trout, Getzlaf, Perry if you want to include the Ana teams) but I’d rather know who “Jonathan Taylor” is.
Here’s the cover that goes along with my USA Today Sports Weekly cover story on the Rams offseason. Rams fans, you know what to do while you’re waiting for that gas tank to fill this week. Or when you’re picking up a sixer. Or waiting for that latte.