Rams ,Matthew Stafford made a Terrified statement and is over……
Matthew Stafford has been a star quarterback for far too long to really care what a fan, a pundit or even an opponent thinks about how he’s playing.
So even though he’s in one of the most impressive stretches of his 15-year career with his Los Angeles Rams in the thick of the NFC playoff race, Stafford isn’t about to change his stance of politely ignoring any praise or criticism from outside his own locker room.
If I’m playing good, that means the guys in front of me are blocking, the guys on the outside are getting open and catching it, and we’re running the ball efficiently,” Stafford said Wednesday. “It’s an unbelievable team sport. It takes everybody to do all of it. I’m just trying to make sure that when everything is right around me and my number is called, to go out there and do my job as best as I possibly can.”
But the pure numbers don’t capture the exceptional nature of Stafford’s play down the stretch this season, one year after serious injuries limited him to only nine games in the Rams’ Super Bowl championship defense.
Even while facing the elite defenses fielded by the Browns and Ravens, Stafford has been smart, elusive, anticipatory and generally superb in the pocket while setting up targets Cooper Kupp, rookie Puka Nacua and Kyren Williams for prolific performances.
“He’s played like Matthew,” Rams coach Sean McVay said. “He’s a great player, and you can see he’s feeling healthy. He’s doing a great job of distributing the football. Guys are competing hard around him and for him, and he has got great command of what he’s seeing. (The last two opponents) have definitely been two of the upper-echelon defenses. I think he’s played really well when you look at the fourth quarter in Seattle (in Week 11), and then the last 12 quarters when you combine Arizona, Cleveland and Baltimore.”
