i honestly am a patriots fan, so i have seen good football. but last night i have never seen anything like it, quarterback play like that before. josh allen and patrick mahomes did whatever they wanted to do in ways you re not supposed to be able to do it. with 13 seconds left, it doesn t happen to go the full length of the field to get the field goal. they are the two most gifted quarterbacks. their ability to run, buy time, extend plays, ability to throw the football whenever they want, however they want. some of the throws josh allen had last night were mind boggling. with only 13 seconds left, you see two plays field goal range, forced overtime. that was that. this feels like, and hopefully it will be, a matchup that
burrow. trying to keep it going. incomplete. it looked like he might have had a shot to make the grab but the rams are running down to celebrate, with a defensive play. the bengals needed only one more first down to get on the edge of the field goal range but it was not to be. one of l.a. s biggest stars on the other side of the ball, aaron donald perhaps the best defensive player in football, got to burrow forcing an errant pass and with it a turnover on downs and the rams get possession with under a minute to go and take a knee to round out the clock and begin celebrating their championship. los angeles is now the second team in a row to win the super bowl at their home stadium, after tampa bay became the first just a year ago. this is a close game and a compelling game, not a very well played game. kind of sloppy. in the second half in particular. they were pretty rough. but congrats to the rams. they went all in. they bet big on this season and
yards and two touchdowns, the best receiver in football, he had a spectacular season. despite being double teamed much of the way after fellow wideout owe bell bep beckham jr. who scored the second touchdown, went out with a knee injury in the second quarter made kupp all the more impressive and the rams defense applied nonstep pressure to the bengals in the second half and sacked joe burrow, a super bowl tying record seven times. burrow did have almost a minute and a half at the end of regulation to at least get cincinnati into field goal range, down three, and they ve got a kicker, but the bengals failed on three attempts to get one yard from the rams 49. fourth and one. calling the defense. right there. hoping to go. running in the back field.
burrow beat patrick mahomes on the road and you felt he was going to do it again last night. but apparently in the second half the pressure from the rams defensive line was immense. burrow had no time to show. it was money on the last drive for stafford. couper kupp, best receiver in football, no question. with beckham out, they had no other questions. the bengals knew he was throwing to kupp every time and he still got there. credit to stafford, who spent more than a decade, as you say, in detroit. you know, tough season after tough season. when he finally got the stage, he pulled through. i wouldn t say it was a great game. it was compelling, it was close. it wasn t all that well played. there was a stretch i felt like it was three and out, punt, three and out, punt. you can t ask for more than a game coming down to the final minute or two. yeah. it looked like the bengals were one first down away from getting on the out edge of field