WEBVTT - Super Bowl 56 - the Stars Shine in L.A. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:15.480 I'm read Lewis, and this is NFL Inside reports. The Rams, 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.239 for the second time in franchise history, are Super Bowl 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.800 champions after twenty victory over the Bengals in Super Bowl 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:26.319 fifty six. First time they get to hoist the Lombardi Trophy. Though, 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.080 as the Los Angeles Rams, here in the City of Champions, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:37.160 and that last night inside Sofi Stadium was an event 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.680 fit for Hollywood. And with that, let's welcome in our 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.040 friend and colleague here at NFL Media. Bridget Condon is 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:50.200 with us in bridget Um and literally was everywhere through 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.159 Super Bowl Week. If you did not know Los Angeles 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.160 until you know you got here um and and you 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.880 had not fully experienced all that Los Angeles had to offer, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.960 Bridget you know have be you know, been one of 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.120 our newest colleagues in here for just a few months. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.440 I felt like you got just about everything in the 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.319 span of a week. Does that sound about right? That 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.680 sounds about right. I think I was like wondering when 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.360 I was going to get immersed into the world, and 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.840 it was last week and when we were at Venice Beach, 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.520 Warner Brothers, Bengals Hotel, Rams Hotel, so By just got 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.319 it all done in one week. But yeah, what an 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:25.720 event l A too, right. I mean like you were 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.720 literally everywhere um so, which I thought was pretty cool. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.160 And you did a fantastic job all week long with 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.959 like the sites, the sounds, like everything that you wanted 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.880 to experience during super Bowl Week. I felt like you 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.600 got a chance to do it, which was super cool. 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.039 Um and then you get to go to the game, right, 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:48.800 was this your first super Bowl? This is my first 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.000 super Bowl anything. I had never been in the city 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.040 that the super Bowl was in, or covered or attended anything. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.480 So I'm still on like cloud nine right now because 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.200 I'm just changing myself. It was such an incredible experience. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.520 Nothing's cool like l A cool. And the super Bowl 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.200 scene inside so far so I got. I went inside 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.880 for the first quarter before I had to head back 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.520 and do some halftime and postgame stuff, and just being 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.840 in their pregame and just like seeing all that Sofi 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.000 stadium like has to offer. But on that stage, Bridget 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.359 like that was insane. There's nothing like it, That's what 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.119 I was gonna say. It felt like anyone you've ever 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.360 heard about on TV or anyone that's famous was in 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.400 there right, Like every single person. They kept showing the 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.799 pictures on the jumpo tron of who was there. They 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.280 kept going and going. Right in the game, it's like 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:42.079 two or three celebrities, I mean everyone, Kanye was there. Yeah, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.880 it's an event when Kanye is there with his head covered. Yeah, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.920 that was one of the weirdest scenes I think I've 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.360 ever seen. Um. But then like after the game, so look, 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.359 we're gonna get to all the things, all game things, 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.360 Cooper Cup, Aaron Donald, futures of all these guys as well, 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.600 but like there were some real life moments like after 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.679 this game, like you saw it, tell us about it. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.880 The craziest thing. I was like, okay, I sat on 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.240 that tweet for probably five minutes because I was like, 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.760 if this isn't her, I'm not trying to stir anything 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:18.840 up pregnancy labor, Like that's a pretty curious deal. I 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.959 was watching and I was like, should I tweet this out? 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.280 And then I'm got some confirmation that it was her, 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.840 and I was like, Okay, I'm pretty sure because it 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.000 looked like her. It was a pregnant woman on a stretcher. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.600 I knew she was so crazy. I don't know if 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.079 it was the excitement of fifty cents surprising everyone at 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.280 half time. That just sent her into labor. Yeah, that's 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.520 that must have been what it was, clearly. But you 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.080 know what's kind of interesting is we've been talking in 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.160 a week about how Odell Beckham is expecting his first 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.960 child at at any moment, right, and he's always been 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:48.600 on standby. And then it's his buddy in the in 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.800 the room, Van Jefferson, that's his kid. Uh wow, like 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:57.000 a right story to tell us, are you kidding? Yeah? 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.000 And then you know, like this, so the Rams are 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.960 a super Bowl ring, right, they get a super Bowl 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.120 ring and they'll physically get it in a few weeks 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.200 or months, but Taylor Wrap then decides to give a ring. Right. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.600 I feel like that was like we forgot about that 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.640 because everything else is going on. I saw that video 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.600 this morning and I was like wait what. There was 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:21.200 so much going on, sensory overload, so I can't even 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.320 imagine just being a regular guy on the team. It's like, Okay, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.359 I want a super Bowl, but I didn't have a baby. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:32.159 I didn't get um. Yeah, so that it's that was 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.239 It was pretty special, Like it just like a special 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.120 day inside so fa stadium for so many people, obviously 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.880 more so on the ram side of things, but man, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.599 that was that was unreal. And then of course you 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.440 had the halftime show, right, which was like this um 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:49.119 culmination of culture. I feel like, especially since this game 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.560 is in Inglewood and we got you know, I felt 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.560 like we got kind of inductrinated into all of it 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.600 all week long. Um, you know, by hearing the interviews 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.920 and in the super Bowl halftime show, you know, news 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.839 conference in understanding what it means, um, you know, to 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.039 be someone from this area and to create and to 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.200 be an artist in this area and to come together 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.760 on the world's biggest stage. So like, all right, Bridget, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.480 let's let's be honest here, because our producer Thomas Warren 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:20.400 wrote literally wrote this line in our preparation for this podcast, 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.360 Let's get bridgets thoughts on um what you know? Ch 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.520 As a millennial thinks of the halftime show that was 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.960 geared more for like the generation Wye crowd with the 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:35.719 Dr Dre's and stoops to the world, I thought it 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.200 was incredible. I mean, yes, I'm younger, but everyone knows 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.039 who Dr Drey is. Everyone knows who stoopid emam. You know, 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.880 those songs. Oh my goodness. I thought it was one 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.839 of the best halftime performances that we've seen in years past. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.000 My boyfriend, actually his uncle is one of the producers 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.280 for the halftime show, so oh my god. Really, yeah, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.920 he got to be on the field for it, and 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.240 his videos are insane. He was right in front where 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.760 I was sitting. My back or the back of the 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.640 houses was facing us. Yeah. Yeah, so we could see 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.120 it on the JumboTron, but the inside of the house 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.240 we couldn't see. But he was on the side of 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.560 the inside of the house and taking videos. It looked insane. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.279 I just loved the setup of the little houses. I 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.760 agree that dropping down from the ceiling so cool. It 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.640 gave me chills when I saw him and m out 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:25.080 there too with his dancers. It's just they all flowed 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:29.200 so well together. It was so well like so perfectly choreographed, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.039 and like going in and out of the different little 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.479 houses of the rooms and like and then all ending 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.800 up on the top with Dr dre Hold it down 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.360 to the very end. It just man, it felt so 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.919 l a like, it felt so Los Angeles and I 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.360 am not a Los Angeles native, but like it was like, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.360 all right, that's what this is. And it felt like 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:54.159 when we heard there was what six performers, it's you're wondering, 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:58.720 how are they? Yeah, how who's what? Are I gonna say? 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.520 One word? Eat? They found a way to flow it 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:15.800 really well. Like you said, it was perfect, definite l A. Yeah, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.040 and um. So the stars showed up at halftime and 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.400 for the Rams, though bridget the stars showed up all 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:30.560 game long, more specifically Matthew Stafford, Cooper Cup and Aaron Donald. Um. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.720 Let's start with the Matthew Stafford Cooper Cup connection, because 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.760 you know, you were in and around the Rams, you know, 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.200 all week, and you've been you've been covering you know, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.000 the Rams since you've really arrived, and you've been, you know, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.520 part of our coverage. They're here in l A with 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.880 those guys, and what what do you feel like you've 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.520 learned about Matthew Stafford and Cooper Cup um in the 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.360 time that you've got to spend around them and around 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.160 their teammates. So one of the first RAMS practices I 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.960 went to, Cooper Cup was there waiting for Matthew to 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.800 finish availability. He was talking to us the media, and 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:02.920 he had an iPad and he was waiting for him 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.320 because he wanted him to explain something to him. And 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.400 I think that's such inside their relationship, right. They understand 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.320 each other on the field, off the field, they have 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:15.320 such a big chemistry. Stafford and I've spent a ton 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.840 of time together. Um. I think it was actually adding 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.400 up in the car on the way here. The just 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.840 the extra time outside of the obligatory time was you 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.240 know north this season and yesterday when the Bengals shut 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.720 down the Rams defense when their their run game, Odell 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.960 goes out, there's a shock, gun snap, poor man rush 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.480 right tackle, black brow yone dry belt. I dropped by 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.400 O b J. Who holds time towards me as he 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.920 hits the turf and I'm not too It was almost 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.040 a non contact Do you look like he was cutting? 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.040 And then we used writhing in pain on the field 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.000 at the forty five on a route which was a 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.560 shallow cross. Cooper wasn't getting a lot Eli Apple was 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.120 holding him pretty much in the first half. He did 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.960 have that one touchdown, And I think we forget that 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.840 they have won games, the two of them together, and 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.720 Matthew Stafford knew, Sean McVey knew if we're gonna win 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.080 this game. We gotta get Cooper going. And that's what 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.800 we saw there in the first fourth quarter. And it's 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.360 also the success of Matthew Stafford. Everybody counts him out always, right, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.960 and we forget no he can. Like I think he's 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.280 over that hump that he was in in Detroit because 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.120 of the lack of players he had there. He's made 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.960 some clutch plays and yeah, he does Matthew Stafford things 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.080 that you know, through through a few interceptions, but at 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.640 the end of the day, he's able to find him 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.880 up and they make magic. And so look, Odell Beckham 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.120 was on his way to a monster game. You know. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.240 I had the first score of the game on a 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.560 phenomenal catch and throw from Stafford, and then had some 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.800 chunk plays you know after that, and then goes down 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.120 with the injury. And I think everyone at that point knew, like, okay, 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.240 like if the Rams are going to figure this out, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.679 Cooper cup is going to have to have the second 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.960 half of his life here, because you know, he had 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:55.880 been he had had you know, he had a couple 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.920 of catches in the first half, but he came alive 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.040 on at final drive and isn't that what being a 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.400 star is all about. When everyone knows you're the guy 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:12.360 that's going to get the ball, and still you figure 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.319 out how to win your route, win the catch at 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.679 the catchpoint, contested catch. And I mean I think like 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.840 even more so on the fact that, like the route 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.200 that Cooper Cup caught on, ran on that touchdown to 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.800 eventually win the game. Stafford cum utters center steps back, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.680 throws the faith fact soldier Cooper Cups got its, Cooper 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:39.839 Cup brings it in touchdown, touchdown, touchdown l A. With 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:44.080 one twenty five remaining, the Rams are back on the 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.200 high side. That would have been an Odell Beckham route, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.040 but because O b J wasn't there, Cooper Cup steps 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.240 up and wins, and that's why he's the m v P. Yeah. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.559 And I think that one play where Cooper threw the 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.280 past to Matthew and it was a bad throw, I 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:02.360 think that was designed for open Oh sure, Yeah, I 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.760 think your heart just breaks for a guy like Odell 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:07.679 when he goes through something like that. You see him 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.720 crying on the sidelines, But them winning makes it a 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.319 little more sweeter, right, and you kind of forget, Okay, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.600 we'll figure out what's going on. With him. But it's 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.400 easier to do so when you have a superhole in yep, 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.320 no doubt, uh, no doubt about it. And look, I 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.400 to go back to your story about the Stafford Cup connection. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.079 You know, I was out at training camp the day 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.480 we had the back together Saturday thing, um, you know, 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.960 which was one of our one of our big days 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.520 in early August. And so I was out there at 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.080 U C Irvine and just walking around, and you know, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.839 Cooper Cup is one of the first out of the field, 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:50.600 Matthew Stafford is too, and you know, before practice, you know, 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.120 you've got the centers often working with the quarterbacks, will 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.520 center quarterback exchange as part of what they do, you know, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.840 kind of their pre practice stuff. But Cooper Cup is 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.160 standing there in front of you know, Matthew. So like 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.920 every time Matthew you know, has gets a stab, even 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.200 fires at the Cup and like it it seems like 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.320 something so minimal, but there they were just around each other. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.920 It was like they were each other's shadows throughout the 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.559 entire practice. Like normally, when you know, let's say the 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.640 quarterbacks are off kind of doing their own thing as 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.000 a different part of practices going on. But Cooper's there too. Yeah, 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.680 it just it seems so simple. But I think you 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.960 you know, seeing how this this game transpired and how 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.880 that final drive went down, it's like, okay, yeah, I 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.240 mean they put the work in and so that chemistry 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.760 was next level for a reason. Yeah, And I think 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.640 he's he's a player that's so easy to root for 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.800 because he's so humble and he puts in so much work. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.840 He's so smart when he talks about the way that 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.320 Sean McVeigh designs offenses. This is a guy again who 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.280 had none or one college offer in high school. He 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.319 had to work really hard in college, and now he's 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.080 earned it. He's a Super Bowl m v P and 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.080 his teammates love him, and it makes it so easy 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.040 to for Matthew and him to just connect because of 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.440 that attitude, Sean put us in some good spots, and 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.040 also Matthew Stafford probably through the best no looker of 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.000 his life. We've went in there a little bit. I 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.000 saw the lane I I was running in there. I 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.840 saw him leaning a little bit like, Oh, he's he's 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.760 doing this to me, isn't he? He was looking he 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.360 was looking up into the third level of the right, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.079 right Cylon, but he put one in there and then 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.120 you'll just put a space the ball in play, allowing 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.480 his guys makes some plays for him. And by the way, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:34.280 he broke some Jerry Rice records at Eastern Washington, some 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.440 FCS records, the old one double A in college. And 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.320 he's now like, along with Jerry Rice, they're like the 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.120 only guys that have won an Offensive Player of the 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.800 Year award, a Super Bowl m v P, and have 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.400 been a triple crown winner in terms of leading the 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.240 league in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns in the season. Now, 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.720 Jerry didn't do that all in one season. He didn't 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.880 receivers hope to do in a career, literally in one year. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.599 And it's nuts. And did you hear I don't know 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.320 if you heard the story real quick when they lost 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.400 the Super Bowl. He said this story last night. He 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.120 was walking off the field when the Patriots beat the Rams, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.640 and he said he had some vision and he was 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.960 thinking he's gonna be back in the Super Bowl and 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.440 he's gonna win m v P. And he was like, 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.560 I can't tell anyone this, but he told his wife 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.680 and then it happened last night I'm like, how cool 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.320 is that? Right on this level? And he spent some 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.480 time and hope for some goodness in my life. Yeah, 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.760 no kidding. Um, just kind of want to be around 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.480 Cooper uh and his family. They're they're absolutely phenomenal, and 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.640 I'm happy for him because he's earned it. Uh. And 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.080 so some of the Rams literally in every facet. You 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.360 know that we talked about pressure, um, that they put 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.800 on themselves by some of the moves that they made 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.960 to go out and get big name players like Matthew 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.480 Stafford and to give up big time assets to do it. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.040 Same with von Miller and signing oh b J and 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.440 Jalen Ramsey obviously a big part of that too. But 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.080 it all worked out, how it all worked out, how 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.960 they dealt with the pressure, how the Angles regroup after 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.880 succumbing at the end of this game to the Rams. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.160 Will we will get into right after this quick breath. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.120 All right back here on NFL Inside Report, bridget Condon 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.480 is with us and bridget um. Look, talk of Super 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.640 Bowl week was all right, you know, if the Rams 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.600 don't win, is the Stafford trade to fail? You know, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.400 how are they going to deal with all this? You know, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.720 this is they went all in. Nothing short of a 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.960 Super Bowl championship is is you know, the measure of 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.280 success for Los Angeles and for less Snee, the general 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.160 manager and architect of this Rams team, And they rose 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.440 to the occasion every time. And in Bridget, I'm just 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.680 curious from you being around the Rams, like, did you 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.640 get the sense that you know, as they said, all 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.840 of that talk about pressure really was external and not 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.400 necessarily something internal happening inside their building. I do think so. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.240 I think if it was any internal pressure, it was 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.960 maybe management in front office people. But I think the 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.960 players really believed in themselves and got along so well, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.560 both the Bengals and the Rams. I think really, when 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:15.920 you get to this level, a lot of it does 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.040 actually have to do with chemistry, of course talent, but 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.720 I think they were just confident. You know, you get 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.920 a guy like Odell, you have Vaughan, you have Aarond. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.640 Some of the things that they needed in that Super 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.560 Bowl fifty three they found those public puzzle pieces, and 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.880 so I think they didn't feel the pressure. Yeah. And 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.520 then for Joe Burrow, you know, like pressure, it's like 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:39.160 what no, his his his his edge, his confidence, his 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.240 cool calum and collected nature in the face of perceived pressure, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.040 I think is what makes him so great, what makes 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.160 him so likable. Um, you know, as a quarterback, and 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.320 he had him going right, He had the Bengals in position, 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.760 you know, at one point obviously with the te Higgins 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.600 touchdown to start the second half, play actually funding room 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:03.440 going good. But if caught by Higgins, he goes in 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:08.240 for the score. Jaylen Ramsey fell down and just like that, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:14.119 in twelve seconds, a seventy five yard touchdown, which is 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.280 something we've never seen in a Super Bowl of play, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.440 a touchdown score in the first play from scrimmage in 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.600 either half in the bathroom. When that, most people like, 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.719 whoa what? And then the next drive they come out 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.080 and they pick off Matthew Stafford. You're like, oh my god, 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.879 play action fired over the middle, pecked off at the 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:37.159 thirty one yard line. Scarron I couldn't handle it, and 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.760 the Cincinnati Bengals in twenty two seconds have a touchdown 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.800 and a takeaway. The Bengals are gonna flipping wind, looked Patrick. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.879 He was sitting next to Patrick Clayband, and I was like, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:52.040 are the Bengals about to win the Super Bowl? Yeah? 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.840 And then it just you know, it fizzled out. Like offensively, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.520 they ran into a rut where they had you know, 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.359 they had the fuel goal off that reception, the second 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.840 interception for Matthew Stafford, and then they had you know, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.640 four straight punts after that and just could not find 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.359 their rhythm. Partly bridget because they could not deal with 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.960 Aaron Donald. And he came alive in the second half. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.480 Under pressure, they get him at the twenty yard line. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.960 He was on it. Donald is right there. He didn't 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:23.680 do much in the first half, and I think we 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.640 were all waiting. Okay, Aaron Donald, you talked about how 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.720 mad you were after Super Bowl fifty three and you 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:31.920 want this. We know you want. This is the last 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.800 thing on your bucket list, right You won multiple Defensive 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.400 Player of the Years, even named to a Pro Bowl. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.159 We don't have a Super Bowl. So where where were was? 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.200 Where was Aaron Donald in the first half? But he 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.720 came alive in that second half. He had those two sacks, 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.520 and of course that last play of the game where 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.680 Joe Burrows trying to get the ball out, he brushes 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:54.520 him and Joe Burrow throws in completion, Burrow trying to 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.960 keep it going get spunned out. That's what the wife 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.359 then and complete it looked like what about a shot 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.880 to make the grab? But the Rams down running down 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:11.320 to celebrate was a defensive play. And guess who I mean, 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.160 you don't even have to think about it. I think 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.800 he was the difference. And what a story book ending 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.040 for this guy who is loving football. He told me 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.600 he took three days off after the last Super Bowl 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.800 and that is it and has been in the gym 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:29.560 working since and finally the work base off. Yeah, and 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:31.399 you know, look, von Miller a big part of the two. 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.399 He has two sacks in the second half. I mean 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.880 they have six second half sacks, which was you know, insanity. Um, 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.359 And look, that's kind of what we thought might happen 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.359 throughout the game. It just turns out the Bengals were 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:43.920 able to deal with it in the first half and 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.480 then the Rams made some adjustments defensively in the second 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.240 half to get Aaron Donald one on one of those 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.920 those guards in the interior, and he is he's no 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.920 match for anybody one on one. You don't think he's 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.119 actually going to retire, now, do you? I don't know, 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.720 he's young, right, This is a Pier it's not. Yeah, 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.080 but this is what else is there left to do? 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.399 I don't know if he wants to be a dad baby. 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.760 It's like, what am I going to stick around and 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.600 be Tom Brady and just keep winning? Well, he's still 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.320 at the time, he is at the very top of 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.240 his game, and so I think that's you know, there's 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.119 only been six players to win multiple Defensive Player of 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.720 the Year awards and a Super Bowl. Every other one 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.000 of those players is a Hall of Famer. He will 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.240 be a Hall of Famer. Even if he does retire, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.479 He's a Hall of Famer, you know, first ballot Hall 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.199 of Famer in my book. Um, you know, as soon 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.679 as he's eligible, even you know, knowing that he's got 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.280 he's got more years left to give in this league, 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.879 hoping there's maybe a contract extension that might help fuel 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.159 his desire to get back into the game here a 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.640 little bit, because this game needs him. This game needs 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.239 a dominant player like that that we're all just in awe, right, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.320 I mean, like that's what makes this game so great. 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:54.560 He seems like he's in too good a shape to 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:58.159 walk away to to I don't think he's done working 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.600 out and continuing to old himself. So I think we'll 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.760