Cooper Kupp prospects Rams to title

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Cooper Kupp was about the only choice the Los Angeles Rams had on offense at the stop of Tremendous Bowl LVI. As it turned out, he is the only a single they desired.

Kupp scored a 1-property landing with 1:25 still left to cap a remarkable drive in which he also transformed a fourth-down try with a run, caught a couple large passes and drew two vital defensive penalties.

The NFL Offensive Participant of the Yr in the course of the normal year, Kupp had a historic campaign. And he was the main reason the Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 to gain the Tremendous Bowl. Kupp ended with 8 catches, 92 yards and two touchdowns and was named Super Bowl MVP.

Kupp’s major participate in wasn’t the remaining landing but a 7-garden operate on fourth-and-1 from the Rams’ 30-property line. That stored the push going when the Rams’ offense was sputtering. Kupp drew a keeping penalty later on in the travel that was just as big, and a ton a lot more controversial.

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Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson was referred to as for holding on Kupp on a 3rd-down incompletion. The phone saved the Rams, who acquired a initial down at the Bengals’ 4-lawn line with fewer than two minutes to participate in. It was challenging to say Wilson did plenty of to make the penalty, but the flag was thrown anyway.

Kupp had a landing taken off the board due to offsetting penalties, but on the future play there was an additional defensive penalty on a Bengal attempting to guard Kupp, this one particular on Eli Apple. Kupp scored two performs soon after that.

The Bengals achieved midfield but with 39 seconds remaining, Aaron Donald acquired to Joe Burrow on fourth down, and Burrow experienced to toss wildly. It fell incomplete. That clinched the initial Tremendous Bowl championship for the Rams in Los Angeles. The Rams’ only other Tremendous Bowl title arrived in St. Louis in the 1999 time.

The Bengals allowed a 92-lawn generate to Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers to reduce Tremendous Bowl XXIII in the ultimate minute. Switch the 49ers with the Rams, and John Taylor with Kupp. It can be much more heartbreak for the Bengals. They could not have Kupp, who skipped the Rams’ previous Tremendous Bowl visual appearance with a torn ACL, when it mattered.

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Rams just take early direct, Bengals rally

The Rams led 13-3 in the 2nd quarter. There was no way the Bengals had been likely to fold, two months immediately after coming again from 21-3 down to the Kansas Town Chiefs in the AFC championship recreation.

The complete momentum of the activity changed on back-to-again plays early in the 3rd quarter. Tee Higgins bought away with grabbing Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey’s facemask on a deep pass, bought totally free when Ramsey went to the floor and had a 75-lawn touchdown. That gave the Bengals the guide.

Then on the Rams’ upcoming play, Stafford attempted to strike Ben Skowronek, who was changing the hurt Odell Beckham Jr., above the center. Skowronek appeared to wait, then the ball went off his outstretched fingers and to Chidobe Awuzie for the interception. The Bengals couldn’t get in the close zone soon after that, but kicked a industry goal for a stunning 20-13 guide.

The Rams bought a area goal back again as the defenses tightened up for the rest of the third quarter. The Bengals led 20-16 going into the fourth quarter. Cincinnati was 15 minutes from its first Tremendous Bowl title.

Rams offense has problems transferring the ball

The Bengals protection played pretty effectively as a result of three quarters. The Rams kept stubbornly hoping to run the ball and had no achievement. Early in the fourth quarter the Rams’ jogging backs experienced 23 yards on 16 tries.

Without a viable functioning activity and Beckham (not to point out Tyler Higbee, who hurt his knee in the NFC championship activity, and Robert Woods, who tore his ACL in November), the Rams’ offense failed to have several selections. The Bengals protection experienced its times this time, and it was fantastic on Sunday towards a banged-up Los Angeles staff.

The Rams’ protection saved the group in the recreation. They had to choose some odds and went for it on fourth-and-1 at their personal 30 with about five minutes remaining. Kupp took an finish-about for 7 yards, and that started a very long travel that featured a lot of Kupp. For the initial time given that ahead of Beckham’s personal injury, the Bengals were back on their heels.

Two Bengals penalties against Kupp gave the Rams a opportunity to score, and on next-and-target Stafford threw him the go-ahead touchdown with a tiny extra than a minute to go. Donald finished it. His stress on Burrow sealed a championship.

The Rams ended up complete of stars. Their largest kinds arrived up when the Rams essential it most, and ended up the reason they gained the Lombardi Trophy.