Everyone will remember Cooper Kupp’s game-winning touchdown and Aaron Donald’s fourth-down pressure as the plays that decided Super Bowl LVI. But there was another key play that sometimes gets forgotten.
On fourth-and-1 from the Rams’ 30-yard line with only 5 minutes left in the game and Cincinnati leading 20-16, Sean McVay gambled. He called a jet sweep to Kupp, which picked up 7 yards and the first down, keeping the game-winning drive alive.
It looked like a smoothly run play, but it wasn’t always clean in practice leading up to the game. Kupp revealed to USA TODAY Sports that the Rams had issues with that play in practice, but that didn’t cause McVay to lose trust in Kupp and Matthew Stafford to get the job done.
