The Los Angeles Rams went down 17-13 early in the second half of the Super Bowl after the Cincinnati Bengals scored a 75-yard touchdown on the first play of the third quarter. They also trailed 20-16 midway through the fourth quarter. But after a clutch touchdown drive by Matthew Stafford and the offense to take a 23-20 lead, the defense stepped up on the final drive to cap off a special performance from Raheem Morris’ group.
Morris, who was with the Atlanta Falcons when they blew a 28-3 lead against the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2016, used his experience with the Falcons to aid the Rams in achieving their ultimate goal of winning a championship.
“There’s no doubt about it, in those moments, people tend to get tight. And we got tight in Atlanta,” Morris told Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated. “We lost that game. We got tight all across the board, whether you wanna say it was on defense, whether you say it was offense, or special teams, we didn’t have the ability to close that game out. I didn’t want these guys to get tight. So when Aaron jumped off that bench, I knew that wasn’t a tight moment—that was a moment where he was ready to just go out there and thrive in the adversity, and go win this football game.
