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The Los Angeles Rams spent three days of the 2019 NFL Draft trading away their first-round pick, swapping draft choices and adding selections. Safety Taylor Rapp became the Rams top choice at No. 29 in the Second Round and 61st overall. Eventually the Super Bowl finalists settled on three third-rounders, one fourth, one fifth and two seventh picks. We didn't feel like we would get him, but through it all we're always like, 'Wow, Taylor Rapp,' because of his rare instincts, short area...
The Los Angeles Chargers entered the 2019 NFL draft with just a few holes to fill and filled them quite nicely in the three-day draft that started on April 25th and ended April 27th. Despite having a top ten defense in 2018, there were a few holes to be filled in the middle of the defense. The Chargers used Notre Dame and a relative of NFL football royalty to help fill the key areas on defense. Here are the seven round results of the 2019 Charger draft: Round 1 - Jerry Tillery, Defensive...
If there was any doubt about the Los Angeles Chargers desire to win now, that was erased in the first day of free agency with the addition of free agent linebacker Thomas Davis. A 14-year NFL veteran, Davis is not only an effective defensive player, but his leadership will be invaluable to the younger players on the defensive side of the ball. In late breaking news, the Chargers also signed quarterback Tyrod Taylor to a two-year contract on Wednesday. Taylor started three games with the...
The Los Angles Chargers will kick-off the 2019 season, which officially starts on March 13th, with the official start of NFL free agency, which also starts March 13th. The Chargers will be looking at upgrading their roster while attempting to re-sign their key free agents. Among the key free agents that the Chargers would like to re-sign are safety Adrian Phillips, wide receiver Tyrell Williams, defensive tackle Darius Philon and nose tackle Damion Square. The NFL salary cap is $188 million for...
Centaurs Have Record 10 Football Players Make All-CIF After last year’s record run with the Centaurs winning a CIF Championship for the first time in 40 years, a record number of players were chosen for the All-CIF team. And for the first time in Culver City football history two players were selected as the offensive and defensive players of the year for the All-CIF team. The Offensive Player of the Year award in Division 7 was given to slot receiver, senior standout and team captain Kevin McGuire, for his tremendous contribution during the reg...
The 2018 NFL season has ended, and it is time to do post-season exit interviews for both Los Angeles football teams. The Chargers and the Rams both had success in the regular season, with a combined 25-7 record during the season. Both won playoff games on the road. Both were eliminated by the same opponent, the New England Patriots. For both the Chargers and the Rams, the Super Bowl Champion Patriots are the gold standard that they both most find a way to overcome. The Patriots beat teams not...
Rams Fall to Patriots Defensive teams Created lowest Total Score in Super Bowl History By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter Take your pick: Super Bowl LIII was either the most boring or best defensive game ever. Likely it was both for the millions watching and streaming live. The Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots combined for the fewest points ever in the 53 years of the NFL Championship series. The host City of Atlanta, Georgia was fantastic and deserved greater entertainment. The only...
One game does not define a season but when the game is the Super Bowl it’s like a one game season. Win or lose everyone expects your best and the Rams failed to deliver. Their 13-3 loss to the New England Patriots was a strange game. The game kept you on the edge of your seat because the score was 3-3 going into the fourth and final quarter but in the end you had to sit back in your seat and try to figure out what just happened. You can blame the loss on the Rams young coach, 33 year old Sean M...
East meets West... once again. The L.A. - Boston rivalry is about to welcome a pair of new partners as the Los Angeles Rams meet the New England Patriots for the very first time in the 53 years of the Super Bowl this Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. It's the old versus the new. The franchises met once before when the Patriots beat the then St. Louis Rams, 20-17, in Super Bowl XXXVI at the then-named Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. But this year's battle is a different...
By Steve Finley It takes the right combination of players, coaches and front office administrators to make it to the championship game in any sport and at almost every level. When you start playing sports as a kid all the way through the professional ranks it takes a near perfect storm to reach the championship game. The winning puzzle piece for the Rams came when they signed their head coach Sean McVay two years ago. They already had a good owner in Stan Kroenke who was ready to sign players th...
By Bill Seals Sports Reporter The 2018 Los Angeles Chargers, by NFL standards, had a successful 2018 football season. They went 12-4, their best record since 2009. They made the playoffs for the first time since 2013. They won a playoff game on the road at Baltimore. They overcame a 16-point halftime deficit at Pittsburgh to beat the Steelers. They overcame a 14-point fourth quarter deficit at Kansas City to upset the Chiefs. The Chargers had seven players named to the Pro Bowl, the most of any...
They finally had a game where everything seemed to go right. The Los Angeles Chargers have been very good at times this season but had not put it together on both sides of the ball the way they did on Sunday at the StubHub Center in Carson. While they were not perfect, the Chargers were almost perfect in rolling through the Arizona Cardinals for a 45-10 victory. The near perfection was led by Charger quarterback Philip Rivers, who completed 28 of 29 passes, breaking the single-game completion ra...
The winning streak is over, the defense got spanked but the sun is still shining in L.A. The formerly undefeated Los Angeles Rams lost the heavyweight bout of the NFL season to Drew Brees and the surging New Orleans Saints, 45-35, at the Super Dome in The Big Easy. Brees' 72-yard touchdown bomb in the waning minutes dashed a Rams 21-point first-half deficit comeback. "I think the expectations that our defense has and that we have for them, they would expect to be better," said McVay. "I think Dr...
The NFL Draft is an imperfect process, and no one illustrates that more than Desmond King. The second-year cornerback out of Iowa was the Jim Thorpe winner as the top defensive back in the nation as a junior at Iowa. King was Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year at Iowa, a unanimous All-American and had 14 career interceptions at Iowa, returning three for touchdowns. Despite his many accomplishments at Iowa, King lasted until the 5th round of the 2017 NFL draft, where the Los Angeles Chargers...
The Chargers are coming off their bye week and hopefully the rest was just what the team needed. Star running back Melvin Gordon is due back from a hamstring injury. Star defensive end Joey Bosa could be available for his first action this season. This weekend's game at Seattle takes on extra importance. Beating a good Seattle Seahawks team could lead to a very good November and get the Chargers in first place in the AFC West. After the Seahawks game, the Chargers play the 1-6 Raiders in...
Eight and counting. The Los Angeles Rams escaped with a well-earned victory over the Green Bay Packers, 29-27, before 75,822 roaring fans in the L.A. Coliseum to keep their perfect 2018 NFL season record alive at 8-0. The tens of thousands of Packer fans that invaded the Coliseum helped put the game in doubt from the opening kickoff. The game had all the trappings that would have sent the Rams reeling in past seasons. Only this unbeaten Rams team seems hell-bent on adapting and improving with...
The 8-0 Los Angeles Rams will march into New Orleans to battle the 6-1 New Orleans Saints on Sunday at 1:25 p.m. Both teams are playing outstanding football in all three phrases of the game, offense, defense and special teams. Last Sunday the Rams showed they are good enough to win even if they are not at their best. They beat the Green Bay Packers 29-27 after having a slow start in the first half. "I can't say enough about our players' resilience, their ability to just stick together and stay...
Chargers escape London with a Win. The pressure was on and the Los Angeles Chargers needed someone to make a play on defense. The Tennessee Titans had just scored a touchdown with 31 seconds to go, to pull within one point at 20-19. Titans head coach Mike Vrabel had decided to go for a two-point conversion to win the game instead of a game tying extra point kick. Charger safety Adrian Phillips made the big defensive play, deflecting a pass from Titan quarterback Marcus Mariota, the pass falling...
Any thoughts of a ‘trap’ game on the road were quickly dispelled. The Los Angeles Rams remained undefeated as they punished the San Francisco 49ers, 39-10, before a resigned crowd of 66,597 at Levi’s Stadium. The two best players on the field and perhaps in the league were a lethal combination, pummeling the Niners on both sides of the ball. The 49ers were no match for the NFL’s reigning Defensive and Offensive Players of the Year. Aaron Donald led a relentless Ram defense that caused four tu...
The Cleveland Browns were unbeaten at home in 2018 heading into Sunday’s game with the Los Angeles Chargers. The Browns were 2-0-1 at home and looking like a team that could become a factor in the AFC Central race. They were coming off an impressive division home win over the Baltimore Ravens. That was until the Chargers rolled into Cleveland and crushed their hopes. Behind a running attack that averaged 6.8 yards per carry and gained a total of 246 yards on the ground, the Chargers rolled o...
Last season running back Todd Gurley was the 2017 NFL Offensive Player of the Year, leading the league with 19 touchdowns and the Los Angeles Rams to an 11-5 record. In July, he signed a $60 million contract extension through the 2023 season that now looks like a bargain-basement deal for the undefeated Rams. Thankfully, it was the Todd Gurley Show at Broncos Stadium at Mile High in Denver on a freezing Sunday afternoon, October 13 as the Rams outlasted a fourth quarter rally by the Broncos to w...
Austin Ekeler was raised on a farm in Colorado and loves to go ice fishing. He played his college football at Western State Colorado University, a Division II school. There is nothing in his background that would indicate he was going to be an NFL running back. But Los Angeles Chargers national scout Tom McConnaughey liked what he saw of Ekeler and eventually the Charger management did as well. The Chargers used a big play from Ekeler on Sunday to break a 3-3 tie late in the 2nd quarter and...
"Something special brewing here." - @JaredGoff16" tweeted Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff on his Twitter account following Sunday's 33-31 comeback victory in foul weather over the Seattle Seahawks up in the hostile environment of CenturyLink Field. Rams head coach Sean McVay gambled on fourth-and-one with 1:39 left in the fourth quarter clinging to a slim two-point lead at the Rams 42-yard line. Goff took the snap and plunged two yards forward for the first down. The game-clinching play...
Los Angeles, you have a damn good football team. It took only 21 games for the once-ridiculed Los Angeles Rams to not only become an elite NFL team but also evolve into the most entertaining under second-year Head Coach Sean McVay. The first-place Rams are the only NFC team remaining with a perfect 4-0 record this season. "Great team win for us right there against a really tough opponent. Can't say enough about the performance of Jared Goff tonight,” said McVay after the Rams beat the M...
Big Win over One of the things that the Los Angeles Chargers liked about safety Derwin James before the 2018 NFL draft was his versatility. As Charger Head Coach Anthony Lynn said, “There's a lot of versatility. We can use him as a linebacker. We can use him as a strong safety, a free safety. We can rush him off the edge. He's a good tackler in space and an outstanding coverage guy.” That versatility has been on display in every game this season and Sunday’s game at the Stub Hub Center in Carson...
