Source: www.ocregister.com --- Saturday, December 02, 2017
PHOENIX — Should the Arizona Cardinals bring some brass knuckles? A Baseball bat? “You go on the street and beat somebody up pretty bad, (and) you go fight them again, you probably think you’re going to win,” Todd Gurley said. “We just know, being in the league, how the league works.” Six weeks removed from the Twickenham Trounce, the Rams’ 33-0 overseas victory over the Cardinals, the teams meet again Sunday in Glendale, Ariz. The Cardinals have shown moderate improvement since then and, for the first time, Sean McVay will face an opponent for a second time as Rams coach. It’s a game that, objectively, the Rams should win. Not by as much as last time, but this should be an interesting case study in terms of the growth of the Rams and their 31-year-old coach. McVay, almost certainly, won’t let overconfidence creep into the Rams’ psyche. If anything, McVay goes the other way, and talks up opponents as though they’re the reincarnation of the 1985 Chicago Bears. This week, players parroted a message that clearly came from McVay, that the first Rams-Cardinals game was closer than it looked. Indeed, the the Rams led only 13-0 until late in the second quarter, but then scored 10 points in the final minute of the half and dominated Arizona in the second half. The Rams held the ball for 39 minutes, recorded their only shutout of the season, knocked Arizona quarterback Carson Palmer out of the game and held the Cardinals to 196 yards and ...
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