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INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Aaron Donald is underpaid. He was underpaid coming into the season, underpaid coming into the Super Bowl, and now he’s underpaid heading into an offseason where a great many defenders are going to land a great many dollars. Before we get to the report from NBC’s Rodney Harrison that the Los Angeles Rams star defensive tackle could retire following a Super Bowl win on Sunday, we first must consider the money. A financial conversation makes far more sense than a… Source link

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Sometime a few days before Super Bowl Week, when the Bengals got a bit of a break before everything ramped up and the team headed to California, Joe Burrow watched “A Football Life: Kurt Warner.” As Burrow marinated on Cincinnati’s 23-20 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI on Sunday night, he remembered something Warner said during the documentary. “He said they let it sting too much,” Burrow recalled. “They didn’t celebrate what they accomplished. Obviously it… Source link

Odell Beckham Jr. was in street clothes, out with a knee injury. The Los Angeles Rams‘ running game was no better. The whole offense had stalled out, just 52 second-half yards stretched across five drives. Cincinnati led on the scoreboard, the clock was dwindling and a Super Bowl the Rams were favored to win on their own home field was slipping away into a forever loss. Matthew Stafford, his own ankle taped and throbbing after getting rolled up on during a sack, gathered the offense 79 yards… Source link

The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals meet up Sunday in Super Bowl 56, a game that’s being live-streamed on the Yahoo Sports app. We’ll be following all the action live here on Yahoo Sports. Cooper Kupp is your Super Bowl MVP For a long spell on Sunday night, it felt like Cooper Kupp was being ignored by the Rams. Then he won the Super Bowl for them. Kupp caught eight passes for 92 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner for the Rams in their 23-20 Super Bowl victory over… Source link

Is Sunday’s Super Bowl the final time we’ll see Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth in a broadcast booth together? It sure sounds like it from Michaels’ pregame introduction. The veteran play-by-play man introduced his longtime broadcast partner for “one final time” to start NBC’s coverage of the Super Bowl on Sunday, adding fuel to the speculation that he’ll leave the network this offseason. “The Bengals … get to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1988 when this man — come sliding in… Source link

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Odell Beckham Jr. was the most popular bet for first touchdown of the Super Bowl. One bettor put $10,000 on it at BetMGM. Less than 10 minutes into the game, there were a lot of happy bettors. Beckham hit the first touchdown prop, scoring on a 17-yard pass from Matthew Stafford with 6:22 left in the first quarter. Beckham was 10-to-1 odds at BetMGM to score the first touchdown of the Super Bowl. First touchdown scorer is usually the most popular prop for the Super Bowl…. Source link

The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals meet up Sunday in Super Bowl 56, a game that’s being live-streamed on the Yahoo Sports app. We’ll be following all the action live here on Yahoo Sports. Bengals get a field goal after Ja’Marr Chase’s great catch Ja’Marr Chase had an amazing catch against Jalen Ramsey in single coverage to get the Bengals inside the red zone. Joe Burrow trusted his former college teammate to go beat Ramsey and make a play and he sure did. The Bengals had to settle… Source link

Super Bowl Sunday! It’s here at last, the national holiday when we’re forced to sit through football in order to watch so many beloved ads. For the tenth straight year, Yahoo Sports is grading the Big Game’s commercials. Liz Roscher (@lizroscher) is here to escort you through the dizzying array of celebrity cameos, awkward jokes and heartstring-tugs of this year’s contingent of ads, updating live as they air. Grade A Toyota, “Winter Olympics 2022: Brothers” Toyota’s Super Bowl… Source link

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Space in the press box at SoFi Stadium is at a premium for Super Bowl LVI, but the NFL still made sure two beloved writers who died over the last year had seats. In the middle of Yahoo Sports’ cluster of seats is a commemorative football in memory of our friend Terez Paylor. The NFL remembered Yahoo Sports senior NFL writer Terez Paylor with a Super Bowl LVI game ball. (Shalise Manza Young/Yahoo Sports) It reads: “The NFL presents this Super Bowl LVI game ball in memory of… Source link

If there’s any mutual discontent between the Arizona Cardinals and star quarterback Kyler Murray, the Cardinals are saying otherwise — publicly, at least. The Cardinals released a statement Sunday saying that they have “high regard” for Murray, the team’s No. 1 pick in the 2019 draft, and that he is the quarterback that will lead them moving forward. “Nothing has changed regarding our opinion and high regard for Kyler Murray,” the statement says via Pro Football Talk. “We as a… Source link