“Holy —!” Sean McVay began his postgame news conference like a slack-jawed sailor, but he spoke the truth. Holy rebound. Holy resilience.
Holy Rams. They began this stomach knot of a Sunday afternoon flat on their backs, trailing the San Francisco 49ers by two touchdowns in the first 15 minutes — winless and helpless and hopeless. SoFi Stadium was blanketed in red, Niners fans owning the building, the defending NFC champs owning the moment, the 0-2 locals riddled with injuries and on the statistical brink of extinction.
“It would have been easy for guys to say, ‘It’s not looking good,’’’ said Troy Reeder. Except, holy comeback, these are the Rams. This is the organization with the strongest culture in Los Angeles sports.
This is a group so connected, so single-minded, so sturdy, they never feel that greatness is beyond their reach. They reached a Super Bowl with Jared Goff . They won a Super Bowl with no running backs.
They most recently turned a 3-6 season into a playoff berth. They’re the Rams, McVay’s Rams, and they believe they can do anything, and so even during their darkest moments Sunday, Reeder sensed only light. “I was walking up and down the sideline and I just felt like everybody was confident that at some point, we would get a momentum swing,” he said.
It was a swing that resulted in the football version of a walk-off homer. It was a swing that saved a season. On the verge of falling to 0-3 and having just a 2% chance of eventually mak.