The Rams stopping Drew Brees is the key to victory | First Take

Steven a smith is wrrroooong agaaaaaaiiin.

Quit crying over the past you lost get over it even pittsburg didn't try to boycott a game over missed pi

LA Rams are going to the Super Bowl 53 😆😆😆😆😆😆

Michael Thomas who? He got shutdown.

Saints lost motherfuckers!

NFL IS RIGGED AND CORRUPT UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP OF ROGER GOODELL. DIE OF AIDS COMMISSIONER! Both Saints and Chiefs are small market teams it’s all Corporate Dollars and Big Markets. BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!!

Rigged ass game. NFL is a joke!

Thank you Rams!

Good win Rams and also good come back

What ya have to say now

Saints choke saints choke told yah

Brady vs. Brees is the Superbowl everyone wants 2 see.
With a combined age of 81 it will b dubbed the Geezerbowl.
Brought 2 u by AARP.

I agree with D Woody's point for once, in regards to Suh and Donaldson. If the Saints win, it will be because of Drew Brees.

Drew brezz best quarterback in the NFL NOTHING ELSE SAID

Saints barely beat the Eagles and the Cowboys beat the Saints. Rams win. 45-35

I’m sick of hearing “the New Orleans saints are just a different team at home”. They were down 14-0 in the 1st quarter against the eagles and got a lucky tipped up in the air dropped pass to win it otherwise they were about to lose

Cowboys beat the saints and the eagles beat the rams. Kinda weird.

After all has been said and done there are two factors only that count. Brees and Brady . These two can never be counted out.

Lets go RAMS 🐏🐏🐏🐏

...he’s really taken a liking to that hat.

Rams all day

Hey you with the hat,
Where’d you park your horse?

stephen A: “Rams are a worse team on the road.”
Rams have lost 3 games on the road since McVay became the head coach

What about rushing?

We’re not gonna he vulnerable, David onyemata is a monster too.

This is the Saints year we gonna beat the shit out the Rams just to prove we didn't do it by luck the first time Then we gonna go to the Superbowl an beat Brady 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

Stephen A's so basic

Better stop their QB to win the game, fuckin visionary dude

My dream Super Bowl would be not New England LOL but Chiefs will be and Saints but of course that will not happen because NFL is rigged

RAMS

Don't let this distract you from the fact that, no one got a hundred yards rushing on the Saints this season. Sports commentators are not talking about that. Not to mention, 25 straight games without allowing a hundred yard rusher including the playoffs.

Rams Chiefs all day

I hate the Patriots but know the Chiefs have no shot against them. No Kareem Hunt and no secondary. 42-17 Patriots and Mahomes has trouble in the cold. Unfortunately they have no Hunt to fall back on this time.

The dome is the saints secret weapon.

Lmao, good luck with that

If your the rams I would have talib travel with Mike Thomas and I would do something to try to take away Alvin Kamara on 3rd downs especially

also, Fletcher Cox should have been called for a handful of penalties alone. Hands to the face, roughing the passer. he gets hurt, leaves the field, eagles get beat by a better team. the rams D-line didn't touch drew brees week 9. once again that wont change.

if you honestly think just because the addition of cj Anderson they will be able to run the football on the saints? you must be seriously out of your mind 100%. they haven't given a 100 yard rusher since week 1. Zeke, Gurley, no one could run against them. and that isn't going to change sunday.

As long as they get pressure on brees they can win but gunna be hard when we got a full healthy o-line rankins is out but so is cooper kupp still we will stop the rams run game not complete but abit and they need to double or triple team thomas but then we have ginn kirkwood and Watson if they do that should be a shootour again but this time all the teams that didn't make it to this stage will be watching

Stephen A is here strictly for comic relief.

BLEW DAT NATION ABOUT TO LOSE AGAIN.

Molly shut up

Yeah that's a given. Brees is the 2 best all time Quarterback in history. Don't believe me look at his stats. He's catching up to Payton. Payton holds all the records other than passing yards, because Brees broke it this season. He's 18 Touchdowns away breaking the record. Like Brady is shit. People forget about Payton. Brady only has a good career, because he has a excellent frontline and people to throw to, but he isn't close to Payton or Drew.

Of course Max would fail to realize that while the Chiefs and Rams looked good one game against the run, the Saints been stuffing the run all year. What you should ask is how the rams who just last week had a weak right side of the line is going to run the rock on he best run d in the league.

Yo I'm from Louisiana and been living in Atlanta for 25 yrs I cant wait if we play the patriots in the Super Bowl . these clowns are going to have to be on suicide watch lmmfao WHO DAT!!

How do the chiefs have the advantage over the pats seriously???!!! This is the 8th consecutive afc championship for the pats lolll

At the beginning of the season, drew dug deep and found something left over inside himself. Awesome almost perfect throwing ability. But it was short lived. He's been trying desperately to find it again but I fear it's been used up. Drew is not the quarter back he once was. Even so he still has something in his favor. The pure will to win. If the saints are going to the super bowl, they will have to play near perfect ball. And in reality they are far from perfect. Luck has played a huge roll in their success this season. It will take more than luck to defeat the rams this Sunday. Every player will have to dig deep as drew has done and find something inside themselves that they had only hoped to have. Start slow and fall behind on the rams, dome, fans or not the saints will not only lose but possibly look like a high school team. This game is for real and the rams are not intimidated in the least. Saints better put their big boy britches on this Sunday and come out fireing on all cylinders. Geaux saints geaux!

Browns will win no doubt. Watch out Rams NFC champion - Cleveland Browns!!!

The eagles technically stopped Drew, he only was able to pass to Michael Thomas. The rams have better corners and if they can't stop Michael Thomas they deserve to lose.

We’ve already completely neutralized Donald and suh

Shes annoying lol

And fire is hot...

max box heads ass keep betting against The Saints and we keep proving him wrong why is he a analyst! silly washed up boxer

Stephen A. Smith giving us the 300iq strats

Yes the Rams defense must stop Brees. The Rams need to fun the ball successfuly again to ware down N.O.'s defense.

Waaaaiiiit ONE MINUTE!!! Are you telling me that the 🔑 to victory is STOPPING DREW!! GTHOH lol

lol stephen stole that hat from dutch n nem!!!!

the only reason the Saints lose if they don't win

Lmaoo she just cut them off ok I want to get the afc game now ... I’m assuming they are on a schedule cause she was quick with that shit

U can hate us u can doubt us all u want Let's go Rams

You know the way I look at it New Orleans the Saints beat the Rams earlier this year and it's awful hard to beat the same team twice in a row just like it's going to be hard for the Patriots to be able the beat the Chiefs two times in a row it doesn't normally come out that way but with the Rams and the Saints fat Rams coach is got them so fired up I have never seen a team more hungrier than this team is if they go in there and stop the run and they get pressure on Brees it is going to be a long night for the Saints because you know the Rams are going to score I don't think it'll be a blowout and it will be closed but I definitely believe that the Rams is the better team overall they've got a really good quarterback and they've got great running backs and you got Sue and Donald I'm the defense and they are like monsters in there so I believe the Rams will win this game it could be a close game but I think the Rams will pull it through

Steven A is killing me with "New Or Leens." It's "New Orlins" my man.

How many games have the Rams lost because they played away? Noise is not a factor to any good NFL Team. Rams beat the Seahawks back to back years at Seattle home field.

Saints defense has come in in leaps and bounds sunce wk1. Hell, they've improved hugely since wk11.
It'll be defense that makes the difference in this game, and I'd take the Saints D over the Rams D rn. Especially in the dome.

Let me just say this...if Suh decides to stomp on Drew like he does when he plays dirty...he is literally going to have to deal with about 65000 saints fans running down on the field to mess him up.

thats how you go on a limb...tell everyone that to beat the Saints you gotta stop Drew.

We need the crowd to be loud ‼️⚜️

Real key factors:
Saints:
-Dome field advantage
-Stop the run
-Play man or cover 2 not zone
-Score fast
Rams need to:
-Run, run and run
-Woods needs to have a big game
-Stop thomas
-Goff has to have ZERO turnovers
In no way will this be a blowout or high scoring game. Both teams will play great and the winner wins by less than 6.
Prediction: 23-21 Saints

The team who score the most points is gonna win, mark my words

Why does the argument for the “Saints are a different team at home than away” still come up??? They have been just as good in the road in recent years as they have at home? Sure maybe a little bit better at home but it’s not that big of a difference....lmao

OK, teams don’t just suddenly have a great run defense. We will see if the Chiefs and Rams REALLY have turned things around defensively when they go up against the the Patriots and the Saints. I think Bilachick is going to make this as tough for Mahomes as anyone possibly can and I think the Saints will get out to the quick start that they were unable to versus Philadelphia.

Let's see how many times these guys are wrong this postseason.

This will be the best matchup for the NFC Championship in a while. One thing for sure, the Rams will get a few more yards running but they're not going to dominate the Saints in this aspect. What the experts don't realize is that the Saints defense up to this point, has manage to make adjustments to cover their weaknesses. Rankings lost hurts but as they say next man or in this case men (Onyemata, Davison) up ! As for Peat, he didn't have his best game against Philly blocking Fletcher Cox, but he'll be ok against Sue. Quickly who's Better, Fletcher or Sue? Saints by 2. and of course I'am biased.

Step 1. Double team Michael Thomas the whole game.
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit.

I'm a Saints fan but damn, I dunno. They're 3.5 point faves but that's just home field advantage. The way that offense has been off since Dallas I'm going into this game with the mentality of an underdog. Question is how long will that D hold up with how amazing it's been playing?

These next two games are more than games for the Saints. This is for Will Smith and Steve Gleason!⚜️ Lets do this baby!!

I hope the saints win

Y’all Don’t Know The Saint At All !

That's cultural appropriation SAS!

Saints going to the Superbowl

They got a run defense now all year passed and they got one now or just had a good game against the run over the season course they suck in that feild

As an Eagles fan, the Saints are definitely gonna beat the Rams.
Calling it now, Pats vs the Saints 2018 Super Bowl.

Saints aren't the same, and almost got beat by the eagles, they now have a dual running back show, or jared can just air it out, west west! Cali 4 life! Go rams!

Fletcher cox was good against the saints against peat. Come to find out that peat just came off surgery and was playing through injury

I know y'all see Molly wit the Gucci Belt

Get bourbon ready we pulling up .

Taylor Stallworth did a pretty good job shutting down the run when Rankins left the game.

How is Kelce better than Zach Ertz exactly? Ertz set the tight end record for most receptions in a season

For the AFC championship. Listen Belicheck and Brady until you beat them, they are the team to beat. I would like to Reid get a championship but until you beat the big dogs of the AFC you can't get to the Bowl. What better way to get their than to have to go through the Patriots

In order for the Rams to win, they have to control the clock with their running game and keep Brees and Co. off the field.

Why is everybody betting against the saints ? It’s ridiculous lol

The Clown Show

Shut up max u should blitz a old slow 40yr old who can't move that's exactly what u do don't set back give him time dummy make him rush by blitzing saying not to blitz Brady is peer B's to hide Brady weakness bull shit ESPN n propaganda

Stephen A looks like an extra from Blazing saddles

You guys don't know the saints after this whole season. Saints are talented and deep at the defensive tackle. Stallworth and onyemata are very good and reliable. Their linebackers and cam Jordon especially are very talented against the run.

We DAt!

Stop biting uncle Shay Sharpe

These teams stop the run one game and now they got a run D. Bull go home!

I want the sb to be brady vs brees hahaha but brees with the win & his 2nd ring 😝😝😝

How Stephen A... Doubts Tom Brady and chooses Maholms is beyond me.... Does he not understand that Brady is the Goat?? I'm a Panther Fan and I even knows this.... How can every year they doubt the Patriots? Smh.....