Odell Beckham gives Rams night domination to the Cardinals

He punched a hole in the wall outside the away team’s dressing room at Lambeau Field, and sobbed inside that dressing room because he didn’t appear in his first playoff game five years ago, and Eli Manning have no chance against the Packers without him.

Odell Beckham Jr will know that just because you can be celebrated for catching fish with one hand down the ages doesn’t mean you can’t get thrown too high after an infamous Boat Trip last weekend in Miami.

You can go from hot to cold in the blink of an eye.

Beckham caught four 28-yard passes, missed a potential touchdown pass and a few more when Manning missed his third Super Bowl final shot in a 2017 playoff loss in the US. Green Bay.

And Beckham took the last shot to become a New York legend.

His return from the season waited until Monday night’s NFC wild card game against the Cardinals, after a not-so-favorite stop in Cleveland against Baker Mayfield.

Dream Team never guarantees that dreams will come true.

Sean McVay has a Super Bowl dream, and it has Matthew Stafford replacing Jared Goff and Von Miller joining Aaron Donald and Beckham joining Cooper Kupp.

Dream Night at SoFi Stadium for the Rams.

Dream night for McVay, even without his successful first half challenges.

Dream night for Stafford.

And dream night for OBJ.

Beckham caught the ball in a 4-yard TD against Marco Wilson in the left corner of the back yard making the Rams’ 34-11 victory over the Cardinals. Catch it with two hands.

And hit a 31-yard bomb on the left sideline to Cardinals 2 to Stafford’s position for a 1-yard QB sneak that made it Rams 14, Cardinals 0.

And Beckham even threw a 40-yard rainbow for Cam Akers in first possession of the second half, setting up Stafford’s 7-yard TD pass to Kupp, making it the Rams 28, Cardinals 0. Huge fan Giants can remember OBJ throwing two TD passes, one of which was Saquon Barkley’s 57-yard shot against the Panthers in 2018.

Up to that point on Monday night, OBJ (4-54-1 TD) had 40 passes while Kyler Murray had 28.

Miller contributed a sack while Donald was doing Donald mess things up – an unnecessary rough punishment, but a lot of necessary roughness – prompting Murray to shrink in size, as well as sigh.

So yes, bring back Tom Brady.

Meet the defending champion Bucs at 3pm Sunday at Raymond James Stadium.

For McVay, this will be an opportunity to ease the pain from losing the Super Bowl to Brady and Bill Belichick in 2019, and this time he will bring a more stellar quarterback to the NFC Split.

It was McVay’s second challenge – a violent hit to AJ Green inflicted by Nick Scott after a judgmental catch – that sent Murray back into fourth place after a Johnny Hekker hit had already taken shape. in round 1.

Under pressure from silver lane trailblazer Troy Reeder, Murray had to go through a terrible crisis. He held the ball for too long in the back yard before making a panicked underhand throw that turned out to be a treat for CB David Long at 3 yards.

Murray was mesmerized, preoccupied and bewildered, and amazingly confused. His decision-making ability and accuracy did not give the Cardinals a chance. A hastily deflected pass from James Conner turned into a Marquise Copeland intercept.

It’s a January football ritual most of the time:

The better midfielder wins.

Brady won. Patrick Mahomes won. Josh Allen won. Joe Burrow won. Jimmy Garoppolo won… because Dak Prescott lost.

Stafford, recently struggling and facing the Super-Bowl-or-Bust in his first playoff after an unsuccessful 12-year career with the Lions, is the better quarterback in part because he has a head coach put him at ease with the Ground & Pound attack led by Akers, who leveled Budda Baker (concussion) at the end of the third quarter and took him to the hospital, which brought JJ Watt back inspired after the shoulder surgery controversy.

And because he had Beckham on a night when Kupp was mostly just a double bait.

Murray, without the look of a running game, without DeAndre Hopkins (the tattered MCL), looks out of place.

Beckham was well aware that there was a 100-foot pirate ship behind one of the end areas inside Raymond James Stadium. If he had learned his lesson, he wouldn’t have entertained Justin Bieber there, or in Miami, before the game. He’s singing Hooray for Hollywood these days, on The Love Boat.