Short week, tall order for playoff-hungry Rams in pressure-cooker against Saints
LA TimesRams defensive tackle Aaron Donald says: “Can’t afford to lose any more games. “Yeah,” Stafford said, laughing, “if playoff games were played three-and-a-half days after you played your last game.. We’re not immune to understanding what the implications are, but this is another football game we have to get prepared for in a short amount of time.” Last season against the Saints, Stafford passed for two touchdowns before he suffered a spinal bruise that ended his season. “Mentally probably a little bit easier,” he said, “physically probably a little bit harder.. It’s obviously different than a normal week for us, which is a lot of times, it’s a race to Sunday anyways. “It’s really a whole lot easier to do sometimes when you have a Thursday game, right?” Along with Stafford’s surge, the Rams also have been buoyed by receiver Cooper Kupp’s return to form. “It makes it exciting,” Donald said of the playoff feel, “and it’s a prime-time game so you got to go out there and do what we need to do to find a way to win.”
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