Super Bowl title in rearview mirror, Rams begin drive to repeat with receiver question

Rams coach Sean McVay says he will never forget the joy after Super Bowl LVI but adds it’s time to move on to the business of trying to repeat. A banner commemorating the Rams’ Super Bowl LVI championship will be unveiled at Thursday night’s season opener against the Buffalo Bills — not that coach Sean McVay is getting too excited about it. So, McVay is not spending time reflecting on last season, when the Rams completed an all-in, boom-or-bust season with a Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in owner Stan Kroenke’s gleaming, new stadium. “I’ll always have great reverence for that team,” McVay said, “but this about 2022.” Thursday’s opener will be Rams’ first regular-season game at SoFi Stadium since February, when they were celebrating amid confetti after defeating the Bengals, 23-20, to complete a dramatic postseason run. “If you said, all right, what’s been a positive spin on losing a great player in Van that we’re really relying on,” McVay said, it has been the opportunities for Skowronek, Powell and Atwell “to really step up and show what they’re capable of.” Undrafted free agent receiver Lance McCutcheon made the initial 53-man roster but must develop as a special teams player, McVay said.