Read it and keep: Rams will win the Super Bowl

Who’s going to beat them?

Who’s going to stop the unstoppable offense? Who’s going to rating on the persistent protection? Who’s going to outwit the teaching genius?

Who can probably halt the Rams on their thunderous march toward a Super Bowl championship?

After yet another jaw-dropping Sunday afternoon at a raucous SoFi Stadium, the reply was clear.

Nobody.

Nobody can spar with the Rams. Nobody can run with the Rams. Nobody can compete with the Rams.

Nobody is gifted enough or deep enough or sensible enough to keep the Rams from successful their second Super Bowl championship in 5 years.

Nobody. It’s over. It’s performed. The Rams are going to win it all, and before you cry jinx, perceive that this is just placing into phrases what many already are considering.

The Rams’ second-half domination of the Detroit Lions in a 41-34 win ought to again make the relaxation of the league understand that no person else has a likelihood.

The Seahawks? Please. The 49ers? No approach. The Eagles? They’ve been grounded. The Bears? Is that some type of a joke?

The Patriots? Not yet. The Broncos? Not yet. The Bills? Not ever.

The Rams trailed by 10 factors at one juncture Sunday and then blew the Lions’ doorways off in the second half to clinch a playoff berth for the seventh time in 9 seasons under Sean McVay, setting them up for the best trip in sports activities.

With a win in Seattle on Thursday evening — and, yes, they need to beat a group that just barely survived Old Man Rivers — the Rams primarily will clinch the NFC’s top seed and home-field benefit throughout the playoffs.

That means they’ve to win only two video games at SoFi to advance to a Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. That means they will win a championship without leaving California, three video games performed in the kind of excellent climate that will get the best out of their precision assault.

And as Sunday proved once again, they’re good enough to win three primarily home playoff video games against anyone.

“I love this team,” McVay said.

There’s a lot to love.

They have an MVP quarterback, the league’s most versatile two-headed working assault, an inside protection that will get stronger under stress, and the one weapon that no group can match.

They have Puka Nacua, and no person else does.

Rams huge receiver Puka Nacua is tackled by Detroit cornerback Amik Robertson during the second half Sunday.

(Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

Is he unbelievable or what? He is Cooper Kupp in his prime, only sooner and stronger. He caught a career-high 181 yards’ price of passes on yet another day when he couldn’t be lined and barely may very well be tackled.

“He’s unbelievable,” McVay said. “He’s so tough, a couple of times he just drags guys with him … he epitomizes everything we want to be about … he’s like Pac-Man, he just eats up yards and catches.”

Pac-Man? The Rams even rating on their old-school references.

In all, it was another Sunday of completely enjoyable soccer.

They outscored the league’s highest-scoring group 20-0 at one level, they outrushed the league’s hardest backfield 159-70, they racked up 519 whole yards against a group once thought destined for a championship.

And they did it with barely a smile. With the exception of Nacua repeatedly banging his fist to his chest — are you able to blame him? — the Rams are regular and steadfast and just so scary.

”All we would like to do is go to work and discover a approach to be better,” said Matthew Stafford, who probably answered the crowd’s chants by clinching the MVP award with 368 yards and two landing passes. “It’s a fun group right now but we understand there’s more out there for us.”

Lots, heaps, heaps more.

This yr a comparable column appeared in this space relating to the Dodgers. By the first spherical of the playoffs, one just knew that they have been going to run the desk.

The same feeling exists right here. The Rams look unrelenting, unfazed, unbeatable.

“Guys just kept competing, staying in the moment,” McVay said.

This second belongs to them. One knew it Sunday by the end of the first half, which featured a Stafford interception and a struggling secondary and Jared Goff’s vengeful greatness and a 10-point Lions lead.

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford passes in the first half of a 41-34 win over the Detroit Lions at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.

(Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

Then the Rams drove the ball practically half of the area in 30 seconds in a push that includes Stafford and Nacua at their best. Stafford linked with Nacua on a sensible 37-yard go in the remaining moments that led to a Harrison Mevis 37-yard area purpose to close the hole to seven.

“Right before that I told the guys, ‘Let’s go steal three,’” Stafford said.

Turns out, they stole a recreation.

“One of the key and critical sequences,” McVay said of that late first-half hammer, which led to a dazzling third quarter that completed the flustered Lions.

“We never panic,” Blake Corum said. “Because we know … what we have to bring to the table.”

What they’ve more and more been bringing is a working assault that completely enhances the superior passing assault, as evidenced Sunday by Corum and Kyren Williams combining for 149 yards and three touchdowns.

The Lions’ more vaunted backfield of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery? Seventy yards and one rating.

“We push each other to the limit,” Corum said of Williams.

Rams working back Kyren Williams stiff-arms Detroit Lions security Erick Hallett II during the first half Sunday.

(Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

Potentially disturbing was how one famous Ram could have pushed past his limits, as receiver Davante Adams limped off the area early in the fourth quarter after apparently reinjuring his troublesome hamstring.

To lose him for the playoffs could be devastating, as he frees up space for Nacua and is nearly an computerized landing from the five-yard line and nearer.

Then again he’ll have a month to heal. And the Rams still have a bruising array of tight ends led Sunday by the touchdown-hot Colby Parkinson, who caught 75 yards’ price of passes and two scores, including one inexplicable landing in which he clearly was down at the one-yard line.

The Rams received fortunate there. But even if the proper call was made, they’d have scored on the next couple of performs. The approach the Rams attacked, they might have been scoring all evening.

“You knew that it was going to be that kind of game where there was some good back-and-forth,” McVay said. “You needed to be able to know that points were going to be really important for us, and our guys delivered in a big way.”

Just wait. By the time this season is completed, McVay’s guys will have delivered a trophy representing one thing a lot larger.

It rhymes with Strombardi.