Rams bring scant experience to National Football League playoff game against Atlanta Falcons

Gary Coronado TNS

Gary Coronado TNS

Postseason experience can be invaluable during the pivotal moments of a playoff game, but Los Angeles is also not burdened by the ghosts of playoffs past. The Rams rank 28th in the league against the run, but interestingly enough only 40% of plays against them have been runs (10th lowest this year). The Rams are scheduled to play at the Coliseum through the 2019 season before moving into a new Inglewood Stadium.

Rams QB Jared Goff admits he'll be nervous, like any other game, before taking the field in the National Football League playoffs on Saturday against Atlanta.

The Rams reached the postseason by winning the NFC West.

Quinn was the defensive coordinator at the University of Florida when Gurley II starred as a freshman at Georgia in 2012, and in the rivalry game that year in Jacksonville, it was the Bulldogs, led by 118 yards and a touchdown from Gurley II, that upset then No. 3 Florida 17-9.

The Falcons snuck into the postseason with a week 17 victory and have locked up the second wild card spot setting them up for a date on Saturday with the resurgent Los Angeles Rams who have been remarkable to watch this season and are a very risky team on both sides of the football. Jones ended the season with 88 catches for 1,444 yards, but his three touchdowns is his fewest haul in a year since 2013, when he only played five games that campaign before suffering a season-ending foot injury. The Atlanta Falcons are already in Southern California and preparing for their Wild Card game against the young, and explosive, Los Angeles Rams.

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In total, that's 21 games of playoff experience for the Rams. But the question of which team shows up for the playoffs lingers.

The Falcons' last game was a 22-10 win over Carolina. The Jaguars are on the next step up, with 11, while the Falcons have 36 and the Patriots have a league-high 41 players. Barron was limited in practice this week by an Achilles' tendon injury, but he was in uniform for the Rams' first playoff game in 13 years. "I think he looks at it as a great opportunity and we trust that he's going to make good decisions".

"But if you go out there and let them get up on you by 14, now they're saying, 'We know we can".

"I don't think there's such a thing as too amped up", Donald said with a smile. They will likely want to get the ball first even though road teams generally want to start the second half with the ball because the home crowd will still be in the bathroom and not in their seats making noise. This is a good sign seeing as how Atlanta was first in points per play coming into the postseason past year and ended up in the Super Bowl. "It's like something that you've dreamed of all your life".

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