Los Angeles Rams: Aaron Donald will be the Super Bowl MVP
By Jason Reed
The New England Patriots stand between the Los Angeles Rams and Super Bowl gold and are going to have to contain Aaron Donald to stop the Rams.
The Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots present a very interesting matchup for Super Bowl LIII. The game pits the most experienced team in the league against a talented group of guys who are experiencing their first rodeo.
Two mastermind coaches, one exactly twice the age of the other and a veteran quarterback that is staring at a young quarterback that is similar to he was 17 years ago in his first Super Bowl.
Sean McVay vs. Bill Belichick. Tom Brady vs. Jared Goff.
The most important person in this game is neither of the quarterbacks or neither of the starting coaches. It isn’t the best running back in the league, Todd Gurley. It isn’t the once-unstoppable freight train Rob Gronkowski.
It is not Brandin Cooks nor Julian Edelman, neither of the offensive lines or anyone in the secondary.
The most important person on Sunday, Feb. 3 in Super Bowl LIII is Aaron Donald, arguably the most dominant defensive player in the NFL.
Donald is such a terror to opposing quarterbacks that he had a legitimate case for the MVP late in the season. Heck, while we all know Patrick Mahomes is the MVP, most people wouldn’t bat an eye if Donald received MVP votes.
Tom Brady has been greatly protected all season and has not been sacked in two games this postseason. We all know the adage: get to Brady and put him on his back and he becomes an everyday quarterback.
That has not been happening and that is why the 41-year-old quarterback has looked like anything but a 41-year-old quarterback.
Brady has not come up against a monster like Aaron Donald yet in the postseason. Donald also has not recorded a sack in the postseason thus far. The trend is bound to break, at Brady’s expense.
The biggest play of the Super Bowl last year was Brandon Graham stripping Tom Brady in the fourth quarter, which ironically was the only sack of the entire game. Donald will have more than one sack.
Donald will terrorize Brady all night, will record multiple sacks and several pressures. This will Donald’s career-defining moment and will be the game that makes every penny of his six-year, $135 million contract worth it.
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Aaron Donald will be your Super Bowl MVP if the Los Angeles Rams emerge victoriously. Bookmark this page, keep it in your memory because it is undoubtedly going to happen.