Odell Beckham Jr. believes Rams would've blown out Bengals in Super Bowl 56 had he not gotten injured
Super Bowl 56 between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams ended up becoming one of the tightly contested Super Bowls in recent memory. The final score of 23-20 came from a back-and-forth battle that ended up going down to the last minutes. According to former Rams wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., it wouldn't have […]
Super Bowl 56 between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams ended up becoming one of the tightly contested Super Bowls in recent memory. The final score of 23-20 came from a back-and-forth battle that ended up going down to the last minutes.
According to former Rams wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., it wouldn't have been that close had he played the entire game. Beckham Jr., who know plays for the Baltimore Ravens, told NBCSports' Peter King that his Rams would've beaten the Bengals easily had he not torn his ACL during the second quarter. He even gave a score projection:
"We would've beaten 'em 42-17."
Yep, that sure is a blowout. Too bad it's entirely projection and not based on anything objective or factual.
Beckham told King that, “People have no idea what I was actually gonna do that day. It was gonna be the day where I catch 15 balls, maybe 250 yards. The gameplan was for me." That would've been the greatest receiving performance in Super Bowl history. Jerry Rice holds the current Super Bowl record with 215 yards from Super Bowl 23. Coincidentally, it came in a win over the Bengals.
Before going down with a torn ACL with 3:50 remaining in the first half, Beckham logged 24 snaps and had a whopping two receptions for 52 yards on three targets. To his credit, one reception was a 17-yard touchdown, but to say he was on pace for what he projected his stat line to be would be hilariously inaccurate.
Was he going to get close to 20 targets in the second half alone? What in the world are we doing here?
At that point in the game, the Bengals were already picking up momentum. They had just scored their first touchdown of the game to bring the score to 13-10, and a 75-yard touchdown pass to Tee Higgins to open the third quarter gave them their first lead of the game at 17-13.
The Rams' offense definitely sputtered for a bit without OBJ, but the Bengals' defense was not going to allow six Rams touchdowns that day.
That was the last game Beckham has played. He sat out the entire 2022 season to recover from his ACL injury, and eventually signed a one-year deal with the Ravens this offseason.
Not only do the Bengals play the Ravens twice as a fellow AFC North team, their first matchup of the season is in Week 2, just six weeks away from now.
Beckham Jr. throwing unnecessary fire towards the Bengals, who roster a great number of players from that Super Bowl loss, is not the wisest thing he's ever done. These Bengals have been known to take things personally. They'll find a spot on their proverbial bulletin board for this.
Bengals WR Tee Higgins passes on opportunity to talk trash to one of the league’s top cornerbacks
Cincinnati Bengals WR Tee Higgins passed on an opportunity to talk trash to one of the league’s top cornerbacks
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