Superbowl LVI Thread - Los Angeles Rams v Cincinatti Bengals

I want the Bengals to win but think that the Rams have the edge on paper.

So keen for the half time show, the recent trailer for it had me pumped.

Would love for the Bengals to complete the fairytale and perhaps the most remarkable Superbowl run in quite some time but I think the Rams will be comfortable enough here. Should be a low scoring game with 20 points being enough to win.

On another point, while Burrow has been the fastest #1 pick to make the Superbowl, Stafford became the longest (of those that have made it), extending the record from 10 seasons to 13. It's also the first Superbowl since Superbowl XIII to feature 2 QBs wearing the same number.

Head says Rams cause Defences win SB's, heart says Bengals, fairy-tale story.

Can Joe Cool be the new Brady ?!

Stadium is the most expensive in the world, built for $5.5B, was to cost $2.5B, must have been an Irish contractor :)

Just signed up for the 99c offer for the nfl app. Looking forward to this and the half time show

Hoping that the Bengals do it.

8 - 3 for the playoffs and 182 - 102 overall

Have to go for the Rams.

At the start of the year I felt they would go for broke to win it all with the Superbowl being hosted in their own stadium. Moving the team back to LA, then moving into what is an incredible stadium (that came with an equally incredible price tag) and now vying to become the biggest name in LA sports has been the long term vision of Stan Kroenke. This will come to fruition on Sunday.

As a Seahawks fan its sickening to watch!

Rams but I really hope the Bengals do it. A real phoenix from the ashes moment. Hard to see their O-Line get moving against the Rams though.

In saying that SF hurt the Rams with very little run game a Jimmy G throwing short snappy passes. Burrow can does that at levels above Jimmy G and has much better receivers to aim for. So its not a dead cert. No pressure whatsoever on the Bengals but Rams are very much in win now mode before the team disintegrates. That pressure can hurt a team in an event like this.

The NFL's obsession with 40m split times all seems a little silly when you see what Cooper Kupp is doing year in year out. He's miles off the fastest guy but he runs the best routes and has the best hands. Far more important than out and out speed in 90% of situations. Outside the top 25-30 receivers the catching ability is hit and miss, more often miss but they can run freakish sprint times. All completely useless when you drop the pass.

I hope the Bengals win this. But I much prefer Cleveland over Cincinnati so I only support them becos Rams are so unlikeable. I think this will be a terrible super bowl and it should have been Chiefs vs Packers. Go Pack go.

Rogers mvp that’s what I’m talking about. Go Pack Go the real champs this season, last season too and definite champs next season.

Too right. Everyone hates the Hollywood Rams they got no history they will probably move to Hawaii or London next. No tourists may go to Green Bay but we got the greatest team in the world, the best qb1 in history, the most iconic stadium in the league especially when it snows and let’s not forget, we got making a murderer which is the best show on Netflix. Them them Hollywood execs had to get involved and make a crappy season 2.

I hope ye win tomorrow. But only because Rams are so unlikeable and it is probably the only super bowl ye will ever get to. We all know that any of Packers, Chiefs or Bills would beat either Bengals or Rams this season 99 out of 100 times. There is a reason why you cannot buy the Packers wooly hat in any shop in Dublin, that is because we are so widely loved. Go Pack go.

Imagine how insufferable he'd be if Rogers was a successful QB.

You’re probably a Raiders fan.

I really hope I'm wrong but I can't see beyond the Rams winning this with a comfortable 4th quarter. The Rams are better in most departments except for the explosiveness of Burrow and Chase.

Who are they playing tomorrow?

Rams relatively comfortably for me. Bengals have done magnificently to get this far but it has been a bit of a fluke if truth be told, overcoming Burrow getting sacked nine times against the Titans, all the picks their opponents threw at key moments during the playoffs etc. A lot of the Rams players have been here before and I think they are a better and more complete team, along with having a big sideline advantage.

Rams by double digits for me, Bengals have everything in place to get back here and do it in the future but I think they have massively overachieved already and will come back down to earth tomorrow evening unless the Rams s**t the bed with silly mistakes.

In all fairness you are giving no respect to a defense who have two picks of Mahomes, three picks of Tannehill and one from Derek Carr giving up a total of 62 points through three playoff games.

And Joe Burrow's only big game that we know of was the NCAA national championship where he went and broke nearly every passing record in the book.

I'm not saying they'll win it but to suggest that a QB whose unproven in big games, Matthew Stafford, is going to comfortably win a Superbowl is showing the height of disrespect for what the Bengals have achieved.

I think The Rams will get it done ultimately with home field advantage playing it's part. I think the Bengals will enjoy being the underdog and I expect it to be a close game but I do think ultimately the D will make the difference with the likes of Donald who will be desperate to not be on the losing side of things again and I think the Bengals o line will need to be damn near perfect and burrows too for the victory.

Burrows is fantastic though, hard to root against them it's just the head telling me the rams is the way to go this year.

Nobody seems to be giving the bengals much of a chance from the picks on nfl network.