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Last Sunday night Womens Brandon Allen Jersey , the Sean Payton, with the kind of profane terms in which Chris Simms routinely dabbles, that the officials erred by not flagging Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman for pass interference and/or unnecessary roughness for his hit on receiver Tommylee Lewis. Eight days later, the NFL still hasn’t acknowledged the mistake publicly.The league has remained silent even though, per a league source, Saints coach Sean Payton privately has urged the NFL to “show some leadership” and admit the mistake publicly. The goal isn’t to rub the league’s face in it, but to ensure that a true commitment exists to avoiding these kinds of issues in the future.Indeed, if every situation like this can be avoided by hunkering down and weathering the storm and keeping quiet until the fans and media move on http://www.theramslockerroom.com/authentic-ramik-wilson-jersey , that will become the league’s new blueprint for handling such situations.It hasn’t been that way in the past. Peter King points out in his new column that the NFL has, on at least 15 and as many as 30 occasions since 2003, admitted publicly an officiating mistake.If the league hoped that the passage of time would make it all better, the league hoped wrong. Commissioner Roger Goodell continues to be called out for not talking about the situation, with King being the latest to sound off — and with Goodell’s annual pre-Super Bowl press conference only two days away.Other strategies for putting out the fire have failed. Last Monday’s coordinated leak campaign regarding the possibility of making pass interference subject to replay review bounced once and then landed with a thud, when people like Cowboys executive Stephen Jones and Broncos G.M. John Elway (members of Competition Committee) and Falcons CEO Rich McKay (the chairman of the Competition Committee) promptly went on record throwing water on the possibility.Over the weekend, the league leaked to Adam Schefter of ESPN a blatantly self-serving message aimed, apparently Dante Fowler Jr Jersey , at simulating a public apology: “This week, Sean Payton has spoken to Roger Goodell, SVP of Officiating Al Riveron, EVP of Football Opetations [sic] Troy Vincent, Comp Committee Chairman Rich McKay. It was explained to Payton: It鈥檚 a call that officials should make. Goodell also spoke to Saints鈥?owner Gayle Benson.”Schefter thereafter provided “context” (, accuracy), thanks apparently to the reaction to his prior tweet. “Sean Payton reached out to NFL this week to see how it would publicly handle situation and demonstrate leadership it should,” Schefter tweeted. “NFL did not reach out to him. NFL felt the explanation that Riveron offered Payton after game — officials missed the call — was sufficient.”Although McKay never spoke to Payton (per a league source) Nicholas Scott Los Angeles Rams Jerseys , the rest of the second tweet is accurate. The conversations between Payton and Goodell, Riveron, and Vincent weren’t about Payton receiving an explanation. They were about Payton urging the league to make a statement as a matter of basic leadership.Without that, nothing will change. Without it, nothing can change. We’ve seen two different Rams teams. The one in the playoffs has been better than the one from the regular season. That’s a good thing for Rams fans."The Los Angeles Rams ended the regular season 13-3 on the back of another fantastic offense under Head Coach Sean McVay, but a tough stretch out of the bye had people questioning whether the Rams could make a prolonged run through the playoffs.The offensive line looked little like themselves after a stellar first 11 games. Not surprisingly then, QB Jared Goff had a correlated decline in his play out of the bye. And the defense, for all its star power Los Angeles Rams Jerseys 2019 , was facing questions that couldn’t be brushed aside under the injuries to CB Aqib Talib and CB Marcus Peters. And once RB Todd Gurley’s inflamed knee had gotten to the point that it was wiser to sit him in the final two weeks of the regular season, it brought about questions for the running game that even the eye-popping numbers from RB C.J. Anderson in the final two weeks couldn’t satisfy alone.Then the playoffs started.The Rams’ offensive line might have single-handedly won the game against the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round. They plowed through the Cowboys’ front seven in the ground game allowing both Gurley and Anderson to top 100 yards while keeping Goff clean and preventing Cowboys EDGE Demarcus Lawrence from taking Goff’s soul. On the defensive side, DL Ndamukong Suh had his best game as a Ram. Outside of an early touchdown when he slid inside to take on a more favorable matchup against S Lamarcus Joyner, the Rams secondary shut down Cowboys WR Amari Cooper.Whatever the concerns were from the regular season, the Rams not only addressed them in their first playoff game. They turned them into strengths.It was a similar story against the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship.The run defense was stellar against a very good unit spearheaded by the two-headed rushing attack of RB Mark Ingram and RB Alvin Kamara. Goff again was well-protected for the most part. And Suh was a force with 1.5 sacks, his season high.It’s the mark of a well-prepared team to play its best football when it’s needed most. The Rams, and McVay, failed that test a year ago. In their first playoff game Nicholas Scott Jersey nfl draft , they looked completely undone by the pressure of the moment against the Atlanta Falcons in the wild card round despite playing in front of a home crowd. A healthy Gurley was swallowed up by Falcons LB Deion Jones far too often save for two runs in the fourth quarter. LT Andrew Whitworth played his worst game as a Ram. And Goff was unable to get going on much of anything beyond the linebackers.This year though, the Rams stepped up in January. They elevated their play and turned their weaknesses, shockingly, into strengths at the precise time it was needed most.That may be the biggest question then heading into Super Bowl LIII against the New England Patriots.Will the Rams’ run defense continue to prevent the opposition from establishing success on the ground? Will the offensive line have yet again one of those games that makes the case for them as the best line in the NFL this year? Will the secondary be able to clamp down on the downfield targets forcing QB Tom Brady to go underneath?Will we see the 2019 playoff Rams instead of the 2018 regular season Rams?Given how things have gone the last two games, I’d hope so.