Rams Coach McVay said plenty about QB Stetson Bennett, and you may not like it

Now that's how you win a football game

Of course, the best way to win a football game is for the defense to shut out the opposing team. While that did not happen in this first preseason game, the defense did seem to have the ability to do so at some point in 2024. But we will discuss the defense in an upcoming slide.

How do you create a team out of unrelated individual football players? The easiest way to do so is to make them face adversity together. That is the reason for the miserable conditions that new recruits face when enlisting in any of the many branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Basic training is structured in a way that allows newly arrived troops to trust one another. After all, everyone in basic training has two common goals: Survival and graduation. To accomplish those goals, they must learn how to perform as a unit - a team.

Dramatic moments may seem special in the aftermath. But the drama comes from the uncertainty of the outcome. Let's face it, you had to be nearly comatose not to be on the edge of your seats for what was merely a preseason game. It has the electricity and emotions of a game that mean so much more.

Perhaps to Stetson Bennett, it did:

It's unfair to place the burden of winning a game on any single player. We know that the final score indicates the effort and performance of everyone on the team. And as you can see on the embedded video below, if not for the quick thinking of tight end Miller Forristall to come back and give his quarterback a wide target in the end zone, the outcome may have been a different story.

In the end, the offensive line held. Stetson Bennett did scramble to his left, flipped his hips, and threw a touchdown pass to a tight end who came across to help out his quarterback. So much went into one play. And that is how it works sometimes.