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that's crazy! has to be some sort of SB record rt?

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[Rams1PlateSince1976]

Kupp, Woods, Beckham with still learning Jefferson makes the best Quad in the league.

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This team, so special, we are very fortunate to have been able to support such an amazing group.

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[Hacksaw]

F J.Burro !

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https://www.mlive.com/lions/2022/02/lio ... onald.html

Lions DL Michael Brockers attends Rams’ Super Bowl party as guest of Aaron Donald

By Kyle Meinke | [email protected]

ALLEN PARK -- Aaron Donald is the greatest defensive football player on the planet. He just might be among the greatest defensive football players ever to live on this planet. And the Los Angeles Rams star just capped another dominant performance on Sunday by pressuring Joe Burrow into an errant fourth-down throw that sealed a 23-20 win over Cincinnati in the Super Bowl.

That man could have brought anyone as his plus-one to the team’s Super Bowl party that night.

His choice: Detroit Lions defensive lineman Michael Brockers.

“The two sat at a small table with defensive line coach Eric Henderson — another person with whom Donald has a strong bond — laughing and reminiscing as the party raged on around them,” according to the Athletic. “Everywhere, players and coaches, executives and scouts, family and friends and even the equipment managers, interns and support staff mingled and danced together, exchanging hugs and exclamations of blissful disbelief.”

With Matthew Stafford gobbling up headlines, it’s easy to forget that blockbuster trade wasn’t the only trade that Lions general manager Brad Holmes engineered with his former team last offseason. Holmes also sent a 2023 seventh-round pick to Los Angeles to acquire Brockers, a veteran defensive tackle who had declined to take a paycut to stay in L.A.

Brockers, a former LSU star, was taken by the Rams in the first round of the 2012 draft. He was named to the all-rookie team by the Pro Football Writers Association of America, then turned into a team leader who helped the club make its move from St. Louis to Los Angeles. He played 55 snaps for the Rams in Super Bowl LIII, which ranked behind only Dante Fowler, Aaron Donald and Ndamukong Suh on that star-studded front.

Brockers and Donald spent seven seasons anchoring that line together, and became close off the field over the years.

“It was awesome (playing with Donald),” Brockers said back in training camp. “The guy has a hell of a work ethic, and it drives you. Seeing the guy who is ranked 99 on Madden every year, he has all the accolades, defensive player of the year, all that, and then to see him work as hard as he does, doesn’t take a rep off, doesn’t take a day off, it makes you drive harder because you’re like, ‘If this guy is willing to still work and he has everything, who am I?’

“He definitely helped me a lot as far as putting in the extra work, doing the extra reps, doing extra stuff in the weight room to always keep yourself strong, always keep yourself at tip-top shape because you never want to fall off in this game. Once you decline, everybody is going to have something to say. If you work hard, put the work in, most likely you’ll stay on top.”

Holmes was with the Rams for those years too, knew what Brockers was about, and figured his leadership and work ethic could help stabilize a Lions roster that was headed for a huge makeover. Brockers went on to have his least-productive season in five years, recording 52 tackles, one sack and a career-worst one quarterback hit, but also has been praised throughout the organization for his veteran leadership with one of the league’s youngest rosters.

Detroit spent Day 2 picks on fellow defensive tackles like Alim McNeill and Levi Onwuzurike, plus started rookies such as Jerry Jacobs and A.J. Parker elsewhere on the defense while going through considerable turnover at every level of the unit.

“He doesn’t let those guys (expletive),” head coach Dan Campbell said. “They go to work. He pulls them in the weight room, they do what they’re asked to do and then some, do extra. And so he’s teaching them the ropes, how to be a true pro.”

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