The LA Rams are just a few days away from their first preseason game of 2021, “hosting” the LA Chargers at SoFi Stadium on Saturday at 7 PM. You can watch the game on the NFL Network, and I assume that millions will be joining you because oh my god, football is kind of back.
We never really discuss the mental toughness a player has to have to succeed in front of millions of people, especially if you haven’t played in a game of any kind in two years. That will be the case for many of this weekend’s ‘bubble’ players around the NFL, guys who were maybe signed or drafted in 2020 but didn’t get a preseason and then never appeared in a regular season game.