SUPER BOWL LVI PLAY BY PLAY UPDATE

How are the Bengals going to play this? Go conservative with runs from Joe Mixon, or try to put it away with a touchdown?įirst up it's Mixon, and he gets a first down!ġst and 10 - I think we have our answer - the Bengals run a draw play up the middle and Mixon gets close to another first down.Ģnd and 2 - Mixon runs again, gets one yard this time. We're nearly at two minute warning.Īkers makes a first down and gets inside the 10-yard line!! We have two minutes to go in Super Bowl LVI and it's all on the line, right here! 2:40 and counting left.ġst and 10 - It's fired in to Kupp again, he's short of the first down. less than four minutes to go.ġst and 10 - Swing pass to Cam Akers, he gets a few yards,Ģnd and 7 - BIG PASS TO KUPP! he gets a first down and more, 22-yard gain.

Cooper Kupp gets a decent block, and runs for the first down!ġst and 10 - Pass over the middle, incomplete.Ģnd and 10 - How can they get the ball to Kupp? Well they find a way - Stafford gets it to him in double coverage they're short.ģrd and 2 - first down pas to Hopkins! A big pass. Key stat - Cooper Kupp has 4 catches for 53 yards.ģrd down - The rams are stopped short on a run.Ĥth down - Akers in as a back. Matt Stafford starts with a quick pass to Brycen Hopkins for 9 yards. So even if they score here the Bengals have time! Pass interference - ball goes to the 1-yard line!!! Stafford rolls to his right, he fires one to the corner to Kupp it's incomplete, but there's a flag. Wow, it's offsetting penalties - it could have been a touchdown. Not sure about that one.ġst and goal - Matt Stafford passes to Cooper Kupp in the end zone. half the distance to the goal and a first down! So they get four more chances. and where is Cooper Kupp?ģrd and goal - Pass from Stafford, it's knocked down by a Cincinnati defender, but there's a flag for defensive holding. That missed extra point earlier is looming large in the conversation right now.ġst down - Stafford goes to pass to van Jefferson in the end zone, it's too high!Ģnd and goal - Stafford drops back and tries a quick dump pass that hits the ground. The Rams have all three time outs, but they can't get a first down, it's touchdown or bust from here. My thanks to Double J's Mawunyo Gbogbo for her blogging of the epic half-time show - my name is Andrew McGarry, thank you all for joining me for today's game.

SUPER BOWL LVI PLAY BY PLAY UPDATE

We'll update this story with a wrap of the day's events, but for now we'll close things off. That's where we'll leave things for our live coverage of Super Bowl LVI. They are problems for tomorrow, however - for now they celebrate. They may well lose star defender Aaron Donald, and they have to get a deal done to keep Stafford. The interesting point is that the Bengals could be around for a while, whereas the Rams were a team built for the now.

Their three losses - two to San Francisco 49ers and one to the Rams - have come with a total margin of just 11 points! Heartbreaking. You have to feel sorry for the Bengals, who gave it everything but came up short for the third time in Super Bowls. The Rams looked in trouble, and Joe Burrow of Cincinnati made them pay.īut when it counted, Kupp came through, and veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford kept his cool when it counted. One of them, Odell Beckham Jr made his mark and then got injured. What a game! We had tension, huge plays, amazing touchdowns, three of the league's best wide receivers on show.

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