{"id":242779,"date":"2025-07-28T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/242779\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:23:09","slug":"with-pads-coming-on-rams-will-move-one-step-closer-to-playing-real-football-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/242779\/","title":{"rendered":"With pads coming on, Rams will move one step closer to &#8216;playing real football&#8217; Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a big day for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>. Matthew Stafford, unfortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/matthew-stafford-miss-another-week-222013804.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:isn\u2019t returning to practice as expected;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">isn\u2019t returning to practice as expected<\/a>, but they\u2019ll welcome something else to their fifth session at Loyola Marymount University: pads.<\/p>\n<p>After four days of practice without pads, the Rams will officially put them on today and ratchet up the intensity. There won\u2019t be live tackling, of course, but practice will be more physical, particularly at the line of scrimmage and on running plays.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Defenders will be \u201cthud\u201d tackling without bringing ball carriers to the ground, which will give everyone a better idea of how things look on both offense and defense. Sean McVay is excited about the pads coming on because it\u2019ll be closer to \u201cplaying real football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just finished up our five-day acclimation period,\u201d he said Saturday. \u201cI think guys are competing. I think it&#8217;ll be good to be able to put the\u00a0pads\u00a0on to be able to add some different schemes that are more in alignment with playing real football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team will still try to guard against injuries in these practices, particularly with players wearing Guardian Caps, but they will be allowed to play more physically like they would in a game or a joint practice with another team. Defensive backs can attack the ball more in coverage, linebackers can hit running backs in the hole and front-seven defenders can utilize more of their pass-rush moves against linemen.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a long way to go before the season begins but putting on the pads is an important step in training camp. It\u2019s when the competition really heats up.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/theramswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2025\/07\/28\/rams-training-camp-pads-monday-practice\/85402708007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:LA Rams training camp: When will LA put the pads on?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">LA Rams training camp: When will LA put the pads on?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is a big day for the Los Angeles Rams. Matthew Stafford, unfortunately, isn\u2019t returning to practice as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,2444,2611,32917,32,6,48049,9735,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-242779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-losangeles","12":"tag-losangelesrams","13":"tag-loyola-marymount-university","14":"tag-matthew-stafford","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-pads","17":"tag-practice","18":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114931080180393527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}