{"id":377849,"date":"2025-09-18T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/377849\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:15:11","slug":"hes-the-chillest-dude-matthew-staffords-poise-rubbing-off-on-davante-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/377849\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He’s the chillest dude’: Matthew Stafford’s poise rubbing off on Davante Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Stafford is the unquestioned leader of the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, not only as the quarterback on offense but as a captain in the locker room<\/a> and on the sidelines. His veteran presence helps everyone on the team, including more experienced players such as Davante Adams.<\/p>\n

During his media session on Wednesday, Adams talked about Stafford\u2019s poise and personality during a game, never flinching regardless of what may go wrong on any given Sunday. Adams admits to being emotional during a game but seeing Stafford remain even-keeled \u2013 even after a bad interception like the one he threw in Week 2 \u2013 helps keep him level-headed, too.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe’s the chillest dude,\u201d Adams said. \u201cHis whole personality, the way he walks around, the way that he carries himself within a football game, it’s different but it’s awesome. Honestly, it’s fun for me just because things happen over the course of the game and I’m an emotional dude, too. So when I see that sometimes, it reminds me to chill out and take a deep breath and move on to the next play. Anytime your fearless leader can go out there and show you better than he tells you, that’s obviously going to affect the rest of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Against the Titans on Sunday, Stafford threw an interception<\/a> just before halftime that led to three points and a deficit for the Rams at the break. Adams noticed how Stafford didn\u2019t let one play bother him for the rest of the game, applauding the way he treated it almost as if it happened in practice.<\/p>\n

Stafford admits he slammed his helmet and was visibly frustrated by his mistake but that didn\u2019t affect his teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, he must have missed me slam my helmet. But we\u2019ll act like it didn\u2019t happen,\u201d Stafford said after the game, laughing. \u201cNo, I was pissed at myself because I mean that\u2019s just the one thing you can\u2019t do. Go three-and-out, punt it back, give them the long field. But it was a heck of a play by Cody Barton, guys in the B gap on the snap of the ball and did a hell of a job escaping out underneath it. I didn\u2019t think he was going to get all the way there and made a great play. Got to give him credit, but yeah only thing to do is keep playing. I can\u2019t just sit there and be pissed about it all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stafford has always been calm, cool and collected, even more so at this point in his career with all the experience he\u2019s gathered. That\u2019s not to say he doesn\u2019t still have that fire to win because he certainly does, but the mistakes seem to roll right off him as he moves onto the next play.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Rams’ Davante Adams explains how Matthew Stafford’s poise helps him<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford is the unquestioned leader of the Los Angeles Rams, not only as the quarterback on offense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[1723,5430,7,1014,58,2444,2611,32,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-377849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-cody-barton","9":"tag-davante-adams","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangelesrams","15":"tag-matthew-stafford","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115225724470505259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377849","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=377849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}