Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl Champion guard, Grey Zabel, gave some incredibly high praise for Poona Ford, Kobie Turner, and the Los Angeles Rams as a whole. He complimented Ford and Turner as great players, the type of athletes that make Zabel work, and want to play the game of football. He expressed some appreciation towards the Rams group as a whole for being a bunch of \u201creally good dudes\u201d.<\/p>\n
Right or wrong, hate can be a part of sports at times, and as much as one loves Ben Jonhson (head coach of the Chicago Bears) hating the Green Bay Packers, it\u2019s also one of the cooler things in pro sports to see players out for blood during a game, but then coming together when the final whistle blows. These guys are family, friends and or peers who tend to, but not always, have a mutual respect for each other.<\/p>\n
Zabel, in this interview, showed love to the Rams despite knowing that he\u2019ll have to do battle with them again at least twice in the upcoming season.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoona Ford\u2019s a great example. Dude, just pure raw strength. Like, he picked me up, like just lifted me up as I was trying to base block him, and I\u2019m like, \u2018Alright, yah I can\u2019t do anything about it\u2019. Kobie Turner\u2019s the same way\u2026I know for a fact that I would ten times out of ten, I would rather block a bigger, stronger, slower guy than some short, stocky, quick dude who can go side-to side in just like, the blink of a second.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zabel was then asked about, and discussed the moment after the Seahawks\u2019 NFC Championship win over the Rams when Zabel immediately went up to Kobie Turner. Zabel explained that he was bummed Turner got hurt in the game, and he wanted Turner to know how much Zabel values facing off against him.<\/p>\n
Sean McVay and Les Snead talk about wanting to draft guys who love football and according to Zabel, Turner is exactly that. Also, based on Zabel\u2019s response, he seems to love football as much as anyone else in the league right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, first off, Kobie Turner is like my kryptonite right now in the game of football. Like, I don\u2019t know what it is, he\u2019s just got my number, he just works me every single game, but it\u2019s so cool. Like I said, as much you, like, want to hate the Rams, like, they\u2019re all really good dudes. Across the board. And like Kobie, for instance, he\u2019s out there and he just smiles. Like he just plays the game for the love of the game. No question about it. And it was a sad deal because he got a little banged up, and he couldn\u2019t finish that NFC Championship Game. So, the moment after the game was done, I just went and talked to him, talked how awesome he was, and what a great game\u2026how fun it is to compete against him. And he\u2019s just an unbelievable guy. I mean, if anybody watching knows Kobie, they know exactly what I\u2019m talking about because it\u2019s\u2026he\u2019s top tier. He\u2019s what makes the game fun to play against defensive lineman.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether you win or lose, being a good sport involves showing respect to all involved, and Zabel very much humbled himself by being overtly positive when it came to talking about the Rams. He could have said anything, and he chose to show appreciation to his division rival.<\/p>\n
Now, if the Rams find a way to beat the Seahawks this year, it will be interesting to see how high Zabel is on the Rams then, but that potential situation won\u2019t come until later this year. For now, it\u2019s peace and love across the NFL in July.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s check back in on the Rams and Zabel\u2019s mood after their first matchup in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl Champion guard, Grey Zabel, gave some incredibly high praise for Poona Ford, Kobie Turner,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,4200,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":["post-950103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-rams","tag-football","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-los-angeles-rams-news","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesrams","tag-nfl","tag-rams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116948883469097056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950103","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=950103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}