Jared Verse, Los Angeles Rams
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Jared Verse #8 of the Los Angeles Rams looks on before a game against the San Francisco 49ers.
The Seattle Seahawks are still riding high as Super Bowl champions, but for their rivals, the offseason brings feelings of pain, disappointment, and potential slipping away.
One team this season that would have the most beef with the Seahawks would be the Los Angeles Rams. The NFC West division rivals met three times. After taking the first game, the Rams dropped a game that knocked them out of contention for the NFC West title, and then the Seahawks ended their season in the NFC Championship Game.
The Rams-Seahawks rivalry will only continue to grow over the coming seasons, and Rams star linebacker Jared Verse wants it known that this rivalry is personal.
No Love Lost
Jared Verse, the 2024 NFL Rookie of the Year, has had a successful start to his NFL career, but in five games against the Seahawks, the Rams are 2-3. Individually, though, this seasonVerse had one of his best games of the year against the Seahawks in Week 11. TheRams PR Team posted aboutVerses’ career day postgame.
“Jared Verse tied his single-game career-high with 6 hurries in Week 11 vs. the Seahawks. He also recorded 7 pressures, tied for the second-most in a single game for his career, according to TruMedia.”
When it comes to the Seahawks, Verse has an extra gear he can reachthat’s driven by spite and hate. On the February 6 episode of “The Pivot,” Verse discussed his disdain for the Seahawks.
“They’re a division rival, all that good stuff. But like I genuinelydon’t like them,” Verse said. “lgot like a disdain in my heart for them. Like, I hate them. Idon’t like the Seahawks at all.There’s nothing I like about them.”
There is no love lost between Verse and the Seahawks, and the feeling is mutual.
Disrespectful to the Game
Ernest Jones IV has been one of the most outspoken members of the Seahawks throughout the season, and the former Ram has made it known that he still carries a chip on his shoulder from being traded by the Rams.
When the Seahawks were down 30-14 to the Rams before mounting a furious comeback, Jones took issue with Rams players talking trash and celebrating too early. Jones called the Rams players “disrespectful to the game”at thepostgame press conference following the Seahawks’ Week 16 38-37 victory.
Jones has stuck up for Sam Darnold and his Seahawks teammates whenhe’s felt they havebeen disrespected, as he did when Puka Nacua seemed to makefun of Darnold.
At the SeahawksSuper Bowl parade, Jones took to task anyone and everyone, including the Rams,who he felt might have slighted the Seahawks.
“Not only do we have the best defense in the world,we got the best team in the world,”Jones said. “And quite frankly, if you got anything to say about my quarterback, you got anything to say about my defense, you got anything to say about my o-line, and you got anything to say about the city of Seattle, I got two words for you: F— you!”
The Seahawks-Rams rivalry was simmering this season, but with the added animosity on both sides, the hatred could boil over next season.