Jared Verse last season established himself as one of the NFL\u2019s biggest trash talkers.<\/p>\n
But the Rams\u2019 second-year edge rusher professes that he does have a limit.<\/p>\n
On Thursday night at SoFi Stadium, Verse will go up at times against San Francisco 49ers left tackle Trent Williams.<\/p>\n
Williams, 6 feet, 5 inches and 320 pounds, is a three-time All-Pro.<\/p>\n
Verse said, \u201cI don\u2019t lie down for anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verse, however, could not help laughing as he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t change up who I am for anybody, but I\u2019m also not dumb,\u201d he said, chuckling. \u201cI\u2019d rather let a sleeping giant sleep. I\u2019m not going to wake up anybody who\u2019s minding their business. Especially somebody like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verse, the 2024 NFL defensive rookie of the year, has two sacks, including one that caused a fumble in last Sunday\u2019s victory over the Indianapolis Colts. He also demonstrated his athleticism when he lined up off the line of scrimmage in the middle of the field and then knocked down the center as he bull-rushed the quarterback.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was definitely his most complete game this year,\u201d defensive coordinator Chris Shula said. \u201cReally, it\u2019s been back-to-back weeks where he\u2019s been playing hard, he\u2019s been playing tough and he\u2019s been physical in the run game. He\u2019s made the game-changing plays.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been awesome. I just look forward for him to continue to build off that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Williams, a 16th year pro, will present another challenge as \u201cone of the best linemen ever\u201d and a \u201cfirst-ballot Hall of Famer,\u201d Verse said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s been in the league longer than I\u2019ve played football, so he understands it,\u201d Verse said. \u201cBut I think the biggest challenge he adds is that with age you\u2019ve become more savvy. He\u2019s figured out, \u2018OK, I\u2019m not even going to take this block head on. I\u2019m going to manipulate it.\u2019 He\u2019s going to mess with you a little bit, just enough that it makes you not be able to make the play.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he\u2019s also still that dominant version of Trent, where it\u2019s like he can get right in front of you, he can eat power, he can stop you in the pass rush. He has a lot of things that you\u2019ve got to focus on to be successful against him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Verse last season established himself as one of the NFL\u2019s biggest trash talkers. But the Rams\u2019 second-year…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[19586,141706,529,121312,1582,276,262,44562,9002,2961,224,2444,5337,141707,90726,7138,72010,3046,6620,3355],"class_list":{"0":"post-273518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-49er","9":"tag-49ers-live-update","10":"tag-analysis","11":"tag-betting-odd","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-first-place","16":"tag-indianapolis-colts","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-times","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-multidimensional-star","22":"tag-ram","23":"tag-rams","24":"tag-sept","25":"tag-thursday-night","26":"tag-time","27":"tag-victory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115308087556833078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}