{"id":466581,"date":"2026-02-13T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466581\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:33:07","slug":"jared-verse-when-defense-started-having-trouble-against-seahawks-we-didnt-know-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466581\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Verse: When defense started having trouble against Seahawks, we didn’t know what to do"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rams had to watch a division rival celebrate a Super Bowl title last Sunday and the pain of that was made all the worse by how close the Rams came to being the NFC\u2019s representative in the game. <\/p>\n

After splitting two games with the Seahawks in the regular season, the Rams had their chance to win the season series and the conference title in Seattle in late January. Edge rusher Jared Verse said on The Pivot podcast that the young defense came into that game feeling that \u201cwe\u2019ve got this all sealed\u201d because they felt they had learned from mistakes that contributed to their loss in their previous matchup with Seattle. <\/p>\n

The Seahawks hit on a 51-yard pass to wide receiver Rashid Shaheed on their first offensive possession in the NFC title game and Verse said everyone on the unit was \u201ckind of like s—ting the bed\u201d as a result. Verse said that he feels the failure to turn that back around was the reason for the Rams\u2019 loss. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started having trouble, we didn\u2019t know what to do<\/a>,\u201d Verse said. \u201cLike some of us on the defense, some, you know, I\u2019m going to take full blame, too. Like, there were a couple of times I\u2019m like, but they\u2019re running the other way. Like, I don\u2019t know what to do. I can\u2019t chase. Like I\u2019m not that fast. I can\u2019t chase him on the backside. What do I do? So when we had some troubles, we just kind of like mentally shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verse and his teammates will get two more shots at the Seahawks this season and they\u2019ll get a chance to show what they learned from their last experience against their division rivals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams had to watch a division rival celebrate a Super Bowl title last Sunday and the pain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-466581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}