{"id":727018,"date":"2026-06-26T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727018\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:23:16","slug":"matthew-stafford-im-here-for-ty-simpson-if-he-needs-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727018\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford: I&#8217;m here for Ty Simpson if he needs help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a surprise to many when the Rams selected quarterback Ty Simpson at No. 13 overall to be Matthew Stafford\u2019s successor in this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n<p>But the organization has been clear that it\u2019s still Stafford\u2019s team until he decides to hang up his cleats.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson has said publicly that Stafford has taken a \u201cbig brother\u201d role in his development, complimenting the 2025 MVP for being willing to answer all of his questions.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Chris Long\u2019s Green Light podcast this week, Stafford was asked what he\u2019d like Simpson to say about him years down the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, he comes away with a guy who treated him the right way, showed him what it was about, what it\u2019s like to be a true professional, and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lIef_B2sW_g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">also be yourself<\/a>,\u201d Stafford said. \u201cI\u2019m not some robot out there. Love playing the game \u2014 you see me mic\u2019d up, I\u2019m running around like crazy, doing all sorts of wild shit, and have fun with the game because it\u2019s a kids\u2019 game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the same time, hey, I\u2019m here for him if he needs help. My No. 1 job \u2014 I\u2019ve said this 100 times \u2014 is to get our team and myself as ready to play as possible. And if he gathers information and he learns from that along the way, I\u2019m fired up for our team, because that\u2019s going to make us better. And I\u2019m fired up for him. But I\u2019m here to encourage \u2014 like everybody on our team \u2014 encourage everybody to do their best, keep getting better, and find ways to improve. And, hopefully, he\u2019s a guy that 15, 20 years down the road can look back and say, man, I really enjoyed my time with Matthew and learned a lot from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stafford is coming off arguably the best season in his career, tossing a league-leading 46 touchdowns en route to being named a first-team AP All-Pro for the first time. With Stafford at 38 years old, we\u2019ll see how long he holds off Simpson\u2019s ascension to QB-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a surprise to many when the Rams selected quarterback Ty Simpson at No. 13 overall to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-727018","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\/727018","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=727018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}