In noisy road environments, NFL teams often have to prepare to use silent snap counts because the raucous home crowd is too loud for the visiting offense to hear the quarterback's signals. However, the Los Angeles Rams are preparing for crowd noise at home this Sunday when they host the Philadelphia Eagles.
It is no secret that both the Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers have had trouble filling seats in their respective stadiums this year, so it's no surprise that Rams head coach Sean McVay has a plan in mind for all the Eagles fans that will invade the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Courtesy of Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times:
“The way that these players have played, we're hoping to get a great crowd to come out and support us and create a great home atmosphere,” McVay said, adding that if noise from Eagles fans becomes “something that we anticipate, you bet we'll make sure that we have some contingency plans in place.”
The Eagles have one of the most passionate fanbases in the NFL, so there should be plenty of them in Los Angeles on Sunday considering they travel extremely well and many Philadelphia transplants already live in L.A. Week 4's contest between the Chargers and Eagles at the StubHub Center earlier this year was a prime example of this.
Coach McVay still hopes that L.A. fans will be able to outnumber the Philly fans on Sunday. The 9-3 Rams, who last week achieved their first winning season as a franchise since 2003, have given their local fans a plethora of reasons to be excited about this team.
Regardless, Sunday's contest should be a very entertaining game that will have serious implications for the NFC's playoff picture with two of its best teams going at it.
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