Matthew Stafford heads back to Detroit to face his former team for a second time, but the Rams quarterback enjoys the commotion and says every visit is different.
Matthew Stafford does want distractions, especially when he walks into an opponent’s stadium. So, unlike many athletes, the Rams’ veteran quarterback forsakes headphones upon arrival, and embraces a hostile environment when he jogs onto the field for pregame warmups. “I want to hear all of it,” Stafford said Wednesday before practice in Woodland Hills. “I want to smell it. I want it to feel like it’s football. That’s part of football, especially going to an away game.
After he was traded, Stafford led the Rams to a Super Bowl title. The playoff defeat was his first game in Detroit since the trade. And the first time he prepared for a game in Ford Field’s visitors’ locker room. “I’m going to obviously be one more game comfortable being an opponent in that field than I was, I guess, last year,” said Stafford, who completed 25 of 36 passes for 367 yards and two touchdowns in the defeat.
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