There is no guarantee that a Super Bowl appearance will generate long-term momentum.Just ask the Los Angeles Rams Womens Nickell Robey-Coleman Jersey , who return to Atlanta as a .500 team with three straight losses only eight months after their Super Bowl appearance.Or check in with the Atlanta Falcons, whose 2016 Super Bowl season seems a distant memory. The Falcons have lost four straight, leaving them on target for a second straight losing record.The Rams (3-3), who play the Falcons (1-5) on Sunday, had a busy week while retooling their secondary. The big addition was cornerback Jalen Ramsey, one of the league's top players at his position, who was acquired from Jacksonville.Also this week, the Rams placed cornerback Aqib Talib and safety John Johnson on injured reserve and traded cornerback Marcus Peters.The Rams gave up three draft picks, including two first-rounders, for Ramsey in a dramatic attempt to generate renewed momentum for another playoff run following their Super Bowl loss to New England.Coach Sean McVay said Ramsey provides "all the traits that you look for in a corner."While Ramsey prepares to play, the Rams may have to rely on a bunch of relatively untested defensive backs against Matt Ryan and Julio Jones, including cornerbacks Troy Hill and Darious Williams and safety Marqui Christian.The Falcons' frustrations may have peaked when usually reliable Matt Bryant missed a potential game-tying extra point in last week's 34-33 loss at Arizona. Only a dramatic turnaround would save the Falcons from their second straight losing season. The losing streak has increased the pressure on fifth-year coach Dan Quinn.Quinn said his players "want to get it right.""They're hurting, the fans are hurting, everybody is," he said. "If you're around the team, you know how much they care and how much it means to them. More than anything, they want to get it right. When we haven't done that, it stings."Here are some more things to know about the Rams-Falcons matchup:THEN THERE WAS ONESafety Eric Weddle is the only starter from last week's loss to San Francisco who will return in the Rams secondary. He has to lead the new mix of starters."That's why you have me Joseph Noteboom Jersey , quite honestly," Weddle said. "I've been through this many a time. Revolving door, whether it's safeties, corners, it's my job to get everyone on the same page and play at a high level."NO DEFENSEQuinn fired all his coordinators after last season and named himself defensive coordinator. That hasn't produced the results he wanted. The Falcons rank last in the league in scoring defense and sacks. "There's nothing where we can say we're hitting the mark in any way," Quinn said.JUST VISITING, Y'ALLThe Rams will remain in Atlanta and will practice at Georgia Tech next week before flying to London for their Oct. 27 game against Cincinnati. Quarterback Jared Goff said he thinks the time away from home will be "somewhat galvanizing.""When you're off on the road, and all you do have is each other, you have that us against the world type of deal," Goff said. "It does tend to bring a team together and you hope you go out and get this win this weekend and build from there."RYAN ON A ROLLRyan, who leads the NFL with 15 touchdown passes, can become the first player in NFL history to pass for at least 300 yards in each of the first seven games of a season. Ryan also has cut down on mistakes. After throwing six interceptions in the first three games, he has only one in the last three.LINE CONCERNSDavid Edwards, a rookie fifth-round pick from Wisconsin, is expected to be the Rams' starting left guard after Joe Noteboom was lost for the season with a knee injury. Edwards has yet to take an offensive snap. He has played sparingly on special teams.The Rams must trust Edwards because backup guard Jamil Demby apparently has not impressed the coaches. The line was the offense's strength last year, but it has been a liability this fall with Edwards the third new starter. The line has had less-than-dominant play by tackles Andrew Whitworth and Rob Havenstein.AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham in Los Angeles contributed to this report. In 2003, there were two quarterback hoisting trophies after leading their teams to championship victories.One of them was 25-years-old, in his fourth season in the NFL and just led a game-winning drive resulting in a walk-off field goal to win Super Bowl XXXVIII.The other was 16-years-old http://www.theramslockerroom.com/authentic-jamon-brown-jersey , a senior in high school and just scored the winning touchdown with a broken foot to win the Georgia 4A State Championship.On February 3, these two will take the field together in Atlanta with one trying to replicate that 2003 success and hoist the Lombardi once again, while the other looks to upgrade from the piece of hardware he earned for a high school just 14 miles north of Mercedes-Benz Stadium.“Some of my closest friends in life are guys that I was able to play high school football with,” Sean McVay said as his Los Angeles Rams prepare to head east. “It is unique that it’s in Atlanta, but we’re going there to try to win a football game and then there will be some people that are very special to me and my family that’ll get a chance to not have to travel too far to be there as well.”Tom Brady and Sean McVay have taken different approaches to get to Super Bowl LIII, but both were effective.Brady, now 41, has earned three more rings since picking up his second back in 2003. McVay, who turned 33 Thursday, gave up playing after college for a coaching career that now brings him to his first Super Bowl.“A good birthday present would be let’s take care of business over the next couple weeks, put ourselves in a position to compete to the best of our ability,” McVay said with smiles.**When McVay was leading the Marist School to its second state title, he was doing it as a dual-threat QB.He was the first player in program history to both rush and throw for 1,000 yards in back-to-back years en route to edging out future Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson as the Georgia 4A Offensive Player of the Year his senior season— a season he tallied 1,128 rushing yards and 1,107 passing yards.Brady, in his 19th season, has 1 Womens Greg Zuerlein Jersey ,003 career rushing yards.Despite the difference in game play, there were still things McVay learned about the quarterback position from Brady without even recognizing it at the time.“I don’t know if I had the kind of perspective back then to look at it from [the studying] standpoint, but what you did know was no moment was too big for him. Whether they were behind or in those crunch time moments, he was always at his best,” McVay said. “I’m so much a fan of his game and what Tom’s done is unbelievable.”Instead of taking snaps under center, he will be relaying calls into the helmet of his QB Jared Goff. Goff, a year younger than Brady’s age in 2003, is looking for his third career playoff win while his counterpart is looking for his sixth championship.“I think getting to this game nine times is unbelievable,” Goff said of Brady. “You can’t put into words how remarkable it is and everything he’s done and why he’s going to go down as the best of all time, if not one of the best of all time. Just so much respect for him and everything he’s done.”But while Goff has the respect for his adversary, it’s not a situation that will be overwhelming to him:“I was probably seven or eight years old when he was winning Super Bowls to begin with and now I get a chance to play in one with him. At the same time, we do respect him, but I’m going to go out there and do my best and be the best I can be and hopefully come out with a win.”Despite having 75 playoff appearances fewer than Brady, Goff has shown the experience is nothing that will slow him down. The third-year slinger is averaging over 240 yards per game and has thrown just one interception so far during this playoff campaign.So now as McVay and Brady step one day closer to their meeting, a familiar result is also approaching.However, unlike in 2003, only one will be able to call themselves a champion.