If You Knock Me Down Ill Get Up Again Madden

And then Far from SoFi is a continuing serial where I check in on some things happening exterior of the LA Rams arrangement that may withal be somewhat related to the LA Rams system. And too I do something fun for myself and if you want to skip information technology, no peel off my dorsum.

At that place are a few NFL-related items that happen every twelvemonth that I take never related to, and 1 of those perennial moments is investing emotion into Madden ratings. I get that those numbers can serve a function equally some motivation for either celebration or decision depending on whether a player got imaginary respect or disrespect, but aren't there already plenty of sources for that within the NFL itself?

And not with the people at Electronic Arts?

The Los Angeles Rams had two players achieve the highest-rating possible this twelvemonth and I suppose that was to exist expected of Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey. Which likewise doesn't quite make it news that they were assessed and graded equally expected. The better news being that those ii players are on the Rams.

It also doesn't help that I stopped playing video games a long time ago, and never did invest as much time into them every bit many of my peers. I did, notwithstanding, play a lot of Madden growing upward and songs like "Awnaw" by Nappy Roots and "Party Hard" past Andrew W.1000. volition forever be burned in my brain in the parts where math was supposed to go.

I mean, I didn't even realize that I knew the lyrics to a Adept Charlotte song until just this moment. What I'g saying is this is the canticle. Throw all your easily upwardly, you don't wanna be you.

I take not played Madden in over a decade but I take listened to music before and recently, and one such collection of songs I spent time with was the Madden 22 soundtrack that was just released. Now to me, this is what a Madden song is meant to sound like:

What's a football soundtrack without an artist named "Os Crusher"?

And what's a football soundtrack vocal without some allusion to football? The Madden 22 soundtrack is not that much like the ones that I used to know but information technology does accept a few songs that make me feel similar the game could party hard.

Mixed in between songs will be some news around the NFL that in some way relates to the LA Rams. This is a SCROLLER, BABY.

1. "How I'grand Feelin'" - Abdomen with Shenseaa

Has a tricky hook similar an opening Madden soundtrack vocal should have. I have to admit I feel somewhat ready to play a football video game later on listening to this a few times. And I did listen to it a few times.

Strangely, Rich Rocka, formerly known every bit 'Ya Boy', also has a vocal called "How I'm Feelin'" and both him and Abdomen mention beingness worth "a couple meg" in their opening lines. The songs are in no other way like.

Football mentions:

When I touch down

I'thousand gonna fire it all to the ground

make sure the whole world feel it

Rating: 18/22

There'south breathing room between this and a perfect track, merely I tin can't complain about this being on the game. Or the anthology. I won't play the game.

RAMS STUFF: Jaylon Smith on the trading block?

It is being speculated that Cowboys linebacker Jaylon Smith, 1 of the highest-paid players in Dallas, will either be traded or released before Week 1. The Cowboys added a wealth of linebackers in the offseason, including free agent Keanu Neal (who worked with defensive coordinator Dan Quinn in Atlanta) and first round pick Micah Parsons, so it looks similar Smith is falling behind those two and incumbent Leighton Vander Esch. Dallas has a number of other linebackers who they can develop too, such equally Jabril Cox, and so the odds could be increasing that the Cowboys try to trade Smith for a little bit of salary cap relief this yr.

Would Rams show interest in another linebacker reclamation projection?

#2. "Mime" by Morray

Couldn't actually tell at kickoff if the artist was named Mime or Morray. Having familiarized myself with Morray slightly at present, I prefer his 2020 breakout hit "Quicksand" over this one. Bonus points for non being a football song.

Minus points for non being a song about mimes.

Football game mentions: None really. Simply e'er relevant:

If I write a bad tweet, that can terminate my whole streak

Rating: 5/22

This genre of hip hop is for a lot of people, but doesn't strike a chord with me

RAMS STUFF: Jared Goff makes Lions debut

While the Rams rest Matthew Stafford for the entire preseason, Detroit head omnibus Dan Campbell feels he needs to know all he tin about new Lions quarterback Jared Goff. He was one of the few starters playing in Week 1, and Goff finished past completing 7-of-9 attempts for some unimportant number of yards.

Goff'southward first pass attempt was nearly intercepted, and then he was sacked two plays later to end the drive. The next drive resulted in lxx yards and a field goal and this was his best play over the weekend:

The Lions are taking a much different approach to the season than the Rams are, for obvious reasons. The running game is expected to be a staple of the law-breaking.

#3. "Ball is Life" by Swae Lee ft. Jack Harlow

"Ball is Life" sits in the all-important three-spot of the lineup and is Madden'south offset single off of the anthology. I'll say that within the first minute, I knew that Swae Lee and Jack Harlow brawl like every twenty-four hours. By the end of the song, it wasn't fifty-fifty a question. They brawl similar every day.

Y'all know that movie Multiplicity where Michael Keaton clones himself and they create a copy of a copy of a copy of the original Michael Keaton and each time he comes out different?

Anyways, Jack Harlow is one of the big hip hop stars now and in "Ball is Life", the vocal on the Madden 22 soundtrack, his verse is about how Kendrick Lamar respects him now and how he wants to win awards for rap music. I gauge it's not that surprising, given that Harlow wrote a song for a current NBA histrion.

Football mentions:

My whole team in the huddle (Beatin' the buzzer)

I done caught over a gazillion plays (Plays, yeah)

This line by Swae Lee only gets one-half-credit for this being a football mention, only is then docked three credits for making a basketball reference right behind information technology.

Rating 8/22

Sounds like something you're supposed to heed to when information technology's dark out at 6:50 PM and you lot're driving to Wendy'due south, not necessarily while getting hyped for a video game.

RAMS STUFF: Morgan Fox is a starter now

What a wild 12 months it has been for Morgan Fox.

The sometime LA Rams defensive end emerged from a pile of linemen last flavor to eventually wind up equally the second or third-best pass rusher side by side to Aaron Donald by the cease of 2020. Once an undrafted free agent, Play tricks found himself equally just a regular free agent this by March, and he signed a 2-year, $eight.1 one thousand thousand contract with the Carolina Panthers.

Now Fox, a former Division II player at Colorado State-Pueblo, is listed every bit a starting defensive finish next to sometime start round picks Brian Burns and Derrick Dark-brown and he was considered also important to dress for Carolina'south kickoff preseason game.

The Rams chose not to re-sign Play a trick on but it's too soon to say if that will be a regrettable decision or non. He only started six games in 4 years and his career 2020 flavor resulted in half dozen sacks and just nine QB hits, albeit in limited action and with a three-time Defensive Player of the Year by his side. However, he has beaten out 2020 second round pick Yetur Gross-Matos for the task so far and he has an incredible opportunity to go a mainstay in the league well beyond the end of his current ii-yr deal with the Panthers.

One of Play tricks's teammates last training camp in LA, linebacker Dirt Johnston, is fighting for a reserve role in Carolina. He had no stats in the first preseason game.

#iv. "Blitz" by Moneybagg Yo ft. Tripstar

I know earlier I hit play that I accept to give this minimum 11/22 for at to the lowest degree trying to write a football song. If it'due south not about blitzing though, I'm going to have to have that into my decision.

This song is then much virtually football. Fuck yeah.

I can't realistically give Moneybagg Yo a pass on some surprisingly choppy lyrics — it seems as though Moneybagg is rich in the letter 'grand' merely missing some syllables — but I can't exist that mad given that he probably just knew that EA would accept a start draft.

Football game mentions:

Gear up the block just for my human, I bet we winnin'

Go hard or go home, it's survival of the fittest (Woah)

This song is overly-activated with football mentions, only I demand to shout out Tripstar for taking the unexpected motility of existence a blocker in his dreams instead of the person who scores the touchdown. Tripstar is going for "teammate of the year" here.

Rating: 11/22

This vocal makes less than zippo sense, but I made a promise and blitzing was mentioned.

#v. "eight" past Tierra Whack

I merely...I only can't explain why this isn't the 8th track of the album.

I call up the Madden 22 soundtrack was clearly trending in the wrong direction over the last few songs, and I had never heard of Tierra Whack prior to this mind, only she woke me upward with the all-time track of the anthology and so far.

Does information technology bop? Yes.

Is it under ii:thirty? Hell yes.

Does it say "touchdown" and "winning" and "sports"? Aye.

Football mentions:

Heels injure, I got blisters (Damn)

Touchdown, brand me richer

Rating: 20/22

Couldn't fifty-fifty get an 8/10.

RAMS STUFF: John Kelly could be available for Rams render

The old Rams running back had eight carries for -1 yard in Cleveland's kickoff preseason game on Saturday. Kelly is buried in one of the most talented running back rooms in the NFL and seems like an obvious candidate to exist cut by early September.

LA may non be interested in a reunion with their quondam sixth round pick, but he's familiar with Sean McVay and much of the staff, so a do squad opportunity could make sense.

#6. "Count Me In" by TSB Tril

I recollect 41% of my favorite rap beats simply have some sort of flute playing a prissy melody over some bass. This song has some of that, with the familiar bulletin that the creative person was doubted merely now he is here.

Football moments: Literally none. If only YSB Tril had a vocal that would have made sense to put on a football game video game.

Rating: half dozen/22

Was "Touchdown" also on the nose? Count me out.

#7. "Oh No (Madden Version)" by BRS Kash

At starting time, I felt this could be a catchy hit, but then after further digging it occurred to me that it only feels catchy because BRS Kash is sampling a popular TikTok song.

That'southward gonna be an "Oh no" from me.

Football moments: To be honest, I'm not sure if football game is BRS Kash's sport of choice.

Bust the defense, open runnin' through somethin'

I don't know no plays on the field, I only freeform

Defenseless it with the left just I'yard bettеr with my right arm (Yeah, aye)

When thеy call Rush, hit stick don't mean no impairment

So.

Downward set hut, boot a punt, then I brand 'em catch

Five g ones in an hour, I'ma arrive stretch

I just made a mess (Aye), I just fabricated a mess (Yep)

I got greenbacks past the bundle and then I'm never pressed (Ooh-wee)

I just fabricated a mess (Yep), I just made a mess (Yeah)

Allow'south promise that the Rams don't make a ton of messes this season.

Rating: 2/22

This was EA's strike to go a viral TikTok song onto the game.

#8. "Down Prepare Set" by 42 Dugg

Get-go off, we're all really confused by that championship, right? It'southward not only me. I don't think that's a football term? I know that quarterbacks could say "ready, set" and that football has 4 downs. I don't know when anyone says "down prepare set" only a Google search returns some canis familiaris training tips and tricks.

Football moments: Need I say more than than "downward, ready, set"? 42 Dugg does give some good advice though.

Don't striking too low, know I need my legs

Rating: 3/22

I like songs to keep it short and sugariness, but I can't give a proper grade for a :96 2d one-verse interlude.

RAMS STUFF: Brandin Cooks starring for Texans once more

Not much seems to be going correct in Houston lately but Cooks has been a gravitational forcefulness of talent in the middle of the chaos. Later on surprising a lot of people past communicable 81 passes for ane,150 yards last season, Cooks is unquestionably the become-to keep offense that won't have a lot of other guys to go to.

Rookie third circular pick Nico Collins, journeyman Chris Conley, and the recently-acquired Anthony Miller are the but known threats to accept targets at receiver, while none of the Texans' tight ends are known for being receivers.

The big question is whether or non Cooks will be playing for Deshaun Watson or someone else only amazingly he'll find out earlier his 28th birthday, which still doesn't occur until this September. The Rams acquired a 2020 second circular option in return for Cooks (used on Van Jefferson) but are sending back a 2022 fourth rounder to Houston.

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#9. "JID" by Ambassel (Runway OF THE ALBUM)

WHAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!

Did Madden 22 sneak the song of the year onto this soundtrack, cached nether what you see above? Nosotros can never overlook JID once more.

Football moments: Yep.

My salary double your babe daddy, possibly triple, I'grand problem

I get the tackle and the pick and I hustle

I had to have it, had to get in the huddle

In the gravel and rubble

Got me a sack and I'm tryna exist subtle

We but actin' like a canis familiaris with a muzzle

See the redundancy, put him dorsum in a puddle

We attackin', meliorate stand back and lookout and run

Shotgun come with the choice

Send large blitz, nobody blockin'

Large win, that's a ring and a picket

Stiff terminate when he come in the slot

Tryna bend the corner, your limbs gettin' ****

That's your partner, and then your twin gettin' ****

Rating: 22/22

Before he was J.I.D., he was Destin Route, a defensive back at a college that he doesn't want to mention because he got kicked out. He fabricated it Madden anyhow.

RAMS STUFF: Arthur Smith says Dante Fowler has nonetheless to earn a role with the defence force

Should they exist highly skeptical of a rebound, the Falcons could attempt to trade Fowler for a savings of less than $one.5 one thousand thousand, just nosotros've however to hear confirmation from Smith that Fowler has earned a office yet. It would seem that if there is whatsoever role for Fowler, it'due south probably just as a situational laissez passer rusher. Maybe new defensive coordinator Dean Pees tin modify that.

Between names similar Fowler and Cory Littleton, the Rams don't tend to be wrong when they permit certain free agents leave for large contracts. Maybe the recent 1 that will injure the most is John Johnson, simply Jordan Fuller looked ready for more responsibilities.

Speaking of Littleton, he believes that he'll bounce back from a horrid 2020 campaign now that he's working with Gus Bradley as defensive coordinator and getting a fresh commencement at inside linebacker.

#x. "Number Ane" by Emerge Sossa

No thanks.

Besides, '8' wasn't track 8 and 'Number Ane' wasn't rails number ane.

Football moments: Nah, had cipher to practise with the theme, this is probably what they call a "slapper" in the industry because you only slap it on the album when you need one more song.

Rating: 0/22

RAMS STUFF: Alec Ogletree has been a huge surprise in Bears camp

The one-time Rams linebacker went to Chicago to visit former Rams teammate Robert "Rams" Quinn but for a couple of days terminal month, but then he ended up signing a contract with the Bears when he was in boondocks to see if he has anything left to requite after spending some of last season on the Jets' practise team. Ogletree has been ane of the stars of military camp and there's an increasing believe that he will make the last roster.

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Chicago already has Quinn, Khalil Mack, Roquan Smith, and Denny Trevathan at linebacker, but he may be besides proficient to go out out of the game plan by Week 1 against LA. The LA Rams.

Quinn and Ogletree used to play for the Rams. Quinn has been dealing with an ankle injury, which could fifty-fifty open the door for more fourth dimension for his good friend Ogletree.

Justin Fields got a lot of hype in his preseason Chicago debut, will the rookie start in Week ane vs LA? I would lean on information technology being Andy Dalton. For sure.

#11. "Dorsum in a Minute" by Tank and the Bangas

Conspicuously another vocal that they added at the finish to get to eleven songs, simply at least has the vibe of Madden songs of past. Y'all could bop to information technology and they're having fun.

Football moments: No, not that vibe.

Rating: 16/22

Full Anthology Rating: 14/22

I have a whole new globe open to me now with J.I.D. and there are about three other songs that acquit the ensemble towards a pocket-size C-type grade. I'll never play the game but if I did, I would probably practice what I imagine many others have washed since the invention of making literally every song in the globe free:

Mute it and play something of my choosing.

Perchance J.I.D. though.

New Song of the Week - "Run It" by DJ Snake, Rick Ross, Rich Brian

Just because I'one thousand surprised information technology made information technology onto the Shang-Chi soundtrack instead of the Madden 22 soundtrack.

New Flick of the Week - Annette

75% of you might hate me for recommending this movie, simply 10% of you volition be relieved to picket something original.

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