Ready for the 'big one' in Seattle

Rams brace for showdown with the West division rival Seahawks

- BY GARY KLEIN

RAMS rookie wide receiver Konata Mumpfield might play a bigger role if Davante Adams can't go in Thursday's game.

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Sean McVay might truly qualify as sleepless in Seattle.

After the Rams' victory over the Detroit Lions on Sunday, the Rams coach left SoFi Stadium for the hospital and the birth of his second son, who arrived Monday morning. Then McVay game-planned for Thursday night's showdown with the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field.

Asked this week if he had slept much in the aftermath of the newborn's arrival, the notoriously early-rising McVay chuckled.

"Not really," he said. "Even for me ... This is a good challenge."

McVay and the Rams, who hold the top seed in the NFC and have clinched a playoff spot, will face their biggest and most important test of the season against the Seahawks.

Both teams are 11-3. The Rams are in first place in the NFC West and they have the tiebreaker over the Seahawks because of their 21-19 victory over them at SoFi Stadium on Nov. 16.

But that will change if the Rams cannot hold off a Seahawks team that last week defeated the Indianapolis Colts 18-16, with six field goals.