The Key Ingredients for this Year’s Super Bowl Teams
What do two teams with an underdog quarterback and a team that lost to their opponent six times in a row have in common? They are going to the Super Bowl.
The talking TV heads and many sports fans picked both the Bengals and the Rams were to lose their games. Yet, both won.
So what do the two teams have in common?
Grit. Resilience. Belief.
Let’s break them all down.
Grit: Both teams were the four seed coming into the playoffs. They each faced bumps in the road with consecutive losing streaks. Joe Burrow, the quarterback of the Bengals, was sacked nine times in their playoff win against the Titans. That’s an astounding amount of sacks. But he picked himself up and helped his team pull out a win.
Burrow continued his success against the Chiefs, bringing his team back from a 21–3 deficit to win the game, and take the Bengals to their first Super Bowl in over 30 years.
Resilience: The Rams lost most of the game to a team they had lost to six times in a row until that moment. But they kept fighting and came back to tie and eventually win the game.
They had critical injuries throughout the year. Stafford, their quarterback, was questioned whether he could win one playoff game, let alone three. He made a lot of mistakes towards the end of the regular season. But he bounced back when it mattered most.
Belief: When you listen to both coaches, Sean McVay of the Rams, and Zach Taylor of the Bengals, you hear a deep belief of what their teams are capable of.
LA has numerous superstars on their team, but each player speaks about the team. They talk about dropping their egos and coming together to put maximum effort for the collective good of the team.
Cincinnati, they have the utmost belief in Joe Burrow. It’s incredible what a leader at the center stage can provide for a team. His confidence and ability to get back up after getting knocked down are remarkable.
It’s why both these teams are going to the Super Bowl.
How can we learn from them?
We will lose in life, whether it’s at work, as a student, or in our personal lives. Some losses hurt more than others, but we can always bounce back.
Our belief in ourselves and our teams will keep moving forward when the outside world no longer believes in us.
One step at a time, one play at a time, one day at a time.
