Rams’ Cooks responds to Pats’ Chung dig in fan rally

So much for trying not to provide your opponents bulletin-board material.

Ahead of the normal barrage of stale answers to the media hordes covering Super Bowl week, both the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams held fan rallies on Sunday — with both teams talking tough to their own backers before heading to Atlanta for Super Bowl LIII next Sunday.

As the AFC champion Patriots drew 35,000 fans at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., starting safety Patrick Chung raised the Rams’ radar by telling his home crowd, “We’re going to go [down] there and kick their ass, baby,” according to WEEI.

Later in the day, the NFC champion Rams hosted their rally at the L.A. Stadium at Hollywood Park, where the team will start to call home beginning in 2020.

After a day of speeches and rallying cries, Rams wide receiver Brandin Cooks — a former Patriots teammate of Chung’s last season — responded to the tough talk from New England.

“Hey Chung, we heard you talking that talk back there in Foxborough … let’s get straight,” Cooks said before walking off the stage, per NESN.com.

The Patriots are making their record 11th Super Bowl appearance, with the Rams playing in the game for first time since the 2001 season when they were located in St. Louis. The Rams are 1-2 in Super Bowls as a franchise.

–Field Level Media