Jordan Fuller joins Sports Illustrated from Radio Row ahead of Super Bowl 58. The Rams defensive back believes the Rams were a couple plays away from being in Super Bowl.
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00:00 I got Jordan Fuller here.
00:02 I think, like other Rams fans think, this guy is the true comeback player of the year.
00:09 Coming off that crazy injury in 2022, like how do you reflect on the season you just had?
00:16 Honestly, just super thankful.
00:20 I was super, super prayed up and I'm just thankful that I got through most of the season like healthy,
00:27 like no soft tissue injuries or anything like that.
00:32 Just super blessed to be on the field.
00:35 But I know it was super special because we had a team that was doubted coming into this year.
00:41 Being able to get into the playoffs, we didn't like how it ended, of course.
00:46 But yeah, it was a special year.
00:49 So y'all did make it back to the playoffs. How close are you guys to getting back to the Super Bowl?
00:59 Honestly, this year, this year, I felt like it was it was it was a couple of plays away.
01:05 We felt like we could we could be anybody.
01:07 OK, but you know, OK, so you had a career career year in I.N.T.'s, all DB's.
01:16 My dad played DB in the league and all he talks about is the amount of I.N.T.'s he had.
01:21 So for you, when you look back at your year, like are you like I got to one up that next year?
01:28 Like I got to keep going. I got to strive for more. I need to double digits.
01:31 I need to pick sixes. How do you do that?
01:33 Yeah, I definitely view it as that. I feel like if you if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
01:38 Yeah, facts. So I'm always trying to, you know, get better myself.
01:43 Whether it's mentally, physically making more plays, just in every aspect of the game, trying to get better.
01:49 OK, so you were a free agent. Yeah. You've been talking about the Rams like you might be on the team next year.
01:55 What's the possibility that you are back on the team? The money got to be right.
01:59 We know that. Yeah. I can't really say that. I don't know.
02:04 Yeah. There hasn't been a conversation.
02:09 Make sure my dog has his money. Make sure it's on the table. We're not playing around.
02:14 We're here. We're in Vegas. We're at the Super Bowl.
02:17 What defense do you think has to maybe come up with that one extra play to get the win this Sunday?
02:25 Because I think it's all about the defense this week. I mean, defenseman Chambers is that's a fact.
02:31 That's a ball. It's a ball for sure. Those are two really good defenses.
02:39 Yes. I'm going to go with the Chiefs because just because we don't like Sanfran.
02:43 I like I like the answer. I play for the Raiders. I play for the Cowboys.
02:46 We do not like the Niners. It does not matter. They cannot win this game.
02:50 Yeah. What do you when you look at Brock Purdy and his story, though, if he does win this game, like how crazy would that be?
02:59 Like that gone from Mr. Reverend or irrelevant to win the Super Bowl?
03:03 Yeah, that's that's a special story. Yeah. You know, I can kind of relate to it a little bit as far as like I was drafted like one ninety nine.
03:12 I was seven. I was like, yeah, so it's like those late round draft picks.
03:16 I feel I feel I feel. And yeah, just hope he keeps he keeps it up.
03:23 So obviously, you know, the Niners are going against Patrick Mahomes and Patrick Mahomes is not playing the lead that many times that that long.
03:32 He's been in four Super Bowls. This will be his fourth appearance and he's won two.
03:37 Like, how do you think Patrick Mahomes is going into this game versus like what Brock Purdy is going, how he's going into the game?
03:45 What mindset do you think he's going into the game?
03:48 I think I think Mahomes has a little bit of a leg up just because he's he's been in this situation before.
03:54 Yeah. More than a few times. So I think he has that that experience.
04:02 And I don't know, I feel like in those big moments, he just finds a way. Yeah.
04:07 Yeah. So I feel like that'll happen again. OK. OK. So he's gone for the tees.
04:12 I'm going for the tees as well. Jordan, tell us about your partnership with Sleep Number.
04:18 No, it's special. So we started we started working together last year. I got a Sleep Number bed.
04:22 They set me up with with the app. They had me talk to the sleep specialist.
04:26 Some of my favorite features of the bed is like the cooling feature. Yes, I got one, too.
04:32 Yeah, because I used to like wake up in the middle of night sweating. Yeah.
04:35 Stuff like that. But now I don't sweat at all. Just sleep straight through.
04:39 That's a beautiful thing. I have the headboard that Sleep Number has.
04:42 And you're able to hook your phone up and play Bluetooth like music through it.
04:45 I don't got that. Which is fire. It has like a reading light. It has some ambient light.
04:50 It's real nice. When I was playing, I ain't had that. So I got to hook up an ex guy. Come on.
04:55 It's real nice. Plus, it gives you your sleep IQ score after every night.
04:59 So you know exactly how you slept. OK, hold on, hold on. Pause. OK.
05:03 They give you a sleep IQ score. Yeah. What are the things that they're showing in there as far as that report goes?
05:08 Yeah, they show how long it took you to go to sleep. It shows when you were asleep and restful sleep.
05:14 It shows when you woke up. It shows when you got out of bed.
05:17 If you have to go to the bathroom or something like that, it shows you all that.
05:20 And then they'll give you a score based off that. OK, so.
05:23 So, yeah, just if you look at that every day, you kind of get a gauge of like, OK, I sleep better when I ate maybe two hours before bed.
05:32 Rather than if I ate 30 minutes before bed, I might not have slept as well or stuff like that.
05:36 So it just helps. All right. Before we get out of here, Jay, give me your Mount Rushmore NFL DBs in history.
05:44 It could be corner and it can be safety. Just give me all of them things, baby.
05:48 You got to go. Dion, he was here earlier. Dion, you have to.
05:53 Ed Reed, Sean Taylor, Troy Palomar. OK, we had two of those for today.
05:58 OK. Hey, Jay Foo. Yes, sir. Appreciate you, dog.
06:01 Appreciate you too.
06:02 Thank you.