The bad blood is already brewing ahead of Sunday's a rematch of last season's NFC championship game.
But Rams cornerback Aqib Talib isn't concerned about history repeating itself when it comes to botched pass interference calls.
"That's a New Orleans problem," Talib said Wednesday (via ESPN.com)."It's not an L.A. problem."
Everyone remembers watching Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman clearly interfere with Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis without drawing a flag, which ultimately helped Los Angeles punch its ticket to Super Bowl 53 and kept New Orleans from advancing to their first title game since 2009.
Robey-Coleman initially acknowledged he should have drawn a penalty and has stuck to that rationale since, but admitted he didn't think the situation would blow up the way it did.
"I didn't expect it to get that much pub, but it is what it is," Robey-Coleman said. "They made it into what it is and the league made it a rule. Just got to live with it now and it's a rule that the whole league is going to have to adjust to. We don't have no problem with it."
While the Rams have frequently been reminded of the no-call over the last eight months, coach Sean McVay maintains the team isn't making excuses and will approach the Week 2 matchup like any other game.
"It was something that, we all know what it looked like," McVay told reporters Wednesday. "Obviously, nobody’s going to sit here and say that wasn’t a pass interference, and that’s why it led to some rules being changed. Even though that play benefited our team, nobody wants anything but a fair game. Those clear and obvious plays that we can avoid, we want to be able to do that, and that’s exactly how we feel as a team, too."
Added McVay: "There’s a lot of plays in a game, and I think it’s good that the competition committee made the effort to be able to try to avoid some of those things happening in the future, and that’s exactly what we all want. … You address it. You could ask Nickell Robey. He knows that was a pass interference. In the moment, that was kind of what was officiated, and you’ve got to just kind of play those next snaps, and there was a lot of snaps after that as well."
It was announced in June that the league's competition committee unanimously recommended a rule for instant replay of pass interference for this season only, after which NFL owners can decide to extend, alter or eliminate it entirely.
In a short text video at the time, the language of the rule was explained:
“The replay official will stop the game after the two-minute warning of each half and during OT; when there is ‘clear and obvious visual evidence’ that a pass interference foul may or may not have occurred, based on viewing the play live or any initial replays."
The committee also will allow Hail Mary plays to be reviewed as long as it is "consistent with the guidelines for officiating the play on the field."
The Rams are slated to host the Saints at 4:25 p.m. ET.