The Facts: Gurley stood on the sideline with his helmet on throughout most of Sunday's Conference Championship game In New Orleans and hardly appeared in action as backup C.J. Anderson rushed for 44 yards on 16 carries. When asked Sunday if he was healthy, Gurley said, "Yeah. I was sorry."
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Gurley was sidelined for the final two games of the regular season because of inflammation in his left knee. He returned for a divisional-round game against the Dallas Cowboys and rushed for 115 yards and a touchdown on six carries and he made it clear the knee wasn't an issue. "I was sorry as hell today," Gurley explained. "I was sorry. So, C.J. did his thing and the whole team did its thing." Gurley rushed for 10 yards and a touchdown in four carries and caught one pass for 3 yards in the Rams' 26-23 overtime victory. His five touches from scrimmage were a career-low, as were his 13 total yards. And the 32 snaps Gurley played were his fewest in a game since his rookie season, as well as the fewest of any Rams offensive player that took the field Sunday. "That was just kind of the feel for the flow of the game that we had," HC Sean McVay said when asked about Gurley's situation. "Not anything against Todd. C.J. did a nice job, but I thought that they did a nice job as a whole, slowing down our run game, and we kind of just had to grind some things out." A fourth-year pro, Gurley said he became emotional after the game at the realization that he would get a chance to redeem himself in the Super Bowl. ... And that comes in two weeks.