Why Matthew Stafford & the Rams are the NFL’s Team to Beat This Season | The Rich Eisen Show

last two weeks of my power rankings, the Rams were the number one team and I appreciate that they’ve been back in my play. Yeah. Because their play has shown it. I’ve got to be straight up with y’all. Okay. Um when I um called Rams Jaguars in London, and that was the game that Puka Nakua missed because you remember he had that ankle injury against the Ravens in a game that the Rams struggled to put points on the board and win. and they’re coming to London to take on the Jaguars after spending the entire week in Baltimore from which Shawn McVey zoomed into our broadcast group in London where the Rams had yet to go. you recall they flew on a Friday night and landed on a Saturday and it’s just like they and like that’s the way we would have traveled you know from the from the west coast you know actually the I think they landed on Saturday they did like that’s that’s what we would do left coast to east coast so we’re in the east coast going to London that’s what we’re going to do and he said to the broadcast group you know what puka being out we’re going to try and use this as something helpful because we’ve been really puka dependent and we need to show that we we’re a more diverse offense. So, we’re going to do that. Like, okay, sounds good. And all they’ve done is gotten better. That’s all they’ve done. Stafford threw five touchdowns in that game in London and spread it around to tight ends you’ve never heard of and receivers you’d never heard of and then Devonte Adams who you’ve heard of. And then Stafford just threw a fourth touchdown game and then a fourth touchdown game after that. Put it all together and Matthew Stafford has thrown 27 straight touchdown passes without a single interception, tying Tom Brady for the longest strut such streak in NFL history. And then when they want to run it because they want to, they can. And they do. They want to throw touchdowns because they want to and they can. They do. And then defensively, they want to knock you around because they want to. And they can. They do. They want to pick you off. They want to turn you over because they want to because they can. And they do. That’s how it looks for the Los Angeles Rams right now. And that’s why they are in fact playing like the best team in the NFL in a season we have been looking for months for that one team to separate and say this is our season. This is our game. You try and stop it. That’s what they’re doing. And now they got a a kicker who looks like Jared Laorenzan before he takes the the jab, you know, the thicker kicker. They’ve solved that problem. That’s why they lost in Philadelphia because that’s how they looked in Philadelphia for three quarters until they started making mistakes. The Rams are the team to beat through 12 weeks. Period. End of story. And one thing that I think they would love to do love to do is to win another one obviously to win another one with Stafford obviously to win another one with Stafford as an MVP quarterback obviously. But at the end of the day to win one in the home of the San Francisco 49ers which was their mortal fear the year the Rams wanted it in their own building because who did they play in the NFC Championship game that year? And uh Rams staved that off. Staved off the Bengals 30 touchdown passes or more and fewer than five interceptions in the team’s first 11 games in NFL history. Matthew Stafford has 30 touchdowns and two interceptions. The last guy to do that to that exact number was Mahomes in 2020. He did not win the MVP award because Aaron Rodgers had 33 and4 and he won it. Rogers had 30 and3 in his 2014 season. He won the MVP. Rogers had 33 and4 in his MVP season of 2011. Brady had 39 and4 through the first 11 games of the season which he didn’t lose a regular season game. He was the MVP. Matthew Stafford through 12 weeks is the MVP of this season. He is unbelievable. I said it on the over action Monday pot. I repeated it right here. This year would be the year that because at the time I mean Jonathan Taylor has had a couple of clunkers in the last three weeks because teams are now zeroing in on him in a way that the Falcons could not like the Steelers and the Chiefs did three weeks ago and this past week. That obviously puts a crimp in anyone’s campaign for MVP when you’re not a quarterback. Right. And then you’re looking around, you’re scanning around, there’s Drake May, there’s the kid in New England who’s balling out for sure, but not like this. Not like this to these numbers. May is doing incredible work. But I did say that the MVP is one thing. This would be the year Matthew Stafford would erase anybody who sits around and says, “I don’t think he’s a Hall of Famer.” That’s how good the Rams are playing football right now. You were there last night, too, Chris. Right. Yeah, I was. And after the third touchdown, the MVP chants were very, very loud. And rightfully so. Rightfully so, cuz we all know whose house it is, right? I mean, we’re young. Okay. Yeah. Unreal. And Devonte Adams, I mean, he’s got to think he has gone to football heaven. He is so far removed from the guy the NFL films cameras miked up and caught having a sideline moment in Vegas cursing at his professional predicament with, by the way, the guy who’s his backup quarterback now in Los Angeles. Um, so far removed from that. Didn’t he say it’s the most fun he’s having? He did as a professional, which he did in fact say that. Really interesting. You’re like, “Okay.” 28th career game with two or more receiving touchdowns, tying Donna Hudson on the alltime list for sixth most. Two behind Marvin Harrison senior and Chris Carter. Five behind Tio. 11 behind Randy Moss. This is 21 behind Jerry Rice. What do all the other names have in common? Gold Jackets. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. I’m wondering if you if this is also the year people think Devonte Adams is a Hall of Famer. Dude, I I if they didn’t think that before, I I I wonder I think he went to Vegas and people kind of forgot about him. Well, and the Jets, too. What’s Well, what happens there, right? For sure. Oh, by the way, uh look at Hoskins back in your play here. Did it? I mean, to some degree. Yeah, I think I think I’m I’m definitely most importantly I’m having the most fun playing that uh that I’ve ever had and um yeah, real grateful for the opportunity to play for a team like this. And because again, you use the um it’s like an ATM. You want you want you want uh savings or checking the money coming out of saving. You want it coming out of running or passing or defense. They have to lead the league in one yard touchdown passes, right? It’s always going to him on a goal line fade and he always catches it. That’s because he has some of the best moves that can’t be stopped. There was, you know, Collinssworth in his 500th career broadcast, by the way. Congrats to him. Um, showed how his footwork against the corner covering him who had outside leverage and inside help. Adams beat that easily. And of course, and then and then an perfect throw from Stafford and then the two of them on the sideline yucking it up. NBC caught that camera of them. Two of them just like mimicking what just happened. Having a blast. Why not? It’s all working. trading places. Jeff, feeling good. Looking good. Billy Ray, hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app. 12 to 3 Eastern.

Rich Eisen explains why MVP frontrunner Matthew Stafford and the rolling Los Angeles Rams are the NFL’s team to beat through 12 weeks of play this season.

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  6. Adams is on pace to have more TDs this year than he did in 2023 and 2024 combined. With 6 games to go, he is 4 TDs from tying his 23 and 24 combined mark, and he is 6 TDs away from tying his career high at age 32.

    That is the Stafford effect.

    He is the first true X receiver that Stafford has had since he had OBJ in 2021 for half a season.

    This was the perfect missing connection the Rams needed. This was the perfect opportunity Davante needed.

  8. The culture Sean McVay instilled in the players is nothing short of incredible, like a good family with intelligent parents; all the kids are well behaved and do very well in school plus they are all happy.

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