INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Detroit Lions rushed for less than 100 yards for the fifth time this season. And, go figure, they are now 0-5 in those games as their season reaches a critical point.

Detroit lost 41-34 to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday afternoon at SoFi Stadium.

They went into halftime with a 24-17 lead, running 12 times for 50 yards and a decent 4.2-yard average at that point. But the wheels fell off in the second half, with running backs Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery bottled up to only 20 yards on eight attempts. The one-two punch mustered only one rush of at least 10 yards, and that came in the first half.

That put the passing attack in a hole, as the offense went three-and-out on their first three drives of the second half. While that happened, the Rams scored on four straight possessions, flipping the score from 24-14 to 34-24 in what felt like the blink of an eye.

“I think those guys would say that they’d like to do a little bit more there in the run game,” Lions quarterback Jared Goff said. “I don’t think that’s an indictment on anything. I think that that’s just who we are. We want to be able to run the ball, and there were certain times where you wish you could get a little bit more, but listen, the games change. Games go certain ways where we run for 250, and the passing is a little bit harder, so we rely on each other.

“Today, it was leaning on the pass game a little bit more.”

Goff threw for 338 yards, three touchdowns and didn’t turn the ball over, and it still wasn’t enough. Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jameson Williams combined for 20 catches, 298 yards and three touchdowns, and it still wasn’t enough.

The Rams kept the Lions behind the sticks in the second half, putting them in a hole they couldn’t escape, no matter what Goff and Co. accomplished.

Gibbs ran seven times for only 19 yards in the second half. Montgomery was held to just one carry for 1 yard (a touchdown at the goal line), with the offense going one-dimensional after falling in a two-score game.

When Dan Campbell was asked what went wrong in that lifeless third quarter, the Lions coach pointed to the rushing attack. Detroit’s offense moved the chains only three times on the ground in Los Angeles, and that’s not good enough to beat anyone, especially these Rams.

“That was going to be important, and that one hurt us,” Campbell said. “We got a holding call, which made it difficult. Some of those, you’re just trying to get third-and-5, and we were in third-and-10, third-and-long, trying to run the ball. You get 2 yards, and it just makes it difficult. We weren’t able to overcome that.

“You can go back, ‘Well, maybe I should’ve just thrown it,’ and quit trying to do some of those, or you go back and forth. That’ll be things that I look at myself as to, ‘Could I have done this? Should I have done this better to help these guys out?’ But the bottom line is we weren’t able to convert, then we strung the defense out, and all of a sudden it flips. You’re up 10, you’re down 10, and that was a rough quarter for us.”

Detroit’s offensive line hasn’t been at its standard for most of the season. Montgomery hasn’t had at least 10 carries in a game in more than a month. Gibbs, even with his lights-out showings, has rushed for less than 70 yards in four out of five games.

“We knew that team didn’t make mistakes, and it cost us,” Campbell said of the Rams. “We couldn’t do enough.”