{"id":181515,"date":"2025-07-04T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/181515\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:55:19","slug":"rams-hang-on-for-13-9-win-over-arizona-cardinals-in-week-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/181515\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams hang on for 13-9 win over Arizona Cardinals in Week 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2013 It took the slimmest of margins, but the Rams (10-6) found a way to hold on for a narrow 13-9 win over the Cardinals (7-9) Saturday night at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Up 13-9 with 2:01 remaining, the Rams watched the Cardinals \u2013 armed with two timeouts \u2013 drive downfield all the way to the Rams&#8217; 5-yard line. Then cornerback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/ahkello-witherspoon\/\" title=\"Ahkello Witherspoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ahkello Witherspoon<\/a> corralled Arizona quarterback Kyler Murray&#8217;s deflected pass in the endzone for the game-sealing interception, which was upheld upon further review by the officials, allowing the Rams to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Wide receiver <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/puka-nacua\/\" title=\"Puka Nacua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Puka Nacua<\/a> finished with 10 catches for 129 yards in the win, which was achieved despite the Cardinals winning the time of possession battle 36:55-23:05.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive end <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/braden-fiske\/\" title=\"Braden Fiske\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braden Fiske<\/a> finished with two sacks in the win, and outside linebacker <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/michael-hoecht\/\" title=\"Michael Hoecht\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hoecht<\/a> had his third blocked kick of the season. Running back <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/kyren-williams\/\" title=\"Kyren Williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyren Williams<\/a> had 56 rushing yards and 1 touchdown, while kicker <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/joshua-karty\/\" title=\"Joshua Karty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Karty<\/a> made his lone field goal attempt (53 yards) and extra point attempt.<\/p>\n<p>With their win over the Cardinals and the Bengals&#8217; win over the Broncos, the Rams can clinch the NFC West in Week 17 via the Strength of Victory tiebreaker over the Seahawks with three wins from any of these five teams this weekend: Commanders, Bills, 49ers, Vikings, Browns.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the complete game recap:<\/p>\n<p>Neither team was able to get into a rhythm offensively early on until late in the first quarter, when the Cardinals mounted a lengthy drive that went reached 11:04 in the second quarter. However, that series was upended after the Rams stonewalled Cardinals running back James Conner for no gain on 4th and 1 from the Rams 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2013 It took the slimmest of margins, but the Rams (10-6) found a way to hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,36543,2604,1327,7,17420,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-181515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals-at-los-angeles-rams-2024-reg-17","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-game-recap","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114796489822715472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}