{"id":663787,"date":"2026-01-08T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/663787\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:52:13","slug":"rams-qb-matthew-stafford-earns-weekly-honors-after-play-vs-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/663787\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams QB Matthew Stafford earns weekly honors after play vs. Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 NFL regular season is complete and the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> are busy in offseason mode. They ended the season with a 37-20 loss to the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> on Sunday, allowing Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford to have a big game.<\/p>\n

For the second time, the NFC Offensive Player of the Week comes from the Rams after the Cardinals were blown out by them.<\/p>\n

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Stafford was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week for Week 18.<\/p>\n

He went 25-for-40 passing for 259 yards and four touchdown passes against the Cardinals in the 37-20 win and had three consecutive drives in the second half ending in touchdown passes after the Cardinals took a 20-16 lead. It was fourth game of at least four touchdown passes this season.<\/p>\n

He became the\u00a0third player in NFL history with multiple touchdown passes in 15 games in a season, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers\u00a0Peyton Manning\u00a0(2013 with Denver) and\u00a0Dan Marino\u00a0(1984 with Miami).<\/p>\n

Stafford and the Rams will face the Carolina Panthers this weekend on the road in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

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Rams receiver Puka Nacua was the NFC Offensive Player of the Week for Week 14 after he had seven receptions for 167 yards and two touchdowns in the Rams’ 45-17 win over the Cardinals that week.<\/p>\n

Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: Rams QB Matthew Stafford earns weekly honors after play vs. Cardinals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 NFL regular season is complete and the Arizona Cardinals are busy in offseason mode. They ended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,260,231,7,58,216,66062,6,8083,1088,34574,10179],"class_list":["post-663787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizonacardinals","tag-cardinals","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-denver","tag-football","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-miami","tag-nfc-offensive-player-of-the-week","tag-nfl","tag-peyton-manning","tag-puka-nacua","tag-rams-quarterback","tag-touchdown-passes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115859577033046564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663787","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=663787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}