If you ask people why the Los Angeles Rams ended up losing to the Seattle Seahawks, then you may hear about a fumble by the punt return team leading to a Seahawks touchdown. You may also hear about Sam Darnold carving up L.A.\u2019s defense when he needed to, and that\u2019s true too.<\/p>\n
\u201cCornerback play and special teams.<\/p>\n
There were other shortcomings on their roster, but those were their most troublesome spots throughout the year. Special teams was particularly problematic. Blocked and missed kicks plagued the Rams early in the season, leading to changes at long snapper and kicker. Ethan Evans was up and down as a punter, penalties changed field position and worst of all, in the biggest game on Sunday night, Xavier Smith muffed two punts in a loss to the Seattle Seahawks<\/a>.\u201c<\/p>\n There were other errors too, such as the offense stalling out at certain points and then in the end, they couldn\u2019t figure out how to score the go-ahead TD. It\u2019s a disappointing reality that the team lost together, but you can\u2019t deny that Mattew Stafford did enough to probably earn the win. So, take that for what\u2019s it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n Thanks for checking out Turf Show Times and have a great Tuesday!<\/p>\n \u201cOn the Rams\u2019 final meaningful drive, Stafford dropped back on fourth-and-4 from the 6-yard line. The savvy quarterback knew the ins and outs of the Seattle defense, and he seemed to identify that the best option on the play would be Williams, who would leak out into the flat near the first-down marker and the end-zone line.<\/p>\n Stafford must not have believed what he was seeing: Williams was double-covered.<\/p>\n \u201cThey kind of lucked into having two guys peel on Kyren right there,\u201d McVay said at a postgame press conference. \u201cI know that can\u2019t be part of their design.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you ask people why the Los Angeles Rams ended up losing to the Seattle Seahawks, then you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,4200,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-709118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-news","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115967581535958566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709118","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=709118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}