Arizona game, tweets & stuff like that

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
The Rams left two guys unblocked for Davis Allen to run through on that 4th-down fullback handoff, one of them Budda Baker.

Wonder if Allen was supposed to just follow David Quessenberry’s and Colby Parkinson’s down blocks to the middle rather than go straight.

Rough miss.

Brett Kollmann@BrettKollmann
The Rams dropping to 2-4 by losing to a team who scored every single point with their special teams unit feels like the football Gods are laying it on a little thick

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
Tyler Higbee fumbles in Cardinals territory, and scattered boos have hit at SoFi Stadium.

This is a dreadful performance by the Rams so far. They’ve made almost zero impressive plays as an offense.

Brock Vierra@BrockVierra
Rams need to ask themselves some tough questions and quickly. Aaron Donald came back to compete, not be last place in the division

wv wrote:

I did not see the game, and i havent watched any low-lights. But i did track the score.

I saw it was 9 to 3 or 9 to 6 or something like that. I assumed the Rams missed an extra point. But now i know they missed a two-pt try. Why did they go for two ? Just curious.

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Their new kicker suffered an injury and didn’t return to the game.

from Nate Atkins: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7701689/2026/10/18/cardinals-rams-nfl-week-6-result-takeaways/

How did the Cardinals’ defense shut down the Rams’ high-powered offense?

Arizona coach Mike LaFleur knows McVay’s offense as well as anyone. He also knows just how much of a drop-off it is for that unit to go from starting left tackle Alaric Jackson to backup David Quessenberry, who had not started a game since 2023.

So the Cardinals blitzed the Rams like crazy, the way the Denver Broncos did to discombobulate an offense with a pocket quarterback and little downfield explosiveness among available personnel.

The Rams didn’t respond well for a while. They ran at times when they needed to throw and threw in succession without mixing in a running game that was the best part of what they had going. They didn’t find enough ways to get Puka Nacua or Davante Adams the ball, even against a beaten-up and vulnerable Cardinals secondary.

They put too much on tight ends in pass protection and on a fourth-down handoff, and that group continues to look like it has regressed from last season.