Lions game–tweets, plays, highlights, commentary

To quote @TomBrady, an absolute piss missle from Matthew Stafford to Colby Parkinson for six!

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— x – Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) December 14, 2025

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
Rams 41
Lions 34

Matthew Stafford bounces back from an early pick with a big game to survive some leaky secondary play.

The Rams are 11-3 and just clinched a return to the playoffs.

Big one at Seattle in four days.

Ramblin’ Fan@RamblinFan
Rams running backs have another 3 TD game.

J.B. Long@JB_Long
LA clinches a playoff spot for the 7th time in 9 seasons under Sean McVay. The only years in which they’ve not been to the postseason? Following SB journeys.

11-3, with 3 to play. They’ll take the field in Seattle on Thursday Night in 1st place in the NFC.

Wyatt Miller@wymill07
It’s their second straight week scoring over 40.

Los Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPR
Kyren Williams reached 1,000 rushing yards this season. It marks the third consecutive season he’s eclipsed the 1,000-yard rushing mark. The last Rams RB to rush for 1,000 yards in three consecutive seasons was Steven Jackson (8-straight seasons from 2005-1012). The only other RBs to do it were Eric Dickerson (4-straight seasons from 1983-1986) and Marshall Faulk (3 seasons from 1999-2001).

Next Gen Stats@NextGenStats
Matthew Stafford completed 14 of 19 passes for 202 yards and 2 TDs against the blitz, his most yards against the blitz in a game this season.

Stafford now has 27 passing TDs against the blitz, the most of any QB in a single season since at least 2018.

J.B. Long@JB_Long
Two underrated offensive plays I won’t forget from today:
*Blake Corum dodging a TFL and straining for a 4th & 1 pickup in the 3Q
*Tutu Atwell’s first catch since W5 – high leverage, high degree of difficulty – in the 4Q

roberto clemente@rclemente2121
reversal of fortune…

stafford:
1st half: 0 td, 1 int, 57% cmp, 66.0 rtg
2nd half: 2 td, 0 int, 73% cmp, 151.4 rtg

goff:
1st half: 3 td, 0 int, 70% cmp, 146.0 rtg
2nd half: 0 td, 0 int, 53% cmp, 68.9 rtg

from https://theramswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/rams/2025/12/14/rams-lions-takeaways-week-15-learned/87766965007/?taid=693f6cf505d5820001df7f16&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

Rams shut down Lions’ RB tandem

The key to this game was always going to be shutting down the Lions’ running back duo of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery. The Rams checked that box and went on to win the game. Gibbs rushed for just 38 yards on 13 carries and Montgomery gained 32 yards on seven carries, doing very little on the ground. Gibbs was also slowed down as a receiver, too, adding just 20 yards through the air.

The Rams lost to the Panthers in part because they couldn’t stop the run, but they fixed that issue in a big way the last two weeks.

Puka Nacua 9 REC, 187 YDS vs DET Today.pic.twitter.com/5J4k29v2on https://t.co/esTTm7cIWD

— Football Performances (@NFLPerformances) December 15, 2025

Sarah Barshop@sarahbarshop
This is the third time since 1990 that the Rams were the earliest NFC team (by date) to clinch a playoff spot, according to ESPN Research. In the other two instances, 1999 and 2018, they made the Super Bowl.

Stu Jackson@StuJRams
Rams DE Kobie Turner mentioned the defense being given the “green light” in the second half that “if it looks pass, if it smells like pass, get after it.”

In response to follow-up question from @sarahbarshop, Turner explained it was given by DC Chris Shula and DL coach Giff Smith.

Turner said they were doing a “really good job” defending the run, but there were times they were getting caught on blocks, and also playing the run on deep-developing play-action passes. Having that green light helped them play faster.

J.B. Long@JB_Long
Kyren & Blake, Rams run game: 5.73 ypc, 149 total
Gibbs & Montgomery, Lions run game: 3.5 ypc, 70 total

Rams off-season priorities were to generate more explosive runs and continue to improve their early-down run defense. They’re 11-3 because of growth in those areas.

Stu Jackson@StuJRams
TE Colby Parkinson (6 TDs in last 6 games) on the Rams offense and the different personnel groupings helping:

“(Head coach) Sean (McVay) and the offensive staff do such a great job just scheming up different looks. There will be plays that they’ll install during during meetings and say, ‘Hey, we’re looking at it for this look,’ and then I’ll line up and be like, ‘Oh, this is exactly what we designed it for.’ It’s pretty cool, just having so much trust in the in the coaching staff, and that they trust me too.”

roberto clemente@rclemente2121
yards per play: rams #3, lions #1
depth of catch: rams #3, lions #26
yards after catch: rams #27, lions #3

both the rams and lions are at the top in yds/play, but they do it very differently – the lions throw short and count on yacs, the rams throw downfield.

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
Rams LT Alaric Jackson said he only went out of the game today because his cleat basically exploded and the sole came out of it. No injury whatsoever.

Kobie Turner’s 2 play sequence of QB hit & sack after LA’s go ahead touchdown helped turn the game for the #Rams – we talked about that, clinching a playoff spot & more in our postgame interview👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/NtwRY0Hw6b

— Omar Ruiz (@OmarDRuiz) December 15, 2025

What a catch, Tutu Atwell‼️

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