The Rams' loss to the Panthers certainly showed some weaknesses, but it also displayed one of their biggest strengths throughout this season: Rushing efficiency.

The Rams rank first in designed run success rate by over 4%, and they averaged 7.7 YPC on those runs in Carolina. https://t.co/8pPyb0IUn8 pic.twitter.com/8AhiFFBUE5

— Wyatt Miller (@wymill07) December 1, 2025

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J.B. Long@JB_Long
Notable PFF grades from yesterday’s Rams loss…

BCorum 91.4*
PFord 89.5^
BFiske 85.0 (btb games of 85+)
BYoung 84.5
WMcClendon 84.0*
DAdams 83.2
SAvila 83.0
XSmith 79.5*
CShelton 79.1
CParkinson 78.9
JWallace 75.1

*Career-high
^Season-high

Already in FG range, the Rams took a delay of game penalty on third-and-5. The next play: strip-sack and lost fumble by Matthew Stafford.

Stafford explained what happened on the delay and took full blame for the Rams' only penalty of the day https://t.co/8a3XsZIslL

— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) December 1, 2025

Ethan Strang@EzSwoosh
Rams are frauds. One of the worst losses of the McVay era

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
I know it’s no fun in the moment, but great teams drop a road game sometimes.

The worst team I have ever covered was the 2022 Colts and they beat the Chiefs in a similar game to this… and KC went on to win the Super Bowl.

The second-worst team I’ve covered was the 2018 Lions and they beat the Patriots by 16… and the Pats won the Super Bowl that year.

69RamFan

We gave this game away with turnovers, anywhere between 10 to 14 in the first quarter.

Starting with the first TO was on 3rd and 6yd on the CAR 8 yd line,
Stafford throwing the ball too low hitting the DL’s helmet and bouncing off to a DB’s hands.
That’s 3 or 7points we gave up.

Then the pick six in which that’s another 7 points.

Offense:

OL:
They played really well, they opened up holes for the run game helping the RBs with 2/TD,
and 152yds in the run game, and pretty much did a good job in pass protection,
except for giving up two sacks, and 2 QB hits.

As for the sacks, the 1st based off my memory,
it looked like a 2-man blitz from the same inside gap,
it was well disguise.

The other was at the end of the game,
after an offside by our OL inside the redzone at CAR 17yd line,
moving the ball back to 22yd line making it 3rd and 10yds,

pressure came from Dotsons side,
while the DL did a stunt on the other side freeing up a DL to get a sack fumble on Stafford.

That’s making it another 3 or 7 point giving up.
Making it a total of 13 to 21 point of missed opportunity for the game.
In other words, we gave this game away.

QB:
Stafford, if it wasn’t for those 2 INT and a sack fumble, he would have had a decent game.
Stats: 28/att, 18/comp, 64%/comp, 243yds 2/TD 2/INT, 1/fumble

RB:
Both Williams and Corum were outstanding in the run game, each getting a TD.
Corum: 7/att 81yds 1/TD
Williams: 13/att, 72 yds 1/TD

WR:
TAE and Stafford have this redzone connection.
But Stafford missed TAE down field, when Stafford did a check down pass.
Stats: 2/TD for TAE with 5/tar, 4/rec for 58yds

Nacua, once again, it was a disappointing lost especially with that spectacular catch by Puka for 31 yards,
setting up a TD at the 7yd line.
Stats: 9/tar, 6/rec, 72yds

There was one play the CAR offense did, that McVay should save for his playbook,
was the TE in motion to lead block in a screen pass to the RB for a TD.

Defense:

DL played well early in the game, but they looked tired in the second half,
Especially in the third quarter, when CAR had the ball for over 13 minutes.

They couldn’t stop the run, giving up 164 yds on the ground.
They also didn’t stay disciplined in their lanes, to where CAR’s QB could scramble out.
They only had 2 sacks and 2 QB hits.

DB:
They did not have a great game. Giving up 3 passing TD.
2 of those TD came off from Forbes coverage,
Both times got beat from a 4th and short downs.

He seemed to be worried of his opponent coming back in to make a catch for a first down,
Then got beat on the go and out.

ST:
Thiccer the Kicker 4/4 XP
Evans just one punt for 56yds in the 3rd qtr after the RAMs went 3 and out.

Los Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPR
WR Davante Adams extended his streak to six games and tied Henry Ellard for the longest streak of regular season games with a receiving touchdown in franchise history. He also became the first Ram to have six straight games with receiving touchdown in a single season since Elroy Hirsch in 1951 (10 straight).

Adams also tied Antonio Gates (116) for the 7th-most touchdown receptions all-time.

zn wrote:

Guess both teams were reading their own press all week….

To expand on that.

Carolina’s press from last week pissed em off so they got it together.

The Rams press had them trusting too blithely in their superiority.

Though this is one game where they really could have run more than they did. Rams got 152 yards rushing on 21 attempts, for 7.2 a carry. Everyone talks about the Carolina run game, but they just ran it more often. If the Rams had run it 40 times, as Carolina did, that would have been 288 yards.

Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
Panthers have been so good as the spoiler team this season and what a win…Rams (Stafford) had been so clean all year felt like the dark chaos simply had to peek out sometime before January!

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
Football is a really simple game sometimes.

Lose the turnover battle 3-0 and you’re usually going to lose, even as a much better team.

Andrew Brandt@AndrewBrandt
Rams were the NFL flavor of the week last week.
Life moves fast.

roberto clemente@rclemente2121
that was only the 3rd time in 12 games that the rams defense has given up an opening drive td this season.

Rams Bros.@RamsBrothers
Sky isn’t falling. Panthers made all they plays that they needed to. Stafford uncharacteristically turned it over 3x and they capitalized on all of them.

No more long east coast trips on the schedule. Go learn from it and beat the shit out of AZ next weekend.

J.B. Long@JB_Long
NFL history for Matthew Stafford – 28 straight TD passes without an INT.

That’s the 28th TD pass from Stafford since his last INT and yes..that’s best stretch ever in NFL history pic.twitter.com/lv76cIWWAy

— trey wingo (@wingoz) November 30, 2025

Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
Signs of the Rams’ dominance:

🏈Rams have won six straight games and in their past five games, they have outscored their opponents 63-3 in the first quarter.

🏈Against the Jaguars, 49ers and Buccaneers, they have held leads of 21-0.

🏈The Rams haven’t trailed since the first quarter of Week 6, when Baltimore led Los Angeles 3-0.

Wyatt Miller@wymill07
Will be interesting to see how the Rams approach the CB rotation this week with Witherspoon back. They’ve been using a 3-man rotation for most of the season, and it’s worked well

Cameron DaSilva@camdasilva
All 3 players who were questionable for the Rams are active, including Kam Kinchens and Poona Ford.

Derion Kendrick is a healthy scratch, but Nick Vannett is active in his first game for the Rams.

Gary Klein@LATimesklein
Rams WR Tutu Atwell practiced this week but was not activated to the roster from injured reserve

roberto clemente@rclemente2121
in 9 of their 11 games, the rams defense has held opposing offenses to just two touchdowns or fewer – and in 7 of their 11 games, to just one touchdown or less. impressive as hell.

Los Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPR
Heading into Week 13, Kyren Williams ranked 9th in offensive grade (77.3) and 6th in rushing grade (81.1) among all NFL RBs (min 50% snaps played), according to @PFF
.

Los Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPR
According to TruMedia, among all NFL defenders entering Week 13, Byron Young ranked:
– 7th in sacks (9.0)
– T-9th in quarterback hits (18)
– 13th in TFLs (9)
– 13th in stops/tackles causing unsuccessful plays
– 15th in pressures (43)