They do the Rams at about 17:45

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Stats…rankings. Stats mostly from PRF.

Seattle Offense.

yds 9th
points 3rd
yds per pass attempt 1st
yds per rush attempt 29th
qb sacked percentage 2nd
turnovers 31st

Rams Offense.

yds 5th
points 5th
yds per pass attempt 6th
yds per rush attempt 21st
qb sacked percentage 3rd
turnovers 6th

Seattle Defense.

yds 9th
points 5th
yds per pass attempt 4th
yds per rush attempt 3rd
pressure percentage 5th
turnovers 10th

Rams Defense.

yds 11th
points 2nd
yds per pass attempt 7th
yds per rush attempt 7th
pressure percentage 8th
turnovers 5th

from PFF: https://www.pff.com/news/2025-nfl-mvp-primer-breaking-down-the-top-candidates-entering-week-11?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null

Below is a summary of the top contenders for football’s most prestigious on-field award to this point, assessing each’s candidacy using PFF data — including PFF’s signature Wins Above Replacement [WAR] metric.

QB Matthew Stafford, Los Angeles Rams
PFF WAR: 1.98

Most of the last eight months have been uncertain for Stafford, from navigating trade rumors to lingering concern about the state of his back in the preseason. Perhaps it’s only fitting, then, that his play this year has been anything but.

At age 37, Stafford is in the midst of his best season yet. The two-time Pro Bowler leads all quarterbacks in PFF passing grade (92.4) and big-time throws (23) and is also the most valuable player by PFF WAR. Stafford has been elite virtually everywhere, slotting second among qualifiers in passing grade under pressure (66.6) and fifth in passing grade when blitzed (81.4). After all, his last six games have featured 15 big-time throws and only five turnover-worthy plays, plus 20 touchdowns to zero interceptions.

With the Rams 7-2 and one of the best teams in the NFL, Stafford is shaping up to be the favorite to take home his first MVP. However, winning the NFC West — which Los Angeles has a 59% chance to do, according to the PFF Power Rankings — may be the key considering the competition, including within his own division.

QB Sam Darnold, Seattle Seahawks
PFF WAR: 1.86

Some questioned why the Seahawks would willingly swap Geno Smith for Darnold, especially after the latter displayed cracks in his game at the end of the 2024 season. So far, the move has been a home run for general manager John Schneider.

Through 10 weeks, Darnold is first among quarterbacks in overall PFF grade (93.1) and big-time throw rate (9.0%) while placing second in passing grade (92.3), passer rating (116.5) and WAR. Darnold has made his heyday throwing down the field, producing a staggering 99.5 passing grade on throws past the sticks and a 99.9 mark on deep (20-plus-yard) attempts.

With Darnold leading the charge, Seattle is 7-2 and one of the top teams in football. His two looming head-to-head showdowns with Stafford — starting on Sunday — will be large determinants in deciding the MVP race.

Offense red zone trips per game and TD rates pic.twitter.com/uifdCsigqY

— Football Insights 📊 (@fball_insights) November 12, 2025

Matthew Stafford and Puka Nacua connected for a crucial 4th down reception when the game seemed to be at its closest. Strong hands and effort from Puka.

See coach McVay discuss the play in depth in the clip.

“He’s a freaking ‘War Daddy’ I love this guy” pic.twitter.com/MpdCcYU20v

— RAMS ON FILM (@RamsOnFilm) November 11, 2025

Last year after the bye the Rams played 4 games against teams who were top 10 in sacks.

Vikes x 2 (5th), Seattle x 2 (10th).

Same OL as now except at center.

In 1 of those 4 games, they gave up 3 sacks. but it was the end of the season subs game w/Garappolo at qb.

In the other 3 games they gave up 2 total.

So that might hint that the current Rams OL can play against a team that gets sacks.

Meanwhile Darnold’s sack percentage (4.2%) is virtually the same as Stafford’s (4.32%). Except Stafford throws more (310 to 228).

Jim Youngblood 53@53_jim70721
Stewart filling the Hoecht role when he’s in … from the X-backer (or joker) to being the apex defender … he’s someone who can rush and cover pretty well.

Such a good draft pick

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Josaiah Stewart — playing slot pic.twitter.com/PcczErfMve

— Jim Youngblood 53 (@53_jim70721) November 11, 2025

Josaiah Stewart — the flat … dropping and Rams rushing 4 pic.twitter.com/uAnoXpysCA

— Jim Youngblood 53 (@53_jim70721) November 11, 2025

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
If Matthew Stafford has played like an MVP all season, as Davante Adams says, what’s changed around him to build a historic stretch?

4 key areas jump out right now as an evolution of the Rams offense:

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from With Matthew Stafford ‘on a heater,’ Rams get their revenge in blowout of 49ers

Nate Atkins

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6793264/2025/11/10/rams-matthew-stafford-blowout-win-49ers/?source=emp_shared_article

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“It’s looked like MVP play to me all year, to be honest,” said Adams, who played with Aaron Rodgers during his MVP seasons in 2014, 2020 and 2021. “Even certain games, like the pick he threw against Tennessee and the way he bounced back after that, that’s how an MVP plays to me.”

If Stafford hasn’t changed since then, it’s a testament to everything else that has.

The offensive line has gotten healthy. In the first seven weeks, the Rams played without the same five starters beginning and finishing games, with left guard Steve Avila and right tackle Rob Havenstein missing multiple weeks. That left McVay pressing on critical short-yardage plays and running Williams into a wall. It had Williams pressing to make plays and fumbling in back-to-back games.

The past two weeks, with the line healthy, Williams and Blake Corum have combined for 301 yards and three touchdowns on 4.6 yards per carry — with zero fumbles.

“All we have to do is get the ball secure, and the holes are going to be there to be hit and be made,” Williams said.

That line of Alaric Jackson, Avila, Coleman Shelton, Kevin Dotson and Havenstein has let Stafford cook from clean pockets, with the lowest sack rate of his career now down to 4.3 percent. The 49ers did get to him for eight hits but had just one sack.

Nacua’s absence also created an opportunity that hadn’t existed before. Stafford and Adams saw almost no time together in the preseason with the quarterback nursing a back issue, and the rustiness was evident in Adams’ 47 percent catch rate through six games, at that point the lowest of his 12-year career.

But a week of trading texts through the night in Baltimore and three practices without Nacua pulled all the details into focus. In the three games since facing the Ravens, they’ve connected on 70 percent of passes with six touchdowns. And all of a sudden, Adams entered Sunday’s game with the NFL lead in touchdowns before adding his ninth on a 2-yard out pattern where Stafford placed the ball where only Adams could run under it.

“He’s like a fine wine,” McVay said of Adams, “just getting better with age.”

Adams is now often the sole receiver on the field with three tight ends. McVay has long been an 11-personnel aficionado, but he ran 13-personnel on 49 percent of snaps against the New Orleans Saints and went to that well again on Sunday, leading to touchdown catches for Parkinson and Davis Allen. And for a third straight week, the Rams found a big play from second-round rookie Terrance Ferguson, who had a 32-yard catch to ignite a critical scoring drive on Sunday.

The Rams’ offense has changed because its coach has, like he promised he would.

“The way he inspires guys and the culture that he’s built throughout the years here allows you to fall back on that when you hit adversity,” linebacker Nate Landman said.

The success of the run game and the diversification of the pass game have turned Nacua from a high-volume engine who risked injury into more of a clutch lever. That’s what he was on Sunday, when he finished with five catches for 64 yards and scored a touchdown on a screen pass, ignited a scoring drive with another screen and converted a fourth down by lunging through a defender.

As well as things are going, this isn’t a team without risk or issues.

Adams suffered an oblique injury in the fourth quarter that the Rams are hopeful won’t keep him out for Sunday’s showdown with the Seattle Seahawks (7-2). They’ve already lost Tutu Atwell to injured reserve, though they hope to have him back after two more weeks. And Nacua has missed parts of three games with injuries.

Their field goal unit is amid a rebuild after leading the league in missed kicks through the first eight games, and Sunday’s six-touchdown performance didn’t factor into whether a new kicker or long snapper fixed it. They have a pass defense missing Ahkello Witherspoon that can leak if the pass rush isn’t getting home, as Sunday showcased, when the 49ers scored four touchdowns and backup quarterback Mac Jones finished 33-of-39 for 319 yards, three scores and an interception.

But this is no longer an offense or a quarterback just spamming the ball to Pro Bowl wide receivers and left praying when it isn’t working. That was the lesson the 49ers’ loss offered them. That’s what a healthy offensive line, running backs zeroed in on ball security, improving tight ends and a play caller who challenged himself to be better have turned on its head.

“Your scars either strengthen you or make you weaker,” McVay said. “There’s never a good story without a little bit of adversity anyway. I think you only learn about people when you go through those challenging times. (The overtime loss) certainly was a very humbling and challenging night, but I’ve loved the responses.”

from https://theramswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/rams/2025/11/10/rams-best-team-tom-brady/87197620007/?taid=69126e83e2b31a00014a30c8&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

During the game, seven-time Super Bowl champion and color commentator Tom Brady had some high praise for the Rams during the FOX broadcast, putting them in their own tier.

“If you’re looking at offense, defense, there’s not a better team in the league,” Brady said. “The issue has been their kicking game and they’ve got to resolve some of those issues between long snapper and kicker. Their defense is tremendous with that front and this offense, the way they performed today, not many teams can slow this offense down.”

.@RamsNFL @49ers @_Nate_Landman is easily the RAMS defensive MVP over 9 games…Filling up the stat sheet and changing games. #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/4hTJHCkNJj

— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) November 10, 2025

RedAlice

it’s time to beat the Seahawks at SoFi for the first clash of the season — and set the tone for the second half.

Opposing Team Fan Board:
http://www.seahawks.net

After just 9 games, Matthew Stafford has already thrown more touchdown passes against the blitz than all but two quarterbacks in a season in the last decade.

His 20 such touchdown passes are nearly double the 2nd-highest total in 2025 (Jalen Hurts, 11).@RamsNFL | #RamsHouse pic.twitter.com/99btntt16F

— Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) November 10, 2025

.@RamsNFL @49ers play 4 TE's in so many different packages; to run, to throw; to protect; and to finish drives. Higbee, Parkinson; Allen; and Ferguson #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/2tDvovQtaw

— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) November 10, 2025

from https://www.therams.com/news/5-interesting-stats-from-week-10-win-over-49ers-matthew-stafford-beating-the-blitz-rams-set-record-in-the-sean-mcvay-era-td-drive-rate-stafford-nfl-record

The Rams’ 75% touchdown drive rate on true drives (no kneel downs) is the highest in a game in the McVay era, according to nflverse data

Two of the Rams’ 10 drives resulted in them bleeding out clock to end the half or the game. So, really, they found the end zone on six of their eight offensive drives. Their 60% overall touchdown drive rate is also the highest in the Sean McVay era. So any way you slice it, this game is an outlier. The Rams’ offense was in complete command, punting just twice at the end of the first half. Apart from that, they scored touchdowns or lined up in victory formation every time they took possession.