Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
I get people are mad at Kyren Williams. He’s mad at himself.

But he ranks…

– 6th among NFL RBs in rushing success (TruMedia)
– 6th in 1st Down rate (TruMedia)

While also 5th in carries.

Add in 3rd-down work and he can be a staple.

With one big IF…

Los Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPR
With 5 pressures in Week 5, Jared Verse tied Nick Bosa as the second-fastest player to reach 100 career pressures (22 games). Only Joey Bosa reached the mark in fewer games (21 games).

Zooey wrote:

Has the sun come up since that f-ing game ended?

Only to mock us.

Matt Stafford knows Tutu Atwell will break open based on the coverage.

Nice tight spin and fires pinpoint from a mile away.

A lot of younger QBs would make a much looser spin, lose time, & create more distance to cover w/the throw, if they even targeted Atwell. #RamsHouse pic.twitter.com/XML8R2xUod

— Matt Waldman (@MattWaldman) October 5, 2025

never seen anything like this pic.twitter.com/hBhclbcuJ4

— Steven Ruiz (@theStevenRuiz) October 6, 2025

zn wrote:

There’s also Titans at ARZ but that ought to be a foregone conclusion game. ARZ is tied with the Rams in the division if they win as expected.

wv wrote:

OMG. Watch the highlights of the Cardinal-Titan game. Just the second half.

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I can sure call em, can’t I. 😎

Tennessee Titans vs Arizona Cardinals Game Highlights | 2025 NFL Season Week 5

roberto clemente@rclemente2121
just how bad is this ravens defense?

headed into today’s game the ravens ranked #32 (dead last) in offensive points allowed.

the texans ranked #29 in offensive scoring.

the texans hung 24 offensive points on the ravens in the first half of today’s game.

Stafford9@LAR9MS
Matthew Stafford stats in the last 5 games:

Completions: 122 (1st)

Completion %: 66.7 (15th)

Pass Yards: 1,503 (1st)

TD passes: 11 (1st)

Yards/Game: 300.6 (2nd)

Long: 88 (1st)

INT: 2 (2nd least)

Rating: 107.3 (6th)

There are other vids in this thread showing the same thing.

Kyren Williams gets punched in the face at the goal line and loses ball running into endzone 😳#RamsHouse #NFL #FTTB pic.twitter.com/61mytxQvBh

— Aggregate Sports (@AggregateSports) October 3, 2025

"We entered the season worrying about Matt Stafford’s back. You want to know why it hurts? He’s carrying the franchise."@colincowherd says the Rams are wasting Stafford's best year as a pro pic.twitter.com/0oINnaQDNI

— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) October 3, 2025

Jon Gruden discusses the Rams defensive line/edge LBs – Josaiah Stewart and Jared Verse in particular pic.twitter.com/2vgWFnhM8w

— RAMS ON FILM (@RamsOnFilm) October 2, 2025

Terrance Ferguson woke the entire Rams offense up with this catch. Insane way to introduce yourself to the league.

Absolutely needs to be more involved in the passing game. pic.twitter.com/ZSXNV4UQjl

— Rams Bros. (@RamsBrothers) October 3, 2025

Rams’ self-inflicted errors against 49ers were unbecoming of a contending team

Jourdan Rodrigue

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6686338/2025/10/03/rams-mistakes-49ers-overtime-loss/?source=emp_shared_article

LOS ANGELES — For every moment that it felt like quarterback Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams’ offense might pull off a thrilling win over hated division rival San Francisco, there was also a major mistake that meant they never would.

In Thursday night’s 26-23 overtime loss, there were missed kicks, missed blocks, dropped passes and a few early missed throws. There was a special teams penalty that helped the 49ers’ field position in overtime, and a blocked/tipped extra point that left the game tied in the fourth quarter and took the wind out of a promising comeback drive.

There were fumbles: One coughed up in the second quarter at the San Francisco 30-yard line (ultimately credited in the box score to Stafford, on a pitch play with running back Blake Corum), and an even costlier giveaway by starting running back Kyren Williams inside the 49ers’ 3-yard line with 1:07 to play in regulation. The Rams were down three points at the time.

“I feel like I let the team down,” said Williams. “… It’s all on me. … I’ve got to do better.”

Still, with Stafford there’s always a chance. He may have missed receiver Tutu Atwell on a long ball to open the game — more mistakes; the Rams only ran six offensive plays in the first quarter as the 49ers dominated time of possession and took a 14-0 lead early in the second — but he threw a beauty to Atwell for 38 yards in overtime to get the Rams in scoring position. Sure, the signs of a disaster were there: Kicker Josh Karty, who had already missed a field goal and had an extra point blocked, also opened overtime with a landing zone penalty on the kickoff that gave the 49ers the ball at the 40-yard line.

But once the Rams got to the 49ers’ 11-yard line, down 3 points and against an injury-depleted defense, it felt like Stafford had the makings of a vintage “Stafford” moment.

Then it was the head coach’s turn to make a mistake. Sean McVay called a run on fourth-and-1, after both coaches used a time out to scope out each others’ alignments (McVay also said he was aiming to get the 49ers to jump offsides). Williams, who caught two touchdown passes along with the fumble, didn’t gain the yard. Game over.

“It’s a bad call,” McVay said postgame. “A bad call by me. … I’m sick right now because I put our players in a sh—- spot and I got to live with that.”

McVay took several minutes to come to the lectern, which is rare for him even in a loss. He looked and sounded miserable. It hurts worse when it’s the 49ers, and worse still when almost all of the reasons the Rams lost were avoidable. Players were audibly and visibly frustrated coming off the field and in the locker room. Good, according to an equally irked Stafford.

“Guys are pissed off because they care,” he said. “If everybody was laughing and joking, I’d be a little bit more concerned. I feel like we had opportunities to win the game, like I said, multiple times. We didn’t get it done. Guys are ticked. I like that.”

Stafford said postgame he had no problem with the call itself, calling it a “bread and butter” short yardage play. Nor did either he or McVay believe going for the win on fourth down rather than attempting a tying field goal — especially in light of Karty’s issues all night — was the wrong decision. “I love that we went for it, we’re not playing for a tie. Let’s go,” said Stafford.

But the 49ers knew what was coming on the play itself.

“You could just tell (from) the way that they lined up that they were gonna run the ball,” said All-Pro linebacker Fred Warner. “… You could tell when they came out that they were gonna run.”

The Rams’ defense held the 49ers to nine points in the second half and overtime. Much of the game, though, resembled the all-too-familiar Kyle Shanahan/McVay “10,000 papercuts” games of a few years ago, when the 49ers could pick and poke their way down the field underneath the Rams’ zones and get the ball out of the quarterback’s hand before the formidable pass rush got to him. Shanahan can barely roster a healthy starting lineup on both sides of the ball, yet his offense became the Death Star once again.

Backup quarterback Mac Jones hit 28 of his 33 total completions (on 49 attempts) and both of his touchdowns on passes under 10 air yards, according to Next Gen Stats. Receiver Kendrick Bourne and running back Christian McCaffrey (as a receiver) were particularly successful against the Rams’ back seven. Bourne had 142 yards on 10 catches while McCaffrey caught eight passes on nine targets for 82 yards and a touchdown.

“They were just getting the ball out fast — they were making plays, and we (weren’t),” said safety Kam Curl. “That’s the name of the game, making plays. They were making more plays than us.”

The 49ers’ mechanical, infuriating offensive style has in the past set up the Rams to make self-inflicted mistakes, and it often felt like that bled into every phase of the team. It was the same story Thursday as the unforced errors compounded.

“We had a chance to close the game out and ultimately it didn’t go down for us,” said McVay. “… For us to even be in it is a real credit to the resilience of the group. But that’s not winning football tonight. … We certainly did more to lose that game than we did win it, tonight. It did compound, for sure.”

It’s not just losing to the 49ers that left the locker room so bitter, it was also losing on a short week right after many in the NFL ecosystem crowned them bona fide contenders following their Week 4 win over the red-hot Colts. It’s the relief of a long weekend that suddenly soured with the understanding that they’ll be watching several other teams inch ahead while they still stew in Thursday night’s result.

It’s the dizzying whiplash of rebounding against the Colts and again confoundingly stumbling just days after that. It’s like a cartoon character stepping over a rake, shooting a self-satisfied glance at the viewer while stepping right onto the second rake. Half of the pain is having the knowledge it was avoidable.

The Rams are bona fide contenders. They can genuinely pull this off. With more mistakes like those they made on Thursday, they won’t.

#92 swims Avila, driving the center … basically a pass rush move. I don't think this was a designed block. More like a trget of oppotunity, there is not an overload … not the same as the Phil/Ten blocks. pic.twitter.com/Na656NjKSO

— Jim Youngblood 53 (@53_jim70721) October 3, 2025

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
Sean McVay on the Rams’ field goal issues:

“Oh man… I wish it were just one thing.”

He said they have multiple players who aren’t executing. Sounds like some lineup changes could be in store.

“It’s cost us two games.”