.@RamsNFL @tae15adams with his 2nd TD catch in 2 weeks from Stafford. #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/xGnR3mpeZJ

— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) September 22, 2025

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
Crazy how Rams-Eagles was basically two halves played the same way until the final kick.

1st half — Rams took the ball, turned it over, gave up a touchdown, then scored 19 straight

2nd half — Eagles took the ball, turned it over, gave up a touchdown, then scored 20 straight

Jim Youngblood 53@53_jim70721
To be SB winner a team has to
1. play 60 minutes of football
2. win in all three phases of game

Rams played one good half in 3 phases and one bad half in 3 phases.

However, Eagles are the champs. Rams have time to play full game vs good teams in next few weeks.

Matthew Stafford taking accountability for his mistakes today, you can see it in his face at the end how annoyed he is with himself. pic.twitter.com/u2bnSjfgnT

— Rams Tapes 🇵🇷 (@RamsTapes) September 22, 2025

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
No real explanation from Sean McVay in the blocked field goals. He just credited the Eagles for making the plays and said he won’t make excuses.

It sounded like he was going to start his answer about Kevin Dotson but changed up before he said the “No excuses” line.

The Rams scored 26 unanswered and then gave up 26 unanswered.

That should have been Matthew Stafford’s 50th career game-winning drive… but back-to-back blocked field goals.

Sarah Barshop@sarahbarshop
Puka Nacua said his flex that led to a taunting penalty wasn’t any different from what he usually does after first-down catches. Nacua pointed to A.J. Brown’s “big celebration” on third down, saying, “feeling that play’s very similar but just didn’t feel like it went both ways.”

Sosa Kremenjas@QBsMVP
Blame McVay or whoever all you want but Stafford left a lot of plays on the field today. Davante Adams has to bring in the TD, too, and of course, Coleman Shelton literally wiped 7 off the board.

That was a disgusting 2nd half though either way.

Zooey wrote:

they salvaged it after they blew the lead, but Karty got blocked. Again. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that happen back-to-back in my life.

And back to back 4th down stops.

Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
If the Rams lose today, hard not to put it on the offense and some decisions there. Davante Adams should have scored a TD that last drive. Another red zone whiff and they’ve left a lot of points on the board there today.

LOS ANGELES RAMS

OLB Nick Hampton

QB Stetson Bennett IV (3rd QB)

TE Terrance Ferguson

OL D.J. Humphries

OL Steve Avila

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES

OLB Azeez Ojulari

QB Tanner McKee (3rd QB)

RB Will Shipley

OLB Ogbo Okoronkwo

OLB Patrick Johnson

OL Drew Kendall

G Kenyon Green

Ian Rapoport@RapSheet
#Rams DE Braden Fiske, who is questionable with an oblique injury, will play today against the #Eagles, per me and @MikeGarafolo
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𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The NFL has said that the Eagles should have been called for false-starting on the tush push Sunday against the Chiefs, per @MarkMaske

They are instructing officials to call “these plays tight” moving forward.

👀👀👀 pic.twitter.com/rgUtaptcok

— JPA (@jasrifootball) September 18, 2025

from https://theramswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/rams/2025/09/20/ex-packers-coaches-compare-matthew-stafford-to-legendary-qbs/86267353007/?taid=68cf240a4904400001f30f22&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Two former Green Bay Packers coaches who battled with Stafford for years in the NFC North when he played for the Detroit Lions think Stafford is among the best to ever do it. Ex-Packers and Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy as well as ex-Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers both compared Stafford to John Elway, Dan Marino, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers.

“I’ve personally seen enough ‘wow’ throws, particularly when he had Calvin Johnson and with his ability to go deep and give him a 50-50 ball,” McCarthy told Bob McGinn of Go Long. “He’s definitely scratching the surface of that group. Without a doubt. Him and Aaron Rodgers on the field together, I don’t know if you can get more arm talent in the building. Those guys had some great battles.”

“Those guys are rare. I’ve coached against every one of those guys,” Capers said about Stafford in relation to Elway, Marino, Favre and Rodgers. “Those guys make some unbelievable throws to win games. Stafford falls into that category. He really had the whole package in terms of arm strength, arm talent, accuracy.”

from Nate Atkins, To contend with Eagles, Rams must learn to solve their Saquon Barkley problem — https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6642172/2025/09/19/rams-eagles-saquon-barkley/?source=emp_shared_article

The Los Angeles Rams thought they had a plan for Saquon Barkley: Stack the box. Play 11 defenders as one. Wrap up. Force the pass.

And yet one explosive gain after another in two matchups last season — 70 yards up the middle with a jump cut to the right sideline, 72 yards off the left edge, 62 yards off the right edge, 78 yards up the middle and through the snow — brought a sinking reality as the Rams’ defenders stared at his last name as he galloped to the end zone

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Los Angeles suffered the worst of it by taking the stacked-box approach to an unhealthy extreme. The Rams used eight-plus defenders in the box on 17 of his 52 carries, per the NFL’s Next Gen Stats. And that was often when Barkley hit his explosive creases, such as the 72-yarder off the left edge in Week 12 when all but one Rams defender lined up within 7 yards of the line of scrimmage and between the tackles.

“You try to load the box to stop the run and the next thing you know, he gets a seam and there’s nobody else to tackle him,” Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula said. “You need some levels and layers to the defense and vision on him that goes to the pursuit and the gang tackling with everyone there.”

The problem is that the Eagles defy the math it normally takes to stop the run. In addition to an elite offensive line, they have Hurts’ rushing threat to freeze defensive ends on zone-read concepts. They also have a back in Barkley who, at 232 pounds, ran a 4.4-second 40-yard dash and offers one of the best jump cuts in the NFL.

A stacked box can actually create those cutback lanes for him. “It’s a numbers game,” Barkley told reporters in January. “When you load the box and bring extra people into the box, it’s a beautiful thing. Because it’s hard to run, and you got to be gap disciplined, and if we’re in the right gaps — it’s hard to run against, don’t get me wrong — but I feel like myself as a back, being patient and having that home run speed, if you load the box and we get through, there’s no one back there.”

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Ford is here to make his life easier by demanding double-teams and keeping blockers out of his face. He’s here to let the Rams play in less-stacked boxes. Through two games, he’s played 25 run snaps versus 27 against the pass, making him the kind of run-stopper an offense can’t dictate playing time for based on personnel sets or downs and distances.

That doesn’t mean the Rams suddenly have an answer for the Eagles’ tush push in short-yardage situations, but they hope they have some of it for Barkley.

“He has all the tools: home run speed, balance, breaking tackles, everything,” Ford said.

“Just keep my eyes on my key and don’t try to do anything extra, nothing out of the ordinary,” Ford continued. “Wherever he is, we all have to get to the ball and get hats on him.”

Through two games, the new-look Rams run defense has given up an average of 4.2 yards per carry but has not allowed a run of 15 yards or more. As a result, the defense ranks in the top five in yards per play and expected points added per play, according to Next Gen Stats. They have allowed just one touchdown.

But the running backs they’ve faced, Nick Chubb and Tony Pollard, aren’t Barkley.

from https://theramswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/rams/2025/09/19/jared-verse-wont-cross-a-certain-line-with-trash-talk-during-games/86246833007/?taid=68cdb6ac29ffb20001ad1635&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

Los Angeles Rams edge rusher Jared Verse didn’t deny he deploys these tactics either, with a catch. While he noted he “always get disrespectful towards the person individually,” the second-year star added that his trash talk will never extend past the boundaries of the football field.

“I don’t talk about anybody’s relationships, anybody’s family. I don’t talk about anybody’s kids or anything like that,” Verse said this week. “That’s a whole separate thing that you never get into. I’ll get loud and in your face. I’ll be like, ‘You’re this cuss word, you’re that profanity.’ I’ll say a lot of stuff like, ‘You suck,’ or you’re all this stuff, like all disrespectful stuff towards you, but I’ll never bring anybody else into it.”

“There’s a certain line you don’t cross,” he added. “You just don’t get that disrespectful because at that point it’s like, what are you even thinking you’re doing? That’s just too much. I’m going to get disrespectful. I’m going to get in your face. I’m going to get loud. I’m going to throw you off your game, but I’m not going to talk about anything outside of football.”

Chris Long & company…they do the Rams at about 22:27.