{"id":239963,"date":"2025-09-19T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239963\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:28:09","slug":"los-angeles-rams-philadelphia-eagles-tussle-in-epic-early-season-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239963\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Rams &#038; Philadelphia Eagles tussle in epic early season matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defensively, the only touchdown the Rams have allowed this season was the hero-ball scramble-drill that Cam Ward put on them last Sunday. Every other defense in the league has surrendered at least two touchdowns through two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles have won 18 of their last 19 games (since a Week 5 bye last season). Their only loss in that span came in Washington late last season when Hurts left early with a concussion. The Rams&#8217; starters have won nine of their last 11 games \u2013 suffering their only defeats head-to-head against the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia outrushed LA 599-203 in 2024, a staggering yardage differential of 396.<\/p>\n<p>Hurts has not thrown an interception since Week 10, 2024 at Dallas, a stretch of 185 straight attempts without a pick. To be fair, he&#8217;s simply not throwing much, with fewer than 160 passing yards and no passing touchdowns in both wins thus far in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Per ESPN, the Eagles are the first team since the 2010 Steelers to start 2-0 without throwing a touchdown (Pittsburgh lost the Super Bowl that season).<\/p>\n<p>You could argue the only reason the Rams had a look at a comeback last January is because of two missed extra points by Jake Elliott. He&#8217;s had no such trouble on those chip shots since. Plus, Elliott&#8217;s nailed all three attempts from beyond 50 yards, after going just 1-for-7 from that distance a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles sacked Stafford five times in each matchup in 2024. Strangely, they&#8217;ve mustered just two sacks in 2025, the second-lowest count in the league. You&#8217;ll recall that LA sacked Hurts seven times in the divisional round, with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/jared-verse\/\" title=\"Jared Verse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jared Verse<\/a> authoring a pair of those. The Rams as a team are tied for the second-most sacks in 2025, even though the Defensive Rookie of the Year and his running mate <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/braden-fiske\/\" title=\"Braden Fiske\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Braden Fiske<\/a> have been shut out to date.<\/p>\n<p>Is <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/byron-young\/\" title=\"Byron Young\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Byron Young<\/a> the front-runner for NFL Defensive Player of the Year? The longer he can outpace the Bosa family the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defensively, the only touchdown the Rams have allowed this season was the hero-ball scramble-drill that Cam Ward put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1318,114893,128371,125099,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-239963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-game-preview","11":"tag-j-b-long","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams-at-philadelphia-eagles-2025-reg-3","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115233325419756973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}