The marquee match-up of Sunday’s late afternoon slate was the NFC West showdown between the Los Angeles Rams and the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n
Both teams arrived among, if not the, hottest teams in football and potential Super Bowl favorites from the NFC.<\/p>\n
After 60 minutes and some late-game dramatics from the Seahawks, the Rams emerged as the top team in the division following a 21-19 victory.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles defense was a huge part of the victory, intercepting Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold and pressuring him all day. The former No. 3 overall draft pick rarely looked comfortable in the pocket. Kamren Kinchens snagged two of the INTs while Darious Williams and Cobie Durant each had one.<\/p>\n
The Rams failed to sack Darnold but they did tally three hits.<\/p>\n
It was another strong performance by, perhaps, the league’s most underrated unit.<\/p>\n
The Seattle defense showed up to play, too, holding the Rams to under 250 yards total and forcing a fumble from star wide receiver Puka Nacua. On the offensive side of the ball, wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba continued his fantastic season with nine receptions for 105 yards.<\/p>\n
Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, a league MVP contender, threw two more touchdowns while remaining clean in the interception category. <\/p>\n
The Rams will look to keep their winning ways alive in Week 12 against a Tampa Bay team coming off its second, consecutive loss while the Seahawks can get right against the league-worst Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The marquee match-up of Sunday’s late afternoon slate was the NFC West showdown between the Los Angeles Rams…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":385097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-385096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115564822419232295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385096","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=385096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}