{"id":377653,"date":"2025-12-30T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377653\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:11:07","slug":"rams-matthew-stafford-sets-nfl-record-that-makes-compelling-mvp-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377653\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams&#8217; Matthew Stafford sets NFL record that makes compelling MVP case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> have played a brutal schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Superstar QB Matthew Stafford has excelled anyway, and that makes him an excellent MVP case.<\/p>\n<p>It can be summed up in one stat, shared Tuesday morning on X by ESPN&#8217;s Dan Orlovsky:<\/p>\n<p>Stafford has thrown 20 touchdowns against teams that will finish this season with at least 11 wins. That&#8217;s an all-time NFL record.<\/p>\n<p>Second place this season, for context, is Baker Mayfield with 13 such passing TDs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patriots<\/a> QB Drake Maye has thrown none.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TD passes against 11+ win teams in 2025<\/p>\n<p>1. Matthew Stafford &#8211; 20 (most in NFL history)<br \/>2. Baker Mayfield &#8211; 13<\/p>\n<p>51 players with at least 1<\/p>\n<p>52+ with 0. Maye is in this group. (Not a knock on him just context of competition)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Orlovsky (@danorlovsky7) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danorlovsky7\/status\/2006032754652168620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/deion-sanders-reaction-shedeur-terrible-interception-tells-whole-story\/afba53142ad70faeaa51b8aa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deion Sanders&#8217; reaction to Shedeur&#8217;s terrible interception tells the whole story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team&#8217;s wins don&#8217;t necessarily mean their defense is great, but it does show that the Rams have been in a lot of games against talented rosters that are going to put up a fight back.<\/p>\n<p>And in those settings, Stafford has delivered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His Monday night showing against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/atlanta-falcons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Falcons<\/a>, with a few bad interceptions, won&#8217;t earn him positive favor.<\/p>\n<p>But if voters take the whole season in totality, it&#8217;s hard to land anywhere other than Stafford for MVP.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams have played a brutal schedule. Superstar QB Matthew Stafford has excelled anyway, and that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-377653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}