Matthew Stafford was named a first-team All-Pro for the first time in his 17-year career last Saturday, right before he\u2019d play a road playoff game against what he called arguably the best secondary the Rams have faced all season, with Mike Jackson and Pro Bowler Jaycee Horn on the outside.<\/p>\n
He turned in a vintage Stafford performance. That is to say, he was dialed in during the script, starting 8-of-8 as he peppered the ball to Puka Nacua. Then he had a stretch in the middle quarters in which he completed just 2-of-12 passes. It coincided with a play where he smacked his throwing hand on the helmet of a pass rusher.<\/p>\n
He threw an interception on an underthrown ball, and he nearly threw another that Nacua had to break up in the end zone.<\/p>\n
But he turned it up in the fourth quarter, leading two touchdown drives with his team trailing. He capped the first with a 13-yard touchdown pass to Williams after converting on fourth down with a QB sneak. Then he drove the Rams down in the final minutes with sharp passes to Nacua and Davante Adams before hitting Colby Parkinson on a 19-yard touchdown pass in which the tight end skied the ball and spun into the end zone with 38 seconds to play.<\/p>\n
This was the 42nd fourth-quarter comeback and 54th game-winning drive of Stafford\u2019s career.<\/p>\n
He was productive, composed and clutch despite some mistakes, which is what Stafford has always been. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford was named a first-team All-Pro for the first time in his 17-year career last Saturday, right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-417833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417833","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=417833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}