{"id":940890,"date":"2026-10-21T04:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940890\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T04:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:44:41","slug":"rams-matthew-stafford-has-chance-to-make-brutal-nfl-history-in-game-against-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940890\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams\u2019 Matthew Stafford has chance to make brutal NFL history in game against Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very strange start to the 2026-27 NFL season for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, who are currently sitting in fourth place in the NFC West despite expectations that they&#8217;d be the best team in the NFL to start the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Rams haven&#8217;t been able to get much going on either side of the football, though the offense has certainly been the bigger problem.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the MVP award last season, quarterback Matthew Stafford hasn&#8217;t exactly played great football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not that everything is Stafford&#8217;s fault on offense, but he&#8217;s thrown just 11 touchdowns and six interceptions in the first six weeks of the season.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, Stafford could reach some unfortunate NFL history over the next few weeks if the Rams keep playing this way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRams quarterback Matthew Stafford lost his fourth start of the season on Sunday. When he loses his fifth, he\u2019ll reach a career milestone he\u2019d prefer not to have,\u201d Pro Football Talk\u2019s Mike Florio <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams\/matthew-stafford-blunt-words-age-roster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote<\/a>, H\/T PFT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStafford has a career record of 122-122-1 as a starting quarterback. Those 122 losses are the second-most in NFL history, behind only Vinny Testaverde, who went 90-123-1. With another loss, Stafford will tie Testaverde for the most ever, and with two more losses, Stafford has the record all to himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rams and Stafford have much more to worry about than him taking over for the most starts in NFL history as a quarterback and still losing, but it does show that the start of his career certainly wasn&#8217;t kind to him with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a>. Things have obviously improved in Los Angeles, winning a Super Bowl back in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For now, however, the focus is on winning games in 2026, and the Rams haven&#8217;t done that.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a very strange start to the 2026-27 NFL season for the Los Angeles Rams, who are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-940890","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\/940890","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=940890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}