coach Sean McVay<\/a> said.<\/p>\n ![\"Rams](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762748963_301_\")
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Rams players (from left) Puka Nacua, Matthew Stafford, Jordan Whittington and Davante Adams celebrate in the third quarter of a 42-26 win over the San Francisco 49ers at Levi\u2019s Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n
(Ezra Shaw \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Stafford\u2019s recent run of excellence is on par with other awe-inspiring Los Angeles sports icons.<\/p>\n
He has been as dominant as the UCLA fast break and full court press from the 1970s. Clayton Kershaw\u2019s 12-to-6 curveball. Freddie Freeman\u2019s walk-off homer swing.<\/p>\n
This is a Wayne Gretzky assist. A Nolan Ryan no-hitter.<\/p>\n
A Reggie Bush breakaway run. A Serena Williams backhand winner. A Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sky hook, a Magic Johnson no-look pass, a Kobe Bryant game-winning three. A Lisa Leslie low-post move. A Candace Parker dunk.<\/p>\n
A Jim Murray or Bill Plaschke column.<\/p>\n
A fill-in-the-blank run of excellence.<\/p>\n
Overblown? Perhaps. The NFL is a humbling league. Stafford\u2019s recent run could end next Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n
So enjoy it in real time. Follow Stafford\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have fun out there,\u201d he said when asked about what Nacua described as Stafford\u2019s \u2018shimmy shake\u2019 touchdown celebration. \u201cI lose my mind when we score touchdowns.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford smiles while being interviewed after the Rams\u2019 win over the 49ers on Sunday.<\/p>\n
(Godofredo A. V\u00e1squez \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how defensive coordinators must feel when Stafford completes one of his patented no-look passes.<\/p>\n
Adams played eight seasons in Green Bay with Aaron Rodgers. He knows what an MVP looks like.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s looked like MVP play to me all year,\u201d Adams said, pointing to a Week 2 game against the Tennessee Titans, when Stafford shook off an interception and led the Rams to victory. \u201cJust to rally a team and continue to lead at a high level when things don\u2019t go your way, I think that\u2019s what really shows what an MVP is like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stafford\u2019s success harks to 2021, when he passed for 41 touchdowns and led the Rams to a Super Bowl title. He is on pace for an even more impressive statistical finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe heater that he\u2019s on, it\u2019s elevating everybody else\u2019s play,\u201d Nacua said, \u201cand we\u2019re continuing to jump on that bandwagon with him and let him take us as far as he can.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Stafford continues his stellar play the Rams could find themselves right back here at Levi\u2019s Stadium.<\/p>\n
For Super Bowl LX<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CLARA\u00a0\u2014\u00a0This is not a one-off. This is no hot streak or a flash in the pan. So…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11856,10834,423,19830,779,48,52,51,47,50,49,771,11706,10947,7555,30247,21670,30246,776,3373,1539],"class_list":["post-46039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-49er","tag-davante-adams","tag-game","tag-interception","tag-kyren-williams","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-ram","tag-rams","tag-second-quarter","tag-short-touchdown-run","tag-stadium","tag-streak","tag-sunday","tag-touchdown-pass","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}