Stafford tossed touchdown passes to Adams and tight end Colby Parkinson, and Kyren Williams rushed for a touchdown as the Rams improved to 8-2, extended their winning streak to five games and assumed sole possession of first place in the NFC West.<\/p>\n
The Rams can thank Kinchens, a second-year safety who has six career interceptions, including four against the Seahawks. His interceptions set up Williams\u2019 touchdown in the first quarter and Parkinson\u2019s in the fourth.<\/p>\n
The Rams went into the game having scored at least 34 points in each of their last three games. But that production was absent against a Seahawks team that fell to 7-3 and had its four-game winning streak end.<\/p>\n
Stafford increased his league-leading total of touchdown passes to 27 and did not have a pass intercepted for the seventh consecutive game. But the 17th-year pro was not as sharp as he had been during a stretch that put him in the conversation for NFL most valuable player. Stafford completed 15 of 28 passes for 130 yards.<\/p>\n
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Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford slings a pass to tight end Colby Parkinson in the first half Sunday at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n
(Robert Gauthier \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
Stafford enjoyed a banner day compared to Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold.<\/p>\n
The Rams\u2019 front pressured Darnold into multiple poor decisions, and Kinchens, Durant and Williams made him pay. Darnold completed 29 of 44 passes for 279 yards with four interceptions.<\/p>\n
Seahawks receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who was on pace to set an NFL record for yards receiving in a season, caught nine passes for 105 yards. But he did not score.<\/p>\n
Cooper Kupp, the former Rams star making his return to SoFi Stadium, did not have a catch in the first three quarters but had three during a late scoring drive that trimmed the Rams\u2019 lead to two points.<\/p>\n
The Rams led 14-9 at halftime on Williams\u2019 one-yard touchdown run and Stafford\u2019s one-yard touchdown pass to Adams.<\/p>\n
It was a satisfying situation for the Rams, whose first drive ended at the Seahawks\u2019 eight-yard line when Stafford\u2019s fourth-down pass to tight end Tyler Higbee fell incomplete.<\/p>\n
Kinchens\u2019 31-yard interception return, however, set up Williams\u2019 touchdown. And after Myers kicked the first of three first-half field goals for the Seahawks, Stafford led a long drive that ended with Adams\u2019 1,000th career reception and his 10th touchdown catch of the season.<\/p>\n
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Rams safety Kamren Kinchens celebrates with teammates after intercepting a pass in the second half against Seattle on Sunday at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n
(Robert Gauthier \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
The Rams had an opportunity to seize control early in the third quarter when Durant returned an interception to the Seahawks\u2019 35-yard line. But two plays later, Nacua lost a fumble after making a catch.<\/p>\n
Myers\u2019 fourth field goal pulled the Seahawks to within 14-12 midway through the third. But Kinchens intercepted another pass late in the quarter, setting up Stafford\u2019s six-yard touchdown pass to Parkinson for a 21-12 lead.<\/p>\n
Still, the Rams struggled to put away the Seahawks. Kenneth Walker III\u2019s one-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter pulled the Seahawks to within 21-19 with 2:23 left.<\/p>\n
After Ethan Evans\u2019 punt pinned them at the one-yard line, the Seahawks got the ball back with 1:40 left and drove 56 yards in nine plays.<\/p>\n
But Myers could not match his career-best 61-yard field goal against the Rams in 2020. This time it went wide right.<\/p>\n
The Rams play host to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-4) next Sunday at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midnight Mode, indeed. On the day the Rams donned black uniforms for the first and only time this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[34833,34830,10834,19830,34832,34831,48,52,51,47,50,49,772,11706,10947,11599,7853,29443,14921,3373,1539],"class_list":["post-56286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-cobie-durant","tag-darious-williams","tag-davante-adams","tag-interception","tag-jason-myers","tag-kinchens","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-pass","tag-ram","tag-rams","tag-seahawks","tag-seattle","tag-stafford","tag-third-quarter","tag-touchdown-pass","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56286","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=56286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}