As I mentioned in BTH, though, the key for the Rams’ offense is early-down efficiency. It’s been a hallmark of their 2025 success, and the area in which Seattle was able to derail them. When LA is right, it looks more like this tidbit, from the league: The Rams offense has had an average of 5.8 yards to go on third down, the shortest average distance in the NFL.<\/p>\n
The Rams have not collected a sack in their last two wins and only one since the bye. By comparison, the LA defense had 26 sacks from Weeks 1-7, second-most. Personally, I’ll take interceptions over sacks any day.<\/p>\n
Todd Bowles’ group is an attacking bunch. Per NextGen, the Bucs are pressuring opposing<\/p>\n
quarterbacks on over 40 percent of drop-backs. That’s a top-three rate in the league. Fortunately for the Rams, no signal-caller is solving the puzzle better against the blitz than Stafford.<\/p>\n
Beating San Francisco and Seattle has changed the sightlines for the 2025 Rams. By no means is the division clinched, but as we’ve detailed, now LA is playing for even bigger regular season prizes.<\/p>\n
So, before we get to the NFC West schedule for the week, it’s worth highlighting the Eagles (8-2) taking an NFC East trip to Dallas. Do the Cowboys (3-5-1) have what it takes to turn a short week into a rivalry upset? They looked rejuvenated on Monday night.<\/p>\n
As for the division, the Cardinals (3-7) are down to their last gasp. With no margin for error, they host a Jaguars team that just unplugged the Chargers.<\/p>\n
Seattle (7-3) has a nice bounce-back opportunity in Nashville against the lowly Titans.<\/p>\n
And Monday Night Football should be fascinating for a couple reasons. The Carolina Panthers (6-5) are making some playoff noise. A road loss in Santa Clara would further soften the NFC playoff bubble, while a 49ers (7-4) loss is always welcome and could turn the West into a two-horse race. Additionally, we know Charlotte is the next stop on the Rams slate. The Panthers will have a short Thanksgiving week, flying back from the Bay Area on a redeye. Overtime, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I mentioned in BTH, though, the key for the Rams’ offense is early-down efficiency. It’s been a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[949,10833,38620,48,52,51,47,50,49,38017],"class_list":["post-64276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-football","tag-game-preview","tag-gameday-sponsorship-hyundai","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-at-los-angeles-rams-2025-reg-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64276","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=64276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}