Davante Adams<\/a> said.<\/p>\n ![\"Rams](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764551056_525_\")
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Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua makes a spectacular, one-handed catch in front of Carolina Panthers cornerback Mike Jackson in the second half Sunday.<\/p>\n
(Nell Redmond \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody in here was riding high like we were some invincible team,\u201d said Adams, who caught two touchdown passes to increase his league-leading total to 14. \u201cObviously, it feels like that when you\u2019re running off wins.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we didn\u2019t necessarily need to be humbled or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since their early losses to the defending Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles and the San Francisco 49ers, the Rams had been rolling. If the offense was not scoring, the defense picked up the slack. If the defense struggled, Stafford and his flawless play produced victories.<\/p>\n
But Stafford\u2019s two touchdown passes, and touchdown runs by Blake Corum and Kyren Williams, were not enough against a Panthers team that improved to 7-6.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody saved the day today,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n
Stafford put the mistakes on himself. On a day when he moved past Matt Ryan into eighth place on the NFL\u2019s all-time passing yardage list, Stafford\u2019s streak of eight games without an interception ended.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not going to win a whole lot of games when I turn it over three times,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it hasn\u2019t been an issue and I don\u2019t expect it to be moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first interception came late in the first quarter on a third-down play at the Panthers\u2019 eight-yard line. Lineman Derrick Brown tipped a pass and former Rams safety Nick Scott grabbed the ball in the end zone.<\/p>\n
It was the first time since the Week 3 defeat at Philadelphia that a Stafford pass was picked off. He had thrown an NFL-record 28 touchdown passes between interceptions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did a nice job getting their hands up,\u201d Stafford said.<\/p>\n
Two passes later Panthers safety Mike Jackson picked one off and returned it 48 yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan\u2019t leave the ball inside and give them seven on that one,\u201d Stafford said.<\/p>\n
Stafford\u2019s biggest and most uncharacteristic miscue came late in the fourth quarter with the Rams trailing, 31-28. On third and five at the Panthers\u2019 17, officials ruled that the Rams failed to get a snap off before the play clock expired.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s on nobody but me,\u201d Stafford said. \u201cI\u2019ve just got to get that thing off.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the next play Brown sacked Stafford and stripped the ball from his grasp. The Panthers recovered the fumble with 2:25 left and ran out the clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been awhile since we felt this way,\u201d McVay said.<\/p>\n
Nearly two months to be exact. The Rams rebounded from their Oct. 2 loss to the 49ers and surged to their short-lived spot atop the NFC, now occupied by the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve dealt with adversity before,\u201d McVay said. \u201cWe\u2019ll deal with it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next Sunday, the Rams play the 3-9 Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Ariz. They finish with a home game against the Detroit Lions, a Thursday night game at Seattle, a road trip to Atlanta and a home game against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n
The Rams intend to respond as they did after their last defeat. And humbly roll toward the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Calm down. Humility, as Sean McVay likes to say, is only a day away. And the Rams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4472,44089,39782,44094,44093,779,48,52,51,47,50,49,771,43965,11706,10947,44092,44090,780,44091,1539],"class_list":["post-76124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ball","tag-blake-corum","tag-bryce-young","tag-first-interception","tag-halftime-lead","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-panthers","tag-ram","tag-rams","tag-six-game-winning-streak","tag-stunning-loss","tag-touchdown","tag-touchdown-pass-play","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76124","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=76124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}