{"id":354353,"date":"2025-12-17T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354353\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:01:10","slug":"sam-darnold-last-game-against-rams-wasnt-my-best-but-its-just-another-opponent-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354353\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Darnold: Last game against Rams wasn&#8217;t my best, but it&#8217;s just another opponent this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold will always be remembered for once saying he was seeing ghosts on the football field, but he said on Tuesday that he\u2019s not seeing any ghosts of his recent football past as he gets ready for Thursday night\u2019s game against the Rams. <\/p>\n<p>Darnold had his worst game of the season when the Seahawks lost 21-19 in Los Angeles in Week 11. Darnold threw four interceptions in the loss and acknowledged that it \u201cwasn\u2019t my best effort\u201d while discussing the rematch with reporters. The quarterback insisted that he\u2019s \u201cexcited about the challenge and ready to go\u201d in a game he is not building up to be bigger than it is. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/news\/sam-darnold-seahawks-offense-looking-to-play-cleaner-game-vs-rams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">just another opponent<\/a>,\u201d Darnold said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s a divisional game and I would just leave it at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darnold may not want to make too much of the game, but the implications of the outcome will be significant in the race for the NFC West and for Darnold\u2019s own record in important late-season contests. He did not play well for the Vikings in losses in Week 18 and the wild card round last season, so another lackluster outing on Thursday would carry more weight than Darnold cared to admit on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold will always be remembered for once saying he was seeing ghosts on the football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-354353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}