The Los Angeles Rams lost to the Green Bay Packers by a score of 24-19 during Week 5 of the NFL season. LA falls to an overall record of 1-4 and a new low with Sean McVay as their head coach. The Rams showed up in the first half, but fell largely flat in the second half (particularly the third quarter) with offensive turnovers and mistakes. Despite some serious miscues LA managed to play another competitive game.
Chris Shula’s defense did force a pick six off of Jordan Love to give LA an early lead, but the defense could not backup the offense when they turned the ball over. The first LA turnover was off a Kyren William’s fumble, but later Matthew Stafford would throw an interception. Green Bay scored 14 points off of those turnovers and took command of the game.
It clearly wasn’t all bad for LA as they went into halftime with a 13-10 lead, but coming out of the break that Williams fumble (mentioned above) would set up the Packers to take a lead on a long score to tight end Tyler Kraft, and the Rams never really recovered.
It seems like every week someone facing the Rams has had a career day for their team and that trend continued again today with Packers’ tight end Kraft who had a huge game with two scores and plenty of yards.
LA did try to make a push in the fourth quarter with under four minutes to play when they scored their third touchdown of the game on a Stafford completion to Demarcus Robinson.
LA’s defense even forced another stop after that Robinson score, and LA had a legitimate shot at the end of the this contest, however there would be no two minute drill magic as Stafford’s final pass would fall incomplete on a fourth down allowing GB to kneel out the rest of the game.
Some positives, the team appears to be playing for each other, and they still appear to be playing for McVay. Despite the rough start to the season LA has 12 games left to try and salvage this season.
The big negative is the Rams may not be able to make up enough ground to go on a playoff run this campaign, but they can gain experience, earn some wins and try their best to still be relevant come December.
No, the Rams haven’t started season the way they wanted, but with a 1-4 record outside expectations will most likely be low. How will they respond?
