In a high-level offensive recreation between two groups, the Rams have been capable of outlast the Bills on Sunday afternoon to come back away with a 44-42 victory.
Los Angeles had a 38-21 with 18 seconds left within the third quarter, however Buffalo mounted a powerful comeback effort within the fourth. It took till the ultimate snap for the Rams to safe the victory with a punt that allowed time to run out.
According to the Fox broadcast, it was the second recreation all-time with at the least 5 passing touchdowns, 5 dashing touchdowns, and 0 turnovers. The final such recreation was in 1965 when the Chiefs beat the Broncos 45-35 in Week 15.
Josh Allen turned the primary participant to ever have three passing touchdowns and three dashing touchdowns in the identical regular-season recreation.
But that wasn’t sufficient for a victory.
The Rams put collectively their greatest offensive efficiency of the season, with Matthew Stafford passing for 320 yards with two TDs — one to Puka Nacua and the opposite to Cooper Kupp. The membership began 10-of-11 on third down earlier than ending 11-of-15 within the class.
Kyren Williams rushed for 87 yards with a pair of touchdowns. The Rams additionally received a blocked punt returned for a landing within the second quarter.
Nacua was the star, nevertheless, catching 12 passes on 14 targets for 162 yards. Among his greatest performs, he had a stellar toe-tapping catch alongside the sideline that helped energy a scoring drive.
He additionally had Los Angeles’ final landing that gave the membership sufficient to win. Coming out of the two-minute warning on third-and-5, Stafford hit Nacua with a display cross for a 19-yard landing. Kupp had a key block on the play to spring his fellow wideout.
But the sport wasn’t over, because the Bills wanted solely 54 seconds to get again into the top zone. Buffalo had fourth-and-15 and Los Angeles’ protection saved the drive going with a cross interference penalty. Another cross interference ultimately zone put the ball on the L.A. 1-yard line with simply over a minute to go. The Bills tried to sneak Josh Allen into the top zone however received stuffed and used a timeout to cease the clock.
Needing a landing and a area purpose, that was a essential resolution by Sean McDermott as a result of it meant that the Bills had to make use of an onside kick after Allen put the ball in for a 1-yard rating.
Up by two factors, Rams working again Ronnie Rivers recovered the onside kick. Williams took three carries, permitting the clock to run all the way down to seven seconds. And Ethan Evans put a excessive punt within the air that took greater than seven seconds, permitting the clock to expire.
Allen had one other stellar recreation, including to his MVP marketing campaign. He completed 22-of-37 for 342 yards with three touchdowns whereas dashing for 82 yards on 10 carries with three TDs.
Khalil Shakir had 5 catches for 106 yards with a landing whereas Amari Cooper caught six passes for 95 yards.
Not solely have been there no turnovers within the contest, there additionally weren’t any sacks.
Now at 7-6, the Rams may have a fast turnaround to play the 49ers on the street on Thursday evening.
The 10-3 Bills may have one other robust street matchup subsequent week once they go to Detroit to play the Lions. They additionally won’t achieve any floor on the Chiefs within the race for the AFC’s No. 1 seed this week.
