The Los Angeles Rams hardly seemed just like the defending Super Bowl champions of their Week 1 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills or in Monday’s 24-9 defeat by the hands of the rival San Francisco 49ers that dropped the Rams to 2-2 on the season.
Some understandably could also be fast to say the Rams are merely experiencing an ordinary “Super Bowl hangover” coming off their title-clinching victory final winter. However, Pro Football Talk’s Michael David Smith famous on Tuesday morning that quarterback Matthew Stafford is, merely put, enjoying worse than he did in the course of the 2021 marketing campaign.
“He’s averaging just 6.8 yards per pass after averaging 8.1 last year, he’s throwing interceptions on four percent of his passes compared to 2.8 percent last year, his touchdowns have declined to 2.7 percent of his passes this year after 6.8 percent last year, and he’s getting sacked twice as often, at 9.6 percent of his dropbacks after 4.8 percent last year,” Smith wrote of Stafford.
The Athletic’s Jourdan Rodrigue identified final month that Stafford underwent a nonsurgical process on the elbow of his throwing arm in March because of a problem mentioned to be “something akin to tendinitis.” According to Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times, Stafford insisted final week the elbow felt “pretty good” heading into Monday’s conflict with San Francisco.
As Smith added, ESPN stats show that the Rams started Tuesday ranked thirtieth in dashing yards per sport (68.5) and twenty ninth in yards per carry (3.3). Head coach Sean McVay and firm will not obtain any midweek break following Monday’s end result, as they will have to right away start getting ready to host the 3-1 Dallas Cowboys this coming Sunday.
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