Los Angeles Rams Outlast Seattle Seahawks In a Bizarre NFC West Slugfest, 21-19
If you tuned into the Seahawks-Rams game expecting a clean, crisp display of NFC West football, you probably ended up scratching your head and checking if your TV was glitching. What we got instead was a glorious, chaotic mess of a game that felt more like a blooper reel than a battle for divisional supremacy.
In the end, the Los Angeles Rams managed to stumble across the finish line, clinging to a 21-19 victory over a Seattle Seahawks team that seemed determined to give the game away, only to snatch it back at the last second. It was a game only a football degenerate could love, and boy, did we love it.
Sam Darnold’s Interception Bonanza
Let’s just get this out of the way: Sam Darnold had a day. A historically bad day. A “hide your kids, hide your wife” kind of day. The Seahawks quarterback decided to play a game of catch with the wrong team, throwing not one, not two, not three, but four interceptions. It was a masterclass in generosity, a charitable donation to the Rams’ secondary that kept them in the driver’s seat even when their own offense was sputtering.
Rams Safety Kamren Kinchens must have thought it was his birthday. He snagged two of Darnold’s errant passes, including a crucial pick in the third quarter that set the Rams up deep in Seattle territory. You could almost see the smoke coming out of Seahawks fans’ ears as promising drives were repeatedly torpedoed by baffling decisions. It was the kind of performance that makes you wonder if Darnold mistook the Rams’ bone-colored jerseys for his own practice squad.
The Rams’ Offense: Just Good Enough to Not Lose
While the Rams’ defense was feasting, their offense was doing just enough not to squander the gifts they were being handed. Matthew Stafford, who has been playing like an MVP candidate, looked decidedly human. He orchestrated a couple of scoring drives, including a short touchdown pass to Davante Adams for Adams’ 1,000th career reception—a nice little milestone buried in the muck.
The real spark for the Rams’ offense came from Kyren Williams, who ran like a man possessed. His tough, gritty runs, including a 34-yard burst that set up a touchdown, were one of the few consistent bright spots for L.A. In the fourth quarter, it was former Seahawk Colby Parkinson who twisted his way into the end zone for what would become the game-winning touchdown, adding a delicious layer of salty narrative to the rivalry.
But for much of the second half, the Rams’ offense looked like they were running in quicksand, unable to put the game away despite Seattle’s best efforts to hand it to them on a silver platter.
Seattle’s Baffling Refusal To Die
Here’s the wild part. Despite Darnold’s one-man turnover festival, the Seahawks simply would not go away. It was like a horror movie villain who just keeps getting up. Every time you thought the Rams had finally buried them, Seattle would claw its way back, mostly thanks to the leg of Kicker Jason Myers. Myers was a machine, banging through four field goals, including a monster 57-yarder in the first quarter. For a while, it felt like Seattle’s entire offensive game plan was “get to the 35-yard line and let Jason handle it.”
Then, with just minutes left in the game and trailing by nine, the impossible happened: Darnold remembered how to play quarterback. He led the Seahawks on a gutsy 11-play, 84-yard drive, capped off by a Kenneth Walker III one-yard touchdown run. Suddenly, it was a two-point game. You could feel the collective gasp from every living room in Los Angeles. Could Seattle actually pull this off? Were we about to witness the most undeserved comeback of all time?
Ultimately, the Rams held on, surviving a game that was far closer than it had any right to be. It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t textbook, but it was a win. And in the brutal landscape of the NFC West, that’s all that matters. The Rams now sit atop the division, while the Seahawks are left to ponder what might have been if their quarterback had just aimed for the guys in the blue helmets.
