Matthew Stafford: We earned the chance to be at this point

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford conducted one other real game on Thursday evening, turning into the first Rams quarterback to throw for as a minimum two touchdowns and not using a interceptions in four consecutive video games.

Stafford’s excessive-stage play now has the Rams at 8-7 with two video games to lunge. As the NFC’s contemporary No. 6 seed, the membership is in a top pickle to to find to the playoffs — which is one thing that seemed slightly unlikely when the season started.

Not like when Stafford arrived in 2021, this season used to be ostensibly speculated to be about growth and vogue. But as younger players love receiver Puka Nacua continue to rob steps forward, Stafford said after Thursday’s score that he’s “taking them appropriate there with them.”

“Every 300 and sixty five days it’s a building route of, appropriate? Most steadily, you enact it varied than other years,” Stafford said. “This 300 and sixty five days is varied than the total other years I’ve conducted. But it with out a doubt’s fun to lunge to work with these guys, fun to witness every person device together, pull for one one more, work laborious. We push one one more each day in educate and feel extremely ready when we device out on gameday. This day used to be no varied.”

Since their Week 10 bye, the Rams bear received five of their six video games, scoring no longer no longer as much as 28 aspects in each of the closing five contests. Whereas Los Angeles used to be appropriate 3-of-6 in pink zone efficiency and 1-of-2 in fair-to-lunge efficiency, the membership clearly has understood what’s on the dual carriageway with every game since initiating the 300 and sixty five days 3-6.

“I mean, we’ve had stakes since we came aid from the bye,” Stafford said. “We earned the chance to be at this point, for my share. So I feel we’re relishing the chance to device out and play each day. It goes aid to how we work in educate. We push one one more so that we feel extremely ready when we device out here on gameday and let it rip.

“But, stakes, whatever that’s — we’ve had stakes on chronicle of the bye. So, appropriate relaxed with the come these guys bear put their head down, contrivance to work, trusted one one more, and it’s exhibiting up.”

Stafford completed Thursday’s score 24-of-34 for 328 yards with two touchdowns. In 14 video games, Stafford has completed 62 percent of his throws for 3,648 yards with 23 touchdowns and nine picks.

With two video games left, the Rams bear an opportunity to lunge as a ways as Stafford’s appropriate arm will rob them.