LA Rams Might Give Baker Mayfield a Shot on ‘Thursday Night Football’
It’s been a tumultuous twelvemonth for the LA Rams, who haven’t played anywhere near the stratum that won them the NFL’s Super Bowl LVI in conclusion year. As they train to face the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday Night Football, it’s time they protrude developing a new strategy for next year.
That strategy power involve QB Baker Mayfield, who headed to the Carolina Panthers before the scratch of the electric current season. Things didn’t process come out for Mayfield there, and a daytime after he walked aside from the team, the Rams picked him up.
That only if happened this week, and Mayfield stock-still needs time to set to his unexampled team. However, with any hope of making the playoffs gone, Thursday’s contest against the Raiders could be a outstanding path for him to capture a dash course of instruction inward the Rams’ offense.
Rams Need Help
Mayfield is among those replacing Saint Matthew the Apostle Stafford, who led the Rams to a Super Bowl win against the Cincinnati Bengals in conclusion year. The Rams’ chance to support the title fell apart after Stafford went mastered for the eternal sleep of the yr with a spinal corduroy injury.
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As a result, the Raiders testament look for victory and a distinguish in the playoffs. They testament take vantage of tonight’s game, and a physically and morally depleted Rams sideline, which has suffered half a dozen unbowed losses.
Las Vegas (5-7) has a chance of making the playoffs inwards the AFC. This comes away a recent winning run that reached troika games, culminating in cobbler's last week’s 27-20 win against the LA Chargers.
Since a dismal outing inward Week 8 at New siege of Orleans in which he had just 101 loss yards, Raiders QB Derek Carr has improved his gritty significantly. The 31-year-old signal caller has thrown and twisted for at to the lowest degree 248 yards and deuce touchdowns in quint consecutive games, wrenching upwards 11 touchdown passes, with just now trio interceptions.
Carr knows who he tin bet on to set upwardly the points. Wide pass receiver Davante John Adams has had quadruplet 100-yard performances this season, putting him inward quaternary place in the conference with 1,176 receiving yards. The 29-year-old caught a brace of TD passes from Carr last Billy Sunday to draw the Kaw River City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce for for the first time inward the conference with 12.
Raiders Own the Series
The Raiders demand a win on Th to stay on in contention for a wild-card tell apart inward the playoffs. They’ve shown they cognize how to licking the Rams, and only if need 1 to a greater extent right mettlesome under the team’s first-year top dog coach, Josh McDaniels.
In the series matchup betwixt these two, the Raiders have got won viii of the 14 meetings. Thomas More recently, the Rams feature won iv of the cobbler's last quintet matchups. The changes sledding on inward the Rams locker elbow room will play a giving role inwards today’s outcome.
The Rams aren’t showing the same vitality they had endure year, and the red ink of their principal QB is sledding to hurt them in one case again. Mayfield is capable, but not on one day’s notice. The Raiders should controller the Week 14 opener tonight, while LA’s want of force should help the hit smasher the under.
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