Matthew Stafford has had some success Indianapolis, including comebacks, and the quarterback needs to get the Rams back on track on the road against the Colts.
Sam Farmer makes his picks and predictions for Week 4 of the 2023 NFL season, starting with the Detroit Lions taking on the Green Bay Packers.For most of the game against the Bengals, left tackle Alaric Jackson and right guard Joe Noteboom were sidelined because of injuries. Stafford was sacked six times.
That harked to last season, when injuries ravaged the line. Stafford suffered a concussion and then a spinal injury that ultimately ended his season.“Played this game long enough to know that that’s part of it,” he said. “I know our guys are doing everything they can to be back as soon as possible and we’ll go from there.”
The last time the Rams traveled to Indianapolis, in 2021, Stafford was making only his second start under McVay. In 2016, when he played for the Detroit Lions, Stafford had engineered a comeback victory over the Colts.He did it again for the Rams, erasing a four-point deficit with a late touchdown pass to Kupp, and then directing a drive that ended with a tie-breaking field goal for aThat was Stafford’s 38th game-winning drive, which had tied him for eighth all-time, according to profootballreference.com.
“One of our coaches came up to me after that and was like, ‘All right, if we recover the onside [kick], we got about 15, 20 yards to get into field-goal range,’ ” Stafford said. “I was like, ‘Hell no, man. We get this freaking onside, I’m freaking going to gut them and go get a win. You know what I mean? Let’s get the hell out of here.’
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