Both teams are struggling, but there might be a playoff-like atmosphere Sunday with each side in desperate need of a win.
TAMPA, Fla. — Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford won’t be thinking about his heroic throws from last year’s thrilling postseason win when he returns to Raymond James Stadium on Sunday to face Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers again.
Lately, Stafford has been focused on fixing the negatives because the Rams’ offense has been among the worst in the NFL through the first two months of the season. The Rams had decent protection for Stafford last week, but they still had another lackluster offensive performance for a team that’s averaging 16.9 points per game, which ranked 28th in the NFL heading into Week 9.
Brady will enter Sunday 164 yards away from becoming the first player in NFL history to record 100,000 career passing yards , a once unreachable feat that might never happen again. But Brady likely hasn’t spent too much time thinking about the milestone and he’s probably not dwelling on last January’s divisional playoff loss to the Rams, when the Buccaneers erased a 27-3 deficit in the final minute before Stafford’s heroics.
The Rams and the Buccaneers are nowhere near to being out of the postseason race, but the loser will be left with only three wins heading into Week 10 and a considerable hole to climb out of.
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