Rams can’t change their losing ways in Green Bay

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Ten months, a caller backmost and a high-risk attack had the Rams hoping for a antithetic result Sunday erstwhile they returned to the tract of the crippled that ended their Super Bowl hopes past season.

But alteration doesn’t travel rapidly astatine Lambeau Field, the anti-SoFi Stadium. It’s inactive cold, it’s inactive large and it’s inactive wherever Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers prevarication waiting. It’s inactive wherever Rams optimism goes to die.

A 36-28 nonaccomplishment to the Packers connected a freezing day and evening similar past January’s felt caller and aged astatine the aforesaid time.

Matthew Stafford, acquired successful a commercialized days aft that playoff loss, replaced Jared Goff successful the relation of inconsistent Rams backmost successful this one, a fumble and an interception starring to the Packers’ archetypal and past touchdowns.

The effect near the Rams 7-4 aft their 3rd consecutive defeat, inactive solidly No. 5 successful NFC playoff seedings but looking much similar a chaotic paper present that they’re 2 afloat games down the Cardinals successful the NFC West.

Meanwhile, the Packers are 9-3 and coasting successful the NFC North, truthful astatine slightest the Rams person started losing to a amended people of opponents.

The crippled should person been closer, and the Rams were wrong 11 points astatine the commencement of the 4th fourth aft Stafford deed Odell Beckham Jr. for 54 yards and the wide receiver’s archetypal L.A. touchdown, and past recovered Cooper Kupp for a 2-point conversion.

But that was lone aft Stafford, throwing to Kupp connected 3rd and 7 astatine the Rams 28 precocious successful the third, had his walk picked disconnected and tally backmost for a touchdown by cornerback Rasul Douglas, making it the Rams quarterback’s 3rd consecutive crippled giving up a pick-six.

If a low-scoring crippled seemed imaginable with the somesthesia 37 degrees and flags blowing successful a 14-mph upwind astatine mid-afternoon kickoff, it didn’t commencement oregon decorativeness that way.

That wasn’t each astir offense.

As they did successful their losses to the Titans and 49ers connected Stafford interceptions, the Rams rapidly fell down by treble digits due to the fact that of mistakes.

First it was a Stafford fumble connected a sack by linebacker Rashad Gary. The Packers took implicit astatine the Rams’ 6. Broken near pinky toed and all, Rodgers ran it successful astir close extremity aft freezing cornerback Jalen Ramsey by faking a pass.

Next, it was manager Sean McVay’s gambling determination to spell for it connected 4th down and 1 astatine the Rams 29-yard line. Darrell Henderson, who’d been stopped for 1 gait connected 3rd and 2, was upended for nary summation connected fourth. The defence did its job, holding the Packers to a tract goal, but that made it 10-0 aboriginal successful the 2nd quarter.

McVay sometimes blames himself for Rams troubles adjacent erstwhile it’s not his fault. This time, fewer would argue.

Stafford rapidly got the Rams backmost successful the game.

He deed Van Jefferson with a agelong walk astatine the Packers 35, and the receiver stayed connected his feet aft interaction with a defender and completed a 79-yard touchdown play.

And helium threaded a 6-yard touchdown walk to moving backmost Darrell Henderson, who held connected astatine the extremity enactment arsenic helium was deed by linebacker Krys Barnes.

In between, the Rams got a tract extremity aft Robert Rochell recovered Randall Cobb’s muff of a just drawback connected a Johnny Hekker punt.

But Rodgers responded to that by starring the Packers connected the longest thrust of the game, an 89-yarder that included passes for 43 to Davante Adams and 27 and 18 for the touchdown to Cobb.

Rodgers ended up with his 3rd crippled of 300 oregon much yards passing this season, portion Adams ended up with his 4th crippled of 100 yards oregon much receiving.

The Packers led 20-17 astatine halftime.

Then they came retired and went 87 yards — aft drafting a emblem connected the kickoff instrumentality — to people connected a 5-yard touchdown walk from Rodgers to A.J. Dillon.

The Rams weren’t wrong 2 scores again until making a tract extremity with conscionable 18 seconds remaining.