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The Rams Robert Woods (2) finds moving country successful the secondary during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Rams caput manager Sean McVay (left) congratulates backmost Matthew Stafford (right) aft throwing his 300th vocation touchdown walk against the Lions during the 2nd 4th astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
The Rams Robert Woods (2) breaks distant from the tackle by the Lions Tracy Walker (21) during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
The Rams Robert Woods (2) breaks distant from the tackle by the Lions Tracy Walker (21) during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
The Rams Van Jefferson (12) hauls successful a Matthew Stafford touchdown walk arsenic the Lions Jerry Jacobs (39) defends during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Lions moving backmost D’Andre Swift (32) is tackled by the RamsSebastian Joseph-Day (69) during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Lions backmost Jared Goff (16) passes for a archetypal 4th touchdown arsenic it flies betwixt the arms of the Rams Jalen Ramsey (5) during the archetypal 4th astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Lions moving backmost D’Andre Swift (32) is tackled by the Rams Jordan Fuller (4) during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
The Lions retrieve their ain onside footwear during the archetypal 4th against the Rams astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Lions moving backmost D’Andre Swift (32) is tackled by the Rams Terrell Brugess (26) during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
The Rams Cooper Kupp (10) hauls successful a walk during the archetypal fractional against the Detroit Lions astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Rams moving backmost Darrell HenderesonJr. (27) tries to debar the tackle by the Lions Charles Harris (53) during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Rams backmost Matthew Stafford (9) looks down tract during the archetypal fractional against the Lions astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
The Rams Cooper Kupp (10) hauls successful a walk during the archetypal fractional against the Detroit Lions astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Lions backmost Jared Goff (16) feels the unit from his erstwhile teammate Aaron Donald (99) during the archetypal fractional astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Detroit Lions and erstwhile Rams backmost Jared Goff takes the tract for pregame warmups anterior to playing the Rams astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood connected Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The Los Angeles Rams big the visiting Detroit Lions successful a National Football League game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
INGLEWOOD — Jared Goff returned to SoFi Stadium with the Detroit Lions connected Sunday with a accidental to unrecorded down the cognition that Matthew Stafford and the Rams won their blockbuster commercialized past winter.
Stafford and the Rams won the crippled too.
In a communicative arc acquainted to followers of Goff’s vocation successful L.A., helium had a large commencement but a bittersweet finish, allowing the Rams to travel from 10 points down to triumph 28-19 successful beforehand of 70,540 fans astatine SoFi Stadium.
Goff, who had galore bully moments successful L.A., added different 1 connected the Lions’ archetypal possession by connecting connected a abbreviated walk that moving backmost D’Andre Swift turned into a 63-yard touchdown.
Stafford, who spent 12 personally prolific but yet frustrating years successful Detroit, brought the Rams backmost to instrumentality the pb connected a 5-yard touchdown walk to Cooper Kupp with 13:59 to play.
The Lions’ accidental of winning efficaciously ended erstwhile Goff was deed by Aaron Donald arsenic helium threw a walk into the extremity portion and it was intercepted by Jalen Ramsey with little than 5 minutes connected the clock.
Matt Gay added a 47-yard tract extremity with 58 seconds near to unafraid the Rams’ win.
Stafford finished with 28 completions connected 41 attempts for 334 yards, 3 touchdowns and nary interceptions. Goff went 22 for 36 for 268 yards, 1 TD and 2 interceptions.
Kupp caught 10 passes for 156 yards and his seventh and eighth touchdowns of the season.
The Rams are 6-1. The Lions are 0-7.
The duel betwixt Stafford and Goff started retired much similar a duel betwixt Rams manager Sean McVay and Lions manager Dan Campbell, with Campbell rewarded for aggressiveness.
After the opening touchdown, the Lions tried an onside footwear — and recovered it astatine their 47. On 4th and 7 from the 50, they faked a punt — and punter Jack Fox threw to Bobby Price for 17 yards.
That thrust resulted successful a 37-yard tract extremity by Austin Seibert and a 10-0 pb for the Lions midway done the archetypal quarter.
That’s arsenic bully arsenic it got for the sizeable fig of fans successful Lions jerseys successful the SoFi Stadium crowd.
Two antiaircraft penalties helped the Rams person 3rd downs connected an 11-play, 84-yard thrust to a touchdown connected Stafford’s 11-yard walk to Van Jefferson down Jerry Jacobs astatine the near borderline of the extremity zone. The Rams were wrong 13-10.
Goff began the Lions’ adjacent possession by throwing a walk to an ineligible receiver and past dumping 1 astatine the feet of an eligible one. The Lions’ archetypal punt of the time gave the Rams a accidental to spell successful beforehand earlier halftime. Again, Stafford cashed it in.
A 2-yard walk play from Stafford to Cooper Kupp for the wide receiver’s seventh touchdown of the play gave the Rams what became a 17-16 pb astatine the break.
It was the archetypal clip Goff and Stafford, traded for each different successful January, faced their erstwhile teams.
The Rams showed videos of highlights of Goff’s and Lions antiaircraft extremity Michael Brockers’ careers successful L.A. With each eyes connected them, Goff and Rams manager Sean McVay got obscurity adjacent to a handshake during warmups, but McVay embraced Goff astatine game’s end. Goff and Stafford served arsenic captains for the coin flip and exchanged a speedy hug.
Stafford won the coin flip too.
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