Rams, Robert Woods bounce back to beat Seahawks 26-17

SEATTLE — For a portion there, it was looking similar a accelerated autumn for the Rams, 2 losses successful 5 days that would person near a squad with early-season Super Bowl hopes alternatively looking astatine the rubric of September Bowl champions.

But they caught themselves Thursday nighttime astatine Lumen Field, shaking disconnected a dilatory commencement to travel from down and bushed the Seattle Seahawks 26-17.

Robert Woods did astir of the catching.

The wide receiver, reported missing for overmuch of the Rams’ nonaccomplishment to the Cardinals connected Sunday, caught 12 passes for 150 yards, adjacent to his vocation highs, to revive the offense.

He was the large people arsenic backmost Matthew Stafford had his highest-yardage crippled arsenic a Ram, completing 25 of 37 passes for 365 yards, 1 touchdowns and 1 interception.

The defense, meanwhile, recovered from a atrocious time against the Cardinals’ Kyler Murray to incorporate the Seahawks’ Russell Wilson earlier the backmost near the crippled successful the 2nd fractional with a dislocated finger.

The Rams are 3-1. The Seahawks fell to 2-3.

That Rams took their archetypal pb of the crippled connected their archetypal thrust of the 2nd half, going 96 yards aft a punt, 68 connected a drawback and tally by DeSean Jackson and the past 5 connected a transportation by Darrell Henderson. Matt Gay missed his archetypal other constituent of the season, and it was 9-7.

Then they made it back-to-back touchdown drives, going 82 yards aft different punt, with a brace of 20-yard completions from Stafford to Woods and a 29-yard tally by Henderson to acceptable up a 13-yard walk to Tyler Higbee successful the extremity zone. It was a two-score lead, 16-7, precocious successful the 3rd quarter.

The Rams seemed to beryllium successful adjacent amended signifier erstwhile Seahawks backmost Russell Wilson had to permission the crippled aft dislocating a digit connected his throwing hand. But Geno Smith came successful and led a 98-yard drive, the past 23 connected a walk to D.K. Metcalf, cutting the pb to 2 aboriginal successful the fourth.

But Stafford responded, completing passes for 24 yards to Woods and 33 and 13 to Cooper Kupp earlier Sony Michel ran 2 yards untouched to marque it 23-14 with 6:08 left.

A Seahawks tract extremity kept the crippled live with 2:45 connected the clock.

After the Rams couldn’t tally retired said clock, it was up to the defense. And it came done with the large play that had been elusive lately. Nick Scott intercepted a Smith walk astatine the Seattle 32 with 2:02 to go, and a 47-yard tract extremity by Matt Gay with 1:24 to spell sealed the win.

The teams came into their archetypal gathering since the Rams’ playoff crippled successful Seattle past January — and their 4th gathering successful 11 months — some needing to triumph to debar falling farther down the NFC West-leading Cardinals.

In the archetypal half, the 2 star-studded offenses, operating against struggling defenses, produced capable mistakes to gladden viewers successful Arizona.

The Seahawks led 7-3 acknowledgment to a 19-yard touchdown walk from Wilson to D.K Metcalf successful the 2nd quarter, capping a speedy 83-yard thrust connected which the large play was a pass-interference call.

That 47-yard punishment was committed by Robert Rochell, the rookie replacing David Long astatine nickel cornerback, who was being outrun by Metcalf connected a heavy throw.

Both teams blew chances for more.

Stafford threw an interception to information Quandre Diggs successful the extremity portion erstwhile helium should person thrown it distant connected 2nd and extremity astatine the 8.

Wilson seemed to person cashed successful Seahawks thrust to the Rams’ 15, but his completion to Tyler Lockett successful the extremity portion was wiped retired by a Seattle holding penalty.

Then the Seahawks missed a tract goal.

This communicative volition beryllium updated.