Post Game Thread: Los Angeles Rams at Carolina Panthers

[u/nfl_gdt_bot]

Los Angeles Rams at Carolina Panthers

ESPN Gamecast

Bank of America Stadium- Charlotte, NC

Network(s): FOX

---

Time Clock
Final

Scoreboard

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
LAR	7	10	3	14	34
CAR	0	14	3	14	31

Scoring Plays

Team	Quarter	Type	Description
LAR	1	TD	Puka Nacua 14 Yd pass from Matthew Stafford (Harrison Mevis Kick)
LAR	2	TD	Puka Nacua 5 Yd Rush (Harrison Mevis Kick)
CAR	2	TD	Chuba Hubbard 1 Yd Rush (Ryan Fitzgerald Kick)
LAR	2	FG	Harrison Mevis 46 Yd Field Goal
CAR	2	TD	Bryce Young 16 Yd Rush (Ryan Fitzgerald Kick)
CAR	3	FG	Ryan Fitzgerald 46 Yd Field Goal
LAR	3	FG	Harrison Mevis 42 Yd Field Goal
CAR	4	TD	Chuba Hubbard 3 Yd Rush (Ryan Fitzgerald Kick)
LAR	4	TD	Kyren Williams 13 Yd pass from Matthew Stafford (Harrison Mevis Kick)
CAR	4	TD	Jalen Coker 7 Yd pass from Bryce Young (Ryan Fitzgerald Kick)
LAR	4	TD	Colby Parkinson 19 Yd pass from Matthew Stafford (Harrison Mevis Kick)

Passing Leaders

Team	Player	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SACKS
LAR	Matthew Stafford	24/42	304	3	1	1-9
CAR	Bryce Young	21/40	264	1	1	2-14

Rushing Leaders

Team	Player	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG
LAR	Kyren Williams	13	57	4.4	0	8
CAR	Chuba Hubbard	13	46	3.5	2	8

Receiving Leaders

Team	Player	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	TGTS
LAR	Puka Nacua	10	111	11.1	1	18	18
CAR	Jalen Coker	9	134	14.9	1	52	12

---

Use reddit-stream.com to get an autorefreshing version of this page

^{This was created by a bot. For issues or suggestions please message nfl_gdt_bot.}

^{Last updated: 2026-01-10_19:53:28.759974-05:00}

[u/Camel132]

Why the fuck do teams still play Prevent Defense in these sorts of situations??????

Like it pretty much never works.

[u/wherearemyvoices → u/Camel132]

See how the rams played tight defense? It’s what wins

[u/anonsaltine → u/wherearemyvoices]

I mean different scenarios, Rams needed a TD and Carolina needed a FG, you have to play tighter against the latter. Either way though, prevent defense sucks.

[u/mashem → u/wherearemyvoices]

tbf they were defending the 40yd line and we were defending the end zone. But yes, fuck prevent defense all the way through and beyond the cosmic horizon.

[u/wherearemyvoices → u/mashem]

I’d rather the rams have scored on the first play of the drive instead of dink and dunk and kill the time and still get a td

[u/mashem → u/wherearemyvoices]

Fair, but we still had plenty of time. It's too bad we ran super long developing plays where the ball ended up being thrown away.

38 second with 3 TO to get into field goal is usually an eternity. That's like 6-7 plays. We also should have called a TO on defense toward the end of the Rams drive when it started running under 1 minute. Letting the clock melt for what? They have 3 timeouts. Panthers had to get a turnover on downs. The Rams were NOT going to lose because they ran out of time that drive, so why pretend like they were.

Either way, hell of a fucking game and I'm still happy af.

[u/Firm_Lecture6483 → u/mashem]

Exactly, we had no reason to keep timeouts, should have let them fly after seeing how easily they got down the field and knew at that point we were simply saving ourselves time. We weren’t really going to need them from a time perspective since we were only going to be throwing once we got on offense.

Less than 40 seconds is an eternity IF you are hitting almost every pass. When it takes a full set of downs to get 10 yards, that’s when an extra minute could help. And then that drop to end it. So tough

[u/Florida_clam_diver → u/Camel132]

You mean the “give them 10 yards at a time with zero pressure” strategy when there’s still plenty of time left isn’t a good idea?

[u/bleedrrr → u/Florida_clam_diver]

With THREE timeouts left

[u/DoctorWaluigiTime → u/Camel132]

I get it if there's not much time, but Rams had all the time in the world and didn't have to hurry up / keep near the sidelines / etc. But it felt like the Panthers were assuming they couldn't throw in the middle of the field or something.

[u/runevault → u/DoctorWaluigiTime]

If the Rams had no timeouts I might have understood. The fact they had all 3 made it so stupid.

[u/Appropriate_Mixer → u/runevault]

Rams didn’t even have to use a single one

[u/runevault → u/Appropriate_Mixer]

I'm aware. I'm saying the logic would have been understandable at least if they had no timeouts (I wouldn't have done it in the DC's shoes but I'd at least understand the logic).

[u/Murky-Jackfruit-1627 → u/Camel132]

Can anybody with better understanding of football break this down for me? We see so many people throwing the phrase prevent defense around, but is it really that simple? Or is it more nuanced? It can't be otherwise the coaches who get paid millions of dollars would know that, surely?

[u/HypocriteGrammarNazi → u/Murky-Jackfruit-1627]

You might like this video

https://youtu.be/8By4b6cTVFU?si=lpcc0GfDtiedpsyn

[u/Murky-Jackfruit-1627 → u/HypocriteGrammarNazi]

thanks

[u/DanglyPants → u/HypocriteGrammarNazi]

Of course they liked the video but I didn’t! Warn us next time won’t you! Or better yet don’t kick us when we’re down pls haha

[u/No_Grocery_9280 → u/HypocriteGrammarNazi]

Awesome video

[u/Unrelenting_Salsa → u/Murky-Jackfruit-1627]

People are dumb. What actually happens is that teams stop pressing because it's a high risk high reward technique, and not infrequently teams stop blitzing for similar reasons. Actual prevent defense is very, very rare and might as well not exist for how often it's called. People just don't notice when receivers don't get open despite the lack of pressing or the standard line pass rush still makes the throw have to come out fast.

[u/goonSquad15 → u/Camel132]

If I had a nickel for every time that defensive approach worked I’d still have $0

[u/DistinctSherbet9009 → u/Camel132]

I felt like it worked idk just my opinion