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The Los Angeles Rams lost a game Monday night that the record book says they shouldn’t have. They gained 454 yards, scored five touchdowns, didn’t turn it over and still fell 37-34 in overtime to the Buffalo Bills at SoFi Stadium, becoming the only team in NFL history to lose with that combination, according to Opta Stats.
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The Rams are 2-3, and the final box score shows how much went right. The loss came down to a few spots on the field. Here’s who came out of it looking good, and who didn’t.
Winners
Puka Nacua
Nacua caught 17 passes, a career high, on 24 targets for 138 yards. His 2-yard touchdown catch put the Rams ahead 20-19 early in the fourth quarter, and he caught two passes for 26 yards on the overtime drive that reached the Buffalo 30. This was only his third game of the season, and the concern that could follow him didn’t show up Monday. He was the offense.
Matthew Stafford
Stafford went 40 of 54 for 383 yards with three touchdown passes and no interceptions. He had thrown six interceptions in the first four games, and the Rams had committed exactly two turnovers in every one of them. After a week of questions about how Stafford handled turnovers, he played a clean game and led an eight-play, 63-yard drive that ended with Kyren Williams’ tying touchdown with five seconds left in regulation. The Rams went 5 for 5 in the red zone.
Losers
Harrison Mevis
Mevis missed a 50-yard field goal wide left at the end of a 14-play opening drive, then had a 48-yarder blocked by Greg Rousseau in overtime. Make either kick, and the Rams likely win. He entered the night 5 for 7 on field goals and is now 5 for 9, and Athlon flagged last week that the Rams needed to fix their special teams before it cost them a game. It did. McVay said afterward, “I’m going to evaluate everything.”
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Sean McVay
McVay’s overtime sequence is the one Rams fans will replay all week. Facing third-and-5 at the Buffalo 30 with Stafford rolling, he called a Williams run that went nowhere, then sent out a kicker who had already missed once.
McVay owned it. “I’ll be regretting kicking that and not having a better call to be able to go for it on third down,” he said, according to Athlon, adding, “It’s on me.”
Chris Shula
The Rams entered the week third in EPA per play allowed, according to Sumer Sports. Buffalo ran 37 times for 234 yards and three touchdowns. James Cook had 111 yards and two scores, and Josh Allen ran 10 times for 121 yards, including scrambles of 19 and 13 yards on the drive that set up the winning field goal.
Shula’s defense did force two turnovers: a Jaylen Watson interception and an overtime fumble by Cook that Nate Landman forced and Aaron Donald, fresh off his return, recovered at the Rams’ 20. But Allen’s legs decided the game, and a unit that had held up all season had no answer for them.
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This story was originally published October 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM.