Rams outlast Chiefs in offensive battle
Jared Goff threw a 40yard touchdown pass to Gerald Everett for the goahead score with 1:49 to play, and the Rams outlasted the Chiefs for a 54-51 victory on Monday night in Los Angeles in a highoctane NFL offensive showdown that somehow surpassed the hype.
Patrick Mahomes threw six touchdown passes in his latest jaw-dropping performance for the Chiefs (9-2), but he also threw two interceptions in the final 1:18 as the Rams (10-1) held on to win the highestscoring Monday night game ever played and the first NFL game with two 50point performances.
Goff passed for 413 yards and four touchdowns, while Marcus Peters and Lamarcus Joyner came up with the late interceptions.
The highest-scoring game in the league this season featured 1,001 combined yards.
The NFL will return to Mexico City with a regular-season game next year.
Less than a week after the league moved the highprofile Chiefs-Rams matchup from Azteca Stadium to Los Angeles because of the poor playing conditions at the Mexico venue, the NFL and Mexico’s president-elect confirmed the 2019 game. It will be the third match of a contract signed in 2016.
Commissioner Roger Goodell and Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met before making the announcement Monday.
The date of the game and participating teams won’t be known until the NFL’s 2019 schedule is released in the spring.
The game between the Chiefs and Rams, both 9-1, has been one of the most anticipated this season, and would have been a showcase for Mexico with a likely huge television audience. But in a news release last Tuesday, the league said it determined that the recently re-sodded field at Mexico City’s historic stadium “does not meet NFL standards for playability and consistency, and will not meet those standards by next Monday.”
Colt McCoy knew exactly what his teammates needed to hear.
In the aftermath of a gut-wrenching two-point loss and the sickening season-ending injury to Alex Smith, McCoy stood up in the Redskins locker room and addressed the group.
McCoy “told us we were in good hands,” running back Chris Thompson said. “We had no doubt about that from the jump. We lost the game, but I will say Colt talking to us afterwards really had the dudes hyped up and we’re ready to get to Dallas.”
The team signed Mark Sanchez to serve as the new backup, but this is McCoy’s show now after Smith broke his right tibia and fibula in gruesome fashion. McCoy will start Thursday when the Redskins visit the Cowboys in a Thanksgiving showdown that will go a long way to determining who wins the NFC East.
“I just feel very comfortable with Colt and always have,” coach Jay Gruden said. “It’s been a luxury to have him as a backup and now it’s a great opportunity for him to take the reins.”