After defeating the Giants, the Los Angeles Rams emphasized areas needing improvement despite their commanding 28-6 victory and impressive performance statistics such as Matthew Stafford's 327 passing yards and four touchdowns. Coach Sean McVay highlighted both positives and necessary corrections, acknowledging that mistakes could be more costly against stronger opponents like the Denver Broncos in their upcoming game. Davante Adams, who had an impactful night with eight receptions for 195 yards and two touchdowns, also noted areas where the team can improve efficiency.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-22,
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The Rams could have looked at the scoreboard Monday night, congratulated themselves on restoring order and called it an evening.
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Rams → look → it
Davante Adams had spent three hours reminding everyone that he remains a problem without an obvious solution.
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he → spend → solution
Matthew Stafford was delivering the ball with conviction.
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Stafford → deliver → conviction
And the misery of Australia finally had some distance behind it.
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misery → have → it
Feeling satisfied is another matter.
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Feeling → feel → ?
For a team with the Rams’ ambitions, Monday’s win over the Giants was as much a reminder of what remains possible as evidence of what still needs work.
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what → remain → work
“The cool thing is there’s a lot of stuff we can clean up too,” Rams coach Sean McVay said.
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McVay → ’ → stuff
Cool might not have been his preferred description when the ball was hitting the ground.
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ball → hit → ground
But his larger point holds up.
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point → hold → ?
The Rams won 28–6, outgained the Giants 481–182 and got 327 passing yards and four touchdown throws from Stafford.
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Rams → win → Stafford
And still, there were stretches when they seemed determined to make the evening more complicated than necessary.
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evening → be → ?
Kyren Williams’ fumble at the Rams’ 11-yard line handed the Giants three points.
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fumble → hand → points
A better opponent might have turned it into a touchdown.
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opponent → turn → touchdown
Stafford forced a throw into double coverage.
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Stafford → force → coverage
Dropped passes turned opportunities into frustrations.
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passes → drop → frustrations
Those are the kinds of mistakes a team can survive against an opponent struggling to generate much of anything.
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team → survive → anything
And remember, the Giants played nearly the entire game without quarterback Jaxson Dart, who went down with a knee injury on the opening drive.
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who → remember → drive
It doesn’t need to be explained how the calculus changed once he left and James Winston replaced him.
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Winston → need → him
Point being, the mistakes the Rams made Monday become considerably more expensive when the caliber of opponent improves.
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caliber → make → opponent
That starts on Sunday when the Rams head to the Mile High City to play the Broncos.
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Rams → start → Broncos
That distinction belongs in any honest assessment of Monday night.
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distinction → belong → night
So does the understanding that identifying flaws in a comfortable victory is hardly a reason to panic.
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identifying → do → victory
Nobody hands out trophies for having the cleanest September.
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Nobody → hand → September
And nobody with designs on playing deep into the postseason should want this to be the best version of themselves.
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this → play → themselves
“We were a little bit not as efficient as I would have liked in certain areas,” said Stafford.
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Stafford → like → areas
“Some plays that we can make that we didn’t make.
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we → make → that
We do that, we like where we are, but it was nice to get a win as we’re finding a way to be better,” Stafford said.
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Stafford → do → way
The reassuring part is that the Rams can point to specific ways to improve.
Protect the ball.
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Rams → point → ball
Give productive possessions a chance to become points instead of explaining afterward why they did not.
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they → give → chance
Those corrections do not require discovering an entirely different offense.
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corrections → require → offense
They require getting more out of the one already taking shape.
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They → require → shape
Adams offered the clearest illustration.
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Adams → offer → illustration
His eight catches for 195 yards and two touchdowns were enough to dominate the evening.
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catches → dominate → evening
They also invited a bigger question.
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They → invite → question
What might this look like when the Rams stop interrupting themselves?
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Rams → look → themselves
“I think it was a glimpse of it, to be honest.
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it → think → it
Because I think we still got another level to tap into,” Adams said.
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Adams → think → level
“And I don’t say that trying to be like ‘that’ but at the end of the day, if we take care of the ball a little bit better, it’s going to equate to more points.
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it → say → points
That is a reasonable expectation, especially with Puka Nacua eventually returning to the offense, Aaron Donald still rounding back into form and Myles Garrett expected back on defense eventually.
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Garrett → return → defense
The Rams are still working toward the lineup they envisioned.
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they → work → lineup
…and 14 more, not listed.
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