Feature: Matthew Stafford enters historic territory with four-touchdown performance against 49ers, leading Rams to 42-26 victory
Stafford then hit a celebratory dance, which is the type of emotion he only shows when he’s in a true groove that’s leading his team to victory. And that’s exactly what happened in Santa Clara on Sunday.
“Yeah, I was having a good time,” Stafford said. “I got hit on that one pretty good, too, so I had to shake that one off a little bit. But, I don’t know, man. Like I said, I just have fun out there. I lose my mind out there when we score touchdowns.”
While a lot of players pre-plan their touchdown celebrations, Stafford said, “whatever comes to me, comes to me.” And, apparently, the “shimmy shake” came to him.
Stafford threw for 280 yards and four touchdowns in the Rams’ 42-26 win over San Francisco in Week 10. It was an offensive explosion led by the veteran quarterback, who put himself in historic territory both in NFL and Rams history.
With his performance on Sunday, Stafford became the first quarterback since the AFL-NFL merger to throw for 4-plus touchdown passes and no interceptions in three straight games. He’s also the first quarterback in franchise history to throw for four-plus touchdowns in three-straight regular season games. Only Peyton Manning, Dan Marino, Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes and Drew Brees had ever done that.
“When you’re on a heater, you just don’t touch whatever he’s doing,” Nacua said. “I’m like, ‘You could do whatever. You could walk on water right now.'”
His first touchdown was a screen pass to Nacua, which he took 22 yards to the house while slipping through would-be tacklers. The scores only got flashier from there.
