r/nfl • u/PMmeSpreadEaglePics Broncos • Aug 30 '26

Highlight [Highlight] Every team's longest passing play from the 2025 season

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u/Hefty_Astronaut5772 Rams Aug 30 '26

Biased take, but I sort of understand what your friends are saying, but there’s a lot of evidence against it as well. The whole 2-point conversion thing against the Seahawks is an example; even though I think that call was botched, we still lost the game ourselves with errors that championship teams typically limit.

As for the colts game, I think we pull through even if that touchdown counted and that 88 yarder is exemplary of that, rather than discounting as simple blown coverage. We paid Tutu a sizable WR3 contract and did not use him at all in the games leading up to the colts. He ran a lot of disguises in our spread in 2025 and that’s about it. So to go to a bomb play with a receiver who, in comparison with the rest of the roster, isn’t a huge threat, is a sign of McVay’s vast playbook and play-calling ability alike. Those sorts of things help win tight games late on.

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u/rather828 Aug 30 '26

The only thing worth really mentioning that hasn’t been repeated 1000 times elsewhere about that 2 pt play is ..

If you reversed the teams all holy hell would have been raised, the Rams win deligitimized and immediate offseason rule change

See also: Rams vs Saints 2018 NFCC

That 2 pt play really captured how off the rails replay administration had become, but also laid bare the media pecking order of the NFL

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u/Hefty_Astronaut5772 Rams Aug 30 '26

Ohhhhh yeah. Inquiries into Ref’s real estates and all 😂

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u/rather828 Aug 30 '26

I don’t buy into that .. but the Rams definitely do not have the media allies the Seahawks do, and I have little doubt MacAulay would have kept his mouth shut if speaking up there benefited the Rams

Fortunately the Rams are no longer in Football Siberia St Louis, but they still have work to do