“We can be tantamount to we need to be, really,” the fifth-year quarterback said after Monday night’s 27-24 triumph over Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “We have everything before us. Everything is there for us to take.”
Goff tossed for 376 yards and three scores, and Matt Gay kicked a 40-yard field objective with 2:36 excess to lift the Rams once more into the lead position in the NFC West.
Goff finished 39 of 51 passes, including short scoring tosses to Robert Woods, Van Jefferson and Cam Akers. The Rams’ protection compelled Brady the entire night and fixed the success with youngster security Jordan Fuller’s second block attempt of the six-time Super Bowl champion.
Goff tossed a couple of block attempts, as well, helping the Bucs stay close in the subsequent half.
However, when the Rams (7-3) required him to stand tall, he bounced back to lead them directly down the field to retake the lead after Brady attached it with his second TD pass.
“I’ve generally had faith in myself in any circumstance, yet when you really do it in an intense climate, it causes you to feel great,” Goff said.
“Jared just kept on showing versatility,” Rams mentor Sean McVay said. “I love the reality he was extraordinary from the bounce. We had that one little misstep, and he just continued contending. What he did as far as driving us down the field at the main second was basic.”
Cooper Kupp had 11 gatherings for 145 yards and Woods got done with 10 gets for 130 yards. Both got passes on the eight-play, 53-yard drive Goff prompted move Los Angeles into position for Gay’s triumphant kick.
Brady was 26 of 48 for 216 yards and two scores. The Rams fired him once subsequent to getting to Russell Wilson multiple times in the earlier week’s 23-16 triumph over the Seattle Seahawks.
“Frustrated. I need to make a superior showing,” Brady said.
Tampa Bay was restricted to a score and field objective in the subsequent half, both set up by capture attempts tossed by Goff.
“They worked admirably forestalling (the large play),” Brady said. “They play a protection that makes them extreme to hit. Certainly feasible, but rather we didn’t hit any.”
Gay, a 2019 Bucs draft pick who was delivered after a new kid on the block season set apart by irregularity, is the Rams’ third kicker in about a month.
“I discovered on Monday that the Rams were getting me,” Gay said. “It was a fast flight so I could start testing so I could be qualified for the game. Saturday was the main day I could be in the structure. Fortunately we played Monday night.”
The Bucs (7-4) tumbled to 1-3 of every four ideal time games regardless of keeping away from the kind of moderate beginning that hurt them in misfortunes to the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints and almost cost them in a limited triumph over the New York Giants.
Mentor Bruce Arians changed the group’s planning plan a week ago, holding two practices around evening time — one at Raymond James Stadium.
“Everyone is frustrated. Everyone was prepared to play,” Arians said. “We played a decent football crew. No one’s head is down.”
Brady addressed a 10-play, 80-yard, 7-minute, 55-second drive Goff prompted give the Rams a 7-0 lead with several long scoring drives of his own to put the Bucs up 14-7 with a 9-yard TD pass to Mike Evans.
Goff tossed first-half TD passes to Woods and Jefferson, at that point utilized Woods’ 20-yard catch and race to the Tampa Bay 20 to set up Gay’s 38-yard field objective as time lapsed to give Los Angeles a 17-14 lead at halftime.
With the Bucs following 24-17, Brady exploited Goff tossing his second capture of the night. Chris Godwin’s 13-yard TD get made it 24-all, making way for Goff to move the Rams downfield for the approval field objective.
Fuller, a 6th round draft pick who fell off harmed save a week ago, guaranteed Los Angeles improved to 32-0 when driving at halftime under McVay.
“I was simply in my zone, and the quarterback wound up tossing it toward me,” said Fuller, who strangely — like Brady — was chosen 199th generally speaking in the draft.
“I was simply letting myself know, ‘Don’t drop it, don’t drop it, don’t drop it.’ The subsequent one was somewhat the equivalent,” Fuller added. “I was simply perusing the quarterback’s eyes and had the option to go out there and get it.”