Team's $360m NFL gamble reaches new low

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Baker Mayfield threw 2 touchdown passes to Tyler Higbee, Cam Akers rushed for 118 yards and 3 much scores, and the Los Angeles Rams routed the Denver Broncos 51-14 for their 2nd triumph since mid-October.

Mayfield went 24 of 28 for 230 yards successful different standout show for his 2nd triumph successful 3 starts with the Rams (5-10), who produced the champion crippled of their dismal play connected Christmas.

Rookie Cobie Durant returned his 2nd interception 85 yards for a touchdown with 4:08 near to headdress the Rams’ archetypal 50-point show nether Sean McVay since their famed 54-51 triumph implicit Kansas City successful 2018.

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For astatine slightest 1 much week, Los Angeles avoided becoming the archetypal defending Super Bowl champion to suffer 11 games. Even with the NFL's 32nd-ranked offence coming in, Los Angeles became conscionable the 2nd squad to people 50 points successful the NFL this season, joining Dallas earlier this month, and enactment unneurotic a comprehensively ascendant performance.

In his Los Angeles debut, Larrell Murchison made 2 and a fractional of the Rams’ six sacks of Russell Wilson, who passed for 214 yards with 3 interceptions for Denver (4-11).

Denver traded a haul of draught picks successful the off-season to get Wilson from the Seattle Seahawks, earlier signing him to a five-year declaration worthy $360 million.

The beleaguered Wilson was not crisp successful his instrumentality from a one-game lack with a concussion, throwing interceptions to extremity Denver's archetypal 2 drives.

The 2nd prime was by Bobby Wagner, who faced his long-time teammate and person for the archetypal clip aft spending a afloat decennary unneurotic successful Seattle.

Wagner besides sacked Wilson during the archetypal half, erstwhile the Rams improbably racked up 261 of their 388 yards earlier half-time and yet scored connected their archetypal 8 drives against Denver's above-average defence, already matching their full-game play precocious successful points with their 31-6 half-time lead.

Denver trailed 41-6 earlier Wilson deed Greg Dulcich for the Broncos' lone touchdown with 8:30 to play.

Akers continued his late-season surge by producing the Rams’ archetypal 100-yard rushing crippled of the season, portion Higbee led the passing onslaught with 94 yards receiving for an discourtesy missing its apical 3 wideouts owed to injury.

The Rams led by treble digits little than 9 minutes successful erstwhile Durant picked disconnected Wilson's 2nd walk and Mayfield deed Higbee for a 9-yard TD 3 plays later. Higbee became the Rams' vocation franchise person successful touchdown catches by a choky extremity with his 19th score.

Wagner past poached a walk from Wilson crossed the mediate of the tract and made a agelong return, and the Rams scored 2 snaps aboriginal connected Akers' 3-yard run. Los Angeles had scored conscionable 1 touchdown disconnected a takeaway each play agelong earlier doing it doubly much successful the archetypal quarter.

The Rams’ 17-point archetypal 4th was their highest-scoring opening play since week six of McVay’s archetypal play successful 2017. They subsequently scored touchdowns connected 4 consecutive drives for the archetypal clip successful McVay's tenure.

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