It wasn’t the offense, and it wasn’t the defense. In Week 8, to preserve their undefeated record, it was the Rams’ special teams that came through.
Sunday afternoon’s Rams-Packers game in Los Angeles was unfolding as a game you might envision seeing again in January, the NFC’s best team vs. the NFC’s best quarterback. And then, late in the game, Ty Montgomery made the ill-fated decision to take the kickoff after the Rams’ go-ahead field goal out of the end zone. Never mind that he didn’t have a good chance of advancing the ball further on a return than he would have from simply taking a knee for the touchback, and you’d waste precious seconds to even try.