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Jets and Chargers request to interview Brandon Staley for head coaching jobs

Brandon Staley is already drawing head coaching interest from two teams.

The coaching carousel has already begun to spin with six NFL teams seeking new head coaches for the 2021 season. And to the surprise of no one, first-year defensive coordinator Brandon Staley is already drawing interest from a pair of teams.

According to Mike Silver of NFL Network, the Chargers have requested to interview Staley for their head coaching vacancy after firing Anthony Lynn on Monday. Staley wouldn’t have to move very far for that job, considering the Rams and Chargers share SoFi Stadium.

Additionally, the Jets have requested permission to interview Staley for their head coaching vacancy after parting ways with Adam Gase, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. This position would require Staley to move across the country, of course.

As Schefter noted, Staley can’t be interviewed by anyone until the Rams’ season concludes. They have a game against the Seahawks on Saturday and should they advance, they’d play the following weekend in the divisional round.

Staley is understandably a hot coaching candidate after leading the Rams defense in a remarkably dominant season. They ranked first in scoring, first in yards allowed, second in sacks and first in passing yards allowed.

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NFL power rankings: Rams nosedive out of top 10 after loss to Jets

The Rams dropped a whopping 8 spots after losing to the winless Jets on Sunday.

When you lose to a winless team in Week 15, a slide in the standings and power rankings is inevitable. The Rams learned that the hard way this week, falling to the 0-13 Jets at home, 23-20.

And not only did they fall to the No. 5 seed in the NFC, but they also experienced a free fall in Touchdown Wire’s power rankings coming out of Week 15. After previously being ranked at No. 6 prior to this loss to the Jets, the Rams are now all the way down at No. 14, dropping eight spots.

Mark Schofield of Touchdown Wire wrote that the biggest fear among Rams fans wasn’t a stunning loss to the Jets. It was “the Jared Goff Pumpkin Game,” which is what Schofield argues we got on Sunday against the Jets as the quarterback struggled throughout the afternoon, throwing one interception and nearly a second that was dropped by a defender.

The Rams are still in solid shape when it comes to getting into the postseason, but they have yet to punch their ticket. With games against the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals remaining, the Rams could still even win the division. However, the questions about Goff – specifically whether you would trust him in a critical game – are back after losing to the Jets. Rams fans can hope that their quarterback had just one Pumpkin Game left this season, and he just got it out of his system.

The Rams can clinch a playoff berth with a win over the Seahawks on Sunday, and will lock up the NFC West if they win their next two games to close out the year. But with Cam Akers out and the offense sputtering, there’s reason for concern in L.A.

If Goff doesn’t turn things around quickly, the Rams could be one-and-done in the playoffs, assuming they make it there.

10 crazy stats from Rams-Jets stunner in Week 15

The Rams are just the fifth team ever to lose when favored by at least 17 points.

Sunday was a historic afternoon at SoFi Stadium, but not in the way the Rams had hoped it would go. They were stunned by the Jets in one of the biggest upsets in recent memory, falling 23-20 to the winless New York squad.

The Rams missed a chance to clinch a playoff berth with either a win or tie on Sunday, while the Jets may have cost themselves a chance at Trevor Lawrence in the 2021 NFL draft.

Revisiting the game, here are 10 crazy stats and facts to come out of the loss by the Rams.

Studs and duds from Rams’ 23-20 loss to Jets

Sean McVay and the offensive line

It’s hard to come away from Sunday’s game between the Rams and Jets feeling good if you’re a fan in L.A. The Rams were embarrassed by New York at home, 23-20, falling to the fifth seed in the NFC and one game back of the Seahawks in the division.

Yet, despite the poor play from the Rams on both sides of the ball, there were some bright spots – even if they were few and far between.

Here are our studs and duds from Sunday’s game against the Jets

8 biggest plays that cost the Rams in their loss to the Jets

The game essentially came down to eight plays for the Rams, all of which went in the Jets’ favor.

When the Los Angeles Rams flip on the tape this week after their loss to the Jets, they won’t have to dive too deep in order to find out where things went wrong. Very clearly, this game came down to only a handful of plays.

They weren’t all preventable mistakes by the Rams, but there were plenty of self-inflicted wounds suffered by L.A. in this embarrassing 23-20 loss at home. Whether it was penalties, special teams mistakes or defensive blunders, the Rams shot themselves in the foot too many times on Sunday.

Looking back on the loss, these eight plays had the biggest impact on the outcome for the Rams, essentially costing themselves a win over the 0-13 Jets.

Sean McVay called Adam Gase at 4:15 a.m. last week to compliment Jets

Sean McVay said the Rams wouldn’t overlook the Jets, but they were stunned by New York on Sunday.

All week leading up to Sunday’s game against the New York Jets, Sean McVay ensured fans and media members that the Rams wouldn’t overlook their opponent despite their 0-13 record. He complimented how hard the Jets have played, pointing to their narrow losses to the Raiders and Patriots as reasons not to look too far ahead to Week 16.

Whether the Rams didn’t take the winless Jets seriously or if they simply had a bad day doesn’t matter all that much, because the result was the same: they lost at home, 23-20. McVay wasn’t just using his typical coach speak when talking about the Jets’ talent, either.

He actually called Adam Gase last week at 4:15 a.m. PT to compliment his team and talk about how hard the players play for him. Gase was surprised by the call, considering how early it was on the West Coast.

“He called me at 7:15 a.m. our time, which I’m sitting there going, ‘I can’t believe he’s at the office already,’ because it’s 4:15 (in Los Angeles),” Gase said after the Jets’ win. “I was going to answer it, just because I knew he was up and wanted to say something. He just said, ‘Watching the tape,’ he was like, ‘Man, these guys play hard for you. I know things haven’t gone the way you’ve wanted, but just keep those guys grinding and keep them pushing.’”

The Jets did play hard on Sunday against the Rams, shocking them in the biggest upset of the 2020 season. As 17-point underdogs, few people gave the Jets a chance against the league’s No. 1-ranked defense, but at any moment, a team can lose to any opponent – no matter the records.

The Rams are now 9-5 and sit in the fifth spot in the NFC. Back-to-back wins in the final two weeks would give them the division title over the Seahawks, so they do have a chance to come back from this stunning loss. But this one hurts in more ways than one.

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McVay and Goff break down Rams’ deep passes on 3rd and 4th down late vs. Jets

The Rams came up empty on third and fourth down late in the game, needing only 4 yards.

Sunday’s game between the Rams and Jets didn’t come down to two plays. Games in the NFL are rarely decided by such a small sample of plays. However, the Rams had a golden opportunity to win the game against New York late in the fourth quarter after a 34-yard punt return by Nsimba Webster.

From the Jets’ 37-yard line, the Rams were faced with third-and-4 with about four minutes left in the game, trailing 23-20. Jared Goff dropped back and took a shot deep to rookie running back Cam Akers, but he overthrew his target and the ball landed out of bounds.

It was a questionable call, needing only 4 yards to pick up the first, but Goff never really looked anywhere else after getting the snap, locking in on Akers running the wheel route.

Then on fourth-and-4, the Rams opted to go for it with an empty backfield. Again, Goff dropped back and took a shot deep down the field, this time targeting Gerald Everett in man coverage. The ball was on target, but safety Marcus Maye made a spectacular play to break it up and prevent a potential touchdown to Everett.

Again, a questionable call given the circumstances, but it was just inches from being a long completion at the biggest moment in the game. It just wasn’t meant to be for L.A., with May making the play of the day.

After the game, Sean McVay explained what happened on those two plays. He stopped short of blaming Goff for the two incompletions, but he did subtly say he’d have liked to see the quarterback go through his progressions on third down.

And then on fourth, if Everett was covered, McVay said Goff had Cooper Kupp underneath for an easier completion at the sticks.

“Yeah, we felt like we were going to be able to get an opportunity,” McVay said. “Really on the third down, we had some looks that we felt like we had a good isolation, but clearly, we have to be able to progress there. And then on the fourth down, had Gerald Everett in a man-to-man situation, and then Cooper on an underneath route, where, if we didn’t love that, kind of a little high-low. Ultimately, we didn’t make those plays, but we got the coverage and the looks that we were looking for there.”

Goff echoed much of what McVay said, but he did admit he wishes he would’ve given Akers a better chance to make a play on the ball rather than throwing it out of bounds.

Like McVay suggested, the Rams got the looks they wanted, the passes just fell incomplete due to an inaccurate throw and a great play from the safety.

“Yeah, the first one to Cam, I would have liked to give him a little bit more of a chance there or maybe progress through the play. Didn’t love where I put it,” Goff said. “The second one, yeah I got everything we wanted, threw a ball out there and Maye made a good play. I mean, he made a great defensive play and we weren’t able to convert on it.”

It’s hard to blame the Rams for going for it there, considering it would’ve been a 54-yard attempt by Matt Gay to tie the game, but the decision to throw it deep instead of trying to pick up 4 yards with two runs will be questioned by many.

The Rams had plenty of other chances to win the game, but these two plays will stick in the minds of fans and players for a little while.

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Twitter reacts to Rams’ terrible loss to Jets in Week 15: ‘Fire McVay’

Rams fans were not happy about the team’s Week 15 loss to the 0-13 Jets.

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There’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it: This was the worst loss of the Sean McVay era. The Rams could do very little right against the winless Jets on Sunday afternoon, getting embarrassed at home by suffering a 23-20 defeat.

The league’s No. 1-ranked defense allowed 23 points to the NFL’s worst offense, while the Rams’ own offense mustered just 303 total yards against a Jets defense that features very few recognizable names.

Yet, as is often said in the NFL, anything can happen no matter the circumstances.

Here’s how Twitter reacted to the game, with tweets from fans and media members sharing their thoughts on the shocking events that transpired at SoFi Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

5 takeaways from the Rams’ stunning loss to the Jets

The Rams haven’t had a loss this bad since Sean McVay took over as head coach in 2017.

Any given Sunday.

That’s the overarching theme from this week’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and New York Jets, a game that didn’t go the way everyone expected.

The Jets, who were 0-13, came in and beat the Rams at home, stunning Los Angeles 23-20. As 17-point underdogs, it was undoubtedly the biggest upset of the season.

Again: Any team can beat any opponent on any given Sunday.

The Rams learned that the hard way in Week 15, being served a healthy slice of humble pie. Here’s what we learned from this week’s embarrassing loss, as Sean McVay put it afterwards.

‘Sick to your stomach’: What Sean McVay said after Rams’ loss to Jets

Sean McVay called the Rams’ loss to the Jets “embarrassing.”

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In what was the biggest upset of the NFL season, the Los Angeles Rams were stunned by the New York Jets at home, 23-20. The Rams, winners of their last two games, fell to the 0-13 Jets at SoFi Stadium, just their second home loss of the year.

Sean McVay consistently said his team wasn’t going to overlook the Jets, and while it can’t be definitively said that this was the case, the Rams didn’t come to play against New York and were flat-out embarrassed.

McVay didn’t sugarcoat things afterward, either. He was blunt and honest, saying he’s sick to his stomach about it. But as you’d expect, he made sure to point out that this loss will only deflate the Rams if they allow it to.

“It’s extremely disappointing, but you’re not going to get any excuses from me, and I’ve got to do a better job of getting this team ready to go. … This loss will demoralize us only as much as we allow it to,” he said. “It’s gonna be embarrassing. Sick to your stomach about it. But we do have two games left and we’ve got to find a way to rebound and respond this week as we get ready for the Seahawks. This was very humbling and it’s going to be humbling, but we’re going to move forward.”

The Rams are still in a fine spot playoff-wise. If they win their next two games, they’ll clinch the NFC West. They’re not yet in the playoffs, but it’ll take a small miracle for L.A. to miss the postseason.

It’s a gut-wrenching loss, but not one that will derail the Rams’ season.