LA Rams maintained their best start to the season with a 27-9 win over New Orleans who watched celebrity quarterback Drew Brees.
The Saints, for whom head coach Sean Payton agreed a deal earlier in the afternoon and Sunday’s game, played .
Brandin Cooks todd Gurley and Jared Goff each scored touchdowns as the Rams overcame a slow beginning to run out winners in a rematch of last season NFC Championship and there was a second controversial call.
Los Angeles advanced to the Super Bowl in January by taking advantage of a no-call on a late pass interference and on Sunday the Saints needed an 87-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown nullified after the play had been ruled an incomplete pass.
After challenging, the play was ruled a sack-fumble along with the Saints were awarded the ballbut in the point.
Crime proved hard to find, with the Rams finally reaching the end zone with 5:39 remaining in the third quarter after Gurley capped a 75-yard drive along with his streak to the left side of the end zone to break a 6-6 tie. It had been Gurley’s first TD of the year on a day when he rushed for 63 yards on 16 carries.
Rams quarterback Jared Goff was 19 of 28. While Saints backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, who shot more than Brees from the first quarter, went 17 of 30 for 165 32, he completed nine of his last 10 passes.
When his hand left contact while following through on a pass effort brees was injured early in the first quarter.
The thing on the scoreboard, before late in the third quarter, came to get a pair of field goals for each group. After the Saints tied the score 6-6 just into the second half on a 52-yard field goal from Will Lutz, the Rams responded with Gurley’s TD until they raced to the finish line.
Cooks added a 2-yard TD catch with one second remaining in the third quarter to get a 20-6 lead and Goff’s 1-yard TD for a run in the fourth quarter for a 27-9 lead came following a 67-yard catch-and-run by Cooper Kupp was mastered only short despite initially being known as a touchdown.
The Rams will find out a third consecutive win when they visit Cleveland (0-1) on Sunday night (1.20am) and Week Four will soon see them host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the LA Coliseum (9.05pm).
New Orleans, with or without Brees, traveling to Seattle (2-0) following Sunday (9.25pm) as they look to return to winning ways then in Week Four host the Dallas Cowboys in a blockbuster-looking Sunday Night Football (1.20’m ).
Week Two finishes on Monday with coverage on Sky Sports Action Cleveland’s visit to New York Jets and Main Event in 1am
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