All Ball Sports: Rams survive, Dodgers subdued, Sea Hawks flying
by Paul Teetor The Rams didn’t win Sunday’s game with the Atlanta Falcons as much as they survived it. Make that barely survived it. When Rams Coach Sean McVay faced the media after the game, he summed up the feeling of Rams fans everywhere: “Holy hell,” he said. “I need a couple of drinks.” In a crazy game at So-Fi Stadium that they once led by the lop-sided score of 28-3, the hapless Rams ended up winning by a too-close score of 31-27 over the woebegone Falcons, who fell to 0-2 and will be lucky to win four games this season. The Rams proved exactly one thing Sunday afternoon: the Falcons suck. They may very well be the worst team in the entire National Football League. But thanks to a rare Cooper Kupp fumble late in the fourth quarter, the Falcons were actually in a great position to win the game with a quick touchdown when they recovered the ball just 20 yards from the end zone. The brutal truth is that any halfway-decent team would have gone on to complete the monumental upset of the Super Bowl champs, and left them reeling with an 0-2 record to start the new season. But because the Falcons had a career backup, Marcus Mariota, as their starting quarterback, they were unable…
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