Quarterback Baker Mayfield will long remember his first game for the Los Angeles Rams.
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Just two days after being won by the Californian club via waivers, the 27-year-old orchestrated a comeback in the fourth quarter to allow his new team to win 17-16 against the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday night .
“I don’t think we could have written a better script,” Mayfield said during post-match press conferences. Obviously, we would have liked it to be a little less stressful, but it’s a damn good story.
“I like to compete and I love this sport,” he continued with a smile.
On Monday, the first pick of the 2018 draft was released by the Carolina Panthers after playing just seven games with that team. The Rams signed him 24 hours later and the center had just one practice with his new teammates before being sent into the fray.
The least we can say is that Mayfield did not have time to study the Rams playbook from top to bottom …
“We had a small list of games that I had studied really well. I would say, though, that we got off that little list and into some other stuff,” said the quarterback, who capped a 98-yard streak with a touchdown pass to Van Jefferson for the win in the last seconds of the game.
“We came in just five minutes ago and found a way to do some really special things,” Rams head coach Sean McVay said. We had forgotten the pleasure of victory, ”added the one whose club ended a series of six defeats against the Raiders.
painful season
The Rams are having a very difficult 2022 campaign after winning the Super Bowl last year. The club, which is 4-9, has seen several key players fall in battle. This is particularly the case of quarterback Matthew Stafford, who will not return to play this year.
Mayfield and his new roster will look to get back to winning ways in 10 days when they visit the Packers in Green Bay for a Monday night matchup.