Josh Allen and Matthew Stafford Just Played a Classic. McVay’s Special Teams Lost It. Are you buying or Selling the Rams?

Monday night was not a bad game. It was two of the best quarterbacks in the league trading haymakers until the kicking unit decided the winner. The Bills beat the Rams 37-34 in overtime at SoFi. Josh Allen finally got his first overtime win after going 0-7. Matthew Stafford threw for 383 yards and three touchdowns. Sean McVay was not fired. He should still be furious, and he was.

🚨HOLY SH*T: #RAMS HC SEAN MCVAY IS ABSOLUTELY PISSED OFF AFTER TONIGHT’S LOSS TO THE #BILLS.

“THIS STINGS. IT’S GONNA HURT. … IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HAVE BEEN THIS PISSED AFTER A GAME.”

WE HAVE NEVER SEEN SEAN MCVAY THIS ANGRY AFTER A GAME.

WOW. WOW. WOW.

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— MLFootball (@MLFootball) October 13, 2026

The first half was ordinary. The teams combined for 20 points and looked like they were still finding their footing. Then the fourth quarter turned into a track meet. Six lead changes. Five straight possessions that ended in touchdowns. The teams combined for 890 yards. Allen finished with 331 total yards, 210 through the air and 121 on the ground on only 10 carries, plus a touchdown. James Cook added 111 yards and two scores. Allen drove them with his legs on the final regulation possession, scrambles of 15 and 21 yards, and Cook punched it in from 5 with 1:39 left. Stafford answered by completing 6 of 7 and getting the ball to the 1. Kyren Williams scored with four seconds left to force overtime. That is how the past two MVPs are supposed to look when the game is still there.

Stafford’s night was cleaner. He went 40-of-54 for 383 and three scores with no interceptions. Puka Nacua caught 17 passes for 138 yards and a touchdown, one shy of the franchise record. Davante Adams had two scores. The Rams moved the ball almost at will once the second half started. Allen was the opposite. He completed only 12 of 19 and threw one interception, but he ran for 121 yards and a score and kept the Bills alive when the receivers were thin. DJ Moore and Joshua Palmer were out. He completed only four passes to actual wideouts. The run game and the scramble were the offense. Both quarterbacks played like the players who have won the last two MVPs. The difference was what happened after the last score.

McVay’s special teams lost the game. After Williams scored with four seconds left, the Rams kicked the extra point instead of going for two with the offense that had just scored on three straight drives. They went to overtime. In overtime the Rams drove into field-goal range. Harrison Mevis’s 48-yard attempt was blocked by Greg Rousseau. The Bills took over, Allen ran them into range, and Tyler Bass hit a 45-yarder with 1:55 left. Mevis was 0-for-2 on field goals. McVay said afterward that the kicking game was “not even close to good enough” and that it cost them the game. He also said it had been a while since he had been that pissed after a game. That is the correct temperature. The offense put them in position to win twice. The special teams and the decision to kick instead of go for two handed the ball back to Allen.

McVay was not fired. He has a long contract, a Super Bowl, and a quarterback who just threw for 383. The hot-seat talk is early, but the pattern is not. The Rams are 2-3. They have now lost games they were in a position to close. Special teams have been the leak all year. If Mevis misses another kick that decides a game, or if McVay keeps choosing the conservative path when the offense is the best unit on the field, the conversation moves from “pissed” to “who is the next kicker and who is calling the special teams.” Allen and Stafford both played great. The Bills won because Rousseau blocked a kick and Bass made one. McVay can own the special teams. He already did. The next one is on him if the same unit decides another game.