Matthew Stafford defiant as Rams face injury crisis without Puka Nacua, Davante Adams

The Los Angeles Rams have won three consecutive games and have a winning record for the first time this season.But judging by the state of their receiving corps, you would think they had just lost three straight games.Bodies are dropping faster than the team’s medical staff can count them, and the Rams’ once-explosive passing attack has been reduced to a collection of unproven and unknown receivers, a few familiar tight ends and a 38-year-old quarterback being asked to perform another miracle.NFL analysts have already written the Rams off.

Because of self-inflicted mistakes earlier in the season, their Super Bowl aspirations are hanging by a thread, even oddsmakers aren’t particularly optimistic about their playoff chances.But Matthew Stafford doesn’t want to hear any of it. “I believe in those guys.I hope they believe in me, and let’s go rock and roll,” Stafford said about how the Rams offense can keep rolling without his two biggest weapons.  The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story That’s the mentality inside the Rams’ locker room as Los Angeles (5-4) prepares for Sunday’s rematch with the Arizona Cardinals, desperately trying to extend its winning streak to four games despite a receiving corps that’s thinner than dollar-store toilet paper. The latest devastating blow came Sunday when superstar Puka Nacua suffered from MCL and PCL sprains in his right knee, along with turf toe, during the Rams’ win over the Washington Commanders.Nacua is expected to miss significant time, although the Rams elected not to place him on injured reserve.However, his injury couldn’t have come at a worse time for the injury-ravaged Rams.Fellow superstar Davante Adams remains sidelined with a ruptured hamstring suffered during the Rams’ Week 6 loss to Arizo...