When the Rams played the Seahawks on Thursday Night Football in Week 16, it wasn’t just the biggest game of the entire NFL season up to that point. The contest also ended up having the weirdest two-point conversion, the most insane ending, and having the biggest significance of any regular season game in 2025. Had the Rams won instead of losing 38-37 in overtime, then it could have been Sean McVay’s team earning the number one seed, the bye, and hosting the NFC Championship.
Instead, Matthew Stafford and the Rams had to go to Seattle in the NFL Playoffs and the reason could all come down to a wrong call on a play all the way in the first quarter. Based only on one yard.
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With 1:50 left in the first quarter, the Rams have the ball at the Seahawks 1-yard line and decide to go for it. Stafford drops back and finds tight end Terrance Ferguson for a catch ruled as a touchdown. That would have tied the game at 7-7, except that right guard Justin Dedich was called for an Illegal Man Downfield and the touchdown was waved off. The Rams settle for a field goal and instead the score is 7-3.
That matters in a game that ends up going to overtime.
Rules analyst Terry McAulay comes on after the commercial break and says that Dedich was “forced” by a Seahawks defender to go beyond a yard and adds for clarify, “This isn’t really a foul”.
