SEATTLE – Matthew Stafford admitted after the game that he didn’t know beforehand that he would throw the ball on perhaps the most important play of Sunday’s game.

“But sometimes those things happen,” the Rams quarterback said. “You come out clean and D-Rob does a great job of winning at the point, then stopping him and then catching him.”

That clean look translated into the game-winning, walk-off touchdown – a 39-yarder to wide receiver Demarcus Robinson to lift the Rams to a 26-20 victory over the Seahawks.

Wide receiver Cooper Kupp said the point of the play is to “be able to clear the rim for Matthew” and “give him a chance to make a play and do something nice.” Kupp sealing the rim was the reason for Stafford’s decision to make that throw to Robinson.

“After I saw it, I just made myself available,” Kupp said. “That ball is very rarely thrown to that route. D-Rob did a great job off the line of scrimmage, and when he set that angle high, I just couldn’t believe it when I saw Matthew gyrating his hips. I said, ‘Oh, he’s about to let this thing go.'”

Just as impressive as the pass was Robinson’s one-handed grab at the end, although he didn’t do it for style points.

“I was just trying to stop the guy because he (Seahawks cornerback Riq Woolen) was catching up,” Robinson said. “Woolen is quite fast, so he was catching up to the ball. Because, you know, the ball needs a little distance before it gets to me. So he was catching up. So I thought, ‘Okay, let me just to stay’.” my arm out,” and he started holding my arm, so I only had one arm to try to make a play.

“When I threw it, you know, D-Rob’s body language, I thought, ‘oh no, I threw it under,’ I thought maybe I threw a dish under his body language,” Stafford said. “He did such a good job of keeping it at bay.”

It was a fitting end to a game-winning drive that started with a pair of explosive completions from Stafford: an impressive 24-yarder to wide receiver Tyler Johnson, followed by a 16-yarder to wide receiver Tutu Atwell. Stafford said Johnson did well to get ahead of Woolen, saying he “had no other options” on that throw, the timing of which narrowly avoided an interception by an incoming Seahawks defender. Stafford also praised Atwell for the great job he did separating himself from his defender on that deep comeback route.

It was also a rewarding ending for a Los Angeles defense whose 4^e-down launched a redzone stop in overtime that drive, after having to make up for some of the challenges the offense faced in the first half and parts of the second half.

“It’s our turn, man,” Robinson said of the offense’s mentality when the ball entered overtime after that stop. “The defense did a great job of stopping us and giving us the ball back. It’s our turn to put points on the board. It was either score, get three points and end the game, or don’t leave it up to the kicker .So we were just trying to get a touchdown so it could be over.”