FootballOutsiders: in game comments (BUF-LAR)

Buffalo Bills 30 at Los Angeles Rams 19

Bryan Knowles: Tyrod Taylor has had a pretty good game so far, keeping drives alive with his feet and throwing a touchdown pass. He did, however, line up behind the wrong lineman during a shotgun snap. It didn't end up going very well.

Vince Verhei: LeSean McCoy just broke free for a 53-yard run. Rams' front played that so badly that both McCoy and his fullback were sprinting untouched 40 yards downfield. Mike Gillislee scores on a 5-yard pitch play on the next snap to go up 14-3.

This would be a good time to mention that the Rams are missing three starters on the defensive line today.

Bryan Knowles: The missing defensive linemen are hurting Los Angeles, as the Bills are moving the ball very well up and down the field -- but the Rams aren't exactly running up against a brick wall, either. The difference, so far, has been in the red zone: Buffalo has made two trips and scored two touchdowns, while Los Angeles' two trips have resulted in short field goals.

Bryan Knowles: Down by 7, with six minutes to go, the Rams face fourth-and-goal from the 4. They opt to kick the chip-shot field goal rather than try to plunge it in. That makes one touchdown in four red zone trips, and something to put a pin in if Buffalo holds on to win this game.

The Rams tried a fake punt on fourth-and-5 deep in their own territory, but the Bills are all over it, swarming Bradley Marquez before he can get anything. The very next play, LeSean McCoy rumbles down to the 1-yard line.

I don't see why you fake punt there and not go for the touchdown on the other end of the field. It's a bit of an arbitrary set of picks of when to gamble and when to play it safe. With the Bills struggling on offense in the second half, maybe you just punt there and count on your defense to get the ball back.

Vince Verhei: Rams have a fourth-and-5 at their own 23, down four points with 3:47 to go. Gee, do you think they might fake a punt? The Bills thought so, and snuffed out the fake for a 2-yard run. Not sure what it says when Rex Ryan knows your game plan better than you do.

Bills get another big run, a 24-yarder by McCoy down to the 1, to set up a Tyrod Taylor touchdown pass that puts Buffalo ahead 30-19 with less than three minutes to go.

This has been such a weird game. In many ways it has been one of Case Keenum's best games -- he's 21-of-28 for 251 yards, with 20-yard gains all over the place. But the only touchdown he's thrown was a pick-six for Buffalo, he's been sacked three times, and the Rams still haven't broken 20 points. Meanwhile, the Bills' passing game can't do anything, but they're now averaging 7.9 yards per rush.

Aaron Schatz: I didn't watch most of this game but Keenum looked awful, absolutely awful on the Rams' last couple of drives. There's very little accuracy, and he can't feel the pass pressure at all. Would Jared Goff really be worse than this? Maybe the reason not to play Goff is that he would get killed behind the offensive line, which was giving way to the Bills pass pressure on every snap. You can't even criticize the Rams for not using their draft capital to try to rebuild that line. They used three different draft picks on offensive linemen in 2015, and of course took Greg Robinson second overall in 2014. Robinson hasn't improved much in three years.

Vince Verhei: Rams' last drive ends in a sack and then an interception. The sack was by Lorenzo Alexander, who had three today and now leads the league with seven. This is a great story. He's in his age 33 season, and he only had nine sacks in his first nine seasons (including 16 starts). An early favorite for the Kurt Warner Trophy in Football Outsiders' awards.