NFL Playoffs 2021: Los Angeles Rams beats Arizona Cardinals 34-11 in NFC wild card playoffs at SoFi Stadium, advance to divisional round.

Matthew Stafford passed for 202 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score in his first playoff victory, and the Los Angeles Rams roared out of the wild-card round with a 34-11 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Monday night in the front of 70500+ spectators at the SoFi stadium.

It was the first NFL playoff game at SoFi Stadium, the first time the NFL had a postseason game on Martin Luther King Day and the first ever postseason win for Matthew Stafford.

Odell Beckham Jr. and Cooper Kupp made touchdown catches for the NFC West champion Rams (13-5).

David Long also scored on a 3-yard interception return while the Rams’ defense harassed Kyler Murray into a calamitous playoff debut.

Los Angeles jumped to a 28-0 lead and cruised in the first playoff game at SoFi Stadium, which will host Super Bowl 56 next month.

Stafford was outstanding in his first playoff game with the Rams, completing 13 of his season-low 17 passes without an interception and despite three drops.

Beckham had four catches for 54 yards, including his first career playoff touchdown catch for the Rams’ first points.

He also threw a 40-yard pass during his own first postseason victory.

Murray went 19 of 34 for 137 yards and two interceptions for the Cardinals (11-7).

James Conner rushed for a TD for the Cardinals.

The Rams capped their second offensive drive with Stafford’s precise 4-yard throw to Beckham.

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1 -- Los Angeles advanced in the postseason for the third time in the last four years under coach Sean McVay.

2 -- Los Angeles Rams leads 28-0 lead and cruised in the first playoff game at SoFi Stadium

3 -- Stafford scored his first playoff rushing TD since January 2012 on a goal-line sneak.

4 -- Odell Beckham Jr had his first career playoff touchdown catch for the Rams’ first points.

5 -- James Conner rushed for a TD for Cardinals, who have one playoff victory since the 2009 season.

6 -- Eric Weddle playing time for the Rams in the 37-year-old veteran’s first NFL game since the 2019 season finale.

7 -- The Arizona Cardinals were the NFL's last remaining undefeated team this year at 7-0.

8 -- The Arizona Cardinals the third team of the last 20 years to go an entire playoff game without converting a third down, joining the 2018 Colts (vs. the Chiefs) and 2012 Bengals (vs. the Texans)....