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Rams 52, Raiders 0
ST. LOUIS — The names on the backs read Hill, Mason and Bailey. But for one half in the Edward Jones Dome Sunday, they looked like Warner, Faulk and Bruce.
Burying the hapless Oakland Raiders with touchdowns on their first five possessions, the St. Louis Rams tied their second highest-scoring first half in franchise history with 38 points and cruised to a 52-0 rout.
Quarterback Shaun Hill completed 13 of 22 passes for 183 yards and two scores while rushing for a third. His passer rating in the first half was 155.7, just shy of a perfect score.
Rookie running back Tre Mason picked up 117 yards on 14 carries, most of it coming on an electrifying 89-yard touchdown run with 11:14 left in the first half.
Wide receiver Stedman Bailey added 100 yards on five receptions, all in the game’s first 12 minutes. Ripping through the porous secondary, Bailey notched receptions of 16, 34, 26 and 16 yards.
Hill started the onslaught at the 12:04 mark of the first quarter, hooking up with Mason for a 35-yard touchdown on a perfectly-executed screen pass. Hill then capped a 78-yard drive with a well-executed play-fake and a 2-yard scoring run with 7:12 left.
Wide receiver Tavon Austin joined the fun with 2:37 on the clock, taking a jet sweep 19 yards around left end for a 21-0 advantage.
Mason followed with his long-distance score, and Hill cashed in the first of two interceptions by Oakland quarterback Derek Carr by finding tight end Cory Harkey for a 4-yard touchdown with 8:10 left in the half to make it 35-0.
Placekicker Greg Zuerlein added a 38-yard field goal at the 5:27 mark, three plays after cornerback Trumaine Johnson intercepted Carr.
Mason added an 8-yard touchdown run with 12:47 left in the game, while Johnson capped the scoring by intercepting backup quarterback Matt Schaub and returning it 43 yards with 5:24 remaining.
Carr completed 24 of 39 passes for 173 yards and absorbed three sacks as the Raiders fell to 1-11. St. Louis improved to 5-7.
NOTES: Oakland RB Latavius Murray, who rushed for 112 yards in the Raiders’ Nov. 20 win over Kansas City before suffering a second quarter concussion, was one of the team’s inactives. … St. Louis DE Chris Long returned to the lineup after missing 10 games following his ankle injury in a Week 1 loss to Minnesota, recording a third quarter sack and a fumble recovery in the fourth quarter. … Rams CB Janoris Jenkins’ 99-yard interception return touchdown in San Diego last week was his sixth score in three seasons, the most by an NFL defender in that time.
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