CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When a kickoff return to midfield and an unnecessary roughness penalty put the Rams at the Carolina Panthers 35 to open Sunday’s game, and when the Rams converted that short field into yet another Davante Adams touchdown, it looked like the Rams were on their way to another easy victory.

But in the next four possessions, the script turned. No one picked up Panthers RB Chuba Hubbard out of the backfield for a 35-yard touchdown catch-and-run. Quarterback Matthew Stafford, who one possession earlier broke the NFL record with 28 consecutive touchdown passes without an interception, saw his 318-pass streak end when his throw bounced off a defensive tackle’s helmet and into former Ram Nick Scott’s arms.

Then, two dropbacks later, Stafford was intercepted again, this one retur

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