Rams get first touchdown of season, first as LA team since '94

— -- TAMPA, Fla. - The Los Angeles Rams scored their first touchdown of the season in perhaps the most encouraging way possible: On a 44-yard pass from Case Keenum to Brian Quick.

It came on the first drive of the Rams' third game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from Raymond James Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Quick, who almost lost his spot on the roster because of an inability to secure the football, easily beat his defender off the ball on a post route. Keenum, whom many believe shouldn't even be the starting quarterback, perfectly hit him in stride.

The hookup was set up on play action with the Rams' star running back, Todd Gurley, a man who entered Week 3 looking to get going after gaining just 98 yards in the first two games. Play action was also a useful weapon for the Rams in last Sunday's 9-3 win over the Seattle Seahawks.

Keenum's pass to Quick ended an eight-play, 75-yard drive that saw the Rams convert on two third downs. They entered the week as the only NFL team that had yet to score a touchdown, and would've become the first team since the 1976 expansion Bucs to go three weeks without one had they not scored.

Their first drive resulted in the first Rams touchdown while affiliated with Los Angeles since Christmas Eve of 1994.