Rams Record Consecutive Shutouts for 1st Time Since 1945

Following a 52-0 Week 13 demolition of the Oakland Raiders, the St. Louis Rams recorded another shutout Sunday against the Washington Redskins, giving the franchise back-to-back shutouts for the first time since 1945, per ESPN Stats & Info.

While the 24-0 victory wasn't quite as dominant as last week's blowout, the Rams held the Redskins out of the red zone all game and had a 329-to-206 advantage in total yards.

St. Louis also won the turnover battle 2-0, thanks to a pair of interceptions from Redskins quarterback Colt McCoy, who left the game at the two-minute warning of the second half with a neck injury.

Special teams was a mixed bag for the Rams, as kicker Greg Zuerlein missed an extra point and two short field goals in the first half, while wide receiver Tavon Austin took a punt return for a 78-yard touchdown late in the third quarter.

One week after recording six sacks, the St. Louis defense notched seven on McCoy and Robert Griffin III, bringing the team's total to 35 for the season, even though they set an NFL record for fewest sacks (one) through five games, per Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The last time the Rams recorded back-to-back shutouts was the first two games of the 1945 campaign—the team's ninth and final season in Cleveland. The Rams won the NFL Championship Game that year after finishing the regular season with a 9-1 record.

According to Pro-Football-Reference.com's play index, there have been just 18 shutout streaks in the NFL since 1970, with only the 1970 St. Louis Cardinals and 1976 Steelers holding three consecutive opponents scoreless in the same year.

The '76 Steelers had five shutouts in a 14-game season, including three in a row from Weeks 7-9, and then two more in the final two regular-season games. After losing to the Oakland Raiders in the 1976 AFC Championship Game, Pittsburgh came back with a shutout in its first game of the 1977 season.

The Rams have scored 83 points since they last allowed any, marking the longest run of unanswered points in team history, and the NFL's longest since the 1993 Buffalo Bills had 86, per Elias Sports Bureau (via ESPN.com).

The Rams will thus enter Sunday's Week 15 home game against the Arizona Cardinals with a chance to make history on multiple fronts, in what figures to be a low-scoring game.