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Rams leave it late to snatch play-off place

ST LOUIS and Denver got the victories they needed, while Minnesota and the New York Jets didn’t have to win to book their play-off berths as the National Football League regular season ended on Sunday.

Rams leave it late to snatch play-off place

Tue, 04 Jan, 2005 - 00:00

Jeff Taylor

In St Louis, Jeff Wilkins kicked a 31-yard field goal with 3:02 left in overtime to lift the Rams to a 32-29 victory over the Jets, for whom Doug Brien had missed an earlier 53-yard attempt.

Despite the defeat, the Jets clinched an AFC wild card spot thanks to Buffalo’s 29-24 loss to Pittsburgh, whose 14th straight win gave them a 15-1 record for the season - the best in the NFL since 1998.

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