Everett, Rams Find an Offense : Pro football: He throws his first two touchdown passes of the season in a 30-24 victory over the Chargers.

No, Jim Everett will not go a season without a touchdown pass, Dan Henning probably will not live down play-calling that bordered on the surreal and John Robinson will not go any more weeks pining for the Ram offensive powerhouse that used to be.

All these truths came from an offbeat, offense-dominated 30-24 victory by the Rams over the San Diego Chargers Sunday before 47,433 at Anaheim Stadium.

The bye week-rested Rams (3-3) got back in rhythm, and the Chargers (1-6), a team seemingly bound to underachievement, stayed true.

The Rams celebrated the dam bursting, the relief of a team that was wondering if it would ever have a big offensive show again.

The moment came when Everett connected with tight end Jim Price for an 18-yard score in the second quarter, Everett’s first touchdown pass of the season.

He jumped like a gymnast gone crazy, along with the rest of his offensive players. Everett hugged about any Ram he came across and generally looked as if about 1,000 pounds of pent-up frustration had been lifted from his shoulders.

Once that hurdle was overcome, everything was one easy roll downfield, the Rams said, while implying that this is only the beginning of a spree.

“When we finally got our first touchdown pass, that was a big relief,” wide receiver Henry Ellard said. “Once that happened, everything started to settle down, everybody started to come around and we were ourselves again.”

As if all it took was that one slump-ending score, the Rams, looking more confident than they have all season behind Everett’s 19-for-25 passing day, churned out an eight-play, 80-yard touchdown drive; a 14-play, 80-yard touchdown drive; an 11-play, 85-yard touchdown drive and a six-play, 87-yard touchdown drive.

Everett ended up with two touchdown passes to Price--the second was the Rams’ first touchdown in the fourth quarter all season and gave them a 30-21 lead--and he threw with the flair and power he last displayed in 1989.

Price had the best game of his young career, catching six passes for 82 yards, looking particularly in tune with Everett and beginning to show the promise that had the Rams calling him an heir to Pete Holohan’s clutch-reception tradition.

From the second quarter through the third, Everett completed 18 of 19 passes. “Oh, who missed the one?” he joked.

“Today, there was just a sense of promise,” Ellard said. “Jim was relaxed, in control. That’s what you see with the great quarterbacks.”

Said a beaming Everett: “It was emotional for me.”

But all of the rhythm and the good feeling and the long drives could have added up to a loss if Henning hadn’t used baffling calls at the end of both halves.

The Chargers found success behind the surprisingly effective passing of John Friesz, who threw for a career-high 306 yards and two touchdowns, and the running of Rod Bernstine, who averaged more than six yards per carry.

San Diego outplayed the Rams in the first half, but, thanks to Henning’s mismanagement of the final three plays of the half, trailed as the gun sounded.

And the Rams, finding a safety in blunders, charged into halftime on the emotional wave only a monstrous mistake from the opponent can create.

Until those last, bizarre moments, the first half had been as well-played as any by the Rams, and the score was 14-14.

After the Rams labored 80 yards to set up Robert Delpino’s one-yard touchdown run to tie the score with 19 seconds left in the half, the Chargers misplayed Tony Zendejas’ grounded kick-off.

They fell on the ball on their one-yard line, with 14 seconds left and three plays to avoid a game-turning safety.

“I thought they were just going to try to run it up the middle a few times, kill the clock and run off the field,” linebacker Kevin Greene said.

Normal teams run their big backs up the middle, run out the clock and go into the half tied. The Chargers are not a normal team. They ran little Ronnie Harmon outside the right tackle, escaping a safety only when Greene’s reach for Harmon could not keep him inside the end zone.

After big back Marion Butts was stopped in the middle for a loss of one, the Rams called time out at one second. The Chargers needed only to throw it away or avoid a loss to escape total embarrassment.

Butts could not do it. He started slowly after getting Friesz’s handoff, then delivered himself straight into the arms of Greene a step from the goal line.

“I knew I had him,” Greene said. “There was no way I was going to let him go.”

It was a safety, and the Rams had their momentum-turner.

“That,” Robinson said, “was a big factor in the outcome of this game.”

In the third quarter, after quick three-and-out series from both teams, the Rams went on their third 80-plus yard drive of the game, with Everett zeroing in on receivers downfield to set up Delpino’s second touchdown plunge of the day and his seventh of the season to make the score 23-14.

The trend of 80-yard drives would not stop there. San Diego got 19 yards on three carries from Bernstine, then Friesz passed to Anthony Miller for 43 yards to the Ram one-yard line. Bernstine then scored to bring the Chargers within 23-21 with the entire fourth quarter to play.

“Up until this point, our defense had not played well in the fourth quarter,” Robinson said. The Rams going into Sunday had been outscored, 48-6, in fourth quarters.

“But we held them to three points in the fourth quarter, and that was a good thing for us,” Robinson said.

Henning’s last odd decision came on the Chargers’ last offensive play, on fourth and 10 with a little more than two minutes left from their own 38, down, 30-24.

Instead of letting Friesz throw it, Henning called a draw play to Harmon, who got seven yards.

“I guess sometimes when something’s really obvious, they try to shock you with something,” Ram safety Pat Terrell said. “I don’t know though. We’d been doing pretty good against the run. That was a pretty strange call.”

Ram Notes

Right guard Joe Milinchik did not play because of soreness in his right shoulder and will undergo a magnetic resonance imaging test today. Duval Love replaced him. Fullback Mosi Tatupu will undergo an MRI for his right knee today.