Los Angeles Rams Struggle, but Playoff Door Stays Open

We talked about last week having to pivot at some point on opinions, and obviously at this point, it would appear to me that I'm going to be completely wrong on the Rams. The Rams don't look like a good football team at all, and after yesterday, with a team that kicked six field goals, you have to understand that when a team kicks six field goals on you, that likelihood is so slim in an NFL game, it means that you couldn't get a third down six different times to have to kick a field goal on fourth down. Now, generally, just variance, if Arizona, out of those six, convert one or two, the Rams get crushed yesterday. So, that's my first point here. Got to be willing to pivot and say, hey, the Rams are not close to what we thought they would be at the beginning of the season. I mean, that's just a fact. But now, show me that graphic again. Let me play the other side now. They've only been outscored by three points, okay? Take a look at Arizona above them. Same record, Arizona's been outscored by 50 points. That tells you the story. The Rams are still better than the Cardinals, and I understand they lost to them yesterday. At the end of the season, I think the Rams are going to be better than the Cardinals. The Rams saving grace has to be one of these, I don't know, what would you call it? Tom Brady seasons, LeBron James seasons, where they got to sneak in and hope that all those veterans, and Adams is now going to be out a couple of months, and Stafford hasn't looked right, and Donald and Garrett. They have to hope, Joe, that 9-8 gets them in the dance. and then the Rams are the Rams and if they are at the end of the season it makes them very much alive can they get there I mean it is a fair question to ask at this point but the problem Joe to go against the Rams even still Super Bowl forget it but to go against the Rams the rest of the season it's the same conversation that we're having about the NFC East the NFC stinks there's so many bad teams what do the Rams have to do to get to nine and eight not a lot not a lot and so i wouldn't rip up those super bowl tickets yet just because is atlanta scaring you is tampa bay scaring you is anybody in the nfc east scaring you or the seahawks scaring you so the door joe is still open for a team that's not playing well but just like run differential in baseball means something scoring in the nfl means something too and they've lost a lot of close games a player two here or there gets them the three and three at the end of the season what do i think joe The scenario that I just painted you is it. I just don't think that this team in particular, after watching them, Joe, can turn it on after going 9-8. I don't think that they're going to be that team that goes 9-8 and goes on that New York Giants Super Bowl run. They finish 500 a game over. I don't see that. But I'm not going to write them off in October. That I'm not going to do. But obviously, I've got to walk back any idea of thinking that, oh, everything is going to be okay, because clearly it's not. No, it's not. And it's a failure on a whole different level in a lot of spots. And it starts, once again, with the whole special teams thing. You bring in a guy. You fire the guy you had. You bring in Groupie, who all of a sudden thinks he's a 300-pound guy that should somehow not try and take a guy out on the legs. But let me go ahead and go shoulder to shoulder with a Mack truck coming down. It could not have gone any worse here for the Rams. But the good news is Meebus is still available.