Week 1 of NFL action is finally here!
It’s Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season and the Los Angeles Rams will get a chance for retribution right away, traveling to the Motor City to take on the Detroit Lions. In L.A’s final game of 2023, the Lions eliminated them from the playoffs with a 24-23 win. This Sunday evening’s tilt is set to kickoff at 5:20 p.m. PST from Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
The biggest thing to watch for will be how the Rams rebuilt defense holds up against the Lions high-powered offense.
Detroit offensive coordinator Ben Johnson’s juggernaut starts with arguably the best offensive line in the NFL and Big Cats are equally dangerous running or passing the football behind them. Quarterback Jared Goff is playing well three-years into his second total franchise rebuild and wide receiver Amon Ra-St. Brown has emerged as his go-to guy with consecutive seasons of 100+ catches and 1000+ yards. The Lions run game has a thunder and lightening vibe with David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs splitting duties.
First-year L.A. defensive coordinator Chris Shula will try to mesh 14 newcomers into a defense that parted ways with over 500 of 654 total tackles from last season. After the Rams quickie divorce from Ernest Jones, the linebacker corps will be under the microscope. As will the cornerbacks after the decision to put starter Darious Williams on the Injured Reserve List. There’s still plenty or room for optimism, though. For 2024, L.A. used five of their top six draft picks on the defensive side of the ball and their Top 2, Jared Verse and Braden Fiske had strong rookie camps. The Rams have also added a handful of proven NFL veterans and sprinkled them strategically throughout the positional units, creating a nice balance of youthful spirit and veteran guile.
The Rams put Darious Williams on injured reserve with a hamstring issue. This is significant – backup Cobie Durant was also dealing with a hamstring.
I asked McVay yesterday after the walkthrough if Williams had a setback in hamstring recovery, FWIW, and he said this: pic.twitter.com/9cR46Hfn0X
— Jourdan Rodrigue (@JourdanRodrigue) September 5, 2024
How to follow the game
Date: Sunday, September 8
Kickoff: 5:20 p.m. PST
Location: Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan
Watch on TV
Nationally: NBC
Livestream
There are numerous available streaming services including, but not limited to NFL+, Peacock, Sling TV, Fubo, ESPN+, Hulu+ Live TV, and Paramount+
Listen on the radio
Local: ESPN LA 710 AM
Regionally: ESPN affiliate stations
- KMET/1490 AM & 98.1 FM – Banning, CA
- KFIG/1430 AM & 790 FM – Fresno, CA
- KAVL/610 AM & 106.7 FM – Lancaster, CA
- KRHQ/102.3 FM – Palm Springs, CA
- KTIE/590 AM – Riverside, CA
- KGB/760 AM – San Diego, CA
- KXTK/1280 AM & 101.7 FM – San Luis Obispo, CA
- KSMA/1240 AM & 99.5 FM – Santa Maria, CA
- KSHP/1400 AM & 107.1 FM – Las Vegas, NV
- KVLI/1140 AM & 103.7 FM – Bakersfield, CA
Local Spanish Radio coverage: Tu Liga Radio 1330 AM
Tu Liga Radio’s affiliate radio stations
- KTMZ/1220 AM – Pomona, CA
- KCAL/1410 AM – San Bernardino and Riverside, CA
- KOXR 910 AM – Oxnard and Ventura, CA
Follow the Rams on social media
Instagram: @rams
Facebook: /rams
X (formerly known as Twitter): @RamsNFL
TikTok: @rams
Current betting odds @
Line: LA Rams +4.5 -114 / DET Lions -4.5 -106
Over/under total: over 52.5 -105 / under 52.5 -115
Money line: LA Rams +180 / DET Lions -215
