Random Ramsdom: It is time for Sean McVay’s squad to embrace a spoiler role?

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The Los Angeles Rams are 1-4, and in the NFL that is basically a death sentence for a team trying to make the playoffs. Should LA embrace being out of the race and move on accordingly? Should they embrace the role of spoiling other team’s weeks and potentially their season?

Call me crazy (I dare you!) but I think LA can make a run. Do I believe LA will make a run? No, no I don’t think they will (but think they can!) make the playoffs; however, I also didn’t think they’d make the playoffs last year when they fell to 3-6. Guess what though? They made the playoffs. So, we’ll just have to see what happens.

I still think this team has a chance, it’s just hard to have much belief in it, but I don’t have to believe. The team does.

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3 reason why Rams must embrace a spoiler role for remainder of 2024 (ramblinfan)

“The LA Rams are not feared by opponents in 2024, nor should the team be. Despite a lot of optimistic euphoria about the team’s offseason, the results of the team’s shopping trip among veterans up for the highest bidder through the 2024 NFL Free Agency Market has left the team a bit poorer, both in available salary to spend and in the level of available talent on game day.

We can debate the hypothetical conjecture of how good this team may have been had the team remained at full strength. But the team’s inability to tackle, defend the run, or score in the Red Zone suggest that the problems encountered so far are deeper, more fundamentally founded, than a backup playing instead of a starter.”

Studs and duds from Rams’ 24-19 loss to Packers (theramswire)

“The Los Angeles Rams dropped to 1-4 on Sunday afternoon, losing a close one to the Green Bay Packers, 24-19. They showed fight by coming back after they fell behind 24-13 and had a legitimate chance to win the game late, but they failed on fourth down and came up just short at home against a good Packers team.

Heading into the bye, the Rams have a lot of work to do. The offense has scored more than 20 points just once all season and the defense has struggled to get off the field when it needs to. There were a handful of encouraging performances by players on both sides of the ball but there were too many disappointing showings, too.”

Blake Corum impressed in his first real opportunity with the Rams (theramswire)

“Finally allowed out of the barn, Corum was impressive when given his opportunity. Corum had five carries for 25 yards and he caught a screen pass for 8 yards – and that’s with two of his carries going for a total of 3 yards as he got stopped at the goal line twice.

On his carries, Corum looked just like he did in college. He followed blocks, defenders couldn’t locate him and once he got into open space, he displayed the shiftiness that made him such a successful running back.”