Last two years close defeats
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The Rams are good enough to win the Super Bowl. But their complete lack of depth and immediate health issues have derailed their championship ambitions. It's not over, but they need their key starters back. The NFL is won on the thinnest of margins.
Yes, on paper they are good enough to win it. But at the moment they are not playing like it. The Cardinals were a bottom tier defense. And they dominated our offense. Will they get it together? I have no idea. Its far from a sure thing.
Missing LT A. Jackson was huge, and Stafford was being pressured. You can't win in this league without a top-tier LT.
I'm sure SOME other team at some point has had something like this......but it feels like its probably a very short list if so.
2025:
at Philly - blew a 19 pt lead, two blocked FGs including a makable game winner (not like it was 55 yards)***
SF - half their team injured, Kendrick Bourne goes off, missed FG and missed XP, Kyren fumbles at the 1 going in for what would have most likely been the game winning TD, then after hitting Tutu on a LONG pass in OT, we get stopped on a 4th and 1 run to end the game***
at Carolina - pick 6, Bryce Young has a perfect game against us hitting two long TD passes on 4th downs, still driving to tie or win the game and Stafford fumbles when we're in FG range
at Seattle - give up a punt return TD, gift Seattle a short field after a bad punt from deep in our own territory, we miss a FG, Seattle has an all time rare two pt conversion awarded after the play was blown dead, we become the only team in NFL history to score a TD in overtime and lose***
at Atlanta - throw a pick 6, can't play run defense, Alaric misses the game and it destroys the offense, lose by 3
at Seattle - NFCCG, muff a punt and lose by 4
2026:
SF in Australia - only loss to come by double digits in this
at Denver - Wallace gets called for PI when he had an INT, then refs call a ticky tacky hands to the face penalty against Lake. Bo Nix's only game this season where he looks like a viable QB
Buffalo - blocked/missed FG in OT, lose on a FG in OT***
Arizona - FG kicker gets hurt, affects the gameplan for the rest of the game, McVay scores too quickly (no run on 2nd and 3....WHY WHY WHY SEAN?????), we stupidly, VERY stupidly, just kick the ball for a touchback to allow them great field position AND not waste any time, bad personal foul call doesn't help but it came after a 20 yard completion and a free timeout because the defense jumps offsides, lose on last second FG***
***the game was literally - and I do mean LITERALLY - the last play of the game
To summarize.....
We have lost ten games dating back to last year. FIVE of them were decided on the LAST play of the game. Literally.
Of the other 5, 4 of them (Carolina, Atlanta, Seattle (NFCCG) and Denver) were either tied or we trailed by a possession with the ball and fell short.
I think there is an old saying about how its a skill to "know how to win".....yea, we lost that skill
2025:
at Philly - blew a 19 pt lead, two blocked FGs including a makable game winner (not like it was 55 yards)***
SF - half their team injured, Kendrick Bourne goes off, missed FG and missed XP, Kyren fumbles at the 1 going in for what would have most likely been the game winning TD, then after hitting Tutu on a LONG pass in OT, we get stopped on a 4th and 1 run to end the game***
at Carolina - pick 6, Bryce Young has a perfect game against us hitting two long TD passes on 4th downs, still driving to tie or win the game and Stafford fumbles when we're in FG range
at Seattle - give up a punt return TD, gift Seattle a short field after a bad punt from deep in our own territory, we miss a FG, Seattle has an all time rare two pt conversion awarded after the play was blown dead, we become the only team in NFL history to score a TD in overtime and lose***
at Atlanta - throw a pick 6, can't play run defense, Alaric misses the game and it destroys the offense, lose by 3
at Seattle - NFCCG, muff a punt and lose by 4
2026:
SF in Australia - only loss to come by double digits in this
at Denver - Wallace gets called for PI when he had an INT, then refs call a ticky tacky hands to the face penalty against Lake. Bo Nix's only game this season where he looks like a viable QB
Buffalo - blocked/missed FG in OT, lose on a FG in OT***
Arizona - FG kicker gets hurt, affects the gameplan for the rest of the game, McVay scores too quickly (no run on 2nd and 3....WHY WHY WHY SEAN?????), we stupidly, VERY stupidly, just kick the ball for a touchback to allow them great field position AND not waste any time, bad personal foul call doesn't help but it came after a 20 yard completion and a free timeout because the defense jumps offsides, lose on last second FG***
***the game was literally - and I do mean LITERALLY - the last play of the game
To summarize.....
We have lost ten games dating back to last year. FIVE of them were decided on the LAST play of the game. Literally.
Of the other 5, 4 of them (Carolina, Atlanta, Seattle (NFCCG) and Denver) were either tied or we trailed by a possession with the ball and fell short.
I think there is an old saying about how its a skill to "know how to win".....yea, we lost that skill
fearsomefour
Legend
The Cardinals blitzed at their highest rate of the year and the Rams couldn't take advantage.
The 13 personal was working and the Tutu was a healthy scratch.....meaning.....there was no one there to take the top off and open up the middle for the passing game....couldnt beat the blitz really.
McVay probably should have switched to a majority 12 personal and focused on the getting the ball.....yep, force feeding....to the receivers.
The D just not stopping the run and allowing multiple 8 minute drives was weak sauce.
Hard disagree man..this is how McVay thinks in all his glorious wisdom. We should've won the SB in 24 or 25. Cant ignore one of the three phases in football then act surprised when you lose close games.
LARAMSinFeb.
Legend
That was disturbing. Cardinals looked like the Bills out there.
Just a reminder for those with the pitchforks.
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