Arizona Cardinals: How the NFC West could shake out in 2020
By Steve Rivera
It will be a mighty fall for the Los Angeles Rams. After being the NFL darlings for two seasons, Los Angeles will open a new state of the art stadium, only to find out they are no longer a team to be reckoned with. As good and as dynamic as LA has been, the slide back to mediocrity will be shocking inside the division.
The Rams made big-time moves to go from 4-12 to 11-5, and then 13-3 with a Super Bowl mixed in for good measure. Now, with no Todd Gurley, who had all but disappeared in that Super Bowl season, Los Angeles has questions and holes. They also have a ton of money tied up in a quarterback who appears closer to “only good” versus franchise like. And that may be the biggest indicator of how far they will fall.
The NFC West will have some of the best quarterbacks in all of football. With Wilson in Seattle, Jimmy G. in San Francisco, and a dynamic second-year signal-caller in Murray, Jared Goff in Los Angeles looks to be on the outside looking in. The lack of a star running back might be the wet blanket that keeps his game strikingly average, which will ultimately render the Rams a bottom division team, with only the new digs in Inglewood to look forward to.