I had the Los Angeles Rams all wrong in 2017

The Los Angeles Rams were better than I ever thought they could be in 2017, meaning that 2018 could be something completely unimaginable.

I was on a sports radio talk show earlier this summer, and I said that a successful season for the Los Angeles Rams would be 6-10. I also said they’d split with the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers, and would sweep the Arizona Cardinals.

Could still all happen.

What won’t happen is 6-10.

However the last three games go for Los Angeles, this overwhelmingly successful season posted by Sean Sean McVay in his inaugural season will be impossible to overlook. His ability alone to turn around an 0-7, would be bust, first overall draft pick in Jared Goff will be studied by NFL historians and a topic of s few ’30 for 30′ ESPN documentaries.

Yeah, he’s that good.

And so are the Rams.

For the better part of 14 weeks and 13 games, I’ve been a glass half empty guy, waiting, but certainly not wanting, the bottom to fall out of the Rams season.

It hasn’t. And if you’ve watched Los Angeles in 2017, it’s hard to reconcile last season to this, and what may be in 2018.

But all that said, I completely misjudged how good the Rams are.

I had thought that if LA were a mirage, if 2017 was more myth than reality, then Week 12 against New Orleans would have reconciled what I thought.

I was wrong, the Rams are good.

I don’t believe they are Super Bowl good, at least not yet. But Los Angeles GM Les Snead must be the luckiest fool to ever happen upon a winning lottery ticket, as McVay had turned all the right screws this season.

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Maybe they were due, or maybe I was just that dumb, or maybe it was somewhere in between.

But however or wherever the Rams ultimately conclude their 2017 campaign, it’ll be a Herculean task of epic proportions.

And they’ll only be better next year.