Rams show Seattle no longer King in the NFC West

The Los Angeles Rams beat the Seattle Seahawks 42-7, and take control of a division long centered in the Pacific Northwest.

If you stopped to grab a quick lunch during the Los Angeles Rams game against the Seattle Seahawks, you would have missed a lot. In a game that was never close, LA didn’t necessarily take apart their NFC West opponent, as much as they smashed them into the turf at Centurylink Field.

If you’re a Seahawks fan, it was ugly, and the boos were not to be ignored as the team headed to their halftime locker room.

If you are a Rams fan, it was years of futility coming to an end. It was the jubilant feel of watching a team creative and aggressive on offense, scoring in bunches, versus a team being stuck in the mud as they were under Jeff Fisher.

It would have been wholly appropriate to fire Fisher again after yesterday’s game in affirmation of where they’ve been and where they now are.

But why digress.

Yesterday in Seattle, just as they did a few weeks ago in Glendale, the Rams slammed the door shut on another NFC West opponent. In doing so, they’ve served notice that the Seahawks era was a nice one, yielding a Super Bowl championship, but is now tucked nicely into the history books as a new team ascends to the top of the division.

That team is the Rams, and if you watched that game, as well as the previous 14, you’ll find little doubt that Sean McVay was the right guy at the right time to return respectability to this franchise.

He’ll also likely do better than that in the future.

As for the Seahawks, they were a team beaten into submission over four quarters, and if you are being fair, limped in to Week 15 after a battering in Jacksonville. But give the Rams credit for learning a lesson young teams don’t always learn, and that is when you get a team down, don’t let them back up.

Finish them off for good.

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In Week 13, they closed the book on the Arizona Cardinals, and yesterday, they dropped the hammer and finished off the Seahawks.

The King is dead in Seattle, and all roads now go through Los Angeles.

Long live the King.