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Los Angeles Rams: 5 best games before the bye week

BySteve Rivera|
NEW ORLEANS, LA - NOVEMBER 04: Quarterback Jared Goff #16 of the Los Angeles Rams (L) greets quarterback Drew Brees #9 of the New Orleans Saints after the Saints defeated the Ram 45-35 in the game at Mercedes-Benz Superdome on November 4, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
NEW ORLEANS, LA - NOVEMBER 04: Quarterback Jared Goff #16 of the Los Angeles Rams (L) greets quarterback Drew Brees #9 of the New Orleans Saints after the Saints defeated the Ram 45-35 in the game at Mercedes-Benz Superdome on November 4, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
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LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 28: Quarterback Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers looks to make a pass in the first quarter against the Los Angeles Rams at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on October 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 28: Quarterback Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers looks to make a pass in the first quarter against the Los Angeles Rams at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on October 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

Week 8 in the Coliseum featured the first of what many believed to be a four game gauntlet against the best of what the National Football League offered especially at the quarterback position.

In consecutive weeks, the Los Angeles Rams would face Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers at home, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints on the road, Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks, and MVP candidate Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs both in the Coliseum.

The game against the Packers may have best sold to the world that the Rams were ready for a big NFL stage. In Week 8, they’d beat a likely first ballot Hall Of Fame candidate in Rodgers and keep an unbeaten streak alive. It also showed that Los Angeles quarterback Jared Goff was up to the task to go toe-to-toe with someone like Rodgers and win.

That was and is a big deal.

The game against Green Bay was a marker that showed the Rams aren’t a pretender. It also showed that Goff against Rodgers was a glimpse of the future in the NFC, a future looking and moving forward as the best of yesterday are losing pace against the players of today.

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