Final Rams injury report for Week 10 places OL concerns back at center stage

The LA Rams face the Miami Dolphins at SoFi Stadium in Week 10. It's an important game for both football teams. If the Rams win, they will extend their post-BYE winning streak to four games, improve to 5-4, and begin to consider themselves in the mix for postseason competition. If the Miami Dolphins win, they reverse their losing streak,prove to fans that they are still in this, and must gird their loins for winning almost all of their remaining games.

For either team, losing in Week 10 serves a crushing blow to their plans for 2024.

Despite the return of Dolphins starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, they have lost two more games. At 2-6, Bleacher Report Brad Gagnon urges the 'Phins to shut him down for the rest of the season. He raises a valid point. Sure, there is a competitive spirit in all NFL athletes. But if the goal is to hoist a Lombardi, do the Dolphins have a realistic chance this season?

I view their chances as more of a spoiler team at this point.

The LA Rams have come back from the brink of disaster, once a 1-4 team and now a 4-4 team. After losing all but one game to teams from the NFC North Division, plus a stinging blowout loss to the Arizona Cardinals, the Rams cannot rely upon NFL Playoff tie-breakers to launch this team into a favorable playoff seeding. Even as Week 10 competition begins, the Rams are the ninth-seeded team in the NFC Conference. Sadly, every team ahead of them holds the tie-breaker, save the Minnesota VIkings.

So this team not only must get healthy, but it must win while doing so.

Perhaps the greatest challenge is that very fact. The margins of error have shrunk for both teams in this game. So much so that normal experimentation from rotation and plays called for specific game-time scenarios could result in horrific consequences for either team.

In short, this game comes down to more that the best team. The victor may simply be the most durable, the hungriest, and the team that makes the fewest mistakes.