3 reason why Rams must embrace a spoiler role for remainder of 2024

The LA Rams are not feared by opponents in 2024, nor should the team be. Despite a lot of optimistic euphoria about the team's offseason, the results of the team's shopping trip among veterans up for the highest bidder through the 2024 NFL Free Agency Market has left the team a bit poorer, both in available salary to spend and in the level of available talent on game day.

We can debate the hypothetical conjecture of how good this team may have been had the team remained at full strength. But the team's inability to tackle, defend the run, or score in the Red Zone suggest that the problems encountered so far are deeper, more fundamentally founded, than a backup playing instead of a starter.

This team fixates on the use of the same few players, even as evidence builds a strong case not to do so. Injury-prone players garner the lion's share of the work. At least, until they fall to injury and the team is scrambling to find instant replacements under the gun.

• Week 1, Sept. 8: at Detroit Lions | 5:20 p.m. | NBC - Sunday Night Football - Loss
• Week 2, Sept. 15: at Arizona Cardinals | 1:05 p.m. | FOX - Loss
• Week 3, Sept. 22: San Francisco 49ers | 1:25 p.m. | FOX –  Win
• Week 4, Sept. 29: at Chicago Bears | 10 a.m. | FOX - Loss
• Week 5, Oct. 6: Green Bay Packers | 1:25 p.m. | CBS –  Loss
• Week 6: BYE
• Week 7, Oct. 20: Las Vegas Raiders (2-3) | 1:05 p.m. | CBS  
• Week 8, Oct. 24: Minnesota Vikings (5-0) | 5:15 p.m. | (Thursday Night Football) - Amazon Prime Video | 
• Week 9, Nov. 3: at Seattle Seahawks (3-2) | 1:25 p.m. | FOX
• Week 10, Nov. 11: Miami Dolphins (2-3) | 5:15 p.m. | ESPN –  Monday Night Football
• Week 11: Nov. 17: at New England Patriots (1-4) | 10 a.m. | FOX - 
• Week 12, Nov. 24: Philadelphia Eagles (2-2) | 5:20 p.m. | NBC - Sunday Night Football
• Week 13, Dec. 1: at New Orleans Saints (2-2) | 1:05 p.m. | FOX  
• Week 14, Dec. 8: Buffalo Bills (3-2) | 1:25 p.m. | FOX   
• Week 15, Dec. 12: at San Francisco 49ers (2-3) | 5:15 p.m. | Thursday Night Football - Amazon Prime Video*
• Week 16, Dec. 22: at New York Jets (2-3) | 10 a.m. | CBS - 
• Week 17, Dec. 28/29: Arizona Cardinals (2-3) | TBD | TBD    
• Week 18, Jan.4/5: Seattle Seahawks (3-2) | TBD | TBD 

• Predicted final record?  TBD
• Current record 1-4

So what is left for this team? Perhaps the best thing to do is to accept the Rams current state, and simply plan to be huge thorns in the sides of any team remaining on the schedule. It's clear that the team has been unsuccessful at marching onto the football field and trading blows with teams that hope to be in contention.

it's time to embrace a spoiler role this season, and here are three reasons why.