After 4 games, are the LA Rams really better than their 1-3 record?

I - Rams already know that they can turn a season around

In 2023, the LA Rams won the season opener, but fell to a 1-2 record after three games. the team did manage to knot up their record after 6 games at 3-3, but lost three straight to fall to a 3-6 record. Then the entire team had a chance to regroup with a well-timed Week 10 BYE. The team roared out to a 7-1

That experience of roaring back to claim a playoff berth when all evidence indicated that this team was heading for a Top-10 selection in the 2024 NFL Draft is about to pay off huge dividends. Eventually, this team will get it's bearings and begin to put up better and more competitive games. When that happens, the Rams will start to string wins together, no matter who the team faces.

Hopefully, this team can claw and scrape its way back to a record of 3-3. Even if the team manages to do so, peering ahead to the rest of the games on the 2024 Rams schedule, there is only one team that can be considered not in the running for postseason competition. And even that team, the New England Patriots, cold surprise a few teams this season.

The Rams have no gimme-games this season.

Ultimately, the Rams have to settle up. Regardless of injuries, penalties, dropped passes or missed tackles, the team is merely as good as the record says it to be. Even as we rationalize with a variety of reasons why this team should be better than 1-3, the Rams must deliver that evidence on the football field.

Through four games, they haven't. And until they do, this team is only as good as the record shows it to be. While that is quite disappointing, it's simply what we must accept.

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