Rams fans will love CBS Sports' season prediction, even if they don't believe it

We're officially at the part of the preseason where even people who like preseason stop caring. With two of the three games in the books, everyone's just holding on until Week 1 comes around. Fortunately, that gives us all more time to *~create content~* and CBS Sports was, of course, up to the challenege.

In their "Full 2024 NFL season win-loss record predictions for every team," – as opposed to a "full" season prediction without every team? – CBS does the usual routine: they crown the Chiefs, trash the Raiders, and expect the Chargers to be extremely average. It's a pretty standard read until the Rams part, which sounds depressing on first read but is actually good news? If CBS is even remotely close to right about this, the Rams are in for (I'm scared to even say it outloud) a legitimately fun season.

CBS Sports has the Rams winning 12 (!!) games

"Would you say I'm bullish on the Rams this year??? I think Matthew Stafford is set to have an incredible year, maybe more efficient than volume-based, thanks to the offseason upgrades Los Angeles made on offense ... I have massive expectations for this offense --especially when it'll need to score more points to make up for a slightly worse defense after losing Aaron Donald and Raheem Morris. I do love adding Jared Verse and Braden Fiske as a combo to replace the former."

I agree! I knew I always liked CBS Sports; Bleacher Report could never. And sure, this basically posits that literally everything about the Rams' season goes to plan, which is something that definitely happens a lot of the time in the NFL. The best thing about this is that by the time the Rams are actually playing games that matter, no oen's going to remember these predictions or this blog. So we can just sit and bask in the joy of a 12-game win prediction without any thought of how serious it is. 12 games! The NFC West title! Another ring!! It's all possible, thanks to CBS Sports.