Tom Brady shares 1 brutal truth about the Rams making or missing the playoffs

The 9-2 Los Angeles Rams are atop the NFC. But now that the team has reached that impressive pinnacle, how hungry will the players remain? How effective can this team remain, now that it is hitting on all cylinders? After all, teams are upset practically every week. And Los Angeles has risen from 3-2 to 9-2.

The team has been winning, but not just against anyone. The last three victories have come at the expense of the 8-4 San Francisco 49ers, the 8-3 Seattle Seahawks, and the 8-5 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now, here come the 6-6 Carolina Panthers, eager to reestablish themselves as a postseason contender.

To do that, the obvious step is to knock off an elite team. Yes, Los Angeles checks all the boxes of that category. But there is a missing ingredient to all of this. After all, the same team that just blew away the Bucs is not expected to roll over and play dead the following week.

Unless LA underestimates the Panthers. And Tom Brady is already sounding the alarm over the Rams peaking too early this season.

Tom Brady sounds alarm over Rams swift ascension to top of NFL power ranking

How long can the Horns sustain this pace? After all, winning six consecutive games on a first place team's schedule is no small feat. But with two division teams nipping at the heels, that is the cost of remaining atop the NFC West Division.

No other NFL team has such a successful record paired with such a small margin of error in leading their division. The closest team to a similar predicament is the 8-3 Chicago Bears, and they face a huge game against the 8-3 Philadelphia Eagles.

Former NFL elite quarterback Tom Brady raises a solid question about the Rams in his latest power ranking. Even as he touts the Rams as the top team in the NFL, he poses the unspoken question that many NFL fans and analysts are thinking:

"Are the Los Angeles Rams peaking too early? "- Tom Brady

It's a legitimate question, but the evidence does not yet support that conclusion. This team just reinforced a solid secondary, restoring starting cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon and reclaiming former cornerback Derion Kendrick

This is a team that just filled injured tight end Tyler Higbee's slot with Baby Gronk, as well as finally fixed the field goal failures. All along the way, the team kept winning.

'Any given Sunday', 'a game of inches', blah blah blah. You can come up with a dozen clichés to warn the team of overconfidence at this point in the season. And yet, head coach Sean McVay is practically strong-arming the team not to become cocky.

The team is just one victory shy of its win totals in each of the past two seasons. So, it may be that even a slump is not the end of the world. But don't expect Los Angeles to settle for anything less than running the table.

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