If you had to cite common factors in the three losses for the 9-3 Los Angeles Rams, what might you cite as those common factors? While the first common factors to come to mind can be either poor performances on special teams or poor officiating, there is another variable that has led to struggles.
This team seems to play down to backups.
Los Angeles lost to a San Francisco 49ers offense that relied heavily on backups in Week 5. The same facing-backups conundrum challenged Los Angeles in Week 13.