How Rams should approach the beginning of the 2025 season to avoid a slow start
How Rams should approach the beginning of the 2025 season to avoid a slow start
The Los Angeles Rams are one of the best late-season teams.
L.A. finished the 2024 regular season 5-1, with that Week 18 not affecting their playoff seeding. However, the Rams started the year 1-4 and looked to be the brink of imploding before a three-game winning streak in the middle of the season.
The Rams face an interesting start to the year once more with a few tough games between their Week 8 bye, including a NFC Divisional Round rematch with the Philadelphia Eagles, an inter-conference match with the Baltimore Ravens, a home divisional battle with the San Francisco 49ers and a trip to London to face the Jacksonville Jaguars.
As such, former Rams defensive lineman and current team analyst D'Marco Farr believes L.A. should approach the start of the 2025 season as an extension of the end of their 2024 season to build off the teams' late-season success.
"I think you have to start faster than what you've started in the last couple of seasons based on what you have," Farr. "I loved how [the 2024 season] ended, but if you can just bottle that what you did in Philadelphia and start the season as Game 21 and enter that the beginning of this schedule, you can hit the ground running against the Eagles and everyone else you have to play early."
That idea makes sense given how well the Rams looked at the end of the 2024 season, but that's easier said than done. Luckily, the team kept a lot of their main components on offense like Matthew Stafford and key offensive linemen. However, the team swapped Cooper Kupp for Davante Adams and made some big moves on the defensive front with Poona Ford and a few linebacker switches.
Whether or not the Rams build off the momentum of the 2024 campaign remains to be seen, but it would be best for them to get the season started right against some tough teams before their bye week.
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