Coming into this season, it was hard to fathom a scenario where the Rams would miss the playoffs. They had a tough schedule and suffered some losses during the offseason, but the Rams were still viewed as one of the better teams in the NFL.
FiveThirtyEight, which uses a prediction model to forecast each team’s playoff chances and Super Bowl odds, gave the Rams a 65% chance to make the postseason this year. That ranked fifth among all NFL teams, behind only the Bills, Bucs, Packers and Chiefs.
