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The Los Angeles Rams finished the 2025 regular season with a win to secure the No. 5 seed in the NFC playoff race, but went an abysmal 3-3 in the final six weeks of the season despite starting the season with a huge lead on the rest of the conference.
L.A. still finish with a top-flight offense and defense, but the momentum around the Rams has waned recently from the peak of the top team in the league.
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That is, except for NFL.com columnist Jeffri Chadiha. He still thinks that the Rams are the top contender in the NFL despite finishing second in the NFC West and having to play a Wild Card match in the first round of the playoffs.
Chadiha's reasons are simple: He trusts head coach Sean McVay, the Rams get back a few key players from injury and have otherwise looked tremendous. So, despite a rough end to the year, Chadiha still likes the Rams to win the Super Bowl.
We get it. The Rams haven’t exactly been killing it lately. They blew a 16-point fourth-quarter lead in a Week 16 overtime loss to Seattle and then stumbled through a 27-24 defeat to a mediocre Atlanta Falcons team a week later. You know what’s also worth remembering? The Rams suffered through a three-game losing streak in the middle of the 2021 season before going on to win the Super Bowl. Head coach Sean McVay has been down this road before, as has quarterback Matthew Stafford. That type of perspective matters immensely when talking about whether the Rams are falling apart at the worst possible time.
The reality is that few teams have as much talent on offense and defense as Los Angeles. The Rams also are waiting for wide receiver Davante Adams to return from a hamstring injury that kept him from playing in those losses in Seattle and Atlanta. If he’s able to return for the Wild Card Round against the Carolina Panthers -- and it will be nearly a month of recovery by that point -- then the Rams offense goes to a different level. There won’t be a better unit in the postseason than the one they’ll field with Stafford, Adams, fellow wide receiver Puka Nacua and running backs Kyren Williams and Blake Corum.
That's a lot of confidence for a Rams team that hasn't looked itself in some time, but the points stand. That, and Chadiha noted the Rams' losses were pretty unique. The Week 3 loss to the Eagles came on a blocked field goal that would have won the game, the 49ers' loss came on a strange fourth-down call in overtime, and the losses to the Panthers and Falcons were against defenses led by Rams assistants.
All in all, the Rams can still be a top contender in the NFL. They've proven in throughout the 2025 season. While they haven't looked like it lately, Chadiha still believes.
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This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Will the Rams win the Super Bowl? This analyst thinks they will
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