LA Rams 2022 Regular Season Wins Total Preview and Prediction

LA Rams Season Win Total Under 10.5 -115 (BET365)

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The Rams won a dozen games, finishing first in the NFC West and winning the Super Bowl last season. They will try to be the first back-to-back champions since the Patriots in 2004 and 2005.

Statistically, it’s more likely that the team that won the Super Bowl the previous season misses the playoffs than it is for them to repeat as champions.

Seven teams have won back-to-back Super Bowls, while nine teams since 1990 have won the Super Bowl and gone on to miss the playoffs.

Super Bowl Hangover

Matthew Stafford certainly lived up to expectations after coming over from Detroit in a trade that sent Jared Goff to the Lions. Stafford threw for 4,886 yards (3rd), and 41 TDs (2nd) and played all 17 games last season. He wasn’t the only one who had a career year.

Cooper Kupp went from 92 receptions for 974 yards and three TDs in 2020, to 145 receptions for 1,947 yards and 16 TDs in 2021. Aaron Donald smashed his previous career-high in total tackles, had 12.5 sacks and then threatened to retire.

The Super Bowl hangover is a well-documented phenomenon, and surely it’s a tough ask for all these guys to be at their best again this season coming off a championship run.

Average Running Game

Sony Michel led the Rams in rushing with just 845 yards on 208 carries last season, and he’s moved on to Miami. They certainly have enough talent to replace him with Cam Akers and Darrell Henderson.

Akers played in just one game last year, after playing 13 games as a rookie. He has the potential but he’s yet to prove he can stay healthy.

Henderson split the workload with Michel last season, and was productive enough averaging 4.5 yards per carry totaling 688 yards and five TDs.

The offensive line is projected to be average after losing veteran Andrew Whitworth.

Tough Schedule

If you use a simple method of calculating last year’s records to determine strength of schedule for the upcoming season, the Rams will have a tougher schedule than any other team in 2022.

It starts in Week 1, hosting a Buffalo Bills team that is favored to win the Super Bowl. They will have tough road games at San Francisco, Green Bay, Tampa Bay, Kansas City and a Week 17 matchup against the Chargers.

Five of their wins last season came against the Bears, Texans, Lions, Giants and Jaguars.

They won’t have the luxury of facing any of those teams this season.

Projected record: 9-8 Overall

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