The Los Angeles Rams arrived in the season with the kind of buzz that usually comes with championship expectations, but six weeks in, the record tells a much different story. At 2-4, Matthew Stafford’s team has not come close to matching the noise around it, and that slow start has already changed the way Rob Gronkowski talks about so-called “super teams.”
Appearing on “Fox Sports: NFL,” Gronkowski said he came into the year convinced the Rams might be the group that finally made the idea work.
“I'm kind of out on those Los Angeles Rams,” Gronkowski said. “I had them as my Super Bowl going into the season. I finally thought, hey, a Super Team is finally going to be able to pull it off and win a Super Bowl.
“Like it's going to finally make sense. But I don't know what it is with these Super Teams.
I'll never believe in a Super Team again unless the Rams can turn it around. But they just look like they're getting bullied on the football field.”
The offseason additions of Myles Garrett and Trent McDuffie, plus Aaron Donald’s return from retirement, gave Rams fans plenty to dream about. Instead, Sean McVay’s team has fallen well short of that promise, leaving the early part of the season looking nothing like the one many had imagined.
Gronkowski said the Rams need a course correction fast if they’re going to rescue the year.
“They got to turn this season around,” Gronkowski added. “I think the panic meter is pretty high for Coach McVay.
It's pretty high for the Rams. And it's just they got to go out there, and they got to punch their opponent in the face.”
Their latest loss came against the Arizona Cardinals, who had entered the game on a four-game losing streak. Costly mistakes have been one of the biggest issues for Los Angeles, adding to the frustration around a team that was expected to start strong.
Whether this is just a rough opening stretch or something more serious is still an open question.
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