Identifying Five Massive Issues With Rams After Six Weeks

What the answer is to those problems remains unknown but if the Rams find the solution, they'll find the Lombardi.

2. Special Teams Execution

This one is pretty self-explanatory. While football is a complex game in which an outcome can not be decided solely on one play, even if it's the last one of the game, the fact remains that if the Rams' field goal team executed properly, the Rams would be 5-0 right now.

It's not even about the mistakes. It's about perpetual kicking issues under Chase Blackburn's supervision. Before it was understandable because Blackburn didn't have his guy but now it's just confusing after the solid season Joshua Karty had as a rookie. To make matters worse, Lucas Havrisek, the kicker before Karty that the Rams cut before the 2023 playoffs, was perfect in his return to the NFL last week.

3. Financial Allocation

The Rams do not pay linebackers, safeties, or interior offensive lineman. Sure, there's exceptions but that's been the case of the Rams during the McVay era. They have let game changers at those positions walk and now the team is faced with a massive issue.

Quentin Lake and Nate Landman are on the final year of their deals and without them, the Rams do not have a winning record. How do the Rams keep both while maintaining their roster and if they can't, who goes?

4. The overreliance of Puka Nacua and the lack of immediate production from Davante Adams

The Rams have spent two moments, one against the Texans in the season opener and again against the Ravens without Puka Nacua and oh my. The Rams were one butt cheek away from being in a second-half dogfight with the Baltimore Ravens, and if Kyren Williams' wild catch on fourth down didn't occur in bounds, we might be having a different conversation on the team's start to the season.

In my opinion, it's time to rotate Davante Adams into the slot if Nacua is out and put Jordan Whittington on the outside. Use Adams to force changes to the defense before putting him back outside.

5. Overall Lack of Offensive Creativity

The Rams offense is built to win, but their overt use of 11 personnel, to the detriment of the effectiveness of the entire offense, has found the team unable to find solutions in critical, short-yardage situations.

The coaches are where they are for a reason, but it's worrisome to look at the rest of the NFL using a variety of personnels to fit the needs of the week, while it feels like the Rams offense has to retrofit their system to overcome that missing link between solid and championship production.