Los Angeles Rams 2024 NFL Season Win/Loss Total
The Los Angeles Rams won the Super Bowl on their own field following the 2021 season but fell apart the next year to finish at 5-12, the worst-ever mark for a defending Super Bowl champion. Los Angeles bounced back to a 10-7 mark and a Wild-Card spot in 2023. What to expect this year as the franchise moves forward without all-time great Aaron Donald?
A Closer Look at the Win/Loss Total for the Los Angeles Rams 2024 NFL Season
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Los Angeles Rams 2024 NFL Schedule
- NFL Week 1: at Detroit Lions — 8:20pm ET (NBC/Peacock)
- NFL Week 2: at Arizona Cardinals — 4:05pm ET (FOX)
- NFL Week 3: vs. San Francisco 49ers — 4:05pm ET (FOX)
- NFL Week 4: at Chicago Bears — 1:00pm ET (FOX)
- NFL Week 5: vs. Green Bay Packers — 4:25pm ET (CBS)
- NFL Week 6: BYE
- NFL Week 7: vs. Las Vegas Raiders — 4:05pm ET (CBS)
- NFL Week 8: vs. Minnesota Vikings — 8:15pm ET (Prime Video)
- NFL Week 9: at Seattle Seahawks — 4:05pm ET (FOX)
- NFL Week 10: vs. Miami Dolphins — 8:15pm ET (ESPN)
- NFL Week 11: at New England Patriots — 1:00pm ET (FOX)
- NFL Week 12: vs. Philadelphia Eagles — 8:20pm ET (NBC/Peacock)
- NFL Week 13: at New Orleans Saints — 4:05pm (FOX)
- NFL Week 14: vs. Buffalo Bills — 4:05pm (FOX)
- NFL Week 15: at San Francisco 49ers — 8:15pm ET (Prime Video)
- NFL Week 16: at New York Jets — 1:00pm (CBS)
- NFL Week 17: vs. Arizona Cardinals — TBA (TBA)
- NFL Week 18: vs. Seattle Seahawks — TBA (TBA)
Los Angeles has the 12th-toughest schedule in the NFL this season as its opponents combined for a 2023 winning percentage of .505. The Rams are +3.5 for Week 1 in Detroit in a rematch of that Wild-Card Game. Los Angeles will face six teams that qualified for the playoffs last season in the 49ers, Eagles, Packers, Bills, Dolphins and Lions. Also of note, L.A. will have an extra home game (nine total) this year based on the league’s 17-game schedule formula.
The Rams have gone over their win total in five of seven seasons under head coach Sean McVay, including all three where their win total was under 10.
2023 Wasn’t That Bad
At 3-6, it looked like the Rams were going to be a bad team in 2023 as well, but then the team won seven of its final eight – and the only loss in overtime at an excellent Baltimore team – to earn an NFC Wild-Card spot. However, the Rams’ season ended in that game in Detroit, 24-23.
Los Angeles had a chance to take the lead late in the fourth quarter, but Detroit’s defense denied it. A holding penalty pushed Los Angeles out of field goal range, and QB Matthews Stafford — the Lions’ longtime quarterback who won a Super Bowl after he was traded to the Rams — threw incomplete on fourth down. The Lions acquired QB Jared Goff and a pair of first-round picks for Stafford three years ago. Stafford, who played most of the game with a bandaged and bloody hand after he slammed it into a defender’s helmet, finished 25 of 36 for 367 yards with two touchdowns. Record-breaking rookie Puka Nacua had nine receptions for 181 yards and a touchdown for the Rams.
Nacua was an Offensive Rookie of the Year candidate last year, setting the NFL rookie receiving yards and receptions records with 105 total receptions, 1,486 receiving yards (4th in the NFL) to go along with six TDs. The previous rookie yardage mark was 1,473 by Bill Groman in 1960. Nacua needed 29 yards coming into Week 17 to get past Groman and did so, recording his seventh 100-plus-yard game of the season. The previous rookie mark for catches was 104 by Miami’s Jaylen Waddle in 2021.
Who’s In? Who’s Out?
While Nacua will be a huge piece of the franchise going forward, the Rams took a massive loss defensively when three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year and first-ballot Future Hall of Famer Aaron Donald retired. Donald finished his career with 111 sacks, second most among primary defensive tackles in a career (behind John Randle’s 137.5) since individual sacks became an official statistic in 1982. He holds the Rams’ franchise record for career sacks. Last season, Donald had 8 sacks and 53 total tackles in 16 games and was named first-team All-Pro. He is one of three players to win the Defensive Player of the Year award three times, along with Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor and J.J. Watt. The award was first given out in 1971. Donald also finished as an eight-time first-team All-Pro, a 10-time Pro Bowl selection and the 2014 Defensive Rookie of the Year. He became one of two defensive players since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to earn a Pro Bowl selection in each of their first 10 NFL seasons, alongside Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor (10).
“I’m complete,” Donald said of his reasons for stepping down. “I’m full. I think the passion to play the game is no longer there for me. I will always love football, but to think about going through another camp and another 17-[game] season, I just don’t got the urge to want to push myself to do that no more. I’m burnt out. The best way to say it is I’m full, I’m complete. I’m satisfied with what I was able to do in 10 years.”
Los Angeles also lost highly-respected defensive coordinator Raheem Morris, now the head coach in Atlanta. The Rams spent free agency investing in veterans to improve their secondary in cornerbacks Darious Williams and Tre’Davious White as well as safety Kamren Curl and the interior of their offensive line, as they brought in guard Jonah Jackson from the Lions and re-signed guard Kevin Dotson.
White is probably the biggest name of that group, as a former two-time Pro Bowler and one-time first-team All-Pro with his former Bills team. White had 12 total tackles, two passes defensed and one interception before suffering a torn Achilles in Week 4 against the Dolphins which limited his season to just four games (all starts).
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