If I do this for another 50 years, I may never be as wrong about a playoff team as I was about the 2023 Los Angeles Rams. At least, I was not alone.
Coming off of a 5-12 season and left with only three true “stars” from the Super Bowl champions, all of whom were coming off of injuries and are over 30 years old, the Rams were widely predicted to be bracing for a season of growing pains and rebuilding. You could call it “re-tooling”, “re-setting”, or “reloading” if you wanted to, the words all boil down to the same meaning:
Nobody outside of you really believes in you.