The Los Angeles Rams basically won the NFC West on Saturday night by defeating the Arizona Cardinals 13-9, but nobody is celebrating as if they are going to the playoffs. That’s because in the NFL the only thing that matters in victory is certainty and nobody wants to “Desean Jackson” the ball at the goal line. However, they will say “stranger things have happened” than the Rams losing the NFC West to the Seahawks in the next week.
I’m not so sure that’s true. The Rams’ odds to win the NFC West are over 99% and based on almost 150,000 simulations at The Upshot, L.