Los Angeles has slipped to the fifth-best Super Bowl odds after opening the season as the overwhelming favorite, with no team ever having started 2-4 and gone on to win it all.
The Rams spent most of the offseason and summer as the top-ranked team heading into Week 1, with some outlets installing them as the overwhelming Super Bowl favorite. Six weeks later, that team barely resembles the one on the field now. Los Angeles sits at 2-4, and its lone marquee win came against a Giants team that had already lost its starting quarterback.
The drop has been steep enough that the Rams have fallen to the fifth-best odds to win the Super Bowl, a staggering fall for a roster that carried championship expectations into the year. History is not on their side either: no NFL team has ever started a season 2-4 and gone on to reach the Super Bowl, let alone win it.
Some coverage points to a softer upcoming schedule as a potential path back into contention, but the Rams have given little indication so far that they are the same team people expected in August. For a franchise that spent the summer fielding questions about a title window, the questions now are far more basic: can they even make the playoffs.