{"id":930,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/930","headline":"Rams freefall from Super Bowl favorites to 2-4 longshots","dek":"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.","body":"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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nSome 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.","published_at":"2026-10-20T06:20:19.281214+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"2026 NFL Power Rankings Week 7: Are The Packers For Real? Are The Rams Frauds?","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-power-rankings-week-7"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NFL Power Rankings entering Week 7: Are the 2-4 Rams even a playoff team after a miserable start?","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/nfl-power-rankings-entering-week-7-are-the-2-4-rams-even-a-playoff-team-after-a-miserable-start-034342561.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Rams face historic Super Bowl challenge after stunning 2-4 start, but schedule offers path back","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-2026-schedule-2-4-start-super-bowl-hopes/"},{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"Rams have fallen to fifth-best odds to win the Super Bowl","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/rams-have-fallen-to-fifth-best-odds-to-win-the-super-bowl"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Rams must beat historical odds to make Super Bowl after 2-4 start","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/rams-must-beat-historical-odds-150043397.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"The Rams Superteam Experiment Is Failing In Los Angeles","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/rams-superteam-experiment-failing-los-150022637.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Rams have fallen to fifth-best odds to win the Super Bowl","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/rams-fallen-fifth-best-odds-153621434.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Rams aren’t dead in the water, yet","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/rams-aren-t-dead-water-183000188.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Rams’ Super Bowl odds after embarrassing Cardinals loss show there’s still belief in superteam","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/rams-super-bowl-odds-embarrassing-224548990.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3c055b1/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhdliveextra-a.akamaihd.net%2FHD%2Fimage_sports%2FNBCU_Sports_Group_-_nbcsports%2F907%2F679%2Fnbc_pft_ramspt2v2_261019.jpg","credit":"Pro Football Talk","width":1920},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}