Ryan Fitzpatrick: 'Very hard' for Rams to win Super Bowl as pre-season favorites

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No team in the NFL has a better chance to win the Super Bowl this season than the Los Angeles Rams. At least, based on the current betting odds. The Rams solidified themselves as the favorites after acquiring Myles Garrett from the Cleveland Browns, distancing themselves slightly from the rest of the pack – including the defending champion Seattle Seahawks.

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They’re in a much better position than a team like, say, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but winning with a target on your back like the Rams must do is challenging – especially in the NFL compared to the NBA and other leagues.

Ryan Fitzpatrick was on the “Rich Eisen Show” Wednesday and he thinks it’ll be “very hard” for the Rams to go wire-to-wire as pre-season favorites to Super Bowl champions.

“The NFL is awesome. It’s so much different than the NBA and the superteams because it is so much about the team,” he said. “Yeah, it’s about the health, but it’s about guys playing together. It’s about the schemes and the coaches, so I think it’s very hard to be the favorite in pre-season and take that all the way through the season.”

Fitzpatrick still likes the Rams, but he admits there are questions about their special teams, which was their Achilles’ heel last season.

“We still have to remember I know they made their improvements, but Seattle won the whole thing last year so yes, I think they should be the favorites,” he added. “Does that mean they’re going to win the whole thing? I think that’s a very, very difficult thing to do because it isn't just five guys out there passing the ball around and shooting threes. This a whole team. Special teams we saw last year was the downfall for them, so how do they improve their special teams? It’s a team game and it’s a very tough thing to do going wire-to-wire.”

On paper, there’s no question the Rams are the best team in the NFL, but games are played on grass (or, mostly turf), not on paper. And the Rams have a 38-year-old quarterback who dealt with back problems last year, which has Fitzpatrick a little bit concerned, too.

“That’s a huge deal. Can Matthew, now a year older, continue to play at the level he’s played at? I think so, but can he stay healthy?” Fitzpatrick asked, before saying the Rams “obviously have no shot” if he gets hurt.

If Stafford and the Rams can stay healthy, they should play deep into the postseason. But with a difficult schedule, they first must make the playoffs.

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