Once again, a Rams team appears to be going nowhereBy VINCENT BONSIGNORE / STAFF COLUMNIST
DETROIT – A slew of buses sat outside Ford Field on Sunday to transport a solemn group of Rams to Detroit Metro Airport. There, a charter plane was awaiting them amid the gray clouds and stillness of a mid-October evening on Michigan’s lower peninsula.
The destination was of no concern. Or significance really.
It doesn’t really matter much.
Six games into their triumphant return home to Los Angeles, it’s becoming painfully and frustratingly clear that all roads and flight patterns lead to the exact same place for the Rams. Head-first into a brick wall separating who they really are from what they aspire to be.
The Rams undoubtedly want to be a real player in the NFL. A complete, balanced group for whom winning is the norm and losing an occasional blip on the screen.
That’s what they want to be.
What they are, we learned once again in a bitterly frustrating 31-28 loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday, is a team that can’t quite find the right pieces to complete the puzzle. Not consistently, anyway. And after watching them labor ever so taxingly even during their three victories this season, we’d be hard-pressed to remember a moment in which everything was clicking for them at the same time.
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