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We are a better team than Seattle and they are decimated by injuries.

And that's only one factor.

Rams are too young to have yet developed the "make plays when it counts" mentality that the veteran Seattle team already has.

You don't underestimate a tough division opponent at home, especially when they have a difference maker at qb.

And this goes both ways. Rams beat them twice in 2015, once with Foles and another time with Keenum in Seattle.

That is, in games like this, as the Rams have already proven, there is no "on paper" rule. They're bitter hard games. It can go either way. It has before.

I would maybe discount Seattle if Wilson were out.

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Agreed that the Seahawks are a seasoned team and the Rams still have a lot to prove.

All I can say is, the Seahawks seem unusually banged up this time around.. they are already missing Sherman, Chancellor, and Avril, and now they will be without Wright and their NT Jones. Wagner is iffy at best. In addition, Sitting out due to injury on thurs were Bennett, earl Thomas, graham, and their LT.

I’m not “discounting” or “underestimating” them. But their injury situation is so severe that I think it will impact the game.

Imagine the corresponding injuries for the Rams... what if TruJo, Joyner, Brockers, Barron, and Westbrooks were all out, Ogletree had a bad hamstring, and missing practice due to injury were Havenstein, Higbee, John Johnson, and Quinn?

I know it’s a tough division game... but Hawks are just really beat up this time around.