With so many bad to mediocre teams in the league odds are most teams will have a softer part of the schedule. There aren't enough good to great teams in the league. Good time to rest up/heal up maybe adjust some things and hopefully make up ground on competition that might be going thru tougher part of their season. Rams season started out tough now it eased up and will get harder shortly. While we were going thru the soft patch , the Cards lost and Niners and Seahags started circling the drain. It doesn't tell you much about the Rams but it helps them nonetheless.