Rams' Struggles: Stafford & Donald's Impact on Season

What's going on with the Rams, man? I mean, sitting at 2-4, I know that, you know, people are going to go back to that trip that they had in Australia there, man. But, I mean, here we go here. I mean, you got to say, this is really not looking good sitting at 2-4. What's the issues going on right now, Raj? Yeah, the problem with this team, it's pretty deep at this point. I think there was this feeling that, like, listen, like, with every loss, like up until this Cardinals loss, there was an excuse. You know, with the 49ers, it was the flight to Australia. with the uh broncos it's like listen you're playing a very good team on the road tough call tough pi call at the end the bills good team your kicker missed you change that discard those losses no excuse for it so this is where it shows you the problems with this team are deep and it's not going to change with one kicker or one change they got to figure things out because at the end of the day both sides of the ball but particularly on the offensive side of the ball dan which is This is the most surprising thing. When you have a team, you know, with the head coach, like it's Sean McVay, you've got Matthew Stafford, Davante Adams, Cooper Kupp. Like, for that offense to be as poor as they were on Sunday and really as poor as they've been kind of this season, that's the most shocking part right now. Do you think you are starting to see a little bit of the Mr. Undefeated right now? And that is father time. When it comes to Matthew Stafford, are you starting to see a little bit of that, starting to rear its head here or again like you said this is more inside the organization hey rach we know this you can have the star-studded 53-man roster but if you don't have the right 53 you're not going to win which is it in your opinion here it's a little bit of everything i think with the matthew stafford thing Dan, I'll never forget going through that preseason and training camp thinking he might retire so for him to kind of go from he might not play this season and he might retire to him being the most valuable player in the league was shocking to expect him to come back and duplicate that I I don't think was realistic but I also don't think we thought we would see a drop off like this and then across the board yeah listen a lot of these guys are getting older the Davante Adams is not the player he was a few years ago Tyler Higbee you go down the list again like there this team is not as young as we thought And then you go on the defensive side, Dan, and Donald comes out of retirement. Why? Because he wants to play alongside Myles Garrett. And that tandem has not yet seen the field together. Myles Garrett's been hurt. We might see him back next week. We'll see what kind of a team the Rams are at that point. And Aaron Donald, I just feel bad. Again, he's not what he used to be. He had been retired for two years. This is an older team. And again, this is why they put all the chips at the middle of the table. this was an all-in win the championship this season team and for them to be two and four at this point is shocking was that the right decision for Aaron Donald to come back in your opinion or do you think again this was maybe a miscalculation because you just added up all the old guys on the team and you added up an old guy who's been out for a couple years was it the right move clearly not yet not now but here's the thing he's been thinking about this for a while Dan if You remember when Micah Parsons was on the trading block and we weren't sure where he was going to go from the Cowboys. That was the first time Donald said, hey, if the Rams trade for Micah Parsons, I might come out of retirement. So when they made that trade for Myles Garrett, it once again started up again where he wanted to play one more year alongside a Hall of Fame defensive player, defensive pass rusher. And for us not to see that tandem at all, and again, we'll see what they are. Like, if he comes back this week, this team is 2-4 at this point. It's tough. It's tough. And for Donald, there's been points in this season, Dan, where I felt bad that he came back because his back is not right. He missed the first game of the season. He missed the game a couple of weeks ago. He's not himself. But he came back to win a championship. And again, the two of them being at SoFi Stadium, he wanted to win a championship once again in their home stadium. So for them to be this bad at this point, you feel bad that Donald came out of retirement for this team.