Seattle Seahawks vs. Los Angeles Rams Recommended Bet
Seattle Seahawks (6-5 SU, 6-5 ATS) vs. Los Angeles Rams (3-8 SU, 3-7-1 ATS)
Week 13 NFL
Date/Time: Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 4:05PM EST
Where: Sofi Stadium, Inglewood, California
TV: Fox
Point Spread: SEA -7.5/LAR +7.5 (BAS – Why bettors are still laying -110 is baffling! You could be saving a ton of cash! It just takes 2 minutes to sign up!)
Over/Under Total: 41.5
The Seattle Seahawks come to SoFi Stadium on Sunday for an NFC West battle with the Los Angeles Rams. Seattle blew a nice chance on Sunday to move to 7-4, dropping a 40-34 overtime game to the Raiders to fall to 6-5. They look to get back on the right track this week, and while they are on the road, they will face a depreciated Rams squad that lost their fifth game in a row on Sunday to the Chiefs, 26-10. Can the Seahawks get back on the winning track, or will the Rams turn it around this week? Let’s break it down!
What do the Rams Have Left?
It has really become a story that just gets worse and worse. Last week, they were working with their third-string QB, Bryce Perkins. On top of that, they’re without Cooper Kupp and can’t run the ball, mired in one of the bigger funks seen from a defending Super Bowl Champion in recent memory. As 16.5-point dogs, they covered barely last week, only their second cover since September 25. They’re letting down fans and bettors alike and the deflation being seen on both sides of the ball is palpable. Even when they were more or less intact, it wasn’t working. Take away most of their vital pieces, and you’re looking at a team that might go from being the best team in the NFL to the worst in under a full year.
There is a psychological aspect of all this that needs to be accounted for when going against teams who are still in it, like Seattle. The respective agendas of these teams are very different. On one hand is a Seattle team that is engaged in their season, trying to get it to work. On the other hand is a Rams team that further embeds their misery with each passing week, acknowledging the growing hopelessness with each passing setback. You can hope that players will be looking to make a good impression. Or that maybe professionalism will surface in some capacity. But it still ends up being a headspace that doesn’t match up very well with that of their opponents.
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Searching Hard for Silver Lining
After being in two disappointing road spots, the Rams could see a small boost simply by virtue of being back in their stomping grounds. The few slivers of good play we’ve seen from the Rams this season have occurred at home, so maybe that can help. And while a lot of attention has rightfully gone to the Rams’ offensive haplessness this season and the constant ongoing injury crisis they face, their defense has held firm. While lacking a lot of what made it a title-winning “D” last season, they aren’t getting embarrassed and can still be pretty solid against the run, something they hope will resonate this week against the Seahawks and Kenneth Walker, III. But make no mistake, one really needs to have a rose-colored lens to find much positive about the Rams heading into week 13.
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Good Spot for Seattle on Sunday?
On the surface, facing a dying team the week after blowing it against the Raiders seems a good spot for an irritated Seahawks bunch. They had to buck a lot of odds and perceptions to even work themselves into this state—a team that still has a lot to play for in the second half of the season. Last week, they allowed a late TD by Las Vegas, with Joshua Jacobs running it in for a long TD in overtime. We started seeing a defense that is barely keeping it together in spots really just fall apart late. To come up short like that late coming off the bye was a bad look. With losses, this season to the Falcons, Saints, Buccaneers, and now the Raiders, the Seahawks have shown they don’t always deliver in what seem to be easier spots. Since their first loss of the season, all of Seattle’s non-covers have occurred against sub-.500 teams.
Nevertheless, this shakes out as a good spot for the Seahawks. The urgency or heightened agenda card doesn’t always hold water. But I sense a lot is on the line this week for Seattle, and it might be the Rams who pay the price. At this point in the season, the Rams need to be facing a team that either has some apathy stemming from having a large margin for error or a team that is facing some of the same issues they’re facing. With Geno Smith looking to get back on the right track, he could find himself in good shape this week, taking it to this beleaguered Rams’ secondary with Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf running loose.
Lay the Number
This is not easy, and in the preseason, your mind likely would have exploded had someone told you that you’re about to lay more than a TD on the Seahawks on the road against the Rams. But this is also a spot that tests how up to speed you are in acknowledging what you, in fact, see. And even if the Rams’ quarterback situation is a bit muddled, and we’re not sure who is going to be in there, it’s hard to think it can get better right now for no real reason. And while the Seahawks certainly represent an unreliable force as a larger-sized road favorite, the simple fact that their offense is working properly should pay off big this week. I’ll take Seattle.
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