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Hall of Fame RB Believes LA Rams Are the Best in the NFC West<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NFC West has been a tough division to call over the last several seasons, with three different teams being crowned champions in the previous five years. The Los Angeles Rams won in 2024, stopping the two-year streak of the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n

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It looks set to be another challenging year to predict a winner, with the Arizona Cardinals, who haven’t won the division since 2015, looking to be building something good under head coach Jonathan Gannon. The odds in Vegas have it very close in 2025, but the 49ers are favored slightly over the Rams. However, Hall of Fame running back Jerome Bettis believes the oddsmakers have it wrong.<\/p>\n

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NFL Hall of Fame running back Jerome Bettis Rich Barnes-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Speaking to DJ Siddiqi of RB.org<\/a>, Bettis, who played for the St. Louis Rams (now Los Angeles Rams) and the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1993 to 2005, revealed Sean McVay’s team is the best in the NFC West in 2025. Bettis also spoke about which team is the one to beat in the NFC.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn their division, they are the favorites,\u201d says Bettis of the Rams. \u201cI think the Niners are going to be good but not great. The Rams definitely have an advantage on that side. I think the team they\u2019re going to have to beat is going to be the Eagles. They\u2019re going to be right back at it again. They\u2019re built to beat the Eagles, and if they can slow down the running game, they\u2019ve got a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Rams were not far from making another Super Bowl appearance<\/a>, but they lost in the playoffs to the eventual champions, the Philadelphia Eagles. However, Bettis believes this coming season, McVay’s team can be the best in the NFC by taking down the NFC East team. It’s a target that the team<\/a> will be aiming for, looking to get back to another Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Related: Sean McVay Gets Blamed For Failures by Mike McDaniel, Kliff Kingsbury<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 5, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame RB Believes LA Rams Are the Best in the NFC West originally appeared on Athlon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[390,7,22611,7062,1014,58,2444,2611,1593,6,19671,109,57,424,252,3307,4445,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-184159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jerome-bettis","11":"tag-jonathan-gannon","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-rams","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-losangelesrams","16":"tag-nfc-west","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-hall-of-fame","19":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","21":"tag-rams","22":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","23":"tag-sean-mcvay","24":"tag-st-louis-rams","25":"tag-team"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114802439336676808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}