{"id":648367,"date":"2026-01-02T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/648367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:18:10","slug":"experts-love-l-a-in-regular-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/648367\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts love L.A. in regular-season finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> will look to end their 2025 regular season on a positive note before the playoffs begin. The Rams, sitting at 11-5, clinched a postseason berth weeks ago but will only be the No. 5 or No. 6 seed after wins by the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s Week 18 matchup against the Arizona Cardinals offers an intriguing situation. Arizona isn&#8217;t playing for anything except pride, while the Rams are only playing for seeding and might prefer to rest some injured starters before or throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>Experts overwhelmingly think the Rams will win this game despite their past two consecutive losses. Only three experts picked the Cardinals to take the final game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-c25c4394-efe4-48c8-86fc-1a3f39ccf8f2\">Here are the top expert picks for the Rams&#8217; Week 18 matchup with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Bell: RamsNick Brinkerhoff: CardinalsChris Bumbaca: RamsNate Davis: RamsTyler Dragon: RamsMike Middlehurst-Schwartz: RamsMatt Bowen: RamsMike Clay: RamsDan Graziano: RamsPam Maldonado: RamsEric Moody: RamsJason Reid: RamsLindsey Thiry: RamsSeth Wickersham: RamsPete Prisco: RamsCody Benjamin: RamsJared Dubin: RamsRyan Wilson: RamsJohn Breech: RamsTyler Sullivan: RamsDavid Richard: RamsJamey Eisenberg: RamsAli Bhanpuri: RamsTom Blair: RamsBrooke Cersosimo: RamsGennaro Filice: RamsDan Parr: RamsClare Brennan: RamsMitch Goldich: CardinalsGilberto Manzano: RamsConor Orr: RamsJohn Pluym: RamsMatt Verderame: RamsJoe Buscaglia: RamsChad Graff: RamsZack Rosenblatt: RamsLarry Holder: RamsNick Kosmider: RamsAustin Mock: RamsGary Davenport: RamsBrad Gagnon: RamsKris Knox: RamsMoe Moton: CardinalsBrent Sobleski: RamsIan Hanford: RamsWes O&#8217;Donnell: Rams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams will look to end their 2025 regular season on a positive note before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[247,265,240,375,390,2604,1327,7,20842,239,58,246,88,6,35196,245,264,424,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-648367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-angeles","11":"tag-arizona","12":"tag-arizona-cardinals","13":"tag-arizonacardinals","14":"tag-cardinals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-hub","17":"tag-los","18":"tag-los-angeles-rams","19":"tag-neutral","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nfl-hub","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-neutral","25":"tag-rams","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115826177689249512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648367","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=648367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}