{"id":650638,"date":"2026-01-03T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/650638\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:22:19","slug":"rams-vs-arizona-cardinals-how-to-watch-start-time-and-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/650638\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams vs. Arizona Cardinals: How to watch, start time and prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Rams<\/a> prepared for Sunday\u2019s regular-season finale against the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> not knowing who will be their opponent in the NFC wild-card round.<\/p>\n

Coach Sean McVay<\/a> and his players had a more pressing concern: getting back to their winning ways.<\/p>\n

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The Rams look to end their two-game losing skid and head into the wild-card playoffs with a win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n

After losing to the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> and Atlanta Falcons<\/a>, the Rams are 11-5 going into the matchup against the struggling Cardinals (3-13) at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n

Depending on the outcome of Saturday\u2019s game between the Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers (12-4), the Rams could be seeded No. 5 or No. 6 for the NFC playoffs.<\/p>\n

If the Seahawks defeat the 49ers in what amounts to an NFC West championship game, and the currently No. 6-seeded Rams beat the Cardinals, the Rams will move up to No. 5.<\/p>\n

McVay said after Monday\u2019s 27-24 loss to the Falcons that he would not rest starters against the Cardinals. But it remains to be seen how much they play if the Rams come out strong and build a substantial lead.<\/p>\n

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford<\/a> is coming off a three-interception performance against the Falcons, which did not help his case for NFL most valuable player honors. But he still leads the league with 42 touchdown passes.<\/p>\n

Receiver Puka Nacua<\/a> and Cardinals tight end Trey McBride are tied for the league lead with 119 receptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> The Rams prepared for Sunday\u2019s regular-season finale against the Arizona Cardinals not knowing who will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[14018,375,390,2604,254,1443,1327,7,853,19112,5092,1911,6,883,94575,3702,29207,424,261,26290],"class_list":["post-650638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-cardinals","tag-ankle","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizonacardinals","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-california","tag-cardinals","tag-football","tag-game","tag-knee","tag-league","tag-loss","tag-nfl","tag-no","tag-ol-kevin-dotson","tag-prediction","tag-ram","tag-rams","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sofi-stadium"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115831147416601966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650638","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=650638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}