{"id":663938,"date":"2026-01-08T14:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/663938\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:16:11","slug":"random-ramsdom-familiar-faces-familiar-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/663938\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Ramsdom: Familiar faces, familiar places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Los Angeles Rams already have traveled to take on the Carolina Panthers this season, and they are doing it again. Familiar places. The Rams also will be seeing a number of former players of their own playing for the Panthers. Familiar faces. <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWhen the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> take the field for Saturday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>, they\u2019re going to see a lot of familiar faces on the other side. Not only are coaches such as Ejiro Evero, AC Carter and Jonathan Cooley on Dave Canales\u2019 staff after spending time under Sean McVay in Los Angeles, but the Panthers have several former Rams players in their starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In total, there are five former Rams who will start for the Panthers this weekend, showing just how much familiarity there is between these two teams.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Panthers may actually know the Rams better than the Rams know the Panthers. That could be everything. Then again, if L.A. comes out as the best version of themselves, I truly believe they can outplay anybody this year. IF they come out as their best selves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I believe Davantae Adams is expected back for L.A., hopefully that helps, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This game is gearing up to be must watch TV, but that\u2019s no surprise, this is the NFL playoffs, baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Please comment on whatever you want and thanks for checking out Turf Show Times!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat kind of success doesn\u2019t happen by accident. McVay is known as an offensive innovator, but his teams have also been the most disciplined in the NFL since 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rams committed the fewest penalties in the league in 2025 (75), and no team has been flagged fewer times in total over the past six seasons, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NFLonCBS\/status\/2008696968412098829\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBS Sports<\/a>. If you roll over the Rams\u2019 committed penalties every season, the team is still the least flagged every season:\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams already have traveled to take on the Carolina Panthers this season, and they are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,4200,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-663938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-news","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115859907583099181","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663938","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=663938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}