{"id":752837,"date":"2026-02-15T01:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/752837\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:18:28","slug":"rams-safety-quentin-lake-explains-why-he-has-more-respect-for-nfc-west-rival-seahawks-than-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/752837\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams safety Quentin Lake explains why he has \u2018more respect&#8217; for NFC West rival Seahawks than 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake having a slight favorite is kind of a surprise, even with the Rams losing to Seattle in the NFC title game. Lake, a 2022 sixth-round pick, was teammates with linebacker <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/ernest-jones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ernest Jones<\/a> for two seasons in Los Angeles in 2022 and 2023. The Rams safety also teammates with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/cooper-kupp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Kupp<\/a> before the wideout <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/seahawks-agree-to-terms-with-ex-rams-wr-cooper-kupp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed<\/a> with Seattle in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the Rams and the 49ers split their regular-season games with each team winning on the road in <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/49ers-at-rams-2025-reg-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Week 5<\/a> and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/rams-at-49ers-2025-reg-10?tab=recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Week 10<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Rams falling short of lifting the Lombardi Trophy this season, Lake believes the returning cast of veterans like quarterback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/matthew-stafford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Stafford<\/a>, wide receiver <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/davante-adams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davante Adams<\/a> and others could win another Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finish what we couldn&#8217;t do this past year. That&#8217;s it,&#8221; Lake said about the team&#8217;s goal for next season. &#8220;I&#8217;ma start doing it for everybody else. Everybody in the building knew how close we were and we felt like it, you know, if there was a couple things that we did better, it would have been us in Super Bowl 60. So, I&#8217;m more so doing it really for Stafford, coach [Sean] McVay, for Davante and all these older guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before Lake&#8217;s and L.A.&#8217;s quest to Super Bowl LXI begins, the Rams will get a chance to face their least favorite NFC West opponent, the 49ers, in the NFL&#8217;s first-ever regular-season game in <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/international\/games\/melbourne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake having a slight favorite is kind of a surprise, even with the Rams losing to Seattle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,58,88,6,609,4267,20582,252,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-752837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-no-minute","14":"tag-offseason-news","15":"tag-quentin-lake","16":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","17":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116072015693563881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752837","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=752837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}