Phil Simms Confesses To Thinking The Rams Would Be The Worst Team In 2023
Following a a miserable 5-12 season in 2022, just one year removed from a 12-5 run to a Super Bowl title in 2021, expectations were low for the Los Angeles Rams in 2023.
Two-time Pro Bowl New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms, who won a pair of Super Bowls during his tenure with the club, admitted to in a recent episode of his podcast Bleav In Rams that he, too, didn't think much of LA heading into this past season.
In fact, he thought they would flat-out stink more than any other team in the NFL.
Instead, the Rams finished with a 10-7 record and a return playoff appearance, losing in the Wild Card round. The team also uncovered gold with rookie wide receiver Puka Nacua, drafted with the No. 177 pick out of BYU.
"I'm going to confession," Simms joked. "Okay. Dear father, I have sinned because last year before the season, I said the Rams will probably be the worst team in the NFL. ...Maybe I didn't say the worst because I usually don't try to go overboard with these [predictions], but I just thought, 'Man, they still got so many young guys and they're just everything that's going on.Do they still have Super Bowl hangover? I don't know.' The draft, they didn't have the high picks once again. And, as usual, I do it all the time. I do it every year. I got to eat my words and tell everybody out there I wasn't wrong. I was really wrong."
"Yeah, but, you know, there's 32 teams in the NFL and sometimes at CBS we're the, I guess you would say, the network of the AFC," Simms, a CBS broadcaster, concedes. "So we don't really follow and give credit to the NFC teams as much as we probably should."
