Garrett is now eligible to return from the injured reserve list but there is no absolute certainty that will happen this week following his Sept.14 surgery.We also looked the other way when the Rams took their travel scheduling advice to Australia from an Instagram trip planner (not really, it was coach Sean McVay) and were sluggish and generally a step slow in the season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers because they traveled across the planet 36 hours before a game while the 49ers spent a week in Australia acclimating.Myles Garrett of the Los Angeles Rams warms up before the NFL game against the San Francisco 49ers at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, on Sept.
11, 2026.(Getty Images)RAMS' DISASTER IN AUSTRALIA RAISES THE QUESTION: SHOULD THE TEAM HAVE FOLLOWED THE 49ERS THERE EARLIER?But we cannot unsee what happened on Sunday.
We cannot forget or forgive the 18-16 loss to the upstart Arizona Cardinals.At home.Marking a second consecutive loss at SoFi Stadium.The Rams are now trolling the people who picked them as the Super Bowl favorites before the season began.They're making us — yes, me included – look dumb as they've piled curious, questionable, disappointing things atop each other en route to last place in the NFC West.SHAWNE MERRIMAN SAYS RAMS' AARON DONALD-MYLES GARRETT COMBO IS 'INSANE' FOR NFL OFFENSES: 'PICK YOUR POISON'We're a bunch of dummies because we thought the Rams would be a steamroller.But they're a household flat iron.Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay speaks at a news conference after an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Thursday, Oct.
2, 2025, in Inglewood, California.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)"You know," McVay said after Sunday's loss, "we won't win a game unless we figure out how not to beat ourselves."The Rams have talent.
Their quarterback was the NFL's MVP last season.Garrett is a two-time Defensive Player of the Year and they coaxed Aaron Donald out of retirement long enough to...