Around the Hornet: NFL's Worst

After suffering their 15th consecutive loss to Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings. The St. Louis Rams have become, without a question, the worst team in the National Football League.

Sure you can make a case for the Detroit Lions, but the Rams, in my eyes, stand alone in that department. In five games this season they have already been outscored 146-34.

In fact, they have played only one full competitive game in a 9-7 loss to the Washington Redskins. The Rams have been held scoreless in two games this season, it is really tough not to score let alone not score twice in five games.

It almost seems as if the team is playing to lose, I mean it wouldn’t be all that bad of an idea if they feel like they can draft quarterback Sam Bradford or Colt McCoy.

Since the start of the 2007 season they have recorded just five wins, going 5-32, not giving Rams fans much to cheer about. Since the departure of former head Coach Mike Martz in the 2005 season the team has almost had as many coaches, four, as wins.

In the last two years the Rams were winners of the No. 2 draft pick. 

Last year they made the correct selection when they drafted defensive end Chris Long. 

In this year’s draft, though, in desperate need of a quarterback, the organization decided to go another direction by drafting offensive tackle Jason Smith.

Going back to the 2000 draft the Rams only have three of 12 first round picks under contract. Stephen Jackson and last year’s pick Long.

This years first round draft choice Smith  has already suffered an injury that has caused him to miss the last two games.

Of course the Rams haven’t been the laughing stock of the NFL this entire  decade. Actually they came into the decade as Super Bowl champions.  At one point the Rams were the most feared team on offense and earned the name- “The Greatest Show on Turf.”

Those were the days of the Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Torry Holt, Issac Bruce, Leonord Little and London Fletcher. Now, in 2009 only Little remains on the roster and at  34, has lost  more than a step and no longer wreaks havoc on opposing quarterbacks as he once did.

The team is in desperate need of new ownership. Currently the team is for sale, and hopefully the right person with the will to win will purchase the battered  St.louis franchise who in recent seasons have played non competitive games.

The Detroit Lions, in their winless season at the very least, played competitively, losing a couple of close games that they let slip away in the final minutes of the fourth quarter. 

The Rams are finding themselves out of ball games early  and simply do not have the offense they once did to come back.

The team has lost key players like Bruce, Dre Bly, Adam Archuleta and Holt to free agency. Being a Rams fan it hurts  to see big time players like that go to other teams because ownership doesn’t want to invest the money to keep them around.

Right now I am just not convinced that the players on the Rams are very prideful.

I mean how can you enjoy losing week in and week out by huge margins? Where is the leadership? You would think that one of those guys making a hefty paycheck would call a players- only meeting and try talk his men up.

We might, in fact, be in store to see history this season because if the Rams can manage to go winless (which doesn’t seem far-fetched), this will mark the first time in NFL history that two teams have gone win less in consecutive seasons.