Rams’ late collapse in Philadelphia is the latest chapter in a long-running problem Los Angeles inevitably must solve in bid for another title
Sunday’s loss to the Eagles is just the latest extension of a problem the Rams will need to solve if they want another championship.
One of the Los Angeles Rams‘ personal house of horrors struck again in Week 3 of the 2025 NFL regular season. At Lincoln Financial Field, the Rams appeared to have a win in hand thanks to a dominant first-half showing against the Philadelphia Eagles — only to see a number of situational miscues bite them in the rear end down the stretch. That, paired with two blocked field goals on the Rams’ final two possessions, leaves Los Angeles at 2-1 and suffering another loss to Philadelphia.
The Rams came into the game with hopes of revenge after an NFC Divisional Round loss to the Eagles this past January. But this game will go down as one that got away — and continue the Rams’ ongoing search for the answers needed to a riddle they’ll need to solve amid their quest for another championship.
The Rams have a Philadelphia Eagles problem.
Los Angeles’ latest loss to Philadelphia is extension of a troubling trend for the Rams
Los Angeles have now played the Philadelphia Eagles four times since the start of the 2023 season. They haven’t won any of them. The last two, the playoff game and today’s loss have come in Philadelphia by narrow (and frustrating) margins. This is the most fair window gauge of the two franchises — but it is notable that the head to head history between the two is overwhelmingly in Philadelphia’s favor. Sean McVay‘s Rams defeated Philadelphia in September of 2020 by a final score of 37-19. The Eagles finished that season 4-11-1.
It stands as McVay’s only win against the Eagles as the head coach of the Rams, in addition to Los Angeles’ only head-to-head win against Philadelphia since December of 2004. Philadelphia is 10-1 against the Rams since. McVay is 1-6 against the Eagles as a head coach. And while it is absolutely true that matchups in 2008, 2011, 2014 and a number of other years have nothing to two with these two teams here in 2025, it is notable that this has been a team the Rams simply haven’t been able to close out.
Sunday’s loss is likely the most spectacular of the losses. If these two teams have the kind of season everyone thinks they’re capable of having, it may not be the last time we see them square off this season. And so the Rams, amid yet another crushing loss at the hands of the Eagles, will look to rebound for the rest of the season and hope that another rematch affords them the answers to their Philadelphia problem over the past two decades.
They can start by putting their interior field goal blocking under the microscope — that’d be a great place to start.
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