Rams at Green Bay Packers: Who has the edge?

RAMS (7-3) AT PACKERS (8-3)

When: Sunday, 1:25 p.m.

Where: Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wis.

TV/radio: Ch. 11; 710 AM, 93.1 FM, 1330 AM (Spanish)

Line: Rams by 1½

Notable wounded designations: Rams: WR Ben Skowronek (back) and CB Dont’e Deayon (thigh) are questionable; OLB Leonard Floyd (concussion) is bully to go. Packers: T David Bakhtiari (knee) is out; CB Kevin King (hip, knee) is doubtful; RB Aaron Jones (knee), WR Allen Lazard (shoulder) and LB Rashan Gary (elbow) are questionable.

What’s astatine stake? The Rams request a triumph against a squad similar Green Bay to reconstruct the buzz they enjoyed aft beating Tampa Bay – backmost successful September. Losses to Tennessee and San Francisco dropped the Rams to 2-3 against teams presently successful playoff contention. With another, they’d autumn 2 games down Arizona successful the contention for the part rubric and playoff location field.

Who’s better? The Rams person been up and down, portion the Packers person been consistently good. Football Outsiders’ analytics complaint the Rams with the amended offense, No. 2 vs. No. 5, and defense, No. 8 vs. No. 23. The Rams are the league’s co-leaders successful yards per play (6.2) and leaders successful nett yards per walk (7.6), but the Packers’ defence is tough.

Matchup to watch: Rams CB Jalen Ramsey vs. Packers WR Davante Adams. Adams is 3rd successful the league successful receiving yards per crippled (97.9), down Rams WR Cooper Kupp and 49ers WR Deebo Samuel. Adams caught the go-ahead touchdown successful the playoff triumph implicit the Rams successful January.

Rams triumph if … If QB Matthew Stafford takes attraction of the shot without sacrificing aggressiveness aft helium and Rams coaches reminded america each week that they’re 7-0 erstwhile they triumph oregon necktie the turnover conflict and 0-3 erstwhile they don’t. If OLB Von Miller begins to jell with OLB Leonard Floyd and DT Aaron Donald and they instrumentality vantage of a beaten-up Packers violative enactment to enactment unit connected QB Aaron Rodgers. If the defence responds to coordinator Raheem Morris’ appraisal that the 49ers “played (a) much carnal crippled than us” successful San Francisco’s 31-10 victory.

Fantasy pick: Kupp. The Rams’ coaches should beryllium extra-eager to thin connected the NFL’s starring receiver aft not having him successful the playoff nonaccomplishment astatine Green Bay past January, and aft seeing the Vikings’ Justin Jefferson rotation up 169 yards and 2 touchdowns against the Packers.

Prediction: Rams 23, Packers 20. L.A. listed 3 players connected its wounded study Friday, Green Bay nine, a people of which squad is coming retired of a bye week and which is limping into one. If the Rams consciousness refreshed physically and mentally, that could beryllium the quality successful an intriguing matchup.