INGLEWOOD — Imagine if plucking daisy petals actually determined your team’s fate: The Rams are Super Bowl contenders. The Rams are not Super Bowl contenders. The Rams are Super Bowl contenders. The Rams are not Super Bowl contenders … they do have what it takes; they don’t.

On a short week against the rival San Francisco 49ers, the Rams didn’t pass the smell test. They are not Super Bowl contenders. Not unless they improve in every phase of play.

Don’t give them their flowers, because they didn’t play at all like contenders in Thursday night’s 26-23 loss to the severely and exceedingly short-handed 49ers (4-1) .

The Rams (3-2) looked like they don’t have what it takes, not yet.

Title teams don’t go getting ahead of themselves, don’t keep needing late-game pressure to giddy up, don’t

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