In a heart-breaking overtime loss, the Los Angeles Rams fell to the injury-riddled San Francisco 49ers 26-23 on the Thursday Night Football national stage. L.A.’s was driving for the win and in the red zone when the ’Niners defense stoned a 4th and 1 run by Kyren Williams at the 11 yard line.

While the pass defense was objectively poor, it was also an up-and-down evening for the Rams offense. They had no problems moving the football and three of four scoring drives ended with touchdowns, but watching, I couldn’t help thinking of ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde’, the central theme of which is where change (particularly negative) becomes involuntary. The Rams offense has been showing signs again, not of being stopped by others, but rather, held back by some internal struggle.

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