Terron Armstead came on The Rich Eisen Show and said the Myles Garrett trade makes the Los Angeles Rams a 17-and-0 team with health. So Rich held him to it, game by game.
The win-loss game is a show staple. Fans call in and go one game at a time through their team's schedule until a final record is produced. Armstead became the first guest to walk in already predicting perfection, so the format fit him perfectly.
He opened with all the expected confidence. The Rams beat San Francisco in Australia in week one. "Duh." They handle the Giants on Monday night. "Duh." A trip to Denver? "Close one, but duh." The Eagles? "Starts off tight. Then duh."
From there Armstead ran the table with increasingly colorful verdicts. The Bills game at home was a "blowout." The Cardinals game "gets ugly." The Raiders game? "Uglier." He called the Commanders game "a whip one" and the Cowboys game a "shellac." At one point he predicted the Rams would beat San Francisco a second time, "more convincing than week one."
Then came the Seahawks on a Friday night at game 14. Armstead paused. He acknowledged how physically punishing two-and-three-game weeks get late in a season. He still took the Rams. 15-and-0 against Tampa? "Beat the brakes off the Bucks." That left a perfect regular season on the line in week 18 at home against Seattle.
He gave it up. Rest the starters. Loss.
Rich pushed back, asking if head coach Sean McVay would really take a knee on a seven. No chance, Armstead said. Rest the starters.
That opened the door to the Aaron Donald question. Rich mentioned that Donald could use the meaningless finale to get his sea legs back. Armstead shut it down immediately. "Aaron Donald can't come back. He's happy. Let's let that man live his life doing what he's doing. He's at the roast of Kevin Hart. He's kicking it."
Then Rich pointed out that Donald is casually throwing up 140s. Armstead, who retired the year after Donald, was not thrilled with the comparison. "I feel like you're trying to put it on TV that Aaron Donald's more of a man than me. I don't like it." He paused. "I can't do 140s no more."
Rich said he was not questioning Armstead's manhood. Armstead reframed it himself: it was his want to, not his ability. "I can't do that."
Final prediction: 16 and 1.
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