Rams report card: Good, but good just wasn’t enough

They first fell out of playoff position on a last-minute field-goal miss against the Seattle Seahawks, and they were knocked out the wild-card race for good on a last-second field goal by the San Francisco 49ers.
That sums up the Rams’ season from sluggish start to premature finish: Capable but not magical, competitive but not consistently, good but just not good enough.
The data-analysis website FiveThirtyEight.com made the case recently that with so many near-misses, the Rams were close