Turf Show Times
The Rams don’t care about the preseason, so will fans follow suit and stop caring too?
The NFL has already announced the 2025 preseason schedule, but they went official with it on Thursday, including five nationally televised games, and the Los Angeles Rams face off against some interesting teams this year. The only question left for the fans is: How excited are you to see three more games of Stetson Bennett getting 100% of the preseason snaps?
The NFL will keep it as simple as possible again by giving the Rams a preseason date against the team that they rent their own stadium to for half of the season, setting up a Chargers game on August 16th. The Cowboys hold training camp in Oxnard, so that’s another “local” preseason game on August 9th.
The only time that L.A. will have to leave Southern California in the preseason is a date with the Browns on August 23rd.
But Sean McVay will rest all of his starters and most of his key backups for the entirety of the preseason. The Rams players who will get snaps this August are almost exclusively those who won’t make the roster or will barely make the roster.
Even Jimmy Garoppolo seems unlikely to see the field unless he begs for it. McVay doesn’t want his only Matthew Stafford insurance policy to get injured in a meaningless preseason game.
Fans may think that this is just good “development time” for Bennett, but the reality is that the two-time national champion at Georgia is well past the mark of being a project to find a future starter.
If Bennett starts against the Cowboys this preseason, it will be a rematch of the four-interception start he had against Dallas in the 2024 preseason.
Yes, Bennett has thrown EIGHT interceptions in his preseason career, and at one point he had thrown seven in a row between touchdowns. And this is against preseason teams, not regular season starters.
With a quarterback like that under center, the Rams know that they aren’t going to give fans much of a show this preseason. Unless the team adds another quarterback or risks Garoppolo getting injured, Bennett is sure to start three more times this fall.
So which preseason games are you looking forward to this year, if any?
