The Los Angeles Rams are entering a crucial Week 18 matchup with their rivals, the San Francisco 49ers with a lot on the line. If they win, they will be assured of the number two seed in the NFC and possibly eliminate SanFrancisco from the playoffs altogether. If they lose, though, they will drop to the number four seed and San Francisco will be into the playoffs. Clearly, the Rams need to exercise their demons against a team that has now beaten them five straight times. Aaron Donald has been here for all five of them, Jalen Ramsey for four, and Matthew Stafford has been around for just one.

We are predicting they do just that on Sunday when they beat the 49ers and clinch the second seed in the conference. After that, it is a single-elimination fight to determine the league's 56th Super Bowl champion. Many teams can proclaim that they are destined to win the Super Bowl, but none more so than the Rams, who have made trade after trade, signaling that they were “all-in” for this year's Super Bowl run. No team wins a Super Bowl without having a few things fall their way and that will be the case this year as well. For now, though, we can just sit back, relax and speculate on why each team has the best chances to win it all. To get it started, here are three reasons the Rams will win Super Bowl 56.

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Three reasons the Los Angeles Rams will win Super Bowl 56

3. They have to leave L.A. only once from now to February (if that)

This is assuming a win over the 49ers on Sunday. With SoFi Stadium in Inglewood set to host the Super Bowl in February, the Rams' only trip outside of L.A. would be if they had to play the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Conference Championship game. That trip to Green Bay would be a very familiar one, as the Rams traveled there last January just to have their season ended by Aaron Rodgers and company, and then had a rematch back in late November that the Packers also won. The Rams will obviously be hoping that the Packers are taken out by another team in the second round since that would keep L.A. at home for the duration of the playoffs, but they still need to be prepared to go to Wisconsin and get a win.

2. If they travel to Green Bay for the third time in a year, they will come away victorious

In what would be a third matchup between the two teams in just over a year, the Rams will come away with the victory because they figured the Packers defense out last game. By the time the Rams were moving the ball and scoring points, it was too late to come back and win that one. Because of the way the game was going towards the end, though, the 36-28 Packers victory gave the Rams as much confidence in a future matchup as it gave Green Bay. The Rams have been playing a lot of zone defense recently, something that Rodgers will pick apart, so they have to come up with a different scheme.

That will be slightly easier for the Rams to do since they are utilizing Ramsey in a position that is irrelevant to whether it is man or zone. He is disguised in different spots almost every play and it has shown in his stats. Despite being targeted the least amount of times out of any Rams player, Ramsey still has 15 pass deflections. He also has five tackles for a loss, showing his versatility; that makes him the only player in the NFL with 15 pass deflections and five tackles for a loss.

1. They have the two best defensive players in the playoffs

This one will come up time and again in the playoffs as Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey make Hall-of-Fame type plays that make people's jaws drop. Donald is the highest-graded player in the NFL, according to Pro Football Focus, and Ramsey has the second-best grade for a cornerback in the league, trailing only the Atlanta Falcons' A.J. Terrell–who is not in the playoffs. They both affect the game so much that they make the players around them better by default. Donald gets so many double and triple teams that his fellow rushers are singled up a ton. Ramsey is so good at what he does that teams just don't throw his way. That forces the ball to Darious Williams and Donte Deayon, who have the best hands out of anyone on the entire defense. The Rams will ride this defense and an offense that is mistake-free all the way to a victory in Super Bowl 56.