As we enter the 2022 NFL offseason, the Los Angeles Rams are trying to put themselves in a position to repeat as Super Bowl Champions. No team has successfully defended its title since the New England Patriots did so in 2003 and 2004. Since then, it has been a different team than the previous year that has won the Super Bowl. The Salary cap has been the biggest reason that it has been so hard to go back-to-back in the NFL, but it hasn't stopped teams from getting extremely close. The Rams are hoping to bust way past the “close” label and stamp their mark as not only Super Bowl champions, but possibly as the start of a burgeoning dynasty.

Before they can get on the field, though, the Rams must sort through a lot of issues regarding possible retirements. Andrew Whitworth is expected to hang up the cleats, but what the team was not expecting was that head coach Sean McVay and defensive tackle Aaron Donald would have retirement talk surrounding them, as well. If the Rams want to have any sort of shot at winning the championship again in 2023, they will need to address those issues and a few more. All in all, we came up with three things that the Rams will do this offseason that will make them the champions of Super Bowl 57.

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3 reasons Rams will win Super Bowl 57 to repeat as NFL champions

3. The Rams will bring back Donald and McVay 

We are considering the “retirement” talk of McVay and Donald to simply be contract negotiation posturing on the behalf of the two most important Rams on the team. LA was going nowhere without McVay and would likely be going down the same path if he were to leave. As far as Donald goes, everyone sees his impact on the game from the first snap to the last. He is a relentless pass-rusher that the Rams can ill-afford to lose in any capacity. The soon-to-be 31-year-old isn't going to be playing forever, but an extension to add two years to his current two-year contract makes perfect sense for both sides. The same can be done for McVay to keep both of them around for the next four years. After that, they may just ride off into the sunset together, and for Rams' fans' sakes, they're hoping that is after another ring or two.

2. They want to win one with Robert Woods and Jordan Fuller

before the season, if you asked most people around the team, aside from Stafford and Donald, who would be the most irreplaceable player on the Rams' roster, you would have gotten one of two answers: Jordan Fuller or Robert Woods. Woods has been the heart and soul of this team since they came back to LA and signed the Gardena native to lead the franchise. When he went down in the middle of the season, it seemed like a backbreaker for the Rams. Fuller has grown into the leader of the back-end of the Rams' defense and was the defensive signal-caller up until his injury in December. The Rams will be going all-out in 2022 to win a ring with these two guys that had to sit and watch from the sidelines for the entire Super Bowl run this season. Aside from the emotional element of getting two of your leaders back from injury, these guys also happen to be two of the best players on the team. Their addition back onto this roster cannot be understated.

1. The defense will be even better 

We already mentioned how the team is going to get Fuller back to their defense, which is going to be a huge plus, but the team is also going to get a big boost from the emergence of Ernest Jones at the linebacker position. The team also brings back most of the other starters from a championship-caliber defense–except Darious Williams and perhaps Von Miller. Williams won't be incredibly hard to replace considering he wasn't great to begin with, and the team also has Robert Rochell waiting in the wings to replace him. As far as Miller goes, there is still a chance that the team can re-sign him, but even if they aren't, the 2022 NFL draft class is one of the best pass-rushing classes in the past decade. So, the Rams will be able to turn a relative weakness (edge pass-rushing sans Miller) into a strength by drafting a few guys past the top-100 picks that would have been first-rounders in previous seasons.