... beat in the NFC West? No team—not the Seahawks, 49ers, or Cardinals—could wrest the division crown from the Rams’ iron grip.

Led by the likes of Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Marc Bulger, Kurt Warner, Orlando Pace, Leonard Little, and Marshall Faulk, the Rams were a force to be reckoned with in an otherwise weak division.

And then it all blew up.

Seemingly overnight, the Rams got very, very old.

Their rock of a left tackle, Pace, became an injury-prone question mark year in and year out.

Faulk ran out of gas and retired.

Bruce and Holt both dropped from their lofty perches as two of the game’s best wideouts. Each would see a reduced role in the team’s offense before moving on to different clubs.

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