last season to win their first NFC West championship in 14 years.When the Rams clinched their second straight division title Sunday http://www.theramslockerroom.com/authentic-john-kelly-jersey , everybody in the NFL had seen it coming all year long.The league-leading Rams (11-1) haven't surprised anybody this season, not after their remarkable 2017 transformation under rookie head coach Sean McVay.They're still the division champs again, this time with four games to spare and plenty of opportunities to climb even higher before the postseason.The Rams became the first team to clinch a postseason berth by beating the Lions 30-16 last weekend, guaranteeing themselves at least one home playoff game. This franchise hadn't won back-to-back NFC West championships since 1979, when the Rams completed a run of seven straight."It's a blessing," McVay said Monday after returning from Detroit with a raging winter cold. "You don't take anything for granted. It's nice to be able to still have an opportunity to accomplish some things as you continue to progress through this season, but it still feels great either way to be able to accomplish something special with people that you care about and that you love."The Rams put on celebratory hats at Ford Field, but the muted party was mostly forgotten Monday when they got home.According to left tackle Andrew Whitworth, the Rams have greater expectations after they built on last season's 11-5 record with an even more impressive campaign this fall."With all of us coming together for the first time (last year) Womens Troy Hill Jersey , it felt like you responded and rose to the occasion and achieved something," Whitworth said. "I think this year, it feels like we expected to be a good football team. We expected to have an opportunity to win this division again, and we went out and did it. So I think you more see it as a checklist item. ... You're happy you won it, but it's not the end goal, and it's not really something we didn't think or expect that we could do."Two straight division titles still are a notable achievement in the up-and-down history of the Rams, who have won only one NFL championship since 1951.Los Angeles' string of solid playoff teams in the 1980s won just one division title. The Greatest Show on Turf and its descendants in St. Louis won three division titles in five years, but never two in a row.The Rams had missed the playoffs in 12 consecutive seasons before McVay and Wade Phillips led them back last year, only to lose an opening-round home game to Atlanta.The Rams are playoff-bound again Robert Woods Jersey , but they still have plenty to do in December 鈥?starting with the chance to clinch a first-round bye during their trip to Chicago on Sunday night.A win over the Bears (8-4), who have the NFC's third-best record behind LA and New Orleans (10-2), would guarantee an extra week of rest for the Rams in January.The Rams also control their destiny for home-field advantage in a potential NFC championship game with the Saints, but that race could go deep into December."It's a big deal," McVay said. "To be able to earn the opportunity in your 13th game of the season to be able to, at the worst, clinch a No. 2 seed, it would mean that you'll be able to watch that first week of the wild card round (at home). It's a huge deal to us, so that's certainly going to be a great challenge. That's the next step."NOTES: Backup running back Malcolm Brown injured his collarbone in Detroit http://www.theramslockerroom.com/authentic-andrew-whitworth-jersey , and he was expected to have "a procedure that's not necessarily a surgery" on Monday, McVay said without elaborating. The Rams didn't know the severity of the injury. ... McVay confirmed he spoke with former Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury about potentially being "an extra set of eyes" for the Rams down the stretch. The offense-minded coaches are good friends, and Kingsbury spent time with the Rams during the summer. "He's got a lot of opportunities that he's figuring out now, so there's really no news on that front," McVay said. ... McVay hopes to kick his cold in time for the Rams' trip to wintry Chicago. "Even if I'm not healthy, that's not going to hold me back," McVay said. "I'm not out there playing, so as long as my brain isn't too slow, then I'm going to do the best I can to get as healthy as possible and ready to go for these guys." The Super Bowl rotation will soon be skipping a beat.Since 2006 Womens John Johnson Jersey , the networks carrying the Super Bowl — NBC, CBS, FOX — have broadcast the game, one year at a time. That rhythm will be disrupted after the next Super Bowl, according to Andrew Marchand of the .Super Bowl LIV from Miami will be broadcast by FOX. Then, instead of Super Bowl LV (in Tampa) being televised by NBC, CBS will re-enter the picture. The next year, NBC will take the CBS spot, televising Super Bowl LVI from L.A.NBC wants to once again have both the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics in the same month. CBS wants to not televise the Super Bowl at a time when the Winter Olympics are being televised.That year Josh Reynolds Jersey , the Winter Olympics begin on February 4 from Beijing, and the Super Bowl will be played on February 6. This means that NBC will be, on the first Sunday of the Olympics, balancing coverage of the games with the typically extra-long Super Bowl pregame show.Marchand reports that there will be no compensation to CBS as a result of the swap, which gives NBC the first Super Bowl to be played in L.A. since the Rose Bowl hosted Super Bowl XXVII in early 1993.FOX will then presumably have the next Super Bowl, the last game of the current cycle of broadcast contracts. And if in the next set of broadcast deals ABC enters the Super Bowl rotation and the other networks remain in place, NBC could end up having the Super Bowl in every Olympics year.