Bowl LIII this Sunday. JLC Dominique Easley Jersey , as usual, isn’t taking Los Angeles"WhiteSections 2019 offseason2019 free agency2019 NFL DraftFull ArchiveLibrary 2019 NFL calendar2019 Rams regular season sched2019 Rams preseason schedMasthead Community Guidelines NFL Odds StubHub 018 Los Angeles Rams Regular Season2019 NFL PlayoffsCBS Sports’ analyst Jason La Canfora is picking the Rams to lose...for the 11th time in 13 weeksNew,16commentsThe Rams will take on the Patriots in Super Bowl LIII this Sunday. JLC, as usual, isn’t taking Los AngelesCSTShareTweetShareShareCBS Sports’ analyst Jason La Canfora is picking the Rams to lose...for the 11th time in 13 weeksMatthew Emmons-USA TODAY SportsIn theory, picking the weekly winners of NFL games should be a pretty simple task. Whether it’s home field advantage, a team being marred by injuries, having a superstar player that just can’t be stopped, or simply having a more well-rounded football team than the opponent, anticipating a weekly check from your buddy’s pick‘em league should be no sweat. If only it were that easy. Sometimes the winless Buffalo Bills, having given up 78 points in the first two games of the season, roll into Minnesota and smack the Vikings in the mouth and walk away 27-6 victors. Say goodbye to your Survivor pool! But let’s face it Troy Hill Jersey , nobody was picking the Bills to win that game. And more often than not, you should expect the better team(s) to win. If you’d picked the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers, and Chicago Bears to win every single game in 2018, you would’ve only been wrong four times. Not too shabby. If you’d pick the Rams or Saints, you would’ve only picked incorrectly thrice. So yeah, sometimes you just keep picking the hot teams, and sure, in spots you take a tough opponent. Going 16-0 isn’t very likely, after all.But that’s just not CBS Sports’ analyst Jason La Canfora’s style. He goes against the grain. He blazes the trail. He picks against the Rams鈥 lot. NFL Pickwatch, in the event you haven’t visited, compiles weekly picks from NFL experts from various media outlets – NFL Network Michael Brockers Jersey , ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, Pro Football Focus, Bleacher Report, SB Nation, and many others. To be fair, JLC predicted the Rams would get off to a hot 5-1 start鈥hough he figured the Rams single loss in the first six weeks to come at the hands of the Arizona Cardinals, who won less games than any other NFL team and will be picking first overall this April. But then something happened. Jason started picking against the Rams and it was as if, despite the continued success, he couldn’t look back. La Canfora’s Weekly Picks 2018Opponent% Experts Picking RamsLa Canfora PickResultOpponent% Experts Picking RamsLa Canfora PickResultFollowing the Rams 5-1 start, La Canfora picked the Rams to lose seven straight. And he’s only picked the Rams TWICE since Week 6 – meaning he’s gone 2-10 in that span. Sure Ethan Westbrooks Jersey , he picked the Rams to beat the Eagles and even pegged them over the Cowboys in the divisional round – but that comes as a bit of a surprise considering he predicted them to lose to those same 3-13 Cardinals in Week 16. Whatgives? Did La Canfora genuinely believe – with the opportunity to secure a first round bye on the line – that the 4-12 San Francisco 49ers, decimated by injury, were going to stop the Rams鈥t home? LA put 48 points in that game, by the way. Does JLC hate the Rams? Or is he just a really poor prognosticator?As you can see from the table above, La Canfora is picking the Patriots to win the Super Bowl. He’s not alone in that, and it appears as though the vast majority of experts (though there are many that have yet to submit their picks yet) will be going with the 5-time Super Bowl Champs. No biggie. As I said just prior to the Rams taking on the Saints, embrace the underdog role. Let them all pick the Patriots. Spend the rest of your week listening to them blabber about experience vs. inexperience, or whatever it is they’re talking about. Because none of the noise really matters, and the Rams are 60 minutes away from possibly hoisting a Lombardi. So lock in that Patriots’ pick JLC, because it’ll be your last of the 2018-2019 season. Speaking of which, congrats on finishing 117th (dead last) among all experts, having gotten 52.3% of this season’s picks correct. I suppose that answers the poor prognosticator question. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell responded to a letter from Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards with a letter of his own.The Democratic governor had expressed his “deep disappointment” that officiating helped decide the NFC Championship Game and called on the NFL to fix it by expanding replay. “The very integrity of the game will be called into question” without change John Sullivan Jersey , Edwards wrote.In his reply, Goodell reiterated his belief that he cannot invoke Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1 “to overturn the result of a game because of an officiating error.” He added that he believes “it would be wrong for me to do so.”The commissioner also sounds opposed to making interference calls a part of replay. He does, however, agree the league needs to figure out how to improve its officiating.“I fully understand your personal disappointment, and the disappointment and frustration of Saints fans throughout the country, over the outcome of the NFC Championship Game,” Goodell wrote in his letter to the Louisiana Governor, via . “As you know, immediately following the game, our head of officiating told Coach Payton that a penalty should have been called on the play in question. I have expressed the same view to both Mrs. Benson and Coach Payton Cory Littleton Jersey , as well as during my press conference on January 30.“Our rules do not permit the Commissioner to overturn the result of a game because of an officiating error, and I believe that it would be wrong for me to do so. Nor have the clubs supported an expansion of replay to review decisions by game officials to call — or not to call — a penalty on the field. That said, I agree that it is incumbent on us to review this issue closely to determine if there are changes in our rules or procedures that would prevent a similar occurrence in the future. While there will always be mistakes in any game played, coached, and officiated by humans, we do not want officiating to be the topic of discussion after any game.”Officiating, though, continues to be a topic of discussion more than three weeks after the NFC title game.