Rams have been a problem for the Hawks for a while now. I'd be willing to bet that the pressure rate Russell Wilson has faced in his career vs the Rams is double that he faces on his average game out of all the other games in his career. For sure the Rams having a nasty d line and Hawks' pass protection game not being great has been a factor, but there's just some divisional beef thing here. The Rams just tend to win these games more than the Seahawks.

That said, I think Wilson has masked a lot of the team's deficiencies. I don't think their defense is actually that good. Unlike some of the other top contenders in the NFC like the 49ers and Saints. Though their defenses didn't show up today, they've been pretty strong all year. I think they're still good enough to make a run but I think their defense is going to need to step up and live on takeaways, like the '09 Saints or '10 Packers who had mid level defenses that just took the ball away a ton.