If there’s one thing we’ve learned this NFL season, it’s that there are truly no great teams. The 7-1 Eagles are very good. The Chiefs look like Super Bowl contenders. The Patriots are, well, the usual Patriots.

A total of 10 teams have started the year with at least five wins in the first eight weeks, and among them are the Rams. The majority of those teams will make the playoffs, but will Los Angeles be one of them?

Past history suggests we’ll see the Rams in the playoffs for the first time since 2004. According to Alden Gonzalez of ESPN, the Rams have made the postseason in 21 of the 25 times they’ve started a season 5-2 or better. That’s good for 84 percent, which should give Rams fans a great deal of confidence.

Context on an idle Sunday: Rams have started 5-2 or better 25 other times in their history. They made the playoffs in 21 of those seasons. — Alden Gonzalez (@Alden_Gonzalez) October 29, 2017

By no means is Los Angeles a lock to make the playoffs. No team at this point in the season is. However, the Rams have as good a chance to reach the postseason as anyone in the NFL. Given the state of the NFC, winning 10 games should be enough to make it, meaning they have to win five of their last nine games.

Looking at their upcoming schedule, that won’t be a cake walk, but every game is winnable. Their toughest remaining tests come against the Texans in Week 10, the Eagles in Week 14 and a divisional matchup with the Seahawks in Week 15.

To bolster the idea that the Rams have a good chance to make the playoffs, consider this stat. since 1995, 73 percent of teams that started 5-2 reached the postseason. So yeah, the Rams have a great chance to end a 12-year postseason drought.