I elaborated on this matchup more extensively in the Preview Thread ...
http://www.seahawks.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83904
Here is the Cliff's Notes version of some of that. Being that this is a Jeff Fisher team, you can expect that the Rams will come to play. Fisher is a never say die, blood and guts, Mach 3 with your hair on fire kind of coach whose teams play with the same kind of intensity. Expect a fairly low scoring match early for 2 reasons:
1) The Rams Defense is that good.
2) The Rams Offense with Clemens at the helm is that bad.
The main reason that the Rams were in that game at all last time was because of Zac Stacy going off for 134 yards ... and the biggest reason he did that was the play of the offensive line -- specifically LT Jake Long. The Rams rushed 11 times off the Left Side in that game -- Stacy earned 81 of his 134 yards (7.4 Yards/Carry) that way. They won't have the benefit of that kind of blocking with Jake Long out.
And Long's injury hurts in many other ways too. He also allowed NO QB Pressures in that Week 8 game. So, Long was the central reason that the Rams were even in that game from what I can see. The combo of Joe Barksdale and Rodger Saffold at RT also allowed NO QB Pressures in that game either. They also had good protection in that game because they kept their TE's in to block -- something they're certainly going to have to do now tomorrow. Saffold had been playing very well at RG and the offense had finally been clicking because of the play of the O-Line. Now, Long is out and Saffold is now your LT once again. Not good if you're a Rams fan.
Clemens had a passer rating of just 31.7 against the LOB in situations in which he faced NO pressure. I highly doubt he's going to be in the lazy boy against this defense in this stadium tomorrow.
I see Lynch and the running game will struggling early, as this Rams Defense has been fantastic against the run of late ... but their secondary is fairly suspect. As Scott says, if Seattle's going to be successful, they're got to challenge the middle of those zones because there ARE holes there. On the season, they have allowed 68.3% of all passes to be completed against them -- DEAD LAST in the league. If the Hawks Offensive Line gives Wilson even a little time and he's able to hit those middle zones ... we should be just fine.
This will be a hard fought game that will be close early ... with the bulk of the scoring coming in the late 3rd and 4th Quarters as the Rams Defense tires. I'm calling it ...
Seahawks 24
Rams 6
Edit to Add:
And with the way those guys played last week, I'm going to go on record and say that the Arizona Cardinals beat the 49ers at University of Phoenix Stadium tomorrow. I don't know that I see them making the playoffs, as I believe there's no way the Saints lose, but I think the 49ers could be in trouble tomorrow with the way these Cardinals are playing.