There were some signature wins notched across the league on Sunday, but Week 4 of the NFL season may be best remembered by two teams’ seasons that effectively and stunningly already came to an en.

Before the season, several folks inside the league rode the wave of positive sentiment about the Houston Texans, predicting that a stingy and stifling defense could carry C.J. Stroud to a Super Bowl berth, and there was similar optimism that Mike McDaniel and Justin Herbert’s shotgun marriage would bind an explosive passing game with a bruising ground attack as another team to watch in the AFC.

Both the Texans and Chargers fell to 0-4 on Sunday, raising legitimate long-term questions about Stroud’s future in Houston and raising the temperature on McDaniel’s immediate tenure as offensive coordinator in Los Angeles.

An agent familiar with the coaching market that we spoke to Friday suggested it could be days or weeks before the Chargers fire McDaniel.

Posting 163 yards of total offense and 13 points through three quarters before the Seahawks’ offense itself ran aground isn’t going to win McDaniel any favor.

Meanwhile, being locked in the AFC South basement has to be especially disorienting for the Texans, staring across at the fellow winless Tennessee Titans and figuring out how the hell they got there.

Worse, for both the Chargers and the Texans isn’t merely the fact that in the Super Bowl era the 1992 Chargers are the only team to ever overcome an 0-4 start to make the postseason, but how steep the ladders each team must to try to climb out of the basement on.

The Chargers are staring up at a certainly more balanced and potentially more dynamic-than-ever Chiefs team, a battle-tested Broncos roster, and the Raiders, whose only loss came Sunday after not having any answers late for Patrick Mahomes or Kenneth Walker.

Then there’s the Texans, who have to overcome the feisty upstart Jaguars who look like they have all the trappings of a Super Bowl threat in the making, after outlasting the Bengals, and the Colts, who suddenly seem efficient.

Raise your hand if you had the Texans and Chargers playing out the string in early October.

Anyone?

Stroud’s future, even after passing for 347 yards and a pair of touchdowns in a 34-30 loss to the Cowboys, will likely be debated and decided in the months to come.

McDaniel’s fate could be decided far sooner than that, and who knows if there’s even a guarantee he’s on the sideline when the Broncos roll into SoFi on Sunday.

One thing is all but certain; two of the preseason favorites couldn’t possibly be more disappointing, and just keeping these two veteran rosters invested will be Herculean tasks for Jim Harbaugh and DeMeco Ryans over the next 14 weeks.

Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field may go down as a microcosm of both the Los Angeles Rams’ and Philadelphia Eagles’ seasons.

Despite sleepwalking to a 20-10 halftime deficit that saw the Eagles land what appeared to be the knockout blow when Cooper DeJean intercepted Matthew Stafford, setting up a Jalen Hurts touchdown pass to Darius Cooper to extend Philadelphia’s lead to 10, the Rams awakened in the fourth quarter to methodically chip away at the deficit before flying home with a 24-20 victory as a .500 team.

Similar to the Rams’ sluggish start to the season that saw Sean McVay’s clearly jet-lagged club run out of the building by the San Francisco 49ers in Australia, Los Angeles couldn’t get anything going against an Eagles defense that victimized Stafford for a pair of first-half interceptions.

That’s when the Rams locked the Eagles in their own territory on all but one second-half possession, and orchestrated a pair of 10-play fourth-quarter drives that chewed up 160 yards, putting up 14 points on the board against a gassed Vic Fangio defense.

When the chips were down, Stafford rose to the moment.

In the final frame, Stafford was a nearly flawless 13-of-17 for 149 yards as Los Angeles picked up 12 first downs, keeping drives going and dictating to the Eagles’ defense along the way.

For as much as Stafford was the calm in the storm for LA, beating a Fangio defense for the first time in a Rams uniform, it was Rams running back Kyren Williams who powered Los Angeles frenetic fourth-quarter surge.

Over the final frame, Williams rushed for 12 yards and a pair of touchdowns, sapping the life out of the Eagles’ defense, shortening the game, and ultimately clinching the victory with a seven-yard touchdown with 1:12 remaining.

For Los Angeles, this felt like how the season was going to play out since the moment Puka Nacua and Myles Garrett suffered injuries in the opener; just hang on and do enough late in the season to make the playoffs and then shift into overdrive.

The Rams clung to dear life Sunday afternoon, before flicking the switch, and picking up a conference victory over a team that just might find its way into the NFC Wild Card conversation if things don’t quickly turn around on offense.

That just might be the blueprint for the season for a roster built around Stafford, Adams, Nacua, Garrett, and Donald as the tip of a talented iceberg.

Meanwhile, every one of the Eagles’ consistent flaws offensively were at the fore in Philadelphia’s loss.

Without All-Pro and future Hall of Fame right tackle Lane Johnson, an 11th-hour scratch due to personal reasons, prolific No. 1 wide receiver DeVonta Smith, and losing Saquon Barkley on the game’s first series proved too much turmoil to overcome.

But, the Eagles’ offensive shortcomings have been so apparent for so long that it might not have mattered if they were all healthy against the Rams.

Quarterback Jalen Hurts was befuddled and confounded by Chris Shula’s relentless blitzing, completing just 12-of-27 passes for 93 yards with two touchdowns.

Shula cranked the heat all the way up, sending all kinds of exotic stunts and looks at Hurts, who was just 5-for-15 for 46 yards against the blitz, according to SumerSports.

NextGenStats points out that the Rams blitzed Hurts on 60.6 percent of his dropbacks, which is the most LA has ever blitzed a quarterback in Shula’s tenure.

Is it any wonder then, that Shula and the Rams were able to hold the Eagles’ offense to 0-for-12 on third down?

Hurts and the Eagles offense have just two third-down conversions since flying home from Tennessee in Week 2.

The quarterback owns stock in Philly’s third-down woes, completing just 1-of-7 third-down passing attempts and being sacked twice Sunday.

“Poor execution,” Hurts told reporters, is the root cause for the Eagles’ third-down woes.

It’s easy, and especially convenient for Eagles fans, to point the finger at former offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo, or current play-caller Sean Mannion.

Unfortunately for Philadelphia, though, Hurts isn’t infallible either.

Despite Hurts’ Super Bowl ring, two Super Bowl apperances, and the intangible ability to rise to the moment in the clutch that so few quarterbacks across the league possess, he finished Sunday’s game with just 68 net passing yards on 31 dropbacks.

Hurts’ negative-2.19 yards per dropback is fourth-lowest over the past two seasons.

In the second half, Philadelphia went three-and-out three times, and four-and-out once, while gaining just 172 yards of total offense.

Only 72 of those yards came in the second half.

Forget the ‘Witching Hour,’ for the better part of the past two seasons, the third quarter has become the ‘slumber hour’ for the Eagles’ offense.

Philadelphia has now been outscored 31-0 in the second half of the past two games, and 54-20 in the second half of games so far this season.

Until head coach Nick Sirianni and Mannion can figure out why, it’s difficult to imagine Philadelphia ever waking up when it really matters.

The Rams were without Aaron Donald and Myles Garrett on Sunday, but overcame two of their most dominant defensive players being out to manufacture the kind of win that can turn a season around.

Los Angeles was downright abysmal for about 54 minutes in this game; which saw eight penalties for 100 yards, compounding the damage done by Stafford’s two interceptions.

Fortunately for the Rams, games don’t end after 54 minutes, nor seasons after one game that came after a poorly planned transcontinental flight.

But the Eagles’ issues increasingly seem to be structural, and until Philadelphia can figure out how to craft an offense that emphasizes Hurts’ best traits rather than continue to ask him to do things that expose his weaknesses as a quarterback, the ceiling for what this team appears capable of accomplishing seems to be lowering.

Drake Maye needed that.