0 comments by Will Horton on 8/24/2012
Vernon Gholston’s career high point might have come at the NFL Combine. It’s been all downhill from there. There is a time every year before the NFL season begins when we all wonder what’s going on a little more than usual. Sure, we all ponder things like coaches and draft picks – not to mention […]
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Football Outsiders’ Vince Verhei, writing for ESPN, rates Sam Bradford as “the worst starting quarterback in the NFL.” We love lists, and when ESPN’s John Clayton emerges from his hobbity shire to rank the NFL’s quarterbacks from Aaron Rodgers to Blaine Gabbert, we scramble through the listings to find out where our guy lands. This […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 8/19/2012
To quote Sam Bradford, “Wow.” That was his response to Danny Amendola’s highlight-reel-worthy one-handed, no-look touchdown catch that put the Rams up 14-0. But it may as well extend to the whole game, a 180-degree turnaround from last week and one of those rare football days when every single thing seems to go right. […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 8/13/2012
On Sunday in Indianapolis, Jeff Fisher walked onto an NFL field as head coach for the first time since 2010. We’re still waiting for his team to show up. I’ve had my sensible take on the Rams’ 38-3 loss to the Colts. It’s only the preseason, after all, and it was obvious from the start […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 8/12/2012
I will not make sweeping generalizations after one preseason game. I will not make sweeping generalizations after one preseason game. — Brandon Bird (@JTPirate)
0 comments by Will Horton on 8/9/2012
Image credit: StLouisRams.com Paul Boudreau knew when he came on board as the Rams’ offensive line coach that he had a fight on his hands. He inherited the one of the worst-ranked offensive lines in the game, whose franchise tackles were both undermined by injuries and ineffective play. Two weeks into Rams camp, 30 days […]
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Photo: running my fingers through the turf and the rubber “dirt” on the Rams’ home field. A lot of things have changed over the past few years for the Rams, following Georgia Frontiere’s death. Even as questions remain over the team’s long-term future in St Louis, the Rams have been working to reconnect with the […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 8/4/2012
At Rams Camp on a sweltering friday afternoon, I paid close attention to Sam Bradford – his timing and his targets in his passing drills. I wanted to pay particular attention to how quickly he was able to deliver the ball after the snap, and whether he could avoid “sacks” behind his offensive line. The […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 7/30/2012
More than 1600 fans piled in to the Rams’ Earth City practice facilities yesterday, ready to see – and document – the new start under coach Fisher. As a result, the camp reports and fan photographs are starting to trickle in. Here’s a morning’s worth of geekout reading for you. Camp Report and Photos from […]
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Photo by Stella Horton As always, the first open practice of RamsCamp is an event of our own making. There are footballs, and football players, but this is not Football. Players were in shorts and shells, and spent most of the first hour of the day stretching and working in position groups on athletic drills. […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 7/25/2012
Anthropological research suggests that we can make strong, comfortable associations with small numbers. (“What? Is that really how you want to start an article?” Yes, stay with me now. It’ll get better, I promise.) “One” and “two” have very specific identities in our minds – the single and the pair. Likewise, “three” is the triangle […]
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We’re just a few days away from the first open Rams practice of the season, which has become a bit of an event for local fans. Sort of like the swallows returning to Capistrano, it isn’t in and of itself a very unusual event — football players practice, we get it — but it heralds […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 7/24/2012
We all love a good position battle – it brings drama to camp with real-life implications for the regular season. But in few places is that camp competition more vital to the turnaround of this team than in the offensive line, a must-makeover for the new Rams regime. In fact, when you start laying the […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 7/23/2012
Why yes, that is Han Solo frozen in carbonite on the back of my iPhone. Why do you ask? The long, mostly peaceful slumber of the offseason is nearly over. Unlike most warm-blooded beasts who slow their blood and unconsciously eat their own fat while dreaming vacant, endless dreams throughout the deep winter, we footballers […]
