0 comments by Will Horton on 12/1/2011
Could the Rams’ foe in 1999 be their savior in 2012? Let me start out by saying that I am not quite ready to bid farewell to the Steve Spagnuolo era in St Louis. I find it very disappointing to see the foundation of good will that he and Billy Devaney helped build completely crumble […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/27/2011
The Rams’ run defense gave up 223 yards to Beanie Wells, making this the second time this season that the Rams have allowed an opponent to set a new franchise rushing record. Wells’ performance joins Demarco Murray’s atop the NFL leaderboard, and there is now little to look forward to but the draft. And open […]
0 comments by Will Horton
Patrick Peterson won round one of his matchup with Brandon Lloyd. The Cardinals’ rookie corner allowed only 3 catches on ten passes to Lloyd, and came away with an interception. What can the Rams do differently in round two? This is a big test for Lloyd, who made an early splash with the Rams but […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/25/2011
Another week, another shuffle in the roster. Mark Clayton’s grueling comeback from patellar tendon surgery — mostly done on his own, and on his own dime — ended disappointingly as the WR never got back to full game speed. The Rams placed him on IR yesterday, and have reportedly (according to Martin Kilcoyne at KFNS) […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/21/2011
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LTbASqoqH3Q In the wake of this howlingly bad loss to the Seattle Seahawks, blame is being spread around like melted butter on a hot pan. Fire Spagnuolo. Fire McDaniels. Fire Devaney. And those are the big targets. This season is too far gone to pick on lesser targets like Ken Flajole and Steve Loney, men […]
0 comments by Will Horton
The St Louis Rams came into this game riding a small wave of momentum, winning two games and nearly locking up a third in the last three weeks. Steven Jackson had been running as well as he had in any three-game span of his career during that span, cracking the 125 yard mark in all […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/19/2011
The first matchup between the St Louis Rams and Seattle Seahawks matches up two teams so badly ravaged by injury that they are barely recognizable. By the time they meet on ESPN’s Monday Night Football, the network programmers might just as well play the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan. The visual result will […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/16/2011
Justin King has been the Rams’ iron man at cornerback this season. Whatever evil curse Andre Curtis (the Rams’ defensive backs coach) picked up during the lockout, he might want to go about setting things right. Return the jewel-encrusted eye to the withered old woman in New Orleans, or burn that monkey’s paw, or take […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/14/2011
We like playing CSI here at RamsHerd, especially when strange things happen, like the Rams getting a win. The white lab coats, the sunglasses, the snappy dialog, and those millions of CBS viewers. This week’s mystery: did the Browns lose that game, or did the Rams actually win it? Central to the mystery is whether […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/13/2011
With 151 total yards, Steven Jackson accounted for more than half the Rams’ total offense in an ugly win. Sam Bradford earned his first ever fourth quarter comeback today against the Cleveland Browns. Here’s how he did it: Drive 1: Incomplete (negated by tripping penalty on Goldberg), Incomplete, Delay of game, 7 yard pass on […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/11/2011
Pat Shurmur’s transition from the booth to the sidelines hasn’t been as smooth as he’d hoped. The St Louis Rams and Cleveland Browns might only face each other once every three years, but these two teams are far from strangers. With former Ram nemesis Mike Holmgren in the executive office, former Ram offensive coordinator Pat […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/10/2011
Rams center Jason Brown was Billy Devaney’s signature signing. No one imagined he’d be a “healthy scratch” three years later. The Rams coaching staff wanted to send a shock wave through their team, and no better place to start than the middle of it all, I suppose. Center Jason Brown has been benched, held up […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/9/2011
The Rams waited until the last possible day to make their decision, but Mark Clayton has finally been activated from the PUP list and added to the regular season roster. When the Rams re-signed Clayton and placed him on the PUP, he was the eighth receiver in house and seemed like a ticking time bomb […]
0 comments by Will Horton
Oklahoma State WR Justin Blackmon looks like the cream of the crop. We just published an early draft profile on Oklahoma State wideout Justin Blackmon over at This Given Sunday, and it’s interesting to note that Blackmon is already being mocked to the Rams at #3 overall in preliminary mocks (OptimumScouting.com). But then again, South […]
0 comments by Will Horton on 11/7/2011
Well, Rams fans, here we are again. Another Monday following an incomprehensible, expectation-defying loss. Where have we gotten to in our rebuilding plan? Exactly where we started from. I think we can say now that coach Steve Spagnuolo is sitting squarely on the hot seat. One of the hottest in football. All of the mitigating factors […]
