Week 8: Panthers (1-6) at Rams (3-4) Oct 31, 2010 12:00 CST 10 20 NFL.com: Recap | Play by Play | Video The darkened Dome was half-filled with emotion half an hour before kickoff, and half-filled with empty seats, a sign that marked the continuing transition of this franchise as it saluted one of its […]

Updated: Here’s the full video of the interview. Thanks to Rubes at Versus for the clip! So, OchoCinco has a TV show. That seems unusual for an active NFL player, but hardly surprising from one of the league’s most irrepressible and media-savvy personalities. What might be surprising, though, is that Steven Jackson, who launched his […]

“Have you seen this problem before? It’s because you did not pass the last test. God will allow us to take the same test over and over until we pass.” – Aeneas Williams Okay, so I don’t know for sure that

Week 7: Rams (3-3) at Bucs (3-2) Oct 24, 2010 12:00 CST 17 18 NFL.com: Recap | Play by Play | Video Up until 2:30 in the afternoon, local time, fortune appeared to be smiling on the Rams in their bid for an upset road win. Saturday night before game day, Mizzou alum Danario Alexander […]

There’s no secret to the way Spagnuolo wants to attack you on offense, particularly when the Rams have the lead. He wants to stuff the ball down your throat. With the game on the line, Spagnuolo approached his running back on the sideline and essentially said, “Win the game for us.” And with five consecutive […]

The Rams travel east, sitting pretty with a .500 record and looking to push ahead in the wins column for the first time since October 29, 2006. Like their last road trip to Detroit, they face a young team who is desperately trying to show improvements from last year’s miserable season. A mirror image of […]

Would you take tens of thousands of dollars from this guy? From those kids? After an exhausting 36 hours of tweets and counter-tweets, blowing up everyone’s timeline with concussion stats (

It’s perfectly understandable, really. Umpire Bruce Stritesky had more important things on his mind than the Rams’ 1st and goal, already up 10-0. He still hasn’t seen “Inception” yet, and all his friends have seen it twice, at least. Is it really that good? Head linesman Tom Stabile was still fuming about those liberal apologists […]

Week 6: Chargers (2-3) at Rams (2-3) Oct 17, 2010 12:00 CST 17 20 NFL.com: Recap | Play by Play | Video The Rams had to answer some pretty big questions in this game against the Chargers. They did that and more. They got their swagger back against a tough opponent, re-animated a St Louis […]

As we discussed in my guest spot in yesterday’s Turf Show Radio (thanks for having me on, guys!), the Rams face a tough task this week in trying to bounce back from their “perfect storm” loss against the Lions. After getting beat — soundly — in all three phases of the game on the road, […]

Week 5: Rams (2-2) at Lions (0-4) Oct 10, 2010 12:00 CST 6 44 NFL.com: Recap | Play by Play | Video It’s hard to believe, but the Rams actually fell victim to a “trap” game. The Lions were a team playing better that their 0-4 record suggested. The Lions were a dangerous team, one […]

The Lions were down 21-7 to the Packers midway through the second quarter, and 28-14 after the first drive of the second half. But from that point on, the Lions’ D forced three Packers turnovers, and Shaun Hill led the Lions’ offense on an improbable four consecutive scoring drives against one of the NFC’s best […]

After watching the Rams’ domination of the Seahawks, and the way we kept pinning them back in their own end zone as the game went on, I started out this feature expecting to write about “controlling field position” as the secret ingredient. But what I found was something else — rather than field position, it […]

Maybe, like me, you’re wondering how the Rams have suddenly become so effective on offense. I mean, Bradford is walking on water and all of that, but he’s just one player, and we’re seeing team-wide effects. Did Pat Shurmur suddenly get a whole lot smarter? Did Dick Vermeil share sprinkle some magic coaching dust on […]

Week 4: Seahawks (2-1) at Rams (1-2) 3    20 NFL.com: Recap | Play by Play | Video I woke up just now, and the events of the last twelve hours or so are a little hazy in my mind. I’m not sure how I wound up with a Mike Tyson facial tattoo, a pet […]