Walter Jones – ouch

The month of November should be football heaven… the air turns crisp, playoff races start to clarify, baseball is in the books and every able boy is outside getting tackled into fallen leaves. And just one week into the preseason, it feels very far away. But nonetheless, we press on with our Rams 2009 predictions, […]

When Steve Spagnuolo took over the downtrodden Rams, he had to know two things just walking in the door — that there would be unsolvable problems that must be cut, and that there would be hidden gems whom he could polish. Little did we know that our team’s leading tackler, Pisa Tinoisamoa, would fall into […]

Apologies to Raymond Carver for the post title, but I just found a cool little infographic device for parsing Twitter. I wondered if anyone out there is still talking Rams, with all the other news floating around the sports world… now you can see for yourself, with the magic of TwitterStream.

Obviously, the sports world is awash with the news of the re-un-retirement of He Whose Name Need Not Be Spoken. Generally speaking, we would let the Vikings and their fans have their own little lollapalooza over the news and pay it no mind. But as a part of our look ahead to this season’s matchups, […]

One day after Marc Bulger’s announced pinky injury, I drove out to Rams Park for this morning’s session: a marathon 2 1/2 hour practice. My camera battery died halfway through, so I spent the latter half of the session watching and

Nice week coming up, building up to the Rams’ next preseason game against the Falcons — their only true test against an NFL-caliber offensive line. I’ve got some Q-and-A with the Rams observer from Pro Football Focus coming up this week, something that I hope will be a regular feature on the site. In the […]

Marc Sanchez will get the headlines, and the Rams’ run defense will get a big asterix with the Jets missing three anchors from their offensive line. But it was a hard-fought game from wire to wire, and it turned out as a win — thanks in large part to the cool-headed play of Keith Null, […]

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Earlier this week, we looked at the specific battle that the Rams defensive front would face against running back Thomas Jones and the Jets’ mammoth offensive line… even without center Nick Mangold and tackle Damien Woody. In the two days hence, though, last year’s free agent prize Alan Faneca broke his finger in a freak […]

True fantasy football leagues don’t draft team defense. There’s no worse copout in the game. Drafting team defenses is basically admitting “I don’t know and don’t care who wears jerseys between #30 and #79.” But, I’m not here to put down your sissy FF league — I’m here with some interesting NFC West predictions, because […]

The second sons of New York, more famous for Fireman Ed and Brett Favre than for much actual football in the last few years, have quietly turned into a very formidable rushing team. Last offseason’s signing of Alan Faneca and Damien Woody, along with the continued excellence of Nick Mangold at center, have created a […]

Mike Sando looks at possible replacements via free agency, and brings up a list of the usual suspects. The only receiver in the list he likes is also one that I’ve touted before as a low-cost option for the Rams: Ike Hilliard. Now, he’s not a 1-for-1 replacement for Avery. In fact, he’s the opposite […]

Update and photo of the tackle that did the deed from the P-D:

Back to regularly scheduled programming, after sitting in the Foot Injury Situation Room. In yesterday’s NFC West notes, Sando linked to a report by Steve Korte of the Belleville News-Democrat that quoted Chris Long as saying: “As a defensive front, we have to be dominant, and I just want to fit into that. I think […]