After ugly loss, Saturday’s home game looms large
MEQUON, Wis. (Camp Day 18/early report)
After stumbling through their preseason opener at Tennessee, the Rams meet the Chargers on Saturday night at the Edward Jones Dome. After seeing his troops pummeled 34-13 by the Titans, coach Scott Linehan is placing considerable importance on the outcome. Enough so that he plans to “play a significant amount with our starting unit.”
“I don’t know what that means; when we’re done, we’re done,” Linehan said. “But we want to play a great game on Saturday.”
Emerging victorious in St. Louis, where ticket sales are lagging, “is very important,” Linehan added. “I don’t discount the importance of any game, preseason or not. There’s not a whole lot of good that comes out of losing a game.”
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That said, here are a couple of unsolicited suggestions:
>>Since the first-team offense hasn’t produced a touchdown in a preseson game since 2005, keep Marc Bulger & Co. in Saturday until they do. If it takes them until the fourth quarter, against the Chargers’ scrubs, so be it.
>>Since the Rams’ most recent first-round draftees, defensive tackle Adam Carriker (2007) and defensive end Chris Long (2008), had zero tackles between them vs. the Titans (according the unofficial press-box stats), same thing: keep them in the game until they start to make some plays.
All for now . . . more following this afternoon’s practice.
The fact of the matter is most of the players on the Rams are not very good. They simply are over matched by their oppisition game in and game out. This is the result of years of poor drafting and poor front office management. In 7 or 8 years it will the fans of another city that get to blog and write about the Rams on message boards, they will be sold and will leave the STL. It is time to start to become unattached.
Hey one good thing about the next game at lease the L.A. fans get to see it. Just remember Ram Fans !! If your from St. Louis or L.A. Deacon Jones always said “Once a ram …. Always Ram” GO RAMS !!!
Bulger considers pre-season games mulligans, according to Post-Dspatch on Sunday. The Rams need someone to step up and be a leader and increase the intensity. The whole team is a mirror image of their head coach……dull, excuse ridden, and un-imaginative.