St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson already ruled out for Sunday’s game
There will be no intrigue this week regarding Steven Jackson’s availability for Sunday’s game against the Bears. Jackson already has been ruled out, meaning that the strained thigh muscle that originally was thought to be a one- or two-day injury is extending toward six weeks.
Jackson was injured in the fourth quarter Oct. 19 against the Cowboys. He reaggravated the injury two weeks later when he tried to come back vs. the Cardinals, and has been sidelined since then.
Jackson saw a specialist late last week. “They feel that he should be out this week, rest him,” coach Jim Haslett said. “We’ll see what happens next week.” The injury was rediagnosed as a strain. “It’s just going to take some time to heal,” Haslett said.
Elsewhere on the injury front:
*LT Orlando Pace will miss two to four weeks a knee ligament injury.
*CB Ron Bartell is day-to-day with a soft-tissue injury to his knee.
*RB Kenneth Darby has a slight strain of his ribs.
*LB Chris Draft (foot) will be out two to three more weeks.
*DT La’Roi Glover has torn cartilage in his knee, originally suffered a couple of weeks ago, but should be able to play.
*CB Tye Hill (knee) will resume jogging this week.
*G Richie Incognito (shoulder) was scheduled for an MRI exam later Monday.
*DE Eric Moore (neck) will return to practice this week.
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Notes & quotes:
*After a discussion with his coaching staff Monday, Haslett has decided to stick with Marc Bulger at QB.
*If Incognito is out Sunday, rookie John Greco will start at RG . . . if Greco’s left knee is OK. His kneecap popped out of place briefly in practice Friday.
*Adam Goldberg will step in for Pace at LT.
All for now . . .
The only advantage of starting Bulger Sunday is that I can leave at half-time and go home.
Haslett continues to prove he doesn’t deserve the job.
I have had tickets since 1995 and enough is enough. What game is he watching on Sunday?
I’ll keep my Mizzou tickets. At least when Missouri was losing, the coaching decisions made sense.
Wow….is that a grim tale!
I’m not a Bulger fan by any means. But how is it his fault that they scored 35 pts by half? If you say its b/c of his fumble and INT. The INT is b/c there is no running game to speak of so he has to make harder throws into double coverage. But that being said Bulgers 2 turnovers gave them 14 points. That’s still not 35. Oh by the way where was the Defense? I’m for real b/c I didn’t see any Sunday. The only time the D stopped them was when they had 2nd sting guys in or they stopped themselves. If you’re looking to finger point you are looking in the wrong direction. Since you don’t seem to know much about football I’m going to give you a clue. Football games are won and lost in the trenches and we have no one in the trenches that can do anything. Until the rams get some quality guys on the line on both sides of the ball the rams will be losers.
It’s getting uglier by the minute.
My thoughts:
Bears 39
Rams 10
65,000 tickets sold………44,000 show. Of this amount, 10,000 of them will be Bears fans. Bring your paper bags Rams fans - I know I will be.
It doesnt matter who plays QB they will have no time to throw and have crappy plays called to young wideouts who are still learning or forcing the ball to our cranky vet who is less than thrilled with his stats. Oh also the fact that no one is scared of our running game doesnt help the QB either. Give Bulger a break you dont become one of the fastest to 20,000 yards by sucking.
Smiley357
It’s not Bulger’s fault, but he made it easier for the 49ers to score. Since games are won in the trenches as you say then why should Bulger be the QB? Why not Green or Berlin? I say spare Bulger the misery and beating. Guy has taken enough.
Clearly Bulger is not the only Ram to be blamed, but let’s be honest, he is playing very poorly. Both interceptions were thrown into double coverage, he shouldn’t have thrown them and a running game won’t improve his poor judgement. I see a trend here with Haslett, ”after discussion with his coaching staff Monday, Haslett decided to stick with Marc Bulger at QB”, I seem to remember that same story at least two weeks running now. Green certainly isn’t the future, but at least give Berlin a shot, maybe the Rams can even move the pocket if they can get a QB that can do something other than just stand there. Greatest play Bulger has made all year was his scramble for a first down, unfortunately that is the rare exception. Make a change Haslett, at least try to do something different.
Jackson,
6 weeks for a strained quad! 6 weeks! Are you kiddin me?
Why do these guys continue to hurt themselves by holding out of camp as negotiating leverage? I don’t so much mind the hold out if you’re gonna come in ready to play. Clearly, he didn’t do that. I only hope when/if he does come back he keeps his stupid mouth closed and earns his money! 6 weeks! Jeez!
I like the way Pitman and Darby ran. The Rams have talent. They need to protect Bulger to the max, and call better plays on O. On D move Carricker to DE and rotate Adenjeyo in, no Glover or Little. Move Culberson to MLB and Witherspoon to OLB. Blitz and taclke on D. Go Rams!!!
Why not try someone else at qb for a while. Bulger needs to rest and we can evaluate our backup needs for next year. He keeps throwing into double and triple coverage and his long ball isnt long enough for speedy Avery. With rest, he could come back and be the precision passing qb from a couple years ago. And hey who knows, maybe we will find a few wins before the season ends. Also, why do we have a 2nd and 3rd string qb if we arent going to use them. Warner rested and now look at how he is playing.