Mike: Hey Jim!!!

I am a long time rams fan from California....I come to 2 Rams Games a year in St Louis and this year I am staying home. We have a group of about 15 of us and we have all deceided that this is the most pathetic Rams team we have seen in years.

Rams management better take a long look at the way this team is being run or they will lose a majority of there fans not only in St Louis...but in Cali where we still call them our team.

They must hire a coach that can kick some butt and change the attitude around here. I love the Rams...but watching them put up 3 points and not throw the ball downfield is too much. If they have to loose 35-31...who cares....at least it was fun.

Please talk to management and let them know how PO'd us Rams fans are....I am sure you will see that next home game in St Louis....unless Warner starts for the Birds.

Thanks.

Jim Thomas: I'm sure team management knows how upset the fans are. They can't be very happy themselves.

Dry White Toast: Jim,

Any chance of Linehan and Olson figuring it out and becoming as "exciting" as me?

- Dry White Toast

Jim Thomas: Well, last season the Rams went 4-2 over the final six games after Linehan turned over play-calling to Olson, averaging 28 points per game in the process.

Todd: Why did Linehan lie to us about Bulgers ribs? What else is he lying about or not telling us? Reading the articles in the Dallas Times, the Cowboys D is ready to T up on Bulger. Can Linehan be this crazy or stupid to start Bulger? Gus did look better in the preseason.

Jim Thomas: The Rams have been very secretive about injuries this year. More than ever before. In recent years they have been less media friendly, which in reality, means they're less fan friendly, because really the media that covers the team is in many ways the window to the fans. For one, the Rams close practices after the first 30 minutes, something Mike Martz never did (except for a 3-game stretch at the start of the '04 season). I complained to the NFL and the Pro Football Writers Association of America about the Rams failure to report Tye Hill's back and ribs injury right away. A couple of weeks ago, the party line at Rams Park was that Incognito was "improving" _ this was told to the media at a formal press conference about 1 1/2 hours after Incognito told me and another reporter than he had aggravated the injury last week in practice and probably would miss a few more weeks. We wrote about Bulger's ribs last week _ if you recall, Bulger said he didn't want to know from doctors if the ribs were broken or bruised, that the pain was about the same either way, and that he was playing. One byproduct of the Rams being less than totally forthright about injuries is that we have to rely on sources _ hence our story coming out of Sunday's game in Tampa Bay paper about Setterstrom being out for the season with the knee injury _ nearly a full day before the Rams announced it. All I know is that Dick Vermeil won a Super Bowl with open practices and pretty close to full disclosure about injuries.

smitty: Jim, I can see a lot wrong with the Rams like everyone else. Do you feel that Coach Linehan doesn't have the experience to be a Head Coach? Can the Rams wait til the end of the year to assess the Coaching situation or Give Coach Haslett a chance at a midseason change. and it's pretty simple to see we could go 0-8 at the midseason mark.

Jim Thomas: There will be no midseason change.

Vince Laratta: I vote for a trade for Warner, bring Faulk out of retirement, Ernie Conwell just visited--sign him, Hakim could do just as good as Hall has done--trade for London Fletcher, and let's just have some "fun".

Where's the slant on blitzes, Where's the tight end, the offensive coordinator has to go....Watch the Packers on the slant, Dallas use the tight end, any of the plays of the winners...

Jim Thomas: As much as I'd like to turn back the clock to 2001, I don't think that's possible.
I'd love to see more passes over the middle, more plays to the tight end, more creative play-calling.