dominic zappia: Merry Christmas Jim to you and your family!!!
Looking forward to this offseason and people need to understand,bad football is better than no football team.Ill never forget the emptiness and sadness I felt when the Cardinals left.
Lets be thankful!!! Enjoy your Holiday Jim and thank you.

Jim Thomas: Merry Christmas to you and yours.
As wrenching as the last two defeats have been for Rams fans, to me they were entertaining games.

James: Jim,

In the past you have said that Bulger will stay and probably be our QB next year due to cap implications. While I agree with you I am wondering if it's reasonable to trade back up into the 1st round after our initial pick and draft a quality QB of the future. In your opinion is that a reasonable thing to do?

Honestly Bulger has just plain stunk and even giving him some benefit of the doubt he has not raised either his nor anyone around him's level of play, especially in crunch time. This was a guy that was a pro bowler just a few years ago. Where is the leadership? You can't tell me that while in the huddle with these young receivers that he can't remind them of blitz adjustments, etc. I would if they kept running the wrong routes. I realize Bulger gives us the best chance to win right now but just watching him fold every week is painful.

Is it worth it to sacrifice a few draft picks and get another 1st round pick and draft a QB? I think it is. Let the kid ride the bench for a year and then step into a starting role in 2010. I realize that there is only so much money that can be spent on the QB position, but I have to wonder whether we should take a page from cleveland's book and draft our Brady Quinn. I can't see us improving so much that we still won't have a top 10 or so draft pick in 2010. And anyone saying to draft anything other than a OT with the #2 pick is insane. Good tackles are very hard to find.

As much as I complain about them, the Rams are still my team and I will stick with them. Just please, please reorganize the FO, get a couple decent free agents and draft both a tackle and QB of the future, everything else will come with time...

Jim Thomas: I think the Rams will draft a QB; I doubt very much if it will be in the first round.

marctheram: Has Marc Bulger gone mute? Isn't Bulger a team captain? Why isn"t Bulger asked any questions after the games? Does he just disappear (like in the 4 quarters he is quarterbacking this team) after the game with a "no comment"? How come, you, as the beat writer, don't ask these basic questions that a so-called "team leader" should be able to answer? Are you and Bulger "pals", and you don't want to hurt his poor, fragile feelings? Please ask him how he can actually cash his paycheck every week with these, gutless, heartless, and inept performance!!!! Hey Bulger, you suck and are disgrace to all of us RAM fans.

Jim Thomas: Bulger talks after every game. He was quoted in the paper. Apparently you missed that.

Preston Martin: Hi Jim,
Well besides the loss I really enjoyed the game Sunday, it was my first one ever and I was yelling as loud as I could for the Rams, I had really good seats section 115, row P, seat 19. One thing that really stood out to me was during the first half there seemed to be a lot more music played and the players were reacting to it, but as the game went on more and more advertisements were playing. In fact one series when little SACKED THE QB the sack was followed up by the song "MY BABY LOVE"! COME ON! I know Jackson has complained about the music and this is like a dead issue and is not the main reason for the teams bad play but you know as well as I do that music sets the tone for the crowd in a lot of ways, it seems like we could do better in this area. Thanks again for all the advice you gave me last week and I really had a good time and I will be at the games more often from now on since I will be out of the military in five months and moving back home. Rams fans please hang on I know we have been bad but things are changing Jays out and billys in good things are coming stay strong! THANKS JIM!

Jim Thomas: Glad you enjoyed the experience. Thanks for serving our country. And Merry Christmas.

Gabriel 2 Snow: That 4th qtr sealed Haslett's fate I am sure. Do you agree? I wanted him to make it, thought he could be part of the answer. But he was 3-13 his last year with the Saints & it looks like he will be 2-11 here. Haslett is a forceful personality, but he often looks lost or out of the loop in the 4th qtr. Some minor adjustments could have netted us 2 or 3 more wins & cemented his job. Instead, enough of the stench that is the 08 season sticks to him that he must be shown the door. Your take Jim?
Happy holidays to you & your family, especiallly cadet Thomas! I trust he is fairing well? Any updates?

Jim Thomas: The Seattle and San Francisco games could have all but ensured that Haslett returns. Obviously, the losses have hurt those chances.
The team is playing very hard. The defense hasn't given up more than 20 points during the last four games. He has only limited ways to have input on offense because he has been on the defensive side of the ball until the end of September. Keep this in mind: This is not his team. These are not his players. This is not his offense.
Saying all that, losing nine in a row doesn't look very pretty. Haslett realizes this.