All-time team updates

Punter Donnie Jones and FS OJ Atogwe are the newest additions to RamView's all-time St. Louis Rams team. I may be jumping the gun on Atogwe a little; then again, he only had to beat out Adam Archuleta. OJ's 8 INTs last year were one of the team's rare bright spots and identify him as one of the league's breakout young players.

Naturally, there's a lot more activity on the all-worst St. Louis Rams team after 2007. The all-worst team welcomes Drew Bennett, Claude Terrell, Richard Owens and John David Washington (practice squad). It may be too early to put Bennett on this team, but his 2007 season was a train wreck to behold. Joe Klopfenstein almost made it, but I relented because he's badly miscast as a blocking TE. I hate to put players on the all-worst team when they're so misused or out of position. That helped get John St. Clair off the roster, and kept Milford Brown off. Brown turned in the worst tackle play this franchise has ever seen in 2007, but to be fair, he's really a second-string-at-best guard, not a starting tackle.

And the biggest move on the all-worst team takes place on the sideline, where Scott Linehan (11-21 in two years) steps in for Rich Brooks (13-19). You could argue that's too soon, since Dick Vermeil started 9-23; of course, that would make you John Shaw. You'd be better off arguing that I'm being unfair to Linehan because he's so out of position as the HC. My argument: Linehan's record's worse than Brooks'; Brooks' offense was more entertaining; and Linehan's had much better roster talent his first two years than either Brooks or Vermeil did.

And I reallllllly don't like Linehan's chances of playing his way off the all-worst team in 2008 if Al Saunders doesn't come here and save his bacon.