Thursday, March 20, 2008

The ongoing joke at WR

The Rams aren't exactly striking gold in their efforts to fill the sizable hole they made for themselves at WR by screwing Isaac Bruce over. stltoday.com reported Reche Caldwell made a free-agent visit today. Caldwell has exactly one pro season with more than 30 catches. His best year was '06 with the Patriots, when he caught 61 passes, or six more than Isaac did last season. He had all of 15 catches in 8 games last year with the Redskins. 40 less than Isaac.

Then there's the rumor the Rams were looking into a trade for Michael Clayton. Assuming the Rams' front office wasn't confusing the Bucs WR with the George Clooney movie, he's not even the first Recent LSU Wide Receiver Who Has Been A Big Disappointment In The Pros I'd want to go after; I'd prefer to go after Josh Reed.

Actually, you know who I would have gone after to keep the Rams' WR situation settled. If they weren't stupid, the Rams would have kept Bruce, instead of unnecessarily creating a hole in the roster. They wouldn't be scrambling around now after other teams' draft busts or scraping the waiver wire barrel to give Marc Bulger enough targets.

They're still $12 million under the cap, by the way. They could have paid up to keep Bruce and Brandon Chillar and still be $10-10.5 million under the cap.

I hear Eddie Kennison is still available.

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