Monday, July 21, 2008

Chris Chamberlain will be at training camp; RamView, not so much

With seventh-round pick Chris Chamberlain's signing yesterday (three years), it's five down, three to go for the Rams to get their 2008 draft class signed. Still left: 2nd-rounder Donnie Avery, 4th-rounder Justin King, and David "Mr. Irrelevant" Vobora.

It's looking increasingly unlikely, though, that RamView will get up to Wisconsin this year to check out how these guys fare in training camp. It's possible to see four practices this weekend, if I feel like expending a vacation day and driving twelve hours to see seven hours of practices. And report for work Monday morning after getting home after midnight Sunday night. And that assumes all practices are open to the public as Concordia University's training camp schedule seems to indicate. It won't feel real good to drive 400 miles and find out practice is closed or rained out. The second weekend's out due to other commitments, and there are no other weekend practices before the Rams break camp, so it's either this weekend or bust. And it's really looking like bust.

I'd be all over these practices if the Rams had kept them in St. Louis. My thanks again to Scott Linehan for moving training camp six hours away.

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