Rams report, 8/18

There's a lot to catch up with that happened over the weekend, so let's get right into it:

Rams 7, Chargers 6
* Things I left out from Saturday night, or got wrong:
- The long drive after Bulger's second INT was 17 plays, 14 runs. I had 18/15.
- Jacob Bell also recovered a fumble, on the sack that took Bulger out of the game. Bell is playing well by all accounts.
- Third-down defense improved a TON. San Diego was 1-10 on 3rd down, 0-2 on 4th.
- Josh Brown's missed FG may have been caused by a bad hold by Donnie Jones.
- Donovan Raiola, not Dominic. I do that EVERY TIME!

* Injury report...
- Mark Setterstrom out for the season - broken patella.
- Brandon Gorin out for the season due to a shoulder injury actually suffered in the Tennessee game. It's similar to Orlando Pace's injury of last year.
- Brian Leonard is expected to miss the rest of preseason due to a sprained shoulder.
- David Vobora is expected to miss the rest of preseason due to a sprained ankle.

Those are the "significant" injuries I'm aware of from Saturday night - significant meaning we already know they're bad enough to cause the players to miss games.

* Steven Jackson holdout, day 25.
- We're up to $375,000 in fines for Jackson now. That'd get you a pretty nice place in Bali. Jim Thomas also points out that Jackson's fine now exceeds the annual rookie minimum salary.

Scott Linehan is getting more verbal on the subject:
"It is getting critical to where time now becomes more of an issue for just the physical part of getting ready for the opener... Every day we miss now … does start to factor in as to what the workload will be from the start.

"I know he's working hard. And I know he's training. And he'll be in very good shape when he does get in."

Yeah, that's what the Rams thought about Jerome Bettis, too. If Steven Jackson doesn't have the integrity to honor a signed contract, the decency to negotiate in good faith, I have no faith that he'll be in playing shape when or if he ever does show up, and the Rams shouldn't, either.

* Quinton Culberson has been fined $7,500 by the league for a horse-collar tackle of Alge Crumpler in the 1st quarter of the Tennessee game, though, as I noted, he wasn't penalized for it at the time. Calvin Lowry of the Titans got the same treatment for his horse-collar tackle of Dane Looker.