Training camp headlines 8/1

Practices scheduled today for 8:45 and 4:00.
Team scrimmages tomorrow at 10:45. Sunday is an off day.
Training camp seems to have hit a quiet spell...

Single-game tickets go on sale at 10:00 today. C'mon and buy, buy, buy, people; I want to be able to record some home games!

* Jackson holdout, day 8. Still no news here, other than the daily accumulation of Jackson's potential fine, which could be as much as $120,000 now if he doesn't report today. And to think, he could have kept that money and used it to rent out Radio City Music Hall...

* 15 of 80 players missed practice yesterday, per Jim Thomas. Great to hear the team is over last year's injury bug, eh? And once again, viva Field Turf! The positive side of this is that none of the current injuries, save Victor Adeyanju's broken finger, are the type that would cause players to miss games had this been the regular season. At least that's how they're reporting it; I guess Josh Thompson's injury doesn't count any more...

* QB news. Thomas reports Brock Berlin is definitely ahead of Bruce Gradkowski in the third-string QB competition, saying Gradkowski has "no accuracy". So, the Rams' front office can't find a QB out there better than Brock Berlin? That's not exactly bolstering my confidence in them. Boy, you'd have thought Gradkowski would be better than Berlin, simply because it can't be that hard to do, but...

In better QB news, Marc Bulger appears to have knocked off any off-season rust now and has looked very sharp the last couple of practices. Let's just hope Bulger stays healthy. Trent Green figures to last about one hit backing Bulger up, and after them, apparently it's going to be Berlin. Yikes.

* Justin King outplaying Jonathan Wade. On its face, this isn't really a huge surprise. King is a real cornerback; Wade is a converted college wide receiver. Wade's play, though, is by all accounts improving over last year, so what we could get here is one of the better competitions of camp, between two up-and-coming young DBs. Early on, King's looking like one of the better bargains of the '08 draft.