A week to forget

The week started with the Rams falling to a miserable 0-4 with a 17-10 loss to the Redskins. Here's the RamView recap of that mess. Would have been out sooner (and would have kept the blog up to date) but work got very busy.

Then the Rams lost Danny Amendola for the season, after he tore the triceps in his left arm, a re-aggravation of the dislocated elbow he suffered in week 1. Amendola was the one pushing to return to practice, but it was totally within the Rams' power to shut him down, and they should have, until he healed completely. Poor personnel decisions and performances at wide receiver made everyone too desperate here, and now it's cost the Rams their leading receiver for the rest of the season. It's the kind of decision a poorly-run organization makes when it's scrambling to cover its mistakes.

One of those poor mistakes, Mike Sims-Walker, apparently didn't feel like he'd done enough to screw this team with his repeated dropped passes and inability to line up properly or know what the play is half the time, so he took it upon himself to put the Rams' only good corner, Bradley Fletcher, out for the season. Fletcher blew an ACL after tangling with Sims-Walker during bye week practice. Yes, the Rams even suck during bye week. Knowing his skillset, Sims-Walker was probably trying to walk and chew gum at the same time, tripped over his own feet, and things went downhill from there.

Fletcher's left knee was blown out against the Colts his rookie year and it's his right knee that's blown out now. He came back quicker than normal from his first ACL injury, but odds here are that it'll be lucky if he's ready for the start of the 2012 season. And with Ron Bartell recovering from a broken neck, cornerback has leaped to the top of the Rams' needs not just for the rest of this season, but next offseason as well. They're going to need to make a major cornerback acquisition in free agency and draft one high, too, possibly with the pick we've all been thinking was meant for Justin Blackmon.

Only a team as lousy at this year's Rams could manage to lose two of their best players for the season during their freaking bye week. Even the defensive coordinator got injured!

Enjoy this one last Sunday of football tomorrow, before the Rams spoil things by playing the last twelve weeks.

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