Rams report, 11/16

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Some quick notes for Friday:

* The Rams' injury report increased just a little:
- Did not practice: Austin Pettis (toe)
- Limited: Mario Haggan (thigh), Eugene Sims (knee), Darian Stewart (knee).

Injuries for key Jets players:
- Did not practice: LaRon Landry (foot)
- Limited: Sione Pouha (back)

* Since I guess it's never too early to start worrying about next year, Pro Football Talk has already started ramping up free agency talk. Notably, Danny Amendola will be eligible for unrestricted free agency. PFT's Mike Florio says it seems inevitable that Amendola will get the franchise tag from the Rams.

I'm a little embarrassed not to be able to remember the last player the Rams had who was even good enough to be franchised. For his part, Amendola says he wouldn't complain about getting the tag. Well, of course not; it would guarantee him a $9-10 million salary in 2013; he makes just short of $2 million this year.

Oh, yeah... Wikipedia says the last player the Rams franchised was Oshiomogho Atogwe, in 2009.

Sports Illustrated

* I doubt he'd sell many issues as the subject of the cover article, but the subject of Sports Illustrated's feature article this week is... Rams owner Stan Kroenke. Writer L. Jon Wertheim calls Kroenke the most powerful man in sports and manages to get several pages out of Kroenke's low-key personality and investing success. The article focuses mainly on Arsenal, and the Rams and the stadium situation get just a couple of paragraphs. Several friends said they'd doubt Kroenke would move the Rams, especially if he didn't already own the stadium in the target city.

Trivia you already knew about Stan (E. Stanley) Kroenke: He was named after Cardinals baseball legends Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial.

Trivia you probably knew about Stan Kroenke: He's the world largest investor in sports, owning at least $3.5 billion worth of sports properties, including the Rams, Arsenal, Avalanche, Nuggets and Denver's Pepsi Center. When in Denver, he stays in a penthouse that's attached to the Pepsi Center.

Trivia you probably didn't know about Stan Kroenke: he can bench 225 pounds 12 times, which I guarantee will come up again in future RamView NFL Combine coverage.

I'll get a link up to the Kroenke article online when it goes into the "SI Vault". Speaking of which, here's the link to the FG record article (which mentions Greg Zuerlein) I promised a few weeks ago.

* Ex-Rams updates:
- Demarco Cosby added to the Chiefs practice squad.
- Jamie McCoy back on the Steelers practice squad.

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