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* Injury report for Sunday:
Probable:
- Danny Amendola (foot) - was limited up until Friday. Worked in team drills for the first time in weeks. I think he'll play, but I thought that last week, too.
- Craig Dahl (concussion) - was cleared to practice after Wednesday's practice and was a full participant Thursday and Friday.
- Cortland Finnegan (ankle) - Cortland was held out of practice all week due to a nagging ankle injury he's played with for a few weeks now. He was a full participant Friday.
- Steven Jackson (foot) - standard rest. He's playing. Steven is 71 yards from 10,000 career yards and 164 away from his 8th straight 1,000-yard season.
- James Laurinaitis (back) - James did not practice all week until Friday, and was limited then. He was injured when he recovered Fred Jackson's first-quarter fumble in Buffalo last week. That's a bad injury considering what he has coming right at him tomorrow.
- Scott Wells (knee) - standard rest; I assume he'll go. Practiced in full Thursday.
- Also: Mario Haggan (elbow) and Mike McNeill (thigh).
Questionable:
- Jermelle Cudjo (foot) - did not participate Friday. Jermelle has made some good run stops this season, and to my knowledge, the Rams have only two other DTs on the roster, the starters. If he misses the game, it'll be a more significant injury than you'd originally suspect.
Janoris Jenkins was out sick Friday and is also considered probable. Antoine Winfield is the only Viking listed as questionable or worse. Adrian Peterson didn't practice most of the week due to an abdominal injury, but Adrian Peterson doesn't exactly need a lot of practice, either.
A couple of jinx-y items that may be worth mentioning:
* I'm wearing my Steven Jackson jersey to tomorrow's game. It could be his last game here; I have to. However, I am notorious for getting players injured when I wear their jersey. I've been wearing Torry Holt all season because the Rams don't have a #81.
* An even bigger jinx: the Couch Potatoes went 11-3 to win the regular season in my fantasy league. I've been carried all season by... Adrian Peterson, who I was brilliant enough to draft in the 2nd round. To my credit, I make the playoffs a lot. But every year, something always happens at a Rams game I'm at that fouls up my playoff game. So there you go.
* More potential jinxes: the Rams are 2.5-point favorites, and all three hosts on NFC Playbook on NFL Network picked them to win.
* Transactions: the Rams made a practice squad move, cutting DT Mason (Jethro) Brodine and signing WR Raymond Radway. Dallas signed Radway out of Abilene Christian after the 2011 draft and he broke his leg on the final play of the final preseason game that year. They brought him back to training camp this year, but he did next to nothing in games, and was said to still be dealing with "mental fallout" from the previous year's injury. Radway has been on Dallas' and Chicago's practice squads this season. He's 6'3", 204 and supposedly runs in the 4.32 - 4.42 range. (He even claims a 4.2.) At his 2011 pro day, he did a 38" vertical leap, but all of 6 bench presses, or 6 less than 65-year-old Rams owner Stan Kroenke. Reports on him in this year's training camp were enthusiastic; he caught everything in sight and one observer likened him to Laurent Robinson, who was actually good for Dallas last year.
- Positives: Sam Bradford put together another late clutch drive for the win. Brandon Gibson caught the winning TD and had several other crucial catches. D-line had Ryan Fitzpatrick under siege and Michael Brockers came up with his second straight huge game.
- Negatives: Offense looked terrible a lot of the game and took a full half to get going against a non-elite defense. Coaches continue to insist on laying DBs 10-12 yards off the line of scrimmage.
* Ex-Rams notes:
- The Raiders released Ron Bartell.
- Keith Toston re-signed by the Jagwires.
- Jimmy Saddler-McQueen added back to Detroit's practice squad.
- Former Rams preseason kickers Garrett Lindholm and Justin Medlock tried out for the Bears' kicking job that opened up after a season-ending calf injury to Robbie Gould. They both lost out to Olindo Mare. Medlock was cut by the Panthers before Thanksgiving after missing 3 straight FGs, including one in a game they eventually lost to the Bucs in overtime. I regularly check THREE different websites for NFL transactions, including the LEAGUE'S OWN WEBSITE, and never saw this transaction. Is there ANY reliable NFL transactions site out there?
- Jamie McGee had a tryout with the Bills. Ray Feinga and Quinn Ojinnaka had tryouts for Tampa Bay.
- Former Ram TE Chad Lewis was recently interviewed for a Sports Illustrated article about BYU draft prospect Ziggy Ansah. Lewis is an associate athletic director at BYU and is also the NFL's "Ambassador to Southeast Asia," promoting the league in China, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. He was inducted into BYU's Hall of Fame in 2007.
* Ex-Ram of the week: Who else? Danario Alexander, with 7 catches for 88 yards and 2 TDs in San Diego's 34-24 upset of the Steelers in Pittsburgh. DX is up to 5 TDs now in 5 games for San Diego; Brandon Gibson is the Rams' TD leader this season, also with 5.
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