Rams report, 12/22

* Once again playing catchup from well behind:

* Injury report for Sunday:
Questionable: Cortland Finnegan (thigh). Hasn't practiced all week.
Probable: Flu and cold season is making its annual run through the Rams' locker room. Steven Jackson was limited due to illness. He was held out of practice Wednesday and participated only in warmups on Thursday. Bradley Fletcher and Robert Quinn returned to practice Thursday after being sent home due to illness Wednesday. James Laurinaitis (back) and Scott Wells (knee) were full participants Friday. They did not practice Wednesday or Thursday.

* Transactions:
- Quinton Pointer has been called up from the practice squad to fill Harvey Dahl's spot on the roster. Harvey was placed on injured reserve after tearing a bicep late in the Minnesota game. Though nothing about tearing your bicep sounds good, it's not the most severe kind of bicep tear, meaning it wasn't torn off the bone. He was scheduled to have surgery Wednesday and is expected to be out 3-4 months, which means he shouldn't even miss minicamp this spring. Shelley Smith and Chris Williams are the candidates to start in Harvey's place. Let's assume it'll be Shelley. Have heard of no move to replace Pointer on the PS; can we assume Mason Brodine?

* RamView for the Minnesota game, eventually: Link
- Positives: Steven Jackson crossed the 10,000-yard career rushing mark. Sam Bradford threw for a career-high 377 yards.
- Negatives: Adrian Peterson's assault on Eric Dickerson's single-season rushing record was not slowed by the Ram defense, which allowed him 212, including an early 82-yard backbreaker. The offense once again sputtered the whole first half. Bradford had two costly turnovers. The o-line struggled to protect him. Harvey Dahl went down for the season and Scott Wells had a poor game. Craig Dahl failed at safety again and special teams and the defensive gameplan were poor.

* Ex-Rams notes:
- Ron Bartell signed with Detroit.
- Good news for those of us with Andy Dalton and A.J. Green on our fantasy teams: the Steelers have signed Justin King.
- Saalim Hakim promoted to the Saints' main roster.
- Hall Davis promoted to Cleveland's main roster.
- Jamie McCoy added to San Diego's practice squad.

* Ex-Ram of the week goes to Steve Spagnuolo for New Orleans' 41-0 whitewashing of the Buccaneers. The Saints picked off Josh Freeman 4 times, sacked him twice and held Doug Martin to 16 yards on 9 carries. Yeah, it would be very bad for the Rams' D to get lit up by Tampa the week after Spags' D shut them out.

* One of my New Year's resolutions is to update the blog daily. Unfortunately, that was one of my resolutions last year, and we see how that's gone. I'll try to at least start putting up more links to interesting articles.

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