Wide receiver follies

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Like clockwork, right after the draft every year we find out about players that Jeff Fisher has "known for some time" will be suspended for part of the upcoming season. Ding! This year it's wide receiver Stedman Bailey, who's suspended for the first four games of the 2014 season for a performance-enhancing drug violation. There's an as-yet unidentified friend of Bailey's saying that Bailey didn't take anything illegal, but short of hiring Ryan Braun's lawyers, it looks like the Rams are going to be missing one of their two promising young receivers for the first month of the season.

This is starting to look like a locker room that doesn't exactly learn from the examples of others. Isaiah Pead, anyone? Jo-Lonn Dunbar? Rok Watkins? The message seems simple. And certainly repetitive enough. Can Jeff Fisher not get it across?

Washington Post

Meanwhile, though we should probably be happy Kenny Britt's lasted this long as a Ram without getting arrested, Fisher and the Rams must feel really great that he had an explicit sex video up on his Instagram account over the weekend. (The much-safer-for-work photo on the right is Britt on stage at a Britney Spears concert in 2011.)

So, while Bailey's gotten in trouble and Britt's already actively looking for ways to get into trouble, it's a good thing the Rams drafted all those wide receivers, huh? Oh, that's right. They didn't draft any wide receivers from one of the deepest wide receiver classes in years. No matter, they must have signed plenty in free agency, right? Well, they did sign a whole two. We will rally behind Brian Quick, and we will... Oh, forget it.

Lotsa luck, Sam Bradford.

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