* Monday night injury report:
Out - Trumaine Johnson (knee); Brandon McGee (foot).
Questionable - Alex Carrington (knee); Jo-Lonn Dunbar (groin); Barrett Jones (back); Chase Reynolds (hip).
Probable - Kenny Britt (knee); Eugene Sims (groin); Zac Stacy (calf).
Stacy is expected to play. The worrying name on this week's list is Dunbar, who's made a good number of run stuffs this season and has been the player most comfortable in the new scheme, since he played in it before in New Orleans. For San Francisco, Vernon Davis (back) and Anthony Davis (back) look like the most significant injuries. Both are questionable.
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The 49ers are 3-point favorites and are getting picked straight-up by 94% of fans, so the Rams will try to chop down the mightiest tree in the forest with a Herring. To replace Ray Ray Armstrong, they signed veteran LB Will Herring (31, 6'3", 241), who vexed the Rams a time or two as a Seahawk. It'll be as shocking to hear that Herring played a season for Gregg Williams in New Orleans (he spent three years there) as it will be to hear that he's a graduate of (sigh) Auburn University. Scouting reports consider Herring strictly a special-teams specialist. His veteran temperament could settle down the Rams' special-teams penalty problems.
He was the Saints' special teams captain last season.
* Alumni report:
- As for Ray Ray The Penalty Machine, he was cut on Monday and picked up by Tuesday by the team he was born to play for: the Raiders. And yes, he will return to St. Louis November 30.
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- Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson was the subject of
A Football Life this week on NFL Network. It wasn't a bad hour of TV, but it wasn't very compelling, either. If you missed it, you don't have to go out of your way to watch it. The highlight was, well, the highlights, featuring not only Dickerson's amazing ability to break tackles and make people miss in the open field, but the impressive offensive line he ran behind. I think he broke O.J. Simpson's record with a 9-yard run; thanks to his line he didn't have to deal with a defender for the first 7 yards of it. Another favorite highlight was a 20-25 yard TD run where Dennis Harrah has his back to the play and it's not even close to over, but he raises his hands and heads toward the sideline because he knew that early in the play that it was going to be a TD. Old fans don't need to hear from me that a RB that good with a line that good in front of him really should have gotten the Rams a championship or two.
- And, of course, the Rams are going to have the better part of the Super Bowl XXXIV championship team in St. Louis this weekend and tomorrow night. The Rams' gameday info e-mail to season ticket holders lists these as the players and coaches expected to attend: Coach
Dick Vermeil, Coach Mike Martz, Ray Agnew, Taje Allen, Lionel Barnes,
Dre Bly, Isaac Bruce, Devin Bush, Kevin Carter, Rich Coady, Ernie
Conwell, Clifton Crosby, D'Marco Farr, Marshall Faulk, London Fletcher,
Mike Gruttadauria, Az Hakim, James Hodgins, Robert Holcombe, Torry Holt,
Mike Horan, Tony Horne, Keith Lyle, Dexter McCleon, Andy McCollum, Fred
Miller, Mike Morton, Tom Nütten, Orlando Pace, Jeff Robinson, Cameron
Spikes, Chris Thomas, Ryan Tucker, Rick Tuten, Kurt Warner, Justin
Watson, Jeff Wilkins, Jay Williams, Roland Williams, Grant Wistrom, Jeff
Zgonina. Forget the halftime ceremony: they could stand to suit about 16 of those guys up for the game.
RamView will have to miss all the fun due to a scheduling conflict - thanks for the stupid Monday night game, Goodell, I could have made it today - but maybe I'll have the recap out Wednesday now instead of Friday. Monday night games still suck.
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