Rams win! Rams win! Rams win!

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After a dreadful first half, Sam Bradford pulls off a Houdini act in the 2nd and leads the Rams to a TD with 48 seconds left to give the Rams a 15-12 win over Buffalo...

RamView on the way, hopefully no worse than noon Monday.

Go crazy folks, go crazy!

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Amendola out today

ESPN is already reporting that Danny Amendola will not play today in Buffalo. Chris Mortensen said the Rams think Amendola will be able to return next week against Minnesota.

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Marketing, or something else?

Should I be really thrilled that NFL.com is trying to sell me this particular T-shirt?

P.S. I'm from ST. LOUIS. I became a Rams fan because they became the ST. LOUIS Rams. I don't really want to wear a shirt emblazoned with the fine city of Los Angeles without really knowing the Rams are not going to move back there, you know?

But I guess the league has got a bunch of T-shirts ready if they do. And thanks so much for that.

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Rams report, 12/8

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* Injury report for Buffalo:
Probable: Steven Jackson (foot), Scott Wells (knee)
Questionable: Danny Amendola (foot), Mario Haggan (elbow)
Out: Mike McNeill (thigh)

Amendola reportedly will be a game-time decision, but Tony Softli reported on radio that he hasn't been in a walking boot at all this week. Expect him to be able to play.

Buffalo has *23* players on its injury report. Yes, half their team is injured. The notables:
Questionable: Leodis McKelvin (back), Aaron Williams (knee), Stevie Johnson (hamstring)
Out: Chris Hairston (ankle), Eric Wood (knee), Mark Anderson (knee), Chris Kelsay (neck)

The Bills' offensive line is about as healthy as some of Steve Spagnuolo's were. Reports have them down to their third-string right tackle, and Wood is a big loss for them at center. They're already down a starting corner, and now two pass-rushing ends. Anderson has been out for two months now and Kelsay was IR'ed Wednesday. It's a team that should be very ripe for the pickin's, though neither Miami nor Jacksonville have even come close to beating them the past two weeks.

Kickoff at noon Sunday.

* Ex-Rams report:
- The Bengals have signed Josh Brown, and he'll be kicking for them Sunday. Mike Nugent was injured in practice Wednesday.
- WR Saalim Hakim has been added to the Saints' practice squad.

* From the RamView accounting department: the Rams are not a man short on their practice squad and haven't been since adding Cameron Graham a couple of days ago. The genius who writes this mess keeps forgetting to count Jabara Williams, who joined the PS after Corey Harkey's promotion. The full practice squad: DT Mason Brodine, Graham, WR Nick Johnson, T Ty Nsekhe, DB Quinton Pointer, RB Chase Reynolds, G Brandon Washington and Williams.

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RamView, 12/6

* Sunday recap. Greg Zuerlein was named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week after kicking a tying 53-yard FG with :02 left in regulation and a winning 54-yard FG with :30 left in overtime as the Rams beat the 49ers 16-13. Report

Other positives: Janoris Jenkins scored his third TD in two weeks on a fumble recovery. Rams held Frank Gore under 60 yards. Standout games for Chris Givens (11 catches) and Michael Brockers (11 tackles). William Hayes and Eugene Sims were excellent filling in for Robert Quinn.

Negatives: Givens was the only receiver who could get open. 49ers held Steven Jackson under 50 yards.

The Rams travel to Buffalo Sunday, where they are 3-point underdogs to Ryan Fitzpatrick's Bills.

* Transactions. The Rams did re-sign Quinton Pointer to the practice squad, so I guessed right last week. They have also signed TE Cameron Graham to the PS. According to my record-keeping, Pointer fills the spot left open when Sammy Brown was promoted, and Graham fills the spot left open when Corey Harkey was promoted. But the Rams have also cut Saalim Hakim from the PS. Any reason they would insist on staying a man short on the practice squad? I'll assume there's another PS move brewing.

RamView has only one note on Graham, from the 2011 NFL Combine: just looks like a poor athlete; I'm not even sure what he was doing there. He was signed as an undrafted rookie free agent by the Titans in 2011 and spent all of that season on the Titans' practice squad. He doesn't have any career stats. He's 6'3", 244, out of Louisville, where he was all-Big East in 2010. One of Scouts Inc.'s notes is that he "has to learn to control emotions." Smooth athlete, good at finding holes in the zone and can make plays down the seam. Good hands but doesn't have elite burst or pull-away speed. Has a nasty disposition and maintains his blocks in the running game. Not elusive or a big-play threat.

* Ex-Rams report.
- LB Alex Hoffman-Ellis has been added to the 49ers' practice squad.
- CB Kendric Burney was added to the Panthers' practice squad.
- T Phil Trautwein tried out with the Steelers.
- PK Todd Carter tried out with the Bills. He was a camp leg here last summer.
- TE Brody Eldridge tried out with the Raiders.
- T Ray Feinga tried out with the Packers.

Ex-Ram of the Week is an obvious call this week. Donnie Avery had 5 catches for 91 yards and 2 TDs, including the game-winner with time expiring, in Indy's come-from-behind 35-33 thriller over the Lions.

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Jovan Belcher, 1987-2012

I don't for a second wish to be insensitive to Jovan Belcher's family, or to his fans and teammates with the Kansas City Chiefs, but I need to get this off my chest. I've wondered how the NFL should/would handle this unmistakeable tragedy, and these are my thoughts.

By no means should the NFL cancel tomorrow's Panthers-Chiefs game in Kansas City. Furthermore, there should be not even be a moment of silence for Jovan in Kansas City or anywhere else around the league. Jovan's death was only half of yesterday's tragedy. He also killed Kasandra Perkins, the mother of his child. Neither the National Football League nor any of its teams should insist on holding a moment of silence for a murderer; it simply would not be right.

I can't think of a situation like this before in the NFL. I can think of one in another "sport". Professional wrestler Chris Benoit, along with the rest of his family, died on a Sunday night in June 2007 under unclear circumstances. WWE decided to cancel the next night's show and air a 2-hour tribute to Benoit instead. All seemed well and good, and the tribute seemed fitting, until, shortly afterward, police determined that Benoit killed his family before killing himself (robbery initially hadn't been ruled out). WWE was broadly condemned for rushing to pay tribute to someone who turned out to be a murderer. And rightly so.

We apparently have little reason to doubt that Jovan Belcher took an innocent life before taking his own. It is not wise, suitable or right that his death be publicly mourned. Regrettable as all deaths are, if there's a moment of silence at the Dome for Jovan Belcher tomorrow, I'll remain seated. So should everyone else.

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Rams report, 12/1

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* Injury report for tomorrow's game vs. San Francisco:
Probable: Steven Jackson (foot)
Questionable: Barry Richardson (knee), Robert Quinn (concussion), Scott Wells (knee). So the Rams get one game with their starters on the offensive line before it falls apart again? Sigh. Wells did not practice this week till Friday, and was limited for that one. Richardson was fine until Friday. Quinn has to pass the last round of concussion tests before he can be cleared to play. That's anyone's guess, so Questionable is a good designation there.
Doubtful: Danny Amendola (foot). 'Tis only a flesh wound!
Out: Mario Haggan (elbow).

Kickoff tomorrow at noon. All the rest of this season's games will be televised on Fox.

* Transactions: The Rams recalled Sammy Brown from the practice squad yesterday and waived Quinton Pointer, probably with an eye toward returning him to the PS. Pointer played quite well on special teams last week, but as a LB/pass rusher, Brown fills bigger needs, given the injuries to Haggan and Quinn. Brown's recall appears to leave the Rams two men short on the PS; I've never seen that they made a move to fill the slot left open after they promoted Corey Harkey.

* Stan Kroenke, dental floss tycoon. The Rams' owner has plunked down over $130 million on a 124,000-acre cattle ranch in Montana called the "Broken O." (Broken O? Is that a vote of non-confidence in Brian Schottenheimer?) The ranch has 4,300 cows and 175 bulls, (which leads one to believe bulls do not live very hard lives) and is also Montana's largest irrigated farm, producing 700,000 bushels of various crops annually. Part of Stan's ranch is a 10,000-square foot "farmhouse" with an indoor pool. From Stan's end, it's an investment both in farmland, which has appreciated rapidly in value lately, and in beef and grain markets, where prices have been on the rise.Obviously, there's also plenty of ground up there to build a new stadium. Ladies and gentlemen, your Montana Rams!

$130 million would pay for a lot of stadium renovations in St. Louis, by the way, Farmer Stan. Good luck convincing taxpayers to spend a dime of their money on Dome upgrades after you just spent $130 mil on a bunch of cows.

Which reminds me, here's a link to Sports Illustrated's recent feature article on Stan.

* Ex-Rams update:
- a Joe Germaine update here by Bernie Miklasz. (toward the end of the column). Germaine's quickly becoming a standout coach at the high school level, not just by leading a state champ, but by leading players with real character.
- Kellen Heard signed with the Colts last week. Leave it to RamView to let a 340-pounder slip by me.

* Condolences to Chiefs Nation on today's tragedy.

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