Among the things inducing hand wringing among fans of the St. Louis Rams this year is installation of a new offense, the team's third offensive system in three years. Fortunately, Brian Scottenheimer's offense is at least somewhat familiar to the players.

"This offense is very similar, not identical, but very similar to what we ran two years ago with Pat Shurmur and his offense," Steven Jackson said after Wednesday's OTA. "The learning curve has not been too harsh on myself. Sam (Bradford) is looking good, our receivers, we have a deep group that is very competitive that's going to not only help us, but is also going to bring the best out of each individual guy. All in all, as an offense we're looking good."

That's good, because Jackson is likely to have a big role in things this year.

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Yesterday, ESPN released their NFL Future Power Rankings (Insider), which are projected power rankings for the 2015 season. They used a formula based on five key categories: roster, quarterback, draft, front office and coaching.

This list needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt. No one even knows what will happen next season, let alone three years from now, but this list shows which teams seem to be the best set up for the future.

Most of the rankings seemed to make sense but there were some question marks, and a major one being, why are the St. Louis Rams ranked so low? ESPN ranked the Rams 24th in 2015. Huh?

Let me say that again ... twenty ... four. These are the Rams that just hired a proven coach in Jeff Fisher, have a few really nice young players to build around and have 4 first round picks in the next two drafts, and ESPN obviously thinks nothing of them.

Why they are wrong after the jump.

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The road to the preseason is still a long one. So with that long dusty trail to go, why not talk about everyone's favorite positions? I'm talking kickers and the punters, obviously.

Honestly, I'm not surprised this isn't talked about more often. I mean, kickers and punters are important to a team, though I agree that they aren't fun to talk about. Regardless, the St. Louis Rams are in a curious situation going into next season. They released their punter and kicker from last season, and in exchange, they have two rookies.

More on this situation after the jump.

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Playing for the Arizona Cardinals is a serious demerit in my book. Then again, I have a multi-layered bias on that front. I still think Larry Fitzgerald is one helluva player and seems like a pretty good guy as well, despite that whole Cardinals thing. He had a winner of an idea on Thursday for how we might settle the seemingly endless cascade of lawsuits that have come to define the NFL offseason lately.

Settle the differences; NFL vs NFLPAcelebrity boxing match @nflcommish & @DeSmithnflpa Madison Square Garden proceeds benefit PAT fund.Lol

— Larry Fitzgerald (@LarryFitzgerald) May 24, 2012

What's not to love? Mano y mano. Goodell, DeSmith. It might not be the greatest fight ever seen at historic Madison Square Garden, but it could be the most entertaining. Hell, bring in the legions of rowdy Jets fans that make it impossible to hear inside Radio City Music Hall during the draft, and it would be quite the circus environment ... not to mention a pretty rich fundraiser.

The question: Who would win? SB Nation is running a poll over on the big site, to gauge opinions on the outcome of said fight.

Goodell has the size advantage, but Smith is a crafty lawyer. Hmm ...

Bonus points if Don King can somehow be involved.

...bought Danario Alexander a new pair of shoes. It's an interesting story, actually. I dined at a local Chinese food buffet yesterday. I, over-indulging in General Tso's chicken, Buffalo Wings, some brightly colored 'pork' on a stick, and polished it all off with a finely swirled vanilla ice cream cone. Then I got to the '...in bed' portion of my meal: The Fortune Cookie.

Now, for those of you who may not know, the only fun thing about fortune cookies is getting one that is slightly sexual so that when you add 'in bed' to the end of it, you nearly spit out your Chinese Diet Coke. Other than that, let's face it, they might as well be crackers. At any rate, I shredded through the packaging like Ralphie looking for a Red Ryder bb gun, and it read...

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You missed the SBNation author draft, didn't you? Well let me tell you, it was some kind of exciting. The TST draft team traveled to Kentucky's newest resort hotel/convention center (see brochure pic to the right). While there wasn't much in the way of media present, I'm told by a source from deep inside SBN's corporate headquarters they kept the location of the draft secret. "We don't want Yahoo Sports and Sports Illustrated trying to steal our guys. They write for free, so they're cheap."

The Commissioner for the draft, Vox Media's CEO Jim Bankoff, took the stage - the diving board of a moss covered, above ground swimming pool - in fine fashion. Wearing a Uni-bomber hoody and dark glasses, a bottle of Blanton's Bourbon clutched to his chest, he announced the beginning of the draft - then fell in the pool...

The TST War Room had done there draft homework. Taking a page from the Rams recent 2012 NFL Draft, we went small school, while other sites took slugs from places like Harvard, Yale, and USC. Ryan Van Bibber had built a SBN Bowl Champion, so we held the 32nd pick in the first round. Did I mention there was only one round? Whoops! My bad!

The way the draft worked is each team wrote the names of the authors they wanted on a piece of paper, put in an envelope with $8 (in our case we substituted coupons for the Hill Billy Museum two miles down the dirt road from the hotel) and passed it to Spencer Hall, who seemed to be wondering from table to table...

Our choices?

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There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust your picture. I am controlling this transmission.....In reality, I can't do any of the things the 'Control Voice' did during the opening narration of the The Outer Limits, but what I can do is hopefully provide you with a bit of Random, somewhat 'light' on the Ramsdom, sports news to jumpstart your day. For those of you who've managed to grind your way through 'hump day,' I salute you! Grab your morning beverage of choice, take a seat, nestle down into the finely crafted groove created by your tookus, and begin your coast towards weeks end.

This Thursday feels different, doesn't it? There's procrastination in the air! Since NFL owners have approved to move the trade deadline from week 6 to 8, I feel obliged to do the same for you. Such an event should be celebrated. No matter the normal start time of your work day, you've been awarded a two-hour delay! Your boss'll understand...if not, tell em DC sent ya...late. And if that doesn't work, take the jump... Maybe there are employment opportunities on the other side...

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St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher sounded pleased with the work his team had done through a second week of OTAs. Those looking for a more quantitative peg on the work done so far will find some solace in Fisher's assertion that "70 percent" of the playbook, for both offense and defense, has now been installed.

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