Shuffling the deck: Chris Long, Keenan Burton featured this week
Rams wide receivers get some front page love on the PD website this morning. According to the report, Keenan Burton and Dane Looker will see more action. Looker blocks well, so they'll need to take advantage of to get those outside runs going working. In my opinion, that's the only way they're going to get the running game and thus the offense working.
Echoing the theme from yesterday afternoon's post, the Giants last year yielded more than 300 yards passing to an opponent just twice. In fact, in half their regular season games last year the Giants held opponents to less than 200 yards passing.
We also noted that runs up the middle weren't a good option against the Giants. That becomes more so with LG Jacob Bell likely out for the game...or does it? Adam Goldberg will take his place after a strong showing in camp working mostly at LT.
Like Bell, Leonard Little will in all probability sit this one out with a strained hamstring. The Rams will move rookie Chris Long to Little's spot on the left side and use James Hall to the right, where he's a more natural fit. This ought to be interesting. You know, Long didn't have a terrible game last week (all things being relative) and was one of few players who seemed to be awake through the whole thing. The second overall pick from this year's draft has shown a propensity to bounce back and learn from his mistakes. It's still a tough week to get your first shot at LDE. The Giants have a good offensive line. They allowed only 28 sacks last season, a 5.0% sack rate that was 11th best in the league, but the Redskins did manage to sack Manning twice in the opener.
Could this be Chris Long's chance to step into the spotlight? Maybe. But look for a lot of Haslett's 3-4-like set featuring Witherspoon that we saw last year to such effect.
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Interesting Tidbit
For those of you that didn’t already know, I live in the Chicago suburbs.
Anyway, since I don’t get local St. Louis television stations (and I have Comcast Cable which keeps me from the Sunday Ticket or whatever it’s called) I typically have to go to a local watering hole to watch the Rams. Often I go by myself, but thats just the way it is. I guess I’m a glutton for punishment and am willing to endure the game each week.
Anyway…..So, I’m sitting at my table just before kickoff and some dude comes walking by me wearing a Rams jersey. I didn’t happen to have any Rams gear on so I’m sure I looked like some regular Joe to him, but something caught my eye….I didn’t recognize the number. Usually, when you see a Rams jersey it has the number 80 or 28 or 13 or 81 or 39, but that wasn’t the number I read. Instead I see number 89.
Okay. I’m thinking, who the hell wore 89? It’s a new style jersey so I’m sort of at a loss. Then the guy passes me so I check out the back. “LOOKER”. Seriously? I’m roughly a 4 to 5 hour car ride from St. Louis and some dude is wearing a Dane Looker jersey? Needless to say, I never found out why he was wearing it because I wasn’t sure I wanted to know. Plus, I get weird sometimes when I’m not drunk and don’t feel like striking up conversations with strangers.
Oh well, just thought I’d pass that story along. Almost forgot about it until I read this post.
In the world I see--you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty carpool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
by Tackle Box on
Sep 12, 2008 1:06 PM CDT
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ugh. that's bad.
the only one worse would say “Phillips” on the back.
In the world I see--you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty carpool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
by Tackle Box on
Sep 13, 2008 11:12 AM CDT
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I think I could hook you up with a "Steve Walsh" jersey, TB!!
in fact, Walsh and Phillips hooked up for a win against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sept 1, 1996.
by tbell61 on
Sep 14, 2008 9:53 AM CDT
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St. Louis Rams History!!!!
You Gotta Love It!!!!!!!
Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me......with nothin'.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
by Tackle Box on
Sep 14, 2008 10:15 AM CDT
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