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Jacob Bell, Michael Hoomanawanui Miss Practice Today

Michael Hoomanawanui of the St. Louis Rams missed practice today.

The St. Louis Rams bye week ranked among the most costly weeks of the season. Bradley Fletcher suffered a season-ending ACL tear, and the team learned that Danny Amendola needs surgery to repair a torn triceps. On top of that, there are a few minor injury situations worth monitoring. 

Left guard Jacob Bell left early in the Rams week 4 loss to Washington with a hamstring injury. He sat out practice today. Last week, it was reported that Bell could miss "several weeks," but subsequent reports seemed to confirm that the injury was not as serious as first thought. Spagnuolo expressed confidence that Bell would play this week against Green Bay, but it's a situation to keep your eye on ahead of that game. If he can't go, Tony Wragge would replace him. 

Tight end Michael Hoomanawanui, supposed to be a key part of the two-tight end system under Josh McDaniels, suffered a concussion last week after dropping a pass. He did not practice today either. As with Bell, Spagnuolo felt like the second-year tight end would play this week. Remember, the Rams offense was supposedly predicated on the two tight ends and Steven Jackson, a trio that hasn't seen much time together this season because of injuries. 

Defensive tackle Darell Scott might miss more time after undergoing surgery on his wrist. 

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I really hate the fact that we are going to have to draft another TE

I’ll hate it even more if we don’t cut Big Injury Mike.

My thoughts...

1. Rams need legitimate receiver[s].
2. It annoys the hell out of me when I see Spags clapping after bad plays.
3. Billy Bajema and Justin King need to get the boot.
4. Hoom is injury prone. Hist talent means nothing if he's not on the field. Needs to be replaced.
More to come...

by Horcrux7 on Oct 10, 2011 4:24 PM CDT reply actions  

pls no more te's!

what im pissed about, was during preseason, the rams looked like they had alot of depth at every position. then all of a sudden, they were all released! to cut down to the 53 man roster. gone were jermile hines, jonathen nelson, og’s, hunt, foster, donnie avery, marty gilyard, DT muir, that is freakin sad! foster was picked up by the steelers, and starting, hines picked up by the colts, devaney, and spag’s released all of the rams depth!

now every week the rams limp into stadiums, and there sidelines look like a mash unit. aside from the atrocious draft, that didnt fill not one need!, or non signings of quality free agents, we all know already who they were, the F.O. severely crippled this team.

by Mark Jaramillo on Oct 10, 2011 4:41 PM CDT reply actions  

Just let Animal Jr play TE

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 4:44 PM CDT reply actions  

why not.

look at the difficult interception he made against wash. that was better than anyone has done.

by crazy mike on Oct 10, 2011 11:34 PM CDT up reply actions  

what i dont understand...

is how in the hell can a team go 4-0, in the preseason, yes granted, the offense, and defensive starters only played a few quarters, but yet, the rams offense was straight up slapping defenses around when they were on the field…but anyways, how can they go 4-0, and suddenly forget how to play a week later? how? it makes no sense. its like…steven jackson broke that 40 yrd run, untouched, week 1, got injured…..and that was it! the wheels fell off, and all hell broke loose. i just dont understand it.

then again, like i mentioned, the rams let go of all there depth, before the season, they let all the wrong players go. when bartell went down, hell, why didnt you give jonathen nelson a try spag’s? oh, i forgot, how you run things, just like you had robert quinn in street clothes week 1 also. and how you have a budding star in jabara williams deactivated for some reason too. your 0-4! give these guys a shot spag’s? how in the hell do you want them to learn, if you dont throw them out there? yet, another questionable move by coach spag’s.

by Mark Jaramillo on Oct 10, 2011 4:53 PM CDT reply actions  

no kidding

i was so optimistic about the season judging by how easily sam/kendricks/gibson were tearing it up against starting defenses.
and then slam.
I also don’t get why they draft people…and just give them away; idiots.

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 4:56 PM CDT up reply actions  

The slam was the real season playbook was given to them

maybe they should’a taken it slower. Or is this as basic as McD’s O gets? [yeah, say that 5 times fast!]

by RamsFan1979 on Oct 10, 2011 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions  

Illinois Mike

The Rams Should cut their tie with this boob.He’s absolutely worthless.

by CGSuddeath on Oct 10, 2011 4:59 PM CDT reply actions  

geeze your soo right sergey...

you brought back painfull memories…look after the super bowl all the players that the rams let go, and went onto even more productive careers….

grant wistrom
london fletcher…( i still shed tears over this one).
anthony hargrove
torry holt/isaac bruce…(the F.O. should of hanged for that blasphemy!!)
kurt warner
orlando pace…(injured or not).
dre bly….

yes granted, there were some that had every right to be released, so we thought, and look at there careers, ryan picket, hargrove, they all had great careers.

by Mark Jaramillo on Oct 10, 2011 5:04 PM CDT reply actions  

a lot of that was zygmund though too

but it’s mindblowing that we had hines and nelson…and king and dahl are starting now…neat.

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 5:14 PM CDT up reply actions  

i honestly thought in my opinion sergey...

that a few yrs from now, the rams “would” of had some good players on there roster in hines, and nelson. but leave it up to freakin spags! who i know had total control of the roster moves, to screw it up! he is a decent defensive coordinator, but as talent evaluators? him and devaney flat out suck!

by Mark Jaramillo on Oct 10, 2011 5:17 PM CDT reply actions  

it's been a downward spiral since the season started

I’m sure he chewed the coaches’ asses and players asses that have been sucking, but we play the packers of all teams – no matter how much he yelled at the players, they won’t all of a sudden become great. Sam, Animal Jr. and SJax can’t win the game by themselves, need at least 11 players on field to play

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 5:27 PM CDT up reply actions  

I'm beginning to agree on the talent evaluation criticism

Take Daniel Fells. He was not the best TE but generally was reliable and could catch some passes (yes, he dropped some too, notably in the Week 17 game last year) but now he’s gone.

Lots of good guys in our dept chart are now on other teams. I thought Renardo Foster did a good job when he had a chance, really surprised they let him and John Greco go for nothing.

However, to be fair, while I found the draft to be a bit of a head scratcher, I was one of several who felt the FO tried in picking up Harvey Dahl and Quentin Mikell, along with Cadillac. All of those appear to have been good moves.

by Sundowner on Oct 10, 2011 6:22 PM CDT up reply actions  

huh

thought we kept Nelson on the practice squad?

by Jae-So on Oct 11, 2011 6:27 AM CDT up reply actions  

This

is pretty funny

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 5:46 PM CDT reply actions  

Wragge

played better than Bell anyways. Any TE in street clothes can contirbute what Hoom has this year so again no lose.

by RWRAMS28 on Oct 10, 2011 5:55 PM CDT reply actions  

i think it'd be a package deal

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 7:51 PM CDT up reply actions   1 recs

Wish the rams played with that much enthusiasm as the lions

…yes the lions

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 7:52 PM CDT reply actions  

this game is a shitshow so many penalties

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 8:14 PM CDT reply actions  

fuck, i feel bad for cutler

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 8:18 PM CDT reply actions  

and that's why we need a megatron

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 8:29 PM CDT reply actions  

To anyone watching the MNF game

Notice on Johnson’s td catch, how the line did nothing for Stafford, but it didn’t matter cause he could just throw it up to Megatron. Next time you wanna blame it on Sam cause he holds it too long and takes the sack, remember that it’s Devaney’s and Spags’ fault for adding a back up DE instead of a number 1 receiver in the draft.

by King Sam Rules! on Oct 10, 2011 8:33 PM CDT via mobile reply actions  

if only we could've sucked a bit more last year

and got AJ Green

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 8:40 PM CDT up reply actions  

True, or traded up for him

Cause the picks we kept sure haven’t helped as much as Julio would have

by King Sam Rules! on Oct 10, 2011 8:42 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions  

yup!

shit we lost a couple players before the season started to other teams…

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 8:44 PM CDT up reply actions  

Stoops is fired! Woo!

Beavs helped him out the door.

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 9:04 PM CDT reply actions  

Is Stafford actually good?

he doesn’t look good, his WRs make him look better, IMO

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by sergey606 on Oct 10, 2011 9:07 PM CDT reply actions  

Yes they do.

but when your team plays with so much confidence everybody plays on a high note. i just wish our guys would have just 1/2 of what they are showing. as the coaches are saying,were having a great practice during the bye week. i don’t know about you, but i’am feeling much better now.

by crazy mike on Oct 10, 2011 11:49 PM CDT reply actions  

"We can't lose this week!"

Learning that fletch and danny are done for the year, yeah I think we lost this week.

by DaaaaRams802 on Oct 10, 2011 11:49 PM CDT reply actions  

Better play great.

cause this can get ugly quick. we all know what that feels like.

by crazy mike on Oct 10, 2011 11:57 PM CDT reply actions  

I see no reason why

we will stay within 21 points of the pack after halftime….

Oh, we’ll come out fired up as always, squander a few breaks we may get, meanwhile the defense will have been on the field 75% of the first half and we’ll have 6 points on the board.

Then the packers will be up like 10-3 after qtr 1, then 17-6 at halftime.

After halftime, the pack will stay on their gameplan running the ball down our throats and eating up 80% of the clock and score 10 points in the third qtr to our goose egg. 27-6 pack after 3.

In the 4th the pack score another TD 34-6 and they let us score an “oh by the way” late in the 4th.

Final 34-13 pack

Fourthe qtr

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by VTramsFan on Oct 11, 2011 12:12 AM CDT reply actions  

thats pretty much what I expect Sunday

until they prove me wrong.. but it won’t happen this week.

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by VTramsFan on Oct 11, 2011 12:14 AM CDT up reply actions  

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