Rams Claim QB Kellen Clemens Off Waivers; Jacob Bell to IR
by Ryan Van Bibber on Dec 7, 2011 5:56 PM CST
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PrintThe St. Louis Rams have another quarterback, their fifth of the season. The team claimed Kellen Clemens off waivers today, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Clemens was released by the Houston Texans yesterday after they signed Jeff Garcia to be their veteran backup behind T.J. Yates.
Adding Clemens signals that the Rams are preparing for the likely possibility that Sam Bradford and A.J. Feeley will not be able to play this week. Tom Brandstater, who has floated around NFL practice squads since being signed as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2009, was in line behind those two.
Clemens was a second round pick of the New York Jets in 2006. He started nine games with them in five years. Houston signed him as a backup prior to Thanksgiving. Washington cut him in September after preseason tryout.
Claiming him off waiver puts the Rams on the hook for the remainder of his salary, which can't be any more than the veteran minimum.
Clemens at least has some NFL experience, but it's not going to make much difference starting him over Brandstater. Brandstater is still likely to get the start ahead of Clemens since he's actually spent at least a few days practicing with the Rams.
St. Louis also moved Jacob Bell to injured reserve, shutting him down for the season and likely ending his time as an expensive, mediocre free agent. Bell restructured his contract prior to the start of the season in order to help free up cap space. Bell is the third Rams starting offensive lineman to land on IR this season.
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Is he buddies with Feeley? With the whole ducks thing
Beating off the dog is never appropriate when we have company over...... I mean EVER!
by sergey606 on Dec 7, 2011 6:16 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Ah hahahahahaha
I knew you’d say something. Woooooohoooooo. this is almost like winning. I think Clemens will be here for about a half a cup of coffee but he’s probably better than Brand S. You know this hurts, huh? hehehehe
Wolf. Wolfgang Wolf
Meh
If he even plays, he’ll get sacked about 10 times.
I wish we had Canfield as a back-up, I wanna see him play in NFL. Wonder how he did in the preseason
Beating off the dog is never appropriate when we have company over...... I mean EVER!
by sergey606 on Dec 7, 2011 6:41 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
He's been bouncing around
He’s another guy who’d probably stick if he found a team who could invest some time in him. I always liked Canfield.
Wolf. Wolfgang Wolf
listen to what the saints are doing to him, it's confusing; he's an accurate passer, Oakland should've signed him instead of Palmer
“During the 2010 season, Canfield spent time jumping back and forth from the active roster to the practice squad without seeing any game action. He was re-signed to the active roster from the practice squad following the season, but was waived during final roster cuts again on September 3, 2011. He spent time on the team’s practice squad again during the season. He was re-signed to the practice squad on October 16, only to be released again the following day. He was signed to the active roster on October 22, but he was waived on October 26.”
Beating off the dog is never appropriate when we have company over...... I mean EVER!
I think such is a day in the life of any non blue chip QB
What ever situation they end up with is the biggest factor in determining their success. The only difference between he and say Matt Cassel or Kevin Kolb is their initial surroundings. This is why so many guys who are good don’t make it and teams like us have no excuse to put up with guys who aren’t. At least I don’t think so. If you don’t have an environment that brings out the best for a player, then don’t draft him. If no ones seems to be working out, like with us, then the problem is the environment.
Wolf. Wolfgang Wolf
Those are words that someone like Yoda, Buddha and Jonathan Goldsmith would say
Totally true. A player gets a shot at starting, then let’s say he has a crappy game, but mainly because of all the other crappy players (and environment of the team), then he is used a scapegoat and ushered out of town….another team with better players (and environment) gives them several shots and boom, there’s your confidence and high level of play. Ex: Robinson, Laurent.
Someone should do a fanpost about this dillemma that we have and it provides us another reason to can what’s-his-face….oh…everyone.
Beating off the dog is never appropriate when we have company over...... I mean EVER!
Wait... I can now follow Sergey Konyshev on twitter?
SIGN ME UP!
2 men enter 1 man leaves. THOSE ARE THE RULES OF THUNDER DOME!
Crazy thought
but at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they put Bradford on the shelf for the rest of the year.
Just declare a case of the plague for any player
we want to keep and put the on IR the rest of the year. No use risking starters. Both DE’s, Lloyd and bradford are looking ill and I think Laurinitis is feelin puny
Tom Brandstater, who has floated around NFL practice squads since being signed as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2009
Brandstater was drafted in the 6th round.
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by Tempestuous Binary on Dec 7, 2011 8:54 PM CST reply actions
Well, idk about the brocons success with late picks
but if it were the rams that drafted him in the 6th…might as well be a UFA, after the 4th round Rams quit anyway
Beating off the dog is never appropriate when we have company over...... I mean EVER!
So now we have 4 quarterbacks ...
but we couldn’t start the season with Thad Lewis. Makes sense to me.
like when we though it'd go like this
Instead of trading a 5th round pick and Craig Dahl for Brandon Lloyd, they trade the 1st round pick for the next 5 drafts and Harvey Dahl for Rhys Lloyd.
Beating off the dog is never appropriate when we have company over...... I mean EVER!
no kidding
Spags: so, uh, boss, uh, we finalized that dahl for lloyd deal! the giants bought it!
Stan: wait, giants?
Spags: yeeeaaahhhh, Billy can explain that one….
Billy: well you see….I’m just going to quit my job now.
By the way, what the fuck is up with a grown ass man that’s in the front office of an NFL team going by the name…Billy. Shit, that should’ve been a warning right there.
Beating off the dog is never appropriate when we have company over...... I mean EVER!
Thank God we kept AJ Feeley to be the reliable veteran backup
I’m not sure what where we would be without him.
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2 men enter 1 man leaves. THOSE ARE THE RULES OF THUNDER DOME!
At this point does it even matter?
We lost every player imaginable and every game seems to look worse and worse as the weeks go on….Yea I watch them but I’m dead inside…Even my Madden Rams are playing like shit…..Is there no hope?
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no PLAYOFFS."
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