Horray Beer...er, Football!

Back from the sweltering, gang-infested world that is Los Angeles, I can't help but wonder why in the world Frontiere doesn't want to go back there. Some loser was gonna call his homies to shoot up a gas station just because the pump wouldn't give him more than he paid for. And God forbid that someone allow you to get over so you can exit. God bless Corvallis, and that's all I have to say on that subject.

Now it is time once again for the footballs to take flight and the know-it-alls to come out from under their rocks and tell us how the Patriots and the Cowboys will meet in the Super Bowl in 2008.

While that may very well be the case, I will still allow myself to watch as the Rams attempt to derail "Them Cowboys" and stake their own claim once again to the Lombardi Trophy.

So grab yourself a beer and join me in watching the Greatest Offense on Earth come to life. Except for the beer part, of course, as I'll be doin' the Dew. Horray football!

Lose to the Raiders? SO!

Big freakin deal. Culpepper made our defense look like swiss cheese, and the absence of Holt and Jackson had our offense auditioning for the cast of High School Musical 3. BUT WHO CARES??? Preseason game three obviously doesn't mean as much to Linehan as it does to the rest of the world, but more importantly, I'm on the road with the family on the way to Disneyland and in the words of my boy Rome..."I'm Out!"

Preseason Week 2 Blues

WOW! The much improved Rams strike again...only against themselves with a bunch of turnovers and awful run defense. I know that the Chargers 2nd string back, Michael "Kathleen" Turner, is supposed to be no LaDainian Tomlinson, but the way he tore around and more disturbingly through the defense made him seem like the second coming of Jim Brown. Sure, sure, sure, it’s only the second game of the preseason, but it’s the also only the third game before the regular season starts and who is our first opponent? The Panthers, with two better than average backs in DeAngelo Williams and Deshaun Foster (What’s with the “De” anyway?) and some guy named Nick “how’s it” Goings who against us last year WAS the 2nd coming of Jim Brown. And then it’s the Whiners and Frank “Al” Gore. It’s actually not until week 13 against the Falcons that we catch a break and can stack 8 in the box all game long now that Vick has pled guilty and can’t hang or torture us for 200 rushing yards. Hopefully it won’t take that long for the defense to come together, because if it does then we’ll be looking up the frickin Whiners’ ass and I for one can’t handle that! Here’s to next week being much improved…again.

Jimmy Kennedy Era is Over

and I for one am sooooo happy, and from what I’m hearing and reading in chat rooms, I’m not alone.

It is all rather amazing, actually. First the Rams blow it big time on Damione Lewis, and then Kennedy. These two clowns give new meaning to the term “first rounder” - first they became rounder, and now they’re not even around! Fortunately for the Rams, they are not the only ones who busted big time in that draft. That whole UPPER draft class of Kennedy’s was full of guys who tanked it even sooner than he did: WR Charles Rogers, 2nd overall pick and DT Johnathan Sullivan, 6th overall, both of whom are OUT OF THE LEAGUE, DE Michael Haynes (14th), DE Jerome McDougle (15th), DE Calvin Pace (18th), and QB Kyle Boller (19th).

There is one thing that perplexes me about this whole thing however, and that is the timing. Sure they want to give all the snaps to the young guys and expedite their development and J-Ken would only serve to get in the way of that; and sure Haslett wanted him out and they will probably look to pick up a veteran DT during camp to replace him, but please – right now? Some of the remaining DT's on the roster – Carriker, Glover, Wroten, Jackson, and Ryan leave us scratching our heads and wondering “What were they thinking?” Only Glover has more than 1 season of NFL experience and Wroten has only played in a few games. Carriker has never played DT for a whole game and the other 2 are also rookies. One would think that keeping Kennedy in the rotation this season, even at the Under Tackle position or just on the bench for his “veteran” mindset, makes more sense then relying on two players drafted in the 5th and 7th rounds.

At least Kennedy has experience and at times in the ‘04 and ‘05 seasons played “well enough” when called upon. It has been proven that some of the best and most sought after DT's taken early in the draft need a couple seasons to adjust to the NFL. Can we then expect that at this point Jackson and Ryan are going to provide better play this year than J-Ken could have? That question remains to be answered, but we can only surmise that if we were that bad with him, we can only be that bad without him, so I guess it doesn’t really hurt after all, does it?