No Pace? Get a rope!

Although one man does not a team make, the loss of Orlando Pace has left both my Rams and my fantasy teams in the lurch.

It was amazing to watch what I called last week the "Greatest Offense on Earth" come to a screeching halt when Bulger's left hand man injured himself...again. Perhaps that is why the coaching staff's play calling after that was fit for pee wees, or maybe they were just so concerned about O.P. that they lost sight of the other guys out there actually still playing, but whatever the reason it was down right embarrassing and the worst I've seen in a long time.

Of course we can't discount the terrible officiating on both sides of the ball that also drove me insane, but what ultimately got to me was the false start on the very last UNTIMED play of the game. What the hell is that about?

It has been noted that the fans should be ashamed of themselves for leaving so early yesterday, but there is absolutely no excuse for our players to do so. What that showed me is that the players had even given up and were on their way home too. There is no way that a Bill Belichick coached player would do that, and I hope that the Rams coaching staff makes those players who packed it in early pay the price.

We'll see next week how concentrated the players are, and I hope it shows. So put down your beer and grab a rope, because if this keeps up we'll all be at the end of ours soon.

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.