When the Rams announced in January that they would play one home game per year for three straight years, it occurred to me that the powers-that-be in St. Louis may claim that the team’s lease doesn’t permit the export of 12.5 percent of the annual regular-season home schedule. I didn’t reduce the thought to writing…
Despite the fact that the Rams have three former NFL defensive coordinators on the coaching staff, the 27-year-old son of their exiled defensive coordinator continue to inch toward possibly taking the reins of the defense. As Peter King of SI.com explains it in his most recent Monday Morning Quarterback column, linebackers coach Blake Williams was…
The St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission voted to enter binding arbitration with the Rams about improvements to turn the Edward Jones Dome into a “first-tier” facility, but that hasn’t stopped them from making another proposal to the team. “This constitutes CVC’s plan for the improvements that CVC reasonably believes would improve the Facilities to…
Plenty of owners have mused over the years about the possible return of the NFL to Los Angeles. When the owner who serves as chairman of the league’s stadium committee chimes in, it’s time to listen closely. Steelers president Art Rooney, II, whose pre-draft trip to Minnesota helped light a fire under the process of [...]
S Delano Howell is making a bid for more playing time with the Bills. Dolphins coach Joe Philbin deemed T Jonathan Martin’s play not “God awful” against the Panthers. Five Olympic medalists will be honored at the Patriots’ game on Monday night. RB Shonn Greene is frustrated with the Jets offense continually shooting itself in…
The St. Louis Rams’ first-team offense sputtered in their preseason opener against the Indianapolis Colts, but quarterback Sam Bradford was much sharper in Saturday night’s second exhibition game against Kansas City. We viewed the game on NFL.com’s preseason live package. Bang it here for your own. Bradford opened the game with back-to-back touchdown drives, connecting [...]
As the Saints wait to find out whether they’ll have linebacker Jonathan Vilma in 2012, they know that they won’t have linebacker Chris Chamberlain. Chamberlain tore an ACL on Friday night against the Jaguars, via WWLTV.com. He’s out for the year. The fifth-year veteran followed former Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo to New Orleans in [...]
As the Saints wait to find out whether they’ll have linebacker Jonathan Vilma in 2012, they know that they won’t have linebacker Chris Chamberlain. Chamberlain tore an ACL on Friday night against the Jaguars, via WWLTV.com. He’s out for the year. The fifth-year veteran followed former Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo to New Orleans in [...]
As the Saints wait to find out whether they’ll have linebacker Jonathan Vilma in 2012, they know that they won’t have linebacker Chris Chamberlain. Chamberlain tore an ACL on Friday night against the Jaguars, via WWLTV.com. He’s out for the year. The fifth-year veteran followed former Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo to New Orleans in [...]
As the Saints wait to find out whether they’ll have linebacker Jonathan Vilma in 2012, they know that they won’t have linebacker Chris Chamberlain. Chamberlain tore an ACL on Friday night against the Jaguars, via WWLTV.com. He’s out for the year. The fifth-year veteran followed former Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo to New Orleans in [...]
The high ankle sprain that cost Sam Bradford six games and parts of others last year hasn’t gone completely away, as an injury or a topic of conversation. Bradford is tired of both. Even though the Rams quarterback said two weeks ago after a scrimmage that it still wasn’t 100 percent, he’s grown weary of…
So far, four teams (Bucs, Raiders, Dolphins, Vikings) have embraced the changes to the blackout rule, which allow teams to televise home games locally by selling as few as 85 percent of all non-premium tickets. Several other teams potentially falling within the blackout red zone have said they won’t be reducing their sales targets, including [...]
Through two NFL seasons, Rams quarterback Sam Bradford has absorbed a whopping 70 sacks in 26 career games. ESPN’s Ron Jaworski reviewed the 2011 game tape and observed that Bradford has developed “Cabin Fever” in the pocket, playing tentatively and anticipating the pass rush, sometimes when pass rushers aren’t even there. Though Bradford says he…
Bills WR T.J. Graham had a successful track career and is the son of an Olympic silver medalist, but he wants everyone to know that he’s a football player first and foremost, and not just a sprinter who plays football on the side. Dolphins QB Matt Moore compares himself to a relief pitcher because he’s…
Bills WR T.J. Graham had a successful track career and is the son of an Olympic silver medalist, but he wants everyone to know that he’s a football player first and foremost, and not just a sprinter who plays football on the side. Dolphins QB Matt Moore compares himself to a relief pitcher because he’s…
To date, three teams have embraced the changes to the blackout rule. Others still have some time to make a final decision. Despite an initial deadline of July 15, the league office tells PFT that each team has until its initial preseason home game to make the modification of their “manifest,” reducing the minimum number…
If the NFL returns to Los Angeles before a new stadium is built, the team’s home games would have to be played elsewhere. (Obviously.) The folks in Pasadena are planning for the possibility that “elsewhere” will be the Rose Bowl. According to Adolfo Flores of the Los Angeles Times, the city has released a new [...]
If the NFL returns to Los Angeles before a new stadium is built, the team’s home games would have to be played elsewhere. (Obviously.) The folks in Pasadena are planning for the possibility that “elsewhere” will be the Rose Bowl. According to Adolfo Flores of the Los Angeles Times, the city has released a new [...]