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Sam Bradford Hopes to Follow Peyton Manning's Path
By Tom Lorenzo - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Really, there isn't much you can criticize about Sam Bradford's rookie season. Bradford not only took every snap under center for the Rams, but he also broke several rookie records, including many which previously belonged to Peyton Manning. Individual accolades aside, Bradford led a Rams team who was coming off a 1-15 record in 2009 to playing a meaningful win-and-in game for the NFC West crown against the Seahawks in Week 17. But simply playing a meaningful game in the final week of the season wasn't satisfying enough for Bradford. In 2011, he expects to lead the charge, ...
Rams Charging to New Heights
By John Hickey - AOL NewsThis possibility of making the playoffs may be routine in some corners of the NFL, but in St. Louis it's a big deal. The Rams play the Seahawks in Seattle Sunday night knowing that a win gives them the NFC West title and sets up a home game in the first round of the playoffs. "It's going to be awesome,'' Rams middle linebacker James Laurinatis told the St. Louis media after the Rams beat San Francisco 25-17 Sunday, eliminating San Francisco from the playoff chase. "A win-and-you're-in kind of situation is what you play for and I'm excited about it. I'm looking forward to it.'' He should be. ...
Thursday and Long: In Defense of the Bumbling NFC West
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsIt is the most forgiving division race in the history of sports. If you're into quirks and flukes, you find it funny. If you're a super-serious, life-and-death NFL establishment purist, it's a disaster. It is the NFC West, where the Seahawks and Rams have lost each of the past two weeks but haven't lost any ground on first place. Where the 49ers are 5-9 but just one game out of first and still alive in the race. Where the Cardinals are the first 4-10 team ever that's kicking itself over that one game it really feels it should have won. Where this year's champion will be no better than 8-8, ...
Sam Bradford and St. Louis: Learning From First Place
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS -- Sam Bradford doesn't scare, doesn't sulk and doesn't hide behind excuses. You can say his St. Louis Rams weren't supposed to beat the Saints here -- weren't even supposed to come close, actually -- but Bradford's not having it. You can say a team that only won six games, total, in the three years before Bradford arrived this spring has no business even hanging with the Super Bowl champs on the road, and you may be right. But when it was over, Bradford was owning it, and breaking it down like a seasoned pro. "Turnovers killed us," said the Rams' rookie quarterback, who threw two ...
Saints, Malcolm Jenkins Bring Back Memories of Last Year
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS -- It was a lightning-bolt moment -- a flash of difference-making defensive brilliance by the Saints' Malcolm Jenkins at exactly the right time. It took a game that was sliding slowly in the wrong direction and kicked it right back the way the home crowd wanted it to go. It was nothing less spectacular than a 96-yard interception return for a touchdown in the final minute of the first half. And as Jenkins, the second-year defensive back out of Ohio State, raced the length of the field for the touchdown that tilted Sunday's game back in the Saints' favor, you couldn't help but ...
Brandon Gibson's Growth a 1st Step for Rams' Receiving Corps
By John Hickey - AOL NewsIt's best not to forget that a year ago, the St. Louis Rams were a one-win team. Still, getting beat up to the tune of 34-17 by Atlanta on Sunday underscores the Rams have a long way to go under coach Steve Spagnuolo before they can really be taken seriously as a postseason threat. All that being said, the passing game under rookie quarterback Sam Bradford is coming along well. In his last three games alone, Bradford has hooked up with wide receiver Brandon Gibson 19 times for 181 yards and one touchdown. In the seven games before that, he had just 12 receptions. The Rams are still looking ...
Oshiomogho Atogwe Still Can't Believe Decisive Interference Call Against Him
By John Hickey - AOL NewsIt probably won't be the last time that St. Louis free safety Oshiomogho Atogwe will be called for pass interference. But it's unlikely he'll be much unhappier about any future call than he is right now about the call in overtime that helped San Francisco upend the Rams in overtime 23-20. Even so, he wants to move on. Officials dinged Atogwe on a third-and-2 play from the St. Louis 45 when 49ers quarterback Troy Smith got off a wobbly pass under pressure. Atogwe was covering the receiver, backup tight end Delanie Walker. Walker stopped to turn toward the ball. Atogwe was still moving and the ...
Thursday-and-Long: The Undefeated, Unexpected Kansas City Chiefs
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsThey say you need three years before you can evaluate a team's draft, but you'll have to forgive the Kansas City Chiefs if the first three games of this season have made them feel pretty proud of theirs. The Chiefs are, improbably, the last undefeated team still standing in this year's NFL -- 3-0 and coming off the bye week into Sunday's tough test against the Colts in Indianapolis. And while the general opinion on this seems to be that the '72 Dolphins may as well pop the corks right now, that doesn't matter to the Chiefs. They just threw their loud, loyal fans a whopper of a September ...
Sam Bradford Feeling Two Levels of Heat
By John Hickey - AOL NewsIt's about 200 degrees in the suburbs of St. Louis, but not all the heat Rams new quarterback Sam Bradford is feeling is solar-based. There is, of course, the expectation, however unrealistic, that he will make St. Louis competitive again. And then there is the massive challenge of a kid just out of college, Oklahoma in this case, being asked to be a leader of men who might have a decade on him.``I think that will come,'' Bradford said when asked about his potential to become a leader on a team badly in need of one. ``I'm just out here trying to get better every day. ``I think the guys, ...
Draft Analysis: Escape From the Top 10
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Teams that pick in the NFL Draft's top 10 have at least one thing in common: None of them want to be doing it again next year. A top-10 pick (unless you can get one for somebody like Richard Seymour) means you're coming off a bad year. And teams that pick up near the top every year -- teams like the Rams and the Lions -- start to get sick of it. So with that in mind, let's take a look at the teams that had this year's top ten picks and the extent to which their performance in the first three rounds helps them in their respective missions to be picking much later next year. St. ...
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