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The St. Louis Rams are off to a disappointing -three start off and they now have a new obstacle to deal with as they search for their very first win of the year.

Quarterback Sam Bradford suffered an injury to his toe in Sunday’s 37-7 loss to the Ravens. He had x-rays, which revealed no broken bones and coach Steve Spagnuolo referred to as it a sprain in his meeting with the media on Monday.

“Right now we hope it is not a big deal,” Spagnuolo said through Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

The schedule isn’t acquiring much easier. The Rams have home dates with the Redskins and Saints sandwiched about trips to Green Bay and Dallas more than the subsequent four weeks. The schedule gets significantly less difficult at that point, the question is whether or not or not that will be too late if the offense does not get items going sooner rather than later.

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Properly, we have 1 explanation for why Albert Haynesworth was so quiet last week.

Haynesworth’s back injury is poor sufficient to maintain him out of this weekend’s game. the Patriots downgraded Haynesworth, safety Patrick Chung, and wide receiver Taylor Price to out on Saturday.

Greg Bedard of the Boston Globe noted early this week that Haynesworth didn’t have a noteworthy snap in 22 plays.  Bedard charted the snaps and notes that Chargers guard Kris Dielman handled Haynesworth 1-on-1 on 15 of the plays.

The Patriots are thin in a couple of key places. They are missing Haynesworth, Myron Pryor, and Mike Wright on the defensive line.  With tight finish Aaron Hernandez out in addition to Price, we’d expect to see Chad Ochocinco on the field a lot far more.

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Soon after the Cardinals had been referred to as for 10 penalties on Sunday — and the Redskins had been named for only one — there’s been a lot of talk in Arizona this week about how mental errors expense the Cardinals in their 23-22 loss.

Cardinals defensive tackle Darnell Dockett, however, says that the Cardinals can’t be so concerned about avoiding penalties that they lose their toughness.

“We just have to be wise,” Dockett stated. “I always emphasize to my team, ‘Don’t by no means be a punk. If somebody do something to you, you do something back.’ If you just continue to let them do it, then you are going to have a long day.”

So Dockett thinks that retaliating when someone takes a shot at you is fine. You’ve just got to do it in a way that won’t result in a penalty.

“We’re not going to let nobody just push us in the helmet, push in the back, step on our hands and do crazy stuff,” Dockett said. “You have to respond often but also you got to be wise about it.”

Be intelligent, but don’t be a punk. Words to live by.

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The Chargers had been “excited” soon after losing to the Patriots.  The Chargers, then, really should be downright giddy right after understanding that 4,600 tickets remain for Sunday’s game against the Chiefs.

If not sold by 1:00 p.m. neighborhood time Thursday, Sunday’s game won’t be televised locally.

The urgency projected by such releases is largely phony.  Extensions routinely are given, and as the Dolphins proved last week by buying (i.e., paying 34 cents on the dollar) 10,000 unsold seats, there are ways to make sure that a 3-hour infomercial for the nearby team can be broadcast in the home market.

Obviously, nevertheless, NFL teams prefer that your funds, not their money, be used to permit the infomercial to be aired.

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There are a couple of unspoken roles about trash talking.

1. If you are going to publicly call an individual overhyped, it is greatest if your talent level is in the very same area code as the player you are calling.

2. If you are going to trash speak an opponent, make confident you are playing that week.

Jaguars receiver Jason Hill broke both rules this week when he known as out Darrelle Revis and the Jets.  Revis stated he didn’t know who Hill was, and he’s not most likely to find out on Sunday.  Hill is listed as doubtful on the injury report.  Rookie Cecil Shorts might start.

“Well, he shouldn’t have been talking in the initial location because he can’t back it up now,” Revis said.

Hill is hardly Jacksonville’s biggest injury concern.  Big dollars tight finish Marcedes Lewis is doubtful to play, although defensive end Aaron Kampman is out.

Kampman has to be specifically concerning.  He hasn’t been able to recover from his second ACL surgery in as several years. The team has to be worried that he won’t be a lot of a factor this year soon after giving him a enormous contract in 2010.

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Just days soon after he tied the record for the longest field aim in NFL history, Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski is in trouble with the law, stemming from an incident last year.

The Contra Costa Times reports that Janikowski has been charged with misdemeanor battery and false imprisonment against a woman stemming from a 2010 incident.

According to the report, the woman says Janikowski employed “force and violence” upon her, but there are no a lot more particulars than that. Janikowski and the Raiders were unavailable for comment.

Janikowski has had multiple legal troubles but none in the last couple of years. He was arrested four times whilst a player at Florida State and has been arrested 3 times given that the Raiders drafted him in 2000. His most recent arrest was in 2003 and related to a fight at a restaurant. Those charges were later dropped.

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Florio told you on Thursday to beware the Bears.

1 reason Chicago could be far more harmful than expected this year: They have a hungry roster. Dan Pompeii of the Chicago Tribune wrote an fascinating piece on how a lot of Bears are fighting for their livelihood on a daily basis.

The numbers:

17 players have contracts expire at the end of the year, which includes eight starters.

8 of those 17 players signed 1-year deals with the team, veterans like Amobi Okoye.

14 players on the roster weren’t drafted.

5 undrafted rookies produced the team.

I would want to see the average numbers of teams around the league in these categories to see them in context, but the totals sure seem high.

“I’ve bounced about enough to know that every opportunity could be your last. I make it a point of telling myself ahead of each practice that I’m going to leave it all out there nowadays,” defensive end Nick Reed stated. He was out of football last year.

Veteran Anthony Adams says a lot of his teammates aren’t attempting to win buddies in practice.  They are attempting to win jobs that they already have.

Possibly the Bears have hit upon a excellent way to steer clear of complacency with a team that experienced surprising success a year ago.

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On Saturday, the Vikings signed operating back Adrian Peterson to a contract that will preserve Peterson in Minnesota for the rest of his career — unless of course the Vikings choose at some point in the out years to trade him or to cut him.

And Peterson told Tom Pelissero of 1500ESPN.com that the deal proved that owner Zygi Wilf is a man of his word.

“I ran into [Wilf] in the locker room,” Peterson stated with regards to a meeting with the owner from November 2010.  “We were kind of going back and forth and he stated, ‘Adrian, I just want you to know — and he told Chad [Greenway] the very same thing simply because he was appropriate there — he stated, ‘I want to make sure you guys are going to remain Vikings for your careers.’

“He stayed true to that [Saturday].  He stayed true to his word.”

Peterson’s lengthy-term deal came only five days after Greenway’s.

Moving forward, Peterson has the financial security that comes from a enormous pile of guaranteed funds.  “You sit back and go, ‘Hey, I’ve got 36 million guaranteed. That’s not going anyplace.’ I’m certain you’d be fairly comfy, too,” Peterson said.

“Comfortable, but not relaxed, due to the fact it is not going to take away from how I play this game, my passion about this game.  I’m in this position since of how I play this game.  But anytime you’re generating a enterprise choice, you’ve got to factor all the things in — even some of the points you do not want to think about.”

Like the kind of injury that can happen to a guy who runs like a bull in a bowling alley.  He has avoided severe injury via 4 NFL seasons, and now the injury risk has been shifted completely to the Vikings.

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