St. Louis Rams - Record in 2008 (2-14)

How the once mighty have fallen. It’s hard to imagine these Rams with the Rams from the “Greatest Show On Turf” days. DE Leonard Little is the lone remaining player from their Super Bowl days. Talk about a team in transition. I think the Rams have lost their past identity and haven’t discovered quite yet what they want their new identity to be. A passing team, a running team, a defensive stalwart maybe? Who knows, but I do know they just aren’t very good right now. The Edward Jones Dome used to be a noisy rocking place and now it’s pretty quiet, that’s what happens when you don’t win anymore. But the fans in St. Louis are great fans, they give the Rams a loyal fan base which is something they lacked especially after moving to Orange County, CA in 1980. Man, that was a long time ago.

January 15, 2005. That’s a significant date for the Rams in my opinion. Why? Because they took a drubbing from the Mike Vick led Atlanta Falcons and got beat 47-17 and haven’t been back to the post-season since then. I watched that game and still can see Marc Bulger crawling on his hands and knees after getting swamped from that fierce Falcons pass rush, it was an onslaught. I don’t think the franchise has fully recovered from that game, that happens sometimes, teams won’t admit it but it does happen. The Rams future is still in the hands of Marc Bulger though, there’s no doubting that especially after passing up on Mark Sanchez, QB - USC. They better be right because they potentially passed up on a QB that could have led them for the next 10-15 years. We’ll see, we all know the NFL Draft is an inexact science. Just ask Ryan Leaf.

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