In other roster news, the team also released safety John Dempsey and defensive end Kenneth Charles, who were both unrestricted free agent signings. Again, nothing really shocking here, and the Rams still have to make three more cuts by 3 p.m. this afternoon. The interesting cuts are going to come later in the week after the preseason game when the team has to get down to the final 53.

On the injury front, Laurinaitis is still being slowed by that pec injury, and he was limited today. Al Harris had some knee swelling, and the rest of the guys who missed are pretty much the same as it has been: Fred Robbins, Keith Toston, Mikail Baker, Illini Mike and Drew Miller. Baker tried to go but the hamstring just isn’t ready yet, and Robbins should be fine after some rest. Toston needs to get on the field as much as possible this week as he battles with Jerious Norwood for that third running back spot, so I would expect to see him play Thursday in Jacksonville.

(Opening Remarks)
“After watching the film I won’t change much of what I reiterated last night. I didn’t think we got off to a great start. After the one play I didn’t think the team responded real well. I thought we relaxed a little bit, that led to some problems. I know the questions about the blitz pick-up, it was a number of different things, all the way from the line to the backs to the quarterback. And I know (Offensive Coordinator) Josh (McDaniels) and staff will get that squared away. The cutback ones were pretty much what we thought. It does come back to gap integrity. A couple of them were missed tackles, we need to get those things ironed out. On a positive note, I did think the offense at the end of the game with the two-minute drive, getting us down there, (K) Josh (Brown) kicking a field goal, was certainly a good way to finish the game. I always talk to the players about, if you are going to compete and they keep score, then we’re going out to try to win the football game. So I got to congratulate the team on that. And having said that, we put the two games together, kind of looked at where we are at. Having plans for this week, getting ready to play the Chiefs so with that I’ll open it up.” More after the break…