Rams hurting: RB Jackson out, OT Pace to miss 2-to-4 weeks
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11/17/2008 - St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson will miss next Sunday's game against the Chicago Bears with a thigh injury, while offensive tackle Orlando Pace will be out 2-to-4 weeks with a knee injury.
Jackson has missed the last two games and will miss his fourth game in five weeks. Rams head coach Jim Haslett said the running back just needs time to rest.
"He has had a second opinion (on the thigh injury)," said Haslett. "He has a strain with a little bit of blood in it, and it is going to take some time to heal," Haslett said. "(The doctor) thought that he should take some time off and let it heal and rest. (He) will be out this week."
Jackson was hurt during the October 19 game against Dallas, despite rushing for 160 yards and three touchdowns, then missed the following week's contest against New England. He returned against Arizona on November 2 after being limited in practice and managed just 17 yards on seven carries.
For the season, Jackson has 525 yards on 128 carries with four touchdowns and has added 25 catches for 259 yards.
Pace, the top overall pick of the 1997 draft, suffered an MCL injury that will keep him sidelined for the next few weeks and possibly for the rest of the season.
"(Putting Pace on injured reserve) is something that we will have to discuss," Haslett said. "Right now he is (out for) 2-to-4 (weeks) so I am going to talk to Orlando and see what he thinks."
Pace has played in all but one game this season after playing in just nine total games the past two years. The Ohio State product missed just nine games in his first nine seasons and has been to the Pro Bowl seven times, as well as being a first-team All Pro three times in his career.
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NFL Football Trash TalkTrash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
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Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
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