The over/under for the Rams is 7 wins.  The Rams are 60-1 to win the Super Bowl and 22-1 to win the NFC.

I suggest a bet on the over.  Linehan will make this a better team quickly, plus the schedule doesn’t look to tough.

The Rams had a rough night on offense, but looked great on defense.  Marc Bulger completed 7 of 11 passes for 78 yards and a pick.  Gus Frerotte completed 11 of 18 passes for 135 yards and a TD.

The running game had a tough time Saturday.  Steven Jackson carried the ball 10 times and only got 22 yards rushing, he also caught 2 passes for 20 yards.  Tony Fisher ran the ball 13 times for 38 yards (2.8 ypc), and caught 3 passes for 10 yards.

The defense rocked last night.  The Chiefs ran for 110 yards, but only averaged 2.8 yards per carry.  The Chiefs only completed 42.9% of their passes for 81 net yards passing.

Pre-season football favors teams with QB depth and the Rams certainly qualify for that.  The Rams have rushed the ball for 131.5 yards per game so far, and 3.9 yards per carry.  The Rams are passing the ball for 250.0 yards per game and are completing 63.2% of their attempts.

The defense has been a little iffy so far.  The Rams are only allowing 90.5 yards rushing per game, but, 4.9 yards per carry.  The pass defense has been decent so far allowing 197.5 yards passing and 55.2% of opponents passes have been completed.

Like their cross-state rivals, the Rams are having a little trouble scoring this preseason. The first team has yet to score a TD. There’s another similarity between the two Gubner’s Cup rivals, both teams have a new head coach and offensive coordinator. My theory holds that a team with turnover at the top like that spends the better part of preseason focused on learning the new offensive schemes, ironing out their roles, and mapping out adaptations to the various types of defenses they’ll see. With that much on you mind, it can be hard to shutoff the background noise and go all out during a preseason game.

That’s my theory, and stickin’ to it got a little easier today as I read something Torry Holt said in today’s Post-Dispatch.

“[Linehan has] implemented his offense, and we’ve done a good job of learning it and applying it. We just haven’t been able to punch the ball in.”

Okay, so it’s not exactly the Rosetta Stone for preseason football, but it speaks to the tasks of learning and adapting to new ways of running the game that is as important of a preseason task as getting conditioned for the regular season.

The important thing to watch with this theory is whether or not the preseason is enough time to adjust to a new offense.

Live by theory, die by the theory.

Each of the Rams QBs played well against the Texans.  The Texans rolled up 359 total yards and controlled the clock for 36:41 of the game.  The defense had serious trouble stopping the Texans running game, as the Texans piled up 143 yards on only 21 carries.

Marc Bulger completed 7 of 13 passes for 86 yards.  Gus Frerotte completed 7 of 11 passes for 93 yards and a TD.  Dave Ragone completed 9 of 11 passes for 76 yards.  Ryan Fitzpatrick completed 5 of 10 passes for 59 yards.

The leading rusher was Fred Russell who carried the ball 7 times for 23 yards as he is trying to make a push to make the team.  Shaun McDonald caught 4 passes for 50 yards and a TD.  Torry Holt caught 4 passes for 48 yards.