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    Countdown to Cutdown: Defensive line

    Countdown to Cutdown: Defensive line


    Saturday, Aug. 21 2004

    Defensive linemen in camp: 14.

    Likely to make final roster: Eight or nine.

    Safe and sound: DE Bryce Fisher, DE Erik Flowers, DE/DT Anthony
    Hargrove, DE/DT Tyoka Jackson, DT Jimmy Kennedy, DT Damione Lewis, DE Leonard
    Little, DT Ryan Pickett.

    On the bubble: DT Bernard Holsey, DT Brian Howard, DE Sean Moran.

    Probably not: DE Kevin Aldridge, DT Richard Harris, DT Justin
    Montgomery.

    Rosters must be trimmed to 65 on Aug. 31, and to 53 on Sept.
    5.

    Rams Camp at a Glance: Aug. 21


    Saturday, Aug. 21 2004

    Injured: TE Cam Cleeland (hamstring), CB Robert Cromartie
    (hamstring), WR Kevin Curtis (shin splints), FB Joey Goodspeed (hamstring), RB
    Lamar Gordon (ankle), CB DeJuan Groce (knee), DT Jimmy Kennedy (foot), LB Tony
    Newson (hamstrong), OT Jeremy Phillips (neck), OT Kyle Turley (back), OT Grant
    Williams (ankle).

    Absent: OT Orlando Pace (contract), DE Leonard Little (personal
    leave).

    Today's schedule: One practice, at 7 p.m. at Rams Park. All
    practices at Rams Park are closed to the public.

    BITS AND PIECES

    G Tom Nutten, back with the Rams after "retiring" following the 2002 season,
    was wearing his old number, 61. Rookie G Larry Turner, who had had that number,
    switched to 64.

    Friday afternoon's practice couldn't be filmed because the truck in which the
    equipment was housed hadn't completed the trek from Macomb, Ill., to St. Louis.

    OVERHEARD

    "He's done a great job. Marshall looks real good."
    - Coach Mike Martz, on RB Marshall Faulk, who has withstood several
    consecutive days of steady work.

    "I'm here to compete and hoping to contribute to the team. So if that's
    the way I get on the field faster, that's what I'll do."
    - Rookie Anthony Hargrove, a DE who has been taking reps at DT.

    - Bill Coats

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  • #2
    Re: Countdown to Cutdown: Defensive line

    The "safe and sound" category assumes kennedy does not get put on injured reserve, which could go either way at this point.
    If brian howard doesnt make it, i think he goes on the practice squad.
    general counsel

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    • #3
      Re: Countdown to Cutdown: Defensive line

      The way I would do it...

      Safe and sound: DE Bryce Fisher, DE Erik Flowers, DE/DT Anthony
      Hargrove, DE/DT Tyoka Jackson, DT Damione Lewis, DE Leonard
      Little, DT Ryan Pickett, DT Bernard Holsey

      Injured Reserve: DT Jimmy Kennedy

      Practice Squad: DT Brian Howard, DE Sean Moran

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      • #4
        Re: Countdown to Cutdown: Defensive line

        I can't imagine that Hosley won't make the team.

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          Injured: CB Jerametrius Butler (hamstring), LB Brandon Chillar (shoulder), TE Cam Cleeland (hamstring), CB Robert Cromartie (hamstring), CB Travis Fisher (knee), DE Anthony Hargrove (knee and ankle), FB Erik Jensen (knee), DT Jimmy Kennedy (foot), S Tom Knight (finger), DE Leonard Little (hamstring), LB Brandon Spoon (hamstring), OT Kyle Turley (back), C Dave Wohlabaugh (hip).

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          DE Leonard Little sat out Friday's practices with a tight hamstring.

          RB Lamar Gordon was back on the field after missing a day of work with a sore ankle.

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          - Bill Coats


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        • majorram
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          by majorram
          So with Kennedy injury do we go looking for another DT, whos out there??? or do we stick with what we have , boy will Howard have to step up!


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