“We will rally around Kurt Warner, and we will play good football”

These are the words of then head coach, Dick Vermeil, after the then starting quarterback, Trent Green, went down in the 1999 preseason with a torn ACL. The team did rally around Warner, and they did play good football. Now Sam Bradford has torn his ACL and Kellen Clemens has taken the reins of this team for the year. Will the Rams rally around Kellen Clemens? More importantly, will they play good football?

Unfortunately, the answer is probably not. Clemens has been cut, then resigned to the team the past two years and has looked horrible in the preseason. Yes he already knows the system and has a command of the offense, but Clemens was never a good quarterback, and old enough to have retired three years ago. He also happens to be one of the least mobile QBs in the league. It’s almost funny how easy it is to knock him down.

The moral of the story is that Kellen Clemens is not the answer and that it will take nothing short of a miracle to win more than two games the rest of the year, and considering that the Rams front office has already said that we won’t trade for a QB, the season has been effectively tanked. It’s time to start looking at what we can get for a top five pick and start rooting for whoever is playing the Redskins on any given week because we have their first round pick.

This Tuesday, the Rams decided to go the uninspiring route by signing Brady Quinn and Austin Davis to the active roster. Austin Davis knows our system, but has looked worse than Clemens in the preseason. Brady Quinn is at least mediocre, but doesn’t know our offense.

Jeff Fisher and Sam Bradford have both expressed confidence in Clemens, and although that makes me feel a bit better, I still don’t expect a competitive Monday night against the Seahawks.

There were so many positives that could have been built upon from the past game against the Panthers, but at this point, we have no choice but to just bury them in the backyard for next year. The year has been effectively scrapped. It’s time to start looking forward to the draft in April.

Still, looking forward to this week. It may look bleak, but for at least now, the score is even. This is the NFL, any  given team can win on any given week.