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Not a good start by the offense, I hope we don't get conservative and play not to lose. Only a 2 score lead at this point.

Hard to complain about a 24-10 halftime lead in STL. Both sides of the ball have been playing great. Cutler with a perfect passer rating, Langford has been a monster. O-Line has held their D-Line in check for the most part. Now we just need to clean up the Special Teams play and not give up any turnovers in the 2nd half.

Another 3rd Down stop by this defense (with no McPhee no less). The Rams have one first down (on 3rd Down) and it was the one where they got the ridiculous spot.

Wow, what a call, setup, and execution against this defense. Langford is legit!

Defense with another 3rd down stop.

Cutler just shredded the Rams defense on that drive, wow. Miller another TD.

Ballsy call on a 4th Down, showing a lot of faith in Langford to make that catch.

Defense playing great and containing Gurley. Now we just need a long sustained scoring drive to give the defense a break.

Their D-Line is so ridiculous, I wouldn't mind stretching them out with some sweeps.

Welcome back SMC! Strip tackle recovery!

Refs have been garbage all year, missed a few on the Bears, but a ton against.

LMAO, so let's build some confidence in Mariani and let him take it out of the end zone for 12 yards. WTF, can we just fire the Special Teams coach now. Just tell him to down every ball kicked into the end zone, not freaking hard.

The only positive note is the defense held and only gave up a FG, besides the 1 long reception, Gurley has been held in check.

So there is no one else on the entire roster that can return kicks? Just anyone who can make a fair catch.

Why not just fair catch it? Seriously, we lose because of Special Teams again.

Damn, we had a stop on 3rd down and Fox doesn't challenge.

or Tecmo Bowl.

Wow, ok that will work, Zach Miller has arrived.

2 huge plays, yeah, not good at all for our defense.

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We have the edge in every offensive category except rushing yards per game. STL is horrible at 3rd Downs, which is our weakness on defense. This would be a great game to clean that up. On the defensive side, they have the edge in every category, though I was surprised at how close we were against the pass and in total yards. I would love to see Langford split out wide from the backfield to get some mismatches against LB's. He just outdueled Gordon, now let's do it to Gurley. Bears 20 - Rams 16

He has to take up a spot on the active roster to do so. Essentially they have to bring him back to the roster by the 24th, but then he is allowed to practice for 21 days before he has to be "activated" on the 53-man roster. I believe this is in place to prevent teams from circumventing the 53-man roster and practice squad rules by just putting players on PUP and IR to stash them. So I don't think he can practice unless he is on the roster or PS.

I know there hasn't been much reported about Kevin White lately, but after doing some digging, it looks like the team will have to do something with him by November 24th (12 days from now). At that point they will have 3 options: 1. place him on injured reserve (most likely) 2. release him (obviously not going to happen here) 3. bring him back to practice (then have up to 21 days before adding him to 53-man roster) So if White had a chance to play this year, he could come back as late as December 20th (at Minnesota), 4 months removed from surgery, and would be eligible to play as early as next week if activated (and in game shape, which is not likely). He was only jogging 2 weeks ago, and would have to ramp up to running, cutting, and jumping Basically, we will know in less than 2 weeks if White will play this year. My gut says it will ultimately come down to our record after the Broncos game, but I am leaning towards them shutting him down. While the reps are invaluable in a real game environment, I would hate to see him come back too early after all this time off.

What the hell:

Good point, never thought of it that way. If our subs are starting then we will inherently have some weaker players on Special Teams.