For Jones, the game will be special because of the role he played in bringing the Rams back to Los Angeles.
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Five other games will be broadcast live on NFL Network this week.
But new relationships spark excitement, and right now the Rams are fooling L.A. fans into believing they have a promising young quarterback, a premier coach and a potential playoff team.
It’s not often the executive of an National Football League team starts thinking about a preseason game three months before kickoff – let alone talks it up in historical terms.
“I’m not sure you’d be far off calling it the biggest preseason game in the history of the NFL”, Jones said, standing in the lobby of the Ballantyne Hotel in Charlotte last May.
Dallas selected RB EZEKIEL ELLIOTT out of Ohio State with the team’s first round pick (No. 4 overall) in the 2016 NFL Draft. However, they’re going to have to play against two of their arch enemies – the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins – in the first two weeks of the 2016 season. Each quarterback started eight games for San Francisco previous year.
Keenum is set to start at quarterback for the Rams. “If they go home and they’ve lost their voices, they did their job”.
The only trouble of the evening came on his final drive of the night, as Prescott initially pushed the Cowboys out of field goal range by taking a delay of game penalty on 1st-and-20 and subsequently being sacked. We will likely see the dynamic duo of Bryant and Romo in the Cowboys second preseason game. Jameill Showers will also get reps as the two quarterbacks compete for the backup quarterback position. “Even when Romo was healthy, he was not playing preseason games”.
The Rams have lots of questions in their roster to answer and just a few games in the preseason to figure things out before everything counts. He praised the “immense qualifications and passion” of the Rams owner, and said Kroenke “gave (the NFL) a fantastic opportunity, and we don’t get many of them, to really show what we could be”. “Dallas already has QB issues”.
“This is a little bit of icing on the cake for all of our effort to have a team in Los Angeles”, he said.
Wide receiver Duke Williams hasn’t played in a football game since October 3, when he caught a 17-yard pass for Auburn in its 35-21 victory over San Jose State.
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Oddsmakers deal in reality, however, and the Rams’ regular-season win total of 7½ (Under minus-155) accurately portrays a team that should struggle to finish.500. It will be historical in the sense as it will be the first time that the Rams will play host in the coliseum in 36 years.
