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It is always weird to have a Sunday in the NFL without the Rams playing, but the bye week came at the right time for the Rams.

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert I'm starting to get regular requests from readers for Dirty Laundry.

Here's the usual weekly gushing about the guys, well, most of it is gushing, the way they keep taking teams apart: * But we'll start with something critical.

In a mild upset, Cardinals tackle Levi Brown has moved past Rams guard Richie Incognito in the "race" to lead all NFC West players in penalties this season.

Rams decide not to bail on season Rumors of a fire sale prove untrue. by Bryan Burwell bburwell@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8185 , St.

Even though more names than usual were on the trading block, little happened before the deadline.

Sports Columnist Bernie Miklasz [More columns] Bernie Miklasz ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 10/17/2009 Sometimes I wonder if the Rams really do want to move back to Los Angeles.

On the road, they it's even harder to win. I hope the Vikes play well and don't look past the Rams.

Six days earlier, defensive end Jared Allen had terrorized the Green Bay Packers, piling up 41 2 sacks in a 30-23 Minnesota victory.

Sometimes, the biggest trouble with watching a really bad team labor through a season is figuring out where to train your eyes.

Vikings DE Jared Allen has more sacks than anyone in the NFL since being drafted in 2004.

Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts has joined radio personality Rush Limbaugh in making a bid to purchase the Rams.

Just four miserable weeks into the season, and what's left to say about the 2009 St.

They say that good teams find ways to win and bad teams find ways to lose, but what happens when you have a horrible team that has no chance to win? You have the 2009 St.

For Mike Singletary's 49ers, things couldn't be looking more up after his team's 35-0 shellacking of the Rams that moved its record atop the NFC West to 3-1. For Steve Spagnuolo's Rams, the outlook couldn't be more down following his team's second shutout loss in four games.

One thing the St. Louis Rams do not have is a quarterback controversy. They've been shut out twice - once with Marc Bulger taking the snaps and again on Sunday with Kyle Boller getting the start.

The new healthy quarterback was no better than the old battered one. The revolving door of faceless, easily interchangable characters who keep putting on the Rams uniform provided no better visible signs of relief, improvement or vague chance at victory than the ones they replaced.

The formula for victory couldn't have been more clear-cut for the Rams entering Sunday's game at Candlestick Park.

We've got the final injury report for the week and aside from the surprisingly large number of probable 49ers , nothing too out of the ordinary.

I always knew that Rams safety O.J. Atogwe was a good safety. But the lengths he'll go to learn about his opponents is positively heroic.