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(Message started by: steelkings on Nov 6^th, 2003, 11:45am)

Title: Rams - Faulk is ready to ram
Post by steelkings on Nov 6^th, 2003, 11:45am

Marshall is back as a starter. I dont think he will steal a bunch of TD's from Holt or Harris yet because of limited playing time.But If the Knee is better and he's in shape. ???????.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/Sports/Rams/EE4F7EBB553FBB0886256DD600256605?OpenDocument&Headline=Faulk+gets+the+word+he

Title: Re: Faulk is ready to ram
Post by DOLFAN on Nov 6^th, 2003, 12:23pm

Faulk has been a huge BUST so far this year. Poor play, injuries, slow reaction on the field, many different things. He is back now after a broken hand and yet another knee scraping. He is clearly on the down side of his career, but should still be a solid #2 RB for owners when he shakes the rust off. I think this week he will be the starter, but share carries with Harris so they can see how he is coming along. This guy has 1.5 Good yrs left in him.
I would not plan on him carrying you to the championship, but is better than other options like Wm Green, Duckett, PHI RBBC this year. He needs to prove he can be consistant. You still have to start the guy, but he is no longer the Faulk of old, he is the old Faulk.

Title: Re: Faulk is ready to ram
Post by Coachnorm on Nov 6^th, 2003, 1:33pm

from fanball.com:

Nov 6, 2003 12:13PM ET
Rams: Faulk will start, but how much will he play?

THE NEWS

Running back Marshall Faulk (hand, knee) will start on Sunday against the Ravens, and on Wednesday, he and his head coach tackled the question of how many carries the star back would receive. "Marshall's going to start the game," Martz told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "We'll spell him, obviously, with Arlen [Harris]...How much he plays? There's a conditioning factor, obviously. But we'll just play that one by ear." Faulk added, "I don't know exactly what the procedure's going to be. How much time I'm going to get. How many carries. As a matter of fact, I never know. Game speed and game tempo are a little bit different than practice or the conditioning you do on a treadmill. There's nothing like getting 10, 15, 18, 20 carries in a game. So I'm sure that a fatigue factor might be there, but it might not. So I might just play the whole game. You never know."

OUR VIEW

It's never fun not knowing if your back can carry the ball 20 times in a given game, and Faulk is a bit of a risk this week. He looked good in practice on Wednesday, but like both he and Martz said, they will have to play it by ear on Sunday. Given Faulk's injury history and the fact that the Rams should be able to beat the Ravens through the air, we're predicting that Martz will err on the side of caution with Marshall. Unless the tempo of the game calls for a lot of running, we wouldn't expect more than 15 carries for Faulk in his first game back since September.

Title: Re: Faulk is ready to ram
Post by Coachnorm on Nov 6^th, 2003, 1:52pm

Hard to say what will happen with Faulk this week. He is supposed to be the starter, but then he was supposed to play last week. The unreliability of anything Martz says about Faulk coupled with the uncertainty of how long he many play makes (the term starter doesn't really mean nothing, Dillon was the starter last week) faulk an iffy play. I would think the decision would be based some what on your situation. If you can field two solid RB's, then I would wait a week. If your second starter is a RBBC guy like Duckett/Dunn or Lamont Jordon then Faulk is a good play. Though he may only play awhile a have 40 rush/30 rec and a td and be gone. Any decent lead by the Rams and he will probably be out for the rest of the game.
While I don't think we will see the SuperFaulk of old I do think that he could be a very solid back for you team here on out.