It was Sam Bradford's deepest throw of the afternoon, and for the St. Louis Rams' struggling offense it would have been a game-changer. But Bradford's lone throw to rookie speedster Chris Givens was just barely underthrown, and the Detroit Lions' secondary made an above-average play to defuse Sam Bradford's only bomb. With Robert Griffin III and the Washington Redskins in town for the Rams' home opener, the offense will again have a heady pace to keep up with. So will Bradford go back to Chris Givens?
↵I hope so, at least. Steven Jackson's mediocre performance vs. the Lions was caused, in part, by the Rams' inability to show Detroit anything else; until the fourth quarter, Sam Bradford was operating most of the game in the same five-yards-out space Jackson was unable to find, leaving little to the defense's imagination.
↵Against the Lions, the solution involved some late work with Brandon Gibson. But if Sam Bradford and the Rams' offense can get a little more ambitious and find Givens, the field could open up for Steven Jackson. And the defense wouldn't have to do most of the offensive heavy-lifting, for once.