Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford was supposed to practice on Monday as he eases his way back from a back problem. When he didn\u2019t, nerves became frayed.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re still frayed today. Comments from assistant head coach\/passing game coordinator Aubrey Pleasant will do nothing to un-fray them.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, no update on Matthew,\u201d Pleasant said, \u201cbut what I will tell you is it\u2019s very tough for not only him and for the organization. I would say is that he\u2019s trying his best.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what makes it even more concerning. We\u2019re three weeks and five days from Week 1, and Stafford still can\u2019t practice. Despite his best efforts.<\/p>\n
And if Stafford can\u2019t play, the job will fall to a veteran who was once (for a little while), the highest-paid player in NFL history..<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have a Super Bowl-contending quarterback like Jimmy Garoppolo who we played against and now we have to deal with him in practice,\u201d Pleasant said. \u201cI\u2019m really impressed more than anything of our offensive staff catering an offense to what Jimmy can do very well while still understanding that this is Matthew\u2019s team as we continue to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
It may be Matthew\u2019s team, but Matthew still can\u2019t go. They\u2019ll need to be ready to run the Garoppolo version of the offense until Stafford returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford was supposed to practice on Monday as he eases his way back from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-79184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}