Rams’ RB Steven Jackson openly criticized the team’s decision to bench QB Marc Bulger for Trent Green on his radio show “Rolling the Dice” on Thursday night.
“He’s our general,” said Jackson, who then pointed out that you don’t pay someone “$60-something million” and then sit him on the bench.
(Bulger was signed to a $65 million contract extension prior to the 2007 season.)
Although he harbors no ill will against Trent Green, who replaces Bulger in the starting lineup Sunday against Buffalo, Jackson wondered aloud about what will happen when it’s time for Bulger to return to the starting lineup?
Jackson intimated strongly that Bulger would be unwilling to do so.
Team sources did in fact tell the Post-Dispatch on Thursday that Bulger no longer wants to play for coach Scott Linehan. Bulger has declined comment for three consecutive days since his benching became public knowledge.
When asked by the radio show’s host, Malcolm Briggs, if there were other Rams players who were against the benching, Jackson paused and replied, “I’m not the only one who feels this way.”
The Rams are in utter disarray. Barring a miracle, Scott Linehan is done at the end of the year, if not sooner. Once the players quit on a coach, there’s really no turning back. Linehan could attempt to do damage control, but it would probably be too little, too late.
