The Rams saved themselves some cash earlier today by restructuring Leonard Little's contract. The plan was to get Isaac Bruce -- you know ... future Hall of Famer, third in all-time receiving yards, sixth in all-time receptions ... yeah, that Isaac Bruce -- to take a pay cut. Bruce wasn't too receptive to that idea.So the Rams cut loose the 35-year-old former second-rounder who has spent all 14 of his seasons in St. Louis rather unceremoniously. The dispute was a $2 million roster bonus. The Rams wanted Bruce to forget about that and just play for his $3 million salary.
Bruce had game last year, putting up solid numbers in a terrible offense, but he's obviously at the age where each season is one season closer to a plummet in ability. He'll find work -- and probably pretty quickly -- from someone willing to believe he has another year, and he's a great locker room presence for young receivers. An amateur connect-the-dots places him in San Francisco, where the 49ers need receivers badly and Mike Martz will probably make a push for him. But who knows.
The Rams, meanwhile, better take some of the money they're creating to go find another receiver. If they're planning on going into the season with Torry Holt and his deteriorating joints, the remarkably below-average Drew Bennett (where for art thou, Billy Volek), and that collection of backups ... Chip Rosenbloom's not going to enjoy his first season.
