As of today, the Rams have 69 players and 18 coaches in their employ. How many of them will be around when the team assembles for training camp next July is anybody's guess.

They're the same. Yet they're so very different. On just a one-time glance at last week's NFL results, the St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears appear to be on an equal plane of mediocrity heading into their Week 12 matchup along the banks of the Mississippi River in northeastern Missouri.

From the earliest days of training camp at Concordia University Wisconsin, it seemed obvious that the defensive line would be one of the Rams’ strengths in 2008.