I heard a folksy down-home motivational speaker say "If you got to swaller a big ol' toad on your day's agenda, do it right off first thing. Then the rest of your day will go better."

Applies to a lot of things.

I'd just as soon swaller that big ol' toad of the Seattle game at their house first off - get it over with. Welcome to the NFL, kids. Good lesson for our rookies and young starters who were on thre bench last year.

Carroll wil have his team ready, he knows us, and it will be noisy, I want to see the Rams play hard to the end and with a minimum of the early season mistakes that have become typical over the past few years. You always hope for a win but I have this as a tough one to pull off.