Friday's Chain Mail, V.1

Q: Was Housh's back an issue before the Rams game? Will Mora give veterans like Housh and Branch Wednesdays off like Mike Tomlin does for Hines Ward and others?-- Paul Cummings DannyO: T.J. Houshmandzadeh missed a couple practices before the final exhibition game with what coach Jim Mora described as general soreness, a condition that was commonly ascribed to players during Mora's first training camp and not entirely informative.I say that with the utmost understanding that there is an inevitable conflict between NFL reporting (i.e. nagging questions about why so-and-so isn't practicing and what such-and-such injury is) and NFL coaching (i.e. it doesn't behoove a good coach to reveal exactly why so-and-so isn't practicing).The practice-report listing for Houshmandzadeh's absence is back spasms, which is a catch-all term for soreness in the torso area, but your question isn't what was bothering Houshmandzadeh, but whether Mora is going to give guys days of...