The St. Louis Rams will be donning their throwback uniforms in tribute to Marshall Faulk, and contemplating a quest familiar to the beginning of his days here: taking an unknown quarterback into battle against a superior foe.
To me, the linchpin of the Rams success in those years wasn't Kurt Warner, though he was obviously a catalyst; not Bruce or Holt, though they were as talented a tandem as you could ask for; the key to making that Martz hybrid of Sid Gilman's offense work was the multifaceted threat of Marshall Faulk out of the backfield. Defenses could adjust to take away the vertical threats of the wideouts, as Tampa did with their version of the Cover Two. But no defensive scheme could take Faulk out of the game plan, because he - like the Rams - could beat you in so many ways.
Faulk was rewarded for his record-shattering play by being called up to Canton to have his bust enshrined in Pro Football's Hall of Fame, one of the elite few to be honored in their fir...
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