PRO FOOTBALL REPORT / WEEKDAY UPDATE : RAMS : Pass Blocking Ability Helps Warner

To be a Super team, a 49ers kind of team, you win on days when the football gods say thou shalt not.

That is what the Rams did not do in their 36-24 misfire Sunday against Green Bay.

“I think this football team has to make sure it understands it has to find a way to win when things aren’t going well,” Coach John Robinson said Monday.

“That’s the disappointing factor of this game to me. Everything wasn’t right for us, but we didn’t find the extra something that overcomes those kinds of problems.

“Maybe we didn’t quite understand where we were. I think it’s pretty clear to everybody right now that we are a club that has to fight now. We’ve got our backs against the wall and have to fight.”

Robinson said that just because he played Curt Warner a lot more than he played Gaston Green Sunday, it was no indicator of how much either will play. Warner carried 13 times for 47 yards and a touchdown. Green had five runs for 12 yards.

“I think Curt’s a better pass blocker than Gaston and there were some inside blitzes where the back had to pick things up,” Robinson said. “I got him in the game a little more while we were still adjusting to that and he was doing good, so I kept him in the game.”

Injury update: Starting right tackle Jackie Slater, who missed the Packer game because of a dislocated toe, is expected to be ready for Tampa Bay Sunday. The Rams also expect backup lineman Joe Milinchik, who missed Sunday’s game because of a broken thumb, to be ready.