PRO FOOTBALL / DAILY REPORT : RAMS : Turnover Ratio Pleases Knox

A day after the Rams’ 21-7 exhibition victory over the Seahawks in the Seattle Kingdome, Coach Chuck Knox said he was pleased by his team’s ability to cause mistakes and to avoid making them.

“We were able to create some turnovers on defense,” Knox said Friday after a light practice. “(The Seahawks) had three turnovers, we had one on offense, so we’re plus-two in that category. We got four sacks.

“We’ve got a ways to go, but it was a step in the right direction.”

As he predicted in the days leading up to the game against the team he coached for the last nine seasons before being forced to resign, Knox said he felt no extra emotion walking into the Kingdome as the opposing coach.

“I was thinking about too many other things,” Knox said. “We’ve got enough to think about around here. I just wanted things to go fairly smooth, which they did--you know, with the substitution situations, not having 10 guys out there, or nine guys out there or 13 guys out there.”

Knox said he was glad he sent rookie quarterback T.J. Rubley in to open the fourth quarter with the Rams on their one-yard line.

“We stayed with our substitution schedule,” Knox said. “I mean, how many times are you going to see a rookie quarterback in there at the minus-two-yard line, and that’s his first shot? But he’s got a lot of poise.”