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• After the Rams failed to make much progress last week in efforts to extend the contract of DE Leonard Little, it looks more likely that Little, an unrestricted free agent at season's end, is destined to receive a franchise tag late next February.

• We're hearing that Raiders offensive coordinator Tom Walsh, who had been out of coaching since 1999 before being brought back by Art Shell, is way too predictable and lacking in imagination in his play-calling. Two opposing defenders recently called Walsh's schemes "high school stuff."

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