St. Louis Rams cut Ray Ray Armstrong after penalty on Sunday

St. Louis Rams linebacker Ray Ray Armstrong was a mainstay on the Rams special teams unit the last two years, but after today he will be looking for work elsewhere. While covering a punt on Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles, Armstrong picked up a 15 yard unnecessary roughness penalty after shoving punt returner Darren Sproles at the end of a return. This is nothing new for Armstrong as these types of penalties have plagued him during his college career and also his young NFL career.

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Last year Ray Ray Armstrong racked up a staggering nine penalties on special teams alone and that is at least partially what led to his release from the Rams this week. Rams head coach Jeff Fisher was asked about the penalties in respect to Armstrong being released and had this to say to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

“Again, it’s the body of work,” Fisher said. “It had been addressed with him numerous times, and that penalty ultimately becomes my fault because when a guy’s making mistakes over and over, and he’s allowed to play, it becomes my fault. So we’re gonna get someone else in there that understands things a little differently. And it’s not the [result of the] game. This was gonna happen win or lose. This is not a scapegoat. You guys know me, I’m not about that. But we need to make a change and go a different direction.”

Armstrong it seems, is meant to serve as an example to the rest of the Rams team that unnecessary penalties won’t be tolerated by Fisher and his staff. It looks as if they want to make this release into a wake up call of the rest of the players inside the locker room that if they follow the path Armstrong had in terms of penalties, they will be replaced.

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