London Fletcher
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"London Levi Fletcher-Baker" is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL). Undrafted in 1998, he was signed by the St. Louis Rams as a rookie free agent and became a Super Bowl champion with the team. He was also a member of the Buffalo Bills, where he played for five seasons, and the Washington Redskins, where he played for seven seasons.

Fletcher was well known for never missing a game in his career, being List of most consecutive starts and games played by National Football League players#Consecutive games played/one of only four players in NFL history to play in over 250 consecutive games. Fletcher also holds the record for List of most consecutive starts and games played by National Football League players#Linebackers/consecutive starts at the linebacker position. He eventually finished his career with 215 List of most consecutive starts and games played by National Football League players#Consecutive games started/consecutive games started, which ties him for 6th all time along with Alan Page and Ronde Barber.

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They're very basic in their approach to the run game. They run what we call a power-O, a counter, some tosses and lead weaks. Those were basically the plays.

We were playing it kind of like a seven-man front. We still wanted to protect against the deep pass. We've been very successful stopping the run in seven-man fronts. They were just able to find that crease. . . . They did a good job of blocking and getting us in defenses where our secondary guy was having to be the cutback player. We'll adjust.

Week in and week out you have to be on top of your game because there's not a lot of room for error.

I thought Angelo did well considering he was thrown in there with no notice. The one thing about being a backup is you have to prepare like you're about to play. He does a great job of preparing, and (linebackers coach) Don Blackmon does a great job of preparing the backups like starters.

The toughest guy to tackle? Probably Marshall Faulk . Charlie Garner was something special before the injuries. Charlie played full speed all the time. He had shiftiness and ran with good power for a fairly small running back. Yeah, I'd have to say those two guys: Marshall because of the elusiveness and Charlie because he had the speed and shiftiness and ran with good power.

They did a good job of blocking the run and getting us in defenses where our secondary guy was the cutback player.

It's a big blow for our defense. However, we will still play football on Sunday. Injuries happen all the time. We've got some other guys that have to take up the slack.

I would say he's the top outside linebacker playing in the game right now because he can do it all.

You're judged by your last performance each and every week. We had a great one coming out. Now we're back to Square One.