That's because Stover did a great job. A huge upgrade at the TE position. A good WCO needs a great blocking TE. This was a big missing ingredient in last years offense.
All I saw was the slap. But the days of letting women slap you ended with EMPOWERMENT and taking your jobs for inferior work.
Harris and Hinish are eligible to return in week 5, but they will still need to be healthy enough to do so. Autry is eligible to return in week 7, and there's no reason to expect him not to be available then. He cannot remain on the suspended list, so something will have to be done in any event.
Hasn't Akers always had fumble issues with Rams and that's one of the reason they don't trust him with the ball besides the injury? I could be mistaken. I looked it up, it seems he fumbled twice per year the last 2 years with the Rams. Hope he holds onto the ball more from now on.