Rams receiver Torry Holt has joined the growing chorus of players who disagree with the decision to bench quarterback Marc Bulger.

And Holt’s position could be the icing on the cake that gets him sent out of town.

“I was shocked, man, I was really shocked,” Holt recently said, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  “I went up to Marc immediately and apologized to him as a receiver and for our receiver group and the offense for not making enough plays to give him an opportunity to stay on the football field with us.”

But Holt is looking forward to playing, even without Bulger on the field.  “It gives us a platform to escape all this madness,” Holt said.  ”You can get away from everything that’s going on and actually go out and play a game that we’ve always loved to play since we were youngsters.”

Holt might escape the madness in a different way.  Per our pal Howard Balzer of InsideSTL.com, the same person who tipped Balzer off to the release of cornerback Fakhir Brown also has told Balzer that coach Scott Linehan is trying to trade Holt, and could release him.

The problem is that Linehan and Holt, as Balzer explains it, “despise each other.”

As we’ve mentioned in connection with Roy Williams of the Lions and Tony Gonzalez of the Chiefs, the fact that a team is so clearly bad so early in the season makes a trade of a veteran who’s closing in on the end of his contract more plausible.

Especially where the coach and the player despise each other.  The duo had multiple disagreements in 2007.

Holt is under contract through 2009 at a base salary of $5.65 million this year, and $6.65 million next year.