wv wrote:

bnw wrote:

Healthy teams win isn’t an earth shaking observation.

True, but the notion that Unhealthy teams lose,
sometimes gets minimized. Maybe. Yes? No?

w
v

Yes, I agree.

I am saddened by this news. T-daddy was a thoughtful guy and I miss getting his take on all things politics and business management and coaching wrestling. He was so proud of his boys, his family and the Captain Moe. Here is a pic of T-daddy in high school that he and I had a good laugh over. (He is the guy standing.) My sincerest condolences to his loved ones. He will be missed. Happy cruising my friend.

I forget what the Q stood for.

Nice one.

ACL. Injured past two seasons. AP has clouded peoples perception of an ACL injury?

No one buys a lame horse and expects great production. Why a young man who has been injured each of the past two seasons is considered different is a head scratcher. Mason ran well when finally given a chance. Does this mean when Gurley can play they platoon the position? A part time player first round pick? Another Tavon Austin-ish pick?

zn wrote:

bnw, I moved your vid to the “stadium wars” thread. Hope that’s okay.

It is not. A warrant has been issued for your arrest.

Zooey wrote:

bnw wrote:

Dak wrote:

The sad part is that St. Louis has a really good plan with a vision … and could have no team to make it happen.

I’m telling you, my friends, that my excitement for NFL football is at an all-time low. Just don’t have much interest in this year’s draft, and it’s hard to get excited for a team that’s got one leg out of here.

I feel the same way. None of it matters to me if the Rams move and that is Kroenke’s plan by design.

I cannot think of an example the equal of it. While teams have left strong fan loyalty before, and have done so brutally, there is no equivalent in terms of stadium issues. When the Rams left LA, they were playing in a baseball stadium. The Raiders were playing in a stadium built in 1923. The Browns had a dismal stadium situation. And so on.

No team has left a city with a brand new stadium in the works.

This city (St. Louis) is being force fed a shit burger with the works by the NFL. It is more than the team leaving. The last 30 years of the NFL and St. Louis is unprecedented.

Bidwill moved to AZ claiming he needed the additional revenue from sky boxes and concessions and parking. He needed a new stadium for those revenue streams. So he leaves blaming St. Louis and his team plays 20 years in an oven masquerading as a crappy college stadium.

St. Louis loses its bid for an expansion team to Carolina and Jacksonville while building a new stadium. Loses to Jacksonville. Hey NFL how has that worked out?

Rams relocate to St. Louis but the dickhead forever LA based John Shaw insists upon a top 25% stadium venue clause while making a freaking killing on the very revenue streams Bidwill was demanding 10 years earlier.

With LA without a team NFL teams use the threat of moving to LA to leverage better deals with their city resulting in an unprecedented stadium building boom throughout the NFL which in 20 years forces into effect the top 25% clause for St. Louis with a new team owner who can afford such a stadium in St. Louis but chooses to spend twice as much money to build a stadium in LA.

St. Louis is forced to build another stadium with no guarantee of a team for the second time in 20 years while LA has continued to refuse to do so despite having many times the population of St. Louis.

zn wrote:

It’s appropriate to ask this before the draft.

Some people I think are disheartened because of the move.

Some are getting worn down by Fisher—they have doubts about him.

Some (like me) are still the same optimistic idiots they’ve always been every other off-season.

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I’d be an optimistic idiot too if not for the impending move. I don’t know when the draft starts and I’m OK with that.

NFL home base is in NYC.

zn wrote:

1. Elite. Rare talent who also comes through. Or, for a draftee, a rare talent who looks like he will come through–has the intangibles plus the ability, looks like. Examples: Donald, Quinn, Warner, Pace, Faulk
2. Pro bowl talent. One of the 4-5 best at his position. Can verge on elite. Examples: Bruce, S.Jackson
3. Above average talent. Possible pro bowl. Should start quickly in year one. Above average career. Examples: Bulger, Fletcher, C.Long
4. Above average producer. Possible pro bowl. May not have all the raw physical skill you want but thrives on intangibles and technique. Examples: Laurinaitis, Proehl, Kendricks
5. Good starter. Should start within 2-3 years. Solid career. Examples: McCollum, Mike Jones
6. Average. Dependable but more as a cog in the system. The middle class. All good teams have them. Examples: McCleod, Gibson
7. Below average. Can get by with him if necessary but not a strength. Examples: Bajema, Vobora
8. Borderline NFL talent, camp body. Examples: endless

This excludes guys where you’re not sure yet who could go up or down. And busts–guys who have obvious talent but can’t make anything out of it.

This is confusing since it rates players based upon potential or career apex. In other words you’re mixing two scales. Draft scale for potential in which the elite talent can still be a miserable bust. Player scale in which the players you listed are only at their particular ceiling, the height of their career. My 2 cents.

Last ‘home’ game on NFL network more than three weeks before the regular season ends so the empty seats and Kroenke Sucks signs can be carefully censored.

Will Kroenke install better plumbing in his Inglewood stadium?

Bradford injured again?

wv wrote:

sdram wrote:

Britt McHenry had a bad day. Maybe she’ll grow from this experience. She must have parked where she wasn’t wanted.

Well, I can understand anger and calling someone a Bozo,
or scum-sucking-cretin. That sort of thing.
But her little diatribe revealed an inner ugliness
that I dont like. I would not cry if espn canned her.

w
v

I like your phrase “inner ugliness” and agree.