If Quick sees all that money I’m guessing it’s because he had a good season. At least this offseason he can focus on football stuff and not rehabbing his badly damaged shoulder. Whom ever starts at QB will have some time to get used to Quick and vice versa. It’s gotta be a better season for him in 2016. I mean it can’t be worse than 2015, can it?

Westbrooks seemed spend more time on the interior DL in 2015 than he did as a rookie. At least that’s how it seemed to me, maybe I’m wrong about that. Anyway, I wonder if he will be given an opportunity to be a a fixture at LE now.

Beautiful. My sister-in-law coached rowing there a few years back. She was quite fond of the area.

I hate 4 PM EST games by the way.

bnw wrote:

What if it ends like last season with the Patriots winning the super bowl?

Half way through the first quarter of last year’s Super Bowl, I realized that I wanted the Seahawks to lose that game. I got exactly what I wanted. I don’t remember anything else about the result.

Havenstein had a solid year. That pick was panned, or at least questioned by most of the experts that I read or listened to after the draft. Having a reliable, mainstay type of guy at RT would be nice. Since Ryan Tucker departed the RT position has had a Spinal Tap drummer feel to it.

Whatever is decided I just hope that it’s finalized quickly. For the sake of the nice people that I’ve met from St. Louis I would like to see the Rams remain in their current home. Ultimately I just need horns on the helmets and I’ll be happy.

After tomorrow both Seahawks players and actual ospreys will weep uncontrollably and soil themselves on every Sunday for all of eternity.

Aaron Donald — the one that got away — haunts Lions (article from Detroit Free Press)

Jeff Seidel

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2015/12/13/detroit-lions-st-louis-rams-aaron-donald/77267884/

ST. LOUIS – This was cruel and unusual punishment.

It’s one thing that the St. Louis Rams beat the Detroit Lions on Sunday, 21-14.

But how they did it was especially cruel for fans.

Because Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald just destroyed the Lions. He turned into a one-man wrecking crew who hit quarterback Matthew Stafford six times and finished with three sacks.

Remember, the Lions could have drafted Donald in 2014 — as if you could ever forget. But after they picked tight end Eric Ebron instead, many fans were outraged. And on Sunday, that decision to pass on Donald came back to haunt the Lions.

“He was certainly disruptive — the tackles for losses and the sacks and the hurries and things,” St. Louis coach Jeff Fisher said. “There’s nothing against them, but they’ve had 10 days to prepare for Aaron Donald, and that just shows you the type of player he is. They’re double-teaming him. He’s breaking double teams. We created some one-on-one matchups for him by call design, and when you do that, he usually wins.”

That’s putting it nicely.

“You’re supposed to win one-on-ones,” Donald said. “That’s why they brought me here. When I get (a one-on-one opportunity), I’m supposed to win it. I’m just doing my job.”

His job is pretty simple. Go destroy the offense. And that’s what he did Sunday.

Donald was a beast, continuously blowing through the line, disrupting the offense.

“Quite a bit, he was an issue,” Lions coach Jim Caldwell said. “He made a lot of plays for them. Quick. Just the type of things you anticipate from him. He did a nice job.”

Stafford agreed.

“I was trying to slide the line if I could, but they do a good job of showing blitz, so I’ve got to respect the fact that they might bring blitz and pick them up, and they may have to be one-on-one,” Stafford said. “They’ve got a great front four, especially 99 (Donald); 98 (Rams DT and former Lion Nick Fairley) played good today, so they’re good up front.”

Meanwhile, Ebron caught three passes for 27 yards.

And the link between these players, at least in the minds of the Lions’ fans, will never go away.

“Man, that’s one of my good friends,” Ebron said. “I’m happy for his success. I’m happy for the scheme he’s in. I’m happy they are giving him the opportunity to shine. I’m not upset. You guys are upset. The media is upset. The fans are upset. I don’t care. I didn’t choose myself to come here. They chose me to come here. There is nothing I can do about it.”

After the game, Donald was asked if he is the best pass rusher in the league.

“I’ve still got work to do,” he said. “I’m not satisfied yet, so I’ve got to just keep working.”

Hardworking. Unstoppable. Disruptive.

Donald would look amazing in a Lions’ uniform.

And that’s the cruelest part of all.

Donald and his cronies made it difficult for Stafford. This really helped Johnson keep Megatron under off of the radar. Johnson played well too though.

I guess when you are on the field for such a high percentage of the minutes the likelihood of injury increases.

The Rams play a couple of those 3 win teams in the last month of the season. Depending on how tie-breakers play out the Rams could end up controlling their own draft destiny. Well, I guess they always control their own draft destiny, but you know what I mean. They really need to find a QB, so losses could be helpful to the cause. No guarantees of course.

Pretty difficult to imagine a scenario where a person takes two bullets to the head and is still able to have a conversation before having surgery to deal with the wounds. What a crazy story.