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April 15, 2017 at 5:35 pm in reply to: Interviews (4/13-4/15): Whitworth w/Clayton (audio) … + Barwin, Higbee, Cooper #67475
InvaderRamModeratoralso. intelligence one reason i’m glad they didn’t bring britt back. and one reason i’m glad they brought in woods.
April 15, 2017 at 2:55 pm in reply to: Interviews (4/13-4/15): Whitworth w/Clayton (audio) … + Barwin, Higbee, Cooper #67471
InvaderRamModeratorTyler and Pharoah, I’m afraid, are not destined to be known as sharp thinkers.
i don’t think intelligence was high on fisher’s list of priorities for player evaluation.
hopefully, mcvay places that near the top of his list.
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April 15, 2017 at 2:09 am in reply to: Several Rams defensive players are due for an extension #67459
InvaderRamModeratorno way they keep all these players. one reason i wouldn’t be above selecting some defensive backs and pass rushers this draft.
donald is the only sure thing to me as a guy i’d want to keep. maybe ogletree, but he has to show me more. maybe he will in the new defense.
InvaderRamModeratori will say this. again i don’t know how qualified he is if at all. but i know that he’d pour everything of himself into this job. he’d bring a competitive edge to this job unlike anything we’ve probably ever seen. his football iq is high, and he’d provide real leadership to this front office.
of course none of this means he would be good at running football operation for an entire organization. but i don’t know that i’d bet against him.
but yeah there’s great players who made good executives and plenty of great players who made horrendous football executives.
InvaderRamModeratorwhether he’s qualified or not i can’t see it happening. he has no real connection to the rams in any kind of way. if he did take the job, i seriously doubt he’d take it as some kind of figurehead. he’d want real decision making power.
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April 14, 2017 at 11:28 pm in reply to: Video breakdown of Wade Phillips' defense & more discussion of the transition #67450
InvaderRamModeratorWhen he took over the Broncos the first time, they went from 27th to fourth in DVOA — defense-adjusted value over average, a measure of a team’s efficiency — in one season. The Bills went from 19th to 10th; the Falcons 26th to 12th; the Chargers 30th to 13th; the Texans 31st to sixth; the Broncos, a second time, fourth to first.
yeah i could see this defense becoming top 5.
especially if the offense can make any kind of improvement.
lots of guys in their prime years.
April 13, 2017 at 10:06 pm in reply to: Video breakdown of Wade Phillips' defense & more discussion of the transition #67373
InvaderRamModeratori’m curious as to what phillips does with donald.
what adjustments does he make to play to his strengths. i don’t think he quite had anyone in denver who could compare to donald in terms of skill set.
InvaderRamModeratorlast night i had a dream that goff threw for 40 tds.
and i woke up at least twice cuz i was so annoyed that i had missed the entire season and tried to get on game pass, so i could watch the games only to quickly realize that the season hasn’t even started.
and then i got a little sad thinking that dream will most likely not be reality.
anyway…
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InvaderRamModeratorthe donald and the vince should battle it out in 2020 for ElectionMania.
InvaderRamModeratorapparently this dr. dao is quite the feller.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/11/david-dao-doctor-dragged-off-united-flight-was-con/
Regardless, the only thing he was guilty of on that plane was not wanting to give up a seat he paid for. I know airlines reserve the right to unseat any passenger they see fit, but all this could have been avoided if they just offered more money after they asked for volunteers to give up their seats and didn’t get any takers. Somebody would have eventually given up their seat. No matter how much it cost it would have been much less than this little episode will cost them.
oh i don’t have sympathy for either side.
this is one glorious example of why i hate humanity.
both sides are unforgivable really.
InvaderRamModeratorapparently this dr. dao is quite the feller.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/11/david-dao-doctor-dragged-off-united-flight-was-con/
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InvaderRamModeratorapparently this dr. dao is quite the feller.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/11/david-dao-doctor-dragged-off-united-flight-was-con/
InvaderRamModeratoralso drafting an edge rusher should be in play depending on how the draft plays out. quinn hasn’t been able to stay healthy and barwin isn’t the youngest and is only on a one year contract.
InvaderRamModeratorAnother team that runs a 1-gap 3/4 D with an ex-safety at ILB is Arizona, where 6’1″ 216 lb ex-safety Deone Bucannon has that role.
well my guess is we see a 1-gap 3-4 defense more similar to the cards defense than the broncos. at least in terms of the front seven.
wade himself has said he isn’t tied down to making players fit his system. he’ll tailor it to fit the players’ strengths. a lot of that will center around donald, but like you said, i think he’s got more athleticism in ogletree and barron than he did with his inside backers in denver. i’m interested in seeing what he does with those two.
InvaderRamModeratorhe seems to fit into a kromer type center. my impression is he prefers bigger centers as opposed to the smaller quicker and more athletic centers. that’s just my impression.
April 9, 2017 at 2:57 pm in reply to: Video breakdown of Wade Phillips' defense & more discussion of the transition #67199
InvaderRamModeratoras far as the inside backers go, i think wade will make adjustments to play to ogletree and barron’s strengths. it might be closer to the cardinals’ d than the broncos’. not sure. i guess we’ll see.
wade is known for being flexible from what i’ve read. and he will have to be because the personnel isn’t going to be exactly the same as what he had at denver. especially in the front seven.
InvaderRamModeratori remember reading about titan and it’s methane lakes. i didn’t know they had found chemical imbalances though.
It goes like this. The probe they sent detected levels of hydrogen. In the upper atmosphere, hydrogen was abundant. Then in the middle atmosphere, same. Down on the surface though it was depleted. Some are saying that so far, there is no good explanation for hydrogen being depleted on the surface when the atmosphere is otherwise rich in hydrogen, except maybe possibly organic processes taking place to deplete the hydrogen. (Which in turn is still dependent on the theory that life capable of existing in liquid methane lakes would consume hydrogen). Lots of “ifs.”
So obviously that little clue ain’t the same as pointing to an actual organism and saying “there, see?”
yes. it’s far from definitive evidence. but who knows what other methods of detection they’ll come up with in the next 25 years.
InvaderRamModeratori still say take engram if he’s there at #37.
he’s not an in line tight end? who cares? why would you even waste him as an in line blocker. he’s going to catch 90-100 passes in this offense.
if you need an in line tight end, you could just line him up as a receiver and bring in an in line blocker.
i’m going to compare his numbers to julio jones.
julio jones
6’3″ 220 pounds
33.75″ arms
9.75″ hands
40 yard dash – 4.39
vert – 38.5″
broad – 135″
3-cone – 6.66
20 yard ss – 4.25
60 yard ss – 11.07evan engram
6’3″ 234 pounds
33.5″ arms
10″ hands
40 yard dash – 4.42
vert – 36″
broad – 125″
3-cone – 6.92
20 yard ss – 4.23
60 yard ss – 11.44 (pro day)elite athlete. this guy could line up at any of the skill positions outsisde qb and rb. out wide. in the slot. h-back. joker tight end.
he’s even lined up in line at mississipi.i think he’s got a chance to be the second best tight end out of this strong tight end class. someone’s going to overdraft njoku and hopefully engram falls down to the rams.
InvaderRamModeratorThere is one theory (and it;’s pure theory) that they have already detected such traces of chemical imbalance on Saturn’s moon Titan.
If Titan has living organisms they would be very different from earth-based ones, since they would have to live in methane lakes and consume hydrogen. That’s one theory anyway.
i remember reading about titan and it’s methane lakes. i didn’t know they had found chemical imbalances though.
but yeah. it doesn’t even have to be life dependent on water. doesn’t even have to be carbon based.
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InvaderRamModeratorand according to the article there are different strategies for finding life on another planet. or at least evidence of it. for distances not reachable by humans.
Is there life out there?
Astronomers’ current strategy for finding life on another planet is to detect the chemical composition of that planet’s atmosphere, on the look-out for chemical imbalances which could be caused by living organisms. In the case of our own Earth, the presence of large amounts of oxygen is a tell-tale sign of life.
InvaderRamModeratorNASA is sending a probe to Jupiter’s moon, Europa in the 2020’s. It will orbit Jupiter and take high resolution photos of Europa as it passes by to see if it has the conditions to support life as we know it. The probe will fly past it 45 times as it orbits Jupiter so there will be plenty of opportunities for good pictures. It is thought that Europa has a layer of frozen water on the surface and a liquid water ocean underneath the ice. The moon doesn’t freeze solid because tidal forces from Jupiter’s gravitational pull cause Europa to ‘flex’ which stimulates volcanic activity and generates enough heat to keep the interior liquified.
Besides Earth, Europa has the best chance to harbor life of any place in the solar system. If we don’t find it there we probably won’t find it anywhere. Although life almost certainly exists elsewhere in the universe, anything outside our solar system would be unattainable to us because of the distances involved (lucky for them).
oh yeah. i’m not necessarily thinking in terms of potential colonization. i just want evidence that it’s out there somewhere. in terms of probability, it’s a virtual certainty. but it’d just be cool to see. and does such a discovery affect society knowing we’re not alone? meaning the planet as a whole.
and not even necessarily intelligent life although i’m sure that exists somewhere if not here.
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InvaderRamModeratorthat’s awesome.
i hope we can find life on another planet within the next 30 years.
InvaderRamModeratorIn fact…I would list LDE as the top priority of all their needs.
well ignoring other needs i think kpassagnon would be great for wade’s defense. i don’t think he gets into the third round, so you’d have to draft him with the rams second rounder. or maybe after a trade down.
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InvaderRamModeratorRegardless of how many players remain on the roster I think it’s safe to say that McVay is inheriting a lot more talent than Fisher did.
on defense. yes.
on offense. well. that depends on a lot of question marks. at the top of the list is goff. if he’s a bust, well then let’s hope cousins is available next year, and he wants to team up with mcvay again.
InvaderRamModeratori like this. this would seem to move joyner permanently to safety where i think he could be more effective.
i still say they draft a cornerback to replace trujo.
this defense still needs
1. cornerback for depth
2. outside linebacker (for depth)
3. left defensive endthey’re close.
InvaderRamModeratori think it’d be foolish not to draft a cornerback this year. especially with trujo likely gone after this year.
InvaderRamModeratorAnd so, empathy as the president’s clear motivation is accepted, she said — “with no mention of the refugee ban keeping those kids out, no mention of Islamophobia that has informed his campaign and administration. How can you write about motive and not explore that hypocrisy?”
hey. so maybe now trump reverses his stance on a muslim ban?
mmmm…..
InvaderRamModeratori want pocic. i feel like he could fit in at guard on a short term basis if necessary and eventually take over for sullivan. elfein is more limited i would think.
InvaderRamModeratora healthy sullivan would be great.
i’d still draft a center for development. wouldn’t count on sullivan for more than a year. not sure i’d even count on him for 8 games.
April 5, 2017 at 8:48 am in reply to: Position changes will be a focus of Rams' offseason program #66981
InvaderRamModeratori think the biggest positional changes would be at offensive line. can’t imagine quinn and joyner will have too much of a problem with their positional changes.
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