never heard of the discovery doctrine. found this bit on wikipedia.

Chief Justice John Marshall had large real estate holdings that would have been affected if the case were decided in favor of Johnson. Rather than remove himself from the case, however, the chief justice wrote the decision for a unanimous USA Supreme Court.

yikes.

zn wrote:

I see them as seeing themselves as back to business as usual–and the truth is, that offense IS more productive than it was against Miami.

i don’t want to see business as usual. i want to see some winning football.

seriously though i do expect them to open it up a little this week. offensive line should have an easier time blocking.

i’m still looking forward to goff’s first regular season td pass…

InvaderRam wrote:

kill all the animals and eat half the humans.

actually i’ll change that to kill all the animals. eat all the vegetarians.

badabing!

— X — wrote:

Of course not. I’m just tired of the constant pigeon-holing of middle Americans as less thans because they don’t have any higher education on their CV’s. Why make a point of it? What difference does it make? Does it make me less informed or signify an inability to think critically? Am I somehow less enlightened? Do I think only linearly? Why shouldn’t I take exception to that? What if I constantly harped on the idea that college students don’t know how to think for themselves? What if I kept suggesting that colleges are like liberal cults that are breeding grounds for mindless twits who only know how to parrot the things with which they’ve been indoctrinated, and it’s THEY who are responsible for the past 8 years of moral regression and fiscal irresponsibility? Would it bother you if every article you read suggested as much?

my own personal belief. many humans are like this. not just the people who voted for trump.

i mean why did people vote for obama? as someone said before probably for some very superficial reasons. only because he was black. because of some stupid slogan of “change”.

these elections appeal to the most basic desires and fears of humans. it’s all dumb. in my opinion. the people who voted for obama are every bit as ignorant as the people who voted for trump.

not everyone of course. but it played a significant part.

wv wrote:

Showed the same pocket-presence and escapability and niftyness in the pocket we saw on the college vids.

yeah. he’s nimble. that’s the biggest difference i see between him and bradford.

hopefully we see the staff give him more responsibility as the season goes on.

if they do decide to go in a different direction, i can say that this should be an attractive gig. a talented defense, talent in the backfield. and i credit fisher for that.

one other thing i was thinking is they keep fisher and hire a new oc. maybe a hot oc candidate who fisher can hand the reins to in a couple years when fisher steps down to a cozy front office job…

one can hope anyway.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by InvaderRam.
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zn wrote:

I am not putting Foles at anyone’s feet. No one predicted anything like that meltdown. Because it was not predictable. Fisher is about as responsible for that as he is for Bradford’s injuries, or as responsible McCarthy is for Rodgers declining, or as responsible Arians is for Palmer declining.

that’s what he’s paid to do. he was wrong on foles. no one can predict anything. but this is not the same as bradford’s injuries. it’s not the same as palmer or rodgers declining. we differ on that. he’s just not who they thought he was.

he got the receivers wrong. he just did.

the oline has been a revolving door.

now maybe one or two of them i can understand. stuff happens. all three have been a disaster so far. hopefully, goff comes good. but almost all aspects of the offense have been a mess for five years, and he hasn’t been able to fix even 1 unit. except maybe rb.

— X — wrote:

I take it to mean keep out illegal immigrants. Nothing beyond that. If they want to come across legally, then that’s fine. I don’t care who they are or what color their skin is. If people want to interpret that to mean keep out all brown people, then they’re just looking for something to be offended by. That’s the way I see it. I mean, when you consider that most of the illegals coming across *are* a different color, then how is it racist? It’s just the facts.

even if that’s what they meant. which i highly doubt given the context. is it ok for a group of students to chant that at another group of students?

would you as an adult chant that at your kid’s high school football game?

this wasn’t some protest or some trump rally. this was at a high school football game between a bunch of kids. children.

it’s unacceptable on any level.

kyle shanahan.

whoever it is i want an offensive mind. and someone who can bring a more aggressive mindset. doesn’t necessarily have to be more pass oriented. just more creative.

canadaram wrote:

I’m indifferent when it comes to Fisher’s future as the Rams HC. Sometimes me being that way makes me feel like I’m a bad Rams fan. When I see some of the internet hysteria about Fisher, I ask myself why am I not taking up the fire Fisher cause? What’s wrong with me? I still like the Rams just as I’ve always have since the 70s. Therefore, I should probably curse Fisher’s existence, but I don’t. If someone wants to take my Rams Fan membership card away from me I’d understand.

Anyway, if Fisher is fired some names that would interest me to replace him include Kyle Shanahan, Rob Chudzinski, David Shaw and Jim Harbaugh. Although, if I’m Shaw or Harbaugh I would never want to leave my college gig.

haha. no need to curse fisher’s existence.

only his tenure as head coach of the rams!

hahahaha. just joking.

i’m not going to say whether he should be fired or not. but if he was, i’d want josh mcdaniels.

sanbagger wrote:

InvaderRam wrote:

haven’t been this excited since the start of this season.

i just hope all this patience paid off. and i don’t want to be petty, but i hope he’s the best qb to come out of this draft.

That’s funny…I was just thinkin the same thing.

After weeks and weeks of anticipation (remember the old ketchup commercial?) they are gonna pull the cover off our refurbished corvette.

Looking forward to the game and joining in the chat room today…if I can log in this week.

you should definitely be in the chat room. it’s gonna be lotsa fun… or very deflating.

haven’t been this excited since the start of this season.

i just hope all this patience paid off. and i don’t want to be petty, but i hope he’s the best qb to come out of this draft.

sanbagger wrote:

O found it very interesting that Weinke said it was the processing the info that kept him out…I was kind of thinking that because athletically it’s not even close between him and Keenum.

I don’t think he had to do too much work with the 5 step drops…I don’t recall CK taking very many 5 step drops from center, usually if he lined up behind Barnes it was either a handoff or a quick 3 step drop and pass. Throw an extra back in the backfield and it’s a handoff 100% of the time, at least I can’t recall 1 time they had 2 backs in the backfield and passed.

maybe with goff they incorporate more 5 step drops?

also running all the time with 2 backs in the backfield worries me. are they too predictable?

pretty excited for tomorrow i gotta say.

i thought he shoulda started 2 weeks ago. but hey. it doesn’t matter anymore. 7 games should plenty of reps in his first season. and maybe erring on the side of caution is better when your realize how piss poor the running game has been.

i want him to be better than sam was his rookie year. i want them to hit on this pick like they did with donald and not like they did with robinson.

mostly this season i just want to see him push through the growing pains and stay confident. stay aggressive.

hopefully this is the start of a beautiful backfield partnership. if that can happen, it might not matter too much who’s at receiver.