Opponents have converted 47% of their 3rd downs against LA…. (80% 4th down conversions against Rams defense)

Despite allowing tons of yards and 3rd down conversions…. the RAMS have only allowed 98 points through 5 games…..

In addition, the Rams D seems to steps it up in the 4th qtr…..

BTW, Rams favored by 7 next week in Denver…. Denver has the best home record since the days of Lyle Alzado and Craig Morton… Playing in Denver is not an easy win… but it’s home cooking for Stan and his Denver Nuggets…. Let’s see how many 3rd downs Case Keenum converts next Sunday at Mile High.

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He was decent in Green Bay and had a great catch in the playoffs for them.

Perhaps Jeff Fisher’s practices sucked and his leadership lacked player discipline and accountability.

Finally, if Clinton or any democrat-for that matter-came before a court he was sitting on he would have to recuse himself after that rant of his.

I was blown away by this and his behavior on the stand after his rant..

His arrogance and his replies to his questioning were very surprising to me.. I couldn’t believe his replies….

What about the last guy questioning him? ” DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?” “Do you swear to God you didn’t do this to Dr. Ford”

Are these assholes in 5th grade?

folks need to remember that this was not a trail……. allegations beyond reasonable doubt doesn’t apply in a senate hearing…. Any judge, no matter what court, should be held to a higher standard… with a bit more character. ,,,,

Kavanaugh showed the world that he’s a complete dickhead……A rich entitled asshole with a childish temperament…

Very disappointing time in our country, the culture is changing…… it’s ok and encouraged to be an arrogant asshole…

In addition, I think an FBI investigation is being bypassed because this type of behavior on girls was very prevalent during this time frame….. FBI investigation will certainly open a can of worms against other shitheads who are currently in power who treated women the same way that this asshole did 30+ years ago…

Vikes Pro Bowl DE out

http://www.startribune.com/vikings-standout-everson-griffen-being-evaluated-after-erratic-behavior/494267331/

Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen was growing increasingly paranoid and feared someone was trying to kill him in the weeks and days before troubling incidents Saturday at a downtown Minneapolis hotel and in his Minnetrista neighborhood sent law enforcement looking for him, according to police reports released Tuesday.
The behavior prompted the Vikings to ban a disruptive Griffen last week from practice and seek mental health treatment, the reports said, which also noted that the 30-year-old husband and father is not suspected of a crime.
By the end of Saturday afternoon, Griffen was taken in an ambulance for treatment, but not before another outburst prompted police to intervene and escort him to the emergency vehicles’ destination.

Griffen did not play in Sunday’s 27-6 loss to Buffalo at U.S. Bank Stadium. He was on last week’s injury report as sidelined by a knee injury. On Monday, the Vikings listed him on the injury report as not having practiced because of “knee/not injury related.”

We’re going to do everything we possibly can, not only to help Everson, but all of the players on our team, and not just them but their families as well,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said Tuesday.
Griffen involved in police incident Saturday at Minneapolis hotel
Griffen is at a mental health facility for evaluation and treatment, NFL sources have confirmed.
Griffen first drew police attention about 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Hotel Ivy in downtown Minneapolis, where the three-time Pro Bowl player was threatening to assault staff employees and lying on the lobby floor, according to a Minneapolis police incident report.
Emergency audio dispatch revealed as events unfolded that he “said that if someone doesn’t let him in his room that he is going to shoot someone,” but no gun was seen.
An officer met with Griffen’s wife at a park Saturday in Mound and recounted events leading up to the hotel incident:
She said her husband awoke in the middle of the night on Sept. 16 and left the home. She said he does this at times when he is fighting “demons” in his head. She said he returned Wednesday only to leave an hour later and not return until Saturday morning.
She said Griffen wasn’t making sense, became combative and ordered her out of the Minnetrista home. He then went to the Hotel Ivy, which is where he stays during the week. She said Griffen needs to be medicated for his mental struggles and had been without sleep for days.
The officer called Griffen on his cellphone, and Griffen said he was going to be gone for about a week and was rambling incoherently before hanging up.

Police learned from Vikings player development director Les Pico that Griffen “has been really struggling for the past few weeks,” the police reports read. Pico said Griffen “has been explosive, screaming and yelling” at practice, the reports continued. Pico called Griffen paranoid and prone to repeating himself.
The team notified Griffen’s agent that its defensive star was banned from practice until his mental health is evaluated.
Griffen’s wife then called and said he was at teammate Trae Waynes’ home down the road. Griffen was trying to break in, had jumped through bushes and was shirtless. Within minutes, Griffen’s wife notified police that he was in a pickup truck with someone who didn’t know what to do with him. The man had encountered Griffen at a gas station, and delivered him home.
Police met Griffen outside late Saturday afternoon, and he was making comments about “777” — having to do with angels — and that he went to Waynes’ home because “God made me do it.”
Griffen agreed with the officer to be taken for mental health treatment. But soon after the ambulance was en route, Griffen fled the vehicle. By the time police arrived, he had returned and had his hands in the air. Eventually, Griffen agreed to continue the trip under police escort.
The Vikings issued this statement from Waynes: “To clarify, there was no attempted break-in at our home and at no point did my family or I feel unsafe. We are friends with the Griffen family and we are here to support them in any way possible during these trying times.”

Zimmer said he hadn’t spoken to Griffen since last week. “In the long run, he’s a really good kid,” Zimmer said, confirming that Griffen would not have played Sunday because of the knee injury and that Griffen will not travel to Los Angeles with the team for Thursday’s game against the Rams.
“I’ve always loved Everson … He’s always been a good model for us and he’s going through some tough times right now,” Zimmer said. “I just hope the best for him.”
Asked if the team could have ensured Griffen received a mental health evaluation, either on-site or by taking him to a facility, Zimmer said, “Honestly, I don’t know. That’s not really my area of expertise, and so, I don’t know the answer to that, to be honest with you.”
The Vikings selected Griffen in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He has been chosen for the Pro Bowl the past three seasons and received a four-year, $58 million contract extension from the team in 2017 that put him under contract through the 2022 season. He was elected a team captain for the third consecutive season in 2018.
Griffen was arrested twice in three days in Los Angeles in 2011, following his rookie season, for public intoxication and driving with an invalid license.
Star Tribune staff writers Liz Sawyer and Ben Goessling contributed to this report.

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Wash At Arizona:
URL = http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/57577/ARI_Gamebook.pdf

Arizona 1 for 8 on 3rd downs..

Wash 6 for 13 on 3rd downs.

Bradford was sacked twice…

Arizona got to Alex Smith 3x.

When on all fours it was 5 or 6 feet tall at the shoulder, and when it stood upright it could reach a height of 12 feet. It could weigh up to 1300 lbs. Despite its size, it was fast. It’s long legs allowed it to reach speeds of 30 to 40 mph.

fuck Aaron Donald… trim his claws and put this bear in a Rams uni…… sign him up… like Gus the FG kicking mule… but fuck Gus, the Rams have Zuerline!

Sean McVay on Luis Perez’s night: “Luis got in there. To be in the position to even be competing in games like this is a great story, it’s a great credit to him. Really impressive person. Unbelievable guy.

I’ve enjoyed being around him

.”

I can’t believe I sat and watched that entire game last night…….. I wanted to see Luis play….. I was pulling for him, but I think he’s gone….

Why Trump Supporters Believe He Is Not Corrupt

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/what-trumps-supporters-think-of-corruption/568147/

What the president’s supporters fear most isn’t the corruption of American law, but the corruption of America’s traditional identity.

On Wednesday morning, the lead story on FoxNews.com was not Michael Cohen’s admission that Donald Trump had instructed him to violate campaign-finance laws by paying hush money to two of Trump’s mistresses. It was the alleged murder of a white Iowa woman, Mollie Tibbetts, by an undocumented Latino immigrant, Cristhian Rivera.

On their face, the two stories have little in common. Fox is simply covering the Iowa murder because it distracts attention from a revelation that makes Trump look bad. But dig deeper and the two stories are connected: They represent competing notions of what corruption is.

Cohen’s admission highlights one of the enduring riddles of the Trump era. Trump’s supporters say they care about corruption. During the campaign, they cheered his vow to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. When Morning Consult asked Americans in May 2016 to explain why they disliked Hillary Clinton, the second-most-common answer was that she was “corrupt.” And yet, Trump supporters appear largely unfazed by the mounting evidence that Trump is the least ethical president in modern American history. When asked last month whether they considered Trump corrupt, only 14 percent of Republicans said yes. Even Cohen’s allegation is unlikely to change that.

The swamp isn’t easy to drain.

The answer may lie in how Trump and his supporters define corruption. In a forthcoming book titled How Fascism Works, the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley makes an intriguing claim. “Corruption, to the fascist politician,” he suggests, “is really about the corruption of purity rather than of the law. Officially, the fascist politician’s denunciations of corruption sound like a denunciation of political corruption. But such talk is intended to evoke corruption in the sense of the usurpation of the traditional order.”

The answer may lie in how Trump and his supporters define corruption. In a forthcoming book titled How Fascism Works, the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley makes an intriguing claim. “Corruption, to the fascist politician,” he suggests, “is really about the corruption of purity rather than of the law. Officially, the fascist politician’s denunciations of corruption sound like a denunciation of political corruption. But such talk is intended to evoke corruption in the sense of the usurpation of the traditional order.”

Fox’s decision to focus on the Iowa murder rather than Cohen’s guilty plea illustrates Stanley’s point. In the eyes of many Fox viewers, I suspect, the network isn’t ignoring corruption so much as highlighting the kind that really matters. When Trump instructed Cohen to pay off women with whom he’d had affairs, he may have been violating the law. But he was upholding traditional gender and class hierarchies. Since time immemorial, powerful men have been cheating on their wives and using their power to evade the consequences.

The Iowa murder, by contrast, signifies the inversion—the corruption—of that “traditional order.” Throughout American history, few notions have been as sacrosanct as the belief that white women must be protected from nonwhite men. By allegedly murdering Tibbetts, Rivera did not merely violate the law. He did something more subversive: He violated America’s traditional racial and sexual norms.

Once you grasp that for Trump and many of his supporters, corruption means less the violation of law than the violation of established hierarchies, their behavior makes more sense. Since 2014, Trump has employed the phrase rule of law nine times in tweets. Seven of them refer to illegal immigration.

Why were Trump’s supporters so convinced that Clinton was the more corrupt candidate even as reporters uncovered far more damning evidence about Trump’s foundation than they did about Clinton’s? Likely because Clinton’s candidacy threatened traditional gender roles. For many Americans, female ambition—especially in service of a feminist agenda—in and of itself represents a form of corruption. “When female politicians were described as power-seeking,” noted the Yale researchers Victoria Brescoll and Tyler Okimoto in a 2010 study, “participants experienced feelings of moral outrage (i.e., contempt, anger, and/or disgust).”

Cohen’s admission makes it harder for Republicans to claim that Trump didn’t violate the law. But it doesn’t really matter. For many Republicans, Trump remains uncorrupt—indeed, anticorrupt—because what they fear most isn’t the corruption of American law; it’s the corruption of America’s traditional identity. And in the struggle against that form of corruption—the kind embodied by Cristhian Rivera—Trump isn’t the problem. He’s the solution.

Vincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
Obviously the #Rams ate too many crabcakes this week in Baltimore

I think I agree with this… have you folks ever had mid Atlantic crab cakes from Maryland?…… they’re fantastic……

Mannion stunk last night, but I think a 90 man roster with a bunch of rookies having the
extra HOF game under their belt was big advantage for the Ravens extended roster….

#42 for the Rams was a very smooth lookin running back… nice moves
John Kelly ended up 13 carries for 77 = just shy of 6 yards per attempt….

wv wrote:

The Rams NEED aaron donald.

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indeed… no matter how talented the secondary is, you need a pass rush to make the talent in the secondary great.

The Los Angeles Rams of Anaheim

puts pressure on AD’s agent… Cooks and Gurley agents got their deals done and they weren’t really pending nor urgent…

I hope this is part of a good long term vision that the Rams management have.

Ogletree: Two huge whiffs. First, a crucial third and long, had the RB dead to rights but came up empty. Second whiff, the receiver FALLS DOWN yet Ogletree somehow lets him get up and gain five more yards. Sheeesh.

the 3rd and long was huge… big momentum turner in that game… Too bad….

I’m not sure that Cooper had two fumbles. The muffed punt actually hit Blake Countess in the foot, making it appear that Cooper muffed it. That was definitely on Countess

bad luck on that play… but was Cooper supposed to waive his team off the ball? Who knows, maybe he did…… just an unfortunate play in the game…..

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that was a great interview… not too many Rams topics, but I didn’t realized all the great players he coached….

Wade Philips points out Ricky Jackson with the Saints as one of the best LB’s he coached…. his coaching staff in NO (Bum and Wade) were looking for LBs, to get a “Robert Brazille” type of player that they had with the Oilers…

They had 5 LBs they were considering in 1981 draft… all were taken so they picked Jackson and Wade felt Jackson was better than all the 5 LBs that were picked before Ricky Jackson….

I think Wade is bullshitting a little bit…..

LBs picked before Jackson in the 1981 draft: LT, EJ Junior, Hugh Green, Mel Owens, Mike Singletary.

No way Rickey Jackson was a better pick than Mel Owens!!!!! (just kidding)

URL = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Taylor

“”””In the 1981 NFL Draft, Taylor was drafted by the NFL’s New York Giants in the first round as the 2nd pick overall.

In a poll of NFL General Managers (GMs) taken before the draft 26 of the league’s 28 GMs said if they had the first selection they would select Taylor.[2] One of the two GMs who said they would not take Taylor was Bum Phillips, who had just been hired as coach and general manager by the New Orleans Saints. As fate would have it for Taylor, the Saints were also the team who had the first pick in the draft

.[2] Giants GM George Young predicted before the draft that he would be better than NFL legends such as Dick Butkus: “Taylor is the best college linebacker I’ve ever seen. Sure, I saw Dick Butkus play. There’s no doubt in my mind about Taylor. He’s bigger and stronger than Butkus was. On the blitz, he’s devastating.”[2]

On draft day, Phillips made good on his promise not to draft Taylor and the Saints instead selected Heisman Trophy-winning halfback George Rogers with the first pick, leaving the Giants with the decision of whether to select Taylor.

wv wrote:

Texts, emails, facebook messages etc — how many times have they come back to bite people in the butt.

No matter how many times it happens — people keep doin it.

w
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Don’t write anything you can phone. Don’t phone anything you can talk. Don’t talk anything you can whisper. Don’t whisper anything you can smile. Don’t smile anything you can nod. Don’t nod anything you can wink.

” Earl Long”

luckily we learned at the dawn of internet communication, during the Tony Banks era on Rams Talk….. posting shit always comes back to bite you in the ass….

Sometimes i’m just flabbergasted at the texts or the posts I see on social media…

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