should be interesting.

Hurricane Hilary is expected to hit So Cal on late Saturday or Sunday.

California hasn’t experienced a tropical storm like this since 1978.

we were in Lahaina for the week before the fire….  we left Lahaina the Sunday before the town went up in flames on Tuesday….   we have visited that town few times on prior vacations….

my kid is fire inspector for a local Fire Dept in California. he noted the wind and dry conditions in that area while we were there…… the hurricane was approximately 650 miles south of Hawaii, thus parts of the island had windy conditions…, other parts were very calm including Lahaina.    the winds got stronger after we left, even though the hurricane had moved farther away ( 800 miles ) at the time of the fire.  the wind path must’ve changed and focused on the western part of Maui to stoke the fire.

very sad to see that town burn… a very special place for us…..

That was a great segment

zn wrote:

Most career games with 300+ passing yards in the regular season… Drew Brees – 123 Tom Brady – 113 Peyton Manning – 93 Matt Ryan – 76 Phillip Rivers – 73 Aaron Rodgers – 69 Ben Roethlisberger – 68 Dan Marino – 63 Brett Favre – 62 Matthew Stafford – 57

All Super Bowl champs, with the exception of Matt Ryan, Rivers and Marino….

Matt Ryan had it, ATL blew a 28-3 lead midway through the 3rd qtr.

Mayfield’s game winning drive was the high point of last season.

I knew the Rams had little chance to keep Baker, but I wish that he was on roster this season.

Rams need QB depth. I hope Bennett can provide that. 25-year-old rookie.

in addition to your great clutch plays…..

more clutch pass plays to remember……

Everett to Flipper running through the tunnel in New York for the OT playoff win in 1989

Hekker to Sam Shields in 2018  NFC Championship .. it was the Rams 1st, 1st down of the game and in happened in the 2nd qtr.  Pivotal point in that game….The Rams were unraveling up until that gutsy call.

Goff to Everett 40 yard go-ahead  TD of the KC MNF thriller; it was the 103rd point scored of that game.  …. I think a lot of people became Rams fans that evening while thousands of acres in California was on fire.

Dec 2021….. Stafford to OBJ in Baltimore to convert a 4th down that set up a game winning TD to OBJ…..  That game was one of my all time favorite regular season games.

Stafford to Kupp in the Tampa Bay 2021 divisional playoff to set up a Matt Gay game winning FG to deny a Brady comeback….. SWEET!!!!

Regarding the 1979 Cowboy game. Ferragamo to Ron Smith right before halftime was pretty remarkable……

The pass that never was…. Sam Bradford to Danny Amendola in the SF overtime 24-24 tie… Jim Harbaugh gets in ref’s ear to drop a late flag to reverse the call in OT.

GO RAMS!!!!!

Stafford needs someone like OBJ in addition to Kupp.

The Rams won huge games down the stretch in Dec of the Super Bowl run (in Minnesota and in Baltimore) in spite of Stafford’s poor play.

It was OBJ and the defense, certainly not elite play from Stafford during that stretch.

damn Zooey, you’re competing with Cargil, we’re gonna have to start calling you Oliver Douglass…..  that’s a huge garden… only thing missing is a cannabis section… very cool that you and your wife have an on-going cycle of heirlooms from seed.

this season I have:

5 tomato varieties, 2 of these are heirlooms from seed. (granny green and something else)

7 bell pepper varieties

3 hot pepper varieties (no habaneros)

2 zucchinis

we’re always seeding some Booker T and the MGs , (Green Onions) to have throughout the summer.

Herbs; Been propagating rosemary, basil, and always seeding Italian parsley to have year-round.

Billy: we have hard clay soil in the Santa Clara valley, which is great for fruit trees, but it needs amendments to support vegetable gardens.  Every couple of years I get 1/2 cubic yard  of a veridis soil mix from the local landscape supply center.

I also have a mulch pile in the same spot for the past 18 years to help amend the soil.

Speaking of fruit trees, we got plums, nectarines (which i cloned 2 of them) lime, lemon, valencia oranges, which is great for juice.

Happy growing!

jimi,……. i hope that you still have time for trout fishing……

better to part with an aging player a year sooner than a year later.

Bobby Wagner = Clay Matthews

I really liked both of these players with the Rams, but LBs >30 are not very effective for that kind of money.

always remember his Mike Curtis tackle on the trespassing “JOEFAN” vs the 49ers at Levi.

Like ZN stated $5M

Good Luck

Niner fans are pissed that Shanny didn’t review the 4th and 3 catch that set up the first Eagles TD on the opening drive…… Some niner fans feel that perhaps Purdy wouldn’t have been hurt had that play been reviewed… but the Eagles knocked out 2 QBs yesterday… Purdy’s replacement was also knocked out of the game with a concussion….

In the AFC game, with less than 1 min to play, I was prepped for OT… it’s a shame that last Chiefs drive ended that way and sent the Bengals packing.

Playoff games always seem to be wild in KC.. .one of the 1st TV playoff games that I remember as a kid was the Dolphins / KC OT game on Christmas Day.  Garo’s game winning kick.

Van Brocklin, Roman, Bradford, Foles… ex Ram QBs that played in Philly.

Go Eagles.

URL = Sean McVay tells Rams he’s staying as coach, sources say (espn.com)

LOS ANGELES — Sean McVay has informed members of the Los Angeles Rams organization that he will remain the team’s head coach, sources told ESPN’s Dianna Russini on Friday.

The decision comes days after McVay said in his end-of-season news conference that he would be taking the “appropriate time” to make a decision on his future to figure out “the best way to continue to move forward in the right way to be the best coach that you can possibly be.”

The Rams are coming off a 5-12 season, McVay’s worst losing campaign since he was hired in Los Angeles in 2017, as they dealt with a slew of injuries, including to starting quarterback Matthew Stafford, wide receiver Cooper Kupp and defensive tackle Aaron Donald.

During the 2022 offseason, McVay signed a contract extension that runs through the 2026 season, matching the length of the deal signed by general manager Les Snead.

This isn’t the first time a possible McVay retirement has come up. In the week leading up to Super Bowl LVI last February, McVay answered a question by saying he “won’t make it” if he is coaching until he is 60 and talked about the things he wants to pursue outside of football.

“I know I love football and I’m so invested in this thing and I’m in the moment right now,” McVay said at the time. “But at some point too, if you said, ‘What do you want to be able to do?’ I want to be able to have a family, and I want to be able to spend time with them.”

After the Rams’ Super Bowl victory, McVay was asked whether he would return to Los Angeles in 2022. He responded, “We’ll see.” But less than two weeks after the Super Bowl, McVay told ESPN that he would not be pursuing any television opportunities and would return to coach the Rams.

McVay, who was the youngest head coach in modern NFL history when he was hired by the Rams in 2017 just before his 31st birthday, has led Los Angeles to a 67-41 record in six seasons, including playoffs. His Rams team have won three NFC West titles, two NFC championships and one Super Bowl.

After this season, McVay called his job a “beautiful challenge,” saying, “I wouldn’t change any part of this.”

“The ultimate thing is you want to make … sure that this joy, this zest, this ability to be able to do the things at the level that you know you’re capable of, how do you not let the challenges and the grind and the competitor in you … how do you not let that change the dynamic of who you want to be as a leader in those types of things? And that’s kind of where I’m at.”

Sean McVay's immediate future as the Los Angeles Rams head coach is in limbo, multiple sources told ESPN.https://t.co/sK7YO8Fmf1

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 8, 2023