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  • in reply to: setting up Rams/9ers #145374
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    Cameron DaSilva@camdasilva
    – Bosa: 6.5 sacks in last 5 vs. Rams – McCaffrey: 291 yards rushing, 225 yards receiving, 4 TDs in 3 games vs. Rams – Deebo: 532 yards receiving, 149 yards rushing, 6 TDs in last 6 vs. Rams Those 3 are a problem for LA this week

    too bad that the Rams couldn’t seal a trade deal for McCaffrey last year.  He’s been a big help for SF and for Brock Purdy…..

    Brock Purdy is a very good nimble accurate QB and is 6-0 when he completes a game.

    Rams need to pressure him early and hard.

    Stafford was great last week in Seattle; he had time to throw. Need to keep that SF DL off his back this Sunday. As great as the Rams looked last week in Seattle, SF killed Seattle last year in the playoffs and laid 41 points on them.

    in reply to: our reactions to the Seattle game #145200
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    Preseason don’t mean jack…

    68% 3rd down conversion rate is GSOT

    Total 2nd half domination

    sweet win!

    another road game next week in LA …..bring on SF

     

    in reply to: around the league #145158
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    in reply to: Kupp: injury setback #145142
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    Kupp is out in week 1

    it wasn’t long ago when the Rams had depth at WR.

    Kupp, Woods, Cooks, Josh Reynolds, etc…..

    Now it’s time for Van Jefferson,  Skowronek  to step up…. … Tutu and Puka need to grow up fast.

     

    in reply to: the roster #145076
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    Other than AD , the Rams have a no name defense.

    kicker.. Robbie Gould is still unsigned

     

     

     

    in reply to: Rams trade for Steelers OL #145061
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    Dotson was the physical guard they wanted but the inconsistency ultimately was his biggest issue. Dotson committed 12 penalties a year ago including four false starts and four holding calls that frustrated Pittsburgh.

    I’ll take it…. … last year the OL also committed penalties without being physical.

    Stafford was sacked 29 times in 9 games last year… (over 3 sacks per game)

     

    in reply to: all reactions, Raiders pre-season game #144965
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    Jourdan Rodrique…. writes good articles

     

    i don’t sit and watch preseason games in great detail like Mike Franke did, but this Rivers guy has caught my attention the past 2 weeks. 4.7 and 5 yards per carry. I also read that this guy won 1/2 a million with a lucky poker hand.

     

     

    Should be mentioned: Third-string running back Ronnie Rivers followed an impressive first preseason game with another strong performance against the Raiders. Rivers cleaved out runs of six, seven and six yards on the Rams’ opening drive and many times when he was substituted, the run game seemed to stall. It’s still unknown whether the Rams will keep three or four running backs on their 53-man roster, and rookie Zach Evans has draft pick status. But Rivers will not go quietly, nor should he.

     

     

    in reply to: Rams/Raiders, Saturday 9/19 at 6 pt 9 et #144928
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    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.

     

     

    in reply to: right-wing organizations #144906
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    Eastman clerked for that venal Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas….  those think tanks are all intertwined, and they got people in key places to implement their diabolical plans…..

    right-wing tanks are good at execution.

    let’s hope that the Jan 6th court cases expose all this fraud.

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    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…..

     

    in reply to: right-wing organizations #144871
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    interesting. ..   The Clairmont Institute was founded by four students, who attended Clairmont College’s Poli Sci classes, taught by Emeritus professor Harry V. Jaffa, who was on Barry Goldwater’s staff in the 1960s.  The article states that the Clairmont Institute is not affiliated with Clairmont College, but in essence, it is. It was spawned at Clairmont College.

    BTW, John Eastman, the guy who orchestrated the idea of the Jan 6 coup by rejecting the Electoral College vote was the Dean of Law at Chapman University.

    These So Cal / Orange County schools have administrations with this ideology.  My middle kid recently graduated from Chapman and my niece graduated from Harvey Mudd (Clairmont School).

    I kept complaining to Chapman as to what took them so long to dump Eastman. I wanted my tuition money back; the Dean of Law is a fucking fraud, and that’s who’s running these colleges.  Eastman shouldn’t be teaching law anywhere and he was the Dean of Law… that fucker shouldn’t be teaching anywhere and should be thrown in prison.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    in reply to: Marc Bulger Reflects On His Career #144826
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    That was a great segment

    in reply to: thotz on how good or bad the defense can be #144771
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    I’m worried about the defense…

    7 of the 8 top tacklers for LA in 2022 are no longer playing for the Rams defense.

    A lot of good tacklers on this list that the Rams need to replace.

    Wagner  81 solo   140 combo

    Ramsey 53 solo    88 combo

    Rapp     58 solo    92 combo

    Nick Scott   56 solo   86 combo

    Leonard Floyd   31 solo  59 Combo…

    That’s a big gap to fill……   Raheem better have some good tackling drills this summer.

     

    Trivia, the Rams kept 1 of their top 8 tacklers from 2022…  Name that player… and it ain’t AD.

     

    in reply to: Stafford #144581
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    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.

    in reply to: ‘the drive’ #144590
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    1999 Rams

    • 3rd down conversion rate = 47% (46.9%) highest in NFL
    • 3rd down attempts = 194….. 2nd lowest in the league, that means they were moving the chains before getting t0 3rd down.
    • scored points on 40% (39.9%) of their drives
    • 60 punts the entire season, (least amount in NFL)

    URL  = 1999 NFL Standings & Team Stats | Pro-Football-Reference.com (pro-football-reference.com)

     

     

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    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 reply to: Stafford #144544
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    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!!!!!

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    Not so sure I agree. Coming from behind against SF in the NFC game, in the 4th quarter Stafford went 14 of 17 for 121 yds. for 3 scores including a TD. They scored on all 3 4th quarter possessions. That’s against the NFL’s 3rd ranked defense that year.

     

    Thank goodness the SF safety J Tart dropped a sure pick in the 4th qtr of the NFC Championship.

    Dec 2021 vs Vikes. 46 passer rating with 3 picks…. no pick 6’s that day, but very close as the 2nd int was returned to the 2 yard line that resulted in a Vikes TD.

    1 week later in Baltimore, 2 ints and a fumble.

    BTW, both those games were great road wins in spite of the elite play of #9.

    I like Stafford, but OBJ and the defense was a big part of the SB run.

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    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.

     

     

     

     

    in reply to: JackPMiller’s NFL Regular Season Predictions #144516
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    the first question I asked my ChatGPT app was …. “how many games will the Los Angeles Rams win in 2023?

    it generated reasons why it could not provide me with a prediction.  “it’s best to follow the latest updates and predictions from sports analysts for the most accurate information”….

    I think I need to feed my CHATGPT with some Jack P Miller data….

     

     

     

    in reply to: NPR today…which becomes the garden thread #144394
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    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!

     

    in reply to: NPR today…which becomes the garden thread #144389
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    Zooey, what are you growing in the garden while listening to the radio?

    Thanks goodness for the rains this past year…. I haven’t grown any veggies the past two seasons…. this year i have a nice plot growing.

    BTW: Giants in LA this weekend.

     

     

     

     

    in reply to: Jim Fadler says hi (he posts in this thread) #143989
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    jimi,……. i hope that you still have time for trout fishing……

     

     

    in reply to: The Rams they are a-changin… w/ a big 10/5 update #143247
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    Cash / cap moves… it’s been a great 5 year run.. this management / coaching approach isn’t going to win the division every year, but can contend for a playoff spot, once in the playoffs anything can happen…

    in reply to: Rams release Bobby Wagner #143041
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    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

     

     

     

     

    in reply to: divisional round aftermath & setting up conference games #142828
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    Billy T, i think you expand the rosters…

    regarding the back up play, specifically at QB, e.g.,  Josh Johnson, Perkins, John Wolford etc….  the level of play from these guys just considerably tails off.

    If i was Kapernick’s agent, or Bradford’s agent, Newton, Henne, Fitzpatick et al.  or any seasoned QB in their 30’s, I’d campaign to get better QB depth signed to rosters.

     

    in reply to: divisional round aftermath & setting up conference games #142821
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    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.

     

     

     

    in reply to: divisional round aftermath & setting up conference games #142744
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    Van Brocklin, Roman, Bradford, Foles… ex Ram QBs that played in Philly. Go Eagles.

    forgot Jaws….

    in reply to: divisional round aftermath & setting up conference games #142743
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    Van Brocklin, Roman, Bradford, Foles… ex Ram QBs that played in Philly.

    Go Eagles.

     

     

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