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ParticipantJohn Robinson’s 80’s lines were also very good and underrated. Doug Smith, Jackie Slater, Irv Pankey, Kent Hill, Dennis Harrah and Tom Newberry (Kent Hill too) They also had tight ends that could block too….
February 10, 2015 at 5:47 pm in reply to: Ed Sabol NFL Films founder RIP …..NFL Films meant so much to me as a kid….. #18295joemad
Participant<P>Ten to Fifteen channels?!<BR>Man, you had it made.<BR>We got 3 channels, with the rooftop antenna.</P>
<P>Wv, I think I had you beat. Most days, we got 5 channels, some days 6, but the 6th channel wasn’t worth watching.</P>
this brought a smile to my face….. do your guys remember UHF and VHF channels???/
growing up in Santa Clara in the early 70’s we got the SF stations, local San Jose stations, and Monterrey/Salinas, ..then my oldest brother who is a big 49er fan convinces my dad to allow him to put up the rotor antenna on the roof to get the 49er games telecast out of Chico, CA because the home games were blacked out locally……. my brother would point the antenna north to try to get the Chico, CA, (I still remember, Chico Ch. 12 used to be a CBS affiliate) If the weather was good, we’d get a decent display of the game, you’d sacrifice picture quality for TV audio, no worries, game was on the radio…. the rotor antenna gave us Stockton/ Sacramento channels too.
because of all that TV antenna positioning I experienced as a kid, I’m still somewhat obsessed with antenna TV… I have a small flat screen out in the shed and play with antenna positioning to this day although the range is not as good because the digital signal these days does not travel as far as the old analog signals.
BTW, none of these channels used broadcast 24 hours…
Test Pattern, with US National Anthem sign-off….
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February 10, 2015 at 12:04 pm in reply to: Insider Buzz: NFL Teams Want Sam Bradford, If Released, over Mariota & Winston #18272joemad
ParticipantRams have to keep him, they have no other option at this position.
joemad
ParticipantWell I hope you see this soon, Joe, because I personally am saddened by the idea that an honest (if dumb) mistake by me makes you think even for a bit that people on this board would mess with you or screw around with a post.
yes, it’s all good…. I knew it was an honest mistake……
joemad
Participant<DIV class=d4p-bbt-quote-title>zn wrote:</DIV>
<P>The Giants were not 1-3 when Warner was benched, they were 5-4. Correct, the G-men had a terrible line. </P><P>Yeah sorry I just put that wrong. I meant to say they had gone 1-3 in their last 4 games when they benched him.</P>
<P>I read up on that year because the issue came up so much in discussions. </P>
<P>The best thing I read on it went on about how the Giants OL had fallen apart. </P>
<P>Though it is also true that after 2002 Warner was not quite the same until the glove. </P>Hey, somebody hijacked my post… I know my diction is not the best and can use some edits from time to time….. but I’m not wrong!!!
joemad
Participantzn wrote:
But he didn’t elevate them…in fact he started going backwards. They were 1-3 when the benched him. The thing was, the NY OL was a wreck. He kept trying to hold the ball to make plays and the result was massive fumbling (he still hadn’t figured out about the glove yet).
The Giants were not 1-3 when Warner was benched, they were 5-4. Correct, the G-men had a terrible line.
He started off 0-3 because of his turnovers.
Correct, he did have a ton of turnovers, but that’s not why they lost the 1st game of the season vs Denver.
Naked Link URL = http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WarnKu00.htm
joemad
Participantthe 5 years thing is a bit over done… started off 0-3 in 2002 because Martz was an idiot.
Warner was sacked 9 times in the 1st 3 games of the 2002 season, not to mention he was hit like crazy. .. I think he suffered both a broken hand and concussion vs NYG…. Finally got knocked out vs Dallas that season when Jaime Martin came in for relief duty…
In NYG, Warner was purposely acquired to groom Eli Manning … Warner in NYG was 5-4 as a starter…..Giants ended up finishing 6-10 that season, so either he elevated a very lousy Giants team or Eli sucked badly his rookie year.
Warner’s overall playoff record: 9-4,
1-3 in the Super Bowl, SB 96.7 passer rating, had a 112 rating with Arizona in the Super Bowl loss to Pittsburgh.
3-0 in NFC Championship games.
too bad Greg Williams and bounty gate ended his career…
bottom line: Warner took 2 perennial losing franchises to the Super Bowl. The Cardinals hadn’t won a home playoff game since 1947 when the Cards finally won a home playoff game with Warner. Jimmy Hart, Neil Lomax, Jake Plummber couldn’t do that
Not many QBs have thrown TDs passes in the Super Bowl for 2 different teams either..Warner should’ve got in 1st ballot. Martz and STL should not have given up on Warner…. very stupid move…. almost as dumb as running Jerome Bettis out of town to pick up Lawrence Phillips…..
joemad
ParticipantSeahawks fan reaction thoughout game.
Seattle fans reaction of the game as it plays out……..it is 10 min long, but covers the highs and lows of the game….. ff to the last 2 minutes……. listen to what the fans are chanting right before the final Seahawks offensive play…..
heartbreaker….thankfully no one recorded me after SB 36………..we Ram fans somewhat understand the pain….
joemad
ParticipantI think almost every Ram fan that saw that final offensive play by Seattle initially thought San Diego…… “Russell Wilson just “Shawn Hilled” it”
but yes, different circumstances with similar season ending heartbreaking results….
New England dominated that game in the 1st half and 4th quarter……. Seattle was lucky to be in position to win that game….
it was one entertaining Super Bowl…….
joemad
ParticipantFor me all of this is completely dependent on personnel.
That’s just how I tend to see it.
Yep, you can be the most competitive guy on the field but without talented personnel it’s tough to win consistently
January 30, 2015 at 5:09 pm in reply to: Can the Patz beat the Hawkz? For that matter…can the Hawkz beat the Patz? #17700joemad
Participanti’m rooting for Seattle, but I think New England is going to kick some ass and win big…. please note, I thought Denver would win big last year…..
ZN, regarding Navy Blue’s….. Rams are a healthy QB away from that……
joemad
Participantthe Rams scored 28 points in this game… only Dallas scored more against Seattle this season.
Beast Mode only rushed for 50+ yards this game….maybe because the Seahawks were forced to play catch – up….
I vote for ST coach Fassel as the next Rams OC……
January 30, 2015 at 10:51 am in reply to: 101, 1/26 … Albert Breer on re-location (re-location thread) #17665joemad
ParticipantIf I am going to sell my ’65 Mustang, and I’ve given you the right to be the first one to make an offer, and you offer me $7K on a car worth $20K hoping that I like you and will settle for something in between…well, I don’t know if you get to be pissed off at me when I put it on Craigslist for $20K and stop taking your phone calls
Just curious… is it a fastback? in fairness to Dak, if it’s coup, 7K is in the ballpark…….
January 29, 2015 at 2:39 pm in reply to: 101, 1/26 … Albert Breer on re-location (re-location thread) #17641joemad
ParticipantBut…you started the relationship story without<BR>an analogy about how the girlfriend got to St.Louis<BR>in the first place….. take the story back to 1994, 1993, etc.
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<P>w<BR>v</P>consider the relationship was with Georgia Geiger Johnson Hayes Wyler Rosenbloom Frontier, but she didn’t formally take husband #7s name Weathermax…..
Now Stan wants to return Georgia’s step child back home to So Cal….. where the step son stated, (a step son whom the step mother FIRED)……. “””””Steve Rosenbloom, the general manager of the team during Carroll Rosenbloom’s tenure, opined that teams come and go, but for a team to leave Los Angeles—the second largest media market in America—for St. Louis—approximately the 18th-largest—was simply irresponsible and foolish.”””””
Georgis’s husbands;
Francis J. Geiger
Bruce B. Johnson
Wallace Hayes
William J. Wyler
Carroll Rosenbloom
Dominic Frontier
Earle Weatherwaxi’m ok with the analogy…. the boyfriend promised the girl via contract, that “I shall give you the top 5% stadium to live and play in”… but the boyfriend never made an effort to do so….. The Girl was contractually promised to live on Park Place or at least the Pennsylvania Ave of the NFL Monopoly board, but ended up on Baltic Avenue……
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Participantthe Rams took 3 tough torpedo’s to the hull this season.
1) in Cleveland in preseason when Bradford got hurt…
2) vs Vikings in week 1 that washed anytype of continuity at QB…..
3) This Hill Int in San Diego….sunk the ship for the season…“B4” “HIT, YOU SUNK MY BATTLE SHIP!!!!!””” Game… set… match……
joemad
Participant<DIV class=d4p-bbt-quote-title>joemad wrote:</DIV>
<P>The bogus offensive Pass Interference call on Dane Cook in the 2nd qtr was a huge momentum turner in that game……Rams should have had 1st and 10 just outside the redzone with about 3 minutes before half that could have extended the 14-3 lead………. , instead, the Rams were forced to punt that set up JJ’s brain freeze on the Niner’s TD right before halftime….</P><P>Well, sure. We’ve seen a lot of lousy officiating. Losing teams always do.</P>
<P>But here’s the thing. To earn beneficial officiating a team has to … start winning. And it has to do that BEFORE it starts getting good calls. This is a universal principle of sports. To be winners, a team must overcome bad officiating. Hell, even winners get bad calls.</P>
<P>This is the thing about our lack of competitiveness. When we get a bad break, we fold. We just collapse. You know, these big plays against us on D–they didn’t decide the game. They just faced us with adversity which we have consistently proved unable to overcome. You know that feeling we all get–one play and we feel it slide away? We feel that because it keeps happening. Indeed, the fact that one could say that a bad break in the 2nd Q could cause us to lose … that whole idea rests on the assumption that we would be unable to overcome it in a whole half of football. A correct assumption, BTW.</P>
<P>See, winners don’t think that way. They absorb blows, limit the damage, and figure how to win. That’s what it means to be a winner. You don’t let bad calls in the 2nd Q crush you. </P>yes, I understand about the need of overcoming adversity and bad officiating…. But it’s tough to do with a 3rd string QB or a QB that has been a journeyman back up most of his career…(not to mention with the youngest roster in the league) There is a reason why those guys are 3rd string or journeyman back ups,,…..You can’t necessarily blame that on coaching, because based on the data the RAMS had in preseason, they chose the most optimal route.
1) You had a ROY QB coming off his best season before he got hurt in Carolina in 2013…. A QB that also played well in 2012….
what did you want the Rams to do to prep for a 2nd ACL injury on their starting QB in 2014 that would have prevented this?…sign Mark Sanchez instead of Hill? Draft Manziel? what would you have done different?If you think they couldn’t overcome adversity this season, they did a few weeks later in Santa Clara against this same SF team…..
You can’t say that a team playing with 2nd stringer and 3rd QBs while missing Chris Long that defeated Denver, Seattle, and SF, lacks competitiveness…..they certainly didn’t win those games based on talent, but maybe it was coaching.
joemad
ParticipantThe bogus offensive Pass Interference call on Dane Cook in the 2nd qtr was a huge momentum turner in that game……Rams should have had 1st and 10 just outside the redzone with about 3 minutes before half that could have extended the 14-3 lead………. , instead, the Rams were forced to punt that set up JJ’s brain freeze on the Niner’s TD right before halftime….
joemad
ParticipantVermiel says
1. He told the 99 team they could go to the superbowl the 1st Monday meeting after the famous SF game.
2. He thinks the GSOT could take this year’s Seattle defense. In fact he says “no question.”maybe….this year’s Rams beat Seattle…… Tampa’s defense was good, but Shawn King was no Russell Wilson…..Mike Alstott and Warrick Dunn were not as good a Lynch…..
January 27, 2015 at 1:29 pm in reply to: a few drinks under my belt I went over to bill walsh and interrupted his dinner #17483joemad
Participantthat is a cool story.
When I was a kid in HS, I worked at Santa Clara University in the school cafeteria after school and during the summers. I worked there from my sophomore year in HS until my Jr year in college….looking back, it was a very fun job…… I have tons of party stories about that place……I will never forget the Benson Cafeteria, nor the surrounding campus dorms….
Anyway, in 1979 and 1980, the 49ers held training camp at SCU and I got the catering gig one summer……. We were not allowed to speak to the players nor coaches but I did talk to Charlie Young on a regular basis, and OJ Simpson came up to me looking for his keys to his car…… “Hey kid, keys don’t just get up and walk away!”
Charlie Young very nice, I had to make a blended drink for him after every meal, (eggs, bananas, low fat milk, OJ (the orange juice, not Mr. Simpson) and some fruitcose powder)…..
Bill Walsh was very kind but quiet…….. They were not a very good team back then.
joemad
Participantget well soon Mac….. stay hydrated.
joemad
ParticipantI like Richard Sherman’s comment about the man-love and conflict of interest between Kraft and Goodell.
yes, Sherman nailed it.
joemad
ParticipantWell, I am not persuaded.
For one thing, I think that view minimizes the “Bill Walsh is an Offensive Genius” factor.
A lot of what Montana did was because Walsh designed such a magnificent offense.
I suspect if you put Russell Wilson on that 49er team, nothing much changes.
Who knows though.
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vMontana went to the Championship game in Kansas City and was a concussion away from the Super Bowl that year, and that was without Bill Walsh.
it took Steve Young, (who I think is better than Russell Wilson) some salary cap magic, border line cheating from Carmen Policy to get Steve Young to the Super Bowl.Montana was a great QB………
I like Wilson, but he was drafted on pretty complete Seahawks teams. You have to consider that even Charlie Whitehurst won playoff games with Seattle.
joemad
Participantif Lynch and Seattle doesn’t rush for 194 yards….
if the FG holder doesn’t throw the Seahawks’ first TD pass of the game
if Bostek blocks on the on-side kick instead of pulling a bill buckner
if the hail mary duck is not completed on the 2 point conversion
if Seattle’s defense doesn’t hold Green Bay to 16 points after 4 turnovers in the first half.
we’d be talking about Wilson’s actual passer rating of 44, with a 50% completion rate, with 4 INTS (and that’s including the last 4 minutes of the game.)
If Dieter Brock had this support in 1985, he’d be a Super Bowl QB and there’d be no 85 Bears.
All these steps above needed to happen to dig Seattle out of the hole that Russell Wilson put them in to have this consideration.
joemad
ParticipantMy response: Integrity of the game? What integrity? It’s played by a bunch of malcontent, maladjusted, violent thugs for the most part who are druggies, rapists, murderers, spousal abusers, on and on.
And we love the game because the uniforms hide it all.yes, but these charges you note (unless it’s enhancement drugs) do not affect the integrity of the game, meaning it doesn’t give the team or player an edge….
NFL Arrest data base = http://www.utsandiego.com/nfl/arrests-database/
outside of Quinn, Trumain Johnson, Dunbar (charges dropped) the Rams are goodie 2 shoes…… I don’t count pot arrests, since it’s legal in 2 states and consider the physical punishment that these players take, i’d give them pass to hit the bong once in awhile.
joemad
Participant<P>All of that said, cheating is still cheating. The Colts were playing by the rules, and they also were trying to get to the Super Bowl.</P>
Baltimore was also trying to get to the Super Bowl and only lost by 4… you can’t help but think that those balls most likely weighed 2 lbs PSI less in the 2nd half against the Ravens when the Pats offense got hot.
joemad
ParticipantHappy Birthday RM….
BTW, is pickem pool ready for next week???? haha.
have a great one!
joemad
ParticipantSeems to me that Bill Belichick is a habitual cheater….. .. Like I said on this thread earlier, Carroll (especially back at USC) and Belichick push the envelope to get away with all they can.. no coincendence that their teams are #1 and #2 respectively in penalties this year… they’re only flagged when they get caught.
deflating balls………I see this like a pitcher doctoring a baseball, you get suspended for pulling that shit.
joemad
Participant;Actually my guy @kurt13warner didn’t tamper w the footballs because he wore gloves. Used to irritate me..So correction, almost all QBs!
1) Maybe Leinart did this at USC with cheating Pete Carroll
2) If Leinart did this in the NFL, it certainly didn’t help him.I think all this talk is firing up New England… I think they’re going to cream Seattle. R. Wilson played like crap last week……
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ParticipantI heard that the 12th ball was the punter’s ball and filled with helium at 15 lbs PSI.
joemad
ParticipantWell, i dunno. The post spygate team went 16-0. And came within a miracle throw/catch
of going 19-0 and beating the Giants to win it all.I just cant minimize that kind of excellence.
I do enjoy loathing them, though.
But i cant dismiss them as ‘cheaters.’w
vBut when you win…errr out score your opponent in 3 Super Bowls by 3 points vs the Rams, Panthers, and Eagles, all it takes in ONE 3rd stop in each game to make a difference in the game. If you have illegal tapes to help your defense make that 3rd down stop, you win, err outscore your opponent.
I wonder if Brady benefited from deflated football vs the Ravens last week? 1st time all year, the Raven allowed someone to throw for over 400 yards….
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