wv wrote:

Well, the ‘boom-boom sauce’ looks a little hot dont it:

Ingredients

2 bell peppers (red and orange)
2 -3 jalapeno peppers
1 -2 serrano pepper
2 -3 garlic cloves
1 bunch cilantro
1 (4 ounce) canhot chopped green chili peppers
1 (4 ounce) canmild chopped green chili peppers
1 (11 ounce) cancrushed tomatillos
1 (10 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup
1 lb American cheese
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Yeah, prolly don’t mix it with your coffee tho…

I’m all for being competitive, but if intentional, this ain’t cool…

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/bradford-murray-look-sharp-in-eagles-40-17-win-over-ravens/ar-BBm0QAa

Bradford survived a late hit by Terrell Suggs, who lowered his helmet and tackled his knees for a roughing penalty. Bradford also took a hard shot from Brandon Williams and appeared shaken up, but stayed in to complete the drive.

wv wrote:

I have less patience now then I’ve had in a Long time.
It’s year four for Fisher. Lots of high draft picks.
Everyone is healthy. They are playing at home.

I am a tired, old, fed-up fan who will not be satisfied
with any moral victories or “they played Seattle tough” stuff.
Seattle is almost invincible in Seattle but on the road they
can be taken by good teams.

Anything less than a Win over a vulnerable Seattle team
is going to really vex my ass. Fwiw.

w
v

Thats what I meant, maybe not clear enough. I was talking about a W at home, and a W in Seattle. Not a moral victory anywhere.

Had to grin a little, wondering if the post above was penned by wv or RFL. Maybe wRFLv.

I say that in jest, knowing that you are absolutely right. So is RFL. So is anyone else who has followed this team for any length of time, and is just not into the “good effort” lines Monday after Monday after Monday.

Looking back on how long it’s been, I have been following this team for 46 years. I’m not sure I’ve done anything else for 46 years. So there is a reasonable investment on my end.

I too, am becoming more than impatient. I turned the game on last week, and watched maybe the first quarter, then got absorbed in something else that had more command of my attention. I realize that the 1’s came out for only a series or 2, but this has happened more and more, during the regular season as well.

So yes. The time is now.

Yeah, I remember reading this before. And, thinking to myself “This has got to help the Rams D become more disciplined, and start gaining some respectability”.

All the while with this caveat-

Yes, this can be Williams’ downfall when he gets too aggressive in the game plan. That has shown up before when he was coaching in New Orleans. Blitz too much and you can hang your defensive backs out to dry with no help anywhere on the field.

Jim, As always thanks for the chat. Sorry if this was already asked but I have several questions. There’s a certain poster who calls himself Hammer in the Rams forum. He claims to be at most of the Rams practices and he’s adamant that 1) Chris Long is finished. 2) That GRob losing 25 lbs has him being pushed around by even the back up D-linemen. 3) that William Hayes has lost not one, but TWO steps. 4) That Greg Williams has the D blitzing so often that the team can’t work on it’s intermediate to deep passing game. 5) That Tavon Austin looks lost and will continue to be a bust. And 6) That Michael Brockers will never be a good pass rusher because he lacks the “quick twitch” muscles. Any truth to any of these claims or is the guy full of s**t?
by Ron 4:32 PM

Sorry, I’ll pass on this one. We’re all entitled to our opinion.
by jthomas 4:32 PM

Mixed camp reports coming from different sources. This makes me feel better.

I think…

rfl wrote:

Interesting. I think that, if Fish gets his way, we’ll have a power running game AND a passing game that, combined, leave defenses in a bind: come up or get back? That’d be nice!

Yes, that would be nice. 😉 Been a long time, hasn’t it.

Agree with you also on the OL being the biggest unknown. We’ve seen what Foles is capable of, we’ve seen what the RB’s are capable of, not even including what Gurley brings, we’ve seen what the WR’s are capable of. If the OL can pull it together to produce a power running game and a passing game, coupled with a formidable “D”, I dunno, looks like a potential trifecta.

Agamemnon wrote:

I wanted Brockers all along. Boy, did Randy Karraker have a bad reaction to the Rams missing out on Blackmon.

I think I was so fixated on getting a quality receiver for Bradford, nothing else made sense at the time.

Hindsight being what it is, yeah, I guess Brockers turned out OK. 😉

9-7.

Nice, safe, sensible, realistic, sucky, middle-of-the-road pick.

After watching Foles and the new OL this year, maybe that gets jacked up next year to the lofty height of 10-6.

Hard to believe that 10-6 is a desirable goal. Repeated mediocrity does strange things to your mind.

Happy belated Birthday, Mr. Winn

joemad wrote:

Colon cancer….

He was a great Raider.

Yeah, he was. A lotta fun to watch.

You’re obviously using a form of algebra that I am not familiar with. They teach that in Maine?

I do think I get it though.

I think.

I liked reading it. Certain portions made me think of when I played as a youngster. Not comparing myself to him at all, just the good times vs. bad times.

Saturdays were game days. The entire team was upbeat, coaches weren’t screaming at you, there was electricity in the air, everybody had on clean and sharp looking “game” uniforms, there were cheerleaders, spectators… all was good. And that was only a 3 hour blip. And that was it. 3 hours a week.

And then it was back to the practice field. Mondays weren’t too bad, watched film and had a light practice. Fridays were OK also, just walk-throughs. But, Tues., Wed., and Thurs were hell.

No clean uniforms, just the old beat up practice uniforms that stunk cause nobody ever washed them. Coaches had a different mindset, no more uplifting; screaming and berating was the preferred language. There was no lush green grass to play on, instead was the hot old, dusty practice field. One coach actually stopped practice one time to make us look at a bottled water truck driving by, just to remind us how dry and thirsty we were. Another time he made all of us go over to a water faucet, and then he turned it on just enough so that a drop formed every 10-20 seconds. And then he told us to get down on our hands and knees to sniff the water. We couldn’t drink any, we could only smell it. Anyone who moistened their tongue would run laps.

That was the 95% part. The 5% was the good times, the game day, the fun.

I dunno, when I read stuff like this article, I think that we sometimes get so focused on the 5% part of NFL (game days) that we tend to not think so much of the 95% (behind the scenes developments. Business side, contracts, agents, politics).

Ennyway, yeah, I did like the article. Always interesting to me to read what happens, not on game days.

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Late 60’s, George Allen was in a TV commercial for either milk or the American Dairy Association. (I think I read somewhere that his idea of a celebration after a win was to go home to a bowl of ice cream. So there is a plausible tie to the white nectar.) At any rate, the commercial started off by Allen saying something like “Hello. I’m George Allen, Head Coach of the Los Angeles Rams. And these are the helmets of the Fearsome Foursome.” And then the camera panned down to 4 Rams helmets lined up in a row, in a beautiful display of the Blue & Whites . I can’t remember if there was, at that point, a video of the FF in action, coming off a snap and smashing helmets and shoulder pads. Or maybe that came later, toward the end of the commercial. Allen went on to say that he made sure that his players ate healthy during training camp, (with lots of milk) to be sure they played hard. I’m sure I probably have the sequence messed up, and maybe some of the dialogue. But I do remember the commercial, with the reference to the FF helmets, and that unforgettable sound of the helmet and shoulder pad impact, and the visual of them lined up together on a field. One look and an earful of that, and I bit. Thats all it took. Hook, line & sinker. Been that way ever since.

BTW, the pic that Jimi put up a couple of years ago, the one with Bradford handing off to SJ39, both in the Blue and Whites? Mon Dieu, that was a beautiful but cruel tease. Someday, I keep telling myself.

It’s funny, I have tried many times to find that commercial online, but no luck. I can find a stinking George Burns commercial made in 1951 for evaporated milk, but no George Allen, with the Fearsome Foursome and the Blue & White helmets.

(On how much is able to dig deeper into what he likes to do now that he’s entering into his second season with the defense)
“All that stuff is true, but also, ‘How do I not put too much clutter in what they’re thinking about?’ I take a lot of pride in adapting scheme to every team I go to. Every team I’ve gone to, I change the scheme based upon the skillset of the guys that are playing, not what I like calling. It’s what they can do. So, obviously because of understanding what they can do and what they like to do…and the other thing to is you talk to those guys here this offseason, is listen to them take ownership. Listen to them do a lot of the checking and audibling. I’ve given them a lot of tools in their toolbox, but now they understand those tools and they’ll be making calls out on the field that fits their skillset. They’ll stay in the family of the call, but the call has all kinds of adjustments that they can do that fits their skillset. They can do that now because we’ve had all this experience together.”

I’ve heard that’s a good thing. If true.

Wonder how that syncs up with the start of last year? Low sack count, etc?