The 9ers being without Williams is a plus but the issue in this matchup always comes down to the o-line’s ability (or inability) to handle the 9ers defensive front.

I have a similar feeding process when around good seafood.

Zooey wrote:

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

This is about as good as one can feel about a 3rd round Guard, I’d say. I was hoping Cole Strange would drop, but this looks like a good Plan B.

Did you see the vid of the Rams live when NE picked C.Strange? It’s funny.

Yeah. I thought it was funny, too, and I don’t think there was any offense, intentional or unintentional. There are always quality players who slip, and nobody knows in advance who they are going to be, so even at 104, the Rams were going to be studying dozens of players who might be pegged to go higher. I mean…you don’t eliminate the top 100, or even the top 50 players from your reports. Strange was evidently a guy they really liked who is from a smaller college, and could conceivably have gone undrafted until 104. There wasn’t any disrespect in any word those guys said about it. And this year, nobody even knew who the top 10 were gonna be. I thought it was funny, and I thought the Heist trailer was funny, and I think the Rent-a-Mansion is funny, and it looks like everybody is having a good time, so fuck the haters. Whatever.

When the video went viral McVay phoned Belicheat to tell him he meant no disrespect to the Patriots’ coaches or Strange.

But IMO he really did.

Billy_T wrote:

I think the main problem is that too many Americans don’t get that democracy and capitalism are in direct opposition, and always will be. They’re permanently incompatible. Far too many seem to believe the two are natural fits, while some even believe the former can thrive when the latter is in place.

I know some people who think capitalism and democracy are synonymous – two words that mean the same thing.  To reverse that, you’d have to overcome a century and a half of programming.  Programming that stresses individualistic “self-made” fallacies that people are immersed in not only at work, but at church, school, in the media – everywhere.

Not sure how you change that.  Certainly not at the voting booth.

The First Amendment limits the government’s ability to “abridge” speech.  There are no such restrictions on what Corporations can do.  They can do whatever they want.

InvaderRam wrote:

zn wrote:

Les Snead has $7M of cap to work with

and i’m assuming they’ll have even more space if they extend donald?

Baseball?

Is that still a thing?

I lost interest when the Pirates traded away Andy Van Slyke…

Zooey wrote:

You know what’s funny? I mean, first class comedy? Seattle cut Bobby Wagner for cap reasons, and the Rams – Reigning Super Bowl Champs – signed him. That’s hilarious.

I applaud your brave front.

I know how much you must be hurting on the inside.

Laugh clown. Laugh.

zn wrote:

the TOP FIVE teams in the NFC right now

As long as they remain healthy, I think the Rams might be better this season than last.  The Bucs haven’t beaten the Rams since Brady’s been there.  What has changed this year to make them better than the Rams?

I think the Vikings might be better than the Cards now that they have a good offensive coach in O’Connell.  Lots of talent on that offense.  I’m not sure the Packers are that good anymore.  They have no one at receiver.  I could see them finishing behind the Vikings.

zn wrote:

Yes. He was kicked off the team because he attended a civil rights protest. The only place that would take him after that was Miss. Vocational College.

Yes but what is rarely talked about is that Deacon was a Klan member and was there as a counter protester.

Yeah, a lot of things have to go right for it to work.

Most importantly you have to draft well on the second day.

zn wrote:

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Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue

Had heard the Rams at least explored what was possible here and I wouldn’t rule them out from continuing to assess their options in adding a pass-rusher, whether in coming days or later in the league year (like June, for example). Am reminded their aggressive move here last season didn’t come until November.

That’s how I see it too.  The Rams will trade for Von Miller again in November.

I agree.

Texas dismissing criminal charges due to lack of evidence was all the GMs had to hear to start lining up to bid on him.

In rape/sexual assault cases there usually isn’t a lot of evidence.  It almost always comes down to ‘he said v she said’.  Not finding sufficient evidence shouldn’t surprise anybody.

But he was accused by 22 women.   That carries no weight with the NFL apparently.

As pathetic as it sounds, for several years he was the best player on the team.

Zooey wrote:

I don’t need Deshaun Watson on the Seahawks.

Watson in Seattle doesn’t bother me.

He’s just a younger, rape-ier, version of Russell Wilson.

And the Rams beat him as a matter of routine.