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— Brianna Westbrook (@BWestbrookAZ8) September 29, 2019

I understand why some people don’t see the point of impeaching Trump when there’s little chance of him being removed from office.

Polls show that less than half of the country wants him to be impeached. The same was true for Clinton’s impeachment and it backfired on the Republicans. His approval rating shot up to 60% as a result. Impeachment could be the best thing that could happen to Trump.

zn wrote:

Tampa has a tough run defense. They’re 2nd in the league in yards per run allowed. SF got 98 yards on them in 32 carries, and SF is 4th in the league rushing. McCaffrey got 37 yards on them in 16 carries one week after running all over the Rams. They held the Giants to 72 yards on 19 carries.

They don’t have a good pass defense. It’s a hair or 2 below average in terms of yards, but they are 10th in sacks.

The Rams have a pretty good yds/carry average. Tampa’s been great at stopping the run. I suppose Tampa will try to stop the run and force Goff to shoulder the load without the advantage of play action. It seems doable. The Bucs have a good defensive front led by Suh, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the offense continues to struggle a little this week.

Winston is dangerous but erratic. I’m pretty confident that Wade’s defense will confound and harass him the whole game.

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

I disagree with Bate and Ruiz.More and more these national writers that don’t actually follow the Rams they write from a fantasy owner standpoint which isn’t relative. Ruiz doesn’t even mention that we are three games into a season in which the entire interior OL is in the first year starting. Higbee and Blythe not playing, Woods Cooks and Gurley all having uncharacteristic drops. The running game was doing next to nothing till the second half adjustment when they ran it up the middle then surprise surprise the passing game opened up. I am not saying that Goff has been perfect but he’s 3-0 including 2 3000 mile road trips against a very tough schedule so to say he’s not executing and it’s all on him,
that’s just over the top sillinous .

I agree for the most part.

However, it is true that Goff hasn’t looked comfortable in the pocket since after the Chiefs game. He hasn’t had a great game from start to finish since then. He’s had stretches during games where he looked totally in command, but in almost every game since KC he’s had long stretches where he’s looked lost.

I think there are a lot of mitigating factors (poor protection at times, lack of running game, etc) and I’m not worried yet, but so far this season he looks like he’s regressed. He’s having accuracy issues and seems to be struggling reading defenses. I think opponents have discovered what he doesn’t do well and are taking advantage of it.

But he’s only 6 months older than Baker Mayfield. He’s still very young. He’ll learn. What are weaknesses in his game now will become strengths. I fully expect him to return to the elite level of play we saw against the Vikings and Chiefs.

First PFF says this…

“Goff rarely pushed the ball downfield and struggled to create enough big plays through the air to put the Browns away earlier in the game.”

Then they immediately say this in the next paragraph….

“Cooper Kupp was the main target man, as the Browns played with two deep safeties for the majority of the game and allowed the Rams slot receiver to take advantage in the middle of the field.”

They answered their own question as to why Goff wasn’t “pushing the ball down the field” and didn’t even realize it.

Given how we already look at the poor of other nations as animals and are trying to build a wall to keep them out, there is little hope that we will respond humanely when whole populations of them are forced to move as climate change progresses.

wv wrote:

Zooey wrote:

I’m sorry, but the second somebody utters the phrase “progress them forward,” I’m out.

I can put up with a lot of things, but you may not tarnish the English language without consequence.

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Demoff might be regressing them backwards.

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I wish he would regress them onward.

Larry should be in the Hall based on his numbers and reputation with former players.

Hell, if John Hannah calls you the best, that should be enough for anyone.

zn wrote:

Report: Antonio Brown harasses latest accuser via text message

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/report-antonio-brown-harasses-latest-accuser-via-text-message/ar-AAHz1Ha

Antonio Brown may have crossed the line, as far as the NFL and the Patriots are concerned.

Robert Klemko of SI.com reports that Brown has sent harassing text messages to the unnamed accuser who shared allegations with Klemko regarding Brown’s behavior after Brown hired her to paint a mural at his house.

“I’m on my knees painting the [mural], and he walks up to me butt-ass naked, with a hand cloth covering his [penis] and starts having a conversation with me,” the woman told Klemko. “Unfortunately, I’ve been tried [by men] a lot of times, so I just kept my cool and kept painting. After that, it all ended abruptly.”
Brown reportedly has sent a group text message to the woman, accusing her of fabricating a “bull sh-t” story in an effort to “make up some stuff for money.” He also called her a “super broke girl with a lot of kids,” and he encouraged someone to whom Brown refers as “Eric B” to investigate her in order to “see how broke this girl is.”

Brown also sent a screen shot of an Instagram photo of the woman’s children, adding that the woman is “awfully broke clearly.”
On Thursday night, the woman’s lawyer sent a letter to the NFL explaining that Brown is “intimidating and threatening . . . our client, in violation of the NFL Personal Conduct Policy.”

“Our client . . . is understandably frightened by these text messages, which are clearly intended to threaten and intimidate her,” attorney Lisa J. Banks wrote. “While she certainly qualifies as a ‘starving artist,’ she has never approached Mr. Brown, nor will she, about seeking money to compensate her for his sexual misconduct, contrary to his allegations in the text messages.”

Amazingly, Brown’s lawyer was included in the group texts. Darren Heitner tells Klemko that Heitner did not advise Brown to communicate with the woman.
The league responded to the letter within an hour. Investigators will speak to the woman’s lawyers about the situation.

“This sort of intimidation and harassment is the reason victims are often so reluctant to step forward in these cases,” Banks told Klemko. “We have confidence the NFL and the Patriots will step in and end this behavior.”

The Personal Conduct Policy expressly prohibits “talking, harassment, or similar forms of intimidation.” The fact that the behavior has been directed at a woman who has made allegations regarding misconduct makes the situation even worse for Brown. Employers routinely take swift and decisive action against employees who are accused of misconduct and who harass or intimidate those who have made the accusations.

The Patriots, who like any NFL team wouldn’t have signed Brown if they’d known about the sexual assault and rape lawsuit that was filed last week, likewise have not been inclined to terminate the relationship based solely on uncorroborated allegations in a civil action. If Brown sent these messages to a woman who chimed in with her own allegations of misconduct by Brown, that gives the Patriots a much more tangible basis for severing ties with Brown.

Regardless of what the Patriots do, the league can take action against Brown. The aggressive and angry response directed to an accuser could be enough, for example, to cause the Commissioner to believe that Brown “may have violated” the Personal Conduct Policy as to Britney Taylor, justifying immediate placement of Brown on the Commissioner-Exempt list.

However it plays out, Brown apparently has committed yet another serious error of judgment, one that has placed his current employment in real jeopardy.

Brown unabashedly harassed this women via group text – he even included the victim’s lawyer in the group.

He has the arrogance of someone who believes they are untouchable. Gotti/Trump level arrogance.

But in his case he’s also delusional because he can be touched. I hope the league suspends him.

If the Rams don’t win this game by at least two touchdowns, then that’s a signal to light the torches and march on Castle Kroenke.

It’s bad enough that Vegas slapped the Rams and their fans across the face with that minuscule “3 point favorite” crap.

But to not win handily against a team with a QB named “Baker Mayfield”?…there are no words.

Zooey wrote:

Especially after they march into Seattle next week and beat Nittany’s favorite team back to the Stone Age.

Fat chance they beat my Seah… er, I mean Geaux Saints!

Rams defense dominated. Rams offense is showing life.

Saints Super Bowl window likely closed.

wv wrote:

You people dont know it, but wv-ram wears a lot of vests.

At the same time?

zn wrote:

The name doesn’t matter it’s the policies. When arguing with folks stress that. The Nazis sided against unions, cooperated with capitalists, and declared “the bolsheviks” their great political enemy. Doesn’t matter if the person you’re debating keeps saying “but this one goes to 11.” Ask them to name one single socialist policy the Nazis backed or implemented.

In my experience, most of them wouldn’t know what a socialist policy was. They don’t know what socialism is. They think they do, but all they really know is the caricature of socialism portrayed by Fox News and Limbaugh.

Billy_T wrote:

Zooey wrote:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-hails-firing-of-john-bolton-he-was-fundamentally-a-man-of-the-left

This is the political climate we live in. A country where one-third of the population gets spoonfed absolute nonsense.

Up until roughly 20 years ago, this was fringe-right-wing nonsense. Now it’s mainstream right-wing nonsense. I bump into it all the time.

There’s a range, of course. From right-wing pundits who know better, but spread it anyway . . . to the rank and file who really believe it now. They apparently actually believe it’s impossible for right-wingers to be in charge of totalitarian systems, or for those systems to be right-wing. They see “fascism” and nazism” as left-wing, even though virtually no one did at the time these systems were in place . . . and when this is brought up to them, they dismiss or ignore the facts. They also dismiss or ignore the fact that all the resistance movements in Europe were led by leftists, and that fascists and nazis started to wipe out their leftist enemies even before they went after the Jews.

I’m currently rereading 1984. This is a replay of “those who own the present, own the past,” etc. etc. They’ve rewritten it to suit their beliefs. They’ve convinced themselves that “big government” is always already “leftist,” even though “conservatism,” going back thousands of years, entailed a massive, generally oppressive “state.” Or a massive, oppressive Church/State nexus, etc.

Right-wing ideology has always been extremely comfortable with Big Gubmint and authoritarian systems. Ironically, it’s “the left” that traditionally fought against them.

I’m constantly fighting the “the Nazis were socialist because ‘Socialist’ is in the name” battle with my brother.