Billy_T wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Bring on someone pushing for corporate accountability, and you’ll hear one of their reporters take the side of Big Business against them.

Yeah, I was listening to Tom Ashbrook’s show a few years ago when he was interviewing a couple oil company executives. I thought finally someone was going to hold their feet to the fire about climate change, opening up federally protected lands for drilling, etc. Instead he asked innocuous questions and basically kissed their asses for an hour. He even dressed down a caller who tried to ask a tough question. I’ve hated him ever since.

I probably caught that same show. :>)

Looking back, I must have been terribly naive as a teenager in college (1970s), cuz I really, really couldn’t even conceive of that kind of journalism. It strikes me as so obviously wrong and against everything I thought was at the root of the journalistic mission. Fight the power. Speak truth to power. Power to the people, right on! All of those sayings were very real for me. I was openly against the Vietnam War, protested it in high school, protested against a crack down by administrators in response to our protests — we walked out of class en masse, etc. etc. And while I’ve always seen my generation as being just a little bit too late for the fireworks of the 1960s, I still look back with fondness at our ability, relatively speaking, to see through “the man.”

Until OWS, I thought that was largely absent and we had become far too acquiescent as a culture, and far too compliant. I hope millennials and the generation after them bring back that spirit and then some.

Well, in the end the corporate media will always be beholden to its corporate masters. Can media outlets whose primary concern is profit and marketshare ever be trusted to deliver accurate and unbiased information? There is no fix for this as long as the media operates under the current system.

Thst was a great article.

The media doesn’t print the truth (which we’ve known for a long time) and even if they did, they’ve reached a point where nobody believes them anyway because they’ve lost all credibility with the public. So politicians/the govt has little to fear from the media so they can basically operate unchecked. It’s why Clinton and Trump can vie for the presidency in spite of their histories.

And now we have a megalomaniac in power who threatens to ban any members of the press who print anything negative about him and the public cheers him for it.

I don’t know how this can be fixed.

Zooey wrote:

They only named him because Hekker demanded it.

I can never take the Pro Bowl seriously since it never recognized Chris Massey.

By rights it should be called the Chris Massey Bowl.

InvaderRam wrote:

i would let britt go. unless mcvay thinks he can do something with him.

sign a guy like garcon, who knows the system, and you got garcon, austin, cooper, thomas, and spruce.

i think that’s enough to work with at receiver.

They definitely need to sign a good FA WR, preferably someone who has worked under McVay. But I’m not sure they should just let Britt go without attempting to sign him. I saw nothing from Cooper and Thomas during the regular season that made me think they can play in this league and Spruce couldn’t stay healthy enough to dress for a single game. His entire rep is based on part of one preseason game.

I don’t know why the Rams would let TruJo go without a serious attempt at re-signing him. Big, physical corners who can cover aren’t easy to find. He had a down year but so did the entire team. I chalk that up to the move and injuries as he was banged up quite a bit.

InvaderRam wrote:

if this was true i would have to think it was someone involved in the hiring process of mcvay. i mean who would get on board after they had hired the new coach?

i’d be intrigued if it was marshall faulk…

Yep, Marshall Faulk. That was my first thought.

InvaderRam wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

PA Ram wrote:

I think Shanahan just won the 49ers job.

You’re probably right, but I really don’t want him in San Francisco.

I wonder if he’ll have a grudge against the Rams for not even interviewing him before they hired Coach Zygote?

Oh well, that’s the sorta thing that keeps rivalries spicy I guess.

my fear is that the rams let the right one go. again. and the niners will dominate the nfc west for years to come.

unless i believe that demoff made the right decision…

i guess it’s possible.

Well, hiring a coach is never a sure thing especially when he’s a first time head coach. Sometimes even guys that have been successful head coaches with other teams fail in their new locale. There’s just so many things outside of their control that have to break just right for a team to be successful.

What gives me hope is that everything said about McVay has been positive. Everyone that knows him thinks he will be a good head coach. Other coaches, players, media people, etc all think he’s going to succeed.

wv wrote:

Seattle leading Atlanta early, i see. Are we for or against Seattle?

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Rams fans are ALWAYS against Seattle.

I can see why YOU might be confused, though.

I’m interested in who the OC will be. Bill Callahan?

zn wrote:

See the post previous to this one.

On how to use Donald. in the 3-4 defense these days the DC can play one of the DEs down a 3-tech. In the Phillips playbooks it’s called “Sink” and they can have AD move to either side.

Just thinking out loud. The idea there is that rather than play both 3/4 DEs over the tackle (as DEs do in most 3/4s), one plays in the 3-tech gap between guard and tackle. The idea is that that suits Donald better.

According to the pic in the last post the front 7 would be:

LDE: Westbrooks, Hayes
NT: Brockers
3-tech: Donald

LOLB: ?
LILB: ? (in the pic it’s Barron but I can’t see that) (Forrest?)
RILB: Ogletree
ROLB: Quinn

Donald, Quinn, and Tree on the defensive right side would be a lot of fun and a nightmare for opposing offenses.

According to the way I have interpreted this, Barron seems to be odd man out. Too small to play LB in a 3/4? But then I ain’t Phillips and maybe he has ideas.

If though I am right about Barron, they would then need 2 LBs. Could one of these guys can become a linebacker in this system? —> Forrest, Longacre, Fox, Sims.

And you know…that IS possible, that one of those guys could convert.

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I have no idea how Phillips uses his safeties, so it’s not clear if he would like the Alexander/McDonald combo.

BTW another thing I have seen guys talk about is moving Donald to ILB. On paper that’s plausible but then you would still need a DE.

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I saw a blurb somewhere where a guy said not to worry about the 3-4/4-3 distinction with Phillips. He said all Phillips does is have one of his DEs stand up.

Oops. Now I remember where I saw it. It’s from a tweet Ag posted in another thread.

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