Zooey wrote:

wv wrote:

What. The. F. are those things? I should be the NFL Uniform Czar. I’d fix all this shit in about one day. Every team goes back to 70’s-80’s Uniforms and maybe, one week of leather helmets. w v

This is the all-time worst uniform in the history of sports.

Poor San Diego.
They got the short end of the stick when it comes to professional sports team owners.

Spanos was too cheap to build his own stadium so he left SD behind to be a renter in LA.

Now Seidler approves the uniforms from pastel hell.  Those colors wouldn’t even work in Miami.

I became a Rams fan soon after Xmas 1971. This was my first introduction to info about the Rams. Written in 1972.

The Akers and Goff situations are different.

McVay’s complaint about Akers was that he wouldn’t ‘buy in’ to the system -presumably referring to his discontent with a running back by committee approach.  It was his attitude.

Goff just wasn’t savvy enough in McVay’s offense to make adjustments on the fly.  McVay said he always felt like he had to call the perfect play every down because Goff couldn’t make adjustments off script. It was more about QB experience than attitude.  McVay never questioned Goff’s willingness to do what was asked of him, just his ability to do it.

In that white uniform Burrow looks like he should be performing for Siegfried and Roy.

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The Rams have a good o-line. They held the vaunted 49ers front seven in check until the end when it became obvious the Rams had to throw.  Hope Noteboom isn’t too badly hurt.

Stafford is a steely-eyed missile-man. He is really slinging it.  Neither INT was his fault.

l really like K Williams.  The tipped pass was unfortunate but that’s exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from a young player in a big game – looking to run before he has  the ball.

Van Jefferson is a waste of a roster spot.

McVay is coaching the shit out of this team.  Looks like he’s enjoying himself too.

Lots of potential with the young guys on defense.  It will be interesting to see what they look like later in the year.

The Rams struggle against the 9ers when they have the better team.  Hard to believe they can beat them when they don’t.

I just hope they can get through this game without any injuries.  This team is feisty and there are winnable games ahead provided they stay healthy.

As I said in the ‘hopes and dreams’ thread, I have high expectations for this team and apparently those expectations have been vindicated. As I implied, anything less than a Super Bowl championship for the Rams will be an underachievement.

I knew when I posted it that that position would be highly controversial, but I’ve never been one to latch my shutters in the face of a storm.

Now, on to SF and expose them for being the frauds that they are.

Zooey wrote:

zn wrote:

He’s praising him for being a fast learner who came a long way in a short time.

My reaction reading that was not to see it as a criticism of Jackson, but as praise that didn’t mean much. Cuz I doubt starting football earlier would have made much difference. My experience with high school kids is that not a lot of “learning” goes on in their freshmen and sophomore years. I really don’t see a lot of light bulbs over their heads until they’re JR year anyway. I wouldn’t think the ground Jackson needed to make up would be very much.

I agree with that.  Besides, I played high school football and we weren’t being taught the same techniques they were using in the pros.  Our instruction was much more rudimentary, so I’m not sure a lot of high school football experience is that important.

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New species of ancient whale found in Peru may be heaviest animal ever, scientists say

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Beautiful garden, zn.  I do perennials too.

My dream is to someday make my entire backyard into a Japanese garden comprised of native plants.

If they stay healthy there is still enough talent on offense to carry the team to 9 or so wins.

I’ve only seen Stetson Bennett a couple times but each time he was brilliant and it was against great competition.

Yeah he’s short and doesm’t have the strongest arm, but he’s mature, can already read defenses, and is familiar with the Shanahan offense.  In other words, he’s the closest thing to a plug n’ play QB the Rams could hope for in the draft.

I like the pick, and I don’t mind taking him in the 3rd.  Maybe they could have gotten him later, maybe not.  When there is a guy you really want you take him. Don’t risk letting him get away.

JackPMiller wrote:

https://www.pff.com/draft/nfl-mock-draft-simulator?ref=a1f16a28-05b8-40d8-b560-f82b870845fa I did a what if we traded Stafford, the Jets is the team that keeps coming up, if Aaron Rogers trade, does not happen. I’m not saying Stafford will be going, but it is, what if it happens scenario? In the trade, we get the Jet’s 13th pick, plus the Jets 1st and 2nd picks round next year. This is the draft I got, R1-13: Broderick Jones OT Georgia R2-36: Steve Availa OC/OG TCU R3-69: Zach Harrison Edge OSU R3-77: Eli Ricks CB Alabama R5-167: Kendra Miller RB TCU R5-171: Aiden O’Connell QB Purdue R6-177: Davis Allen TE Clemson R6-182: Aubrey Jackson LB Jackson State R6-189: Dylan Horton Edge TCU R7-191: Quindell Johnson S Memphis R7-223: Elijah Higgins WR Stanford R7-251: Brayden Willis TE Oklahoma I doubled up on Edge, and TE.

I don’t think anyone is giving up a 1st for Matt Stafford at this point…

And now, the Larch.

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Zooey wrote:

This is a bad sign, imo. Looks like Rams insiders (including Wagner) don’t think the Rams have enough to compete for a championship. And that they don’t think they can address their needs this year.

Wagner’s leaving makes me sad.

And it certainly could mean the Rams don’t see themselves as contenders this season.

However, there is a simpler explanation than to claim the best team on the planet isn’t ready to return to title contention a mere single season after the flukiest, injury-riddled year in league history.  A claim that any hopefull Seattle or SF fan would make, btw, which is why you undoubtedly made it.

I submit that the Rams wanted to keep Wagner and would have if not for the residual  Seahawk stench that must be emanating from every pore of his body.

Think about it – he was a Seahawk for OVER A DECADE. With that length of exposure, there isn’t going to be enough Rightguard on the planet to mask the resulting odor.  He was immersed in the combined fetor of Wilson, Sherman, Lynch, and Carrol for years and years.

And Tate.  Don’t forget that f’***ing Tate.

Imagine what it must have been like for Rams players to share the cramped quarters of a locker room, team bus, and team plane with him (I speculate a similar experience could be had by spending several hours in wv’s living room).

That could also explain the rash of “injuries”.  Players faking or purposely injuring themselves to get away from the smell.

It also probably fueled the rumors of McVay’s and Donald’s retirements.  I’m surprised they were the only ones included in this speculation.

Anyway, I bet they never sign another longtime Seahawk ever again.  And don’t even consider a**holes like Kittle and Deebo when their current contracts expire.  That would be several orders of magnitude worse.

Shame about the 9’ers.

Yet another wasted season.  Next year all those talented players will be another year older, another year closer to the end of their contracts, another year closer to the end of their competitive window.  Another year closer to the end.

If they had just blocked better on that play in which Purdy got hurt.   If their vaunted front 7 just hadn’t been dominated by the Eagles’ o-line which allowed them to run at will and control the game…

There’s nothing as agonizing as potential unfulfilled. “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘it might have been.”

I feel terrible for all those 9’er fans out there.  I wish there was something I could do to relieve their suffering.

Yup, it’s a damn shame.