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October 30, 2016 at 12:19 pm in reply to: Rams face questions about their quarterback and run game at the bye week #56363
nittany ramModeratorFisher said he had given no consideration to offensive line changes other than working guard Jamon Brown back into the rotation when he returns from a hand injury.
This isn’t the first time I’ve said this but I think I’d like to see GRob move to left guard and Saffold take over at LT. Saffold was a decent LT a few years ago and the move inside to guard would take advantage of GRob’s strength…mauling defenders in the run game.
they have to change something.
What is the definition of insanity? Not changing anything but expecting different results?
I get that the reason why the Rams can’t run is complex. It’s not all about the o-line. Some of it has to do with the defense not respecting the passing game and overloading the LOS. But as I’ve pointed out before Eric Dickerson set the NFL rushing record of 2,105 yards running against 8 and 9 man fronts that didn’t respect the Rams’ passing game. If you have competent run blocking you can still run effectively if you stick with it.
Not that moving GRob inside is magically going to fix the running game but it could help. Certainly can’t hurt.
BTW, I think Snisher drastically overestimated this o-line’s ability after last season.
October 30, 2016 at 10:26 am in reply to: Trump boots black man from rally calls him ‘thug’ Turns out he's a supporter #56347nittany ramModeratorI dunno. Could be all true, but somethin smells funny about it.
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vLooking at your avatar it occurred to me that there is an occupation that would be perfect for you.
How would you like to be a Raven Master?
Sounds cool, right?
Of course you’d have to be willing to relocate to the Tower of London.
Update your CV and send it to Prince Charles.
link: http://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/visit-us/top-things-to-see-and-do/the-ravens/#gs.OyNjHic
October 30, 2016 at 9:32 am in reply to: Rams face questions about their quarterback and run game at the bye week #56346nittany ramModeratorFisher said he had given no consideration to offensive line changes other than working guard Jamon Brown back into the rotation when he returns from a hand injury.
This isn’t the first time I’ve said this but I think I’d like to see GRob move to left guard and Saffold take over at LT. Saffold was a decent LT a few years ago and the move inside to guard would take advantage of GRob’s strength…mauling defenders in the run game.
October 28, 2016 at 3:34 pm in reply to: Major Travesty: Bundy Brothers Acquitted in Takeover of Oregon Wildlife Refuge #56248nittany ramModeratorI haven’t followed any of what went on, or the trial, but i heard a snippet about it on NPR. The reporter hinted at some things that made me think the prosecutor just mischarged them. It could be when the jury looked at what happened and tried to match it to the actual charge (conspiracy i think) the facts didnt quite add up to the charge. In other words they probly shoulda been charged with something ELSE, and not what they were on trial for.
NPR said they arrested Bundy’s lawyer as well, for being obstreperous in the courtroom or somethin.
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vDon’t come around here with your high falootin’ lawyer words that most folks never heard of like ‘obstreperous’ and ‘conspiracy’.
Seriously, conspiracy? Why didn’t the prosecutor charge them with stuff like breaking and entering, destruction of government property, making terroristic threats, trespassing etc?
Them Bundy’s should be dancin’ at the end of a rope. Now due to some incompetent lawyerin’ they get to walk.
October 28, 2016 at 11:56 am in reply to: Major Travesty: Bundy Brothers Acquitted in Takeover of Oregon Wildlife Refuge #56230nittany ramModeratorAgreed Billy. Bundy, the High Plains Moocher and his posse got off because of their privileged status as white christians. Yet in their minds they are somehow victims despite getting all kinds of subsidies from the govt that’s supposedly oppressing them.
October 27, 2016 at 6:35 am in reply to: Politicians aside: Democrats and Republicans are far apart in worldviews. #56178nittany ramModeratorWell, Billy I also agree with Jill on every issue on that list sans one. It’s funny but obviously the list was written from the Green Party’s perspective of what the correct stance on the issues are since Jill scores all green whereas the others do not. 😉
Also interesting that the “leftist” Jill Stein agrees with the right leaning Libertarian Gary Johnson on more issues than she does with the “liberal” democrat in the race.
nittany ramModeratorYeah, we’ve watched the first season and part of the second and really like it although as PA says there are a few duds. The first three or so episodes were simply brilliant.
nittany ramModeratorAustralia?
No thanks.
I don’t want to live in a country where I could find Shelob clinging to the side of my refrigerator.
nittany ramModeratorDidn’t Carter have a bigly lead over Reagan in the polls with only a few weeks to go in 1980?
October 26, 2016 at 6:05 pm in reply to: informal poll: will the Rams win or lose during bye week? #56135nittany ramModeratorWell, this is one of those weeks where they shouldn’t lose.
But my fear is they’ll take the bye week too lightly.
Mark my words. If they look past this Sunday to the Panthers game next week an undermanned but plucky bye week will burn them.
nittany ramModeratorWell, I saw some things in Hard Knocks that concerned me a bit.
If they blew this pick the franchise will suffer for years. When you go all-in on a player like they did for Goff–you’d better be damn sure about him. Either they can’t evaluate properly and just rolled the dice, or they were just that desperate.
Either way–sooner or later, you gotta take the cloak off and show what’s there.
Maybe it won’t be this year.
The only thing about Goff that bothered me from Hard Knocks was that he didn’t seem very bright and I’m not talking only about sunrisegate. But what may appear as a lack of intelligence might actually be a lack of maturity.
Besides, he doesn’t have to be smart to excel at QB. See Bradshaw, Marino, Montana, etc….
October 26, 2016 at 12:59 pm in reply to: Ellard: Maybe this is why my HOF candidacy has stalled #56116nittany ramModeratorOctober
No, I agree. I’d take Ellard over anyone but Bruce.
I loved Snow but he’s not on the level of Bruce, Ellard and Holt.
Jackson was great but he was with the Eagles for most of his career wasn’t he?
October 26, 2016 at 6:58 am in reply to: Ellard: Maybe this is why my HOF candidacy has stalled #56106nittany ramModeratorHe sounds a little bitter but maybe for good reason. He is 14th on the all-time receiving list. And there are guys from his era who have fewer yards than him but are in the HOF like Art Monk and Michael Irvin.
If Art Monk should be in the Hall then so should Henry Ellard.
nittany ramModeratorBy the way Emma Stoltzfus was fantastic as Reno–the saucy dame in the play.
Emma Stoltzfus is a no-talent hack who wouldn’t know her arsch from eine hohlen in der boden.
nittany ramModeratorI will still have pie. Apple crumb, please.
That’s wrong. Dutch Apple is what you want.
October 24, 2016 at 9:03 pm in reply to: Fred Roggin of NBC says Fisher has four games to prove himself… #56029nittany ramModeratorIt’s bullshit.
Would you do that? If you were owner?
Why would Stan?
And even if Stan did…how would Fred Roggin know? Stan confide in him, ya think?
Or maybe Stan made an ultimatum. And Fisher leaked it.
It’s bullshit.
It may be BS. And if it was true Stan certainly wouldn’t confide in Joe Roggin. But he would have confided in somebody. Probably multiple people. And info like this tends to leak.
But yeah, I’m skeptical.
nittany ramModeratorto play in a 3-4 defensive scheme? I know we may have to build with some new LBs and all. Could Robert Quinn, and Eugene Simms play as 3-4 OLBers? How about the DLine? Just some thought. If Ken Norton Jr became the new HC, he may install that type of D.
This teams strength is on the d-line. Seems to me it’s more suited to be a base 4-3 team. All defenses, including the Rams give offenses a 3-4 look every now and then though.
nittany ramModeratorMaybe they should play both Keenum and Goff. Platoon them like Waterfield and Van Brocklin.
Maybe they both can wear black high top cleats and run the Wing-T offense too.
Brilliant! Does anyone alive today even know how to defend the Wing-T?
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nittany ramModeratorI’m going to be very blunt here, and I don’t mean to offend anyone. It’s just my 2 cents.
Along with thinking that firing Fisher would be a mistake…
…I know this is just me and I won’t fight about it and campaign and so on, but I have found over the years that “which coach to hire” discussions among fans on the net are pretty much useless. No one knows enough to offer anything more than superficial and/or quirky ideas. The ones who insist they know more are invariably no better than people who just wing it for the sake of conversation.
In fact if we all put up our old “who to hire” posts from years past again, it would make for good comic relief. With no exceptions. The same goes with the talking heads and sports writers we get our info on this from. I doubt there is a single journalist out there with a credible “hit” record when it comes to guessing who would make a consistent winning head coach.
Don’t take that personally. It’s just that no one is in a position to know enough, and even those who are in the league and in a position to know enough get it wrong far more often than not.
Well of course they are useless. None of us has any say over who the next coach will be if there even is to be a new coach. It’s just interesting to hear what people’s thoughts on the matter are – in the same vein as “who do you think the Rams should draft with their first pick?” or “which film should win the Oscar for best picture?”
nittany ramModeratorHe contrasts “the passionate pursuit of knowledge by proletarian autodidacts” with the “pervasive philistinism of the British aristocracy.” Pretty much the same was true in the new working-class towns in the United States, like eastern Massachusetts, where an Irish blacksmith might hire a young boy to read the classics to him while he was working. Factory girls were reading the best contemporary literature of the day, what we study as classics. They condemned the industrial system for depriving them of their freedom and culture. This went on for a long time.
I don’t think many people read for enjoyment anymore. Too many other flashier entertainment options available that don’t require thought and reflection.
I think that is a big reason Americans are ignorant about the world relative to folks in other countries.
nittany ramModerator“””””Darrell Bevell OC Seattle Seahawks, and Ken Norton Jr. DC Oakland Raiders. “””””””””
Norton’s defense is dead last in team defense…
Seattle’s offense is ranked 27,
No thanks….
Yeah, that was my thought as well.
nittany ramModeratorDV with Martz as OC.
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vStunned. I thought you were going to go with George Allen, or Ray Malavasi.
Allen and Malavasi have been dead for years. Plus I doubt they even want to coach again.
nittany ramModeratorOctober 23, 2016 at 5:36 pm in reply to: Poll question…Who thinks Goff should start the rest of the season? #55891nittany ramModeratorWell i was for Goff starting until i heard Fisher say some stuff about the WRs
being the reason for the INTs. I mean Tavon caused one. Looks like Quick may have caused one. I dunno about the other two.But it may be the Keenum and the Rams win that game, if the WRs do their jobs.
So, I dunno. Just depends on what Fisher is seeing in practice. We dunno what Goff is doing in practice.
I’m ok either way. Start him or dont.
I DO know things will be more FUN for me as a fan, when Goff plays.
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vI didn’t see today’s game but the play of the wide receivers is one of the reasons i thought the switch might work. Quick is finally playing like the guy Fisher and Snead raved about at the combine and Brit is among the league leaders on receiving. I thought their high level of play could smooth the transition to Goff.
nittany ramModeratorAfter three straight losses Rams fans need cheering up.
Lessee’, the Rams will undoubtedly be announcing Fisher’s five year extension pretty soon…maybe they can add that Goff will start the first week after the bye?
There, two things for Rams fans to look forward to.
Fisher signing an extension is a bad thing. How are you going to excite the LA fan base, giving an extension to a losing head coach? The fans in LA, scratching their heads, knowing signing Fisher to an extension means you don’t care. Below mediocre is fine. That is what Fisher gives you. LA fans are smart and know as longbas hebis here, the Rams will never see the playoffs. I will probably hit powerball jackpot before the Rams make the playoffs with Jeff Fisher as Head Coach
Yeah I was joking, Jack.
Although John Clayton and others think the extension has already been signed or at least agreed upon…
nittany ramModeratorBy the way–just heard on NFL network that Fisher said Case will continue to start.
Fisher isn’t going to throw Keenum under the bus and he shouldn’t. He’s also not going to make a decision about who starts the next game immediately after another tough loss. He will take some time, look at the film, consult with his coaches and then decide to start Goff.
At this point not starting Goff only makes sense if he isn’t as ready to play as Fisher has been saying he is.
nittany ramModeratorDid Quinn play? He’s not on the stat sheet.
nittany ramModerator2nd week in a row the Rams out gained their opponents and lost.
nittany ramModeratorAfter three straight losses Rams fans need cheering up.
Lessee’, the Rams will undoubtedly be announcing Fisher’s five year extension pretty soon…maybe they can add that Goff will start the first week after the bye?
There, two things for Rams fans to look forward to.
nittany ramModeratorAs much as I like Keenum’s moxie, he always finds a way to make a critical mistake.
I agree…time to start the Goff era.
The Rams can lose with Goff just as well as they can with Keenum and at least the kid would be getting his feet wet.
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