sanbagger wrote:

we are seeing a completely different defensive scheme from the good guys this year than what we’ve seen in the last few years.

GW loves to pressure the QB and is known for inventive ways to bring extra rushers.

This year the Rams have been primarily a cover 2 and 4 rushers team…even from game 1 when everybody, with the exception of EJ, was healthy.

I think they started they year this way because EJ was out and Sens was starting and the safeties were a question mark….so they tried to give the DB’s a little room to not get beat over the top. Now that Tru is down, Sens has been canned…insert Hill…., and the safeties are playing better than hoped. But they are still trying to protect the DB’s playing bend but don’t break.

Excellent point. Last year with JJenks and TruJo at corner, they could do more things defensively. This year they have had to play more vanilla to protect their newbies in the secondary.

JackPMiller wrote:

zn wrote:

I would expect next men up, be coached up, and prepared to play well.

So you think there are teams 2 deep when it comes to a top pass-rushing right defensive end?

Name the teams you;ve known through all NFL history that were 2 deep that way. That is they could afford to lose a top pass rushing end because they didn’t lose anything with the next guy up. How many teams have ever been that deep at end? (And that’s not to mention the fact that it’s both a top corner and a top end.)

Because see the issue is, not replacing A player. It’s replacing one of the top players in the league.

Is a team better off with one of the top defensive ends in the league? Cause if not I don’t know why they extended him. Turns out according to you, you can get just as good production for cheaper from your bench.

I keep asking these tough but obvious questions and you keep repeating coaching cliches.

If the Head Coaches strength is defense, like Jeff Fisher is supposed to be, I would expect it to do well, even with 11 new starters. If he struggles with that, then that is a problem.

Jack, so you think a team’s performance falls all on the coach even when his best players are injured? The coach should be able to plug any player in and get good results? In other words the player doesn’t matter – only the coach matters.

If that’s the case then why does the NFL pay millions of dollars on scouting departments? Why do they spend millions flying scouts to college games to evaluate players and why do they fly entire coaching staffs to a dozen or more college combines and pro days every year? If what you say is true then why doesn’t every team in the league simply stock their teams with cheap scrubs?

Because the players do matter, right? And the better they are the more they matter and the harder they are to replace. That’s why coaches can’t be expected to do as well when too many key pieces of their roster are hurt. The players matter.

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wv wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

I actually liked a lot of what he said especially when he said the problems in the Middle East are largely the result of western intervention and that we should ‘own’ that.

He did lose me at the end when he said the election is fixed. That’s tinfoil hat stuff. But of course he’s right that the system is rigged in favor of the two major parties.

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I liked what he said about the mid east too, until he got to the part where he said the US was trying to “build democracies” in a region that didnt have a clue about how to have democracy.

I would have liked to explain to him that the US version of “creating democracy” means, they tell the CIA to pour millions of dollars into a region, and conduct every kind of murderous tricks imaginable so that the “approved” leader gets “elected”. Such as Chalabi in Iraq.
And heck they only go with the “democracy” plan when they prettymuch ‘have’ to. Blah blah blah.

Jesse still thinks the mighty-Empire “means well” i guess. Naive.

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Well, I agree with you. His take on the Mid East is overly simplistic and he was wrong about the Kurds, Sunnis and Shites always being at war and he was wrong that the region has always been a mess. Dysfunctional civilizations wouldn’t last for thousands of years. Someone has to fuck them up.

I was at least impressed that he understood the root of the current problem though…Western intervention.

The defense has been without three of their best players the last couple weeks. They’ll improve when Brockers, Quinn and TruJo are back to health.

wv wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Typical scriptural fundamentalist. You take a text from the Apocrypha, and twist its meaning.

Jesus did NOT say the kingdom is inside the tackles, or outside the tackles.

He said inside of you, or outside of you.

Plainly, he meant that the Touchdown is both Inside you, and Outside you. It’s a state of mind AND a place.

He never said anything about how to reach the end zone kingdom. Well, he did. But not in Thomas.

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You are saying Jesus never said anything about how to reach the end zone ?

Then why does Fisher even pray to him?

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Jesus Quintana: Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I’ll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger ’til it goes “click.”

The Dude: Jesus.

Jesus Quintana: You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
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If Jesus is real then why is there so much misery in the world? If there is a loving god, then explain the Rams.
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“If there is a god, he will have to beg my forgiveness.”
– a phrase carved in a wall of a concentration camp cell by a Jewish prisoner

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sanbagger wrote:

They still had a shot to win with the ball and 6 minutes to play and fizzled out. I thought that should have been Gurley time. 14 rushes for TG is not the Rams game. I said in an earlier post they couldn’t get in to a shoot out with Detroit…that’s playing their game.

Yeah I’m surprised they didn’t run Gurley more since he was having success. I can understand riding Keenum’s hot hand but the defense was struggling. They could slow the game down and keep Detroit’s offense off the field if they had gotten Gurley more involved.

Anyway, it’s good to have you here, sanbagger. Stick around and post often.

The so-called depth the Rams supposedly have along the d-line is overrated. Donald was being double-teamed the entire game and the other defenders couldn’t even sniff the QB. I think the Rams should invest another early pick in a pass rusher. Quinn and Brochers miss too much time with injuries.

I know stuff like this depends on the “flow of the game”, but how did Gurley only end up with 15 carries? He should have gotten the ball a lot more. However, I don’t have a problem with the offense.

The defense though is really struggling. Last week they couldn’t stop the run and this week it was the pass. No one other than Donald can generate a pass rush but he’s being doubled every down. Looks like Brockers came back too early but he’s too fragile anyway. Without Quinn and TruJo this defense has no teeth.

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Quinn’s the key. Without Quinn a great pass rush is just ok.

Now a secondary minus TruJo has to cover longer…

The offense has to pick it up today to take some pressure off the defense.

bnw wrote:

Most americans, myself included, are in favor of gays having the same benefits as conferred through marriage. But calling it marriage is wrong. Marriage is only between a man and a woman.

Most Americans have no problem calling the formal union between two homosexuals ‘marriage’. Why do you? What is it about the term marriage as applied to homosexuals that’s offensive?

sanbagger wrote:

Although it sure looks like they aren’t getting anything done stadium wise in San Diego, so….

Listen to the Clayton interview. He thinks something just might get done.

Thanks Billy. I caught part of that on NPR yesterday.

It’s scary that scientists are being harassed and threatened by powerful individuals/groups who might not like what they find. They want propaganda and politics to shape public opinion instead of data and hard evidence. The program mentioned fetal tissue and climate science but it is also happening to researchers investigating gun violence.

Anyway, there is something seriously wrong with a system that allows someone like Lamar Smith to chair the House Science Committee. That’s like putting Joseph Goebbels in charge of a Jewish charity.

Yeah, it’s obvious he’s doing it to intimidate minorities.

Guns aren’t allowed in Federal buildings. They shouldn’t be allowed at the polls during Federal elections.

The Lions have been bad for so long that most of their fans are at the final acceptance stage of grief and loss. They are at that point where they have accepted the losing and can now even find humor in it. The hope is gone but that’s ok – they have made peace with it.

Good for them.

However, there are a few that are still in the denial stage – desperate fans clinging to the idea that the season can still be saved and that they have a chance against the Rams.

Poor, pathetic, delusional souls. It’s sad, really. I hope they can come to terms with the beating the Rams are about to lay upon the Lions as most of their brethren have. Hopefully this loss will hasten their journey towards final acceptance.

Then the pain will be replaced with sweet, soothing numbness.