wv wrote:

Maybe sharks dont like all those Genetically modified foods in us. Ever think of THAT.

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Well then, yet another reason to support GMO foods. They protect us from sharks. Thanks, Monsanto!

If it was left up to Big Organic, we’d all be shark bait.

The word “attack” is usually a misnomer when it comes to sharks and people.

They are really just encounters. In most cases, the shark bites and lets go. And usually disappears. It is rare when they attempt another bite. The reason for this is the shark isn’t actually trying to eat the person. Usually it’s not even aggressive. It is investigating the person. Trying to figure out what the person is. Sharks investigate unusual objects by mouthing them. They get a sense of what an object is through taste. The shark tastes a person, the person doesn’t taste like food, so the shark moves on. Unfortunately, even a gentle shark bite can be catastrophic to a person but think about how the vast majority of people survive ‘attacks’.

If the shark really wanted to eat the person, the person would be eaten and there’s little the person could do to prevent it. The fact that so many people survive these encounters is proof in and of itself that sharks typically aren’t interested in eating them.

Calling these encounters “attacks” contributes to the false but widespread perception that sharks are simply savage killing machines. That perception is an obstacle in the race to protect them from extinction and they are being slaughtered at a rate of 75 – 100 million per year.

Now, my guess is, as is the usual case, that his supporters will dismiss the mountains of facts and evidence, and just fall back on the narrative that’s he’s being persecuted and is the ultimate in perfection and can do no wrong.

We live in the ‘post truth’ era of American politics. Not that there was ever a time when politicians didn’t lie, but there’s never been a time when politicians could say such outrageously obvious lies and not be held accountable for it.

Until today.

Welcome to post truth America.

Well, if the Rams lose this game they’re staring down the barrel of another 7-9 season.

Need to win this one.

Jared Cook is still making boneheaded plays.

Did you see him catch that 11 yard pass on 3rd down that would have been a first down if he hadn’t decided to loop back inside and lose yardage?

At least he held onto the ball.

Winnbrad wrote:

Still looks like some 7-9 bullshit to me.

Yeah, but 7-9 will feel so much better in southern Cal.

Because of the low humidity.

InvaderRam wrote:

sounds like there’s a lot of nervous nellies out there. ha!

As an Anxious Annie I take umbrage at that remark.

I was a Wentz guy too. He just seemed like he had more physical tools and upside than Goff. Plus as you said he played in a pro style offense. The only knock on him was that he wasn’t ready to play in the NFL – yet he’s starting and did well in his first outing.

That said, I’m not dissatisfied with Goff. His struggles in preseason haven’t soured me on him.

zn wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

That would be cause for concern if they had lost to the best team in the league, and they lost to one of the worst.

This is the assumption I question.

The media said they were one of the worst but they had no good reason for it.

Kelly has gotten things out of qbs before people were dismissing. (Eg. Sanchez’s best games were all with Kelly).

And that defense was far better than its record under Tomsula/Mangini

That defense did not play like one of the worst ones in the league.

I often see this, where people are dismayed the Rams lost to a team so bad, and then turns out they were just wrong about that team being that bad.

Now that’s not to say the Rams should have lost and should have looked that bad doing it, but in this case, like many cases in previous year, I question the extra added lamenting that comes from assuming a team was “one of the worst” when in fact there’s good reason to doubt that it was.

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Fair enough. But like I said, losing to anyone 28-0 is cause for concern. Of course there’s the odd outlier here and there but for the most part playoff caliber teams don’t lose to anybody by 28 points. They don’t get shutout. And that’s the crux of it, because we were expecting the Rams to be a playoff level team. Why did we believe that? Well, speaking for myself I believed it because Fisher believed it and said as much.

Now, could the Rams still be a playoff team? Sure. But the way they played the first game doesn’t bode well for that. Maybe the 9ers are a decent team but that doesn’t really take the sting out of this loss because of what that loss most likes says about the Rams.

So is Ryan Seacrest affiliated with the Rams now?

By the way, this is how you announce that the Rams will be wearing throw-back uniforms in the Coliseum…

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nittany ram wrote:

As usual perception has nothing to do with reality.

Ain’t that the truth. Wanna hear something funny? Well, maybe not funny – but it’s kinda ironic. I drive a white Mazda CX7 with black-out tint on all windows and a light tint on the entire windshield. I also have 22″ chrome & brushed aluminum rims and a killer sound system – with which I bump the bass quite a bit. Would you like to know how many times I’ve been pulled over in that car for either no apparent reason, or very very minor traffic offenses? In the past year, 7 times. Know how many tickets I’ve gotten? One. Apparently I was in a subdivision that had a noise ordinance.

I’m glad you’re hanging out here, X. I hope you stick around.

What kind of music were you playing on that killer sound system? I’m thinking the reason you were pulled over is that the cops didn’t appreciate you blasting One Direction at 10,000 decibels…

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It’s late in the 4th quarter. Rams are down by 4 pts. Keenum has been harried and abused by the Seattle defense the entire game. The crowd is silent as his teammates with heads down watch the trainers lift Keenum to his feet. Unable to continue he is helped from the field. Que Jared Goff, the bright-eyed rookie who had just been named QB2 prior to the game. What Goff lacks in know-how is more than compensated for with moxie and hutzbah. He hoists the comatose offense onto his back and with the grit of a thousand Duke Waynes wills his team the length of the field and into the endzone for the victory.

A Hollywood story befitting a Hollywood team.

wv wrote:

I got no opinion on anything
till i see a couple more games.

That goes for all issues, btw. Race, gender, politics, Game of Thrones,
The Kardashians, Global Warming, Scientology, Monsanto, Zooey’s dummer Brother, Wood Stoves, Vaccinations, False Flags, Jesus, Concussions,
Electric Football, Raisin Toast, Terrorism, tapirs…..doesnt matter. I have no opinion until i see a couple more games.

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You’re being hyperskeptical. We’ve seen enough games to know that Scientology is true.

PA Ram wrote:

So…..the 9ers defense figured out the Rams offense before Jared Goff?

Line of the year. You win the Internet.