I don’t really care but since Kroenke isn’t forcing the citizens of LA to foot the bill I’m all in favor of him creating the eighth wonder of the world to house our beloved Rams.

The one good thing about a Hillary presidency is that she would protect women’s reproductive rights and maybe promote equal pay, etc…

PA Ram wrote:

I just finished a fun trilogy about post apocalyptic Washington County, NY by James Howard Kunstler. The books of the trilogy are “World Made By Hand”, The Witch of Hebron” and “A History of the Future”. I have to admit part of what made these books so enjoyable is that I live in Bennington, VT which is not far from Washington County so I recognize many of the references/descriptions of the towns, terrain etc.

I may check those out. I read “The Long Emergency” years ago and enjoyed it but found it very depressing. Of course–I’m trying for lighter stuff right now so….I may wait. As for “The Invaders”–well, everyone knows it was aliens that destroyed the Neanderthals. At one time wasn’t the theory that we were in the same line as neanderthals? And now we are from different branches? They couldn’t compete with us and our unique skill of destroying things.

Yeah, modern humans are no longer considered the descendants of Neanderthals. We share a common ancestor, probably Homo heidelbergensis. However, it is apparent that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred on occasion because you can find some of their DNA in modern humans. Their DNA is linked to clotting disorders and depression in us. Apparently a modern human male and a neanderthal female could produce viable offspring but the reverse isn’t true. None of the genes from the Y chromosome of neanderthal males has been found in modern humans. The neanderthal Y chromosome has three alleles that produce an antigen that would cause an immune response in modern human females that would cause any fetus to be spontaneously aborted.

Well, athletically Goff brings more to the table than Warner did. And the thing is about Warner, nobody knew he was going to be Warner until he was…Warner.

So I agree, potentially Goff could be as good as Warner. But much about what made Warner great had nothing to do with athletic ability. His accuracy, quick release and a bunch of sorta abstract intangibles set him apart from the rest of the NFL. I don’t know what’s being said about Goff’s release but I hear he is accurate. Of course, he could be as effective as Warner but be so for different reasons. I don’t expect him to play like Warner however he will need to have some of those intangibles to be on his level.

One thing Goff won’t have is Bruce, Holt, Hakim and Proehl so we should be patient if he doesn’t take command of the offense as quickly as Warner did.

Zooey wrote:

Yeah, this in part is why I’ve completely lost patience with the “lesser of two evils” argument. There isn’t time for whatever Hillary’s plan is – probably a reduction in the level of GROWTH in greenhouse gasses.

I read somewhere that MIT said we had to slam the brakes on greenhouse gasses basically right now in order to have a chance.

This is not time to elect a Great Incrementer.

I agree with all of that and what Mac says, but unfortunately noone is listening. People see and hear reports like that and they don’t necessarily disbelieve it but they won’t give it the proper attention it warrants until it impacts them personally in a major way. Nobody wants to be inconvenienced and plastic bags and bottled water are so convenient.
A year or so ago a report came out that there has been a 50% decline in the world’s wildlife populations in just the last 40 years. Half the world’s wildlife gone in just 40 years?! You’d think that sort of news would garner a lot of media attention and mobilize nations to make efforts to reverse that trend but it was a mere footnote for most news outlets. People acknowledge that a global environmental crisis exists but nothing will be done until it’s too late because they can’t believe or don’t want to believe the predictions on how bad it is gonna be. And it will be bad.

I’m not sure the words, ‘Keenum’ and ‘really successful’ belong in the same sentence. He has a career passer rating of 79.8 and has had a hard time sticking with teams.

He’s a gamer and I like him, but he isn’t proof that Air Raid QBs can be successful in the NFL.

And I’m not saying Air Raid QBs can’t be successful, just that Keenum’s career doesn’t answer the question one way or the other.

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I don’t consider myself a Fisher defender. On the other hand I’m not anti-Fisher either. After 4 years you’d think I’d have a firm opinion on him one way or the other. But I don’t. After 4 years I’m still in ‘wait and see’ mode and I think the majority of Rams fans are as well.

Zooey wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Oh, and San Diego is ALSO looking at stadiums, but that probably deserves its own thread.

Good.

It’s looking more and more like the Rams will be the only show in town. I hate the idea of them sharing a stadium.

I do too. Which – to me – was what was most significant about the Las Vegas story: that the Raiders could very well stay away from LA.

And that is why I posted the blurb about the San Diego stadium proposal in this thread as a response. But the next time I visited the board, the San Diego post had been excised from this thread, and placed all by itself in a new thread with an ungodly question mark in the title.

So I figured that maniac zn (probably, since he started this thread) was more interested in the Las Vegas/gambling issue, and found San Diego to be an unholy diversion from his crusade to discuss gambling issues. Being the nice guy I am, I obliged. Being the demon spawn that I am, I fired off that last line to let him know that I know what he’s up to, just so he watches his behavior in the future. (And now I have diabolically succeeded in distracting from Las Vegas).

You fool. You fell right into Lord Foul’s trap. Don’t you see that he wanted you to detract attention from Las Vegas? That was his plan. He wanted two threads in which to express his unholy love for all things San Diego but he couldn’t violate the natural laws of the board by creating his own San Diego thread after you already posted about it. But he knew that if he created a separate San Diego thread with your post you would feel slighted and try to hijack this thread away from the topic of Las Vegas. Now that this thread has essentially been rendered topicless, he now has two threads in which to post about San Diego. So, thanks to you, we will now be buried in a landslide of posts about Sea World and the Midway Museum.

A vote for Clinton is a vote for the status quo. It’ll be business as usual in Washington with the same short-sighted and heavy-handed foreign policy.

My only issue with Goff is that he comes from a spread offense. QBs coming from spread offenses in college haven’t exactly been tearing up the league. There seems to be a huge learning curve for spread QBs.

Wentz may not have faced the best competition, but he is much more familiar with the way QB is played in the pros.

JT is like Bernie only to a much lesser extent, in that he allows his emotions to influence his reporting. For example, the Rams are not a team with “lots of holes on the roster” as JT states. There are holes at WR and QB, possibly LT. TE could use an upgrade but I wouldn’t call it a ‘hole’ per se.

I don’t want to understate the problems facing this team. They haven’t had a winning season since the late Cretaceous but the reason the Rams have not won over the past few years is due to their issues at QB and to a lesser extent WR. They are in pretty good shape at just about every other position with the only issues being depth. Every team including the elite ones are dealing with this issue. Most of the roster is solid and there’s almost an embarrassment of riches at some positions like RB and along the DL. After all, they didnt have to overpay Jenkins because of the depth at CB.

They have some issues but from a roster perspective the Rams are in better shape than JT implies.

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Isiah58 wrote:

The Rams have to deal with Russell Wilson for the next 10 years. The needed a guy that can give them a shot. Three years from now, no one will miss those picks but they will be happy if they got their guy at QB.

Well, the Rams have been beating Russell Wilson with the Hills, Keenums and Foles of the world. Not sure they need to give up the farm to compete with Seattle.

But they certainly do need a better QB to become elite. Word is they are targeting Wentz. If that’s true, hopefully he can become the QB they need to make the leap.

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