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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Zooey wrote:

Too steep a price, imo. I don’t like it.

It’s a huge roll of the dice.

This trade would make sense if there was a projected Peyton Manning level QB in this draft.

But there isn’t so it doesn’t.

PA Ram wrote:

There is a Miss United States contest? Or does that mean she’s representing the United States in the Miss Universe contest? And why can’t these pageants expand to Mars and Pluto anyway? I mean–is Earth’s winner REALLY Miss Universe? Do we know for sure there are no other signs of intelligent pageants out there?

And why should only humanoids win? Should the gelatinous blob-like beings of Alpha Centauri be excluded from a beauty contest simply because they are translucent so you can see their food being digested or because their sensory tendrils continuously exude a sulphurous gas that can clear a room like nobody’s business? Should that disqualify them from a contest that claims to represent the entire universe?

To be fair, they are really, really ugly.

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InvaderRam wrote:

if jared cook goes on and has a 1000 yard season with green bay i’ll vomit.

Apparently teams value measurables over performance. When they see Cook they see his size and speed and the length of his arms but fail to see the drops. Often those drops have cost the Rams games. Cook has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory more than once with his inconsistency.

Or maybe they think they can ‘fix’ him. Even though this is a pattern established over 7 seasons so I doubt it’s fixable.

One thing about the move I’m definitely glad about – I won’t have to rely on Bernie for Rams news anymore. The thing is, I sorta like Bernie and I can’t help but be amused at his rantings. But I don’t recall any satirical tirades against the Rams when Georgia moved the team to St Louis,so his sudden realization that the NFL is a soulless, uncaring behemoth that steps on its fans like a petulant child at an anthill rings a little hollow.

Sorta depends on where the team is located. The UK would be alright because there’s a 6 hour time difference with us on the east coast. Games played at 7 pm in the UK would equate to a 1 pm start time for the east coast of the US and a 10 am start time for those on the west coast. That’s manageable.

But games in China, Korea or Japan? Those countries are so far away that the time difference is only calculable by NASA. Did you know that today is actually yesterday there? The players union should be opposed to forcing players to travel back and forth through time. And who knows what effect time displacement will have on CTE?

But is it fair for the NFL to place teams in London or Munich or Seoul where American football is just a novelty at best when cities with an established football tradition and long-time fans like St. Louis don’t have one?

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zn wrote:

zn wrote:

Great move by the Rams to retain a key part of that DL rotation.

I dunno. I wasn’t impressed by Sims last year. Once he entered the regular rotation to replace Quinn, IMO he got exposed. He can make plays, it seems to me, when he is a rotational guy who can play with some energy because he doesn’t have to pace himself. Once he was out there for multiple snaps, he was lacking. JF even referred to him as “improving”…which is a bad sign for a 5 year vet (which he was last year). 1.5 sacks in 9 starts? I think if he had that much to offer, he would have gotten snapped up in free agency.

Yeah, I see little to be wowed about with Sims’ play. Plus, he seems to commit more than his share of untimely personal fouls.

Zooey wrote:

“Pragmatic,” to me, is just marketing. It’s a positive-sounding label for basically sticking with the status quo while making baby steps towards progress.

Hillary isn’t “pragmatic.” She’s a sell-out. She will certainly make baby steps in the right direction, like Obama did, but you cannot reasonably expect her to change the way business is done. In banking. In campaign finance. In gerrymandering. In corporate personhood.

In foreign policy, she’s an imperialist. Straightforward, dominate the globe militarily.

I don’t know why Bernie’s platform is impractical. Universal Health Care seems to be pragmatic in every other advanced country, as well as several countries one could not call “advanced.” So is paid maternity leave.

Every single progressive achievement has been “not pragmatic” at some point: abolition, women’s suffrage, civil rights, desegregation, 40-hour work week, everything.

Besides which – and here is the kicker – nobody has yet even bothered to explain why “reaching too far” means that one will end up with less than if one “reaches nearby.” It’s just stated as Fact by Hillary supporters.

We didn’t abolish slavery by reaching for a six-day work week. We didn’t achieve women’s suffrage by pushing to have women’s votes count for 3/5 of a man’s vote. We didn’t get desegregation by asking for African Americans to get 2% of the student population. I am supposed to believe that Hillary is going to make more progress that Sanders? Really?

No fucking way.

Screw Hillary. I cannot, in good conscience, vote for her under any circumstances.

Her victory will only serve to reinforce the Business-as-Usual conduct of this government, and that just is not acceptable to me at all. You can take your Clintons, Obamas, your Gary Harts, and just shove them. I am having none of it.

This.

Figures. They took football away from an entire city; it wouldn’t be beyond them to deprive the rest of the country of one more year of one of the best quarterbacks ever.

He is one of the best ever. But his days of being a good QB in the NFL were most likely over. The Rams were right not to guarantee him a starting job.

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