The fun for me for the playoffs will be rooting for anyone–ANYONE to beat those two teams.

I don’t even know if I’ll watch the Superbowl if it’s those two teams.

wv wrote:

It was 27 to 10 and they pull that crap? Why?

Because you step on their throats when they’re down. It’s kind of like the Rams leading the 9ers by 14 and how the Rams pull out all the stops to crush the 9ers because…huh? Wha? Must have been a glitch in the Matrix. Of course the Rams don’t crush them–they wait for the other team to catch up. That’s the Rams way.

I LOVE YOU ANDY REID!!!!!!!!

There–I said it.

He’s the coach of my dreams.

Don’t judge me.

Same to you, Ag! Happy Holidays! Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!

2 wins for the 9ers–against the Rams. That says it all.

Clearly they need new coaching.

But they also need to turn over a lot of this roster. How much? That’s the question.

Offensive line for sure.

Receivers? For sure they need something more there.

QB? That’s just a big question mark right now. But Goff is staying.

Defense?

Secondary needs work for sure.

I think something has to happen with the linebackers–but I’m not sure what.

The line is a bit thin. But it is still a strength of the team. I’d say it has the least questions.

This will not be turned around in one season.

Well, Issac newton was a bit weird. Hey–I admire a guy who sticks a needle in his eye to find some scientific answer but it doesn’t play well at parties.

I have some Facebook friends who have 700 people on their “friends” list. This is not possible. You can’t know 700 people.

Since I’ve become older I have pretty much moved to just my immediate family. My wife and son and daughter and my son and daughter’s mates. When I get social time I try to get together with them. Sometimes there’s another relative or two we see but not too often. I don’t get together with anyone from work much anymore. Yesterday, after work I picked up a 6 pack and a guy from work was there and wanted to buy me a drink and I politely declined. I just don’t feel like it anymore. I’d rather get home–relax, enjoy my shows or books and drink at home if I want something like that.

It’s not that I can’t be sociable. I can. I just don’t feel like it.

So while I have friends. I don’t really. I don’t take time anymore to see them.

I just don’t care. I want to be comfortable with my own interests.

Real friendship(not Facebook friendship) takes time and work. I would say that I don’t have a lot of social types of interests. I’m not in a bowling league, for example. I have more solitary interests. I love to read. I have an on again off again relationship with physical fitness. I love studying card magic but I’m less interested in performing than in learning methods and working on technique.

I USED to be very sociable. I used to hang out with a lot of people. For whatever reason–I just don’t feel like it anymore. I don’t miss it.

Thanks. I want him but not at a crazy cost. And the Saints will want too much.

Here’s the weird thing about “Blade Runner” to me: I own the DVD and yet–I’ve never watched the whole movie. I’ve wanted to–several times. Either I’ve fallen asleep or I had other things to do and stopped it or whatever. One day I WILL watch this whole film.

As for a sequel? I don’t know. Is it a film that demanded a sequel?

Let’s see:

The Los Angeles Stars?

The Los Angeles Freeways?

The Los Angeles Quakes?

The Los Angeles Smogs?

This kinda sucks. I think it was terrible that the Oilers erased their history by rebranding. As a fan–I hate it. I think it sucks if the Chargers do it was well. It essentially becomes an expansion team. I know we’ve all heard the rumors before when the Rams were moving about them becoming the Stallions or some such thing. No. That’s just wrong.

Move the team. Keep the brand.

There’s a lot of speculation, it seems, about coaches not wanting to come here because of Goff. I don’t know if any of that is reality based but how on earth can anyone judge him as a bust this soon? I definitely see some talent there. I have no idea if Goff will make it or not but some of this stuff that seems to cast him off as a bust the Rams are married to just seems odd to me.

It is way too soon for that.

I certainly hope they’re wrong about him because if they aren’t…it’s just unthinkable.

I will call for Fassel’s head. I’m sick of his excuses. He’s had his chance.

nittany ram wrote:

“I don’t think I was ever part of seeing the new stadium”

Yes–I’m quite sure that if he had posted winning records the Rams would have found some way to get rid of him before opening the new stadium. That’s just bitter talk. I’d be surprised if he got another HC job.

zn wrote:

PA Ram wrote:

As for which specific players Snead identified or which ones Fisher wanted, we’ll never know.

It was never like that. The scouts and GM scouted, when they could the coaches joined in, then they spent days ranking the players.

The key is the ranking. Once a guy is ranked, it does not matter who wanted him or who identified him. Big long conversations go into ranking players. At the end of the ranking process they have their board. The board is not the expression of one guy’s thing.

I disagree with that. I know they rank players. But that isn’t science, exactly. It’s preference. And often players may have somewhat equal rankings so is it a coin flip? I doubt it. I would think that “fit” plays a part of that. Certainly need. But are you saying that if Fisher really wanted a guy–like Goff over Wentz–it had no effect? That may be the company line but I’m not buying it. And honestly–a good GM should listen to his coach on a lot of this.

I just don’t think it’s simply a clinical sort of ranking and that’s that. There isn’t always that huge of a gap in ranked players. Preference has to come in to play.

And on draft day they may well work from their board–but I think the GM AND coach must have a say in how that board is set.

Now I do not mean that Fisher is scouting every player. Maybe that’s what it looked like but I didn’t really mean that. But I’m sure there were disagreements.

It’s definitely bizarre. If Kroenke has no desire to interact with the players, why be around the team at all? And if he has no desire to be around the team, why own it?

Seriously? Why own it?

Florio is really reaching here.

Jenkins is just trying to take some shots. Personally I’m glad Kroenke stays away.

Go back to the drawing board, Mike. Find a real story.

Ugh.

What can I say?

Okay–first of all…Goff. He had some UGLY throws tonight. Not a great game. He also needs to gain some weight. Thank God Cam Chancellor didn’t pound him or they’d still be looking for his head). His awareness was a little suspect in spots tonight but the line did him no favors. And that brings me to…

The Offensive(and I do mean “Offensive”) line. Just awful. Barnes sucked. Havenstein sucked. Robinson sucked. Maybe they should all be matadors. I seriously wonder if it is worth keeping any of them. I know they need to upgrade but there isn’t enough money in FA or not enough draft picks to fix this right away. Other than maybe Saffold, I’m not sure who is really worth keeping. And he gets hurt a lot.

Gurley. He doesn’t look particularly fast this year. He doesn’t look strong. He doesn’t look good. He runs up the blockers back because it doesn’t seem he has the quickness to make a cut to daylight. On one play tonight when he had a clear hole and went to make the cut he was so slow doing it that the defender quickly met him. I have real questions about him.

The receivers? The no hands bunch. Terrible. Britt was half decent but that was it. Mike Thomas HAS to make that TD catch. Tavon? Tavon will never be more than a gadget player and an inconsistent one at that. He’s got this silly high step thing going this year that only slows him down. They need a better pure receiver. Yes–he has his uses. But they need better at the WR position.

It’s pretty much a complete rebuild on offense, to me. Maybe Goff will work. Maybe. They really NEED him to work out.

Maybe Gurley can come back better next year. Maybe.

I have no real hope that Robinson will ever be a stud LT. Or even a reliable one. The other guys are just guys. Nothing special.

On defense, I don’t blame them. It has to be tough playing when you have no offense and you’re down to your 4th CB. They need depth for sure in the secondary and even a starting safety.

The linebackers? Okay–I guess. It’s really Ogeltree and Barron. Barron was quiet tonight, I thought.

The point is that this team needs more than a band-aid here and there. This IS going to have to be a rebuild. I think it has to start with the receivers and o-line. If they want to have any chance of developing Goff and that investment they HAVE to give him better protection and more reliable hands to throw the ball to. Or he’s done. That needs to be fixed–fast.

Yes–there will be a new offensive scheme–new coaches and that will help–I hope. How could it be worse? But I do think it will also take some new players. Maybe a lot.

I’d like to see Goff finish strong–if he can play the last two games. That’s all I got this year.

On a serious note: I think it is in decent shape. I do believe the offensive line needs serious work. Maybe better coaching will help with that, I don’t know. But it needs some sort of upgrade. They clearly still have no #1 wide receiver. That’s a problem and I expect a new head coach to make that a priority. Of course it’s easier said than done to get one of those guys.

I don’t know what happened to Gurley but I have hope he can still be a great back.

I’m optimistic about Goff. I think he can be very good with the right coaching.

On defense, I’m not sure about Quinn. That’s a very tough question for me. With his injuries I have to wonder if he hasn’t peaked and may be on the downside. Of course if he walks and he WASN’T on the downside–well–that’s bad. Glad I don’t have to make that call.

The rest of the D line is pretty good. Donald is great.

The linebackers? Depends on the scheme they want to run and so forth. I do like Ogeltree.

I think they HAVE to keep Johnson. You have to have at least one steady corner.

The roster certainly has talent. But it does need some tweaking here and there.