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November 25, 2014 at 4:39 pm in reply to: Happy-Holiday – what are you eating?..schadenfreude pie.. #12503sdramParticipant
Choke Cherry Pie… just like the Rams have eaten this season. And all the traditional mom to me recipe stuff like roasted turkey, giblet stuffing and gravy, sweet pertaters, mashed pertaters, cranberry jelly, green bean and cheese casserole, homemade wheat rolls, punkin pie, apple pie, cherry pie… and the veggy tray and dip and a pickle tray.
Might have to hit the treadmill before, after, and during dinner.
sdramParticipantI’m disappointed that they’re not good enough to contend for a playoff spot but happy they look like they can compete against any team in the NFL.
I wonder how much better they might be right now with a healthy Sam Bradford. And, I’m hopeful that the almost comeback against San Diego is a sign of things to come. I feel that they need to get better under pressure and feel that’s one of the things Bradford had improved at oh, those many games ago.
sdramParticipantPretty cool Grits.
sdramParticipantIf the rosebud sioux tribe can stop it, the keystone excel cops will simply re-engineer around it like they did with the Nebraska Sandhills. I read somewhere last week that the price of crude was about the only thing that would stop it.
There’s already one in the ground – Keystone 1. It’s been there for a few years. It wasn’t a political football so nobody really cared about it except a few crazy old eastern SD’ers who didn’t want their aquifer defiled. They lost. It doesn’t go through the reservation and it was built with little fanfare in less than 18 months.
It was fun reading their take on the SD congressional delegation – I could go on for chapters about how worthless they are but why bother. We just elected another one of the same so there are 0 elected democrats in SD a the state or federal level. There’s a few state representatives – 15 out of 80 or so. It’s truly become a 1.1 party system.
Better go visit my new grandaughter now. She’s a Ram fan and she’s not even born yet.
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November 19, 2014 at 7:10 pm in reply to: news bits: Zuerlein, Rams HOF finalists, some Denver game follow-up #12172sdramParticipant”
Great game and love his big leg and all but IMO, Gregatron the Leg needs to be improve when kicking under pressure.sdramParticipantI’m glad it has but why has the defense come together now?
The starting corners have both played the past two games for the first time this season and the secondary looks like it has improved a great deal to me. The soft zone stuff seems to be gone and coverage seems to be tighter. Is that the main reason? Or, did Williams and staff ‘figure out’ how to use their personnel? Maybe the players have finally figured out Williams schemes?
sdramParticipantSweet!
sdramParticipantWe get almost all the Denver games locally. The only time we don’t is if the Vikings are playing an AFC team at home during the same time period.
sdramParticipant<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>sdram wrote:</div>
Would Snisher draft Winston if available either by trade or with their pick outright?I have a feeling that Winston is the second coming of Jamarcus Russell.Besides Winston is toxic.
I don’t know much about Winston other than a few headlines I’ve seen. But, by most accounts he’s a talented guy and maybe the most talented QB. Mariotta seems to be in that discussion as well.
Fisher’s history with QB’s include the bad taste he must still have when swallowing Vince Young with the third pick 8 years ago. But, Winston and Young do not seem to be the same guy from a QB talent level at least.
November 16, 2014 at 10:31 am in reply to: pickem entry forms available for weeks 12, 13 and 14 #11928sdramParticipantI kind of feel like the only guy in the boat that is catching any fish – if you know what I’m saying?
sdramParticipantWould Snisher draft Winston if available either by trade or with their pick outright?
sdramParticipantI think they have a good shot at 4 or 5 more wins.
Would Snisher draft Jameis Winston or trade up to draft him if available and also bring back Sam Bradford next season?
November 16, 2014 at 8:23 am in reply to: pickem entry forms available for weeks 12, 13 and 14 #11923sdramParticipantThanks for doing this.
Since I have this just about wrapped I think it’s time to start working on my bragging rights, acceptance speech.
Here is a hint for this weeks picks: 24-21. Try not to go all crazy with this inside info.
sdramParticipantIn total – unadulterated hindsight there would be no way that I would draft Tavon Austin at the 8 spot. I really thought he was going to add a higher element of explosiveness than we’ve seen to date. He could come on – we’ll see. It seems to me that his quickness isn’t as big of an asset in the pro game as it was in college. And, his diminutive size has me cringing for his safety and his ball security every time he’s got the ball in any kind of traffic. He’s exciting when he does break one but the penalties have really cost the Rams and Tavon. Most opposing safeties look like they have 50, 60 lbs of muscle on him and are just as fast and are looking to plaster his ass back to Morgantown.
Seems to me that the top 8 picks from the 2013 draft still have a lot of question marks by their names. Cooper hasn’t started yet after a lost rookie season. Ansah and Mingo have had the most impact I would think. Eric Fisher was moved to LT this season after redshirting at G last year and I think has been decent. Jordan looks like a bust so far. Everybody laughed when Dallas drafted the Center Fredericks at 31 but who’s laughing now? Rams could have used a decent young center to replace Wells.
I’d say Hopkins at 27 has been the best WR so far from the first round. Patterson has flashed some but has been inconsistent as well.
I don’t know who or what I would have done even now but the Rams had a dire need for a saftety then and I still like Vacarro. I’m still rooting for Tavon to become the explosive weapon I thought he would – we’ll see.
1 1 Kansas City Chiefs Eric Fisher OT Central Michigan MAC [9]
1 2 Jacksonville Jaguars Luke Joeckel OT Texas A&M SEC
1 3 Miami Dolphins Dion Jordan DE Oregon Pac-12 from Oakland [R1 – 1]
1 4 Philadelphia Eagles Lane Johnson OT Oklahoma Big 12
1 5 Detroit Lions Ezekiel Ansah DE BYU Ind.
1 6 Cleveland Browns Barkevious Mingo DE LSU SEC
1 7 Arizona Cardinals Jonathan Cooper G North Carolina ACC
1 8 St. Louis Rams Tavon Austin WR West Virginia Big 12 from Buffalo [R1 – 2]
1 9 New York Jets Dee Milliner CB Alabama SEC
1 10 Tennessee Titans Chance Warmack G Alabama SEC
1 11 San Diego Chargers D. J. Fluker OT Alabama SEC
1 12 Oakland Raiders D. J. Hayden CB Houston C-USA from Miami [R1 – 3]
1 13 New York Jets Sheldon Richardson DT Missouri SEC from Tampa Bay [R1 – 4]
1 14 Carolina Panthers Star Lotulelei DT Utah Pac-12
1 15 New Orleans Saints Kenny Vaccaro S Texas Big 12
1 16 Buffalo Bills EJ Manuel QB Florida State ACC from St. Louis [R1 – 5]
1 17 Pittsburgh Steelers Jarvis Jones LB Georgia SEC
1 18 San Francisco 49ers Eric Reid† S LSU SEC from Dallas [R1 – 6]
1 19 New York Giants Justin Pugh OT Syracuse Big East
1 20 Chicago Bears Kyle Long† G Oregon Pac-12
1 21 Cincinnati Bengals Tyler Eifert TE Notre Dame Ind.
1 22 Atlanta Falcons Desmond Trufant CB Washington Pac-12 from Washington via St. Louis [R1 – 7]
1 23 Minnesota Vikings Sharrif Floyd DT Florida SEC
1 24 Indianapolis Colts Björn Werner DE Florida State ACC
1 25 Minnesota Vikings Xavier Rhodes CB Florida State ACC from Seattle [R1 – 8]
1 26 Green Bay Packers Datone Jones DE UCLA Pac-12
1 27 Houston Texans DeAndre Hopkins WR Clemson ACC
1 28 Denver Broncos Sylvester Williams DT North Carolina ACC
1 29 Minnesota Vikings Cordarrelle Patterson† WR Tennessee SEC from New England [R1 – 9]
1 30 St. Louis Rams Alec Ogletree LB Georgia SEC from Atlanta [R1 – 10]
1 31 Dallas Cowboys Travis Frederick C Wisconsin Big Ten from San Francisco [R1 – 11]
1 32 Baltimore Ravens Matt Elam S Florida SECNovember 13, 2014 at 5:53 pm in reply to: Does anyone here believe we can beat Denver on Sunday? #11777sdramParticipantI hope the Rams win but I’m picking The Denver Peyton’s to win.
sdramParticipantCrappy game to watch unless one is a Cleveland fan. The Browns looked to me like they’ve improved. I think they’ve put a lot into their secondary and it appears that it’s starting to pay off.
November 6, 2014 at 8:22 pm in reply to: Bill Polian Explains Faulk Deal, & Drafting James Over Ricky Williams #11359sdramParticipantSo, I read what I wrote earlier – it made no sense to me either. So, I’m still norminal right?
Peyton Manning playing his second season was part of the turn around I would think.
sdramParticipantI put my score in but I’ll post hear too
Cincinnati Bengals – 24
cleveland Browns – 21
I hope Manziel gets to play – would make the game more interesting.
November 6, 2014 at 6:34 pm in reply to: Bill Polian Explains Faulk Deal, & Drafting James Over Ricky Williams #11345sdramParticipantHe says “We wound up going 13–3 in our second season, a complete reversal of our first year and the biggest one-season turnaround in league history”
Peyton Manning also played his second season which is comparable to every season since his rookie season before the 13-3 if memory serves correctly.
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sdramParticipantI hope so. But, like others stated, I think the OL play and run game is a huge part of that being a possibility.
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November 5, 2014 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Rams lead NFC West in Sacks & other interesting stat things #11270sdramParticipantOne wonders how Arizona is 7 and 1
with only eight sacks. What is
their formula for winning?w
vArizona is +10 in turnover differential making them el segundo in that statistical category.
sdramParticipantThanks for sharing your fun day!
sdramParticipantAs to my fan-dumb, I have purchased the NFL package each of the last 5 or 6 years to watch the Rams every week. So I watch every game at least one time – so far I’ve watched every game this season live.
Although this last game I wasn’t paying that much attention to the game after the Chiefs ran the KO back to start the second half. I could feel the blowout coming. I hate blowouts. If things get slow here at the homestead, I may rewatch the Chief’s game sometime before tomorrows game. I DVR every game and the short take version and I’ll watch the short take or parts of it and sometimes more than once.
sdramParticipantI’m happy that they won. I hope that they can win their next game.
Aaron Donald should get the game ball – he was a beast.
October 19, 2014 at 11:31 am in reply to: rams-raiders-would-be-los-angeles-bound—-if-not-for-the-nfl #9921sdramParticipant“sources say”
I just cant give any weight
to articles like that.w
vNo news on the Rams staying in St Louis leaves a void and guys like LaCanfora will speculate – right or wrong. IT doesn’t help when the stands in St Louis are half empty and Kroenke is buying large tracts of land with a huge parking lot in the middle of Los Angeles.
But, it seems to me that recent history is that teams leverage the LA market against their current market to get what they really want. What does Kroenke really want? If St Louis blinks and gives Kroenke what he wants then what? Who knows –
October 19, 2014 at 10:13 am in reply to: Robert Quinn on Sack Drought “All it takes is one snowflake" #9907sdramParticipantI’m ready for the blizzard.
sdramParticipantI’m disappointed in the defense – and Fisher hired Greg Williams to help him mold what most think is a talented young group.
I just wonder – do they have the personnel to run Williams schemes? Will Chris Long make a difference when he returns? Will Williams adjust to his personnel?
sdramParticipantI thought Mason played great in his first game. And, the other rookies Donald, Robinson, Joyner, and Gaines played pretty well agin the stinking 9ers. Gaines appeared to get beat by Crabtree on the double post move thing for the TD but he plays pretty well for a sixth round pick.
Fisher and Snead have done a solid job getting talented young guys on the roster – now I think it needs to grow up, to mature, to blossom if you will. They can’t remain a bad call from getting beat every week.
Gawd I hate the niners – that was a hard game to watch. Especially the second time.
October 18, 2014 at 8:26 am in reply to: Rams and Seahawks game previews: articles, vids, audios, Wagoner, & co. #9837sdramParticipantOctober 17, 2014 5:12 pm
Seahawks list lengthy injury report for Week 7 against St. Louis
by Igor Mello | CBSSports.comThe Seahawks will be without the services of defensive tackle Jordan Hill (ankle), cornerback Byron Maxwell (calf), linebacker Bobby Wagner (toe), defensive end Cassius Marsh (foot), center Max Unger (foot) and tight end Zach Miller (ankle) in Week 7 at St. Louis. All six players were ruled out for Sunday’s game.
Tight end Luke Willson (groin) was listed as questionable and is expected to be a game-time decision, coach Pete Carroll said.
Meanwhile, running back Marshawn Lynch (not injury related), offensive tackle Alvin Bailey (oblique), cornerback Tharold Simon (knee), defensive tackle Brandon Mebane (not injury related) and defensive end Michael Bennett (not injury related) were all ruled probable against the Rams.
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