He reminds me of Wendell Tyler.

Boatload of running talent, just gives up the rock way too much.

Granted, later in his career, once he moved to the 9ers, I don’t think Tyler fumbled as often as he did when he was a Ram. I could be wrong on that.

ZN, we’re all getting older here. When you start a post with just someones handle, well, I thought the worst (that’s right, I thought Jack had turned Republican).

Just saying…

Speaking from direct knowledge, I have a skin condition, and I definitely notice it is less well contained toward the end of a tube of cream than when I get the new one.
QED, the fresh tube is more potent.

Me, the wife and kids watched “Ant Man” last night for the first time. We all thought it was very good. As far as super hero movies go, I thought it was well done and very entertaining. I think my favorites are “Deadpool” and “Ant Man”.
Course, I’ve always liked any movie a Douglas has been in since “The Vikings”.

Born in Bridgeport, CT? Hey! So was I!

This guy has made quite a bit of money in the NFL holding a clip board. Something he seems comfortable with. He may be just what the doctor ordered for our two young QB’s, but most people I know who were born in Bridgeport are a pretty surly lot.

Thanks, WV.

Neat article. I’ll admit, I’ve always liked crows. Back in the 70’s / 80’s, my mom was on a health kick so she’d pull all the skin off the chicken pieces before shake and baking them. She used to throw the skin out in the back yard, and the crows would be the first and only recipients. Now I think of it, chicken night was every Thursday. They must have known, and added it to their list of places to be. I never remember them leaving anything in return, but hey, it was Fairfield County, Connecticut; even the crows were cheap!

I consider this board home. This is the only place I post, period. I’m glad you found me during one of the recent exoduses. I was lost, but now I’m found… Speaking of that, I went through a very dark period in 2014-15-16. Most of my communications here helped me heal, some caused additional pain, but in the long run, it also helped the healing process (by “here” I’m including past incarnations of this board too). I do feel better.
My main disposition is that of a lurker. I lurk everywhere else, but here too. I get it when I post and no one replies; I know most of you look and just say “eh”. Totally OK. Never bothers me. Never, ever bothers me… Never. But I digress.
I’m very fond of you all. I do miss those who have died, but also those who have left of their own volition. I wish some would come back (sorry for calling you a cunt, Les).
I plan on being a poster here until there is no here here (and then I’ll post about this place, in this sphere or some other).
Funny thing is, I’m caring less and less about football (well, that might change if we ever get a good team), but am drawn here by the Public House. Keep up the good work you bleeding hearts!

That has to be a baby fisher cat or a really brave / stupid house cat in the vid.

Fisher cats get bigger than your average house cat, and are NASTY. A few years back we had one roaming our neighborhood, and they have a screech that is like a toddler having her finger nails ripped out. I mean, totally blood curdling.

We had friends over and I downloaded a video of a fisher cat’s screech. When I played it, my house cat booked down the stairs into the basement and didn’t come back up until the next morning. Probly thought one of those monsters was loose in our house! Yes, I’m mean to small creatures, but only after they are mean to me first (damn cat wakes me up between three and four AM every morning I’m home).

Jack, the movies are from the 21st Century. A lot of the ones you listed are from the 20th.

I had that same thought you did until I reread the initial post. I was like, where is “The Maltese Falcon” and Horse Feathers”?

Here’re some guesses:

The OL is much improved and that allows Gurley to rebound; maybe not to his rookie level, but servicable.

I have a bad feeling about Goff. I think he will do OK for the first part of the season, but the wear and tear is going to get to him. I predict he misses about three or four games, I just hope he doesn’t get injured enough to affect the rest of his career. He’s just too friggen skinny. Mannion has the look of someone who can be the QB of a power running team. No idea if he can be the man.

I think this is a learning year on both sides of the ball, and maybe again next year.

I don’t think Witworth will ever play on a playoff bound Rams team, but hopefully he can be the type of player – coach to get this young OL headed in the right direction for 2019.

Joe, I hear you about people building up arsenals… here’s some news on that front:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/03/news/companies/trump-gun-ammo-sales/

How President Trump is bad for the gun industry
by Aaron Smith @AaronSmithCNN
February 4, 2017: 9:52 AM ET

Will NRA-backed Trump actually hurt the gun industry?
It’s a paradox for the gun industry: Their pick for president, Donald Trump, is no good for gun sales.
President Barack Obama was the greatest gun salesman in America — until Hillary Clinton ran to replace him. Sales soared to records because gun owners feared they would impose tougher gun restrictions.
Now that a Republican endorsed by the National Rifle Association is in the White House, those supposed villains have disappeared. Sales of guns and ammo are falling, right along with the stocks of gun makers.

The gun industry was planning on, and I think the entire country was thinking, that Hillary was going to win,” Brian Skinner, the CEO of Kalashnikov USA, said in a recent interview with CNNMoney.
“And I know there was huge demand, all the manufacturers had huge orders, and then the day after the election, distributors were canceling orders left and right just because they realized Trump’s coming in now.”
Since Election Day, the two publicly traded gun manufacturers — Sturm Ruger (RGR) and the former Smith & Wesson, which rebranded itself as American Outdoor Brand (AOBC) — have suffered declines of more than 20% in their stock prices.
Background checks, which are conducted by the FBI for most gun purchases, dropped by 20% in January compared with a year earlier. And they were down 16% in December. Background checks do not precisely track gun sales, but they serve as the closest nationwide proxy.
Ammunition sales are down, too.
Demand was so strong in recent years that manufacturers couldn’t keep up, helping to boost imports to record levels last year. But Olin (OLN), the conglomerate that owns Winchester Ammunition, reported Wednesday that ammo sales plunged 20% in the fourth quarter last year compared with the quarter before. That reflects a buildup in the months leading up to the election, followed by a drop.
“I think people are going to slow down and the industry as a whole is going to adjust,” Skinner said from Kalashnikov USA’s sleek white booth at the SHOT Show, the annual gun industry conference in Las Vegas. “Some of them are going to die off because the demand is not going to be like they thought it was going to be the next four years.”
donald trump gun
Donald Trump is the NRA’s chosen one. So why are gun stocks falling now that he’s president?
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The past eight years will be a hard act to follow for the gun industry.
Gun production more than doubled during Obama’s tenure in the White House, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. And the FBI conducted more than 27 million background checks in 2016, breaking the previous year’s record.
The end of the spike in “political sales” weighs heavily on the industry, said Robert Spitzer, a political science professor at the State University of New York and the author of the book “Guns Across America.”
Because of Trump’s election, “there is no political incentive to buy guns, and, as a consequence, we’ve seen a drop in gun sales,” he said, projecting that “gun sales will be flat” going forward, as the manufacturers and retailers are now “a victim of their success.”
Gun makers Vista Outdoor and Sig Sauer recently branched into ammo production, prompted by the boom in demand the last few years. It’s a way of hedging their production: Ammo sales might be slowing, but at least bullets are products that get used up and replenished.
Guns, of course, last for years or generations. So gun makers and sellers must rely on collectors who buy more than one gun, and newly minted enthusiasts buying guns for the first time. The bad news for manufacturers is that there’s already a stockpile of inventory.
Related video: Obama and Clinton were the greatest gun sellers in America
“The landscape of the gun industry has changed dramatically,” said Louis Frutuoso, owner of Standard Manufacturing, a gun manufacturer in New Britain, Connecticut. “All the gun manufacturers were essentially hedging their bets on Hillary getting in. To that end, all the gun manufacturers produced and produced and produced a lot of guns.”
Frutuoso makes the DP-12, an unusual pump-action double-barrel shotgun that reporters were lining up to shoot at the SHOT Show’s desert range in Boulder City. He also makes AR-15s, military-style rifles whose sales spiked because of fears that Clinton would impose an assault weapon ban, as Obama tried and failed to do. Frutuoso said this resulted in an inventory glut at warehouses and gun shops.
“President Trump won the election, and now people aren’t compelled to purchase firearms because now it’s a pro-gun kind of government,” he said, over the boom of the DP-12 being fired nearby. “There’s going to be a lot of guns in the pipe for a great long period, simply because of the course of events leading to this.”

Thanks for posting.

That was a very interesting read.

We need more Chief Utz’s in this country.

I donno…

President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

How would “former US officials” know what was said there, unless they were Russian?

Hard for me to believe even Trump could do this, but his is such a narcissistic braggard that I can’t put anything part him.