A strange sight, five million years ago…

zn wrote:

Rams ‘C’ grade for Matthew Stafford trade aged horribly
Five years after the Los Angeles Rams “lost” trade for Matthew Stafford, the deal looks wildly different now.s…

I didnt realize there had been people who gave the rams a low grade on that trade.
Maybe i’ve just forgotten how it was viewed.

But I do remember Kyle Shanahan wanted Stafford.

Just seemed like an obvious upgrade to everyone on this board, anyway.

Goff is a B+. Maybe even an A-. But Stafford is an A or an A+.

I never saw Bob Waterfield or Norm Van Brocklin, but Stafford is the best Ram QB I’ve seen.

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Top Tier: Stafford, Warner

Second Tier: Gabriel, Everett, Bulger, Goff. (Trent Green)

Third Tier: Jaworski, James Harris, Ferragamo, Chris Chandler.

Fourth Tier: Pat Haden, Tony Banks, Dieter Brock.

I dunno what to do with John Hadl. He was very good, but he only had one full year that i can remember with the Rams and he was a bit past his prime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Los_Angeles_Rams_starting_quarterbacks
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canadaram wrote:

I get McVay’s regret about how he handled things with Goff. However, had he been transparent with Goff and told him that the Rams were going to explore trading him and then the trade didn’t come to fruition, how would that have impacted their relationship moving forward? I’m not trying to defend McVay, as it doesn’t even seem like he’s defending himself in this case. It’s just something I wonder about. It seems like a difficult and maybe even risky conversation to have with your starting qb.

I wonder if the Goff experience affected McVay’s handling of the AJ Brown / Davante Adams situation.

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Zooey wrote:

I’m skeptical of that.

Rams: “Hey, we’d love to play the 49ers in Australia.”
NFL: “Oh, okay.”

Well, fwiw, here it is. Middlekauf seems rather emphatic about it. About the 4 or 5 minute mark.

language

I only see six games where I feel pretty confident about the Rams winning. And even a couple of those are iffy. That leaves 11 games that are basically even-ish, in my view.
So if they win half of those even-ish games, AND if they dont get upset in the six games they ‘should’ win — that would be 11 and 6, or 12 and 5. There-abouts.

That would be great.

At least they dont have to play the Texans defense this year. But they do get Denver, Philly, Chargers, Seattle-twice.

Good Offenses – they get 49ers-twice, Packers, Cowboys, Bills, Chiefs.

Its annoying to play Philly in Philadelphia again, because a head-to-head loss with the Eagles could easily play into the home-field situation.

I dunno guys.

There is No F’ing way ANY team with this schedule is getting the no.1 seed. Aint happening. A team with an easier schedule will pile up more wins against weak teams.

I’d say that first game is slightly important. Ya know.

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2026
Week 1: San Francisco 49ers, 8:35 p.m. Thur (Australia)
Week 2: New York Giants, Mon 8:15 p.m.
Week 3: at Denver Broncos, 8:20 p.m.
Week 4: at Philadelphia Eagles, 1 p.m.

Week 5: Buffalo Bills, Mon 8:15 p.m.
Week 6: Arizona Cardinals, 4:05 p.m.
Week 7: at Las Vegas Raiders, 4:25 p.m.
Week 8: Los Angeles Chargers,

Week 9: at Washington Commanders, 1 p.m.
Week 10: at Arizona Cardinals, 4:25 p.m.
Week 11: Bye
Week 12: Green Bay Packers, Wed. 8 p.m.
Week 13: Kansas City Chiefs, Thur 8:15

Week 14: at San Francisco 49ers, 4:25 p.m.
Week 15: Dallas Cowboys, 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS
Week 16: at Seattle Seahawks (Christmas), 8:15 p.m.
Week 17: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Week 18: Seattle Seahawks

I came across this topic in a book I’m reading. I’d never heard of the ‘Workers Olympiads’. A kind-of socialist-olympics. There were 3, but the biggest was in 1931.

I think we need a leftist football league.

A.I.
The 1931 Workers’ Summer Olympiad in Vienna was a massive international sporting event held from July 19–26, 1931, serving as a socialist counterweight to the “bourgeois” Olympic Games. With over 100,000 athletes and 250,000 spectators, it was the largest sporting event held in Vienna at the time, prioritizing solidarity, peace, and participation over national rivalry

Ideology: Organized by the Socialist Workers’ Sport International, the games rejected the nationalism, commercialism, and elitism of the official Olympic Games. They promoted international friendship, with the red flag flying instead of national flags.

Scale: About 100,000 participants (including mass gymnastics) from 26 nations took part, exceeding the scale of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.

Venue & Events: The games were held in the newly constructed Praterstadion (now Ernst-Happel-Stadion) and the Stadionbad. Events included soccer, athletics, swimming, boxing, gymnastics, and chess.

Cultural Focus: Beyond sports, the event featured a massive “Große Festspiel” opening ceremony.

Finals: The workers’ football tournament final was played in front of 60,000 spectators at the Praterstadion, where the Austrian team defeated Germany 3–2.

canadaram wrote:

If I knew how to post photos, I would post a photo of a buzz saw.

Yeah, that one is unreal. I mean even 3 of the teams that were losers last year, are likely to be a lot better this year: Giants, Commanders, Raiders.

There is no way any team with this schedule is getting the no.1 seed. Very unlikely any team with this schedule is winning a division.

I’m just hoping for a wild-card at this point. I’d take that in a minute.

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Mina points out last year, in the second half of the season, the Seahawks offense was 26th in QBR, and 30th in red-zone efficiency — and they went 8-1.

Seemed to me, after the Darnold-melt-down game against the Rams, MacDonald changed the offensive approach. Looked to me like he reined-in Darnold a bit, ran a more conservative, safe offense. It worked.

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