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  • in reply to: Rams signings as free agency starts #149758
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    I never hear a word about Wentz.   He would be as good a backup as there is in the NFC.    Why is it a foregone conclusion he is leaving?

     

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    in reply to: Rams signings as free agency starts #149756
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    Fwiw, I Love both signings.

    Run the F’ing ball.

     

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    in reply to: Dotson deal done, Demoff delightedly declares #149695
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    Ok, great.   But i’m still pissed-off that Zack Martin wasn’t a Ram.

     

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    in reply to: around the league tweets etc. … starting 2/5 #149659
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    in reply to: around the league tweets etc. … starting 2/5 #149608
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    Saw a stat on the Patriots.   Over last ten years, they have had 18 first or second round picks.

    Of those picks on 1 made a probowl, and that was QB Mac Joens who made it one year.

    Zero first team all-pros.

    Zero players signed by Pats to a second contract.

     

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    in reply to: the new political tweets thread (4/4 2022) #149598
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    Just a reminder of what Noam thinks of the Republican Party.   At the 5:09 mark, or so.

    in reply to: around the league tweets etc. … starting 2/5 #149578
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    Rams locker room at So-Fi, rated D+ (bout the seven minute mark)

    in reply to: around the league tweets etc. … starting 2/5 #149570
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    Bears GM, was once the the Chiefs scouting director when they drafted Mahomes.

    “…There are QBs who are artists, and there are QBs who are surgeons….”

     

    in reply to: around the league tweets etc. … starting 2/5 #149557
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    Spags from five years ago.

    in reply to: Rams sign Robinson to a 1 year #149529
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    Excellent.   Wish it was a two year deal.

    Need Kupp and Higby to get healthy.

     

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    in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 2/16 – 2/25 #149528
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    Where would Andy Reid rank if someone else had drafted Mahomes?

    Belichick never won a super bowl as a head coach without Brady.

    It gets tricky ‘ranking’ head coaches.

    I always thought it was significant that Joe Gibbs won super bowls with three different QBs.   Though, the QB position is probably more important now than it was in Gibb’s day.

     

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    in reply to: 1969 #149509
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    Some rams highlights in the first few mins, in this vid.

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    Yeah, i saw a Mel Kiper vid, where he says he doesnt know what to think of Michigan’s QB.

    I had never heard Know-it-all-Mel say anthing like that, before.

     

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    in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 2/16 – 2/25 #149485
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    Umm…..how many attendees at the Ram games were actually Ram fans?

     

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    in reply to: 1969 #149456
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    The Uniforms, though.  The uniforms.

     

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    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149437
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    RG3 (who played for shanahan) has some interesting things to say, here.

    in reply to: different science stuff #149433
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    Interesting.

    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149432
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    Concerning next season.   So, if i had to pick between the Chiefs, or — the other 31 teams?    ….man, i dunno.   Normally, i would never favor one team over the field, but….the Chiefs look poised for a three-peat.   I mean, they probly wont lose much at all this offseason.  Maybe one guy in the secondary, i think.   And they will probably upgrade their WR corps.

    I guess, I’d still pick the field.   Bills, Bengals, Ravens, Browns, Lions, 49ers, Rams, Packers…

    But, I dunno.

     

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    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149431
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    in reply to: around the league tweets etc. … starting 2/5 #149420
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    Brady.  First half of the vid probly aint worth watchin, but the second half was good, i thought.   Brady is quite ‘old school.’   Team first.

    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149419
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    Steve Young thinks the next ten super bowls will be won by quarterbacks who can run.

    Interesting that Young must consider Stafford to be a running QB. I wouldn’t put him in that category myself.

     

    Yeah, i was a bit surprised Steve Young put things in such black and white terms.   I would have agreed with him, if he had just said something like “with the new rules changes the QB position is more important now, than ever before, and an elite QB who can also run, is more valuable than an elite QB who cant run”.    Or somethin close to that.

    I mean, Brady could still win in this new era.  And Stafford, obviously.  And what is Joe Burrow btw?   Is he a pocket guy, or something else?   Steve Young said you need to have a QB nowadays who can get 60 yards or more, in playoff games.  Is Burrow a 60 yard-guy?

    I think i would agree that maybe its ‘harder’ now for a non-running-QB to win a super bowl, than say, in Trent Dilfer’s day or Kurt Warner’s day.   But i still think it can be done.  I mean Purdy came within a hair of doing it a few days ago.

    Despite the rules changes, i still kinda think its a mistake to limit discussions to whether a particular QB  ‘can win a super bowl.’    Still seems to me, you have to look at what the rest of the team looks like.   If you have the 85 Bears defense, and an all-star cast on offense, then thats one context.   If you have the 97 Rams personnel, then thats a different context.

    Given enough surrounding talent, I would think about half the QBs in the NFL can ‘win the super bowl.’

     

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    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149412
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    Steve Young thinks the next ten super bowls will be won by quarterbacks who can run.

    in reply to: Books #149409
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    Btw, at the 28 minute mark, Greg C, is tickled by one particular play the Chiefs called.   He doesnt know how the Chiefs knew SF would be in man to man coverage on this play.

    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149397
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    Lotta talking heads blaming Shanahan for the loss, and crowning Andy Reid as the best ever, etc.

    But, put Mahomes on the 49ers, and how does Reid look, and how does Shanahan look?

     

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    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149396
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    SF fires their DC.

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    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149394
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    mirriam webster

     

    Dynasty

    1
    a succession of rulers of the same line of descent 
    2

    : a powerful group or family that maintains its position for a considerable time

     
    Sports Dynasties
    Dynasty has been in use in English for over 600 years, for most of that time referring to a ruling family that maintains power through succession. Around the beginning of the 19th century, the word developed the figurative sense “a group or family that dominates a particular field for generations.” Nowadays, this sense of dynasty is often applied to a sports franchise which has a prolonged run of successful seasons. The sports use appears to have begun in the early 20th century. An article in The Washington Post in 1905 refers to “John T. Brush’s baseball dynasty,” and by 1912 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that “if players were free agents at the end of every two years, baseball dynasties such as those built up by the Cubs, Athletics, Detroits and Giants would not be possible.”
    Dynast and dynasty both descend from the Greek verb dynasthai, which means “to be able” or “to have power.” Dynasty came to prominence in English first; it has been part of our language since at least the 14th century. Dynast took its place in the linguistic family line in the early 1600s, and it has been used to describe sovereigns and other rulers ever since.

    Etymology

    Middle English dynastia, dynastie “power, sovereignty, succession of rulers,” borrowed from Medieval Latin dynastīa, going back to Late Latin, “rule, power,” borrowed from Greek dynasteía “arbitrarily exercised political power, lordship, rule,” from dynástēs “holder of political power, lord, ruler” + -eia y-entry 2 — more at dynast

     

    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149390
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    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149365
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    So this Mahomes guy, is pretty good, I’d say.

     

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    in reply to: super bowl reactions … during & after #149364
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    Guess who is favored to win the Next super bowl?   According to Vegas….. 49ers.

     

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