Zooey wrote:

The Republican candidate for president has won the popular vote once out of the past 8 elections.

Only 25% of the country identifies as Republican, and a quarter of them are 65+, and more than half are 50+.

To the extent that they have been successful, it has been largely due to gerrymandering and a wide variety of voter suppression tactics.

What I’m saying is… they can’t afford to alienate any Republicans. .

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Which is why, to state the obvious, the elites HAVE to control
the Duplicat-Party. They HAVE to derail any progressive leanings
in the Dem Party.

I also think another reason no witnesses were called is because
the Dems were afraid of something. They were afraid of what
the REP Witnesses would say about Dems.

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I dont always agree with Lavar Arrington,
but i always enjoy listening to his smooth, articulate perspective.

About half-way thru this vid, he is asked about JJ Watt,
but he talks about Aaron Donald:

I am guessing we may see Quarterbacking like we haven’t seen since John Hadl.
I dunno how many people remember the big John Hadl/Harold Jackson year
but it was a LOT of fun to watch. The ball was flying all over the place.

I expect to see the deep ball again, which should
help McVay’s short-game. The little screens and such, should be
better now that the entire field is threatened all the time.

But. I still think we are looking at a 10-win-team
if the OLine isnt upgraded just a bit.

Brady got all the pub as per usual, and the Bucs D
got a ton of pub, but what impressed me most about the Bucs
championship run was OLine. Seemed to me everytime Brady
wanted to go deep to Evans or whoever, he had an amazingly
clean pocket. I was startled at just how much time they
gave him. And then there’s Russell Wilson, Aaron Rogers, etc.

Can the Rams build a championship Oline?
We’ll see.

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Well, I havent followed any of this theater very closely,
so that being said, I thought from the beginning that
Trump stopped short of ‘inciting’ that crowd
in a way that could be proven ‘criminal.’
He never said any of the magic words necessary
for a criminal conviction, in my view.

He didnt expressly tell them to gouge out cops eyes
or bash in windows or bring pipe bombs, etc, etc.

He just didnt.

Did he secretly want them to bring down the government
and make him King of the World? Sure, no doubt.
But he has always been craftier than people
give him credit for. His words are open to interpretation.
They just are. Lots of Reps did NOT force their way
into the Capital Bldng. Why didnt they?
Because they didnt interpret his words in a way
that would lead them toward violence.

You could not get 12 people on a jury to agree on
any of this. Trust me. A prosecutor would be
lucky to get 8 out of 12.

Now maybe there’s ‘other’ evidence I’m not aware of
but if we are just going by trumps weasel words?
Nah, its not enough. He went right up to the line — and
didnt cross it. Which is typical for Trump.
He’s a master at it.

Just my opinion.

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Chiefs still heavy favorites.
Not at all surprising.

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Next Man Up:https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2021-chiefs-offensive-line-coach-not-fazed-by-injuries-despite-not-having-both-starting-tackles/

Super Bowl LV is headlined by the matchup between quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady, but arguably the most important facet of this game has to do with how well the Kansas City Chiefs offensive line can handle the Tampa Bay Buccaneers pass rush. Unfortunately, the Chiefs have had to deal with numerous injuries along the offensive line in 2020, and those misfortunes continued into the postseason. In the AFC Championship game against the Buffalo Bills, starting left tackle Eric Fisher went down with a torn Achilles, and with Mitchell Schwartz already on injured reserve due to a back injury, the Chiefs will not have either of their starting tackles for Super Bowl LV.

While Kansas City’s starting lineup is being reshuffled yet again right before the biggest game of the year, Chiefs offensive line coach Andy Heck told reporters on Tuesday that his position group is deep, and that they all have the “next man up” mentality.

“To me, it feels like something that’s a constant in this league,” Heck said when asked about adjusting his lineup again. “You always have seasons where you’ve gotta … ‘Hey, next man up.’ You’ve gotta move a guy here to there and so in that regard, this is not unusual. I think the way you get them ready for that is you just approach it with a mentality that it doesn’t matter if you’re playing left guard or right tackle. There’s only a certain amount of blocks you gotta make.”

“I feel like they play as one no matter where they’re at. They have that continuity, they’ve been put through that situation at some point or another.”

Heck is correct in saying that his linemen have been put through every situation. On Monday, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid pointed out something that was very interesting in that regard. According to ESPN’s Dianna Russini, at practice, the Chiefs’ entire offensive line will play every single position on the line. So no one is set in one spot and everyone is somewhat prepared to play in any position anytime it is needed.

Heck says he hasn’t officially made a decision on his starters for Sunday, but we have an educated guess of what it could look like:

Chiefs potential starting OL:

LT Mike Remmers Replaced Schwartz at RT in Week 7

LG Nick Allegretti Drafted in 7th round in 2019

C Austin Reiter Drafted in 7th round in 2015

RG Stefen Wisniewski Waived by Steelers in November

RT Andrew Wylie RG this season (UDFA in 2017)

When Fisher exited the game two weeks ago with his Achilles injury, Remmers moved from right tackle to left, and Wylie moved to right tackle. Reiter is obviously still the starting center, Allegretti is at left guard and then Wisniewski fills in for Wylie at right guard. Heck said he’s comfortable in Remmers’ experience on the outside, and that Wylie is athletic enough to play tackle instead of guard.

Whoever starts on Sunday is going to have their work cut out for them, however, as the Buccaneers’ defensive front has been dominant as of late. Shaquil Barrett sacked Aaron Rodgers three times in the NFC Championship game, Jason Pierre-Paul got to him twice and then the Buccaneers also return Vita Vea from injury for the second game in a row — he provides a big interior push from the nose tackle position. With how versatile Mahomes is in the pocket coupled with the Chiefs’ speedy weapons who know how to get open in a hurry, maybe this patchwork offensive line won’t be a big problem. Either way, Heck says his guys are up for the challenge, and that he’s quite comfortable with his players in whatever positions they are playing.

“The guys that are in my room, it doesn’t matter who they are, where they’re from — man, we roll,” said Heck. “Let’s get to work. And this particular group we have this year, I absolutely love. These guys come to work every day, they’re a lot of fun to be around and they love to compete.”

Zooey wrote:

Maybe you guys will start listening to me now. I’ve said from the beginning that Aaron Donald is good. What’s it going to take to convince the rest of you?

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If you Hate Merlin so much, maybe
you should just start wearing
Joe Kapp jerseys.

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Glad your ok now, ER.

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I read an article years ago about a young
Roman Gabriel, who had such a gun that he would throw 50 yard bullets.
Not bombs, but bullets. 50 yards. And he had to be coached out of that.

Stafford’s arm is just ridiculous. I hope these Ram WRs and Tight Ends and RBs can hang on to his passes, cause its gonna be an adjustment.

I’m already excited about next year. As a fan, i havent been
this excited about a ram season in a while. And i know
the whole thing may blow up. The Oline may implode, the defense
might regress, etc. I know this isnt the 99 Rams we are gonna see.

But I’m excited to see this QB.

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zn wrote:

You can’t take bait like that so easily.

I mean who is Gottlieb and who are his “sources”?

Meanwhile there are several beat reporters in LA and even national guys based in LA and across 5 years we heard none of this.

And of top of it no one knows Goff better than Holmes, the former Rams chief of scouting who is now the Detroit GM and just traded for him.

Do you trade for a guy with a questionable work ethic?

In fact Holmes turned down an offer for Stafford that included the 8th pick in the draft (from Carolina). If Detroit took that, they would have the 7th and 8th picks in the draft, which is plenty of ammo to go after a qb. Instead he took Goff.

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Well, he said flat-out it came from inside sources,
so if he’s lying thats pretty bad.

What i wonder is, if there is someone in the Rams Org
who is trashing Goff. Thats the issue to me. Not
whether ‘its true’ or not. Just that there
is someone trashing Goff.

Its not very classy if thats whats happening.

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joemad wrote:

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I think Les is in way over his head… he’s like a degenerate gambler trying to play catch up on a Monday Night Football game bet to make for his Sunday’s losses…

He’s gambling the future on an old horse at QB when he had a more than capable QB who was combat proven to win huge games.
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I just dont think any of us can ‘know’ that.
McSnead obviously think they couldnt win a Ring with Goff.
They could come close, but not quite get past the Chiefs, Packers, 49ers.

Maybe they are right. We dunno.

We will have to wait and see.

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If you havent listened to that Gottleib vid above, you might wanna.
Gottleib claims his info came from a coupla sources inside
the rams….says goff’s work ethic wasnt as good as Wolford’s and he didnt take work-ethic cues from workaholic McVay, and Goff didnt take responsibility for bad games, etc.

Either Gottleib is just full of shit,
or some rams people are trashing Goff,
or…i dunno.

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Jalen was fun on this.

Zooey wrote:

Mike Silver’s article reads to me like the work of a guy who has a preference for Goff over McVay on a personal level.

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Yeah, i thought so too.

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These guys are 49er fans. In another vid they called Goff “a day off for the 49er defense.” They said the 49ers ‘owned’ Goff.

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