…”You can see that there is a different gear with the way he’s preparing,” right tackle Rob Havenstein said. “I mean, shoot, he even has his own diet going on. Get that body right.”
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Well, we knew about his diet last year because of his enzyme deficiency. I wonder if he has modified ‘that’ diet or if they are just talking about the earlier diet.

enzyme deficiency diet:https://heavy.com/sports/2019/02/jared-goff-diet-enzyme-deficiency/
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According to Fox Sports, Ryan Flaherty, a strength and speed coach, studied Jared Goff’s blood work and discovered that Goff “has an enzyme deficiency that didn’t allow him to break down proteins.”…
“We had to adjust his diet and implement probiotics and get him on amino acid supplements,” Flaherty said to Fox Sports. “He’s eating lots of lean chicken, turkey and fish. Working on his diet was the big unlock for him. We saw big changes in Jared. The biggest thing was seeing advances in his strength.”

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Well there are numerous reasons the Bills/Bisons will lose,
but the main reason is — their name was a nod towards the American Frontier.
Which means, ispso facto, that Bills fans are in favor of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Thus, the Rams will hunt down and ruthlessly, joyously slaughter the Bisons.
It will be like gunning down slow, plodding beasts from a train, and leaving them in piles on the plains. In the spirit of the frontier.

Rams – 20
Bills – 19

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Wiki
“…Name origins
In 1947 a contest was held to rename the AAFC Bisons, which was owned by James Breuil of the Frontier Oil Company. The winning entry suggested “Bills”, reflecting on the famous western frontiersman, Buffalo Bill Cody. Carrying the “frontier” theme further, the winning contestant offered the team was being supported by Frontier Oil and was “opening a new frontier in sports in Western New York.” When Buffalo joined the new American Football League in 1960, the name of the city’s earlier pro football entry was adopted.[12]…
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…..The Bills currently do not have cheerleaders. The Bills operated a cheerleading squad named the Buffalo Jills from 1967 to 1985; from 1986 to 2013, the Jills operated as an independent organization sponsored by various companies, most recently by Citadel Broadcasting. The Jills suspended operations prior to the 2014 season due to legal actions.[58] The Bills and Jills are currently involved in a legal battle, in which the Jills allege they were employees, not independent contractors, and are seeking back pay.[59] Complicating matters is that Citadel’s buyer, Cumulus Media, declared bankruptcy and sought to discharge its remaining Bills-related debts in January 2018.[60]….
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….The Bills’ unofficial fight song, “Go Bills”, was penned by Bills head coach Marv Levy in the mid-1990s on a friendly wager with his players that he will write the song if the team won a particular game.[64]…”

Zooey wrote:

…They militarized the police. What for? Not to protect the community. They don’t need that level of armor and weaponry to protect. They need it to suppress the community, to coerce it. Why do they think they need to have police militarized to suppress people? Because they are squeezing the shit out of everybody, and they know they are going to continue to squeeze the shit out of us….

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This kinda touches on a couple things that have been rolling around in my head, but i havent had the brainpower to really crystallize my thots.

Uncrystallized-Thot-1 has to do with the purely strategic decision to use the word ‘defund’ as in defund the police. I hate it. I think its terrible terrible strategy to use that term. I think it plays into rightwing arguments that the left wants to destroy law and order, blah blah. The rightwing-argument is being made to the middle-of-the-roaders, of course. The deciders. The folks who could go either way. Now the polls (as i understand it) say most voters are ok with ‘defunding’ the police, but i dont trust those polls. Like, AT ALL. I could go on about this, but i think it was terrible leftist strategy to use the term defund. There were WAY better words/memes/terms.

Uncrystallized-thot-2 has to do with how leftists talk about the ‘function’ of the police and the history of the police, and the reason we have police, etc.
I love Adolph Reed, but i was listnin to his chat with Ralph Nader and he was reducing the ‘function of the police’ down to protecting-rich-folks-property, etc. The usual leftist reductionism concerning the police. I dont like THAT notion as a talking point either. And i dont think its true. A BIG PART of the reason we have police is to protect the dirty rotten capitalist-system. But thats not all of it. We also have police to catch child molesters and rapists, etc. Police WILL go after RICH child molesters as well as poor ones. Ask any middle-class-mon if she wants to get rid of the police.
I dont think its accurate or strategically wise to reduce the police down to “protectors of capitalist-inequality’. The police are a lot of things. Not all of it is about capitalist-inequality. I worry that middle-of-the-roaders will be turned off by the painting of the police in such black and white terms.

Uncrystallized-thot-3 — This goes to your thought above. There are so many catch-22s, paradoxes, and conundrums brought about by capitalism.
Capitalism itself causes an entire underclass of americans to be stressed, oppressed, driven to desperation. That leads to an underclass prone to street violence. Capitalism essentially forces/compels/nudges poor people towards ‘crime’ and violence. Kick a dog enough, and you end up with a dangerous dog.

So that makes capitalist-police ‘necessary’ doesn’t it. Capitalism creates the violent street crime, and then capitalism has to supply the police to protect the underclass and the middle-class. Its an evil game.

Now you have some radical-leftists saying the police are bad, we dont need them. O really? Capitalism has created a lot of desperate people. What do we think would happen without the capitalist-police? Utopia?
It would be bad. Its one kind of bad WITH the police, and it would be another kind of bad WITHOUT the police — but which kind of bad would scare middle-of-the-road-VOTERS MORE?

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joemad wrote:

I don’t think people realize the magnitude of these fires this season…. >…

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I believe that. At least, i think a lot of folks in the East dont know, and honestly, probly dont care. And i suspect the reason is a kind of emotional-burn-out. Climate Change, The Pandemic, the Depression, the Uprisings, Hurricanes, Trump-shit… have just drained people.

And now…Fires.

There’s just a limit on how much people can take-in.

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Being a seahawk fan, you never understood the nuances of the game.

If he hits Henderson on that play, its game-over and tv-viewers turn off the game.
A QB has to think of the corporate advertisers. They make the cap go up. They make it possible for the rich to build 5 billion dollar stadiums. And those riches will then trickle down onto all fans, everywhere. Goff understands this. And thus the overthrow of Henderson.

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Rogan had said something about the Fires being started by leftists. He later apologized for getting it wrong. (Ive noticed Rogan can get pulled to the Right when he interviews his military/special-forces/macho type buddies):

I fucked up on the podcast with Douglas Murray and said that people got arrested lighting fires in Portland. That turns out to not be true. I was very irresponsible not looking into it before I repeated it. I read one story about a guy getting arrested for lighting fires…

— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) September 18, 2020

Well, as I’ve said the last gazillion years, I believe in the 4 game rule.

4 Games before I draw any major conclusions.

The Buffalo game will tell us a lot, obviously.

There were definitely things to be concerned about in that Philly game. 24-19 with ten minutes left. Eagles were bullying that new defense pretty-good.

Woods, Kupp, VJ and Higbee are fun to watch.

I’ve read a poster here and there compare this Offense to the Gurley offense. In my view there’s no comparison. What Gurley could do before the knee went bad, was special. They have plenty of fine weapons now, but they have nothing comparable to a healthy Gurley.

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On the huge-Wentz-INT, it was a great play by Darius Willams,
but it looked to me like the Ref could have easily called Jalen Ramsey for hitting a helpless WR on the play. It was close. Ramsey didnt totally unload but he didnt really try to pull up, either. Could have gone either way.

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The eagles certainly missed their fans. I assume road teams will win more often than usual because of the absence of home-fans. Will be an interesting stat this year.

Though, one imagines the Vikings or Patriots piping in Jet-Engine noise on third and long, late in games.

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Ive watched a bit of the replay. I have to say, the Rams second drive — the one that lead to their second td to make the score 14-3–
was as good a drive as you’ll see this year. Granted we dont know how bad the Eagles Defense will be this season, but nevertheless, if you get a chance, rewatch that Drive. The announcer (Chris Speilman?) even commented about McVay being in the ‘zone’ on that drive. RFL used to use the term ‘whipsaw’ to describe a nice playcalling sequence. The playcalling and the execution just whipsawed the Eagle Defense all the way down the field.

They matriculated. I’m tellin ya. Thing of beauty.

My biggest concern — as it will be all year — is the OLine. The Rams OLine hasnt been tested. They’ve mostly had the lead, they’ve mostly been able to run (which is great), theyve mostly avoided third-and-longs (which is great), and they’ve had those rollouts working (which is great) — but at some point the OLine is gonna have to show they can hold up on third and long, in the clutch, when playing from behind. I have my doubts. Especially given Whit’s age.

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Well after the Eagles game, I think its clear Robert Woods has lost a step. Probly a Bust.

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So far, Is Goff rolling out more than last year? Or is he just more successful on roll-outs this year? So far, the roll-outs seem to be very effective. I’m sure teams will adjust but so far they are working.

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Maybe social-media should accuse Kiser of missed tackles more often.

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