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wvParticipantArent those 3 QB ratings kinda low for this day-and-age. I’m used to seeing 100+ ratings for the top five QBs, or so.
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wvParticipantWell, as a senior-citizen-fan, I just take a philo-sophical view of football-flags in general. I just dont spend more than a few seconds thinking about whether this or that call was legit or not. My brain just doesnt value that type of synapse-work.
I’m waaaay more interested in the general flow of the games, the tactics, the trajectories, etc.
The really bad calls are few and far between, and about half the time, they will go in the Rams favor.
I spent three seconds looking at the call, and it looked like a penalty to me, but i didnt dwell on it.
A defense that gives up the big plays, in the Clutch, that the Rams gave up in that game, has a serious problem.
An offense that comes back the way the Rams did in that game, is seriously dangerous.
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vwvParticipantI only watched the ten-minute hi-lite vid. Sigh.
I dunno. Three games in, its still too early to say much.
But I’ll say this — it doesnt look like a Super-Bowl Team. It just doesnt. Not like the 99 Rams or the other ring-teams over the years.
But it does look like a well-coached, dangerous team. Certainly, could be a playoff team, and certainly could win a couple of playoff games. Or not.
Feels like an improved team from the Nine-Win team of last year. But its not a 14-2 type team, either. Somewhere in between is what it looks like.
Course almost all the NFL teams are a Left-Tackl-injury away from mediocrity.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantAnother avenue that progressives talk about all the time, is the link between Race and Poverty. There’s all kinds of facts/reasons why so many African-Americans ended up poor. A LOT of the reasons have to do with various forms of systemic-Racism.
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1) Racism spawned Poverty. Or at least racism is a significant part of the problem of poverty. Not all, but a big part. (The rest of it, is just the evil of Capitalism)2)And then Poverty spawns People Living in POVERTY WITH STRESS, Stress, STRESS. Depression/Anger/Hopelessnes/frustration/bad-or-no-medical-care/drug-use/Etc.
Poverty also means people have a hard time paying for Car Inspections, Car Insurance, Drivers License Fees, etc. All kinds of Car stuff.
Poverty is a shit-storm, in and of itself.
Its been my experience that middle-class and wealthy white people simply Do..Not…Get…the ‘stress’ poor people live with every single day.3) So then you have Race/Poverty meets….the Police.
What would we predict would happen?
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vwvParticipantWell-to be honest I found each of those features to be quite candid and persuasive and consistent with my opinions on the subject. I also did not hear any one of them say they do not support BLM. Their concern is how people with a preconceived notion bias will affect their reaction to a black being killed during an interaction with the police.
A preconceived notion bias is where some will look at that video and take it to mean these scholars do not support BLM or somehow are defending criminal cops when in fact more than one calls these cops murderers. Whether it fits one’s preconceive notion bias or not the truth of the matter is that there are justifiable actions involving cops killing blacks and there are justifiable actions involving cops killing whites.
It’s also a preconceived notion bias when one turns the percentage data on its head to support their bias as was explained by the Columbia professor.
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Well i thought you would agree with them. I think a ton of people would agree with them.
I think they get some things right, and some things wrong. I think Adolph Reed Jr, has a better take on things. He would overlap some of their views, but diverge on some fundamental stuff.
The main problem I (as a leftist) have with them is this — Yes, they are right to point out that Race does not explain the Facts/Stats.
Plenty of POOR-whites are killed by police.
And yes, plenty of POOR-blacks kill other POOR-blacks. Many more than the Cops are killing.Yes. Those are indeed facts, and they are facts that get ignored by the “Race explains everything” crowd. (And the rightwingers make a lot of headway by pointing that out. And the libs lose ground by ignoring that, perhaps)
But here’s where those centrists in the vid (thats what I’m calling them)Fail. They dont say a word about how all those POOR people ended up POOR. They dont talk about the desperation and hopeless situation the poor are in. They dont talk about how CAPITALISM sets up the poor for all kinds of tense encounters with the Police. The sins of Capitalism are invisible to the Centrists. Its all about ‘individual’ failings of individual poor people, both black and white.
I’d also add this — the vid shows centrists talking about KILLINGS. Only killings. They do not talk about all the times black people are pulled over, accused of crimes, harassed, etc, etc, etc. They seem to ignore the facts on that dynamic completely. Its not just about Killings.
So, i would say, the Centrists in that Vid did some minimizing of the Race-problem, and they totally ignored how the capitalist-system creates a poor, desperate, stressed, UnderClass, which is vulnerable to ugly encounters with authority, such as Police.
37 More Days to the Election. Keep your fingers crossed.
PS — we all have ‘preconceived biases.’ There’s no escape from them. You have them. I have them. We all have them. There’s no such thing as not having them.
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vwvParticipantPolls still looking good.
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Corporate-idiots. They spend 5 Billion dollars on a stadium but they cant get the uniforms right. Even when the blue-print is staring them right in the face.
Can you imagine Dallas being that stupid? Yeah, lets change the Star on the helmet. Sure, great idea.
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vwvParticipantThis is why its not such a good idea to rake leaves. Just leave em.
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wvParticipantProgressive running in WV. Biggest donation has been 26 dollars. She’s raised a million dollars.
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wvParticipantI started this at 3 min mark. Little bit about ‘Fed-Soc’ and the rightwing-Corporate-faction and the rightwing-abortion-faction.
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wvParticipantWell, maybe he’s in the same backfield as Brian, now.
In that great Bear team in the Sky.
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vwvParticipantWell, I think every team is going to try to do that. But i think the Defenses are trying to challenge the Rams OLine as much as the Rams QB.
The thing is, Buffalo has a topped ranked defense. 5th in the league. 3rd against the run. So that’s not just any team trying to do that.
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Oh yeah, the Bills D has been stout for a while now. Big Test for the genius.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantSafety Blitz
The 3rd ranked Buffalo defense is intent on stopping the Rams rushing attack according to the Niagara Falls Gazette. They want to force Goff to resort to deep drop backs believing c he’s a dead duck if he doesn’t have a man wide open on his first read.
A team is eventually going to stop the run and it will be interesting to see how McVay responds.
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Well, I think every team is going to try to do that. But i think the Defenses are trying to challenge the Rams OLine as much as the Rams QB.
The media will say its about Goff, but its really about how well the OLine holds up in their pass blocking, should the defense stop the run-game.
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vwvParticipant…”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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vwvParticipantSeptember 23, 2020 at 5:08 pm in reply to: do the Bills stand even a fraction of a chance against the Rams? #121601wvParticipantWell 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
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“…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]…”wvParticipantAdolph sums things up.
I started it at the 51 min mark:wvParticipant…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?w
vwvParticipantTapping protesters’ phones. This shit is wild. Where is elite media coverage? https://t.co/4bjf8xrQcR
— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) September 22, 2020
wvParticipant“industrial cinema” — i like the term.
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wvParticipantI hesitate to think about what kind of ballot measures West Virginians would vote for, if the system here spawned ballot-measures.
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wv:https://ballotpedia.org/West_Virginia_2020_ballot_measuresWest Virginia 2020 ballot measures
2020 →
← 2018As of September 21, 2020, zero statewide ballot measures were certified to appear on the West Virginia ballot on November 3, 2020.
Potential measuresThe West Virginia State Legislature referred zero constitutional amendments to the 2020 ballot. The 2020 regular session ended on March 7, 2020.
Getting measures on the ballot
West Virginia does not provide for citizen initiatives. All ballot measures must be referred by the West Virginia State Legislature. To refer a constitutional amendment to the ballot, each chamber of the state Legislature must pass the amendment by a two-thirds vote during one legislative session.
The state Legislature’s 2019 session ran from January 9 to March 9, 2019.
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————-wvParticipantI 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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vwvParticipant“Philadelphia is just not a good football team. There’s no other way to put it…”
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Enh. This kind of two-game-judgment annoys me. The Eagles did a lot of good stuff in that game if you actually watch it. Some really impressive drives. Totally neutralized Aaron Donald and the pass rush. Couple of turnovers cost them the game.
They might yet be a good team.
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I think it would have been a better decision to hit Henderson on the previous play, but you and I have never seen eye-to-eye on football matters.==
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.w
vwvParticipantA healthy Gurley was a wonder to behold.
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How close was he to being a Faulk ?
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vwvParticipantRogan 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
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