Zooey wrote:

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zooey is too yoko

St. Louis is May Pang.

i had to look that up

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May Fung Yee Pang is an American former music executive. She worked for John Lennon and Yoko Ono as a personal assistant and production coordinator. When Lennon and Ono separated in 1973, Pang and Lennon began a relationship that lasted more than 18 months. Lennon later referred to this time as his “Lost Weekend”. Wikipedia

zn wrote:

True. While McVay is too heavy riff-based.

Vermeil was too Neil Diamond.

See? We’re revolutionizing coach assessment.

zooey is too yoko

I see a lot of internet-celebrity-influencer-analyst-artificial-talking-heads predicting a high-scoring game between the Bears and Rams. I dont see that but I’m no expert.

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zn wrote:

Cam Cameron went 1-15 and was fired after a year.

Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, they were immediately impressed by Tomlin.

One good indicator of Tomlin’s caliber as a coach is the number of players who left Pittsburgh and became problems elsewhere, but were never problems with the Steelers, along with the number of players who were problems before Pittsburgh but stopped being that the minute they signed with the Steelers.

Spags was too Gospel.

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Saw this on Bomani Jones vid. I had never heard this.

Back in 2006 or so, the Dolphins interviewed Mike Tomlin for their head-coaching job. Nick Saben had just left that job.

“Internal discussions revealed a committee member’s comment that Tomlin was “too hip-hop,” which reportedly played a role in choosing Cameron.”

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Zooey wrote:

I deliberately calculated kickoff to the time zone that actually IS the center of the planet. Here’s proof:

i didnt realize there were so many Ram Horns floating around in the ocean.

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QB ratings in Wildcard round. Lowest to highest.

Rogers – 50
Caleb – 71
B.Young 71
Herbert – 74
J.Hurts – 79
Purdy – 80
CJ Stroud- 86
Maye -86
T.Lawrence- 86
Stafford – 93
Love – 103
J.Allen – 108

Startling stat i saw on a vid: The Bears and Packers played 3 times. Bears won two of three, as we know. Here is the stat:

Offensive plays run while leading: Packers 106. Bears ZERO.

Let that sink in.

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Texans Defense – 30
Steelers – 6

That was one of the ugliest games I’ve ever not watched.

CJ Stroud looked gawd-awful. Texans OLine looked awful. Texans defense looked like the 85 Bears.

Mike Tomlin won a Super Bowl once. How did that happen?

Patriots at home are only 3 point favorites against the Texans.

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zn wrote:

On paper anyway, the Rams offense is better than the Chicago offense, and ought to shred the Chicago defense at a higher rate than the Chicago offense will against the Rams defense.

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Shredding the Bears defense? I dunno.
Do you remember last year. Same two teams in Chicago. Only Chicago has a better coach this year. Rams offense scored 18 pts.

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zn wrote:

4. Los Angeles Rams

At full strength, the Rams’ offensive line is arguably the best unit in the league..

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The Oline has ‘quietly’ had a good year. They’ve been good. They havent been ‘dominant’ like say the Eagles line last year, or some of the Detroit lines the last few years, but they’ve been solid.

I dont think any of the losses this year could be pinned on the oline. (one wonders what Marc Bulger thinks as he watches this team on Sundays)

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Eagles fans blaming the offensive co-ordinator. This may be one of those rare times when the fans are right. I dunno. Eagles have great weapons and a powerful OLine, but they never seem to play that way.

Bears lost their fill-in Left Tackle, but they might get their starter back this week.

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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/nfl/chicago-bears/bears-injury-updates-include-bad-news-for-tj-edwards-ozzy-trapilo/3874428/#:~:text=According%20to%20head%20coach%20Ben%20Johnson%2C%20linebacker,will%20miss%20the%20remainder%20of%20the%20playoffs.

The Chicago Bears are still buzzing after their win over the Green Bay Packers, but the news they got after the game was decidedly less happy.

The Bears erased a 21-3 deficit and picked up their biggest comeback win in postseason history as they beat the Packers, but they’ll have to advance through the playoffs without a player on each side of the ball.

According to head coach Ben Johnson, linebacker TJ Edwards, who was carted off the field in the second quarter of the game, suffered a fractured fibula, and will miss the remainder of the playoffs.

What’s more, offensive lineman Ozzy Trapilo, who was helped off the field in the fourth quarter of the furious comeback effort, suffered an injury to his patellar tendon, and will also be out for the remainder of the postseason, according to Johnson.

Edwards appeared in 10 regular season games for the Bears this season, with 67 combined tackles and 0.5 sacks for Chicago.

Trapilo has been a key reserve lineman for the Bears, filling in at left tackle after the injury to Braxton Jones earlier in the season.

Jones could potentially come back next week for the Bears as they advance in the playoffs, but losing Trapilo will impact the Bears’ depth on the offensive line moving forward.

canadaram wrote:

Current forecast has both Saturday and Sunday below freezing. I’m assuming that it will also be windy. I remember the last cold weather playoff game the Rams played in Chicago. I hope this one starts and ends better for the Rams.

Well, they are gonna haf to find a way to block Richard Dent.

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InvaderRam wrote:

at least one of seattle or sf will knock the other one out.

hopefully rams can beat bears but yeah. they got some kind of weird mojo going on.

Last time they played. 2024. Bears 24 Rams 18. D’Andre Swift had 92 yards rushing and 72 yards receiving. Rams had a fumble and an INT. Bears had zero turnovers.

Stafford had a 77 QB-rating.
Caleb had a 106 rating.

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