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wvParticipantJust a reminder of what Noam thinks of the Republican Party. At the 5:09 mark, or so.
wvParticipantRams locker room at So-Fi, rated D+ (bout the seven minute mark)
wvParticipantBears 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….”
wvParticipantSpags from five years ago.
wvParticipantExcellent. Wish it was a two year deal.
Need Kupp and Higby to get healthy.
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wvParticipantWhere 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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wvParticipantSome rams highlights in the first few mins, in this vid.
February 23, 2024 at 4:37 pm in reply to: “the draft” thread … ie. not “the Rams draft” thread … #149508wvParticipantYeah, 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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wvParticipantUmm…..how many attendees at the Ram games were actually Ram fans?
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wvParticipantThe Uniforms, though. The uniforms.
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wvParticipantRG3 (who played for shanahan) has some interesting things to say, here.
wvParticipantInteresting.
wvParticipantConcerning 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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wvParticipantwvParticipantBrady. First half of the vid probly aint worth watchin, but the second half was good, i thought. Brady is quite ‘old school.’ Team first.
wvParticipantSteve 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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wvParticipantSteve Young thinks the next ten super bowls will be won by quarterbacks who can run.
wvParticipantBtw, 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.
wvParticipantLotta 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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wvParticipantSF fires their DC.
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wvParticipantmirriam webster
Dynasty
1a succession of rulers of the same line of descent2: a powerful group or family that maintains its position for a considerable time
Sports DynastiesDynasty 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.EtymologyMiddle 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
wvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantSo this Mahomes guy, is pretty good, I’d say.
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wvParticipantGuess who is favored to win the Next super bowl? According to Vegas….. 49ers.
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wvParticipantGood lord. 49er fans have to be wretched, and inconsolable.
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wvParticipant49ers up 10 to zip. Pretty dull, so far.
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wvParticipantOn the Puka comment about video games.
I am old, so i remember all the stories about the 70s Raiders and such. And stories about Babe Ruth, Billy Martin and Mickey Mantle and such. Lawrence Taylor. Ya know. Players just getting drunk the night before games, etc and so forth.
But i wonder if such types of players exist anymore? I dunno if that kind of conduct could exist in today’s NFL. I suppose video games are about as bad as it gets nowadays.
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wvParticipantSome of us would like to see Shanahan suffer another post-season meltdown. SF blew the ten point lead against the Rams in the NFC title game. They blew a ten point lead to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. And of course the Falcons blew the 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl.
I would like to see SF blow a 31 point lead in this game.
Does that make me a bad person?
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wvParticipantSpags, from December.
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