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November 14, 2019 at 11:14 am in reply to: Hammond and Bonsignore analyze the embarrassing loss – Podcast #108107
wvParticipantbtw, At about the 26 min mark, Vinny sez whitworth (and Havenstein) regressed this year. He dont think the problem is just the young guys.
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vHe says both OTs regressed (and that Hav may not be 100% and was dealing with an injury). I agree that that is huge. How do you think this OL would have looked if from game 1 on, the 2 OTs were playing at their first-half-of-2018 level? I assume it would have been playing pretty well. I doubt we would be hearing this idea that 2 new young starters made the OL play out of sync.
For all the talk saying the young guys are bad, I kept wanting to say…but the ones who really let the offense down were the 2 experienced vets.
I hope the Rams don’t leap to the wrong conclusions in line-building and like many fans blame everything on the new starters. IMO that’s not a balanced or realistic analysis, and it also flies in the face of how good OLs are actually built throughout the NFL.
For example VB and RH talked about how the Vikings turned their OL around this year, which was absolutely miserable as a unit last year. A lot of it was just young guys developing.
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Well, I dont follow things closely enough, and I dont have enuff intel to know what ‘exactly’ went wrong with the OLine. I assume its a combo of age, injuries, youth, and possibly a bad personnel decision or two. But i really
cant say what the percentages are on those factors. I’m sure it will be hashed and rehashed all year long. Lots of questions.You ‘seem’ to be saying none of the personnel decisions were blame-worthy. Yes? No? You seem to be saying they picked the right guys, but they were just young and inexperienced, and the older guys started showing some injuries/age.
I have no idea.
I just know, its not fixable this year, and the offense is going to be lame now, and the media is going to mock McVay.
The good thing, is, there are a lot of good-to-great UNITS on this team. WRS-very good. TEs-good. QB-good-enough. Defense-very-good. Special-teams-very-good.
They have a lot to work with.
I still trust them to build a good OLine next year. It can be done in one
year. If they dont do that next year, then I’m gonna start doubting them.w
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wvParticipant“Bobby Evans and his 3 career NFL snaps will start at RT on Sunday night…
…against Khalil Mack”
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wvParticipantHedges….
….Sheesh.
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Well, as you know, we disagree on ‘Interpreting Hedges Words’.
Weirdly, I see
Hedges as basically, essentially, saying the same stuff you are saying, and I am saying. I ‘think’ we are saying the same stuff, but ’emphasizing’ different parts of the situation. I think Hedges (and wv) emphasize the
dark-side of the Dems/CIA/Deep-state and you are emphasizing the abyss that is Trump and the Reps.I just see it as a difference in emphasis. Just my take on it.
Not saying there aint disagreement — there is — but MAINLY, what i see is a difference in emphasis.
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wvParticipantThose look good. I’ll have to check some of them out.
I cant say I listen to any podcasts on a regular basis. Sometimes I watch a little Rogan, but only cuz I’m interested in MMA stuff.
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wvParticipantHorse-race talk:
wvParticipantDamn. Another topnotch DLine. Sigh.
This is why i like running quarterbacks.
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vNovember 13, 2019 at 10:19 am in reply to: Hammond and Bonsignore analyze the embarrassing loss – Podcast #108079
wvParticipantbtw, At about the 26 min mark, Vinny sez whitworth (and Havenstein) regressed this year. He dont think the problem is just the young guys.
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vNovember 13, 2019 at 10:08 am in reply to: Hammond and Bonsignore analyze the embarrassing loss – Podcast #108078
wvParticipantI like Vinny. Too bad he’s leavin.
Anyway, they said what we’ve all said — Gurley. OLine.
Its unfixable this year.
Gurley is unfixable, period. And thats big. He was special. Now, thats gone.
I mean its like tryin to replace Faulk. Good luck.w
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wvParticipantTom Dempsey in overtime
wvParticipantI tend to think of “wisdom” as being one part Knowledge and one part Compassion. Gotta have both, or it aint wisdom.
Critical-thinking/learning/science plus powerful ‘caring/empathy’ for the Biosphere (not just human-life, but all life)So where would those two prongs (Knowledge and Caring) lead?
Well it seems to me they would lead…left. I dont know where else they could lead.
At any rate, the most useful-and-simple model of ‘caring/knowledge’ that I know of is “Intersectional Politics” — race,class,gender. Or what should probly be called “solidarity politics.”
Enviro-Race-Class-Gender would probly be the four pillars.
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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness–that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what–at last–I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.”
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wvParticipantWas out of town. Just saw the highlights.
Talked to a longtime steeler fan and he said thats the best the steeler D has looked in years. Ah well.
Nothing new in this game. Same story. Gurley + Oline.
Bear game should be interesting. Should be about 4 to 3. Not sure who will have the 4.
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wvParticipantJust some fun stuff from fox on ABC:
wvParticipantThat was the “Cappaletti can run in the mud” game. I remember that one.
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Yeah, not too many Running Backs can say they went over a hundred yards against the Steel Curtain.
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wvParticipantI think I posted some stuff on Gowans back when he wrote his book on Syria. At any rate, yeah, i dont like his ‘personalizing’ of the Chomsky thing, but i just kinda bypassed that. Factored it out. Didnt care about it. What interests me is the Kurd situation, as a…situation. I mean, what the hell would the right policy be? What would a good policy look like, given the historical-mess ? I dunno.
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wvParticipantYeah, I’m sure Dore will cover that one. He doesnt have anything up yet.
He did cover it last time Tulsi was on the View:
wvParticipantWell, yeah, youre right, despite Dana Whites reverence, Donald was booed at the fight. I was thinking it was way more mixed, but yer right. Interesting.
wvParticipantThe tv-sports-networks already haf to be salivating at the thought of hiring him, down the road.
He’s gonna be such a mega-star.
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wvParticipantLooks like LA is a 3.5 point favorite against Pitt, If im readin this right.
betting:https://www.vegasinsider.com/nfl/odds/las-vegas/
wvParticipantI watched the second video, but not the first one..
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Well, i like the first Vid because it reflects the genuine-ness of the affection folks have for Trump. There’s almost a…reverence. At least in this particular bloc of Trump’s base.
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wvParticipantAnd that would be why pensions have to be taken away. They allow people to go off and enjoy themselves when they still have health left to be squeezed out and profited off. You can’t have perfectly good producers off doing their own thing. Make them work until they are without capitalist value, then cast them aside.
Why are humans so demented?
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Corporate-Capitalism + Capitalist-Christianity = ?
The capitalist-religion-thing kinda helps to super-charge the toxicity of capitalism. Ya know. Jesus as the guy who values ‘hard work’ and ‘keeping yer nose to the grindstone.’ The value of everyone, including immigrants, is judged on “how hard they work.”
Halloween — I have yet to see an American child come to my door dressed up as: Marx, Jesus, Any Intellectual, Any Writer, Any Artist.
This year it was all ‘Super-Heroes’ or Zombies.
I dont know what any of that means.
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wvParticipant… there’s not much I can do to join them since I’m still on the cell phone and still dont have power yet
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Maybe. And maybe thats exactly what a new-zombie would post.
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wvParticipantAm i the only one who watches birds on this board? What the hell is wrong with you people.
You’re kidding, right?
You may not realize this but birding is my number one passion. When I lived in PA I was a member of the West Branch Bird Club and took part in breeding bird surveys and the christmas bird count for the Audubon Society.
Making fun of West Virginia and the people who live in it is only my number two passion.
Sooo…whatcha been reading?
Bake any good books lately?
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I’m skimming “Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature.”
I just learned that “all flightless birds — all ratites — come from Gondwana. Gondwana or Gondwanaland as its sometimes called, no longer exists, but turns out to have been arguably the most important geological structure in the last billion years.”
Apparently Florida was part of GondwanaLand. Which “is why prehistoric camel bones have been found in Florida.”
So, Florida is part of GondwanaLand. Remember that. That explains a lot.
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vNovember 3, 2019 at 10:58 am in reply to: rams 5-3 at the bye…how do you see them ending up & why #107692
wvParticipantWe have to get ahead of Minn or Seattle at this time for a wildcard. Unless the offensive line improves significantly, 10 – 6.
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Yeah, and the Cardinal games are gonna be crucial, I think. They have to sweep the Cards. I dont think a split will do it. And sweeping the Cards wont be easy.
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wvParticipantNaomi is one of the best voices on ‘the situation.’
She’ll keep writing her books, (god bless her)
and the corporations will continue to destroy the biosphere.
For all the reasons we’ve talked about since 1998 or so. Essentially, the Corporations grew so powerful and their propaganda become so successful,
they dummed-down the American-voters to the point where Salvatore Dali’s Flaming Giraffe is probly an understated metaphor at this point.Forget it Jake, itz the Lorax.
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wvParticipantYour thoughts on the above?
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Well, my own interpretation of Dore is that he thinks the Republithugs are so loathesome its just a ‘given.’ He’s a leftist.
Its true he doesnt do shows slamming the Reps. And its a fair critique that maybe he should be more explicit about the damage they do. But the same critique could be made of me. In my daily life I squabble ‘way’ more with dem-libs than i do with thug-reps. But it aint because I like the Reps more. I cant put my finger on ‘exactly’ why that dynamic exists for me (and Dore, and other leftists).
It has ‘somethin’ to do with the fact that in the past, when I have criticized Reps, people around here always congratulated me, and then they’d go into a speech about how great Obama or Clinton or Gore was/is….etc. They always seemed to have the Hillary-smugness and they exhibited this lib-notion that Trumpies are all ‘deplorables’ — meanwhile they are congratulating themselves for being smart Obama-sniffers. It…just…sets…me…off. Its a flaw on my part. Dore has the same flaw. Some others as well. Sometimes guys like Dore (and me) will get around to slamming Reps, when a Rep dies and the media goes into a love-fest. Like with McCain. I didnt remember Dore doing this, but I was pretty sure I’d find somethin like this if I searched “Dore, John McCain”. And I did:
November 3, 2019 at 7:48 am in reply to: rams 5-3 at the bye…how do you see them ending up & why #107684
wvParticipantI dunno. The Cards are no pushover anymore. Some good defenses to play.
I would say 5-3 is do-able. 10-6
It could still be a good year. I’m not sure anyone is really gonna wanna play this team in the playoffs if they squeak in.
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