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wvParticipantwvParticipantYou forgot Gabriel. If you asked me that question when I was a kid, back in the 1960s, it’s definitely Roman Gabriel. Today, I’d have to choose between Elway, Manning (Peyton), Rogers, Montana and Brady. I want another year to see what Mahomes can do. But he’s almost there.
If I knew I had a really strong team surrounding the QB, I might go off-road a bit and choose Archie Manning. I think he could have been an all-time great, but was saddled with horrible teams, year after year. Great scrambler, great arm, smart.
Greg Cook is kinda in that category too. Though it was the injuries, mostly, that did him in. He had major potential. HOF level. Terrible injuries and team, if memory serves.
And speaking of smart. I think Starr was the smartest field general QB of them all. Montana, Brady and Peyton are close. But Starr wins that prize, IMO.
Most physically gifted? Mahomes and Elway. Wilson’s up there too.
I like your choice of Young as well. But I think Montana, if you’re going with a Niner, was better.
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I thought about Gabriel, but I still think Warren Beatty was better in the clutch.
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vwvParticipantThis is by phone …. Until we get power, and that could be a while, i wont be on much
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Just always remember one thing — you have to shoot them in the BRAIN. Body shots wont stop them.
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vwvParticipantI’ll be mildly surprised if the Pats and Niners are still doing ‘this’ well on defense in December. I would think they will come back to the pack a little more, as more film piles up and as injuries start playing a bigger part in the season.
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vwvParticipantYeah, its gonna be another close election, I would think. Could go either way, whether the Dems nominate a progressive or a pro-corporate-candidate.
Immigration fears may put Trump over the top. Seems like thats huge to a lot of people that might vote either way.
I think if there’s one topic that could sink the Dems its that one.
But I dunno, I dont really follow this stuff.
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vwvParticipantI’m no fan of Zuckerberg (or aaron sorkin – The West Wing was like a Norman Rockwell painting of the System), but what exactly is Zuckerberg supposed to do with Facebook?
The NY Times prints propaganda every single day, too. Maybe its not the ‘kind’ of bullshit Facebook has, but its still a type of bullshit. Sorkin will never ‘see’ that.
The problem aint facebook.
Its way way way bigger than that.
No doubt the NYT would like people to stop reading so much FB, and pay more attention to the official propaganda organ of the system 🙂
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vwvParticipantPS — at the 7:20 mark, they diagram a ram play.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantGould studied trilobites…
… Natural Selection was not about slow, incremental, changes over time. It occurred rapidly and then remained relatively static for long periods of time until something happened to restart the process like an extinction event.=================
Exactly as our Lord Creator wanted it.
The Lord works through Trilobytes.
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vwvParticipantMcVay on not playin Gurley in the 4th quarter — “It just kind of worked out that way,” he said. “… I always say it’s the flow of the game and that was really what it ended up being.”
Ya know what McV sez about the G-thing shouldnt vex me. He’s a coach and they always rely on coach-speak, and i get that. He doesnt owe the media anything.
So why do total bullshit answers like that one, annoy me so much? That answer was UTTERLY meaningless. “it worked out that way.” “it was just the flow of the game.”
Utter bullshit.
It shouldnt vex me, but it does.
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vOctober 30, 2019 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Bee friendly companies are getting the science of the crisis wrong #107582wvParticipant=================
“To really help bees, experts agree that less is more. Mow your lawn less or not at all, allow more native weeds and flowers to sprout, and leave wood and leaf litter around for insects to hide in. “In general, being lazier in your gardening practices is a good thing,” de Keyzer says. If you really must have a lawn, Evans suggests looking into “bee lawns” that feature short, flowering plants…”
=================Ironically, a lot of suburb-americans are lazy in about every imaginable way — EXCEPT the Great-mowing-of-the-lawn-Ritual.
Tough to get them to Unlearn that lawn thing.
Maybe they could learn to leave the BACKyard wild. Ya know. Just mow the front.
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vwvParticipantI read Grossman’s bio at wiki. Interesting life, for sure.
I was tempted, but aint no way I’m reading that 1000-page tome.
I’ll wait for the japanese-tv anime version 🙂
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vOctober 29, 2019 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Talib and 5 rd pick traded to Miami for unspecified “future pick” #107533wvParticipantIt also might mean they like Troy Hill, i spose.
Talib did a good job last year when he was on the field.
Trading for an older player on IR seems a bit weird to me, btw.
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wvParticipantAfter scrutinizing the game-pass game, and synthesizing the complexities, and lab results from particle Linebacker analysis from the folks at CERN,
i have grasped AND beheld, one conclusion: The Rams are better than the Bengals.I truly believe that.
I agree with what’s been said in this thread:
1)Uninspired play from the Defense, but the talent on D sparkled on enough plays to win.
2)Kupp was one of them NFL-mismatches in this game. Cincy just didnt have the answers for him. Course it helps when the DB falls on his face. But its Cincy, so you expect a couple of those every game.
3) Henderson is better than Gurley at running the ball. Where do i put that fact in my brain? I mean, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
4) I dont understand how the refs dont call helmet to helmet on the Cooks hit.
5) 5-3 — Thats about where they should be right now. Seems about right.w
vwvParticipantCooper Kupp is at 220 receiving yards. Here are the top 3 games in Rams history:
1. Willie Anderson, 336 yards at New Orleans, 11/26/89
2. Jim Benton, 303 yards at Detroit, 11/22/45
3. Harold Jackson, 238 yards vs. Dallas, 10/14/73===========================
Geez, I dont think I’d even heard of Benton. He had a great career with the Cleveland/LA Rams. They loaned him to the Bears one year, i see.
wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Benton_(American_football)“….n his first season with the Rams, he led the league with 19.9 average yards per catch, and was third in both receiving yards and touchdowns. He was named to the 1939 Pro Bowl team after leading the league with seven touchdown receptions.
In 1943 due to the depletion of players called to military service, the Rams disbanded, and Benton who had been rejected for military service due to a heart murmur, was loaned to the Chicago Bears. During the season, he caught two touchdown passes to help Sid Luckman set the NFL single game record of seven touchdowns in defeating the New York Giants and caught a touchdown pass in Chicago’s world championship victory over the Washington Redskins.
In 1944, back with the Rams, Benton made NFL history by catching 8 consecutive passes for 3 touchdowns against the Cardinal-Steelers. At season’s end, he was the second ranked receiver behind fellow Arkansas native Don Hutson.
In 1945, in spite of playing only nine games, Benton ended the season leading the NFL with 1,087 yards receiving. He had 45 receptions and eight touchdowns. He averaged 118.6 yards receiving a game with his longest reception for 84 yards and a touchdown. He went over 100 yards receiving in six of his nine games. His most notable game was on Thanksgiving Day against the Detroit Lions, catching ten Bob Waterfield passes for 303 yards, helping the Rams win the divisional title. This broke Hutson’s single game record and stood as the NFL single game record for over 40 years. Benton had nine receptions for 125 yards and a touchdown in the Ram’s 15–14 victory over the Redskins in the NFL Championship game. Benton’s 1945 performance ranks 7th all time in fewest receptions for 1,000 yards.
In 1946, Benton led the NFL with 63 receptions and with 981 yards receiving. During the season his most notable game was against the New York Giants when he had twelve receptions for 202 yards.
Benton was the top ranked NFL receiver in 1945 and 1946. He was consensus all-NFL in 1945 and 1946 and second team All Pro in 1939 and 1944. He was ranked among the NFL’s top five receivers in six of his nine seasons.
When he retired in 1947, Benton was the second leading receiver in pro football history with 288 receptions for 4,801 yards and 45 touchdowns…
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….n 2005, he was named to the Professional Football Researchers Association Hall of Very Good in the association’s third HOVG class…..see link”wvParticipantI saw some highlights and the thing that struck me, was how Lame the Londoners were at waving their little flags.
Americans are better flag-wavers, imho.
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vwvParticipantDamn, that was really good. Especially that last quote by the Black, Frenchy, Commie guy.
I shall have to keep an eye on anarchopac and her vids.
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vwvParticipant105 million people stayed home
66 million voted for HRC
63 million voted for Trump
4.5 million voted for Gary Johnson
1.4 million voted for Jill SteinIn no known universe can the smallest number on that list be the “decisive” factor.
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I blame The Party For Socialism And Liberation — 74,402 votes.
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vwvParticipantYou know, the corporate-system has a way of rehabilitating weasels. It gets all nostalgic about its heroes. Like with Nixon, Bush2, etc.
Hillary has only to wait a while.
But she cant, of course. Cause she loves the power and the attention. She should do what Bush2 did. Paint horses and naked self-portraits and stuff. And just be quiet for a decade.
Ah well.
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vwvParticipantMoore points out that Sanders isn’t a member of a socialist party, but he used to be in the Liberty Union Party, which is the biggest of several socialist parties in Vermont.
Former Redsox pitcher Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee is also a member.
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Ahh. Bill Lee. One of the deep thinkers in Baseball history:“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won’t matter if I get this guy out.”
—–“I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.”
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“The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.”
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“The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.”
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“You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I’ll show you a pennant. I’ll show you the New York Yankees.”wvParticipantI cant be rushed. I’m still weighing the Bradford vs Suh thing.
I’m leaning toward, neither.
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vwvParticipantCall me crazy, but I think the Rams will find a way to win this one.
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OK, but are you factoring in the Ugliness of the Bengal-tigers’ uniforms?
Is Uniform Ugliness a tangible or intangible?
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vwvParticipantAndy Dalton’s hand size is only 9.5 inches. Thats .024 meters for you UnAmerican types.
wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_DaltonJared Goff’s hand size is 9 inches. .023 meters. wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Goff
I’ve done the math on my texas-instruments-1999-hand-size-calculator,
and thats a difference of .001 meters.Can the Rams possibly overcome that? Especially on foreign soil?
Well, let’s look deeper. Dalton’s ARM length is 31.75 inches. Or .081 Meters.
But look at Goff’s arm — its an UnGodly 32.75 inches. Or .083 Meters.
The calculator says, in bright gray letters, thats a difference of .002 meters.Thus, according to the wv-analytics, we’re in for a close game. Also a very ugly game. The Bengals are Ugly folks. They look ugly, they play ugly, and Dalton short-arms his passes.
PS — Dalton, has made the pro-bowl Three times. For a guy thats the butt of a lot of QB jokes, and who has a short arm, thats a lot of pro-bowls.
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wvParticipantWell hopefully we’ll see even worse football next game.
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vwvParticipantGood article. I had zero knowledge of any of that internal money/points stuff. The two big parties are Rotten to the Core. The Public is ignorant to the Core. The Corporate-Media is Rotten and Ignorant to the Core.
“…House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s prolific buckraking. By the end of June, she had raised the DCCC more than $43,000,000.”
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wvParticipantJust an aside on the Tillman thing. There’s a lot about ‘friendly fire’ in the book. What surprised me was just how often American soldiers were killed because of Communication-tech failures. Almost every friendly-fire incident in the book can be traced to the radios not working. One big group of soldiers would split into two groups for various reasons, and then Group A would go down one road, and Group B would go down another road. But then Group B would have to take a detour for some reason. So Group B would end up somewhere they weren’t sposed to be. And Group A would not know that.
And at some point both groups would run into each other unexpectedly. And cause the communication-system neer worked right….people started shooting at ghosts.
One would think if you can make drones, and satellites and toasters and submarines,
you’d be able to make radios that would work in the mountains of Afghanistan.w
vwvParticipant… don’t know enough about it yet to have opinion about the validity of the propaganda accusation.
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Well what does foreign ‘propaganda’ even mean, when we live in a Corporate-Imperialist-Propaganda-State?
I mean we are already drenched, inundated, drowning in American-corporate-imperialist propaganda, so…if foreign ‘propoganda’ puts Chris Hedges on American screens, to talk about American Imperialism….then I’m all for foreign propaganda.
Its similar to the Wikileaks thing for me. I dont CARE where the Hillary-Emails came from. I dont care if it was a russian hack or if they were downloaded by a whistleblower and then given to Wikileaks — i dont care if Hitler was behind it — thats all secondary. What i care more about was that the emails were FACTUAL. They shed some much needed light on the American system. I feel the same way about RT. I dont care what the agenda is of powers-that-made-RT — all i care about is that they put Chris Hedges on. And I trust ‘his’ agenda, coz its factual.
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vwvParticipantI didn’t realize Chomsky was such a big Arizona Cardinals fan.
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The Chapter about how the Taliban became Patriot fans is illuminating.
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vwvParticipantThe woman they were interviewing mentioned she worked for a news agency started by Fidel Castro and Chavez to combat corporate media that was usurping their democratic processes?
Castro did some good things for the poor of Cuba. He certainly did more for them than Batista, but he wasn’t exactly a standard bearer for democracy. He had total control over all aspects of the government and ruthlessly crushed dissenters and political adversaries. Plus the Cuban press was one of the most censored in the world when he was Premier.
What am I missing?
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Yeah, I picked up on that too, but it just doesnt bother me. She wasnt talking about RT at that point, she was talking about Telesur:https://www.youtube.com/user/telesurenglish/videos
But I like Telesur too, fwiw.Chavez was constantly under attack by the CIA and the Corporate-Media. Whats wrong with him trying to combat that by starting up a media site like TeleSur?
Castro and Chavez were different animals. One was elected over and over, right? But they admired each other and were friends and both hated the CIA/deep-state/corporotacracy. With good reason. At any rate, if you are a socialist being attacked by the CIA, why wouldnt you want to start a media company that got your point of view into American computer screens? I mean, what is the alternative? Just allow the capitalist-corporate-empire to spread its version of truth and let that go unchallenged? It just seems to me RT and TeleSur provide an anti-Empire, anti-AMERICAN-imperialist point of view. They do ‘not’ provide an anti CASTRO-crimes or Putin-Crimes point of view. I get that. So I have to rely on other sites for info on Castro and Putin. That doesnt take away from what RT and TeleSur give me.
I swear I get WAAAAAY more truth from Chris Hedges and Lee Camp on RT than i do from NPR, CNN, FOX, the NYTimes and MSNBC combined.
I know its ‘all’ problematic and complicated. No matter what source we choose to talk about.
Do you think Chris Hedges is a Russian Asset? 🙂
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