Well, they got to the Super Bowl because of Gurley’s explosiveness. Teams really had to focus their gameplans on Gurley. Do teams have to do that now? Even if he gets his explosive-ness back, will he keep it all the way through the season and the playoffs? RB is a need?

Whitworth has been wearing down as the seasons have gone along. He’s what, 50 now?
They lost Saffold and the Intellectual-leader Sullivan. Olinemen needed?

Linebacker has been a problem for a while. Linebacker is a need?

Suh is gone, yes? DT is a need?

Do they have a pass-rushing DE that can make a difference? DE a need?

I guess i just dont see them as mostly set. I tend to kinda see this team as dropping down a tier, unless they really hit on some draft choices, and hit on some free-agent signings.

Plus, of course, everything is ‘relative’ this time of year. The Saints, Panthers, Vikings, Seahawks, 49ers, Packers, Lions, Cowboys, Washington, Chiefs, Pats, Steelers, Browns, Colts…are all making additions too…

I am uneasy about this coming season. Not the broad future, but this next season. I dunno.

The biggest thing on the plus side to me is the return of Kupp. Thats huge in the passing game. Just…huge.

Btw, the Rams arent taking my calls, about trading down.

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Marshawn was one of the best ever. A little better than Steven Jackson?

i would say definitely not. lynch had the benefit of playing on superior teams.

i can only imagine how jackson would have been in mcvay’s offense.

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Maybe so. I dunno. I suppose I think they were about even-ish.

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Fidel probly could have been elected and re-elected eight or ten times, in free and fair elections (Ie, if the CIA could have been kept out of it, and the billionaire-owned media, etc). He probly didnt have to go the dictator route.

“…Although Simbakubwa translates to “big lion” in Swahili, this behemoth was not a big cat. Instead, it is the oldest known member in a group of extinct mammals called hyaenodonts, so named due to their dental resemblance to hyenas, even though the groups are also unrelated…”

Well. See, thats dum.

I shall call it Hyaenodonticus Rex.

I wonder if they traveled in packs. That would be like somethin out of Lord of the Rings if they did. Not somethin you’d wanna see comin over the hill.

I hope they can bring em back to life. Make mammals great again.

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She’s definitely a good communicator and the green deal thingy is good.

But fwiw I’m skeptical that she will ever take on the deep-state. Ie, the CIA/Pentagon/NSA killing-machine. Bernie certainly hasn’t taken it on.

I like her though. Definitely an improvement over…um….just about all the rest of them.

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For the last 18 years or so, Notre Dame has been encircled by automatic rifle carrying French security services, trying to protect the Cathedral from "terrorists," ignorant that the real threat came from cost-cutting private contractors.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) April 15, 2019

nittany ram wrote:

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“…. it has become increasingly difficult to separate sensible health advice from what should be consider, well, insane…”

Well this is what I’ve been saying for a coupla years now. This is my mantra. Its not just ‘health advice’. Its politics. Its everything. Its ‘increasingly difficult‘ to know what is accurate and what is not.

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I don’t think this is fixable either. Anyone at anytime can publish anything they want on the internet. It’s not hard to dress up any piece of nonsense and make it look legitimate to untrained eyes.

And the media certainly isn’t vetting much in their eagerness to fill a 24 hour news cycle. I know a lot of questionable studies that never would have seen the light of day in the past are now being paraded in front of the public as if they represent consensus. They’ll publish anything they think will generate clicks.

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I agree with that, but the problem has many facets. I just think a corporotacracy is by nature kinda ‘anti-truth’. Not always of course, but in general. Profit over truth.

I mean everytime i hear about a ‘scientific study’ now i have to ask who sponsored it, etc. How do i know which corporation influenced it, funded it, etc. And so forth. I wish there was just ‘science’ but there’s not. There’s ‘science spawned in a corporate setting’. Which is different.

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Rich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
The problem here is, this basically is what he said before the Super Bowl. And then…
This issue still hasn’t fully been addressed on a transparent level.
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I agree with this completely.

In a way it annoys me, and in a way I understand why a coach would not want to give details on an injury issue.

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Zooey wrote:

I officially do not want to live in the USA anymore. I currently have no alternative….

There is just nowhere to go. People hate each other for no decent reason whatsoever…

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Well I say, we join Sauron.

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