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JackPMiller wrote:

You just said the Rams won’t win another Super Bowl.

No I said they would win a couple of them in the next few years.

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Only a couple in the next few years?

And you call yourself a ram fan.

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I’ve watched some media-vids. The usual pundits. I havent heard ‘too’ many idiotic things, but there is a general…oh…lack of nuance. I mean, yes, Belichick is a great coach, but its also true he cam within one bad call or one play of losing that Chief game. And young McVay’s team was right there with the Pats in the 4th quarter.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about playoff football, its that there just aint much separation among the teams. A play here, a play there, is always gonna be the difference. Playoff football is just like that. Usually. Unless you are the 85 Bears, etc.

I’m not even sure the Pats are the best team this year. If they played the Chiefs again, who would be favored?

I do think the Pats and Belichick have been the best over the last two decades, but the ‘separation’ in each individual year is never that much. Thats my point. The separation is very small. A play here, a play there. But man, they are the best at holding tight to that tiny separation. They’ve been doing it forever now. Same ole Patriots.

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Strange game.

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Zooey wrote:

Well…I think Sam Bradford was as good as Troy Aikman. Really. I think they are the same guy.

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When did you become a crazy-man, exactly?

Granted, Troy had an alltime great OLine, an alltime great RB, and an alltime great WR, and a great coach.
And a good defense.

…well, ok, maybe you are not so crazy. But I dunno.

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“At first, Greg Olson — now the Raiders’ offensive coordinator, he was the Rams’ quarterbacks coach at the time — didn’t embrace Goff’s chill. ”

Interesting.

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Zooey wrote:

I either forgot, or never knew, that Fisher tried to hire Kyle Shanahan as OC.

That would have changed the course of history.

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“Adam Gase, Kyle Shanahan, Nathaniel Hackett and Greg Roman all turned him down.”

Well there’s a reason they all turned him down, i guess.

I think of Fisher as a “B” level coach. I dont think he’s an “F” or anything like that, but I
think he would mostly get himself outcoached by the top coaches.

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Billy_T wrote:

WV, thanks for that comment. I thought I was alone on an island about crowd noise. Couldn’t agree with you more.

My entire life, I thought it was . . . I don’t know the right words for it . . . perhaps rude or obnoxious? “Live,” I’ve always responded to what I see as good play with clapping, and then I’m silent; but it never made any sense to me to continue screaming non-stop. At what? Why are these people screaming? What just happened to cause this?

Um, nothing. They’re just being rude and obnoxious, and it spoils the experience for me in the stadium. I can only imagine how annoying it is for the players.

That said, I don’t expect a football stadium to be like a golfing crowd, or a church. Fans don’t have to hold their breaths, whisper, or anything like that. But I wish they’d just respond to great plays and then shut the heck up between them.

Oh, and whistles should be prohibited.

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Always makes me smile to see you on the Board, BT. Always.

As the world burns, and burns,
we still have…the Rams.

…thats a funny image — football crowds behaving like golf crowds. Or, golf crowds behaving like football crowds.

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Good stuff. “Amphibious.” I like it.

On the crowd noise — thats the main reason why I dont give a shit about the bad-non-call. The Rams had to play against that incredibly loud noise as well as the Saints football team. If the Saints cant win a game like ‘that’, I dont have any sympathy for them.

And fwiw, I dont think its ‘fair’ for one team to have to play against ‘that’ kind of noise. I’m serious. I’ve always thought that. I dont mind a little ‘home field advantage’ but to ‘me’ that kind of noise seriously alters the game itself. I mean how much of an advantage is one team allowed before it makes the game a mockery? I got zero sympathy for the Saints. There was a time there were no Domes in the football world. BOTH teams had to play in the snow or rain or whatever. But with domes came this ‘unfair’ advantage, imho. Another reason to hate modern civilization.

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Wabi Sabi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
“…In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.[2] The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.[3] It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印 sanbōin), specifically impermanence (無常 mujō), suffering (苦 ku) and emptiness or absence of self-nature (空 kū)….”

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