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wvParticipantIs this a Faulk thing? Two bones rubbing against each other? Wasnt that what ended Faulk’s career?
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vwvParticipantGil Brandt@Gil_Brandt
Patrick Mahomes leads the NFL with 48 passing TDs. Drew Brees leads NFL with 13 QB wins and 115.7 passer rating. Avery time a QB has achieved 48 TDs OR a 13+ wins/115+ rating in NFL history, he has won MVP. This year voters will have to choose.=============
There’s good arguments for all three. Donald, Brees, Mahomes.
All three are deserving, imho.
I’d vote for AD simply because i think he has to ‘work harder’ on each play than a god-damned prima-dona-dress-wearing-celebrity-QB.
If the players are all deserving — I’m goin with the guy in the fucking Trenches. Pardon my french.
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vDecember 26, 2018 at 10:38 am in reply to: 9ers @ Rams…w/ broadcast map, Rams get Spielman again #95696wvParticipantDo the niners have any reason to play hard? Whats their motivation?
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vDecember 25, 2018 at 6:01 pm in reply to: 9ers @ Rams…w/ broadcast map, Rams get Spielman again #95664wvParticipantA top ten defense, by some measures.
Inter esting.
I really want that thirteenth win. Thats rarefied air.
I also really want Donald to get 20 sacks.
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vwvParticipantHappy Yule, Winter Solstice, Saint Brigid’s Day, Darwin Day, Lupercalia, Saint Nicholas Day , Saint Basil’s Day, Feast of Circumcision, Fiesta of Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Lucia Day , Hanukkah , Kwanza, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
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vwvParticipantWell they dont look like a super bowl team, but that was a good win, on the road, against a sad division opponent.
Twelve wins.
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vDecember 22, 2018 at 10:37 pm in reply to: Rams knew early on that Ndamukong wasn’t the same old Suh #95560wvParticipantWeirdly, this is exactly what I was saying to someone today.
Suh.
The way the Eagles totally focused on Donald should have opened everything up for Suh and Brockers to wreck everything.
And they didn’t.
So…
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Strange year. At the beginning of preseason, i was ecstatic to have Suh and Donald on the front four. I thought it would be epic. Deacon and Merlin fearsome-foursome level epic.
But the defense has been anything but fearsome.
..and yet, here they sit at 11-3. Strange.
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vDecember 21, 2018 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Rams knew early on that Ndamukong wasn’t the same old Suh #95517wvParticipantSuh. Sigh.
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vwvParticipantIt happened right in front of anyone watching the game.
This is starting to remind me of that routine from Buffy, where there’s a spell that makes it so if anyone figures out Ben and Glory are the same, they instantly forget it.
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Well, i just saw the lowlights of the eagles game; Didnt see the whole game — but they did…lose. So I’m not sure that counts as turning dinking and dunking into a winning formula.
Btw, I suspect there might be a connection between Ben and Glory.
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vwvParticipantWell we know McV is a brilliant coach. And we know Wade has seen it all.
So it will be interesting to see what adjustments are coming and what can be done at this late point, in the season.
It certainly is interesting that they picked up the new vet Running back.
I am not at all certain the Rams can become the Pats as far as developing a short passing game at this late stage of the season. I think its asking a lot of these guys to dink and dunk all the way down the field and through the red zone. Especially without Kupp.
I guess the biggest disappoint this year is all ten guys on defense not named Aaron Donald.
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vwvParticipantWell if i had to ‘rank’ the problems, I’d go:
1 Oline (but what exactly is the problem? Age? Nagging Injuries? Somethin else?)
2 Gurley being hurt. (and the media almost never talks about this)
3 Loss of Kupp. I knew at the time this would be big. Cooper is Goff’s security blanket. He just is.
4 Teams scheming better against the Rams, McVay being young, etc.
None of this bodes well for the playoffs, unless them injuries are minor ones that might clear up.
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vwvParticipantInteresting that both the Chiefs and Rams are having offense issues now that their RB issues have emerged.
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wvParticipantWell, if McV went into the Bears game without short-pass options then that was idiotic. It was the Bears. Anyone with a brain would know that the Oline might not hold up, So I’m skeptical that the short-routes were not there in the Bear game. That just wouldnt make any sense to me. That would be somethin Martz might do, but I cant imagine McV being that dum.
At any rate its all interesting. Trying to figure out what has happened. It ‘looks’ like its a lot of factors: Kupp, injuries, Defenses scheming better, OLine wearing down…
But the one thing that just ab-so-lutely startles me is the Goff disintegration. I mean he looks like Foles after the Green Bay hit. I just didnt expect it. I dunno if he can come back from this ‘this’ year.
The Garo Yapremium play is just…shocking. Its like ‘phantom sack’ level shocking. I will never forget it.
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vwvParticipantI know youve all seen this, but its worth thinkin about. Can Goff ever be patient enough to adjust to defenses taking away his favorite stuff?
wvParticipantI never thought I’d see Goff acting so utterly panicky as he has lately. I mean…wow.
I am guessing that things went so smoothly this year that when the Oline slipped and the Defenses started playing differently he just…couldnt handle it.
Is Gurley healthy enough to be a threat?
Can they coach up Goff?
Can McVay adjust without Kupp?Doubtful but who knows.
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vwvParticipantThe team picked a bad time to implode.
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vDecember 14, 2018 at 2:24 pm in reply to: Is it really such a virtue to stay with the same personnel set? #95209wvParticipantI dunno. But I’m concerned the OLine has worn down, and I’m concerned the league has caught up with McVay.
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vwvParticipantOh, i totally agree. Donald is the difference-maker. Especially in the 4th Quarter.
Which is why, last year, i was expecting every team in the NFC West to pick a Guard with their first pick.
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vwvParticipantI am reminded of the game the GSOT played against the Sapp-Bucs. Great Offense squashed by a great defense.
This situation is more like a very good offense squashed by a very good defense.
Might ‘mean’ somethin, might not. Could be Rams Offense is fading some, or it could just be a fired up Bear defense played great in the windy city.
I’m confident the Rams beat the Bears in LA. I’d predict an ugly win for the Rams, in LA. I’d be more concerned about the Saints or Seahawks, really.
I think 13 and 3 is what they end up with. Cant complain about that.
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vwvParticipantWell that was not good.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantWell i got nuthin. Cept you might wanna watch the Coen brothers latest movie on the randomness of violence outcomes among humans.
The coen brothers dont have any answers, either.
wvParticipantI watched the replay. Goff looked worse than I’ve seen him since the fisher days.
And not just his play, but on the sidelines. He looked like he had the flu to me. Just looked pale and…off.
I expected the defense to look better against teams like Detroit (and Chicago).
Any win away from home is great, but man that was ugly.
Cooper Kupp is missed.
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vwvParticipantCowboys beat Saints with only 13 points? Wtf?
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vNovember 29, 2018 at 3:36 pm in reply to: Donald = ‘285 pounds of dynamite’ (the AD in November thread) #94624wvParticipantthis may have been posted but i didnt see it:
wvParticipantTalib sez the Rams need to work on eliminating the big play. I’m guessing that is going to open up the ‘little plays’ for Stafford. I expect the Lions to be successful at dinking and dunking at home.
Rams 28
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vwvParticipant2017: 22%, ranked 22nd
2018: 13.9%, ranked 1st===============
What accounts for the difference?
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vwvParticipantFisk:http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50670.htm
“….If there’s a murder, there’s got to be a body. And so here, briefly, we go back to Istanbul and to the Sultan himself, who doesn’t blame good old King Salman, but who really would like to find the corpse and who might – here we go again – have yet another tape of Khashoggi to send to the world’s intelligence services. Be sure our political leaders will not sully their ears by listening to it; Trump called the original recording “a suffering tape”. Canada’s Trudeau chose not to listen to it. But they really should have put their ear to the loudspeaker. Listening to an Arab journalist telling his murderers that he was suffocating would have been a fairly accurate symbol of democracy in the Middle East today…..
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….Can we see a deal in the making here? The Yemen war comes to an end (thanks to its arms-selling enablers in the west) and the Syrian war reaches its peaceful finale with the blessing of Vladimir Putin. Of the $450bn Saudi Arabia has promised to spend on weapons in the US – let’s have no more talk of a piece of paper – $110bn will go to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon “and many other great US defence contractors”. Adel al-Jubair’s “vision of light” – Saudi Arabia, of course – can go to war with Iran’s “vision of darkness which seeks to spread sectarianism throughout the region”.Khashoggi may have had a certain vision of darkness as they put the plastic bag over his head in the Saudi consulate last month, but in the Middle East the good guys don’t always come out on top. The war with Iran must be fought. The war against the Shiites must be fought. Israel and Netanyahu – notice how those names have so far eluded us in our woeful tale today? – will be satisfied with their “secret” Saudi alliance against Iran. Boeing and Lockheed Martin will flourish, along with many other great US defence contractors…”
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