vikings injury report:https://247sports.com/nfl/minnesota-vikings/Article/Vikings-Rams-Monday-injury-report-122466532/

“…Perhaps the most concerning of them is defensive end Everson Griffen, who was listed with both the knee injury that bothered him last week and had him designated as out on Friday against the Buffalo Bills and then the added concern of “not injury related.” Griffen didn’t attend Sunday’s game, prompting head coach Mike Zimmer to say that Griffen wasn’t there because of a “personal matter” and not expanding on the reason. Griffen was around the Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center last week and usually injured players attend the games. He wasn’t seen in the locker room on Monday.

In addition to him not participating were running back Dalvin Cook (hamstring), left tackle Riley Reiff (foot) and cornerback/return man Marcus Sherels (ribs). Cook was in the locker room Monday and said there’s a “good chance” he could play on Thursday in Los Angeles but cautioned against returning too soon.

“It’s not a rush. We’re not in panic mode. This team, we’re still working every week. We’re still getting better,” he said. “There’s still a lot of things we’ve got to work on. The game just got out of hand. Everything fell right for them. We’ve just got to get a better start. That’s what today is for and tomorrow.”

The good news for the Vikings is that center Pat Elflein made his debut this season in Sunday’s game, playing in 22 snaps. He said he is ready for full-time duty if needed on Thursday, which could push Brett Jones to a reserve role or see him slide to guard. It’s also encouraging that Elflein’s shoulder injury is no longer part of the injury report…”

I think the Rams would win by 15 if the allpro cornerbacks were playing,
but as it is the Rams only win by 14.

Rams 24
Vikes 10

Gurley hurtles Carl Eller in the snow and runs for the go-ahead score.

The future is now.

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Well, rightwing-evangelicals think K is another instrument-of-God. Just like Trump.

Because he’s going to save thousands and thousands of unborn-babies from murder.

So…they dont care if the instrument-of-God is a rapist.

God works in mysterious ways.

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Zooey wrote:

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The “Fight for L.A.” is something that’s been talked about since the Chargers moved to Los Angeles, and on Sunday, they’ll finally get to face their crosstown rivals, the Rams. It’s their first regular season matchup since 2014 and the first with both teams in L.A., which heightens the excitement.

Uh. Los Angeles has the Dodgers, Angels, Kings, Ducks, Lakers, Clippers, Rams, Chargers, USC, and UCLA.

Of all those teams, the Chargers are at the bottom. This is a team that cannot sell out their stadium which seats 27,000.

They could leave Los Angeles, and more than half the city would be surprised to learn that they were ever there.

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I think the San Diego Chargers had the funnest team in NFL history. That Coryell group. And they had to play by the old-school NFL rules. Back when defenses could actually take yer head off.

I always have a bit of a soft spot in my football-heart for the Chargers because of the memories of that group.

Now that GRITS is in the sky, someone has to take over as board-charger-fan, i spose. 🙂

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Goff is the ‘best deep ball thrower’ he’s ‘ever seen’ ?

Wow.

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I wonder what the passer ratings are for first two QBs the Rams d has faced?

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I’m glad Sam was able to walk away from this one.

Always had a deep respect I mean that most sincerely..

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Bradford will always be one of them players there aint no consensus on.

But i think it would be unfair to judge any QB harshly who had to play the Rams D, on the road,
with that offense of the Cardinals. They may be the worst team in football. It was painful watching them, slowly, bumble around and wait to be knocked down.

So far we havent seen a collection of players and coaches who could solve the Ram defense. Its gonna take a really good OC, and a good OLine, and an topflight QB who can MOVE. And a couple of good weapons. I dunno how many teams have that. Otherwise, its gonna take the Rams just being flat. Which is bound to happen now and then.

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they been blatantly holding and no calls its freaking bullcrap

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Always my favorite fan complaint.

Anyway, moving on…if I were a Raiders fan, there are two things that would bother me above anything else last night.

1) that pass that Littleton intercepted.

2) the pass Carr threw away to the near sideline…way out of bounds, near nobody….when he still had time.

Those passes were awful. Like “3rd-string rookie QB brought into a game under extreme emergency conditions” level of awful.

That throw Littleton intercepted was so atrocious that it leaves me gasping even now. That pass was directly TO Littleton…who was near exactly Nobody…and it hung in the air like a Dave Kingman pop fly. I mean you could have left at the moment of the pass, and gone to go buy a hotdog and come back, and still no Raiders receiver would have been near that ball when it floated into Littleton’s arms.

On the basis of exactly one game only, I am going to predict that Carr is a Goner. Gruden was caught shaking his head, and murmuring “Fuck” once, a few times during that game. The Raiders will be drafting a QB with one of their #1 picks next year.

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Yeah, I’m still wondering wtf was up with that throw to Littleton. That was just weird.

Maybe it slipped out of his hand, i dunno.

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I was at wv-moms house and lo and behold the rams game was being replayed on the tv. So i saw a lot of it.

I came away with two thots:

One– Marshawn Lynch made me smile. What a strong back. Gritty, tough, old-school, in his old age. What is it about gettin old that ya start rooting for the grizzled ones. Having said that a lot of his yards came because he’s a bull. The holes werent big. I thot the Ram Run Defense was just fine. Which is fucking critical. Bring on Atlanta, now.

two — I thot the Rams D Line scared the hell out of Gruden and whatshisname the QB. They were not about to let the Rams pass rush win this game. So even though the DLine didnt have splashy plays, they still won the game imho. The raiders offense limited itself so much that the Rams linebackers and secondary didnt have to worry about the whole raider playbook. Thats how it looked to me, anyway.

Obviously the offense will get better with more practice and game experience. Woods and Goff will connect on some big stuff.

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I only saw the highlights. But its pretty clear this team will be better than the 97 Rams.

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I saw the Patriots won. I believe they had 3 grade-school kids playing the WR positions.

How long can one team be this good?

Am i ever going to get to see them implode?

Their excellence gnaws at my soul.

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Well i thot the writer should have explained why the Raiders didnt have cap room to make a Mack deal. Why was their cap so tied-up.

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It’s not cap room. They have the cap space. The extension would be on the cap in 2019 and the Raiders have enough cap space next year to sign 2 K.Macks.

It’s paying out bonuses and guaranteed money. According to league rules, any future guaranteed money means a team has to put an equivalent amount in escrow when the player signs. Combine that with the bonus, which has to be given to the player all at once in cash even though it counts differently against the cap.

Cash-rich SK can afford that. Cash poor Davis can’t.

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Ok, well “Cap”, “Cash”, “money” its all the same to me. So you are saying the owner didnt have enough ready cash to pay a player a huge contract?

Well why would i wanna play for Oakland?

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