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wvParticipantYeah, Nugent makes me ill.
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vwvParticipant…P Joseph Davidson, Bowling Green.
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Hekker’s in trouble I see.
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vwvParticipantIf he can just stop the run it will be a major plus.
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vwvParticipantI think Gronk is being held together by ductape at this point in his career. I would not give up more than a third round pick for him.
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vwvParticipant“….Finally, there’s the “Goldilocks” case, or the case where the Universe is right on the bubble between recollapsing (which it would do if it had just one more proton) and expanding into oblivion (which it would do if it had one fewer proton), and instead just asymptotes to a state where the expansion rate drops to zero, but never quite turns around to recollapse.
As it turns out, we live almost in the Goldilocks case, with just a tiny bit of dark energy thrown in the mix, making the expansion rate just slightly larger, and meaning that eventually all the matter that isn’t gravitationally bound together already will be driven apart into the abyss of deep space.
What’s remarkable is that the amount of fine-tuning that needed to occur so that the Universe’s expansion rate and matter-and-energy density matched so well so that we didn’t either recollapse immediately or fail to form even the basic building-blocks of matter is something like one part in 1024, which is kind of like taking two human beings, counting the number of electrons in them, and finding that they’re identical to within one electron. In fact, if we went back to a time when the Universe was just one nanosecond old (since the Big Bang), we can quantify how finely-tuned the density and the expansion rate needed to be.
The level to which the expansion rate and the overall energy density must balance is insanely precise; a tiny change back then would have led to a Universe vastly different than the one we presently observe. And yet, this finely-tuned situation very much describes the Universe we have, which didn’t collapse immediately and which didn’t expand too rapidly…”
wvParticipantjus somethin i read:https://portside.org/2018-03-25/why-our-universe-didnt-collapse-black-hole
If you conceive of the Universe as the full suite of matter and energy we know, and the early stages had it all compressed into a tiny region of space, then why didn’t it collapse into a black hole?wvParticipantI like this:”Some of you guys make me sick. Go be Lamb fans, if you like what they’re doing so much!”
Makes me smile
and think of Grits.w
vMarch 29, 2018 at 9:27 am in reply to: grading/assessing Rams off-season so far (starts with Whitlock/Schlereth debate) #84688wvParticipantYeah, its a big fat risk. And no-one can tell the future.
Thing is, you could also say its a big fat risk NOT to take those talented-flawed-players.
I’d also note, McSnead has actually talked to these players and done a lot of research (more than fans) and they have more in-depth info than fans do. Doesnt mean they made the right call, but i do think they have more info than us.
Lastly I’d note, these are really top-level-talent guys. These arent medium-level. They are not signing medium-level lo-character guys. These are elite-level players.
So, we’ll see.
I still think the biggest danger by far is an injury at LT. I’m more concerned about that than this chemistry stuff.
They have a chance to draft a LT. Unless they give up the pick for OBJ.
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vwvParticipantThis has been the strangest off-season since….?
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vI don’t like the OBJ trade idea.
In terms of the off-season, my bet is they’re like this every year from now on. Go aggressively after mercs they can use for a year or 2.
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Well i hope they sign Conrad Dobler soon. The dream-team needs hogs.
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vwvParticipantThis has been the strangest off-season since….?
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vwvParticipant“…“We spent more time practicing things like that. Knew when to do it…”
Probly not somethin the NFL wants players to expand on.
I’m a little surprised the old NFL didnt evolve like the old NHL. Ya know. Where flatout fist-fights break out. Ya know. The helmets get thrown down, the other players circle around, and the two just go at it.
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vwvParticipantcarter on suh
wvParticipantIt’s rare in the extreme to find a rookie edge/DE/pass rusher who has an immediate impact. I looked at all defenders who got 8 sacks or more, and it was 30 in 2016 and 35 in 2017, and in both years there was only 1 rookie.
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Well i hope a stud OLineman is there at 23.
…btw, i do remember Seattle drafting Bruce Irvin out of WVU as a pass-rusher in the first round, and he had a big impact in year one.
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vwvParticipantWho do they draft with the first pick now?
Oline? or Pass-rusher?
…or WR ?
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vwvParticipant…meanwhile, in Dallas:
wvParticipantleague sources say Rams done due diligence in Odell Beckham Jr. in a possible trade.
Skuze me, what?
I want no part of that.
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I dunno. The thought of O’dell wearing a “We, Not Me” t-shirt
just brings a smile to my face. I think it would be the perfect
symbol of…’the situation.’w
vwvParticipantaccording to the article, giants want a first round pick. i’d only do that if they could extend him now. no one year rental and he’s gone next year like sammy did.
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Geezus H Christ.
This is all frying my brain.
wvParticipantPeters, Talib, Suh — Now they need to sign OBJ so they can have a fourth pillar.
I dunno about any of this. Its all kinda surreal. I dunno how to process it. The Rams have moved to LA and become the Raiders.
Sigh. Might as well draft a pass-rusher now and totally cluster-fuck the quarterbacks in the NFL.
I dont like the fact that every yappy-celebrity-pundit in the universe is gonna predict a championship for the rams now. And they havent played a down together.
I could live without the hype.
Ah well. Welcome to LA.
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vwvParticipantPredicting the future is always tricky:
wvParticipantI thought it was good for the first few seasons. Then it turned into, it could be the same as any other show on TV. They all seem to do that. Too much drama and not enough good story telling and everything has to be a plot twist.
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I am waiting for everybody to turn into a Cylon=================
Screen-writing is tough. Imagine if Jane Austin had to keep writing a series of Pride and Prejudice Books. Eventually, she would end up with smirky-one-liners, car chases and evil twins, and “which wire do i cut to deactivate this bomb” scenes.
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vMarch 25, 2018 at 9:31 pm in reply to: Suh signs with Titans? [mod edit…it's a fake twitter account] #84512wvParticipantI want it known,
that a reliable source,
revealed to me, that Suh has decided to forego the NFL,
and instead devote his life to making the perfect salad.w
vMarch 25, 2018 at 7:01 pm in reply to: Suh signs with Titans? [mod edit…it's a fake twitter account] #84507wvParticipantVery well. Joe and i will hold off on the fuck-suh posts
for a while longer.w
vwvParticipantthe rams will definitely have some characters though.
if their goal is to get more media coverage i think they got that for sure.
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Well if you have 50+ players on a team, playing a violent game, with millions of dollars at stake — you are gonna have a mix of all kinds of things. On every single team.
Look at the Pats, the best of the best — even they had, what, a triple-murderer on the team? Hernandez?
I think you can benefit from thinking about Walsh’s “guiding principles” etc, but in the end, they are just fluid guide-lines. There’s no one way to build a championship team, and theres no one way to keep a championship team winning year in and year out.
Sometimes a winning combination just implodes after a year or two. Ya know.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantI agree with all of that. My DVR is still set to record all the episodes but I rarely watch them and never do in their entirety. I usually just delete an episode without watching. Occasionally I skip my way through an episode watching ten seconds at a time just to get the gist of it. The whole Negan/Survivors storyline bores me.
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I thought Negan was a good character, but the storyline just kinda got…well…remember the old 60’s Batman TV show — it kinda entered ‘that’ territory.
I ‘do’ give the writers a lot of credit for the first two-and-half or three seasons though. They wrote some good stuff for a while. Its hard to keep writing good stuff season after season. Doesnt happen very often. There’s a reason the Wire didnt go on for ten years. There’s a reason there wasnt a Lord of the Rings Four, Five, Six….
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vwvParticipantI’m in favor of it, now. I’m all in.
I think watching Suh and Donald together could very well be some big source of entertainment. I think – despite not having any blue chip LBs – this defense could just kill teams, and I love a devastating defense. I want to see it.
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Well, I’ll tell you what I’m ‘not’ for.
I’m not for reading post after post of “what nickname shall we give the Rams D Line now that its the best D-Line in the history of the NFL”
….what about…”The Good, The Bad, and Brockers”
Or how bout….”The line that cost us Sammy Watkins.”
Or…”The line with a great player, a good player and a guy that doesnt fit the scheme”
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vwvParticipantSeason two and three were my favorites. The last season was my least favorite.
Omar and Brother Mouzone were my two favorite characters. Though it didnt make sense to me that a Nation of Islam disciple would be involved with drug dealers.
But i aint no expert.w
vwvParticipantYeah, i agree with all that. I think we’ve all talked about that ‘backfire effect’ many times over the years.
The good folks at Cambridge Analytica and the good folks at the CIA pys-ops research facilities all study that dynamic and the ways to ‘use’ knowledge about how the human-amigdyla works to get results they want.
Anyway, nice, clear, accessible article. Teachers should use that one in class-rooms. (for all the good it will do)
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vwvParticipantlots of safeties available on the market. wondering if the rams made a mistake tagging joyner.
maybe better off tagging watkins.
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I woulda tagged Sammy, myself, but what do i know.
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vwvParticipantWell these are the same future-predictors who had the Seahawks at no.2 and the Rams at 29 in Week One last year. They
had the Jaguars at 31. And — the Eagles at 19.I dunno about the Rams right now. I dunno about the Oline or the Passing game.
They were SOOOO lucky last year on the OLine. That will not happen again.w
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