“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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I’ve never had LESS of an idea about what was going to happen. I got nuthin.

I’ve been lost since the Rams-Chiefs game. Who is Gurley now? Who is Goff? Who is this CJ guy? Where did this new Suh come from? Where did the run defense come from? Who are the Patriots? I dont know nuthin.

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“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg Across the Frontiers

I dont think there is a big ‘talent disparity.’ I say that because almost every year i read that, and almost every year, the Pats are right there at the top.

Maybe we just dont recognize their talents very well.

Maybe their ‘talent’ is playing like a ‘team’. Ya know. Plus of course Brady has otherworldly talent, apparently.

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“…Snead is a man who embraces his failures head-on. When Robinson flopped, he reevaluated the way he scouts tackles (he won’t divulge how),..”

Interesting.

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Zooey wrote:

I just re-watched it on my desktop computer where I have better control over Stop Go than I did on the Chromebook I used last night. From the live angle (which is a better angle than the angle they showed repeatedly on replay), R-C clearly hit him early, and by quite a bit. At full speed it looks bang-bang, but if you freeze it at contact, the ball is 4 feet from the receiver. So…yeah…I’m dropping the “it may not be as bad as they say” argument.

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Yeah it was terrible, but the thing I wonder about is the REFs perspective. We dont have HIS angle on the replays. We dont know exactly how it looked to him. Maybe the players and the ball and the speed and all the gazillion factors created a…a….vortex of some sort….ya know…like a Burmuda Triangle type thing. Only inside a dome. Also lizard people could be involved. We just dont know. So i say, screw the Saints.

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