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wvParticipantThis 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
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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
vwvParticipantwvParticipanta little more on the C.A. thing:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/mod-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-scl-group-list-x
MoD granted ‘List X’ status to Cambridge Analytica parent companyMPs call for investigation into concerns over SCL Group and its access to secret documents
wvParticipantWhen a team is a playoff-caliber team, i always like a veteran backup QB.
I’d like to see them sign George Blanda.
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vwvParticipantWhy is his name Robey-Coleman?
I dont trust hyphenated people, unless theyve got a damn good reason
for being hyphenated.I dont trust semi-colon people either.
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========wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barrelled_name
…British traditionA few British upper-class families have “triple-barrelled” surnames (e.g. Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe; Cave-Browne-Cave; Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound; Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby; Smith-Dorrien-Smith; Vane-Tempest-Stewart). Not all of those with multiple names were of the nobility; landed gentry such as George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers consolidated the estates and wealth of several families in their multiple names. These are sometimes created when one spouse has a double-barrelled name and the other has a single surname. Nowadays, such names are almost always abbreviated in everyday use to a single or double-barrelled version. There are even a few “quadruple-barrelled” surnames (e.g. Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Stirling-Home-Drummond-Moray, and the Danish Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs family). The surname of the extinct family of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos was the quintuple-barrelled Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville.
Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache is sometimes quoted as the man with the most ever “barrels” in his surname (six), but in fact all but the last two of these (Tollemache-Tollemache) were forenames.
Many double-barrelled names are written without a hyphen, which can cause confusion as to whether the surname is double-barrelled or not. Notable persons with unhyphenated double-barrelled names include politician David Lloyd George (born with Lloyd as a middle name, but self-transformed into a double-barrelled surname), the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, astronomer Robert Hanbury Brown, actors Kristin Scott Thomas and Helena Bonham Carter (although she has said the hyphen is optional)[2] comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (however, his cousin Professor Simon Baron-Cohen opted for the hyphen) and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.
Iberian tradition…
wvParticipantGOP response:http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/379359-pennsylvania-gop-moves-to-oust-judges-over-gerrymandering-decision
Pennsylvania GOP moves to oust judges over gerrymandering decisionwvParticipantGreg Palast on the Psy-ops-propaganda thing. Fwiw
GP:https://mailchi.mp/gregpalast/cambridge-analytica-aint-nuthin-look-out-for-i360?e=3c62b43786
Cambridge Analytica Ain’t Nuthin:
Look out for i360 and DataTrust
By Greg PalastThe story is that Cambridge Analytica, once directed by Steve Bannon, by shoplifting Facebook profiles to bend your brain, is some unique “bad apple” of the cyber world.
That’s a dangerously narrow view. In fact, the dark art of dynamic psychometric manipulation in politics was not pioneered by Cambridge Analytica for Trump, but by i360 Themis, the operation founded by… no points for guessing… the Brothers Koch.
Mark Swedlund, himself an expert in these tools, explained in film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, that i360 dynamically tracks you on 1800 behaviors, or as Swedlund graphically puts it [see clip above],
“They know the last time you downloaded porn and
whether you ordered Chinese food before you voted.”Swedlund adds his expert conclusion: “I think that’s creepy.”
The Koch operation and its competitor, DataTrust, use your credit card purchases, cable TV choices and other personal info — which is far more revealing about your inner life than the BS you put on your Facebook profile. Don’t trust DataTrust: This cyber-monster is operated by Karl Rove, “Bush’s Brain,” who is principally funded by Paul Singer, the far Right financier better known as The Vulture.
Way too much is made of the importance of Cambridge Analytica stealing data through a phony app. If you’ve ever filled out an online survey, Swedlund told me, they’ve got you — legally.
The second danger is to forget that the GOP has been using computer power to erase the voting rights of Black and Hispanic voters for years — by “caging,” “Crosscheck,” citizenship challenges based on last name (Garcia? Not American!!), the list goes on — a far more effective use of cyberpower than manipulating your behavior through Facebook ads.
Just last week, Kris Kobach, Secretary of State of Kansas and Trump’s chief voting law advisor, defended his method of hunting alleged “aliens” on voter rolls against a legal challenge by the ALCU. Kobach’s expert, Jessie Richman, uses a computer algorithm that can locate “foreign” names on voter rolls. He identified, for example, one “Carlos Murguia” as a potential alien voter. Murguia is a Kansas-born judge who presides in a nearby courtroom.
It would be a joke, except that Kobach’s “alien” hunt has blocked one in seven new (i.e. young) voters from registering in the state. If Kobach wins, it will, like his Crosscheck purge program and voter ID laws, almost certainly spread to other GOP controlled states. This could ultimately block one million new voters, exactly what Trump had in mind by pushing the alien-voter hysteria.
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The Cambridge Analytica story was first reported by The Guardian and Observer in 2015. Did we listen? Did any US paper carry the story the British paper worked on for years? So, my first reaction reading this story was nostalgia — for the time when I was a reporter with The Guardian and Observer investigations team. We could spend a year digging deep into complex stories, working with crazy insiders. There, in 2000, I uncovered another cyber-crime: Using database matching to purge felons from Florida voter rolls. (None, in fact, were felons; most were Democrats.)I moved back to America, but found I had to give up any hope of doing true, deep investigative reports for newspapers in my own country. US papers will sometimes re-report Guardian news, but American media almost never initiates deep investigation. And THAT, fear of the cost, difficulty and risk in digging out the truth, is a greater threat to America than Steve Bannon.
wvParticipantPS — this is really the only part of that post that I was interested in: “…is that SCL, CA’s parent company used to work for MI6 (or be run by them) and this technology was used by them in god knows what elections around the world for the good of the empire…”
——————————–This is just another drop in the vast ocean-of-lies that make up “the West” now.
This is my mantra, BT. (until i become obsessed with a different mantra 🙂 )
Did you know that CA’s parent company worked for the brit-lie-factory? I didnt. Most people dont. What does it mean? I dunno. We dont get to know.
In a land of lies, we dont get to know. What can we trust anymore? What information can we trust in the West? Or the East.
Thats the situation one finds oneself in, in a factory-of-Lies.
And the people are so dummed-down now (not their fault) by the factory-of-lies, that they have…no…clue. They are not ‘citizens’ in any meaningful sense.
There are no citizens in a factory-of-lies.
Just how i see it now. Not tryin to persuade anyone.
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vwvParticipantA lot a people turned off and / or were turned off because CK7 took a knee
But what’s fucked up is that no one was or said that they were turned off becuase the NFL blacked balled a more than capable player . Not only a capable player but a quarterback
A QB that won huge road playoff games including Carolina and freezing GB
A QB that fell just short of a tremendous cut mebacknin the Super Bowl
I couldn’t stand Kap as a player because I’m a Rams fan rooting against SF
but he got royally screwed he should be playing he can play AB in the NFL
BTW Mangini made a brief cameo in the Sopranos once….
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Would you rather have Mannion or Kap as back up this year?
I think I’d take Kap. Not sure, but i think i would. I trust McVay to know what to do with a strange player like Kap.
I’m not sure about Mannion.
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