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December 22, 2018 at 10:37 pm in reply to: Rams knew early on that Ndamukong wasn’t the same old Suh #95560
wvParticipantWeirdly, 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…”
wvParticipant“one of the most amazing documents i have ever seen”
wvParticipantI’m not expecting much in his first game back. I’m just hopin he doesnt re-injure himself, and I’m hoping he’s up to speed when the playoffs come.
One would think the Rams defense will start ‘looking’ better given the schedule they play now. Aint no more Chiefs or Saints on the schedule. The Bears are not an offensive team. San Fran and Arizona suck. I figure the D will ‘look’ better — whether it actually IS better…?
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vwvParticipantSo the 49ers are still in it.
What scenario would have to unfold for them to make it?
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vThat’s not a list of playoff eligible teams.
It’s just a ranking of every single NFC team and their playoff chances. Which in several cases, is zero.
I would say that everyone from the Packers (10th) on down is pretty much already eliminated.
Green Bay btw should be 4-6-1. But they are eliminated unless something impossible happens–every single NFC team above them loses all 5 remaining games and they win all 5. That’s impossible since all the teams on the list play each other so they can’t ALL lose.
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what about the worm-hole scenario?
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vwvParticipantSo the 49ers are still in it.
What scenario would have to unfold for them to make it?
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vwvParticipantIts gotten so that MSNBC just looks like the CIA-Network to me. Really. Thats how i see it.
Newsweek has ‘always’ been that way.=================
spy-‘reporters’:https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/newsweek-employed-spy-explains-to-us-why-assange-should-be-prosecuted-4cb319533633?fbclid=IwAR2GzNG3Ha_u-Qu3u5IKNsZuqVGcGzljmYafUhgIh899wO_eIIqw6kyGH3gNewsweek-Employed Spy Explains To Us Why Assange Should Be Prosecuted
“…Jamali is currently a reserve intelligence officer for the United States Navy, and is a former FBI asset and double agent. He is also like many intelligence community insiders an MSNBC contributor, and is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a think tank which has featured many prominent neoconservative war whores like Donald and Frederick Kagan, Max Boot, and James Woolsey. Any think tank with the words “foreign policy” in its title is nothing other than a group of intellectuals who are paid by plutocrats to come up with the best possible arguments for why it would be very good and smart to do things that are very evil and stupid, and Naveed Jamali sits comfortably there….”
November 25, 2018 at 1:54 pm in reply to: Russia asks Bulgaria not to paint Soviet monuments to look like USA supeheroes #94454wvParticipantWell one of them looks like Ronald McDonald. I am not convinced he is a super hero.
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