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wvParticipantI think there’s a good chance Harris will be the establishment-backed candidate.
I would be very happy if the progressives would splinter off behind Bernie for a third party.
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Well, that would mean four more years of Trump, right.
Once again, people are faced with the usual triangulations.
I’m never voting for a DNC-backed-Dem. Ever.
If that means endless Rep presidents, so be it. I just dont believe in the system anymore.w
vwvParticipantRussell Wilson had beautiful touch on his deep throws when he had time.
And of course he always seems to have a couple of big spin-and-escape plays in every game. Sometimes i swear it looks like he sets up the oncoming passrushers. Its like he knows he’s going to do the spin thing, and he sets them up. Sucks them in and poof he’s gone.
He looks healthy now.
Anyway, i didnt mind Seattle winning. I want them playing well, and being all cocky. When the Rams win the division i dont want it to be because Seattle is lame.
Bring them on.
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vwvParticipantsome folks “dont think a DT is worth it”
I agree with you about his overall value just as a top defender.
But I also think elite DTs ARE worth it too.
Not saying you disagree.
Elite DTs are rare and there are very good, sound, basic football reasons why they are very good for your defense. Better than having 2 other good players at different positions.
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I dunno about DT’s in general, but i know any player that can cause a QB and an Offensive Coordinator to totally adjust their gameplan, is worth Paying.
Wade Philips is worth paying, too.
Btw, there shouldnt be any London games, and there shouldnt be any Thursday games, and there shouldnt be more than two preseason games, and there shouldnt be any fucking Bye weeks. There. Make it so.
Oh, and the Chargers should be in San Diego. And the flat State of Ohio does not need two football teams. Move Cincy to St.Louis.
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Yes. I think some folks “dont think a DT is worth it” but I dont even think of AD as a DT. He’s a Category-Five Storm. Ya know.
It dont matter what position he plays.
The Rams offense aint the reason they been winning lately.
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vOctober 29, 2017 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Mark Barron has become one of the best linebackers in the NFL #76642wvParticipanti’ll be honest. i was thinking they were gonna need to cut him.
i mean i don’t know how accurate pff is, but he’s obviously doing something right. this defense looks better and better each week.
now if only quinn can have a resurgence. i’ve seen that he’s been getting pressure on the qb. maybe he can start converting those pressures into sacks.
i’ve also noted that barron is a solid 225 pounds. also interesting is they had ogletree lose weight from 250 to 235 pounds.
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I never liked the idea of getting rid of Barron cause ‘he didnt fit’ the new scheme. I thought Barron was a ‘special’ player, and when ya have one of those, you change the scheme to fit the special-player, and not the other way around.
He can play on my team anyday.
What’s intriguing is this J.Johnson guy. IF he turns out to be a solid player
and Joyner can stay healthy…well…damn. Ca
use they can use draft picks for the BPA…Gotta make Aaron Donald happy though. The D starts with Aaron Donald. It ends with Aaron Donald. The middle part, i dunno.
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vwvParticipanti wanted to see the fire. damn.
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vwvParticipantWhen my daughter was little, she was deathly afraid of moths. Only she called them “cloths”. Daddy! Quick! It’s a CLOTH!!
Once I drank too much kentucky whiskey and got lost in my closet. It suddenly started snowing and I was molested by a moose that walked on his hind legs and smoked cigars.
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Cloths? ! I love it.
I’m sorry you got lost in the closet. But its good that you finally
came out of the closet.w
vwvParticipantWell what’s his passer-rating the last three games, compared to the first three or four?
His QB rating keeps goin down, i believe.
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vwvParticipantecosia:https://www.ecosia.org/
wvParticipantwvParticipantAhh, the lamentations of the conquered.
Cards embarrass themselves nationally and, now, internationally. If the greedy NFL could figure a way to play football in space, the Cards would embarrass themselves universally.
That was a good one.
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Yeah, they complained about their equipment manager cause the players were slipping on the grass. They dont like Tyrian Matthew. They dont like Arians. They dont like their DC. They dont like their special teams coach. They dont like their kicker.
The only thing they love is Larry Fitzgerald and they want to trade him because “he doesnt deserve this”.
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vwvParticipantzizek:http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antisemitic-zionist-jewish-identity-muslim-islamophobia-immigration-migrants-racism-a8022726.html
There’s a dangerous and popular fashion in Europe to be antisemitic and pro-Zionist at the same timewvParticipantThey have to resign Donald.
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vLook at all the great insights in this thread and then west fucking virginia ram stumbles in and babbles “duh, dey hafta sine doonald, duuuuuhhhhh!”. Ya think wv? Think they might want to lock up the greatest player to wear the horns since marshall faulk? Fuckin’ brilliant mastery of the painfully obvious you have going there…idiot.
Laff – just kiddin’ buddy – how ya been?
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I’m good, Lysol. Been pretty busy lately battling with moths in my closets. The internet tells me that vinegar is the key to mothless closets. I’m trying a combo of Kentucky whiskey and white vinegar. Anyway, they have to sign Donald.
McV said, on the Rich Eisen interview, that Turnovers are the key to this team. When they get turnovers and dont lose turnovers, they win. He emphasized it.
I found an old apple-turnover in my closet. Looked to be about three years old. I’ve been pondering whether its related to my moth problem. Ok, carry on.
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vwvParticipantThey probably arent great at anything yet, but they will be. Its pretty obvious the passing game is just getting started. We keep reading this offense is a combo of the Saints/Pats/Falcons. And you can see that. But as good as they’ve been, its still not close to where it will be in the future. They are just starting to gel.
They have to resign Donald.
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vwvParticipantI honestly don’t think it’s unique. It’s just a version of what we already saw with the Shula Dolphins, the Noll Steelers, or the Walsh 9ers. And a coupla others too.
Heck Walsh did it with 2 different qbs. Shula did it with 3 different qbs (Griese, Morrall, Marino).
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Well, there’s similarities to the Lombardi teams, Shula, Walsh, Noll, Halas, etc, but man, no organization has done ‘it’ in the last two decades, right?
I’m not saying its ‘magic’ but I do think there must be some animalsacrifices goin
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vwvParticipantIn any event…what does it mean? It means Sanders thinks his brand as an independent in his state is worth more to him than the label Democrat. And that he probably won’t run for president in 2020 which nobody expected him to anyway.
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Well, i expected him to run in 2020. But its less likely now.
Who then? Who will run?
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vwvParticipantEnh. Sounds like the corporate version of ‘life coaches.’ Sounds like stuff you could learn in “Everything you need to know you learn in Kindergarten” books.
At any rate, whatever the Patriots have is special. Year after year after year after year they continue to be great. Players change, and it doesnt matter. Its unlike anything else in pro football. No NFL team has duplicated it. Is it Belichick? Belichick and Brady? Something more?
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vOctober 25, 2017 at 10:04 am in reply to: Rams Simulate Playing Giants by Pumping Crowd Groans Into Speakers #76526wvParticipantHa. You got me. I didnt know.
Damn. It sounded so cool.
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vOctober 25, 2017 at 9:23 am in reply to: Rams Simulate Playing Giants by Pumping Crowd Groans Into Speakers #76520wvParticipantInjured Cattle. Recordings of injured cattle. Something i didnt think i’d be reading today on the Rams board.
See this is why McV is a genius. Fisher would have used sounds of F-15s or Country Music.
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vOctober 24, 2017 at 11:00 am in reply to: Interested in your collective take on Bannon's speech to the California GOP #76490wvParticipantI wont even listen to him for thirty seconds.
When i see him, i honestly, sincerely, think of this painting. He should be in it. So should trump.
wvParticipantIt vexes me that there are so few Popovichs in big-time-corporate-Sports.
Ah well.
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vwvParticipantI dont disagree with any of that, but the Defense looked good against Bortles and Arizona, and Seattle. I dunno what they’ll look like when the high-octane offenses show up. Like New Orleans, etc.
They won’t look as good.
And everyone will be concerned that they aren’t as good as we think they are.
That’s what will happen.
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I guess thats true. And i guess that means they dont have an ‘elite’ defense that can shut down great offenses, but they have a ‘good’ defense that can generally play well and be a top twelve defense.
Its only a franchise defense, not an elite defense.
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vwvParticipantThats exactly the way they should be handling him. Having said that he just doesnt have the ‘bend-around-the-corner-ability’ he used to have. He still has the ‘get off’ or ‘speed’ but he doesnt seem to have the speed PLUS power PLUS ‘twistyness’ to bull the OT and get around the corner. He looks like most of the time he just rockets upfield and zooms past the QB and ends up on the ground. The ‘turn’ around the corner just isnt happening anymore. And i assmue thats the effect of the back-injury-surgery.
I imagine, Quinn and Tavon will be gone next year. Though i dunno the cap situation with Quinn.
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vwvParticipantI re-watched the first half last night because I couldn’t give my game my full attention on Sunday – had it on in the background, sort of. And it reinforced my impression that the game should have been more lopsided than it was. The Rams should have scored at least one more TD instead of a FG in the first half. They could have had two. It seems to me it was sheer greenery that made them come up short. I think in another year – if the OL stays at this level – the Rams will finish more drives.
I know they are scoring on a high % of their drives, but I bet their % of TDs once inside the Red Zone isn’t top ten.
Anyway, I look forward to the Rams getting even better on offense.
The defense flipped a switch. Don’t know that I’ve ever seen anything like it. We all saw it. Since half time at Dallas, this team has stifled the other team. 3 1/2 games.
Right now, they are hitting in all three phases of the game, and the offense is going to get better.
We have a team now.
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I dont disagree with any of that, but the Defense looked good against Bortles and Arizona, and Seattle. I dunno what they’ll look like when the high-octane offenses show up. Like New Orleans, etc.
Still, i agree with what you said. And yes, what spawns the smiles is the fact that we know this offense hasnt gelled yet. Young QB, new TEs and WRs and blockers. AND cap space in the future.
Itz like walkin on sunshine
October 24, 2017 at 9:00 am in reply to: With two weeks to prepare, can Rams challenge the Giants? #76477wvParticipantgmen vs rams:http://www.footballdb.com/teams/nfl/new-york-giants/teamvsteam?opp=29
Looks like the giants have won about seven in a row against the hapless-rams. Most of em aint even been close.
Last time the rams beat the giants was the GSOT in 2001 — 15 to 14. The famous Martz-Lets-Strahan-Kill-his-QB game.
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Giants and Rams:http://www.stlsports.com/articles/mr.rams.101501.html
They can’t all be pretty.The Rams finally won ugly, much like the team they beat Sunday, the New York Giants, do with regularity. In what was a long way from a classic at the Dome the Rams beat the Giants (3-2) by a score of 15-14 in a “slugfest”, a win that could prove crucial when it comes time for playoff tiebreakers to be decided in January.
On this day the Rams high octane offense was ordinary thanks in large part to a ton of mistakes they made, turnovers and penalties being the main culprits, but also because of a guy on the Giants defensive line named Michael Strahan, who made Ryan Tucker’s life miserable all day long at right tackle. Tucker was playing with a broken wrist and a separated shoulder and probably should have been an inactive this week let alone going up against one of the best defensive linemen in the game. Strahan racked up four sacks, a forced fumble, and created havoc in the Rams backfield all day.
But somehow they found a way to win. As head coach Mike Martz said after the game; “We couldn’t have won a game like this last year. We weren’t strong enough either mentally or physically.” They are now. Thanks to Lovie Smith’s new defense.
We’ve been raving about this defense all season and rightfully so. On Sunday we once again saw why the Rams now have a complete football team. Sure they allowed the Giants to gain some yards, but more times than not they came up with the big play to keep them from scoring.
On the final play of the game as the Giants were driving downfield looking for at least the winning field goal, Giants quarterback Kerry Collins hit Joe Jurevicius over the middle for what would have been a nice gain. Jurevicius was immediately hit by rookie safety Adam Archuleta, who popped the ball loose, and Grant Wistrom swooped in to grab it for a game ending interception. The Rams ran out the clock and walked off the field as still the NFL’s only undefeated team in 2001 at 5-0. No way the 2000 Rams make this play.
Smith defense preaches swarming the ball carrier. Because of that Wistrom was running straight towards Jurevicius and was in place to make the big interception.
The Rams did suffer their first serious injury of the season when all-universe running back Marshall Faulk left the game in the second half with what is being termed as a “bone bruise” in his knee. He’s expected to be out 3-4 weeks. Trung Canidate, who scored the winning touchdown from a yard out and made some big plays in the win over the Giants, will get a bulk of the work at halfback in Faulk’s absence.
The Rams will head to the Meadowlands next week to take on the New York Jets as they look to get off to a 6-0 for the third straight season.
wvParticipantI watched it on replay last night. Run Defense, and Run offense were good.
The Rams OLine just gouged holes in Arizona’s D all…night…long. I’m still not used to seeing it. Holes. I keep thinking “someone on defense must have fallen down, or something” — but no — the Rams have a powerful OLine. …did i just write that? That cant be right.
The game woulda been a lot closer if Carson had stayed in it, but i remember a time the rams couldnt beat back-up QBs.
Hekker and legatron have to be the best combo in the NFL this year.
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vwvParticipantWell i think propping up Assad is probly the best of a lot of bad options. So, i have no problem with Russia doing that. America’s deep-state wants an even worse villain than Assad running things in Syria
No there were other options.
Either way, I don’t whitewash Russia just cause the USA is bad too.
I think anyone who makes that argument, like in the article above, is begging a lot of bad questions.
And Chomsky saying “no solution” doesn’t mean “stop shedding bright light on what is bad about Russia.”
As I said the actual leftist dissidents there do not paint a picture of something we should either endorse or ignore. (Same with Israel for that matter.)
Which doesn;t mean the USA is good. Saying that is not an option either.
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What other solutions ?
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vwvParticipantgood stuff
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vwvParticipantWell, ya know, we just disagree about Russia. So, pistols at dawn, and all that
To me, the 800 to 3 thing is a meaningful, significant reflection of ‘the big aggressor’ vs the ‘little aggressor’. Yes, both aggressors. But one is a lot more dangerous and deadly than the other. I see a significant difference, and its reflected in the 800 to 3 number.
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vBut the writer frames it in such a way that it’s supposed to deflect criticism from Russia. Particularly when it comes to Syria. I am never going to buy that move.
If it were just an article on american foreign policy and its military bases, fine. I could get behind that. But, think better of Russia in Syria because the USA is bigger? Nah no thanks. Wrong motives.
So. An article on american foreign policy and its military bases? Cool.
And another article on Russia’s aggressions and propping up Assad in Syria? Also cool.
An article saying forget Russia, the USA is worse? Strikes me as pointless.
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Well i think propping up Assad is probly the best of a lot of bad options. So, i have no problem with Russia doing that. America’s deep-state wants an even worse villain than Assad running things in Syria.
As far as how the writer wrote his article, its not how i would have written it. There’s things i agreed with and things I’m not sure of. Etc, and so forth.
If I’m not mistaken (just to go off on a tangent) someone asked Chomsky what could/should be done in Syria, and he just threw up his hands and said its an impossible mess. No solution. I dont think I’ve ever seen him say anything like that before.
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vwvParticipantWell, ya know, we just disagree about Russia. So, pistols at dawn, and all that 🙂
To me, the 800 to 3 thing is a meaningful, significant reflection of ‘the big aggressor’ vs the ‘little aggressor’. Yes, both aggressors. But one is a lot more dangerous and deadly than the other. I see a significant difference, and its reflected in the 800 to 3 number.
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