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  • in reply to: "Rams are for real" articles & vids #75485
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    in reply to: Heartbroken for Los Vegas #75484
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    Deadliest shooting only if you dont count black lives:

    link:https://www.theroot.com/this-is-only-the-deadliest-shooting-in-u-s-history-bec-1819112938

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    in reply to: Heartbroken for Los Vegas #75470
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    “…Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the United States’ gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher. And, even though the United States’ suicide rate is similar to other countries, the nation’s gun-related suicide rate is eight times higher than other high-income countries, researchers said.

    The study was published online Feb. 1 in The American Journal of Medicine…”
    link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-u-s-gun-deaths-compare-to-other-countries/
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    And this is now the country that can aim drone-guns at people in other countries and blow them away. And its all done in secret. For secret reasons.

    And the American people get all misty-eyed at the national anthem.

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    in reply to: media sets up the Seattle game #75451
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    “….Left tackle Rees Odhiambo was released from the hospital Monday after staying there overnight for observation after having difficulty breathing after taking a hard hit to his chest area in the third quarter — he did not miss a snap. He was hurt on a hit from Indy’s Jabaal Sheard that Carroll said the team will send to the league office to get their view of if it should have been flagged.

    While there was a report that Odhiambo had a bruised heart Carroll said emphatically that is not true.

    “He does not have a bruised heart, which is out there — whatever, somebody made that up,’’ Carroll said. “That isn’t what he has. He’s got a bruised sternum.’’

    Carroll didn’t rule out that Odhiambo could play Sunday against the Rams saying “we’re not sure what that means for this week but it’s nothing beyond that.’’

    Carroll didn’t say who would step in for Odhiambo this week if he can’t play but his backup has been Matt Tobin. Tobin played the one play Odhiambo missed earlier when he hurt his ankle against Tennessee.

    After finishing the game Odhiambo complained of breathing issues in the locker room after the game and was attended to by physicians with coaches and teammates huddled around.

    Carroll said Odhiambo’s effort to continue playing was “more than we realized. He just sucked it up he was having trouble breathing and he just sucked it up and it kind of caught up with him after the game when he started to calm down, all the adrenaline wasn’t pumping and all. But it was a really good effort by him to hang tough and play a good football game. … (Quarterback) Russell (Wilson) said he would see in the hustle that he was struggling and didn’t know what it was all about. He was struggling to catch his breath. So it was gallant — a great effort.”

    seattle:https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/seahawks-health-updates-no-timeline-for-cliff-avril-return-chris-carson-to-have-surgery-tuesday-rees-odhiambo-gets-good-news/

    in reply to: redacted tonight on the NFL protest #75450
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    in reply to: Your American President #75443
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    in reply to: Dallas game reactions #75441
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    If we beat Seattle, I might actually pee in my pants

    …as if we need any more incentive to root for the Rams.

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    Just so nobody pees their pants during the national anthem.

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    in reply to: Heartbroken for Los Vegas #75440
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    Gun Stocks are up after the shooting. As per usual:
    guns:http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/investing/las-vegas-shooting-gun-stocks-sturm-ruger-american-outdoor-brands/index.html

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    House of Reps poised to pass legislation legalizing gun Silencers:
    “…the House is poised to pass legislation legalizing the use of gun silencers as early as this week, a move that critics say could make it more difficult to identify where gunshots are coming from during a mass shooting like the one that took place in Las Vegas Sunday night.
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    Police officers stand along the Las Vegas Strip the Mandalay Bay resort and casino during a shooting near the casino, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, in Las Vegas.
    At Least 50 Dead, 200 Injured in Las Vegas Shooting

    A provision called the Hearing Protection Act, tucked into the bipartisan Sportsmen Heritage and Recreational Enhancement, or SHARE Act, would eliminate restrictions on silencers and instead treat them as ordinary firearms….”
    Guns:https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-10-02/house-poised-to-pass-law-easing-sale-of-gun-silencers-after-las-vegas-shooting

    in reply to: Dallas game reactions #75436
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    Any injuries in that dallas game?

    This is another reason McV is a genius — he doesn’t allow any injuries.

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    Well, if you turn the color off on yer tv, it looks just fine.

    I’ve heard they looked damn good in Pleasantville.

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    Different angle, but the year to year reminds me a bit of Vermeil 1998 vs Vermeil 1999. From 285 to 526 points. Same coach, but nearly as significant a turnaround.

    This season does have sort of a 99 vibe, doesn’t it?

    If the defense improves they’ll be unbeatable.

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    Not to me. Not even close.

    They look like a 10-6 type team to me. Though there there is one similarity to 99 — the cake schedule.

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    McVay, hired at the age of 30 to fix a broken offense, has the third-most points through a coach’s first four career games since the merger in 1970.

    Said Austin: “He works us to death in practice. He works us ’til we get it. … He demands professionalism.

    Two notable comments.

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    Do you think they ‘work harder’ than with Fisher?

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    in reply to: Dallas game reactions #75420
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    The Robert Woods ‘touchdown’ was an awesome play too. Such great hands and body control by that guy. A wonderful addition.

    Snead/McV — have they made any personnel mistakes so far? Looks like they’ve hit several homeruns. Woods, Watkins, the LT, the Center. Critical additions.

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    Critical additions.

    The difference between the worst offense in the league, and 4-12, and a top offense contending for the division.

    Plus I think it’s safe to say that McVay is better at offense than Boras.

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    McV is a hall of famer, Zooey. First ballot. He could kick Chuck Norris’ butt.

    He’s the breaker of chains, the destroyer of SOSAR, the Fisher-Slayer, The Rightful Heir to the Iron Horn.

    Bend the knee.

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    in reply to: Dallas game reactions #75418
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    The Robert Woods ‘touchdown’ was an awesome play too. Such great hands and body control by that guy. A wonderful addition.

    Snead/McV — have they made any personnel mistakes so far? Looks like they’ve hit several homeruns. Woods, Watkins, the LT, the Center. Critical additions.

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    in reply to: Dallas game reactions #75408
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    <span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>Reynolds block on the last defender.</span>

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    Oh yeah.

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    in reply to: Why do whites oppose the NFL protests? #75405
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    …i had a jury trial recently where a white cop testified that one of the reasons he arrested a defendant (a white defendant arrested for ‘making terrorist threats’)was because the defendant expressed support for black lives matter.

    I kid you not. The white cop also stated he arrested the guy to ‘pre-empt’ him from creating a ‘mass casualty’ situation.

    A ‘pre-emptive’ arrest, based in part because a guy said he supported black lives matter.

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    in reply to: the word on Goff after GAME 4 #75404
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    i just hope, someday, people argue endlessly,
    about whether it was Goff or McV, who was responsible for all those super bowls…

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    in reply to: Dallas game reactions #75403
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    I watched the game on replay, tonight. I had wondered how McV’s offense would look against a team like Dallas that knew McV very well, and had three Ram games to study as well.

    I was quite pleased with how the Rams offense looked. Dallas stopped Watkins and Woods for the most part, but Gurley just kept gashing them.

    I thought sure Dallas would force at least one Goff INT — but no. The kid, on the road, did not give the game away. He ‘distributed’ the ball, to use McV’s term, and ‘managed’ the game like a good point-guard. Goff let Gurley and the Oline and Legatron win it. He didn’t try to do too much.

    The coaching has been talked about endlessly and everyone already has McV in the Hall of Fame — and i concur 🙂

    The OLine was a thing of beauty. Just gorgeous.

    Each game Goff gets to play, is like…oh, i dunno what metaphor to use, but its like gold in the bank er somethin. Each game he is learning. Growing. You can see it. His pocket footwork and patience were a little better at Dallas than against the lesser-teams earlier this year. Seattle will be another good learning experience for the kid. But each game he is gonna get better. And that’s fun to think about.

    Kupp is already a joy. What happens when HE gets all the nuances down. He’s still learning too.

    I dunno what the ceiling is for this Defense this year. I’m kinda hoping they can at least be smart and opportunistic. Maybe get gashed a lot but still come up with a few key plays. Just enough. Like at Dallas. Seems like the Saints won a ring with a defense a little like that. I dunno.

    Perhaps my favorite play, was something that was not even mentioned on the broadcast. And it only showed up peripherally on the camera. It happened on the big Gurley TD catch. Anybody see it? 🙂

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    in reply to: How AD held out all summer then played 115 snaps in 5 days #75196
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    “tapioca”

    in reply to: NFL Players Respond to Trump on Anthem Protesters… + Kroenke #75177
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    Yeah, that was impressive.

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    There may be some subtle or not-so-subtle consequences in store of Shannon.

    The powers-that-be dont like that kinda talk.

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    in reply to: NFL Players Respond to Trump on Anthem Protesters… + Kroenke #75160
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    I just came across this one last night. This is exactly what I’ve been thinking, but this is the first time I’ve heard anybody say it.

    http://www.foxsports.com/watch/undisputed/video/1054207043815

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    Wow. Good stuff. I will never think of Shannon quite the same way again. Impressive.

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    in reply to: I don't know what to title this. #75143
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    So when someone says that socialism has always failed, I have to say, no. It hasn’t. Cuz it’s never been tried.

    And there are lots of different views on THAT too.

    For example democratic socialism, as opposed to theoretical pure socialism, has not only been tried and is successful, in some parts of the world it is dominant.

    I count the success of democratic socialism heavily in looking at real economic policies.

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    What nations are you thinking about zn?

    …aint it inter-esting that in general, fox-newz, and msnbc-newz, never talk about ‘them’ countries. Mainly, US-viewers are simply fed, and fed, and fed, and fed, newZ about North-Korea and Iran….etc.

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    in reply to: I don't know what to title this. #75128
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    I’m Patriotic… I believe in
    Free Market Capitalism,
    Border Security,
    Faith…
    Lower Taxes,
    Limited Government…
    and an Elite Military Force….

    Let’s just talk about Football…

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    That makes me smile, because i dont believe in any of those things 🙂

    You know, many of us ‘tried’ to talk politics on the old political board years ago. Far Righties from the Herd, and this little group of far-lefties. And one by one we mostly walked away from it because it almost always deteriorated into a cess-pool of anger, defensiveness and ugliness. It was just toxic for me. I felt healthier as soon as i stopped reading that board.

    It was a useful exercise though, for me. It was good experience. I kinda learned when to NOT try to communicate. Ya know. Sometimes ya just have to NOT communicate. Strange as that sounds.

    In general, i just dont think righties and lefties can talk to each other, about politics.

    So, I’m totally with ya — let’s talk Rams. 🙂

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    in reply to: The college basketball scandal #75122
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    I’m not quite sure what i think of all this. I dont really understand who paid who and for what, exactly.

    But my first impression is — I’m not sure why it should bother me that some poor kid’s family got some money funneled to them by rich sleazy basketball people.

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    in reply to: Rams at Dallas: can they win? #75109
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    I feel like they can win. They have already showed me enough in the first three games to show that they aren’t just getting lucky.

    A note about the defense: I hear the players talking about “maintaining gap integrity” and “trusting the system instead of just falling on old habits”.

    I remember some of the same things being said when Spags first implemented his system and GW implemented his. I feel like it’s just a system change thing. It isn’t muscle memory yet. The defense should get better, especially in the last half of the season.

    I am very optimistic about this team. My biggest concern is giving games away. They make too many mistakes, and you can’t do that against a Dallas team or a Washington team.

    If they continue to give possessions away, than it’s going to be another long season.

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    Hmmmm. I dunno. I suspect the D wont get fixed this year, and i am skeptical they are even gonna get much better at all this year.

    Somethin just looks ‘seriously’ wrong to me.

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    in reply to: Went and saw Roger Waters last night #75104
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    Yeah, Waters is quite political. He actually takes on the Israeli Occupation, which is unusual among privileged celebrity millionaire rock stars.

    in reply to: Rams at Dallas: can they win? #75095
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    Well teams have now seen the ram-McV offense for three games now….I’m thinking the Rams will look bad in this one. I dont see any way they stop that Dallas Oline with their Giunta-Defense. I figure Dallas will run and pass for a million yards.

    Dallas 35
    Rams 23

    The team will continue to grow and gel, but its too soon, and Goff is too green, for them to beat teams like Dallas on the road.

    They’ll be a handful next year if Snead can make a few more good personnel decisions and they can hang on to Watkns.

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    in reply to: Goff, the word after game 3 #75094
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    “The only thing he needs to learn more now is to step up into the pocket rather than trying to get out of it.”
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    A lot of folks think this. But in college he certainly made a ton of plays after he rolled OUT of the pocket.

    Maybe he needs to learn to step deeper in to the pocket but maybe sometimes he can still do his college thing. Maybe he needs to learn when to do one and when to do the other. Maybe his linemen need to learn when he’s gonna do one and when he’s gonna do the other — experience.

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    in reply to: Woods has found the goods #75093
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    “Throughout the game, you just have a sense of, ‘They don’t know what we’re doing,’ ” he said, adding, “When you’re running a route and you see guys running the opposite way, it’s a good feeling.”

    And that is how it seems when you watch them on TV too.

    This is just awesome.

    I would love to see how a great DC attacks this offense, though. I’d like to see what Belichick would do against McV.

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    in reply to: I don't know what to title this. #75090
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    Are the 10 people on island 2 all pulling their weight equally? What if they’re all lazy and contribute nothing to the island except for one hard working guy? Say only one of the 10 gets out there and works. He goes out and harvests the coconuts, digs the wells, does all the fishing, manufactures clothing (grass skirts & palm frond vests, I would imagine), and stockpiles it to ensure his longevity.

    The other 9 do nothing but steal his shit because they’re too lazy to do it themselves.

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    Well, i kinda thot you would write somethin like that. I live and breathe in West, by God, Virginia, as you know. And so I am immersed in rightwing ideas, rightwing talk-radio, etc. And so I’m familiar with the notion that there are a bunch of ‘lazy,’ enabled, poor-people out there acting like ‘victims’ and wanting ‘hand-outs’ etc.

    Thing is i have spent a quarter of a century now, working with poverty-sticken people and i rarely if ever actually meet any ‘lazy’ poor people. I meet single moms working at McDonalds who make barely enough to live on, and they work a lot harder than the rich folks — they just dont win the capitalist-games. But the work a lot HARDER. But they stay poor. The system looks rigged to me. I dont think the problem is a ‘good system’ full of ‘lazy’ poor-people.

    The poor work harder. Thats been my experience anyway. They just dont make money.

    I would choose the socialist-island because it seems more ‘fair’ to me. You would choose the capitalist island because it seems more ‘fair’ to you.
    There’s no persuading either of us on some of these core, buried, deep ideas.
    I think. I dunno.

    Go Rams.
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