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wvParticipantDamn. I thought Blanton was a future starter.
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Kendall Blanton Rams Highlights: Every Reception of the 2021-2022 NFL Season
wvParticipantLos Angeles Rams Vs. Houston Texans FULL GAME Highlights 8/20/2022 |
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Heck of a block by 87
at the 8:10 mark or so.
wvParticipantI think everybody is overlooking the fact that the Dallas Cowboys have not made it to the NFC Championship game since they won the Super Bowl in 1995.
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Every time i see that stat, I smile.
Its why they are America’s Team.
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wvParticipantok. i forgot about those fourth quarters… it definitely makes it closer… it doesn’t surpass warner’s 1999 season, but it might be on par with it. i definitely think he can have the better career with the rams. he’s under contract until 2026, and i don’t see any reason why he can’t keep up that caliber of play. especially with all the rules to protect the qbs. and if we’re lucky, he can play even beyond 2026. and i agree. it would have been nice to see warner finish as a ram.
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Well, one difference — I think a lot more pressure was on Stafford in his big Ram year. Kurt was a back-up and no-one expected a Super Bowl. But with Stafford nothing ‘less’ than a Super Bowl would have been acceptable (to many).
Also, the Rams 99 regular season schedule was a joke.
And I think the 99 Rams were just a step ahead of the league with their offense, and the personnel: Faulk, Ike, Holt, Proehl, Hakim. I dont think Stafford had ‘that’ kind of edge with their personnel or McVay’s scheme. Goff had an edge with McVay but I think by the time Stafford was there, the league had caught up with McVay.
I dunno. Kurt has earned a ticket to the Hall of Fame for sure, and his 99 season was a spectacle, and the throw to Proehl was as great a clutch throw as I’ve seen.
But I might just give the edge to Stafford as far as the one year comparison.
I know the stats are in favor of Kurt, but I thought what Stafford did against the Brady-Bucs, and the Shannahan-49ers and the Bengals (when the rams were down to 1 weapon and No running game) — I think i might have to give a slight edge to Matt.
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wvParticipantStafford made the no-look pass in the clutch.
i don’t know much about gabriel. before my time. but that throw. and that drive. just amazing. still doesn’t top warner’s 1999 season. taken as a whole. but that drive and that throw was definitely a moment that equaled warner to proehl. or warner to bruce. i wanna see stafford put together some more seasons for the rams. doesn’t necessarily have to end with a superbowl. but he could be the best of them.
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Well for me, what Stafford did in the 4th quarter during the post-season run, is equal (or surpasses) what Kurt did. The Tampa game? Are you kidding me? After he was sacked on first down? Then the body-bag game against SF. And the last drive with only 1 weapon on the field…
Yes, it would be great to see Stafford put together a few more healthy years with this team. We got cheated out of seeing Kurt finish as a Ram. Lets hope Stafford put together three or four elite years. Stafford, Donald and Ramsay could all go into the Hall of Fame together 🙂
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wvParticipant. . . . . Back to Gabriel. My memory of him is of defensive linemen and linebackers draped all over him as he still gets the pass off. Toughest QB evah. Cannon for an arm. And in those days, the defense could basically maul the QB. Yes, Warner took incredible punishment, especially because he tended to throw at the last split second — to optimize run after the catch, typically. But he also benefited from rules intended to protect that position. Gabriel had no such protections, aside from perhaps the most consistently good O-line in the NFL for a good decade. Again, I think if he had had decent skill position weapons, the Rams would have won several Big Dances and he wouldn’t have been traded to the Eagles.
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Hard to compare QBs across eras, as you know. Kurt might not have survived the 70s defenses.
Defense was just so beastly, back then. And George Allen was such a conservative, defensive coach. Who knows what Gabe would have looked like under, say, a coach like Landry or Coryell.
But the bottom line for me — fair or unfair– is Stafford made the no-look pass in the clutch. Warner made the throw to Proehl. Gabe just doesnt have that huge ‘play’ in the playoffs, in clutch on his resume. So i cant put him in an elite tier. I dunno. Maybe Bud Grant was just a little bit better of a coach than George Allen.
Woulda loved to see the Rams vs the Chiefs in that super bowl, way-back-when.
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wvParticipantThe football Gods are mysterious. Take a QB like Foles. WTF was Nick Foles?
He had one of the greatest years in history in 2013 as an Eagle. I mean 27 TDs and 2 INTs. Rating of 119. Also, 2017 goes 3 and 0 in the playoffs and wins a Ring.
But then his other years are all more or less mediocre.
I like the fact that a guy like him or a Brad Johnson or a Doug Williams can win a ring though. Gives every team hope.
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August 16, 2022 at 8:55 am in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #140130wvParticipantI have liked Curtis White’s writings.
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https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/technology/living-world-without-stars
wvParticipantOnly saw bout five minutes of hi-lites.
Best football play by far imho was the Rose short TD run.
Some of the Perkins and McCutcheon stuff looked fun, but…Perkins did not look like a starter to me, and McCutcheon looked….lucky. I dunno.
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wvParticipantwvParticipantDick Vermeil got into the Hall Of Fame with one Super Bowl win, and one Super Bowl loss. Do we know any other coach with that kind of record? w v
Here’s what Vermeil also did. He took 3 losing teams and turned all 3 into playoff teams. McVay in contrast inherited a lot of talent. In 2017, he had way way more talent than Vermeil did in 97 with the Rams, or initially with either the Eagles or the Chiefs. Bearing in mind that a couple of those seasons was back when there were 14 games, in all 3 cases combined, rebuilding from scratch meant 2 years each of non-winning records. His first 6 years combined from all 3 teams average out to a 5.4/10 record. I like McVay. He and Vermeil are obviously the top 2 coaches since I started following the Rams. But McVay’s record, so far, does not include losing years from a rebuild. Even Demoff openly said in 2017 that they were not in a rebuild. It’s just a factor.
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All true.
But for me, DV is maybe a ‘borderline’ Hall of Famer. I just dont know if i would have voted for him. I dunno.
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wvParticipantThe Beatles were ‘too psychedelic,’ as well as, ‘gettin a little independent’…
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One of the attributes of that 99 team was how ‘smooth’ and easy they made it look against all the bad teams they played. About 13 out of 16 games were against bad teams as I recall, but still, they won in such a fluid, smooth, easy way. That play is a perfect example. It was often a Big-Easy-Spectacle.
Until they played teams like the Bucs or Titans. And thats where they showed what ‘else’ that team had. Toughness or heart or whatever you wanna call it.
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wvParticipantDamn. Themz is not ordinary RB moves. Kid bears watching. w v
And he has the signature Rams RB thing that both Henderson and Akers have. Unusual contact balance.
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I think I like him better than Akers or Henderson.
I base that on watching over 90 seconds of youtube hi-lite film.
If he turns out to be a fumbler I will disavow every word of this post.
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wvParticipantDV – 120 wins and 109 losses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Vermeil
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Mcvay – 55 wins – 26 losses.
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wvParticipantDamn. Themz is not ordinary RB moves.
Kid bears watching.
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wvParticipantRogers took Aya “i wanna feel what pure love feels like”
he’s still a dick.
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Well…first thought that went through my mind was:
Rogers has a bazillion dollars, now. I wonder how much of that, Mr pure-love is gonna give to homeless people?
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wvParticipantIts my biggest concern. By far.
No-one can predict how its gonna go.
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wvParticipantRogers took Aya
“i wanna feel what pure love feels like”
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wvParticipantAltruism? …ok, but i would like to hear the shark’s version next.
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wvParticipant.. but how do you suspend him a year if predetermined protocols say 6 games? it’s all very sad.
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Its a mess, alright. I cringe every time i hear one of the talking-heads discuss whether it should be six games, eight games, seventeen games, etc, etc.
Like….how weird does your brain have to be, to think any of this stuff can be reduced to this or that amount of ‘games’ ?
I thought Hitler should have gotten a two-year suspension, btw. Zooey, too.
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wvParticipantI have no idea what ‘justice’ looks like in a case that does not go to trial, and where two grand juries decided there was not enough evidence to indict, and where we dont know all the facts…..but…where 24 women have prettymuch told the same story.
How in the world do you add up all the knowns and unknowns in a case like this, and then do all the human-algebra and then turn it into “X number of game suspensions.”
The whole, entire, situation is post-modernly-surreal.
Thats all i got.
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wvParticipanti like morris. we’ll see. not sure how good he really is as a coordinator cuz he really hasn’t had much experience actually doing it. i think he pretty much went from position coach straight to head coach with a couple of stints as a coordinator here and there. but every coach needs talent to work with.
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Yeah, I just dont know. I mean, how could any DC ‘not’ have a great year, with Donald, Ramsey AND Von Miller out there. The Rams D does not win a ring without Von Miller imho. He was the key change last year, not Morris.
Now, if the Rams Defense is great again, without Von Miller, then I’ll be impressed with Morris. We’ll see.
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wvParticipantwvParticipantI am enjoying this dvd: Blank City. Its about broke, NY, film-makers in the 70s. NY City was bankrupt so, apparently you could have your own loft in Manhattan for a hundred bucks a month…
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wvParticipantI dunno. 5’2″ may be too small to see over the O Lineman. Probly has small hands too.
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wvParticipantwvParticipantJim Jarmusch talks about relying on instinct as opposed to intellect. Contrasts his approach to Hitchcock.
Thot it was interesting. Started vid at 19 minute mark.
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wvParticipant… Rams are working very hard to sell Morris and their former RB coach, now TE coach Thomas Brown as future head coaches. It seems very conscious and concerted.
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Oh yeah. Its understandable, nice, and cringe-ee at the same time.
The Brian Flores class-action racial-discrim. lawsuit is still rippling through the dark corridors of the NFL, much like the concussion issue did a while back.
The NFL’s motto should be: Optics not Substance.
…america’s motto, too.
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