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  • in reply to: Rams Trade For #1 Pick!!!! #41888
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    They just gave up three starters, though.

    I dunno. I was warming up to Lynch at 15.

    In any event, this tells us that they aren’t in love with Mannion.

    Do they cut Mannion? Trade him?

    What if Mannion outplays the rookie QB
    in preseason?

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    in reply to: Rams Trade For #1 Pick!!!! #41879
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    Would the Rams have preferred to get their QB in the third round? Absolutely. But it is like a lottery ticket, right? How many third round QBs have been picked in the last 15 years? How many have become Russell Wilson? Can it be done? Yes. Is it something that you can plan on? Probably not. Its not a perfect solution, but if they are right the cost is insignificant. If they are wrong, well, maybe those same draft picks would have been wrong too. Let’s hope they choose wisely and the QB becomes the next Big Ben or even Phillip Rivers.

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    Well the important thing iz,
    I wont have to wait around for two hours on draft night
    waiting for the Rams pick.

    People need to factor that in,
    i think.

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    in reply to: Rams Trade For #1 Pick!!!! #41874
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    The Rams have to deal with Russell Wilson for the next 10 years. The needed a guy that can give them a shot. Three years from now, no one will miss those picks but they will be happy if they got their guy at QB.

    Well, its bold, I’ll grant you that.

    I would have done things differently myself,
    but strangely, and unaccountably Snead did not
    consult with me.

    The Russell Wilson thing, cuts both ways to me. Yeah,
    it points out how important a good QB is to a team,
    but then…he was drafted in the Third round. The seahawks
    didnt give up a gazzilion premium picks for him.
    They just chose wisely in the third round.

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    in reply to: Tweets 4/14 – THE TRADE #41871
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    Wow. First I’ve heard of it.

    Wow.

    My gut-first reaction is — Way too much to give up for
    a rookie QB not named Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck.

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    Now, we can all live the other side of the RGIII trade.

    Well, its quite a bold roll of the dice. So much riding
    on making the right choice now.

    And you just KNOW, that some team is going to get
    a great QB somewhere in the late first round or the
    second round. You just know it.

    Do they get a WR in the fourth round?
    They need a WR.
    Free agent?

    They lose their first and third next year — do they
    rely on Free Agency more next year?

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    in reply to: Tweets 4/14 – THE TRADE #41866
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    Wow. First I’ve heard of it.

    Wow.

    My gut-first reaction is — Way too much to give up for
    a rookie QB not named Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck.

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    in reply to: what we forgot with Mason #41826
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    I am in charge of tasering tsars and tapirs

    Is that an elected position, or inherited for life?

    If elected, what are the primaries like?

    Brutal, I would imagine.

    Its an elected position. And I’ve lost
    fifty-two primaries in a row.
    But I have all the Super-Delegates
    so I am in like flynn.

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    in reply to: Dr. Strange, trailer #41823
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    I am not a sherlock holmes fan (dont like mysteries
    in general) but i have enjoyed Cumberbatch
    in his bbc Holmes series. He’s got
    some sort of “it” factor i cant quite
    articulate.

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    in reply to: what we forgot with Mason #41821
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    Tru Johnson was tasered too, i think.

    I am in charge of tasering tsars and tapirs, btw.

    …this is the deadest time of year, aint it.
    Nothin goin on. I wish the draft was in early April
    .

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    in reply to: Rams drafted "a lot" of offensive linemen last year #41791
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    Well, to state the obvious
    for the umpteenth year in a row,
    the key to the season iz….the health of the OLine.

    Despite all the QB talk.

    One of the reasons i see a winning year
    is the OLine. I think it looks better
    than at any time in a decade. Young, and Strong.

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    in reply to: Kroenke goes global #41764
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    I dont think there’s anything surprising about
    any of this. I just think this is the JerryJones/StanK/R.Goodell
    approach to running a corporation. Ya know. The ‘new breed’
    as opposed to the Rooney’s and old-breed owners.

    All this stuff will indeed make more money for the owners
    and players and coaches.

    Will it make the product of Football itself better
    for the fans ? I dont see how.

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    Indeed. Very brave.

    Of course there were brave Nazis, and there
    are brave terrorists and brave peace-marchers, etc
    and so forth.

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    in reply to: Rambill– The Huddle Report is no longer a pay site. #41672
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    2nd round grade on Wentz.

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    in reply to: Hey wv #41645
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    I was watching a show on Destination TV. They were talking about the Mothman, and it being in your state. I was wondering if you ever encountered the beast?

    I have never seen the Mothman,
    but i have dated the Mothwoman.

    Mothman Prophesies is an underappreciated movie,
    imho, btw, fwiw, fyi.

    in reply to: Rams still "excited" to watch Sean Mannion develop #41572
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    Its hard for me to believe they dont have a pretty good
    idea of what he is likely to be, but…maybe not.

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    “Arians has been raving about the 2016 class of quarterbacks since he began evaluating them in February
    and insists there’s talent beyond the top few players of Carson Wentz, Jared Goff and Paxton Lynch.”

    Interesting.

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    in reply to: Paxton Lynch thread #41551
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    “…Lynch measured at 6-foot-6 5/8-inches and 244 pounds with 34 1/4-inch hands. ”

    Um. Thats some big hands.

    Or do they mean he has 34
    very small hands?

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    in reply to: Trumbo #41548
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    Have not seen it.

    The criticism I heard is, it whitewashes the fact that at some point he actually was a party-line defender of commie regimes.

    You mean regimes like the Soviet Union or China? Well, the movie
    doesn’t touch on that one way or another. I have never held that against anybody, btw, cause a ton of folks were idealistic about the Soviet Union and China and later on figured out those places werent the Utopia’s they
    had hoped for.

    One of my favorite scenes was a short scene where Trumbo’s daughter is on a pony and she asks her dad if her mother is commie. And he says no. And she asks him if he is a commie and he says yes. And she asks him if ‘she’ is a commie — and he then asks her some simple tender questions….
    Ya have to see it. I liked it because it raised an issue very very very few commie-moves raise — just WTF is communism ? Most films about McCarthyism etc, just use the word a gazillion times but never really ask the viewer to define it.

    Louie CK is ok as a commie-writer. He’s a little stiff as an actor, but the diolague itself between his character and Trumbo is excellent. He never lets Trumbo off the hook for anything.

    Helen Mirren is great as per usual.

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    in reply to: Wagoner: Rams were 24th in 2015 health rankings #41543
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    Patriots were 29th. Washington 31st. Two playoff teams.
    Musta been well-coached and had some depth.

    Most of the playoff teams were in the top half
    of the health-rankings. Three of the top four.
    Health matters.

    http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2016/2015-adjusted-games-lost

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    in reply to: Is everything in the Universe made of the same 'thing'? #41487
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    Yes, energy was makes all things. So, then, what is the first thing after energy?

    Well, my own personal point in starting this thread
    is to point out that I think science-writers should
    emphasize the fundamental ‘mystery’ of life/Universe more.
    Articles about Quarks, and atoms and string theory,
    and big bangs, etc, etc etc etc — should highlight
    the fact that ‘we’ have no idea what the Universe/people/anything
    is “made of”. Ie, we do not know what ‘energy’ really ‘is’.
    We have some crude tools that allow us to observe things
    we call electrons and quarks and such — but we dont
    know what they ‘are’ and we dont know what, if anything,
    they are ‘made of.’

    Now to me, that is exciting, astonishing, mind-blowing,
    ineffably weird. We dont know what we ‘are’.

    Now zn and nittany might disagree with the way i
    phrased things, but they dont know what they ‘are’
    so, i think we can ignore them.

    Pa Ram is most probably made of dark-matter,
    on that there is a consensus, I would say.

    Ag is made of ‘blue matter’ but still,
    what is blue matter made of?

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    • This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by Avatar photowv.
    in reply to: Your question to a presidential candidate? #41442
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    I would ask each of the candidates:

    Since Mega-Capitalist-Private-Sector-Corporations
    are destroying democracy, along with
    the Air, Water, Soil, and Biosphere,
    shouldnt we be invading and occupying the Corporations?
    I mean shouldn’t we be treating them like the
    terrorists that they are?

    That would be my question. For some reason
    the corporate-media hasn’t asked that one.

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    in reply to: Taibbi on Hillary #41440
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    Hey.

    When did you change your name.

    And what does “c” stand for.

    “West…critter?”

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    Hmmmmm.

    I think the ‘c’ stands for dyslexic.

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    in reply to: Taibbi on Hillary #41426
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    “…. of course there is the matter of the great gobs of money Hillary has taken to give speeches to Goldman Sachs and God knows whom else. Her answer about that — “That’s what they offered” — gets right to the heart of what young people find so repugnant about this brand of politics….”

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    in reply to: Mother Teresa – anything but a saint… #41408
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    “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering,” was her reply to criticism,

    It’s a catholic nun’s version of Snowpiercer.

    I felt that way when Kaepernik fumbled on the one yard-line.

    There was something beautiful in the 49er fans’ suffering.

    The world gains much from such things.

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    in reply to: Lantana #41406
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    Sure he’s not having an affair he’s just having multiple one night stands with the same woman. If by evolving you mean he thinks he might be having a heart attack while f-ing around well no sympathy here.

    Well I watched it on dvd which included the ‘special features’ bonus material, and the actor who played the detective talked about how he
    had “been there” in the mental state of the character. I think he was talking about the scene where…

    (spoiler)
    …he reveals he has felt ‘numb’ for a long time. He couldnt feel much
    of anything in his relationship or elsewhere. Hence the affair.
    But then, in the end, when is honest with his wife and when he listens to the recording of his wife’s session with the shrink….the damn bursts. Ya know.

    I thought all the characters were believable, and had layers.

    My favorite thing about the movie was what one of the producers said about it in the bonus section — he said when ya watch it, you cant predict where its going or whats gonna happen. He noted thats a rare thing with movies. I agreed with him.

    My favorite scene, btw, was a short quiet scene where
    the detective tells the affair-lady that he is totally in love
    with his wife — i thought the affair-lady’s reaction was
    dead perfect. Beautiful acting, i thought. My mouth dropped open
    at the talent she showed in that one little scene.

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    • This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by Avatar photowv.
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    Ok, will we ever see the good Foles again? Then, will Fisher draft a QB?

    I think he drafts Cook. If he would draft him last year over Gurley(assuming Karraker was right), then he would draft him this year at 10.

    But, then, he went ahead and drafted Mannion.

    Fisher said they would add a QB. But that could just be an udfa.

    Keenum is a FA next year and Foles cap cost is 13M+. That makes drafting a QB high very sensible.

    If Lynch drops, is it Lynch or Cook?

    Will Fisher trade up? How High? He did for Austin, but he didn’t for Gurley. But, that might have just been how Snead read the draft. This is a good draft to get a QB at almost any pick. imo

    We got no idea what’s gonna happen.

    Just like we got no idea what Quarks
    are made of.

    We will have to live out these
    mysteries.

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    All i know is I was really impressed
    with the whole offense, including foles,
    in that first game against Seattle.
    He sure looked good to me,
    to start out the season.

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    in reply to: wife goes in for hip replacement surgery #41385
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    Well, that sucks.

    Keep us updated.

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    in reply to: Lantana #41384
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    The det. sgt. is a pig. I hope his wife offs him for the insurance money. Every female in the movie were interesting while the men merely occupied space. Nowhere near my favorite OZ movie.

    Did you watch all of it? He evolves.

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    in reply to: Robinson Excelling in OL Performance Institute #41349
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    Well, all that sounds good, and I am expecting some improvement from
    GR, if for no other reason than its year 3, but I’m also wary
    of offseason’improvement’ reports. Seen to many of em, over the years.

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    Kaepernick improving with Warner’s help, flag football
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    By Kevin Patra
    Around the NFL writer
    Published: March 28, 2015 at 10:41 a.m.
    Updated: March 29, 2015 at 05:24 p.m.

    One focus former-MVP quarterback Kurt Warner and his group of signal-callers has attempted to instill in flame-throwing Colin Kaepernick during offseason workouts is better use of touch on passes.

    The current NFL Media analyst stumbled upon a perfect testing ground for Kap’s progress: Warner’s charity football game earlier this month.

    “We had some guys come out from the office playing in my corporate charity event, and there were a couple of times where I went, ‘Whoa! Was that a little bit of touch I just saw?” Warner said of Kaepernick’s performance this week while speaking at a Super Bowl 50 promotional appearance during the NFL Annual Meeting, per USA Today. “Colin laughed and told me, ‘We’re not out here working for nothing.’

    “The situation forced him to throw with a little more touch. He couldn’t throw it as hard as maybe he wanted to with those corporate guys.

    “So we’ve seen strides being made. … He’s growing and wants to get better.”

    (I’ll wait for you to finish making your flag football jokes before I continue.)

    (Still waiting … )

    Warner’s crew of coaching gurus has focused on engaging Kaepernick’s lower half to help him add touch and not rely on his pitching arm to gun passes in every instance. The other goal is to upgrade the quarterback’s footwork to help him get through a progression quicker, something Kap has struggled with mightily the past two seasons.

    “Is 10 weeks enough time for you to change what you’ve been doing your entire career? And what does that look like when bullets are flying and people are attacking you?” Warner asked. “Have we gone far enough where that becomes the norm for Colin?

    “That’s the big question none of us can answer. … You talk about a guy who has been playing the position one way for 20-something years, and we’re (trying) to change him in three months?”

    It’s a question the 49ers desperately hope comes out affirmative. But it’s one we won’t know until deep into the regular season, when the flag football games have long been shuttered in favor of the real thing.
    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000482037/article/kaepernick-improving-with-warners-help-flag-football

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    What kind of draft is this that neither QB nor WR help is expected with the Rams 3 picks in the first two rounds?

    Well, i dunno. It’s all pretty intriguing, aint it.
    Might be that the BPA’s are on defense, but the Rams
    needs are on offense.

    Then again, once they get into the second round, it could
    be that the grades are awfully close for a bunch of players.
    Thats how it usually is, anyway.

    And maybe they dont get ‘spectacular’ talents in the second round — maybe they just get ‘good solid’ players. I’d be
    fine with that. Maybe get a great defensive talent
    in the first round, and then good-solid offensive
    weapons in the second round.

    Or else maybe sell the farm and draft Goff. I dunno.
    Intriguing, for sure.

    Luckily for all of us, there is no pressure,
    which would only lead to urgency.
    Fisher is on Kronky’s Tripartite, Ten-year plan.
    There was the four year St.Louis-Plan.
    Then there is the three year “Coliseum transition period plan”.
    Followed bythe three-year “New wiz-bang-glitzy-New-Stadium” plan.

    Plenty of time to find a WR.

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