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  • in reply to: Rams 27th in money committed to roster #27512
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    What does it mean to anyone?

    I think it means
    players win championships,
    not graphs.

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    in reply to: Disturbing yet compelling #27500
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    “The Corpse you dread so much,
    is living with you right now.”
    Milarepa

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    in reply to: is Foles a fit in St. Louis? #27498
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    we get a bargain on a solid QB who might be better AND we draft a decent bet for a developmental guy. That’s a superb bit of off season business.

    P.S. Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine …

    We don’t make the deal with Philly and we keep Sam.

    We draft Mannion.

    Sam comes to camp and it’s clear that his knee is dragging down his game, that he’ll never be the same player he was. No way will he be worth a contract extention. He ends up not even starting the year.

    We run a stiff out there as we’ve done the last 2 years.

    Half way through the season, we trot Mannion out there and he is only marginal.

    Where would we be then?

    Foles was superb business. And I want him signed to a mid-level contract before the season starts.

    Well, the Foles/Bradford trade was a fascinating deal.

    I have no idea how it will turn out (obviously, no-one does),
    but I would have pulled the trigger on the trade.
    I trust Foles knees more than Sam’s.

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    in reply to: is Foles a fit in St. Louis? #27481
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    Who would you rather have on your team right now: Sean Mannion or RG3 ?

    Just curious.

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    in reply to: If Foles blows out his ACL in the first game… #27468
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    Burn sage …

    Imagine going through a third year in a row
    with a clip-board-QB.

    I bet Fisher is tempted to run
    the ball on every down 🙂

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    in reply to: Anybody buy what GW is selling? #27460
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    I don’t believe it but I won’t condemn him either. The NFL used the horrific hits to make money for the NFL. So did the players. Teams and players wanted to be on the highlights show each week giving a hard hit. This was throughout the league and has been forever. It is a much more exciting play, an as yet unnamed porn. But whenever a player makes a hit as a tackle the chance of injury is increased. To both players and players nearby. If player safety is a real concern within the league then tackling has to be made with the hands by tripping or wrapping up with the arms. No hits. No exceptions. But that will never happen.

    Well its complicated aint it. We enjoy a brutal,
    sport built on hard collisions. A great deal
    of violence is simply built-in. And that violence
    has an even more brutal ‘old school’ history
    and tradition.

    But the rules have been changing. And there ‘are’
    rules. And I think GW flouted the rules. He was
    promoting ‘Deacon Jones rules’ in a ‘Kurt Warner League.’

    And so, now he knows better. I would hope.
    …i would have more respect for him if he would just
    be honest and say he was promoting an old-school approach
    that had been expressly outlawed. He failed to adapt. But
    he keeps weaseling out and kinda ducking his role in
    the scandal. Imho.

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    in reply to: Gregg Wms. breaks down the Rams base 4/3 #27444
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    I thot this was inter esting:

    Greg Williams: On his coaching philosophies…
    “I learned this from Buddy Ryan, and took it a long, long way, I put the game in the players’ hands and a lot of coaches, with their egos, are not going to let the players make specific calls in the game. And I can’t understand that. Players play the game. Coaches guess the game. Coaches are standing over there hoping that they can act like they are more important than what they are. What I learned from Buddy a long time ago is I that watched him take defenses and defensive play-callers and turn them into quarterbacks. James Laurinaitis is that person here. Rodney McLeod is that person here.”

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    in reply to: Wagoner: Ogletree #27442
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    I think Ogletree will make the pro bowl
    this season.

    He played very well once he and GW got
    on the same page, and i suspect he
    will benefit greatly from the
    emergence of The
    DLine Of Doom.

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    in reply to: Rams News Recap: July 20 #27426
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    Oh, and as for this:
    http://www.rams-news.com/rams-rookie-rb-todd-gurley-reacts-to-his-rating/Rams Rookie RB Todd Gurley Reacts To His Madden 2016 Rating –Video

    …I remember a time when the onliest game in town was
    Electric Football. And back in the golden days of EF
    there were no individual ratings. It was all about the TEAM.

    Theze kids today…

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    in reply to: Rams News Recap: July 20 #27425
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    Gurley is a Cat person.
    This changes everything.
    http://www.rams-news.com/virtual-rookie-card-rams-rb-todd-gurley/

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    in reply to: So, How 'Bout that Bernie Sanders? #27413
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    in reply to: 49ers eroding? Or not? #27412
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    I just dont see how you can lose
    Frank Gore and Justin Smith,
    and be as good.

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    in reply to: just the obvious stuff on the confederate flag #27340
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    Well, i dunno about the “slavery vs states rights” thing.

    I mean what was the “state right” that was at issue: Slavery and the
    cluster of laws surrounding it.

    So, I just dont see how the “states rights” notion,
    changes anything — you still get right back to
    slavery.

    X: Its about states rights.
    Y: Its about slavery
    X: Slavery was involved but the core was states rights.
    Y: What bundle of “states rights” was it about?
    X: Slavery laws.
    Y: So it was about Slavery.
    X: No, States rights….

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    in reply to: some thotz on offense #27337
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    I think the Rams (finally) have all the pieces now.
    Sure they could use an extra player here or there,
    but basically this team has playoff talent now.

    It seems to me its all about coaching
    and health for the next coupla years.

    I expect G Robinson and Saffold to have
    big years.

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    in reply to: 101 — ‘99 Rams would beat the ‘85 Bears #27331
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    Well could ANY team beat the 85 Bears? I dunno.

    Maybe one of the great Cowboy or 49er teams.

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    in reply to: The Climate Deception Dossiers #27280
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    Well yeah, Corporations lie.

    The bigger question is
    about the system that spawned them – Capitalism.

    Is it possible to have a living, thriving, Biosphere
    on a planet with 7 billion humans and Capitalism ?

    I think everyone knows my own
    answer to that one.

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    in reply to: John Oliver on Public Financing for Stadiums #27232
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    John Oliver is God
    as far as I’m concerned.

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    in reply to: Stedman Bailey videos (including an X-man compilation) #27189
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    Playoffs. This is a playoff year.

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    No surprises there, for me.

    I wonder how cat-owners vote
    compared to dog-owners.

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    in reply to: Cosby #27146
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    this dude was a nutcase. i read somewhere that in a settlement with one of the victims, he only agreed to pay the woman if she graduated from college and maintained a 3.0 gpa…

    ???

    you rape someone and then tell that person she needs to prove to you that she deserves that money???

    Yes, very inter esting,
    isn’t it. Sigh.

    I guess there were two Cosbys.

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    Definitely a project, but a lot of upside-potential.
    We’ll find out about him, next year I guess.

    I’m fine with that in the 5th Round.
    I would not have teken him any higher though.

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    via laram

    Nick Wagoner ‏@nwagoner 4m4 minutes ago
    May not be a more important figure at #Rams Park this summer than OL coach Paul Boudreau. Add another project to an ever-growing list.

    in reply to: Cosby #27099
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    and mind you this is back in the 70s. nowadays. lawyer probably advises him to fess up to nothing.

    Well forget the lawyers — why in the world would HE admit to something like that? He didnt have to. Makes zero sense to me.
    None. He could have easily lied or made up a story or fudged it in a gazillion ways.

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    in reply to: Gaining steam- States Rights #27076
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    ” In most states, their biggest jobs are education and roads. Where are societies biggest failures right now??? Education and roads… ”

    Coincides perfectly with an increased federal role. Same for the state of the family and the Great Society.

    My own little complaint is that the mega-corporations run the government,
    and the country — and the “States”.

    So to me, it dont matter about “states rights” — cause, for example,
    in my own state of WV, the ‘government’ is owned and operated by the
    private-sector-Coal-Corporations and the private-sector-Fracking-corporations,
    and a handful of other private-sector-Corporations.

    Giving States more rights wont change the fact that Corporations
    run things. The Corpse run the Feds, and they run the States. They
    run’em Both.

    Btw, fwiw I’d like to take this opportunity to say — i like the US Post Office.
    I really do. I’ve never had a single problem with the Post Office. Never had a
    single piece of mail lost, my whole life. Never had a problem with lines or delays
    or anything.

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    • This reply was modified 10 years, 8 months ago by Avatar photowv.
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    Hey, WV, you leave my NPR alone!

    Corporate media doesn’t give out totebags or whisper the news!

    BIAS MUST BE SHOUTED AND THEN FOLLOWED BY COMMERCIALS WITH CHALUPAS OR TRUCKS OR SALES ENDING SUNDAY!!!

    Well, i do listen to car talk sometimes. And Lake Woebegone,
    and Wait Wait Dont Tell Me, and Mountain Stage, sometimes, and Radio Lab.

    But as soon as NPR “news” comes on, i turn it off. Makes me ill
    faster than Fox News. I’m serious.

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    in reply to: Cosby #27068
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    Was just <nobr>talking</nobr> about this with my son (he’s 23).

    How does one process arguably the greatest comedy album of all time and the foundation for many of the greatest comedians of today (the storytellers as opposed to the joke tellers that came from the vaudeville tradition) with what we know about Cosby now?

    Bill Cosby: Himself is arguably the greatest comedy album and comedy concert of all time. And I include Richard Pryor’s Live on the Sunset Strip on that list.

    Pryor was good. Amazing, but Cosby at that time was the greatest ever. And if none of this had happened, I have no doubt that he’d have to be on the Mt. Rushmore of comedians.

    Now? I dunno. How do we process this now?

    Do we deal with it like the Hall of Fame? I mean, we haven’t yanked Ty Cobb out and he was a horrible human being in a lot of ways, and I mean horrible.

    I’m really just asking the question because I don’t have an <nobr>answer</nobr>… and I don’t presume that there is any one answer. It may just be different for each person.

    Yup, it is dispiriting, for sure.

    The Coz. Unbelievable.

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    in reply to: Cosby #27050
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    If he admitted it he knew it could be proven or worse.

    But think about it — it could never really be proven.

    He could have said, She asked for the qualude cause she was
    anxious or whatever.
    Or, he could have said he kept the ludes in case someone
    needed them. Or he could have said a gazillion things
    to explain why he obtained the drug — just doesnt make
    any sense to me that he would admit to that. I dont
    see how it could have ever been proven months after
    the fact.

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    Maybe he had an accomplice.

    This all reminds me of the Paterno thing.

    I hope no-one digs up anything on Mr Rogers.

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    in reply to: Albert Haynesworth: Letter to My Younger Self #27049
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    Another time he made all of us go over to a water faucet, and then he turned it on just enough so that a drop formed every 10-20 seconds. And then he told us to get down on our hands and knees to sniff the water. We couldn’t drink any, we could only smell it. Anyone who moistened their tongue would run laps.

    The ignorance about hydration back then, makes me cringe.
    Football is tough enough without the gordon liddy crap.

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    in reply to: Cosby #27043
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    <nobr>Depends</nobr> on the Civil action. His admission may have no relevance at all with the claims so at the time he may have believed his honesty was no harm no foul. However now…

    But to give a decent <nobr>answer</nobr> one needs a copy of the deposition so as to <nobr>view</nobr> the context.

    Well, I cannot imagine ANY scenario where Cosby would admit to that.
    And yet, apparently, according to the mainstream-media, he did just that.

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    The documents, dating back to 2005, stem from a civil lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand — one of the dozens of women who have publicly accused the comedian of sexual assault. The records were made public Monday after The Associated Press went to court to compel their release.

    CNN has attempted to reach a lawyer and publicist for Cosby to respond to the revelations contained in the documents, without success. His longtime publicist, David Brokaw, said, “We have no plans to issue a statement.”

    In a sworn deposition, Cosby answered questions from Constand’s attorney, Dolores Troiani.

    “When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?” Troiani asked.

    “Yes,” Cosby replied.

    “Did you ever give any of those young women the Quaalu…”
    http://www.wmur.com/national/cosby-admits-getting-drugs-to-use-on-women-for-sex/34028588

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    in reply to: Cosby #27040
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    If he admitted it he knew it could be proven or worse.

    But think about it — it could never really be proven.

    He could have said, She asked for the qualude cause she was
    anxious or whatever.
    Or, he could have said he kept the ludes in case someone
    needed them. Or he could have said a gazillion things
    to explain why he obtained the drug — just doesnt make
    any sense to me that he would admit to that. I dont
    see how it could have ever been proven months after
    the fact.

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