Tavon did look more confident, but success will do that 🙂
You know what i liked best about his game — the short pass he caught
to keep a critical drive going. It wasnt anything spectacular — just a short
route that he’s run a million times under Brian Shot. — but this time he caught it, secured it and got the first down. There were a lot of clutch catches in this game
but that was one of them. It was a ‘routine’ looking clutch play.

Tavon HAS to hold on to the passes. So far so good.

You get the sense that Foles trusts ALL of his receivers.

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JamesJM

On Foles, what I see are the ‘intangibles’. That’s hard to put into words, much less quantify. I got that vibe from him… that of a player who ain’t perhaps pretty, or a stat making machine (although today he had very good stats), but perhaps ‘more’ importantly a guy who can find a way to win and inspires others to do the same. There was a different ‘feel’ to this game, for me.

Now don’t get me wrong… when the Hawks took the lead late in the 4th I fell back into my chair with a degree of grim resignation just like most… BUT….when they got the ball again it was different for me, than the last two years anyway, perhaps longer. I didn’t give up…. but more than that…. I really thought they had a shot to pull out the miracle come from behind.

There was determination on that Ram’s team today that was palpable. I don’t put that all in Foles performance, but I certainly think he led the way. – JamesJM

Yeah, Foles definitely aint pretty. He aint Bert Jones,
but he ‘is’ kinda ‘old-school’ in a way.
He’s tenacious and a gamer. He’s Roman Gabriel-ish.

He’s also a leader. The man is a leader.
And he knows “people” — its very obvious
in his statements that he understands
human-psychology, fan-psychology, player-psychology.

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This has to be one of the ALLTIME best Ram openers.

Maybe THE best.

Can anyone think of a better, more significant,
more exciting Opening win that this?

I cant.

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Anyway, its fun to see young people stretching, growing,
changing, learning, aint it. I mean, when it actually happens.
Not sayin it will happen with this student.

That’s not what I saw though, myself. What I saw was a young person struggling to explain her own ideological limitations but expressing them as these big revelations. It’s someone who wants to cling to the past.

So for example nothing threatens the private beliefs of her homeless man.

It’s just that we’re moving toward a society where limits on individual power includes less sanction for abridging the human rights and civil liberties of groups previously allowed less of either.

Oh and myself, I tend to look at rhetorical situations far more than “concepts.” Given that, the term “reverse racism” is just this excuse racists use so they can justify not changing.

Have I encountered situations where an individual or 2 expressed dislike for me solely on the basis of race? Yes. I didn’t bat an eye at it. Just moved on. I know I have multiple safe zones in my society when it comes to that. If I weren’t white, would that kind of thing happen far more frequently, and have a more far-reaching effect? Yes. Would I have fewer safe zones? Yes.

Well, I dont think i disagree with any of that, other
than maybe a slight disagreement on how much that student
was “trying” to figure something out.

I suspect that student will write something more
insightful down the road. Ya know.
After Zooey beats her senseless with
a rubber hose.

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NERam wrote:

I liked what I saw today.

The snap bouncing off his chest and the strip for a TD, not so much. But the rest? Yup.

I believe it was WV who was wondering out loud a while back if Foles had “it”. That ability to suffer a setback or two, leaving him staring into a potential loss late in the game. And, despite what the situation looked liked, having the ability to lead the team down the field for a score.

Can’t say after 1 game that Foles does indeed have ” it”, but I will say that it felt pretty good to watch what happened today, particularly after watching games get lost time and again in past history.

Rams started Fast this year,
for a change. YaY 🙂

OMG.

I shall savor this,
my Ram Comrads.

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PS — somebody post some damn HIGHLIGHTS.
Like, right now.

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Zooey wrote:

Oh, she’s trying.

This “essay” was not an assignment. She just wrote it and emailed it to me to ask me my thoughts.

See, I spent 20 minutes in class yesterday making distinctions between Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism (systemic and institutionalized). I said that Reverse Racism is basically not possible since minorities don’t have the structures in place to fortify discrimination. I think she was reacting to the general unfairness of that. In America, everyone should have the right to be racist. It’s unfair that racism is just another privilege of the white elite. At least, I think that’s what I have on my hands.

It did cause me to think about it more, and I can now think of an example of a black-controlled institution that discriminated against me, so I guess that was Reverse Racism, but I don’t think Reverse Racism really exists – not the way Rush Limbaugh and his legions believe it does, anyway.

Yeah, the “reverse racism” issue is tricky. Whatever group of humans has the most power
is, obviously going to have a scarier, uglier, kind of “racism” etc.
But figuring out all the concentric and overlapping kinds of “power” is a complex task.

It always helps me to think of these things in abstract non-historical ways — for example
thinking of a planet or city with green people and purple people…
And then after that kind of thot-experiment to look at actual history…

Anyway, its fun to see young people stretching, growing,
changing, learning, aint it. I mean, when it actually happens.
Not sayin it will happen with this student.

Teachers get to have that experience of satisfaction
when they can help a young human become more humane.

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Well, I’ve read a lot worse 🙂 I mean, the writer is lacking
a lot of political-development and the ideas there are kinda
jumbled and off-the-mark but…i dunno…at least that
young-writer is…oh…”trying.” I mean, the writing suggests
a young person who is struggling and thinking and “trying”
it seems to me. I have read a lot of shit from young people
who don’t even seem to be “trying”. If that makes any sense.

As far as the actual substance of the thing — I think the writer
could get something out of a few essays on white privilege.
Seems like the writer gets hung up on “labels” and doesnt have
any grounding in history…..blah blah blah.

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Hmmmm. I dunno, but I suppose I’d have to say…no.

Mainly because Seattle is arguably the best team in the NFC
and possibly the NFL. And the Rams wont have Tre or Gurley
and the Oline probly aint quite all gelled and stuff.

I expect a good showing though. I expect a close game.
But I figure the first win comes in week two.

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Well lots of different views on the Oline in general.
Those two guys sound fairly optimistic.
Then ya got Laram who said he sees no real outstanding ‘strength’ anywhere
on the Oline. (If i remember right)

Its all purty Exciting.

The Offense and Oline in particular
is kindof a mystery wrapped in an eggroll
inside a toaster oven.

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NERam wrote:

Ridiculous. I guess if the wave is travelling in your direction, you hop on for the ride, eh?

Certainly, the asterisk should be applied to all of Billy’s wins, going all the way back to his Wesleyen days.

I’ve heard rumors of a hoodie with a red asterisk hitting the runway this fall…

i think there should be an assterisk
next to his high school yearbook photo

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NERam wrote:

I wouldn’t mind seeing something like this meted out. Scarlet letter kind of thing…

http://s5.postimg.org/q61urytdj/Patriots.png

OMG, that made me smile.

Really, nothing else ever has to be said —
just that picture. The picture says it all.
Really, it does.

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