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August 8, 2015 at 2:16 pm in reply to: Rams have signed Nick Foles to a two-year contract extension #28358
wvParticipantWell the numbers are good for the Team.
Assuminng, Foles is a solid QB.I guess Fisher is convinced Foles can
be a solid QB.Myself, I need to see him play
a few preseason games at least.w
vwvParticipantPoliticians and justice system for sale.
Its the Private Sector buying them
though, right ? Private sector Corporations.w
vAugust 4, 2015 at 11:22 pm in reply to: interview vids: Cook Kendricks Donald Quinn Brown Hayes McCleod Long Tru Sted #28116wvParticipantSo far my favorite player-vid is the Bates video.
That guy made me smile.w
vwvParticipantThe Oscar-winning director of Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu, has defended his shoot for the harrowing western The Revenant against claims it descended into a “living hell”, with actors subjected to freezing temperatures and multiple crew members quitting under brutal conditions…
Coulda been worse.
Coulda starred Klaus KinskiAnyway based on what I’ve seen
the director was right not to use
CGI and stick to natural light etc.Maybe some of those whiney actors
should just wear dresses.w
vAugust 4, 2015 at 6:50 pm in reply to: piling up the "training camp preview" articles, starting with Prisco #28092wvParticipantRanking the NFL’s top 10 defensive lines entering the 2015 season
1. St. Louis Rams: Say what you will about how the Rams have assembled their offensive linemen, receivers and quarterbacks during the Jeff Fisher era; nobody can say Fisher hasn’t put together a formidable, intimidating defensive line.
They look redoubtable on paper ;
Now, can they stop
the Run ?I think so. So, I’m expecting
the Rams to be the best
defense in the NFL.Thats what i am expecting.
Number One.
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vAugust 4, 2015 at 3:28 pm in reply to: It's very early but…observations from camp posts on Mannion #28065wvParticipantThanks and wow tough crowd.
That’s just the PD board. It’s not really moderated, so conflicts can fester and turn posters into enemies with long memories. My “ignore” list there is so big I lost count. It’s like the wild west. There’s swamps and hostile natives and bears and wolves and tornadoes, but, also, you can get in some good trapping and fishing and sleep under the stars while you’re there.
Damn. Interesting cinematography.
I may have to see that one.w
vwvParticipantJust adding to the discussion.
I have no set view of NF, myself…”First off, you aren’t allowed to post in Blue ;
Only Ag and Miles-Davis-Ram are authorized to do kinda blue posts.Moreover, I don’t think you are allowed to even post
on a message-board if you aren’t willing to take a dogmatic
and life-or-death set-view of NF.w
vwvParticipant“…It was tough,” Battle said. “At the beginning, I got no sleep…
She was in the bed hurting because she had a C-section,
so I had to do most of the work.
It was very hard, crying every 30 minutes…”I dunno. I think he needs a little work
on his…thinking. Or interviewin. Or somethin.w
vwvParticipantJoyner is kindof a forgotten man for a lot of us.
He seemed a bit lost last year.
I wonder what kind of player he’s gonna be?
Is he just another guy — or is the little guy an impact player?w
vIt has to play out in real games, of course, but one of the repeat themes from OTAs on this year is that the light has come on for Joyner. Fisher, in talking about Joyner, said something about what a difference a year makes.
People forget that in college, Joyner was considered the leader of one of the best if not the best secondaries in college football. Last year it didn’t translate because, apparently, his head was swimming.
FISHER: Lamarcus has come on as well, not only outside, he can play inside and on the slot and the nickel. You know Lamarcus situation… what a difference a year makes for a young player to come back in year two and finally just get it. He gets it now. He’ll be productive for us.”
That kind of talk started in OTAs. Back in OTAs I think it was Gregg Wms who said something about how Joyner was light years ahead of where he was last year. Joyner was saying the same thing:
“I feel like my approach is different and that’s probably coming from the more understanding I have, the more wisdom I have and just knowing what I’m doing,” Joyner said. “Instead of running out there like a blind dog in a meat house and you don’t know which way to go, I know what I’m doing, so now I can pretty much contribute to the defense.”
I ain’t promisin nothin. But the talk about Joyner at this point this year reminds me of the talk about Quick at the same point last year.
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We’ll see, but its fun to think
about how good this Dcould be,
if,
Joyner can play like he did in college.I mean, the D would just be…loaded.
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vwvParticipant“…DB Lamarcus Joyner had a “pick 6″ in practice.
CB Marcus Roberson has good cover skills _ he picked off 3 passes Sunday.”Joyner is kindof a forgotten man for a lot of us.
He seemed a bit lost last year.
I wonder what kind of player he’s gonna be?
Is he just another guy — or is the little guy an impact player?w
vwvParticipant“He just understands what he has on his bench in terms of players
and he understands what each player can bring to the team
and he uses those players to the advantage…”Well, we keep reading this about Cignetti.
We’ll see.w
vwvParticipantYes. Felix Frankfurter, then a harvard law prof, wrote a famous article about the case back in the 20’s :
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1927/03/the-case-of-sacco-and-vanzetti/306625/It’s worth reading. Its long, but
I think it’s one of the best nonfiction essays I’ve
ever read.
Lucid writing, clear, flawless analysis. As good as this kind of writing gets, imho.w
vAugust 1, 2015 at 9:54 pm in reply to: It's very early but…observations from camp posts on Mannion #27914wvParticipantthehammer
watching Mannion I felt like John Sutter finding gold At Sutters Mill..much leaner/quicker then Foles, always surrounded by coaches, getting solid reps as the #2…lot to like..I thought hammer wasn’t posting anymore.
He’s always been a must-read. How come
he dont post anymore?w
vwvParticipantIs Foles a Fiery “favre type” of QB ? Or is he a quiet ‘Bart starr type’ ?
I know a lot of fans like the fiery types,
for obvious reasons.Whats Foles like on the field?
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vI don’t know much about Foles. Only that he seems to want to do everything right.
He sure is a mystery man.
I wonder if he’s gonna be safe with the ball
or be a gun-slinger who throws plenty of INTs ?w
vwvParticipantAt the 6:15 mark or so, of the Quick interview,
Quick says “he (Foles?) said things i wasn’t use to before…”What did he mean by that? D’Marco, instead of following up
on that, asked a dum shoe question.w
v<span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>I have no idea, vw. It doesn’t make sense, so I would put it down to a mental typo. Then it might make a bit of sense if it was something new and something he was praising Foles for. Some kind of positive feedback? Maybe Foles just wanting him to things a bit differently that he did before? Maybe just something extra that Foles wanted?</span>
Is Foles a Fiery “favre type” of QB ? Or is he a quiet ‘Bart starr type’ ?
I know a lot of fans like the fiery types,
for obvious reasons.Whats Foles like on the field?
I Know a QB doesnt have to be a fiery type
but maybe some teams need SOMEBODY on offense
to be a fiery-leader. Yes? No?Does the Rams offense have a fiery leader type ?
Do they need one?w
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vwvParticipantSo Cecil is now a ‘big picture guy’ instead
of a secondary coach.Maybe they thought Cecil was too ‘big picture’
to make a good DB out of
Janoris.w
vAugust 1, 2015 at 3:13 pm in reply to: The real miracle of acupuncture – that anyone still believes in it… #27868wvParticipantOnce, when i was nine years-old, my friends and i
were building a tree-house. And while i was standing
under an oak tree, one of my buddies accidentally dropped
a two-by-four with a nail sticking out of it. The nail
stuck in my head. I pulled it out of my head and blood
gushed out. But i felt better.Now to me, that proves that pulling sharp objects out of your
head is going to make you feel better.Granted, its just anecdotal evidence.
More study is needed, probably.w
vwvParticipantAt the 6:15 mark or so, of the Quick interview,
Quick says “he (Foles?) said things i wasn’t use to before…”What did he mean by that? D’Marco, instead of following up
on that, asked a dum shoe question.w
vwvParticipant“….Moreover, none of the above shows that the Confederate flag only represents racial intolerance.
No doubt there are some whites who favor the Confederate flag for reasons that are not wholly reducible to racial intolerance.
But the results do suggest that in general, white support for the flag is associated not with a deep knowledge of Southern history or a kinship with Southerners, but with racism — that is, not with heritage but with hatred.Those three sentences look about right to me.
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vwvParticipant…no books on anarchism, socialism, or anti-capitalism.
No ‘radical’ stuff.Don’t want to rile up the locals, I gather.
Thats right. We dont want any of them
weird Canadian ideas trickling
down on us, either.w
vwvParticipantI always stop at small library’s, Used Book-Stores…
That’s a pretty cool idea. Do you find some consistent themes that run through the towns’ libraries/used bookstores in your region?
Yes, the consistent theme in small libraries is — no books on anarchism, socialism, or anti-capitalism.
No ‘radical’ stuff.
Basically just mainstream Duplicat or Replicant notions.Used book-stores are all different though. Just depends on the owner.
Some of them used-book-store owners are purty radical and quirky.
They’ll have anything on the shelves. Not many used-book-stores left though.
Internet has kilt most of em.w
vwvParticipantYou do not have deer, apparently.
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vYeah we do, though. And I mean the big “last of the mohicans”
style white tailed deer. In the neighborhood in fact.
You have to look at deer resistant plants when planning
a garden.When it’s a dry summer the deer will target big
asiatic lily buds, and eat them just before they
bloom. It happened in the garden a couple of summers
ago. Fortunately–or, fortunately if you want to see
the lilies–it hasn’t been dry the last couple of summers.I see deer on the roads probably 3, 4 times a year.
I ran over a baby spotted deer the other day.
Very bad day, that was.
It just shot out into the road,
and that was that.w
vwvParticipantOne thing though…I wouldn’t necessarily lump what GW did with the “old school” style of football played by Deacon Jones and Jack Lambert. I think premeditated planning to hurt a specific player goes way beyond that. I’m sure Lambert didn’t shed a tear if he knocked another player out of the game. He may have even wanted to do that. I could be wrong but I bet he never tried to accomplish that by purposely targeting the player’s ACL.
Oh, i dunno about that. My own guess would be
that the “GW-way” was not uncommon back in the
days of Deacon and Lambert.w
vwvParticipantYou do not have deer, apparently.
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vJuly 29, 2015 at 10:10 pm in reply to: time for the "barring injuries" season record predictions #27743wvParticipantThere is no earthly reason
this team should not win Ten games.I mean, look at the talent on that defense,
and the talent on special teams.
The offense just has to avoid giving games away.And I’m not even factoring in Gurley. If ‘he’
turns out to be a star and if he is able to
play early and often, i could see 11 or 12 wins
and a division title.w
vwvParticipantI don’t buy what he’s saying and I’m not sure he should even be in the league. He probably should have been banned for life.
In the video up there (the one with the cheerleaders)
he says: “its a great game, but its a production business…”Its a rather sinister moment in his speech. Ya haf to actually
hear it, and pause for a moment to really get what he’s saying.w
v“Kill the head”. That’s the substance of his motivational talk to his players. He even tells them not to get off the pile without taking a shot at Gore’s head. That won’t go down with “Win one for the Gipper” as one of the great all-time motivational speeches, but who knows, that sort of rhetoric may have worked well at the time. Given the attention finally being paid to the many former NFL players dying in their 50’s from the effects of concussion syndrome, hopefully that isn’t true anymore. I’d like to think that a bright, thoughtful player like Chris Long would get up and walk out of a meeting where that sort of rhetoric was being spewed.
I think the Bounty-Gate thing was a significant Turning Point in NFL History.
It was a really important break from the past. I think before BountyGate, it was
ok to still be “old school.” Or at least a lot of players were still arguing in favor
of old school football. It was ok to say things like “everybody does it” etc.But Bounty-Gate was the turning point where a new era ‘officially’ explicitly, began,
I think. You simply can NOT play the game the way the Deacons and Atkinsons and Lamberts
used to play.Greg Williams changed history with those speeches, I’d say. All that hoopla
kinda clarified the new game in town. Yes? No?w
vwvParticipantI don’t buy what he’s saying and I’m not sure he should even be in the league. He probably should have been banned for life.
In the video up there (the one with the cheerleaders)
he says: “its a great game, but its a production business…”Its a rather sinister moment in his speech. Ya haf to actually
hear it, and pause for a moment to really get what he’s saying.w
vwvParticipantThat will give the season a boost imo. All along I have thought it would be at least 6 games before Gurley would play
well maybe it should be six games before he plays.
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vJuly 28, 2015 at 3:34 pm in reply to: Brady to be suspended…which will happen…when? a May-July saga #27693wvParticipantAdam Shefter on NFL Insiders today said: “New information has surfaced that on or shortly before March 6th, the day that Brady met with Ted Wells, Brady directed that the cell phone he had been using for the prior 4 months be destroyed. He did so even though he was aware that the NFL requested access to text messages and other electronic information that had been stored on the phone..”
See, if Richard Nixon was as crafty as Brady,
he’d still be President.w
vwvParticipantFrustrating to watch.
Not John Oliver–he’s great. But the mess of a justice system we have.
But do you agree with Olivers MAIN point
that 200 years of scandalous, malignant Austrailian history
was more than balanced out by Hugh Jackman ?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/hugh_jackman/
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