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wvParticipantI 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.w
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wvParticipantWell could ANY team beat the 85 Bears? I dunno.
Maybe one of the great Cowboy or 49er teams.
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wvParticipantWell 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.w
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wvParticipantJohn Oliver is God
as far as I’m concerned.w
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wvParticipantPlayoffs. This is a playoff year.
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vJuly 10, 2015 at 9:45 am in reply to: Party Affiliation Differences by Race, Gender, Generation, Education #27147
wvParticipantNo surprises there, for me.
I wonder how cat-owners vote
compared to dog-owners.w
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wvParticipantthis 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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vJuly 10, 2015 at 9:35 am in reply to: Rams select former Clemson OT Isaiah Battle in fifth round of supplemental draft #27145
wvParticipantDefinitely 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.w
vJuly 9, 2015 at 4:50 pm in reply to: Rams select former Clemson OT Isaiah Battle in fifth round of supplemental draft #27121
wvParticipantvia 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.
wvParticipantand 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.w
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wvParticipant” 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.w
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July 8, 2015 at 6:22 am in reply to: Poll: 70 percent of Americans believe news media is intentionally biased #27069
wvParticipantHey, 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.w
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wvParticipantWas 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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wvParticipantIf 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.w
vMaybe 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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wvParticipantAnother 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.w
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wvParticipant<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.w
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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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wvParticipantIf 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.w
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wvParticipantA note about Foles that i didnt know, from Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Foles
“….Foles also excelled at basketball, where he started three years, twice received team MVP honors,[5] and was recruited by Georgetown, Baylor, and Texas….”Those are big-time schools. He must have been a damn fine athlete.
I hope he still is.You know Foles’ “down” year wasnt all ‘that’ bad. I mean an 80 rating
isnt great but we’ve all seen worse.Foles’ play during the first half of this 2014 season in stark contrast to his Pro Bowl season of 2013 has “soured” some in the organization, including general manager Howie Roseman, according to sources.
In 10 starts in 2013 Foles threw 27 touchdown passes to just two interceptions, completed 64 percent of his passes and had a league-high quarterback rating of 119.2. This season, in eight starts Foles has thrown 13 touchdown passes and 10 interceptions and has a quarterback rating of 81.9.
“I think Howie is looking at quarterbacks,” a league source told NJ.com. “He’s kind of soured on Foles, and I don’t think he’s alone. The organization isn’t sold that he’s the guy going forward.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/11/04/nick-foles-reportedly-wont-need-surgery-but-some-doubt-his-future-with-the-eagles-anyway/w
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wvParticipantHow would that work? Trial by transcript?
You know how those WEE games work — where you move and on the screen
the image moves with you — i suppose thats how it would work.
The humans would talk and move, but the Jury would see the IMAGES
and images would not show any ‘race’ or gender or weight or age etc. Maybe
the images would look like sexless robots or somethin.
That way no-one on the jury would know if the witness or lawyer
was black or white, etc, unless they had to testify about
their race, etc. I dunno. Thats all i can figure.w
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wvParticipantNow ‘that’ was a good read.
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vJuly 6, 2015 at 8:34 pm in reply to: Poll: 70 percent of Americans believe news media is intentionally biased #27012
wvParticipantYes I would say it is the mega mainstream media shilling for profit and manufacturing public opinion. And thanks for the PS from way over here.
Were you involved in any of the great Political Board Disasters or meltdowns
of the past bnw ? Some of the old-time-regulars on this board
have seen some Uuuugly stuff. Lots of good stuff too. Mixed bag, over the years.w
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wvParticipantA virtual trial?
Seems goofy, and it will never happen, but his reasoning
is…reasonable:“….And why I recommend it is there [are] so many biases that psychologist have uncovered … [that] shouldn’t determine the outcome [of a trial] — what color of skin the attorney representing the accused has or whether he has, you know, a particular inflection. And yet we know that those things matter. It matters how attractive the witness is. Well, that shouldn’t matter. And so I think a move to virtual trials would allow us to control for a lot of the things which are currently skewing outcomes. And I don’t think it’s as radical as it might seem. There are certain constitutional problems related to the confrontation clause [the right to confront your accuser]. … We have already made exceptions in a lot of different areas…”
July 6, 2015 at 4:38 pm in reply to: Poll: 70 percent of Americans believe news media is intentionally biased #27002
wvParticipantI present in a manner no different than others. I post what I find interesting and that which might stimulate conversation. The facts I post are verifiable whereas the acceptance of the facts is a choice. I am well aware here my ideological premise can be a distinct minority.
Well, my first question would be “which media are we talking about?” The big
mega mainstream corporate-capitalist media like Fox, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, NPR ? That media?My second question would be “who OWNS the media that you are talking about? I would
think that finding out who actually OWNS those media-corporations would have
some relevance to the question about “what kinds of biases are reflected in the media?”PS — I respect the fact that you have represented the ‘right’ on this board, in a civil manner
bnw. I dont think its a secret that most of us old timey regulars that migrated to this board
are lefties. But you have managed to have your say without being all nasty about it — and that
aint easy when discussing politix/religion/culture. I have seen many-a-board blow up over political
differences. So far we have all done a good job of listening, sharing and not killing one another 🙂w
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wvParticipant“…While it wasn’t exactly the Annexation of Puerto Rico,
and there were no sticks-in-the-dirt diagrams, Foles’ 22-yard pass to wide receiver Jason Avant on fourth-and-5 with 16 seconds remaining to set up the game-winning touchdown was conjured up by the rookie…”I think a truly elite QB
would have been able to
Annex Puerto Rico.w
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wvParticipantHe’s a gamer. A wily, veteran, starting-caliber QB.
Probly wont last 16 games though — so, the key for the Cards is:
Will they have him for the playoffs.w
vJuly 6, 2015 at 10:52 am in reply to: informal poll question: how many "re:" to informal polls during "down weeks"? #26991
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vJuly 6, 2015 at 7:31 am in reply to: (article plus my editorial comment): healthiest/unhealthiest teams last 2 years #26989
wvParticipantYeah, nothin wrong with making a chart like that,
but it can only ‘start’ the discussion.Fact is every single team on there had its own
story — I mean, take the Cards — they had a starting QB
for a big part of the season, but then they lost him
at crunch time, and their playoff hopes disappeared.
Due to ONE injury.Ya cant really analyze the effects of injuries with
one chart. But you see that kind of thing on the Net
all the time. Not just in sports.w
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wvParticipantFinding That Third Year “Breakout” Receiver Has Been Difficult For the St. Louis Rams
By Brandon Bate @NoPlanB_ on Jul 3, 2015, 9:08a 17
Torry Holt did it. Vincent Jackson did it. What third year Rams’ receiver can eclipse 1,000 yards?
You’ve probably heard it before…”Player X is due to have a breakout, Vincent Jackson-like, third year as a receiver in the NFL.” Jackson, drafted by the Chargers in 2005, only played half the season in his rookie year, but eclipsed 1,000 yards [with 7 touchdowns] in his third full season in the league. And he’s proven the ability to maintain similar, if not better, stats since [with the exception of an injured year in 2010, and a quiet 2014 season].
If you’re a St. Louis Rams’ fan, you’ve probably also heard “_____ hasn’t been done since Torry Holt.” And whether it’s receptions, yards, or touchdowns, it’s all true. Holt, like Jackson, wasted no time establishing himself as a legitimate threat in the league. He amassed nearly 800 yards in his rookie year [1999], and surpassed 1,000 yards in just his second year.
Both had stellar seasons in their third year in the NFL, and continued to do so for the remainder of their careers. But replicating that kind of production – and finding that potential breakout candidate/consistent deep threat – has been a struggle for the Rams ever since…
– The Rams have drafted 19 wide receivers since 1999. Eight of them either weren’t in the league three years later, or didn’t tally a single reception in their third year.
– Only three of the 19 have surpassed 500 yards. Only one, Holt, has eclipsed 1,000.
– They’ve drafted eleven receivers between 2005 and 2012. They combined [third year only] for 85 receptions, 1,098 yards, and 8 touchdowns. Four of the eleven [excluding Avery; injury] didn’t catch a football in their third year. Two of them, Gilyard and Salas, had already found new homes before the onset of their third season.
– This year’s eligible third year breakout candidates consist of the Mountaineer duo, Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey. Austin has 71 catches for 660 yards and four touchdowns in his first two seasons. Bailey, who missed two games in 2014, has tallied 47 catches, 661 yards, and one touchdown heading into his third season. Brian Quick, who draws the VJAX reference more than most, is also in consideration having missed nine games last season due to injury.
If you didn’t catch it in this morning’s Random Ramsdom, NFL.com’s Bucky Brooks has pegged Tavon Austin [along with Nick Foles] as one of the league’s potential “Heavyweight Hookup” duos for the 2015 season.
Can Austin have that oft-referenced third year breakout season? Or did Brooks pick the wrong receiver? Will any Rams’ receiver be able compile stats similar to that of Holt and Jackson in their third year?
wvParticipantI stopped reading when i read this:
“…Republicans and conservatives – are those who traditionally have been the most supportive of the Constitution…”That’s just an opinion. Not provable. Not a ‘fact.’
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wvParticipantvia Rambill
Finding the Fits: Rams hoping Jamon Brown provides ‘iron’ at RG
By Rob Rang | The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com
July 2, 2015 1:34 pm ETThis is part of a series — Finding the Fits — in which NFLDraftScout.com will review the more intriguing picks made during the 2015 NFL Draft. The goal is to identify one relatively unheralded player per team who appears to be a good schematic fit and, therefore, more likely to be a surprise contributor early in his pro career.
St. Louis’ best fit: OG Jamon Brown, Louisville, No. 72 overall
Fans in St. Louis know better than most that it doesn’t matter how much talent a quarterback or running back possesses if he isn’t surrounded by equal ability (and durability) on the offensive line. Struggles up front contributed to Sam Bradford’s failure to live up to expectations as the No. 1 overall pick of the 2010 draft and frustration for former Rams’ star Steven Jackson, who rarely was provided clear rushing lanes to take full advantage of his talent.
As such, while optimism is high in St. Louis for new quarterback Nick Foles and potential star rookie running back Todd Gurley, there remain concerns about how quickly an offensive line expected to field three new starters in 2015 — including two rookies — can gel.
Unfamiliarity will be an issue, especially on the right side where the Rams hope to plug in second rounder Rob Havenstein at tackle and slide third rounder Jamon Brown inside to guard. Talent and schematic fit, however, won’t be.
While Havenstein is viewed as somewhat of a “plug and play” at right tackle due to his 42 career starts at run-heavy Wisconsin, Brown is more of a projection as only his very first start (of 40) came at guard and that was on the left side back in 2011. That didn’t stop the Rams from plugging the 6-foot-4, 323 pounder with the starters during OTAs.
Like Havenstein (and last year’s No. 2 overall pick Greg Robinson), Brown’s game is based on power. He’s athletic enough to get to the second level, boasting surprising initial quickness for a man of his size but isn’t light enough on his feet to handle today’s speed rushers, which is he ranked low among tackles on NFLDraftScout.com’s rankings.
Brown is at his best simply mauling defenders at the point of attack, utilizing his long arms (34 3/8″winking smiley and leg drive to generate movement – making him a better fit at guard in the NFL in a run-heavy, power-based scheme rather than the relatively finesse approach most teams expect from tackles in today’s pass-happy attacks.
Fortunately for St. Louis, Brown has a proven track record of handling challenges. He initially signed with Louisville as a defensive tackle but he capably handled the switch to the other side when injuries along the offensive line forced him to start at left guard after only a handful of practices there. Further, he stood out at the East-West Shrine Game after earning All-ACC recognition after the past two seasons.
Brown is certainly facing a challenge in St. Louis where he’s competing against veteran Brandon Washington for the spot vacated when the Rams elected not to re-sign Davin Joseph. Further, he’s receiving a baptism by fire by practicing against arguably the league’s most gifted defensive line.
“My motto has always been, ‘Iron sharpens iron,’ so you want to have a lot of good guys around you to be able to push you and kind of make you play to the best of your ability all the time,” Brown said. “When you do that, everyone gets better. So iron sharpens iron is the motto.”
Jamon Brown started out as a defensive end at Louisville. Jamon Brown started out as a defensive end at Louisville. (USATSI)
Other thoughts on the Rams’ 2015 draft class:
The Rams are expected to take things slow with Gurley, who, of course, was unable to work out for scouts prior to the draft due to his recovery from surgery to repair a torn ACL. Once he gets onto the field, however, it won’t take long for Gurley to prove why I’ve consistently compared him to Seattle’s All-Pro Marshawn Lynch. Gurley possesses even better straight-line speed than the Seahawks’ star and plays with a brand of physicality and power that could rightly be described as “Beast Mode.” Because the Rams are likely to ease Gurley onto the field and may initially struggle with cohesion along the offensive line, he may not enjoy the immediate impact in St. Louis that fellow first round running back Melvin Gordon could see playing with established quarterback Philip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers. Gurley has the look of a future All-Pro, however, and provides Fisher with the Eddie George-like battering “Ram” that helped him enjoy such success with the Houston Oilers and Tennessee Titans.
By investing the No. 10 overall pick in Gurley and half of the club’s other eight picks in big, brawling offensive linemen, Fisher and general manager Les Snead certainly made improving the running game a priority. Given that the Rams have finished just 19th in the league in yards per carry average since Fisher took over, that wasn’t a surprise. There is no question that Havenstein, Brown, Andrew Donnal and Cody Wichmann have the potential to improve the Rams’ rushing attack but each is relatively slow-footed in pass protection, which could make Foles a sitting duck against the athletic fronts he’ll face in the hyper-aggressive NFC West.
While Foles does not possess ideal mobility to escape the pocket, he does have the height, football intelligence and enough arm talent to be successful as a starter if complemented by a strong running game and defense. That also summarizes Sean Mannion, the Rams’ second pick of the third round, as well. Mannion certainly looks and acts the part of a pro quarterback and his success against quality competition speaks for itself. He holds the Pac-12 record for career passing yards (13,600) and came from a pro-style attack also built around a commitment to the run, frequent quick screens and deep passes to counter when opponents cheated up to stop either. These traits make Mannion a potential future starting candidate in Fisher and new offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti’s scheme. If he’s to make that happen, however, Mannion must speed up his delivery and improve the velocity of passes to the perimeter.
St. Louis’ 2015 draft class:
1st Round, No. 10 overall: RB Todd Gurley, Georgia
2nd Round, No. 57 overall: OT Rob Havenstein, Wisconsin
3rd Round, No. 72 overall: OG Jamon Brown, Louisville
3rd Round, No. 89 overall: QB Sean Mannion, Oregon State
4th Round, No. 119 overall: OL Andrew Donnal, Iowa
6th Round, No. 201 overall: WR Bud Sasser, Missouri
6th Round, No. 215 overall: OL Cody Wichmann, Fresno State
7th Round, No. 224 overall: ILB Bryce Hager, Baylor
7th Round, No. 227 overall: DE Martin Ifedi, Memphis
— Key Undrafted Free Agents Signed:
RB Malcolm Brown, Texas
DB Imoan Claiborne, Northwestern
DT Louis Trinca-Pasat, Iowa
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