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VRENTAS: In 2013 you threw 27 touchdowns and two interceptions. Before you got hurt last season, you threw 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Which of those quarterbacks is the real Nick Foles?

FOLES: Both of them. Those are all me. I don’t want to turn the ball over. I want to throw touchdowns, and I want to help our offense move the ball and get the ball in the end zone. Every single rep I have ever taken, that’s always been the guy who I want to be. I am not going to sit here and tell you that 2013 is exactly [who I am as a quarterback]. I’ve grown since both of those years. I’m a better player, a better person, a better athlete. I know everybody is going to analyze [the different stat lines] until the cows come home. But I’m not worried about that. I just want to work here and be successful here
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Interesting answer.

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Agamemnon wrote:

<span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>Rams should move on. Go with somebody on the roster or draft a center. He is not a difference maker. He is not that much better than what we have. I would rather save the cap space. I see no real value there.</span>

Sign him or dont sign him,
but DRAFT, two or three
young, healthy, giant, strong, stout HOGs.

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Luna Moth….

…I’d read the facts—the one week lifespan,
The way, because they do not eat,

The adults have no need of a mouth – by the time
I found the third, late last night,

High on the wall of my kitchen.
I’d had too much to drink. I spoke to it

As if it were my own Buddhist teacher
Here to teach me nonattachment,

The illusions of hunger, sex, rampant need.
I sat with it until the sun rose, toasting

Its quick beauty, then the restfulness I found
In its body and then those bright-eyed,

Translucent green wings that seemed
To breathe more and more slowly before going

Motionless. When I lifted it in my hand
I knew just how little the space was

Between myself and nothingness.

Robert Cording
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14th-Daili-Mothy-Ram

— X — wrote:

I like this.

I’m an extremely flawed human being with lots of battle scars. And no matter how often I try to be someone else, I always end up despising that guy. He sucks and he’s boring.

Yay for Sarcastic Zooey.

I think its a big mistake
for Zooey to be himself.

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“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
— James Thurber

Agamemnon wrote:

That is indeed what the draft-watchers are ‘saying.’
Now how do you know its true? We wont have
any idea for two or three years, right?

How do you know there wont be MORE
gems found in rounds 4, 5, and 6
THIS year than in the last few years?

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I can look at a pile of beans and say this pile is bigger than that pile without counting them. If you need an actual count, I can’t satisfy you.</span>

Well, noting that this or that class has more “third year” players
doesnt really tell you if more players from that draft class
ended up as quality starters or quality role players. Yes?

It just tells you that more third year boys entered the draft.

So, how would one go about researching which draft classes
were actually better than others? How would one do that?
And has anyone around here actually done it?
I would guess the answer is — no. 🙂

Agamemnon wrote:

you drop the top 8 or 10 players from last years class and drop the players from rounds 5 and 6 of last years class you have sort of a picture of this year’s class. It is not terribly bad, but in no way is it close to last year and probably slightly down from an average draft class.

That is the general consensus of this years class. Remember Snead saying that this is why it was such a good deal to get Barron last year for a couple of this classes draft picks.

That is indeed what the draft-watchers are ‘saying.’
Now how do you know its true? We wont have
any idea for two or three years, right?

How do you know there wont be MORE
gems found in rounds 4, 5, and 6
THIS year than in the last few years?

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zn wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>wv wrote:</div>
Can Snisher find some of them? Can
they find another EJ Gaines?

I personally am not skeptical of those claims. In fact over the years they have held up. For example last year’s draft was said in advance to be one of the deepest in years. And sure enough that’s the draft they find a Gaines in round 6.

What evidence do you have that last years draft class
was “one of the deepest in years” ?

It would take all kinds of research to
compare every year’s results to the “consensus claims”
about those years…

And you have not done that research.

Ha.

I have run circles around you,
logically.

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joemad wrote:

The Rams hosted the Washington Redskins during an icy day on December 16, 1945 for the NFL championship in front of 32,178 fans.

…The Rams managed to win the 1945 NFL Championship Game 15–14.[6]

There’s a silent vid of the championship game, but
this one from 1944 is way better. Gotta say though,
without the ‘horns’ it just aint really the Rams.
As far as I’m concerned the “Rams” began
with the Horns. Whenever ‘that’ was. I forget.

The commentary throughout this Vid
is priceless. Narrator is “Red Grange.”
THE Red Grange…? :

“….except for Army and Navy no other college team could come within 4 Touchdowns
of these two teams…”

• This reply was modified 11 years, 1 month ago by wv.

Well, no new facts there. Just more opinions.

I think its still a fluid situation.

Wouldnt it be weird if the Rams won
the Super Bowl next year,
and…then left St.Louis.

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rfl wrote:

I appreciate your honesty, Man. But consider this:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Winnbrad wrote:</div>
But nothing will change unless the players force that change. As long as they’re willing to cash the checks and bash their brains in, people are gonna watch.

See, I think this is backwards thinking. Checks will lead people to risk their lives. Indeed.

My point is the SOURCE of those checks! The checks arise from a massively consistent consensus in the football culture about what “we want.” Change the culture, and you change the source of the checks.

My question is this: are we willing to imagine a game that does less damage to brains?

It has to be far more than a few rules tweaks. They don’t work anyway. We have rules to “protect” QBs and they distort the game because they don’t change the fact that violent men armed with brutal weapons in the form of helmets are trying to stop the QBs. The rule can’t change that core reality.

The CULTURE has to change. That will change the source of the checks.

And it has to be done at a far more organic, core level than the play of the professionals in the league. Remember, tens of thousands of young men, many of them children, are affected by this. It’s not just NFL guys. Hell, I played a game mildly concussed once at Div. III level.

And that, really, is where change will have to happen. In a sense, I think it’s inevitable. There will be lawsuits involving Pee Wee leagues and school districts and gradually parents will demand change. Eventually, those changes at the grassroots level will change the game and people’s expectations.

Of course, all that will take time. A generation or more.

Which is American football’s existential threat. If changes aren’t made faster, there is a good chance that enough parents will sign their kids up for soccer or la crosse to undermine the football fan base. That actually seems to me to be a fairly likely scenario. I don’t think we’re all that far from a tipping point where we become a soccer nation. And parents of children will lead the way.

Well, the one suggestion you offered was a change in headgear.

And It might be interesting if the NFL tried some experiments
with that during the pre-season, but i have no idea whether
that would be safer. Maybe it would lead to some more deadly
or sudden-catastrophic types of injuries. I have no idea.

But I’m all for a National conversation about all of this.
I got no answers.

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Thanks Zooey, i enjoyed reading all that post.

I thought the Pi Movie was excellent myself.
Mainly because of the Visuals. The way they
showed the ocean and stars etc. I thought
it was moving.

Interesting that he or his character
pokes at agnostics. I dont have any qualms
about agnosticism. Seems to me there’s no
avoiding ‘leaps’ no matter what you believe
or dont believe. Agnosticism to me is just
a leap that dont look like leap. But
what do i know.

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“faith without doubt is addiction”
— Salman Rushdie

“Loss of faith is growth.”
Wallace Stevens

“Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?”
― Annie Dillard

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“….Thus, I live with a paradox that I cannot escape: my body is me, yet not me. As Richard Zaner says, ‘Compellingly mine, it is yet radically other: intimately alien, strangely mine. Most of all, my body is the embodiment of that most foreign of all things–death.’ Yearning to transcend our mortality, we yet recognize the body as bearer of mortality itself. Human beings are, as Ernest Becker has graphically said, ‘gods with anuses.’…. ”
James Nelson

How is Ramben, doing?

You think the Rams have
finally turned the corner?
Is Year Four, the playoff year?

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