Dan Dier Dorf
on the rams:

zn wrote:

wv wrote:
Waitin for the furnace repair-man.
I cant think of him, without thinking of
piles of money burning in a furnace.

You should do what we do in Maine. We never WAIT for the furnace repair guy. We provide free room and board for them. It can be a little inconvenient (“I never watch that. Here, give me the remote.”) But, he’s already there and ready to go at a moment’s notice.

If Ag would invent some kind of Fusion technology
instead of making scalloped potatoes,
maybe i would be
warm.

Also, i think this would be a good
year to trade down.

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znhater wrote:

Hazier akim? I assume he means Az Hakim. And he was twice the player tavon is at this point imo.

I dunno. What if Tavon was playing alongside
Faulk, Holt, Ike, Warner, etc ?

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This was the most interesting statement to me:

“.. I expect the offensive line to be significantly better, some way, somehow next year. We’ve got to do a better job protecting our quarterback. I would expect us to take a big step offensively. Losing (WR) Brian (Quick) was I think a significant loss the way he was playing early. (WR) Kenny (Britt) stepped up and played. ‘Cookie’ (TE Jared Cook) has exactly the same numbers he did last year. I think as a staff we plan on and one of the priorities is getting (WR) Tavon (Austin) the ball more. Looking back we need to get him more involved.”

Also, this was worth mulling over:

“We should improve significantly, particularly because when Gregg stepped in he wasn’t quite sure about the talent level here. A good example was when we flipped (DT) Aaron (Donald) and he became a three-technique for the most part and ‘Brock’ (DT Michael Brockers) and (DT) Kendall (Langford) were the shade, that’s when things really got going.

Even the subtle things we did with ‘Tree’ (LB Alec Ogletree) that allowed him to get going.

So, those are things that are going to take place during the offseason with respect to a lot of different positions. We’re going to be creative. We’ll have an offseason to sort out and

put (S) Mark (Barron) in positions to be on the field most of the time.
You want that, without having to take (S) Rodney (McLeod) or (S) T.J. (McDonald) out.”

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Jim Thomas @jthom1 · 2h 2 hours ago

Fisher says Greg Robinson will be the team’s LT next season. Says he’s not sure if Jake Long wants to continue playing.

zn wrote:

Quit calling runs straight up the middle when there has been nothing there all day. All year. Please?

This year so far, 33% of Mason’s runs have been up the middle. The majority (44%) have been to the left. Actually Sunday reversed that with Mason anyway because out of 11 carries, they ran 4 to the left and 5 up the middle. My guess is they did that just to keep the defense honest and thinking middle. I would imagine that with the OL as banged up as it is (plus starting a rookie), they can’t afford to just concede the middle and instead bang at it to set up other plays. If that’s true, arguably it worked because they did get a couple of good runs to the left and right.

Well its a reasonable approach,
but i dont think it was the best approach.
I dont think the ‘setting up’ part outweighs
the “second and nine” part.

I dunno.

Its a tough situation for BS to be in though.
Its purt-near-impossible to play this game
with a lame middle-of-the-Oline.

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“I think if you asked anybody in this locker room, they would tell you we’ve got to finish better,” safety T.J. McDonald said. “That’s one thing we need to understand. We’ve just got to finish better as a group regardless.”

I keep seeing terms like this — “we need to finish better.”

Those are utterly meaningless phrases
and i wish the coach and players would stop
using them. Finish better. Might as well say
“we need to score more points than the other team.”

Having said that, its a tough position to be in.
Being asked “Why dont you win more?” — tough question.
I mean what are they supposed to say?

What would ‘we’ say? Whats the list
of reasons they still lose?

1 They cant keep their starting QB healthy
2 They didnt learn the GW defense quickly
3 They still make crucial coverage mistakes
4 Still lots of youth at key positions (G.Robinson)
5 Fisher doesnt seem to get them ready to play early in the year
6 Key injuries – Quick, J.Long
7 Key personnel decisions were bad – J.Long, Wells, The Guard who’s name i forget
8 Critical weak links on the Oline — you cant play offense with a weak middle of the Oline
9 Numerous, maddening, idiotic, Killer, bonehead Mistakes. (Muffs, INTs, Pick-6’s, Fumbles, Penalties, missed-assigments, reflecting some of the aspects of 1 thru 8 )

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