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wvParticipantTo have the talent AND
the insane-work-ethic AND
the body-that-can-withstand-the-insane-work-ethic
is purty special. Aaron Donald was in that category. I guess Kobe was too.wvParticipantListened to Cowherd and Middlekauff. Middlekauff said the Rams went to the league and asked for the 49ers to be the Australia opponent. Cause the 49ers essentially get a home game when they play the Rams in LA.
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vwvParticipantI only see six games where I feel pretty confident about the Rams winning. And even a couple of those are iffy. That leaves 11 games that are basically even-ish, in my view.
So if they win half of those even-ish games, AND if they dont get upset in the six games they ‘should’ win — that would be 11 and 6, or 12 and 5. There-abouts.That would be great.
At least they dont have to play the Texans defense this year. But they do get Denver, Philly, Chargers, Seattle-twice.
Good Offenses – they get 49ers-twice, Packers, Cowboys, Bills, Chiefs.
Its annoying to play Philly in Philadelphia again, because a head-to-head loss with the Eagles could easily play into the home-field situation.
I dunno guys.
There is No F’ing way ANY team with this schedule is getting the no.1 seed. Aint happening. A team with an easier schedule will pile up more wins against weak teams.
I’d say that first game is slightly important. Ya know.
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2026
Week 1: San Francisco 49ers, 8:35 p.m. Thur (Australia)
Week 2: New York Giants, Mon 8:15 p.m.
Week 3: at Denver Broncos, 8:20 p.m.
Week 4: at Philadelphia Eagles, 1 p.m.Week 5: Buffalo Bills, Mon 8:15 p.m.
Week 6: Arizona Cardinals, 4:05 p.m.
Week 7: at Las Vegas Raiders, 4:25 p.m.
Week 8: Los Angeles Chargers,Week 9: at Washington Commanders, 1 p.m.
Week 10: at Arizona Cardinals, 4:25 p.m.
Week 11: Bye
Week 12: Green Bay Packers, Wed. 8 p.m.
Week 13: Kansas City Chiefs, Thur 8:15Week 14: at San Francisco 49ers, 4:25 p.m.
Week 15: Dallas Cowboys, 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS
Week 16: at Seattle Seahawks (Christmas), 8:15 p.m.
Week 17: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Week 18: Seattle SeahawkswvParticipantNot funny, but Chappelle on Pryor
wvParticipantThe Bizness.
wvParticipantEight Teams That Got Screwed by the 2026 NFL Schedule
Conor Orr’s annual look at teams that have tough rest differentials, unwieldy stretches or other disadvantages.
Los Angeles Rams
This schedule is absurd. Seven prime-time games. A season opener in Melbourne, Australia. One of the worst net rest differentials in the NFL. Four 2025 playoff teams in the first five weeks. Thanksgiving Eve. Christmas in prime time against the Seahawks. Two Seahawks games in three weeks to end the season. This, for a team with a 38-year-old starting quarterback who couldn’t get through training camp last year without a space-age health trailer. This is how the NFL unwittingly vanquished the Chiefs last year and is seemingly attempting to do it again with the Rams. There’s a reason Sean McVay cautioned ESPN to hold their horses when talking about the Seattle games at the end of the season because it’s unlikely the Rams will get there totally unscathed. While it’s a reality of the business, it’s disappointing to see the league’s premier offense get absolutely picked apart by factors that are totally within the league’s control.
https://www.si.com/nfl/eight-teams-screwed-2026-nfl-schedule?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
wvParticipantI came across this topic in a book I’m reading. I’d never heard of the ‘Workers Olympiads’. A kind-of socialist-olympics. There were 3, but the biggest was in 1931.
I think we need a leftist football league.
A.I.
The 1931 Workers’ Summer Olympiad in Vienna was a massive international sporting event held from July 19–26, 1931, serving as a socialist counterweight to the “bourgeois” Olympic Games. With over 100,000 athletes and 250,000 spectators, it was the largest sporting event held in Vienna at the time, prioritizing solidarity, peace, and participation over national rivalryIdeology: Organized by the Socialist Workers’ Sport International, the games rejected the nationalism, commercialism, and elitism of the official Olympic Games. They promoted international friendship, with the red flag flying instead of national flags.
Scale: About 100,000 participants (including mass gymnastics) from 26 nations took part, exceeding the scale of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
Venue & Events: The games were held in the newly constructed Praterstadion (now Ernst-Happel-Stadion) and the Stadionbad. Events included soccer, athletics, swimming, boxing, gymnastics, and chess.
Cultural Focus: Beyond sports, the event featured a massive “Große Festspiel” opening ceremony.
Finals: The workers’ football tournament final was played in front of 60,000 spectators at the Praterstadion, where the Austrian team defeated Germany 3–2.
wvParticipantRams have lost four in a row to the Eagles.
Rams have lost five in a row to the Packers.
Apparently both teams know how to deal with McVay.
“Nuts!”
Well, if yer comparing the rams schedule to Bastogne and the battle of the bulge, i think thats probably apt. Though, the only things i know about WWII, i learned from John Belushi.
And as General Jack Youngblood once said: He that outlives this schedule, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named. For he that sheds his blood with me, Shall hold their manhoods cheap, Whiles any speaks that fought with us upon So-Fi.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantYeah, this is brutal.
On the bright side, they have a lot of time between games after the Australia trip, and they have only 3 games in the Eastern time zone all season, and only the November game in Washington has much potential to be a “cold” game.
Looks like 10 or 11 wins, though.
Rams have lost four in a row to the Eagles.
Rams have lost five in a row to the Packers.
Apparently both teams know how to deal with McVay.
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vwvParticipantIf I knew how to post photos, I would post a photo of a buzz saw.
Yeah, that one is unreal. I mean even 3 of the teams that were losers last year, are likely to be a lot better this year: Giants, Commanders, Raiders.
There is no way any team with this schedule is getting the no.1 seed. Very unlikely any team with this schedule is winning a division.
I’m just hoping for a wild-card at this point. I’d take that in a minute.
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vwvParticipantOk, this may be the toughest schedule i have ever seen. Geez.
2026
Week 1: Thursday, Sept. 10, vs. San Francisco 49ers, 8:35 p.m. ET, Netflix (Australia)
Week 2: Monday, Sept. 21, vs. New York Giants, 8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN
Week 3: Sunday, Sept. 27, at Denver Broncos, 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC
Week 4: Sunday, Oct. 4, at Philadelphia Eagles, 1 p.m. ET, FOXWeek 5: Monday, Oct. 12, vs. Buffalo Bills, 8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN
Week 6: Sunday, Oct. 18, vs. Arizona Cardinals, 4:05 p.m. ET, FOX
Week 7: Sunday, Oct. 25, at Las Vegas Raiders, 4:25 p.m. ET, FOX
Week 8: Sunday, Nov. 1, vs. Los Angeles Chargers, 4:05 p.m. ET, FOXWeek 9: Sunday, Nov. 8, at Washington Commanders, 1 p.m. ET, FOX
Week 10: Sunday, Nov. 15, at Arizona Cardinals, 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS
Week 11: Bye
Week 12: Wednesday, Nov. 25, vs. Green Bay Packers, 8 p.m. ET, Netflix
Week 13: Thursday, Dec. 3, vs. Kansas City Chiefs, 8:15 p.m. ET, PrimeWeek 14: Sunday, Dec. 13, at San Francisco 49ers, 4:25 p.m. ET, FOX
Week 15: Sunday, Dec. 20, vs. Dallas Cowboys, 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS
Week 16: Friday, Dec. 25, at Seattle Seahawks (Christmas), 8:15 p.m. ET, FOX
Week 17: Saturday/Sunday, Jan. 2/3, at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Week 18: Saturday/Sunday, Jan. 9/10, vs. Seattle SeahawkswvParticipantMina points out last year, in the second half of the season, the Seahawks offense was 26th in QBR, and 30th in red-zone efficiency — and they went 8-1.
Seemed to me, after the Darnold-melt-down game against the Rams, MacDonald changed the offensive approach. Looked to me like he reined-in Darnold a bit, ran a more conservative, safe offense. It worked.
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vwvParticipantMina’s top three coaches:
1 McVay
2 MacDonald
3 ShanahanwvParticipantSeahawks add a pass-rusher
wvParticipant“..The Rams also have the NFL’s best receivers room..”
I dunno. Maybe.
JSN / Cooper Kupp…
Pickens/CeeDee Lamb…
JaMarr Chase/ T.Higgins..
Jauan Jennings/ Justin Jefferson / Jordan Addison…
Jeudy/KC Concecion / Denzel Boston…One of the reasons i liked Lemon at pick 13 was the Davante situation. I am concerned he’s gonna be slow and old this year. It happens 🙂
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vwvParticipantThe Hav quote. Quoting the unknown defensive lineman from 2018: “I’m not sure which one of you guys is good, but you all play well together”
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vwvParticipantIn the Baldy/Hav vid. I give Erin Coscarelli a lot of credit. She shut-up and let them talk to each other. Dont see that much among the celebrity-interviewer crowd.
Sometimes Erin is a bit too cheerleady-smarmy for my taste but she does have talent.
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vwvParticipantWild Card teams
49ers
Cowboys
PackersWhy do you have Seattle falling back?
Ain’t gonna argue. Just curious.
MacDonald is a great coach, its a solid organization, and they are mostly intact. I think they will probly win ten games –but the NFC looks LOADED to me.
Mainly though, I just think Sam Darnold will come back to earth a bit.
Also, they are the hunted now, and its tough to meet that challenge after everyone has been congratulating you all year.
I think the Rams win the division if the Oline holds up and Stafford is healthy. Stating the obvious.
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vwvParticipantThis is the history/around the league thread. But its also the predict the future thread.
These are my NFC playoff teams, fwiw.
Seahawks and Bears miss the playoffs. QBs come back to earth.
Lions have a cake schedule.
Eagles have better OC.
Saints have a future star QB.
49ers have the evil-shanahan who draws power from electrical substations.
Packers start with a healthy Micah Parsons.
Cowboys had good off-season and have good vet QB.Division winners
Rams
Lions
Eagles
SaintsWild Card teams
49ers
Cowboys
PackerswvParticipantI am not happy with this –> CJ Daniels, Konata Mumpfield, Jordan Whittington, Xavier Smith.
Why cant i have Keenan Allen? Stephon Diggs? DeAndre Hopkins?
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vwvParticipantThis surprised me about Gronk. Dunno why.
wvParticipantSeemed like Last year the 49ers had a cake schedule. This year they have the eighth easiest schedule.
Seattle is 6 ranks easier than the Rams. Which i dont understand.
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vMay 4, 2026 at 11:02 am in reply to: Rams draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163841wvParticipantDraft talk. …Bomani has always had issues with Stafford, btw. He is an old Lions fan, among other things. (He has also commented a lot on how white QBs get treated differently than black QBs)
wvParticipantI discovered this guy the other day. He’s a black, small-farmer, who has strong opinions. I cant quite tell what his politics are, but he’s inter esting.
wvParticipantWell is it at all concerning that Ty could not beat out Bryce Young in 2022, or Milroe in 2023 and 2024 ?
Was it ever a competition?
Sounds more like the coach just had his qbs slotted and went with it.
I saw this on the internet but who knows.
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Veto F. Roley
Studied at Washington University in St. Louis
Author has 6.7K answers and 10.1M answer views8moFirst, Ty Simpson was not named the starter against South Florida in 2023, Ty Buchner was.
In 2023, Buchner transferred from Notre Dame to Alabama to compete for the starting quarterback job. Jalen Milroe had started a couple of games for Alabama after Bryce Young was briefly injured in 2022. In these limited starts, Milroe looked like a very talented backup, which is to say that he made some eye-popping, athletic plays, but was inconsistent. In Fall 2023 practice, Milroe won the job over Buchner and Simpson. He led the Tide to a 56–7 stomping of Middle Tennessee State to open the season. But, in Week 2, Milroe struggled against Texas, throwing two critical interceptions, in a 34–24 Bama loss.
Against South Florida, Coach Nick Saban decided to see if Buchner, who had considerable experience behind center with Notre Dame, could do better than Milroe. Buchner, who played the first half, was not good, going 5-of-14 for 34 yards. Simpson came in, did not look up to being the Alabama quarterback, but was 5-of-9 for 74 yards and led the Tide to two second-half touchdowns in the 17–3 win. Simpson did not throw for a score, but ran for a touchdown. The next week, against Ole Miss, Milroe was back as the Alabama starting quarterback — he was clearly the best of the three even if he was inconsistent — and Milroe led the Tide to a 24–10 win.
As the season went on, Milroe got better and more confident. Simpson also got better and become more confident so much so he was the second-string quarterback over Buchner over the second half of the season. Milroe led the Tide to a spot in the playoffs and had Alabama in position to win on a fourth-and-three with one play left in the game against eventual national champs Michigan. The play call was for Milroe to run the ball and score. However, a bad snap caused timing issues with the play and Milroe was stopped short of the goal line. I have always wondered what would have happened if the snap was good and Milroe was able to carry out the play as planned.
wvParticipantThe Rams selected Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson with the 13th overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. He sat behind Bryce Young and Jalen Milroe for three seasons before getting his shot to start as a senior in 2025…
Well is it at all concerning that Ty could not beat out Bryce Young in 2022, or Milroe in 2023 and 2024 ?
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vApril 30, 2026 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Rams draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163770wvParticipantAt the end of the vid, Steve says according to HIS metrics the Rams are the best drafting team since 2018.
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