My second Brady post.   I dunno why.

Anyway, these dufus-es are good on what made Brady a special leader.

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J.B. Long@JB_Long Since Rams came home from Chicago at the end of September: 4th in defensive EPA. Since Week 6 bye: 1st Defense in that stretch… · Points allowed: 79 · Points scored: 22 · Net: 14.25 ppg against

Certainly feels like the Rams defense is one year away.

I mean, they are definitely coming along this year, but they still need seasoning and a few more parts.

Lets hope Shula is the next Spags.

It’ll be interesting to see what McSnead does in the draft.   Where do they see the needs on defense.  Linebacker?  DB?

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Jason Hickel All the takes about Trump winning the US election are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms….

Well, I’d say capitalism has failed.   I dont think of it as ‘liberalism’ or neoliberalism etc, etc — its just capitalism to me.   And yes, its failed.   If ‘fail’ means ecocide.

At any rate, as a certified doomer, i see no way out.   Kamala was not a way out.  Neither was Bernie.  Blah blah.

And I really think generation after generation after generation of capitalism has ‘done something’ to Americans.  The american mind/soul.   I dont think there is any way to turn it around at this point.   Not given the power of the system.   How do you change people when the system controls the education system and the Media and the Institutions?   I mean, exactly how do you ‘get thru’ to the masses when they are this far gone, and they continue to be inundated with capitalist dogmas as well as all the other capitalist induced factors? (ie., exhausted workers, distractions, addictions, atomization, etc, etc etc)

Well, I’ve said all this before, so i dont intend to repeat the doomer mantras.   To be a ‘good leftist’ you have to ‘believe in the People’ — You really do.  Che did.  Martin Luther King did.  The list is endless.   I’m a bad leftist, now, though.   I no longer believe in the people.  And it has nothing to do with this election.  This election is just more of the same.  I’m not sure exactly when i stopped believing in the people.   Maybe back around the Obama years, I dunno.

I think humans can, or could have been, stewards of the biosphere.   I think they can, or could have been decent.   But not under this system.

This system turns them into pathological dangerous beings.  (and i dont mean ‘everyone’, but the vast majority) And the system gets stronger, not weaker.   As it rolls over more and more species and people.

So, the big picture to me has not changed.   I’m delighted the Dems lost.   I’m disgusted the Reps won.    I think ecocidal biosphere-killing capitalism wins either way.

There have always been doomers though, of course.   Maybe I’m just another misguided wrong-headed cynical doomer.

I dunno.   But fuck the Democrats, and Go Rams.

I did vote, btw.  Jill Stein, fwiw.

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“…US stocks rose sharply Wednesday morning following a decisive and consequential victory for former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s US presidential election.

The Dow soared 1,334 points, or 3.2% at the market open. The S&P 500 surged 2% higher and the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose by 1.8%. If the Dow maintains its implied gains throughout the trading session, it will mark the sixth-best point gain ever for the index — but nowhere close to a record percentage gain…”

John Mearsheimer is asked who he will vote for in the election tomorrow. He replies: "I won't vote for the Democrats because of the genocide in Gaza. I think the Biden administration is complicit in the genocide and genocide is a red line for me." pic.twitter.com/vXWGSBKysW

— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) November 5, 2024

Ya know….the Chiefs are without their two top WRs, their top RB, and their no.2 and no.3 TEs.

I guess their OLine is in good shape, though.

Quite an organization they have.

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“Seahawks have to gain an average of 8.9 yards on third down.   Worst number of any NFL team since….1980”

Geno ranked much higher than Stafford in that game?  “turnover worthy plays”

Sigh.   You know, didnt the 99-2000 Rams have the whole OLine together the entire season?

I forget, did the 2022 Super Bowl team have its Oline intact all year?

I’d like to see this team be healthy for just one month.  One whole entire month.

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Both teams played ugly and good, and good, and ugly.

I dunno what to make of it.

This is not the team we hoped for, with a dominating Offensive line.   Ah well.

But, if they can eek out a playoff berth…and get some OLine health….

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Seattle’s defense has had its problems this year, i guess.

“…Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk, head coach Mike Macdonald was asked if the focus moving forward will be to build on what the team is already doing well, or try to address the weaknesses its shown.

“I think you gotta start making some decisions on where to narrow it down. You can’t focus on everything,” he said. “So taking out the stuff that we feel like is kind of sunk costs at this point, maybe trying to trim that and then really focusing on and honing in on the stuff that we want to go excel at. That’s stuff that I feel like (there) may be opportunities that we haven’t been able to take advantage of at this point. And stuff that we do feel like we’re doing well, we can try to build on that a little.

Seattle Sports’ Mike Salk asked Macdonald if that meant simplifying what the team is doing schematically on offense and defense, but the first-year head coach doesn’t feel the team is doing anything too complicated. In fact, he revealed that his squad hasn’t installed its full playbook on offense or defense at this point.

“The reason is because … we haven’t executed the things well enough and created the situations where we want to be able to get to everything,” Macdonald said. “… You have some things that would help schematically, but the answer at the end of the day isn’t the X’s and O’s. It’s really not.”

Macdonald: Where Seahawks are at with schemes on offense, defense

means tv

i didnt know bout it, till today

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The Ernest Jones situation, as others have noted, is odd.   I mean, he’s a solid player.   So why did TWO teams trade him recently?   I mean, it wasnt just the Rams.  It was the Titans too.

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rams v seahawks at the 1:14 mark