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wvParticipantCam Akers getting a lot of attention in the media:
wvParticipantHaf to admit, I liked his shoes.
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vwvParticipantI like Woods, a lot. He is good at a lot of different things. With the ball in his hands, he has the vision and sense of space you find in RBs. I would never disparge him or underestimate him. But I also think Beckham just has some elite traits. I think he has some traits that are a higher level that even Ellard, Bruce, and Holt.
As I said I think his hands are magic special. And his “vertical vision” and “vertical timing” (if I can coin those terms) is special.
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I didnt realize you hated Ellard, Bruce and Holt so much.
Why dont you hate on Harold Jackson and Jack snow
while you’re at it.w
vwvParticipantFun Fact from John Breech at CBS:
“The loss means that the Cowboys have now gone 11 straight playoff appearances without reaching a conference championship game, which is the longest streak in NFL history.”
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Yeah, I’ve been savoring all these Cowboy factoids the media has been spewing.
I think I’ve finally found something about the media I like.
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vwvParticipantGeorge Allen? Zero playoff wins with the Rams? Damn.
Hadn’t thought about that.
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vwvParticipantI know what you’re saying about Beckham, but to me what sets him massively apart is his hands. He may be the best pure Rams “hands” catcher I have seen, though Bruce and Holt and Ellard were obviously good too.
Beckham just has magic hands..
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Yeah, Brandin Cooks had over a thousand yards for the rams, but i never
really trusted his hands in traffic, or if the ball was high.But OBJ is a guy i might throw it to even if the DB wall all over him.
Still…i dunno if OBJ/Kupp is better than Robert Woods/Kupp. I dunno.
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vwvParticipant“Mcvay took pressure off Stafford…it was a Jarod Goff gameplan”
wvParticipantHeard a stat: Staffords game — highest rated Playoff QB rating of any ram qb in
ram history. At the six minute mark.wvParticipantGreat win. Rams are an NFC-final-four team, as they should be.
Its been a ‘good year.’
But can they do better than ‘good year’ ?
Saw a stat, btw. Most years before a playoff win:
Brodie, Deberg 14 years.
Stafford, Tarkenton, Morrall – 13 years.Cam Akers was such a big loss. I had no expectation of him
making back 100 percent ‘next’ year, let alone ‘this’ year.Stafford looked like he was consciously — very very consciously – trying
NOT to make any dum passes. …but there was that long pass that
should have been an INT. Sigh.OBJ is just ‘different’ than any other Ram WR i can remember.
He doesnt seem like he quite fits the usual ram-model. Its not his route-running
that sets him apart, its more like his ‘spring-ee-ness,’ bouncy-ness, strength,
and hands. Woulda been awesome if Robert Woods, Cooper Kupp and OBJ were ALL
out there. Ah well.Some great games coming up.
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vwvParticipantGotta say, that Deebo Samuel is one of the most
entertaining offensive players in the NFL.Frankly, ALL the fortyniner ballcarriers look like they were shot
out of cannons when they run.Green Bay is gonna beat’em though. Wont even be that close.
Its that extra week of rest. Packers will look a step quicker, I bet.w
vwvParticipantMe and George Allen like this move.
We’d rather have a wily, crafty veteran on crutches out there,
than a young, fast punk.w
vJanuary 13, 2022 at 5:26 pm in reply to: setting up the Arizona playoff game (us, the media, etc.) #135441wvParticipantGot puter issues, need new hard drive, so I may
not check in for a bit. Might be fixed soon, not sure though.Anyway, Cards will win. Rams OLine is just not right. Its ok, but
its not playoff-team-ok.Worst personnel decision in five years — tutu, instead of OLine.
Also, losing Robert Woods was just huge. Odell is a nice, talented toy, and can do some stuff Kupp and Woods cant — but he aint Woods, and they need Woods.
Also a few weak links at LB and secondary. Just enough to
cost the rams against top teams.I also think we will find out Stafford was a lot more
hurt than the are letting on. I just dont believe you go from
his first-half-of-the-season numbers to the second-half-of-the-season-numbers without ‘some’ change. Yes, the Oline has faltered, but i think the old-vet has also gotten a bit bulgerized.So. Rams Lose. Media blames it all on Stafford.
“Never won a playoff game” “Rams went all IN and are now total-busts”Blah blah.
And next year, the could still win a Ring.
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vwvParticipantI really thought Cooper was too fragile and played to recklessly
to make it thru a 17 game season.
Predicted Kupp would be hurt at some point this season.And he went out and won the triple crown. Just like Secretariat.
Whom i also predicted would have a heart attack.So. I am now predicting the cardinals will beat
the Rams.w
vwvParticipantSo the question is why. The personnel didn’t change at the half. And the scheme didn’t change. They were still sending only 4 on most downs. But they just trashed the Rams’ OL in the second half.
The thing that makes the most sense to me is that Shanahan amped up his team at the half, and told them their season was on the line, and that if they didn’t get after it with everything they had, they weren’t going to go to the playoffs. And McVay said, “Attaway, guys! Keep it up!”
And the 9ers lit the Rams up with their intensity until McVay regrouped the team on the sideline.
Let’s hope he learns from that.
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As painful as the loss was, etc, and so forth,
that was one helluva game. Coulda gone either way,
much like the Rams/Titans super bowl.It was Ali vs Frasier. Somethin like that.
I would love to see a third one. Thrilla in SoFilla.
That whole weekend was marvelous, for NFL fans.
Some of the best games of the year all
clustered together.w
vwvParticipantSaw a stat in a vid. Which nfc team has best record
since the halfway mark?49ers. At 8-3.
Packers, Bucs, Eagles 7-3
Cowboys 7-4
Rams 6-4w
vwvParticipantIt’s amazing the accolades the Rams o-line always gets from sources like PFF, but when they face the really stout defensive fronts they crumble like a tray of Apple Brown Betty.
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Yeah, I’m not sure I’ve seen as bad an Oline performance as I saw
in that second half. 49ers just mauled everything that moved: backs, receivers,
Stafford, McVay, Snead.I think Aker’s got himself body-slammed at one point.
What a furious, furious defense that unit played.
And yet….there was Stafford and the Rams, driving the ball for
a TD with a couple mins left.The 49ers PASSED their way down the field for the win.
Didnt see that coming.
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vwvParticipantAgain, if we don’t get to the NFC Title game, it will go down as a failed season.
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Well, the media says that so often its become a mantra,
but I dont know why thats more true now with the rams, than
any season with any team.I think that kind of mantra ignores 12 wins and all the
good stuff they’ve done this year.So for me, i just reject that whole “failed season” thing.
Also, I think their window is still open for a couple more
years or so. I just think what they need to do is simply
add a couple god-dam OLineman. Instead of tutus.w
vwvParticipantAfter the bodybag game, it might be good to have an extra day,
but who knows.w
vwvParticipantWell, two good-but-different teams; coulda gone either way. Unlike the first game
between the Rams and 49ers.Very hard-fought. Tough, tough, loss.
49ers are just tougher. I dont know that the Rams can play
that team any better.Sure looks like the Chiefs and Packers have complete teams
and every other team has fatal-flaws.w
vwvParticipantKittle says its going to be a ‘bodybag game.’
Now, I would put that on a bulletin board,
if i had one.w
vwvParticipantSaw a vid where Baldy is picking the niners.
So am i. Still dont trust this team.
I just think San Fran has more urgency and fire.Rams 15
49ers 17w
vwvParticipantThat Nina lady (dont know her last name) has always impressed me.
Studies the game. Knows her shit, week in, week out.One of the best. If not ‘the’ best.
Now watch the corporate-suits ruin her in the next few years.
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vwvParticipantDunno if this has been posted:
wvParticipantThat dumbing down part. I think it’s fair to say it’s the first economic system in world history with its own, dedicated, self-renewing PR wing. by now..
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I think about that a Lot.
I suppose the ‘church’ often worked as the “PR Wing” in earlier systems,
in many places.At any rate, this-here system has the most ‘sophisticated, multi-layered
propaganda system of any government in human history, i would think.I keep reading “the system is collapsing” on social media.
A) no its not. (the biosphere is)
and B) even if it were that would be a testament to capitalism’s
amazing propaganda system, because the people are still blaming
everything but capitalism. Christ-almighty the “its china/russia/Iran’s…fault”
is STILL working after all these decades. The coldwar shit STILL works
on americans. Think how dummed-down you have to be to buy into
all those old tropes. Never fails.w
vwvParticipantOne major problem with naming capitalism as the issue — and it is — is that most people don’t know what the word means..
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Yup. Absolutely. And of course, that is not an accident.
Capitalism dums the population down ‘politically.’
It would have to, in order to survive. So it does.
One of the 5 gazillion reasons, we are totally F’d.
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vwvParticipantIf you want material that indicts what we are doing, try the novel Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. It’s a pretty good read, mostly a kind of Socratic dialogue. It indicts the cultural assumptions going back to the “dawn” of civilization, the way of seeing the world that made Capitalism possible.
My son gave it to me for my birthday, and I read it over Christmas break. Good book.
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Look. It is MY role to be the senile one.
We talked about Ishmael long, long ago. Back in the book-baking days.
I believe it was one of Pa Ram’s faves. I liked it, too.The one Quinn wrote after that, was not very good.
And yeah, you can find plenty of books that are anti-cap.
And you can find them because the system knows, Americans dont read.w
vwvParticipantBut it does not make point clear that the blue team is complicit. The red team is drawn with more distinct lines. The blue team is there, but they aren’t identified as the blue team. Thus many viewers miss the point. I think that’s true to say.
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Well, that is my point. And it would NOT…have…been…made, if it had
indicted Capitalism in direct, understandable, unambiguous terms. No studio would have touched it. Paramount sold it to Netflix. Neither would have touched it.The director McKay, an old Saturday Night Live writer (complete libshit show)
is the guy who has this background, fwiw:“…McKay rewrote the script for the Marvel Studios feature film Ant-Man, directed by Peyton Reed.[15] McKay also worked with Reed, Paul Rudd, Gabriel Ferrari & Andrew Barrer on Ant-Man and the Wasp to flesh out the story.[16] He has also expressed interest in helming a Silver Surfer movie for Marvel Studios.[17]
He produced the films Land of the Lost (2009), The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009), The Virginity Hit (2010), Casa de Mi Padre (2012), Bachelorette (2012), Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012), The Campaign (2012), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Tammy (2014), Welcome to Me (2014), Get Hard (2015), Sleeping with Other People (2015), Daddy’s Home (2015), and The Boss (2016)..”
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vwvParticipantI remember long, long, long ago when the Rams vs 49ers was a big bad rivalry.
I mean it was up there with the Cowboys vs Washington, or Oakland vs Kansas City, etc.This game has that feel. This is a great-big game. Its fun.
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wvParticipant…now, all day, I’ll be thinking of “how would a leftist rewrite The Incredible
Mr Limpett….what would a marxist fish look like….?w
vPerhaps you and Bezos can mull that over together at the next “Goldman-Sachs Appreciation Day” event you two cohost?
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You liked Dont Look Up, but do you see my point? It never expressly
called out Capitalism. Never named it. Why do you think that is?I mean no american film ‘ever’ ‘does’. Its not an accident.
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vwvParticipantChris Carter reduces it down to “the 49ers have simply been more physical than the Rams”. Thats kinda how it seems to me, too.
They have beat the rams up, run right thru them, and forced turnovers.
Maybe a healthy Von Miller can help this time, I dunno.
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