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  • in reply to: around the league #165141
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    NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
    Naming Some Dudes!
    Gregg Rosenthal, Jourdan Rodrigue and Patrick Claybon name some guys!

    I learned Jake Plummer, former Cardinal QB, now runs a mushroom farm.

    My favorite NFL dude name will always be wide receiver Fair Hooker. 1969 to 74 played for the Browns. But i cannot think his name without internally hearing it in the voice of Pat Summerall.

    Favorite Ram name will probly always be: Elvis Peacock. Rams first round selection in 78. He was on the Super Bowl team in 79. Rushed for 777 yards in 1980. Then injuries.

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    in reply to: around the NFC West …. starting in early June #165140
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    Ari Meirov@MySportsUpdate
    The #49ers’ top four WR options right now with Ricky Pearsall sidelined:

    • Mike Evans
    • Deebo Samuel
    • Christian Kirk
    • De’Zhaun Stribling

    Mike Evans and Chris Mccaffrey are gonna get their 1,300 yards. They need a third guy to step up though. Deebo hasnt been scary for a while, so i dunno.

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    in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 7/31 – 8/2 #165139
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    “I’d say the game has definitely slowed down,” Nacua said. “I can still vividly remember my first pass from Matthew Stafford in Seattle in 2023. Just sprinting full speed in there and him being like, ‘Yo, slow down.’…”

    Thats funny.

    I love the fact the Rams didnt extend Nacua’s contract. And i love the fact that he Appears to get why. I was very skeptical of Nacua ever changing. But i’m cautiously optimistic about him now.

    Just gotta somehow stay healthy while still playing like a wrecking ball. Dunno how long he can last but thats his game.

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    in reply to: the newest political tweets thread (3/26) #165135
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    I’ve never really identified with or understood nihilists until these last 8 years.

    There should be an NFL teams named the Nihilists. I dunno what would be on their helmets though.

    in reply to: the newest political tweets thread (3/26) #165121
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    While I was aware of the Leonard/Clippers story, I hadn’t really started caring or kinda paying attention to it until he was going to be traded to the Raptors. It doesn’t sound like a resolution is near. I don’t even really understand who is leading this investigation. Is it the commissioner who works for the owners? Or is there a 3rd party, and if there is a 3rd party, is the NBA obligated to follow the findings and recommendations if Balmer faces a penalty?

    It reminds me of Watergate. Pablo has pulled on a small thread and bigger and bigger crimes are implicated. Plus homelessness and housing and all this political stuff is becoming the actual story.

    Unlike Watergate nothing will come of it. Cause this aint the 70s.

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    in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #165120
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    I guess were gonna see more and more vehicles prefiguring, foreshadowing the End.
    This one is the cute early version for soccer moms, i guess.

    in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 7/29 – 7/30 #165106
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    Awesome vid. Never seen that one before. 1966. Wow.

    George Allen, 12 seasons and his worst record was 8-6. Bill Walsh had 3 losing seasons.

    Sometimes i wonder about coaches who never had losing seasons. Like Mike Tomlin. I wonder if some coaches want to win so much that they never allow their team to be ‘blown up’ so they can start over. Seems like ya have to be willing to start over sometimes and take a losing season or two.

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    in reply to: the newest political tweets thread (3/26) #165104
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    This is either really really boring, or really really fascinating.

    I have paid a bit of attention to it, but i dont pretend to understand it. Its got layers.

    in reply to: comics, jokes, one-shot memes, funny tweets, etc. #165102
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    “when will they leave my people alone”

    in reply to: around the league #165090
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    Translation: ‘Ben Johnson is a good coach, but he’s an asshole’

    in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 7/29 – 7/30 #165089
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    Awesome little vid. Les Josephson. O man.

    Never liked ‘those’ blue and whites though. Too much blue.

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    in reply to: Football history #165083
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    The humanity….

    Just wait til the Ty Simpson vs Stetson Whatshisname gets fired up.

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    in reply to: Football history #165081
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    Scott Covington. Martz benched him in 2002 after just 5 attempts. He was sacked twice and completed 2 for 7 yards.

    Brock Berlin made it through a whole game in 2007. Though, with a qb rating of 60.6.

    You’ve always been a Berlin-sniffer. Brock Sterling Berlin was CUT by the Hamburg Sea Devils.

    Covington, who, for three years, was third string behind Akili Smith and Scott Mitchell in Cincy, appeared in three whole games. Completing FOUR of FIVE passes. For 23 yards. He also ran the ball twice for minus 4 yards.

    And that is totally ignoring his time as an Argo-naut.

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    in reply to: around the NFC West …. starting in early June #165059
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    A.I.
    “Brandon Aiyuk appeared to mock 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan on social media with cryptic racing-themed Instagram posts: “You can’t win the race if you crash out” and “Keep yo head up and stay in yo own lane / You gone win”

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    San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan explained that he was not actively using his phone, but it had been resting on his lap before sliding off and getting stuck between the seats.

    Explaining the Phone Incident
    Stated he was going 20 miles per hour on Alma Street in Palo Alto on July 14.
    Claimed he was not on his phone talking or texting when the accident happened.
    Said the phone slid off his lap and got stuck in the seats.
    Admitted he looked down for two seconds to find it, taking his eyes off the road.

    Noted that as he was coming back up, the airbags deployed and hit his face.

    Correcting the Accident Report
    Refuted an inaccurate public database claim suggesting the other driver was at fault.
    Took full responsibility, stating his car veered into the other lane because he was looking for his phone.

    in reply to: the newest political tweets thread (3/26) #165054
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    Marxist David Harvey

    “This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in is a revolutionary transformation of society, and that means an overthrow of the capitalist value-form, the construction of an alternative value-structure, an alternative value-system that does not have the specific character of that achieved under capitalism. I cannot overemphasize this point, because the value theory in Marx is frequently interpreted as a universal norm with which we should comply. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard people complain that the problem with Marx is that he believes the only valid notion of value derives from labor inputs. It is not that at all; it is a historical social product. The problem, therefore, for socialist, communist, revolutionary, anarchist or whatever, is to find an alternative value-form that will work in terms of the social reproduction of society in a different image. By introducing the concept of fetishism, Marx shows how the naturalized value of classical political economy dictates a norm; we foreclose on revolutionary possibilities if we blindly follow that norm and replicate commodity fetishism. Our task is to question it.”
    ― David Harvey,

    in reply to: around the NFC West …. starting in early June #165052
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    Aint it illegal in Calif to be using a cell phone when yer driving? No citation for Shanahan.

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    The San Francisco coach was involved in a head-on collision with another driver on July 14 in Palo Alto, CA and, as NBC Sports Bay Area’s Matt Maiocco reported Saturday, suffered numerous injuries, including a concussion, broken ribs, a broken nose and a broken hand.

    Public records from the California Crash Reporting System, a statewide database of collisions, show the accident occurred at 6:12 p.m. PT at Alma Street and Hamilton Avenue after a 21-year-old woman made an unsafe turn while driving a Mercedes SUV in the opposite direction on a four-lane, 25-mph street. (h/t the San Francisco Chronicle’s Noah Furtado and Eric Branch)

    Shanahan was driving south on Alma Street, while the other driver was headed north.

    The records also show that Shanahan was holding and using a cellphone at the time, which authorities listed as a factor in the accident, but stated that he was not at fault for the wreck.

    According to the database, neither Shanahan nor the woman were found to have been drinking, and both parties were wearing seat belts.

    Palo Alto police Lt. Nicholas Martinez told the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday that the officers who responded to the accident did not issue any citations or suspect either driver of being impaired and that both parties remained at the scene and cooperated with police.

    What local authorities believe led to 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan’s car accident

    in reply to: around the NFC West …. starting in early June #165050
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    Bomani and friend talkin about zooey’s issue on the Shanahan wreck.
    “shenanigans at play”

    Also talk bout Aaron Donald but i aint listened to that part.

    in reply to: animal bits #165049
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    There are creatures on this planet who are not destroying the entire biosphere.

    in reply to: Football history #165045
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    Apparently there’s this long-running game called Madden. And apparently getting a 99 score is a big deal. Marshall Faulk got a 99 in 2002.

    Kurt Warner, Orlando Pace, Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Steven Jackson, Cooper Kupp — never made 99

    Aaron Donald has the all-time 99 record in Madden. 7 times a 99. Peyton Manning had 6. Ray Lewis 5. Some other notables: Mahomes 4. JJ Watt 4. Champ Bailey 4 Jonathan Ogden 4.

    Here are the 99s in Madden this year:

    JaMarr Chase
    Trey McBride
    JSN
    Josh Allen
    Stafford
    Myles Garrett

    Full list of 99s
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/07/28/madden-99-club-full-list-history/84403997007/

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    in reply to: Football history #165033
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    This was not a good play.

    in reply to: Movies … discussions, clips, ideas about #165025
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    This took an interesting turn.

    in reply to: around the NFC West …. starting in early June #165023
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    I read a Florio article this morning saying that the Shanahan situation is a failure of journalism because nobody reported it until the team made an announcement, even though it happened on the 14th.

    And I got to thinking, “Why would the 9ers want to keep this out of the media for so long?”

    Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think there’s more to this story.

    My own conspiracy theory is that people just missed it. I mean why would anyone ‘cover up’ the fact he was in a wreck? I mean, it had to come out sometime so why would anyone agree to cover it up for a few days?

    Also, Epstein didnt kill himself.

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    in reply to: Football history #165021
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    They forgot Case Keenum, Austin Davis, and Kellen Clemens.

    They are in the vid, just not the last vignette.

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    in reply to: the “Donald coming back or not?” thread #165020
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    According to Schrodinger, Donald at this point both is and is not coming back.

    Is that the new Quantum Analytics? And how does that explain McVay abandoning the run in the Bears game?

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    in reply to: Football history #165016
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    If nothing else watch the last three or four minutes of that Rams QB vid. Clips of the not-so-great ram-qbs. Jamie Martin. Steve Dils. Pete Beathard.(omg), Gus Frerotte, Steve Bono, Mark Rypien, Dan Pastorini, Jeff Rutledge, Carson Wentz, Nick Foles, Sean Mannion, Brock Berlin, SCott Covington, Brett Rypien (who?), Jimmy Garoppolo, Baker Mayfield, Bryce Perkins, John Wolford….

    I am not sure…but i think Brock Berlin may have been the worst of all of em.

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    in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 7/23 – 7/28 #165014
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    Andrew Brandt@AndrewBrandt
    Packers financials – the only snapshot we see of NFL finance – show a $453 million distribution to every team from the NFL. $453 million. Before adding one cent of local or stadium revenue.For perspective, the player Salary Cap is $300 million. What a business these owners have.

    What does that mean? Does that mean each club makes 453 million per year, but they pay out 300 million per year?

    And how much do the Packers make on “local or stadium revenue” ?

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    in reply to: Football history #165013
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    This hit my feed today:

    Rams FULL QB History…

    That was awesome. Didn’t realize Everett had a losing record. 46-59. I would have guessed it was more like the reverse of that.

    The Cleveland Ram years are so…unknown to me. I know just what was in the vid, but thats not much. I wish there were more vids of that era. I wonder how many Cleveland people remember or care about the Cleveland Ram years.

    Two Quarterbacks from one team make the pro-bowl the same year. Van Brocklin and Waterfield. I bet that never happens again.

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    in reply to: Football history #165001
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    Rams secondary. Colts WR.

    in reply to: around the NFC West …. starting in early June #165000
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    “…Shanahan informed his assistant coaches of his accident on Tuesday; other players slowly have been getting the news that the 49ers confirmed today…”

    Obviously the electro-magnetic fields from the 49ers-substation are growing more powerful.

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    in reply to: new uniforms #164995
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    I didn’t like him even then…

    Granted McVay had a bit of that in how he handled Goff from 2019 through 2020 but I actually believe Sean learned from that and adjusted his approach to team controversies.

    So that, fwiw, is my contribution to the Rams new uniform discussion.

    ….

    I liked the old St.Louis uniforms. The ones where the slashing gold horns had blood on them.

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    https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2005/09/15/rams-exec-faces-rebuke-for-threat/

    …”It’s shocking that he would leave a message like that,” Rams president John Shaw told the Post-Dispatch. “It’s the type of behavior that we don’t condone at any level. He will be reprimanded, and it will be handled internally.”

    On Aug. 28, sports columnist Bernie Miklasz wrote that he was disturbed by “infighting and politics” within the Rams organization and said executives owe any head coach their support.

    “Be it (Mike) Martz or another man, I don’t care who sits in the head coach’s office at Rams Park. The head coach should be backed, not back-stabbed, by associates,” Miklasz wrote.

    Suleiman left a message on Miklasz’s voice mail, stating, in part, “Tell your source that I’m not a back-stabber, I’m a (expletive) throat slasher, and he’ll know the difference before it’s all said and done.”

    Suleiman, director of football administration, has worked for the Rams for six years. He assists president of football operations Jay Zygmunt on salary cap issues and contract negotiations.

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