Gotta 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.

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Got 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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Zooey wrote:

So 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.

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nittany ram wrote:

It’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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After the bodybag game, it might be good to have an extra day,
but who knows.

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Kittle says its going to be a ‘bodybag game.’

Now, I would put that on a bulletin board,
if i had one.

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That 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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Billy_T wrote:

That 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.

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Zooey wrote:

If 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.

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I 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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Chris 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.

In one scenario, the Chargers and Raiders would have an incentive to
TIE and thus both make the playoffs.
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These three do not ‘trust’ stafford.

On twitter I called a film made by libshits, for libshits.

But i havent seen it 🙂

I based my comment on what I’ve been told, and the trailer.

I’m gonna watch it at some point, and maybe I’ll have a
better-informed opinion, but…the biosphere is being murdered
by capitalism. Does the film ever once even mention the C word?

I am guessing – No.

It blames ‘greed’ and ‘stupidity’ and all the usual oblique things
that end up forming an inkblot test in peoples minds.
Libs can watch and blame Trumpies. Trumpies can watch it and blame
‘big stupid government’. Etc, etc, etc.

If a leftist had made that comedy, how would it have been written?
This is the question i play with every time a watch film these
days — If a leftist had written this script how would the
plot/characters have been different?

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Rams are 5 point favorites according to the mafia.

I believe i saw a stat where McVay is 8-24 or somethin like that
when trailing at half-time, btw.

What does a stat like that mean? Does that mean he doesnt
adjust well if the original game-plan dont work ?

Or do most coaches have stats like that when
trailing at the half.

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