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  • July 13, 2018 at 12:26 am in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88058
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    July 13, 2018 at 12:03 am in reply to: signs, comics, memes, & other visual aids #88057
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    July 13, 2018 at 12:02 am in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88056
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    Russell Okung@RussellOkung
    “It’s not (only) the money, it’s the security.” – @AndrewBrandt former NFL exec and agent agrees the issue of guaranteed contracts are also about sustainable livelihood for players, a luxury many other leagues have.

    July 13, 2018 at 12:01 am in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88055
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    July 12, 2018 at 11:51 pm in reply to: the never ending "Donald's really good" thread #88054
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    Steve Palazzolo@PFF_Steve
    Aaron Donald led the league with 91 pressures during the regular season in 2017.

    He also led the league with 11 pressures that were nullified by penalty.

    July 12, 2018 at 11:49 pm in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88053
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    July 12, 2018 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Now I'm an Orphan #88052
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    TSRF wrote:

    My Mom passed last week. We’re having her funeral on Saturday.

    Great run; 94 years on this planet, 70 years married (they both made that; my dad passed in January). 7 kids, 18 Grandkids, 4 Great Grandkids and counting.

    Will be strange not having to go visit every weekend

    My condolences. She sounds like she had a rich life.

    July 12, 2018 at 7:44 pm in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88046
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    July 12, 2018 at 7:37 pm in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88045
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    July 12, 2018 at 6:47 pm in reply to: more of the same #88040
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    Black Man Confronted By Police At Apartment Pool, Accused Of Jumping Fence To Get In (Spoiler: He Lives There)

    Black Man Confronted By Police At Apartment Pool, Accused Of Jumping Fence To Get In (Spoiler: He Lives There)

    Shane Holland, a Black man in Indianapolis was harrassed by an off-duty police officer while enjoying the pool at the apartment complex where he resides and pays rent. The officer was later joined by a manager from the complex who asked Holland to leave the pool.

    July 12, 2018 at 6:44 pm in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88039
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    Lyndsey D’Arcangelo@darcangel21
    Fellow sportswriters: What’s the biggest gaffe you’ve ever made during an interview with an athlete?

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    I was interviewing Ted Ginn about catching passes from various Cardinals QBs. I asked how a QB’s balls felt. When we realized what I said we looked at each other for a long second, both nodded and then I walked away. We never finished the interview or mentioned it again.

    July 12, 2018 at 6:35 pm in reply to: more of the same #88038
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    July 12, 2018 at 3:56 pm in reply to: One of the most comprehensive looks at Trump collusion, evah. #88035
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    Billy_T wrote:

    Any guesses why that doesn’t seem to change any minds regarding the idiocy of viewing that philosophy as scary or dangerous?

    Well names don’t matter if you’re caught in some blinding assumptions.

    I just think that the only course is just to keep chipping away at the assumptions.

    Or, to use a term you can’t use in those discussions, ideology.

    Just remember. A journey of a 1000 miles begins by tying your shoes.

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    July 12, 2018 at 2:10 pm in reply to: One of the most comprehensive looks at Trump collusion, evah. #88029
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    Billy_T wrote:

    I find a great deal of it compelling:

    Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler? A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion. By Jonathan Chait

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    And this article really bugs me, regarding Glen Greenwald. I think Chait just nails him to the wall. Of course, he likely takes him unfairly out of context in this case, but I’ve read enough by GG, and seen enough of his videos, to accept Chait’s conclusions.

    Glenn Greenwald Tells Russians Liberals Are Blaming Them As Excuse for Clinton By Jonathan Chait

    The problem, as noted, with claiming that the Russia meddling story is nothing but an excuse for Clinton’s loss is that the probe began the summer before the election. It would have required some amazing Back to the Future wizardry to have known the results at that time, and to set up that excuse before hand.

    Plus, all the intel heads currently, appointed by Trump himself, say, Yes, Russia did in fact interfere in order to help Trump and hurt Clinton. The GOP-led Senate panel also confirmed this recently. And the most consistent critics of Russia/Trump on this matter have been Republican never-Trumpers, not the Dems. They aren’t making excuses for HRC’s loss. They’re actually focused entirely on what Russia did.

    Again, it’s perfectly logical and compatible to hold all of these views at the same time:

    1. The Trump organization colluded with Russia to tilt the election in Trump’s favor — though I think this was primarily about debt, improving Trump’s business prospects, access to new sources of cash, etc. etc. rather than actually winning.

    2. HRC was a terrible candidate, ran a terrible campaign, and should have won regardless of Russian interference.

    3. The Dems make a massive error if they think they ran the right candidate, campaign, agenda, etc. etc. and don’t need to make any (major) changes.

    4. Discussing this doesn’t increase tensions with Russia. They’ve always been high. And ignoring it just gives Russia the green light to do much more in 2018 and 2020. It’s pretty clear they want the hard right to win in America, Europe and wherever they can impact elections. We to prevent this push.

    5. Yes, we interfere all over the world, too. But it’s never made any sense to think we should go fetal because of this. It’s really the case that two wrongs don’t make a right, and no one but the hard right benefits from our abdication — out of some bizarre adherence to claims of “hypocrisy.”

    I agree with you. Personally, I would just as soon leave the entire “dems blame russia/some leftists blame the dems for blaming russia” routine out of it in entirely. In fact mostly I do.

    Like you, I find I can pay attention to the issues with russia and with russia/trump without paying the least bit attention to that routine I just named.

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    July 12, 2018 at 1:31 pm in reply to: the basement is flooding #88026
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    wv wrote:

    Did you read the whole article? Because i think its saying what you just said. The snippet is misleading in that regard, i think.

    No I just read the snippet.

    If that makes me a hasty response snippet reader, so be it.

    Or better. I will read the whole article this evening. But only if I get redemption points.

    July 12, 2018 at 11:30 am in reply to: the basement is flooding #88023
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    wv wrote:

    The recognition of intersectionality put an end to simple identity politics

    I don’t agree with that as put but a lot of it is nuance. First of all, I see absolutely nothing wrong with “identity politics” and I think it’s a mistake to deride or dismiss it. In order to have real intersectionality you have to have different points converging, not a washing out of differences. It’s not intersectionality otherwise. Given that the BASIS of interestionality is identity politics…people are positioned in a society a certain way (race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, etc.) and their understanding and experiences and interests come from that.

    In fact the snippet you give virtually says as much: “the priority of feminist efforts should not be breaking the glass ceiling—but advocating for poor women, for whom ‘the basement is flooding.'” Yeah. Exactly. And. That’s identity seen through the lens of class. Then of course not all poor women are socially positioned the same: black women and white women often (not always but often) have different worlds they come from. Failing to acknowledge that would get us nowhere. Acknowledging it is using the awareness of identities to construct interestionality.

    Actually to me, the thing to get over is the antagonism AGAINST identity issues in the name of some homogenenous dedication to one unifying perspective. So to me identity politics is not the issue, it’s the leftists who are resistant to those things that are the issue. They’re too abstract for me: “We must all unify under the X flag.” Says reason. When applied a certain way. But what people see and know first is their lived experience as that is defined by identity positioning (by positioning I mean we are assigned the positions of race, class, gender, we don’t invent them). So to me, we don’t need one defining flag, we gotta have lots of different flags on the same side. IE. we have to have separate and distinct identity-interests to have a convergence of them.

    July 12, 2018 at 10:19 am in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88021
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    LMU93 writes:

    Rams by the numbers entering 2018

    Team:

    – With 10 victories in 2018 the Rams would have back-to-back seasons of 10+ wins for the first time since 2000 and 2001

    – The Rams also need 10 or more wins to get back to .500+ all time as a franchise (currently 555-559-21, .498)

    – If the Rams make the playoffs they will be the 6th franchise to have 29 or more playoff appearances (GB, NYG, DAL, PIT, MIN)

    Players:

    – Jared Goff could become the first Rams QB with back-to-back 3,500+ yard passing seasons since Marc Bulger in 2003 and 2004. He also needs 3,680+ passing yards and 20+ TDs to reach 10th place in franchise history.

    – Todd Gurley needs 704 rushing yards to be the 6th Ram ever to reach 4,000+ career rushing yards (Jackson, Dickerson, Faulk, McCutcheon, Bass). He also needs 6 rushing TDs to reach 5th place on the Rams all-time list.

    – Cooper Kupp needs 631 receiving yards to be just the 4th Ram with 1,500+ receiving yards in his first two NFL seasons (Holt, Bruce, Fears)

    – Aaron Donald needs 11 sacks to become the 6th Ram with 50+ career sacks (Little, Greene, Carter, Quinn, Long)- not counting Deacon Jones, Jack Youngblood, etc. of course….

    – Greg Zuerlein needs 9 FG to pass Mike Lansford for 2nd place in franchise history. He needs 25 XP for 4th place all-time (Wilkins, Lansford, Waterfield).

    – Pharoh Cooper needs 841 combined return yards to become the 9th Ram ever with 2,500+ kick/punt return yards (R. Brown, Horne, D. Hill, Amendola, Arnett, Cunningham, W. Lewis, A. Haymond

    July 12, 2018 at 10:09 am in reply to: signs, comics, memes, & other visual aids #88020
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    July 12, 2018 at 10:08 am in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88019
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    July 12, 2018 at 10:06 am in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88018
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    July 12, 2018 at 10:00 am in reply to: OL articles n posts n vids (June & July) #88017
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    from PFF: NFL offensive line rankings: All 32 team’s units entering 2018

    https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-nfl-offensive-line-rankings-all-32-teams-units-entering-2018

    [Note: the first 9 are in order, Eagles, C-Boys, Falcons, Steelers, Titans, Saints, Raiders, Lions, & Packers…Seattle is 30th btw]

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    10. LOS ANGELES RAMS
    PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP:

    Left Tackle: Andrew Whitworth, 79.8 overall grade
    Left Guard: Rodger Saffold, 84.6
    Center: John Sullivan, 74.6
    Right Guard: Jamon Brown, 52.1
    Right Tackle: Rob Havenstein, 77.9

    2017 season-end rank: 6th (-4)

    The Rams offensive line was arguably the most-improved unit in the NFL in 2017 after the additions of left tackle Andrew Whitworth and center Jon Sullivan. How long they’ll remain at that level remains to be seen though as Sullivan turns 33 this year and Whitworth 37. Whitworth already showed signs of slowing down late in the season as his Wild Card performance against the Falcons was the lowest-graded game of his entire career.

    July 12, 2018 at 9:52 am in reply to: more of the same #88016
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    July 12, 2018 at 9:51 am in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88015
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    July 12, 2018 at 9:32 am in reply to: and now the Goff July thread #88013
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    July 12, 2018 at 9:28 am in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88012
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    July 12, 2018 at 9:14 am in reply to: tweets & other interestin' bits … 11/12 #88011
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    July 12, 2018 at 9:07 am in reply to: How the Government Managed to Lose Track of 1,500 Migrant Children #88009
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    July 12, 2018 at 9:01 am in reply to: Justice Dems #88008
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    Enh. You hear all the time about the non-establishment Justice Dems from ordinary mainstream news outlets.

    Media saturation.

    July 12, 2018 at 8:41 am in reply to: the never ending "Donald's really good" thread #88006
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    from: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-aaron-rodgers-contract-extension-and-more-unfinished-offseason-business/

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    Resetting the non-QB market

    It’s been a foregone conclusion that Rams interior defensive lineman Aaron Donald and Raiders edge rusher Khalil Mack, who are scheduled to make $6.892 million and $13.846 million respectively this year on their fifth-year options, would eventually become charter members of the $20 million-per-year non-quarterback club. Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie’s timetable for a Mack extension has been the 2018 offseason ever since locking up quarterback Derek Carr long-term last summer. Les Snead, McKenzie’s counterpart with the Rams, has called a new deal for Donald a major priority.

    The Raiders and Rams having sticker shock is the likely impediment with deals for the 2014 first-round picks. A modest increase over the current non-quarterback standard, which is Broncos linebacker Von Miller at $19,083,333 per year and $70 million in overall guarantees, may not be enough to end the stalemates. The substantial growth in quarterback salaries over the last year with the non-quarterback market remaining stagnant is a stumbling block. It is my understanding that restoring the traditional financial relationship between the highest-paid quarterback and non-quarterback which has existed under the current CBA is an important consideration to the players’ representatives. This would mean a contract averaging over $23 million per year with $85 million in guarantees where $65 million to $70 million is fully guaranteed at signing is needed in order to recreate the balance. Not surprisingly, there is reluctance to dramatically reset the non-quarterback market.

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    July 12, 2018 at 8:20 am in reply to: tweets … 7/10 – 7/11 #88005
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    Eternal Ramnation wrote:

    Most of those comments are generous as the Rams never won eight games with him as coach.

    IMO the analysts with the harsh comments just simply ignore the real contexts. There are those of us though that point out he never had a full season with both a starting caliber veteran qb and a relatively healthy veteran line. The big flaw was IMO Fisher gets blamed for a lot of things that have nothing to do with the head coach, such as injuries. It reminds me of Bulger taking the blame for all the OL devastation the Rams suffered from 2007-2009. I would say under the conditions going 7-9 was pretty good. Either way let’s knock on wood and hope that McVay never has a season like those. In terms of acquiring talent, the Rams are winning now in good part because they inherited so much talent from the Fisher years.

    Don’t mean to start a board war, just saying there’s different views out there.

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