BigGame81 wrote:

Just heard Schefter on radio.. Said not going to be a first rounder

Schefter seemed pretty confident the deal will include multiple picks but not the Rams first round pick.

This is what the @RamsNFL are getting. @marcuspeters IS that good.
via @NFLResearch pic.twitter.com/RkOjNTvDVt

— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) February 23, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z39yErsV6Q&feature=youtu.be

wv wrote:

Is he as good as Tru? Better? Different?

CB MARCUS PETERS

http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/profiles/marcus-peters?id=2552488

6’0″ 197LBS.

ANALYSIS
STRENGTHS Prototype size for the position. Fluidity in his hips to flip and run. Competes hard out of press-man coverage and tries to intimidate receivers with his physicality. Can redirect talented receivers with his length and flat-out stuff receivers with marginal foot quickness and strength. Stays in pocket of vertical receivers while turning to locate and track ball. Active and disruptive when ball is in the air. At his best when contesting catches and often comes away the winner on 50/50 throws. Outstanding feel for space with ability to track multiple receivers and quarterback at the same time. Closes on throws with above-average burst and brings some force on contact. Confident and tough.
WEAKNESSES Suspended for one game in 2014 by head coach Chris Petersen for a sideline tantrum that followed personal foul penalty. Was ultimately dismissed from team over multiple run-ins with coaching staff. Inconsistent with footwork and loose with technique. Lacks patience in press and will open up early. Grabby off line of scrimmage and downfield when beaten. Average mirror-and-match and long speed. Overly emotional and prone to mental mistakes because of it. Slower than expected to squeeze routes in space. Doesn’t take coaching.
DRAFT PROJECTION Round 1 or 2
SOURCES TELL US “I wouldn’t take him inside the first two rounds. He’s good, but he’s not that good that I would be willing to deal with his emotional issues.” — NFC personnel director “The tape shows his capabilities. He can be really good if you can control him. He’s on our board right now but there were some long talks about him in meetings. I fought for him.” – NFC defensive backs coach
NFL COMPARISON Aqib Talib
BOTTOM LINE Talented cover cornerback with size, ball skills and the confidence NFL teams are looking for, but lacks the necessary discipline and maturity on the field and in practice. Peters has raw talent, but is far from a polished cornerback, and that is without taking the character concerns into consideration. If his character checks out, then he has a shot at going on the first day.

The #Chiefs are in rebuilding mode. You can't keep trading away good players and remain a title contender. No.22 might've been a headache to deal with but he was a turnover machine with elite playmaking skills. It's hard to find CBs with those traits in this league. https://t.co/wRe0OiIQLR

— Bucky Brooks (@BuckyBrooks) February 23, 2018

Marcus Peters is a game-changer. He’s forced 24 turnovers in 3 seasons.
19 INT
5 FF
5 FR
3 TD

— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) February 23, 2018

Turnovers are the biggest deciding factor in football games. Peters is a playmaker with a knack for taking the ball away. No.22 is arguably the biggest reason the #Chiefs won at a high level.. The numbers don't lie 👇🏾 https://t.co/M0ipGfwOQ3

— Bucky Brooks (@BuckyBrooks) February 23, 2018

One more point on #Chiefs Peters.. Vet DB coach told me when he was coming out that you need a strong-willed coach to get the most out of a strong personality like Peters…"It takes a wolf to coach a wolf"#LARams W.Phillips has no problems w/those kinds of players.(See A.Talib)

— Bucky Brooks (@BuckyBrooks) February 23, 2018

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Chiefs finalizing deal to trade Marcus Peters to Rams

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000917336/article/chiefs-finalizing-deal-to-trade-marcus-peters-to-rams

A quiet Friday has turned into a monumental one for two franchises.

The Kansas City Chiefs are finalizing a trade to send cornerback Marcus Peters to the Los Angeles Rams, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported. The deal cannot be completed until the start of the new league year on March 14.

ESPN first reported the news.

Around The NFL will have more on this story shortly.

Nixon: “you know what happened to the Greeks..”

They were eventually defeated by a gay Macedonian.

From the wiki:

The Sacred Band of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἱερὸς Λόχος, Hieròs Lókhos) was a troop of select soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC. Its predominance began with its crucial role in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC. It was annihilated by Philip II of Macedon in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC.

According to Plutarch, the 300 hand-picked men were chosen by Gorgidas purely for ability and merit, regardless of social class. It was composed of 150 male couples, each pair consisting of an older erastês (ἐραστής, “lover”) and a younger erômenos (ἐρώμενος, “beloved”). Athenaeus of Naucratis also records the Sacred Band as being composed of “lovers and their favorites, thus indicating the dignity of the god Eros in that they embrace a glorious death in preference to a dishonorable and reprehensible life”; while Polyaenus describes the Sacred Band as being composed of men “devoted to each other by mutual obligations of love”. Their regular training included wrestling and dance.

Battle of Leuctra

The Battle of Leuctra (Greek: Λεῦκτρα, Leûktra) was a battle fought on 6 July 371 BC between the Boeotians led by Thebans and the Spartans along with their allies amidst the post-Corinthian War conflict. The battle took place in the neighbourhood of Leuctra, a village in Boeotia in the territory of Thespiae. The Theban left hit the Spartan right with the Sacred Band of Thebes, led by Pelopidas. The Spartan right was hurled back with a loss of about 1,000 men, of whom 400 were some of Sparta’s most experienced soldiers. Seeing their right wing beaten, the rest of the Peloponnesians, who were essentially unwilling participants, retired and left the enemy in possession of the field. The Theban victory shattered Sparta’s immense influence over the Greek peninsula, which Sparta had gained since its victory in the Peloponnesian War.

Battle of Chaeron

Defeat came at the Battle of Chaeron (338 BC), the decisive contest in which Philip II of Macedon, with his son Alexander, extinguished Theban hegemony. The battle is the culmination of Philip’s campaign into central Greece in preparation for a war against Persia. It was fought between the Macedonians and their allies and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes.

The Thebans of the Sacred Band held their ground and Plutarch records that all 300 fell where they stood beside their last commander, Theagenes. Their defeat at the battle was a significant victory for Philip, since until then, the Sacred Band was regarded as invincible throughout all of Ancient Greece. Plutarch records that Philip II, on encountering the corpses “heaped one upon another”, understanding who they were, wept and exclaimed, “Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.”

link: http://theramshuddle.com/topic/practice-squad-announced-2/

OL Michael Dunn: Dunn joined Maryland as a walk-on and started 48 games in his collegiate career, with most of them coming as a left tackle. He’s an experienced player with good footwork, and he can be a fit on the right side if not on the left.

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Terps’ Michael Dunn: From Afterthought To Indispensible

https://www.pressboxonline.com/2016/09/15/terps-michael-dunn-from-afterthought-to-indispensible

When an entirely new coaching staff takes over a program that went 3-9 the previous year, position coaches probably don’t have many players entrenched in starting positions. Dave Borbely, hired in January to be Maryland head coach DJ Durkin’s offensive line coach, didn’t have a set offensive line, but he did have one luxury.

Borbely’s left tackle, Michael Dunn, is a fifth-year senior who has missed just one start during his entire college career. One of Borbely’s first tasks was getting to know the 6-foot-5, 300-pound Bethesda, Md., native, who Borbely could tell right away had the physical traits of a prototypical, veteran left tackle.

“When he told me he was a former walk-on, I almost fell off my chair. I was like, ‘You’ve got to be [kidding] me, bro,’” Borbely said at Maryland’s media day Aug. 16. “So he started telling me his story, and it was pretty cool — just about how he viewed himself after that first year and what he figured out he needed to do. He was a very impressive guy.”

Before he got to College Park, Md., Dunn honed his craft at Walt Whitman High School in Montgomery County with little fanfare. His profile page on Rivals.com doesn’t include a star rating, much less a ranking nationally or in the state of Maryland. He didn’t have any Division I scholarship offers.

Dunn enrolled at Maryland and walked on to the Terps in 2012, redshirting and serving on the scout team. At the time, Dunn said there was “no expectation of what I might do.” He was told by former head coach Randy Edsall’s staff he could possibly play at Maryland in the future if he put in the required work.

Dunn said he saw what he needed to do to play at the Division I level, and at Maryland specifically. The next summer, in 2013, Dunn had what he terms a “pretty good” training camp — good enough to earn not just a scholarship from Edsall but also a starting position along the offensive line.

“It was a moment I’ll never forget. It was pretty emotional,” Dunn said of learning he had earned a scholarship. “I was always confident with myself that I’d eventually play here, but I never thought that I was going to be playing so early in my career, so it was quite the surprise for me when Coach Edsall told me that I was starting and I had a scholarship. It was a great moment.”

Though Edsall’s teams largely struggled, Dunn thrived once he got on the field. He started nine games at right guard and four games at right tackle as a redshirt freshman in 2013. He started 10 games at left tackle and three games at the other tackle spot in 2014.

Last year, he started the Terps’ first 11 games at left tackle before missing the final game of the season at Rutgers with a high ankle sprain. Add it all up, and it was a streak of 37 straight starts.

“Being an offensive lineman, we don’t have stats such as interceptions or rushing yards. The proof is kind of in the number of starts,” Terps sophomore right tackle Damian Prince said. “With 37 starts, it’ll be close to 50-something by the end of this season. It’s just incredible.”

Dunn said he injured his ankle during the Terps’ 24-7 loss to Michigan State in East Lansing, Mich., Nov. 14. He tried to play through the injury during Maryland’s next game, a 47-28 loss to Indiana in College Park Nov. 21, but aggravated it just before halftime when his ankle was stepped on. Dunn said he “was barely able to walk, and after that; I just couldn’t really do it.”

The inability to walk is one of the few things that can force Dunn off the field. He doesn’t mind playing through pain, and he takes pride in being a staple of the Terps’ offense.

“Whether it was some sort of ankle, some sort of finger or back or just something, I’ve been in pain. But you’ve got to be able to fight through that,” Dunn said. “It’s not really unless you’re actually injured, that’s the only reason why you should miss a game. I just feel if you’re hurting a bit … that’s no reason to miss one of the few opportunities of going out there and playing the game you love on a weekly basis.”

As such, Dunn has the undying respect of his teammates, particularly the ones with whom he shares the offensive line, and his coaches. But it’s not just Dunn’s durability and reliability that catches his teammates’ and coaches’ eyes. It’s also his work ethic on the practice field and the way he conducts himself off the field.

“You can’t tell whether it was the start of practice or the end of practice when you watch film on him,” Durkin said.

“He’s a pro’s pro — the way he works, the way he takes notes, the way he learns, the way he approaches practice every day,” Maryland offensive coordinator Walt Bell said. “I think, more than anything, especially in modern society, physical actions are lacking, and he’s the opposite. He’s a worker, and I think kids respect that.”

“You just look at him as a model for the team,” Maryland junior left guard Mike Minter said. “That’s the kind of guy I want to play next to. That’s the kind of guy I want to be on the field and off the field, as well.”

This year, Dunn is once again the starting left tackle for the Terps, leading an otherwise green offensive line. During Maryland’s season-opening 52-13 win against Howard Sept. 3, Maryland started Minter at left guard, sophomore Brendan Moore at center, senior Maurice Shelton at right guard and Prince at right tackle. Those four only had a combined 12 starts entering the season.

Maryland is emphasizing a high-tempo spread offense under Bell, who likes to run the ball in a variety of ways with a host of running backs. The offensive linemen have to be in terrific shape to handle the pace, the amount of snaps and array of running plays the Terps want this season.

“We’re not really the type of team that could run power down people’s throats like Michigan State and Wisconsin, but I think this offense fits us perfectly,” Dunn said. “I think we have a bunch of really athletic offensive linemen who could get out in space, and I think we’re in the best shape that we’ve ever been in. We’re all really conditioned from a very well-run offseason program by [strength and conditioning coach Rick Court].”

I think, instead, that there’s a type of hypocrisy that consists NOT acknowledging the Russia thing.

I am never guilt-tripped by the “we did it too” routine. Yeah I know, and I spent time in the 80s for example drawing attention to all that. Iran, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua….

I still abide by this take:

. https://www.salon.com/2015/04/06/we_should_recognize_that_there_are_other_imperialisms_a_marxist_dissident_explains_what_the_left_gets_wrong_about_russia/

For the American left, of course for them only American imperialism exists, yes? I can’t understand it. . . . In Russia, there are a lot of leftists who also believe that Russia is the main evil in the world, it’s a reactionary empire, and it should be destroyed. Or, at the same time, you have a lot of leftists who believe somehow Russia is resisting American imperialism [and] who support these “republics” in the East of Ukraine.

But you have a huge provincialization of the left as a whole because they can’t even understand each other and every leftist community, they believe in their own national reality. And that’s why they can be so easily manipulated.

Thanks guys!

And go Rams

Well you said you wanted global warming.

Here you go.

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Billy_T wrote:

“what’s good for our oligarchs,” who even live in the same parts of Manhattan

That’s a great line isn’t it.

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