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July 10, 2016 at 9:46 pm in reply to: Matt Waldman talks QBs, Goff. Podcast (+ some Goff vids) #48426
znModeratorall i know is that a pretty consistent critique of bradford was poor pocket presence so if goff can at least be bradford with good pocket presence the rams should be good at that position. and if he can stay healthy as well.
And yet I think Bradford could process defenses just fine. And if you watched him with the Eagles last year, his reactions to pressure got much better. But either way, last we saw him as a Ram, he had more of the former (processing) than the latter (pocket sense).
znModeratorEither a politician has principles or doesn’t.
Well the system guarantees that, basically, they don’t. You can’t even run for office without massive financial support, and most of that comes from financial, business, and commercial interests. So given the very way it operates, the system pre-selects those who fit into that system.
Your analysis of the contemporary situation is just completely invalid if you do not account for the corporatization of the political world.
It’s like you have a blindfold on and are touching the elephant’s trunk, so you say, it’s like a snake.
But we;re without blindfolds, sitting on deck chairs, sipping beverages and occasionally saying “hey, man…it;s an elephant. You’ve just got the trunk.”
Trump btw is no exception. He is so soaked in certain beliefs (which he regards as truths) that he cannot see around or through any of this stuff, and, basically, more or less just parrots it. Now he’s more openly brazen about his profiling-style prejudices, but, his economic beliefs are no different from the standard party line stuff.
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znModeratorthe full spectrum of A.C.E.’s that are tied to poverty
What does “A.C.E.” mean?
I hope they give that to opposing qbs after Rams games.
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znModeratorthe full spectrum of A.C.E.’s that are tied to poverty
What does “A.C.E.” mean?
znModeratorWhat rush?
They are uniforms worn exclusively for Thursday Night Football.
Last year’s Rams color rush uni was the all-mustard uni:
July 10, 2016 at 6:29 pm in reply to: Matt Waldman talks QBs, Goff. Podcast (+ some Goff vids) #48400znModerator<
Yeah I didn’t mention that and should have. But I thought he said his biggest strength, what really sets him apart, is how fast he processes stuff.I thought he put that as part of pocket presence. No big deal. Not a big distinction. imo
I break it down this way. Processing stuff is what you see in the defense before the snap and then what you see downfield as the play develops. That has more to do with reacting to coverage(s).
Pocket presence is the ability to sense impending pressure and respond to it effectively, like moving away from that pressure.
IMO you can actually have one thing and not the other.
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July 10, 2016 at 6:01 pm in reply to: Matt Waldman talks QBs, Goff. Podcast (+ some Goff vids) #48397znModeratorHe says: Goff’s biggest strength is how quickly and decisively he processes things. Combo of pre-snap reads, post-snap reads, and a knack for finding the play that is the least path of resistance. Plus great anticipation, pin-point accuracy, and pretty good arm.
I thought it was pocket presence. Start earlier in the podcast.
Yeah I didn’t mention that and should have. Waldman really stresses that too. But I thought he said his biggest strength, what really sets him apart, is how fast he processes stuff. He said, the thing he does that really separates him, is how fast he is at processing the game.
July 10, 2016 at 5:54 pm in reply to: Matt Waldman talks QBs, Goff. Podcast (+ some Goff vids) #48395znModeratorHe says: Goff’s biggest strength is how quickly and decisively he processes things. Combo of pre-snap reads, post-snap reads, and a knack for finding the play that is the least path of resistance. Plus great anticipation, pin-point accuracy, and pretty good arm.
znModeratorDefinitions and labels aside, do you think the mega-corporations
and wealthiest-one-percenters have too much influence
over how laws are written and how policies are created and implemented?w
vbnw has told us before, it’s not anyone’s fault in the private sector. It’s all on the politicians.
Oh, well. At least we root for the same football team.
But…as you (wv) know…politicians are funded and backed and lobbied and basically set up by monied interests, and then define legislation around those interests. That includes laws passed and laws not passed or which never come up.
If people don’t see that they see only half the equation.
znModeratorHow do you feel about German
potato salad?w
vWell I don’t personally prefer it, myself.
I think it depends too much on developmental picks combined with aging free agents.
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… Search [in Shakespeare] for statesmanship, or even citizenship, or any sense of the commonwealth, material or spiritual, and you will not find the making of a decent vestryman or curate in the whole horde. As to faith, hope, courage, conviction, or any of the true heroic qualities, you find nothing but death made sensational, despair made stage-sublime, sex made romantic, and barrenness covered up by sentimentality and the mechanical lilt of blank verse.All that you miss in Shakespeare you find in Bunyan, to whom the true heroic came quite obviously and naturally. The world was to him a more terrible place than it was to Shakespeare; but he saw through it a path at the end of which a man might look not only forward to the Celestial City, but back on his life and say: “Tho’ with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get them.” The heart vibrates like a bell to such utterances as this; to turn from it to “Out, out, brief candle,” and “The rest is silence,” and “We are such stuff as dreams are made on,” and “our little life is rounded by a sleep” is turn from life, strength, resolution, morning air and eternal youth, to the terrors of a drunken nightmare.
G.B. Shaw – “Better than Shakespeare”
The difference being, there are characters in Shakespeare.
Ole GB Shaw, he sure did like to opinionatize.
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znModeratorI stayed busy with contracts, salary cap, and roster models. But, I think those subjects are about exhausted. I could do cake recipes.
You did a lot of work!
It’s appreciated.
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July 10, 2016 at 12:06 pm in reply to: THE definitive in-depth, brutally honest "Gurley on Goff" article (+ vid) #48369znModeratorTodd Gurley on Jared Goff: Couldn’t ask for a better quarterback
Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley joins “NFL Total Access” to talk about the move to L.A., meeting Eric Dickerson and the readiness of rookie quarterback Jared Goff.
znModeratorHow America Became an Oligarchy
If you hate america so much why not just become a seattle fan and have done with it.
July 9, 2016 at 11:03 pm in reply to: St.Paul, now this…it is a bad day…snipers shoot Dallas police during protest #48352znModeratorThis entire false flag discussion is idiotic. And you never convince idiots of anything-whether its grand conspiracies, gun control, or big foot.
like a little girl carry permit.
The hide like a little girl when on the ground hoping the shooter runs out of ammo that is what you want.
Guys, don’t do that kind of stuff (rules directly say: avoid antagonistic language). The rules not only say don’t start it, they say don’t respond in kind. Plus they say when asked by a mod to move on do so without comment. So I will be specific. Move on…from that kind of language (I am not asking you to move on from the topic).
Thanks.
znModeratoroff the net from Kindablue
TA is a perfect fit for the Fisher offensive scheme.
It will be interesting to see how Fish generates those extra touches.
I suspect we’ll see some wildcat given the skill set of the WRs in camp. More double reverses, running backs throwing back across the field (a Fisher favorite. Remember?), that sort of thing.
The Ram’s backfield will be very busy and creative place this season. Think I’ll dub it he Three-card Monte offense.
znModeratorMy son really liked the books. Nobody in my family has seen the show, probably because we don’t have HBO, though my son is expert at piracy.
I’d like to read them, but there seems to be about 1,000 hours required to do that, and I do not have that kind of time.
Do you do netflix?
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The first five seasons are on DVD. You can get them at any
local library, I’d think. Fwiw.w
vYeah that’s how we watch em. Netflix, DVD.
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znModeratorMy son really liked the books. Nobody in my family has seen the show, probably because we don’t have HBO, though my son is expert at piracy.
I’d like to read them, but there seems to be about 1,000 hours required to do that, and I do not have that kind of time.
Do you do netflix?
znModeratorI’m just lurking on the GoT convo. It’s good reads…
Well I invite you to let yourself go and have at it.
GOT us. Watcha got.
Anything will do, even a random observation. We’ll worry about “definitive analytic overviews” later…….
znModeratorHe needs to improve his hands. Ball security, that sorta thing.
Good to see him working on it.I think we are all expecting big things from
Tavon this year. He should be entering his prime, now.w
vYeah he has a chance to do more. Gets it more than he has before, new coaches stressing fundamentals, and so on.
But IMO there is always a ceiling to what TA can do as a pure receiver.
And even given that I still think he has value.
July 9, 2016 at 1:08 pm in reply to: St.Paul, now this…it is a bad day…snipers shoot Dallas police during protest #48325znModeratorThe thing is…if 9/11 was an elaborate inside job…and ELABORATE is what it would have been…they would have made it look like Iraqis did it. How easy would that have been? And that would have been that.
Instead, it inconveniently involved Saudis (our allies) and the trail led to Afghanistan, a country that is a complete waste of time to invade economically or strategically.
I mean…if you are going to go the monumental effort of working through the logistics of demolishing the WTC, it would have been small potatoes to frame somebody worth framing.
Very true. And, again, why on earth would the powers that be try to blow up the powers that be? It makes zero sense. It’s far too easy to inflict great harm on others outside the power structure, and blame whomever they want. It’s just absurd to believe they would try to blow up the Pentagon, the White House and one of the strongholds of the financial world in NYC.
Matt Taibbi demolished the truthers in several articles back in the day.
Edit: Now this is weird. Try googling “matt taibbi demolishes truthers.” It will take you to sites like the Rolling Stone, where he published them, but the stories seem to be gone. Hmmm. Perhaps the rabid truthers did their best to shut down anyone who dared suggest they were nuts. Online, I remember them being like flying monkeys. Crazed stalkers, too.
Plus going through all the effort to find and train suicide pilots to fly the planes. You either do that as this elaborate ruse originating in the middle east, which would be hard and weird, or you find guys who are willing to be suicide martyrs for the cause of furthering USA political interests, which would be harder and weirder.
znModerator…or bad Robinson gif.
Yeah. He screws the play up, TG gets something out of it somehow regardless.
znModeratorIt may well have been false but the officers responded under that assumption and found the guy at the scene matching the call and the guy did have a gun. Don’t resist arrest. That is the simple lesson.
The officers shot a guy they had pinned on the ground.
There is no narrative that can excuse that.
And near as we know he didn’t resist. I see a guy pinned on the ground getting shot in the chest. I don’t feel the need to make excuses for that. It should never happen.
How about “don’t shoot guys you have pinned on the ground.”
I am not very tolerant of excuse making for that.
No excuses. DON’T RESIST ARREST! The guy was resisting arrest from the very beginning. He was not following their instructions. Even when on the ground he kept struggling . What that video doesn’t show is his hands. And this in the context of the officers having been alerted to his having a gun! DON’T RESIST ARREST!
You know I am not buying that stuff.
He wasn’t resisting, he had been subdued.
Unless you believe in summary execution, there is no freaking excuse for the cops acting like that at that point.
And you will get nowhere trying to push the same point. I don’t buy it now and never will.
If nothing else, it means the police are so poorly trained they can’t make distinctions.
And we are repeating ourselves in pure “agree to disagree” territory. Take that into account if you insist on trying to push your point, at least with me anyway.
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znModeratorThere’s always gonna be some gray-area judgment part of it.
There’s ALWAYS going to be a gray area? In some ways that’s true, and in some ways not. It’s not all that clear. So as to whether or not there will always be a gray area, I don’t think it’s just simple black and white.
znModeratorLucifer, from The Prophecy: Humans… and how I love you talking monkeys for this… know more about war and treachery of the spirit than any angel.
July 8, 2016 at 1:10 pm in reply to: St.Paul, now this…it is a bad day…snipers shoot Dallas police during protest #48252znModeratorFalse Flag as per Wikipedia- The contemporary term false flag describes covert operations that are designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them.
Oh jeezus.
Nevermind.
znModeratorIt may well have been false but the officers responded under that assumption and found the guy at the scene matching the call and the guy did have a gun. Don’t resist arrest. That is the simple lesson.
The officers shot a guy they had pinned on the ground.
There is no narrative that can excuse that.
And near as we know he didn’t resist. I see a guy pinned on the ground getting shot in the chest. I don’t feel the need to make excuses for that. It should never happen.
How about “don’t shoot guys you have pinned on the ground.”
I am not very tolerant of excuse making for that.
znModeratorI want to re-stress the obvious fact that both men were legally carrying firearms and both were killed for it.
The one guy was a felon with multiple offenses including a sex offense. So if he was carrying my bet is that he was doing so illegally.
First, someone’s history makes no bloody difference in how they ought to be treated by law enforcement, at least in terms of whether they bloody shoot him on the spot when he was clearly not resisting. And besides the officers had no idea who he was or what he had done when they first encountered him.
Not true. Police were responding to a report of a guy brandishing a gun.
Which, according to the guy who owns the store he was selling in front of, was false. Kind of like saying he was convicted of a “sex offense.”
And none of which justifies shooting the man.
znModeratorThis here;s a nice informative thread. Lots here.
If I do say so myself.
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