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znModeratorFrom quora
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her…. a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.
They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
May you be so fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.
And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude
znModeratorSome believe Jalen Ramsey had a "down year" in 2022. His PFF grade was higher this year than in 2021, and he was still the 3rd-best CB in the NFL, per PFF https://t.co/cqRgSB5RcL
— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) January 10, 2023
znModeratorIn the first 10 games, Leonard Floyd had 19 pressures. In the last 7 games, he had 35, which was tied for the 5th-most of any player from Week 12-18 https://t.co/m5twH8L89k
— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) January 10, 2023
znModeratorSeveral Rams players were asked about Sean McVay's looming decision during Monday's open locker room, and they all just want what's best for him.
Here's what they're saying about the matter https://t.co/SOxlFWSrJ3
— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) January 10, 2023
znModeratorStu Jackson@StuJRamsRams QB Matthew Stafford reiterated he isn’t retiring. Said he feels “really confident” he’ll be ready to go in 2023 and has full support from his family.
znModeratorCouple of important Rams news items in here. Jalen Ramsey expects to get surgery, Cooper Kupp's rehab is on track and there's a key health checkpoint coming up for Alaric Jackson: https://t.co/KNSlNZrRnk
— Jourdan Rodrigue (@JourdanRodrigue) January 10, 2023
znModeratorJourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigueObviously contingency plan at OC for the Rams will be predicated on whatever Sean McVay decides to do. If McVay stays, internal candidates for role include Thomas Brown and Zac Robinson, and externally had even heard about some interest in a veteran coach such as Frank Reich. twitter.com/jourdanrodrigu…
znModeratorJAKE ELLENBOGEN@JKBOGENJanuary 10, 2023 at 9:39 am in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #142508
znModeratorfrom quora..[zn note: we know all this but good stories are good stories].How were black American soldiers treated by British people during World War II?.Generally very well. There was some of what we would now see as racism but it was different from racism in the US. A black soldier (British Caribbean I think) reported that in some rural villages the uneducated white girls genuinely believed that black people were born with tails which had to be amputated at birth – but that just meant that when he slow-danced with white girls and held them close, he would sometimes feel a surreptitious hand groping his arse to see if he had a stump (that was their excuse, anyway)..In many areas black troops were the first American troops to arrive, and when white American troops came later and started treating their black countrymen as second class citizens most people here were disgusted. There was a joke going around that “I like the Yanks, but I can’t say the same for those white chaps they brought with them”, and when senior US officers tried to insist that British pubs should have a colour bar, some pubs responded by banning white Americans. A white American officer tried to bully a black British-Caribbean soldier the way he expected to bully black Americans back home, and the soldier said “I’m British: nobody talks to me like that” and punched him..[It seems to me that that was always the biggest difference between racism in the US and UK. There were plenty of racists here too, but here if a racist threatened you with violence or made a serious attempt to bully you you were allowed to whack them, and so long as you didn’t get too carried away the courts would back you..I’ve always remember an incident I must have read about nearly 50 years ago, where a large group of white US soldiers chased a smaller group of black US soldiers down the road and round the corner into the arms of a group of Seaforth Highlanders coming the other way, who promptly waded in on the side of the black guys.
znModeratorBT you don’t understand the purpose of the NFL. The NFL is to get us, ordinary fans, to accept a corporate dominated world of drudgery. Rollerball, 1975. So the question is how to do THAT better.
1. Play twice a week for 24 weeks. 48 games. In the end, matches will be exhausted struggles just to stay on the field.
2. Players have to play with injuries.
3. Not only that, but, if you are injured, your salary goes straight to the insurance firms.
4. Players can’t celebrate plays. Instead, whenever they excel in some way, they must yell enthusiastically that “I am glad my efforts serve the system.”
5. Instead of standing for the national anthem, before games, players are to watch jumbotron images of Chinese national leaders while they chant hatefully that “east asia has always been the enemy!”
January 9, 2023 at 5:50 pm in reply to: mass shootings & guns … including Trump getting shot at #142502
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znModeratorBill Barnwell@billbarnwellSo, by snap-weighted age, the Saints were the oldest team in football this season. Their average snap came from a player 28.1 years old.Oldest: NO, TB, LAR, NE, DENYoungest: DET, CAR, NYG, CLE, CHI
znModeratorAri Meirov@MySportsUpdate@AdamSchefter. They signed him to an extension through 2027 last offseason..Howard Balzer@HBalzer721Firing of Kliff Kingsbury totally in character for the way the Bidwills have made coach decisions. Team shows progress, then takes a step back. Gone. Third-winningest coach in club history, Don Coryell, had only 42 victories and no coach ever has lasted more than six seasons.
znModeratorJ.B. Long@JB_LongCam Akers’ closing stretch of six games, projected over a full season? Over 1,700 scrimmage yards and 17 TDs.
znModeratorJourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigueMatthew Stafford says in exit interviews that he doesn’t know whether Sean McVay will be back in 2023. Stafford also reiterates he is not retiring, and whether or not McVay leaves has no effect on that decision.
znModeratorOur allegations against Santos fall into three categories: I. that he concealed the true sources of his campaign's funding; II. that he misrepresented his campaign's spending; and III. that he illegally paid for personal expenses with his campaign's funds. https://t.co/e9ZjsQBI70
— Roger G. Wieand (@g_wieand) January 9, 2023
znModeratorI see packers fans are taking this well https://t.co/g4W4lV6r36
— HoldenCantor (@HoldenCantor) January 9, 2023
znModeratorJourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
Rams LT Ty Nsekhe is questionable to return with a wrist injury. I’m not gonna lie, I do not even know who backs him up.AJ Arcuri probably
what a year
znModeratorHere's what I know about a very fluid Sean McVay situation: https://t.co/IULIWsZYcd
— Jourdan Rodrigue (@JourdanRodrigue) January 8, 2023
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Rams’ Sean McVay evaluating short-term future in ‘fluid’ situation: Sources
Jourdan Rodrigue
SEATTLE — Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay is in the process of evaluating his options for 2023, multiple team and league personnel told The Athletic over the last several days. The people who spoke were granted anonymity so they could provide deeper context to what has been characterized as a “fluid” situation.
McVay, 36, is deciding whether he wants to coach or take a break after a 5-11 season he has referred to as a “professional failure” and that has clearly taken a toll on his psychological well-being.
While McVay has been openly courted with high-dollar offers by broadcasting companies for a few years, including this year, his pending decision does not correlate to any current offer in that field, a person with knowledge of McVay’s process said. Instead, McVay is deciding whether it is healthiest for him to take a break from football. McVay has publicly reiterated that he would like to go into broadcasting at some point in the future.
The Rams have worked through this conversation with McVay on multiple occasions before, including after the 2022 season (though that had more to do with the offers McVay was receiving from media companies at that time).
After winning the Super Bowl last February, McVay signed a contract through 2026 with the Rams that placed him among the higher-paid coaches in the NFL, and the team also extended core players Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald and Cooper Kupp.
The Rams have made it clear to McVay that they support however he wants to proceed, a person directly familiar with his process said — whether he needs to take a break, or perhaps if they can make changes as an organization in 2023 to give him what he needs to work at his best. This could be inclusive of coaching changes at assistant positions to help with McVay and his staff’s workload management, among other support ideas.
But, the people who spoke on the condition of anonymity added, McVay’s mind is not made up. Instead, he will take some time to evaluate his decision. The Rams have not given McVay a deadline.
Multiple team personnel who spoke with The Athletic also noted that they would not be surprised by whatever the decision is that he ultimately makes, either way.
One person with direct knowledge of the Rams’ contingency plans for either option, who was granted anonymity in order to speak freely, said that even if McVay decided to step away in 2023, the organization does not currently believe he would permanently retire from coaching.
After Sunday’s season finale, a loss at Seattle, McVay declined to discuss his immediate future with the Rams. When asked directly whether he would be coaching the Rams in 2023, he said, “I’m not thinking about that right now. Nothing has changed from … where we left things off on Friday. I’m right here, right now, and we’ll deal with that stuff at a later time.”
McVay was then asked why he was unsure of a specific answer at this time.
“I’ll talk about stuff as it relates to the game,” McVay said. “Anything that relates to what is gonna happen with me, like I said, I’m not thinking about that right now.”
Quarterback Baker Mayfield, who started for the Rams after joining the team in Week 14, has gotten to know McVay more since their initial meeting on a plane ahead of his rookie season. While multiple players said postgame that they aren’t sure what will happen with McVay, Mayfield noted, “(McVay) is so truly invested in (putting) everything he has into this game. Everything he thinks about is about football. That’s why you see the toll that it takes on him.”
znModeratorhey. one of the few bright spots this season. cam akers resurgence, wags, and jones being other ones. just hope this carries over into next season and also that mcvay doesn’t retire
The Chargers ate Durant up. Hopefully he learns from that.
znModeratorIn terms of the McVay legacy, if he steps away after his first season of real adversity, then, I will probably think less of him. He never had to rebuild a team the way Vermeil did. He had kind of an entitled entry into the profession, taking over a team that had a lot of young pieces already (he added to the WRs and got Whitworth).
There’s a lot to McVay and he’s obviously a tremendous coach, but, he does have his little character flaws.
Then so did Vermeil. Remember the “so-called superstar” remark? And retiring after 99 then regretting it?
Ah the fortunes of Rams fans. 😎
znModeratorHoldenCantor@HoldenCantor
Per @PSchrags on the @BillSimmons podcast Sean McVay is burnt out. Mentally, emotionally, all of it. He thinks he is just spent.Peter is close to McVay and close to people in the Rams organization
Sosa Kremenjas@QBsMVPP Schrags on Sean McVay on FOX right now: – Won’t be a surprise, ongoing dialogue – McVay and Rams talking – He’s gone back and forth over the past several days – Needs the time to reconsider everything – No decision made yet
znModeratorYo @bakermayfield, let’s see if we can get Higs (@Ty_Higs19) his bacon before the end of the first quarter? @RamsNFL 🥓 🐏 ⬆️ pic.twitter.com/WqdIs0wc1y
— 𝒥𝒾𝓂 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉 (@Jim_Everett) January 7, 2023
znModeratorWay back on Thursday’s BS Pod: @PSchrags talked pretty extensively about Sean McVay’s unclear future with the Rams for next season. pic.twitter.com/TZchkPID7r
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) January 8, 2023
znModeratorTorry “Big Game” Holt always seemed to deliver against Seattle. Posted below, #81 had 126 yards and a TD against the Seahawks in 2005.#Holt4HOF #AllHands
The Hall Of Fame finalist has the resume! Only needs the knock at the door! pic.twitter.com/oRhqPWOMB3— RAMS ON FILM (@RamsOnFilm) January 8, 2023
znModeratorAdam Schefter@AdamSchefterThe Denver Broncos requested and received permission from the New Orleans Saints to interview Sean Payton for their head coach job, league sources tell ESPN. The NFL ruled that any in-person interview with Payton cannot be conducted until at least January 17, per sources.
znModeratorIan Rapoport@RapSheetThe #Chiefs earn the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs, along with a bye and the possibility of hosting the title game. Or playing at a neutral site.
znModerator1976
the first time the rams ever faced the seahawks
rams whipped them 45-6 pic.twitter.com/uwPSTaPlEa— roberto clemente (@rclemente2121) January 7, 2023
znModeratorJourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigueRams activated DB TJ Carter from practice squad and signed TE Jared Pinkney to active roster. Safety Nick Scott will end the season on IR after hurting his shoulder in Thursday’s practice. Russ Yeast expected to start in place of Scott; Quentin Lake also expected to get time.
znModeratorWell, it was fun while it lasted. Sean McVay's future as the Rams' head coach is "in limbo," per Schefter.
McVay will take some time after Sunday's game to decide whether he'll be back in 2023 https://t.co/Ex22Kxz61b
— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) January 8, 2023
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