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znModeratorOutside linebacker is sure to be one of the Rams' most important camp battles https://t.co/2FCK678h0T
— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) June 21, 2021
znModeratorznModeratorMcVay has raved about Stafford all offseason, but he got especially candid in an interview with Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated. [interview = here:https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/06/21/mmqb-sean-mcvay-expectations-burnout-covid-protocol-vaccines ]
“Bro, this dude’s a bad MF-er,” McVay told Breer, laughing. “Whatever people say about him, as good as it can be, he’s even better than advertised. It makes sense to him. The guy’s ability to see the game, his ability to draw on his experiences, the feel that he has, it’s pretty special and unique. And man, his feel for people, his authentic way of connecting with his teammates, his coaches, this guy, it’s great being around him.”
June 21, 2021 at 7:56 am in reply to: league, union agree on vaccination protocols for players #130549znModeratorAs other coaches struggle to get their players vaccinated, Mike Tomlin is making it happen — to the clear benefit of the Steelers in 2021. https://t.co/1Egybrjar0
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) June 21, 2021
znModeratorznModeratorrams great les richter modeling the best damn nfl uniforms the league has ever seen: pic.twitter.com/ILgxjYO3JF
— roberto clemente (@rclemente2121) June 20, 2021
znModeratorDo the Rams have a top-5 offense? pic.twitter.com/NoHmMPVzuZ
— PFF Fantasy Football (@PFF_Fantasy) June 20, 2021
znModeratorTexas Govenor Gregg Abbott Cuts Off Salaries for Legislative Branch Because Dems Stopped Passage, for Now, of Voter Suppression Bill
znModeratorToday, on Juneteenth, we celebrate the official end of slavery in the United States.
This week, the Biden Administration and Congress established Juneteenth as an official federal holiday to acknowledge our history and honor the past and ongoing struggle for Black liberation in our nation.
There is still so much work to be done in the fight for our collective freedom. That is why Alexandria proudly supports H.R. 40, a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals, and H.R. 1, the For the People Act, to expand and protect the right to vote for all.
H.R. 40 would allow us to begin to research the best ways we can build a path toward economic equity for the descendants of the generations of Black people this country stole free labor from.
And H.R. 1 would expand and protect voting access by expanding practices that have proven to increase voter turnout — including prohibiting deceptive practices, interference with voter registration, voter intimidation, and expanding automatic voter registration.
Alexandria believes that elected leaders have an obligation to do the most they can to pass meaningful legislation that advances equity and justice for all with the power people have entrusted to them. And that’s why she won’t stop fighting to lift up all of our voices — to protect the right to vote, to advance economic, social, environmental, and racial justice, and to demand liberation for all.
Happy Juneteenth!
In solidarity,
Team AOC
znModeratorAfter his old master wanted him back, the freed slave’s response is a literary masterpiece
Anderson’s letter showed compassion, defiance, and dignity.https://www.good.is/articles/jordan-andersons-legendary-clapback
After his old master wanted him back, the freed slave’s response is a literary masterpiece
In 1825, at the approximate age of 8, Jordan Anderson (sometimes spelled “Jordon”) was sold into slavery and would live as a servant of the Anderson family for 39 years. In 1864, the Union Army camped out on the Anderson plantation and he and his wife, Amanda, were liberated. The couple eventually made it safely to Dayton, Ohio, where, in July 1865, Jordan received a letter from his former owner, Colonel P.H. Anderson. The letter kindly asked Jordan to return to work on the plantation because it had fallen into disarray during the war.On Aug. 7, 1865, Jordan dictated his response through his new boss, Valentine Winters, and it was published in the Cincinnati Commercial. The letter, entitled “Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master,” was not only hilarious, but it showed compassion, defiance, and dignity. That year, the letter would be republished in the New York Daily Tribune and Lydia Marie Child’s “The Freedman’s Book.”
The letter mentions a “Miss Mary” (Col. Anderson’s Wife), “Martha” (Col. Anderson’s daughter), Henry (most likely Col. Anderson’s son), and George Carter (a local carpenter).
Dayton, Ohio,
August 7, 1865
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, TennesseeSir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jordon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin’s to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.
I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy, — the folks call her Mrs. Anderson, — and the children — Milly, Jane, and Grundy — go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, “Them colored people were slaves” down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.
As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor’s visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams’s Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.
In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve — and die, if it come to that — than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.
Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
From your old servant,
Jordon AndersonznModeratorznModeratorBucky Brooks, from Ranking NFL’s top five lockdown corners: https://www.nfl.com/news/ranking-nfl-s-top-five-lockdown-corners-plus-what-odell-beckham-jr-s-return-mean?campaign=Twitter_atn
1. Jalen Ramsey
Los Angeles Rams
The most bodacious cover corner in the game claims his spot as the NFL’s ultimate CB1. Ramsey not only possesses rare physical traits that make it nearly impossible for a receiver to escape the line untouched, but he is a refined technician with superb instincts and awareness on the island. The two-time All-Pro surrendered just 32 receptions and gave up fewer than 25 receiving yards in 11 contests in 2020, per PFF.June 19, 2021 at 7:38 am in reply to: league, union agree on vaccination protocols for players #130534znModeratorOpinion: Cole Beasley, other NFL players miss mark in pushback on COVID-19 vaccination https://t.co/r06e2wKosV
— Joe Curley (@vcsjoecurley) June 19, 2021
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Opinion: Cole Beasley, other NFL players miss mark in pushback on COVID-19 vaccination
Jarrett Bell
USA TODAYTake a bow, Cole Beasley. You’re now the face of the NFL’s anti-vax movement.
Beasley, the Buffalo Bills receiver, has pulled no punches in expressing his disdain for the revised COVID-19 protocols devised by the NFL and the NFL Players Association — instituted for training camp and preseason at the moment, with more tweaks likely coming later — that draws a line in the sand between vaccinated players and the unvaccinated.
If you’re vaccinated, you’re not required to wear a mask while at team headquarters and are no longer subjected to daily testing. You can hang out in the sauna, eat in the cafeteria and visit with friends and family while on road trips.
If you’re not vaccinated, you might as well wear a red “X” on your forehead. You’ll be subjected to daily testing, must wear a mask at team headquarters and are banned from the sauna and steam room. You can’t eat in the cafeteria. And if you leave the team hotel to eat at a restaurant or interact with someone outside the team’s traveling party during a road trip, you’ll be subject to a $50,000 fine.
Yes, the NFL and union made the point clear: They want the players vaccinated.
“This is crazy,” Beasley responded in a Twitter post. “Did we vote on this? I stay in the hotel. We still have meetings. We will all be together. Vaccinated players can go out of the hotel and could bring covid back to where I am. So, what does it matter if I stay in the hotel now? 100 percent immune with vaccination? No. The players association is a joke. Call it something different. It’s not for the players.”
Of course, Beasley, like colleagues across the league and Americans at large, has every right not to get vaccinated to protect himself from the novel coronavirus that has claimed the lives of more than 600,000 U.S. citizens and millions more throughout the world.
Yet slamming the NFLPA over this one is way off-base. Why not slam the league, too? For Beasley to take shots at the union over this is both silly and unfair.
Actually, the NFLPA deserves some credit for working hand-in-hand with the league — and not always in Kumbaya fashion — since the pandemic started to work out the protocols and work rules. Remember, without the NFLPA’s insistence, the league would have likely tried to go into last season without strict daily testing. And the union has still defended the right for the players to choose, with NFLPA medical adviser Thom Mayer so eloquently putting it, “These are grown-ass men making grown-ass decisions.”
Yet Beasley took a shot an an easy target, the NFLPA, rather than slinging an arrow at Bills GM Brandon Beane, who took heat recently for suggesting that he would hypothetically cut an unvaccinated player to help his team have certain COVID-19 protocols lifted.
In any event, it’s a real-world debate playing out in the NFL environment … just like COVID-19 has disrupted the NFL world as it has society at large.
Beasley is hardly alone in his position. Carolina Panthers quarterback Sam Darnold, Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon and Washington Football Team defensive end Montez Sweat are others to declare a similar bottom line, although no one has been as vociferous as Beasley on the matter. As NFL teams wrapped up minicamps last week and entered the dead zone of the league calendar before training camps open in late July, the vaccination issue loomed as a pressing matter. While Washington coach Ron Rivera enlisted a COVID-19 vaccine expert to speak to his players about this issue with the team’s vaccination rate hovering around 50% (as of 10 days ago), Steelers coach Mike Tomlin boasted that Pittsburgh was “tops in the league” for vaccination rate among players, though no official data has been released.
“Guys have worked hard to adhere to the policies and protocols,” Tomlin said on Tuesday. “It’s just been a continuation of 2020 in regards to our attitude. We’re going to work hard to adhere and look for any advantage that compliance might give us.”
After what the NFL went through last season (along with society at large), I’m baffled that NFL players haven’t been leading the vaccination charge. I’m not buying the reason that some, like Sweat, have expressed in that they are seeking more information. But the resistance may also underscore the deep-seated mistrust that exists with such widespread health measures, much of which I presume relates to some shameful cases throughout history. There’s also the argument that after such a rapid development of the vaccines, more time is needed to measure long-term effects. But still.
“I think it really comes down to comfort level of the person; they have to do what’s best for them,” Ravens defensive end Calais Campbell said last week.
Campbell reported that he was indeed vaccinated, and undoubtedly the 2020 experience cemented that decision. The Ravens had one of the worst outbreaks in the league — their late-season game at Pittsburgh was postponed three times — and Campbell contracted COVID-19. He has described overcoming it as “brutal” and still wonders whether there are lingering symptoms.
“Sometimes, I feel like it kind of comes and goes in a sense,” Campbell said, “so I guess I really can’t be sure until we get into the thick of things. But I’ve been really good for the last couple of months. I haven’t had any real issues, but it definitely lingered for a while.
“I still don’t wish that on anybody. It’s just such a tough thing to go through, just because you don’t really feel like yourself. Even when you are past the symptoms that everybody has, getting back into being a professional athlete, there’s a certain of feeling you have when you’re just ready, and COVID-19 kind of made it a little harder to get that good feeling.”
If the case of Chris Paul in the NBA Playoffs this week — the Phoenix Suns star guard is sidelined indefinitely after entering the league’s health and safety protocols — didn’t resonate with NFL players weighing whether to get vaccinated, then perhaps they should take stock in Campbell’s testimonial as part of their research. Concerns of whether the vaccine will cause issues down the line may pale when compared to issues that may linger (or be discovered in the future) from having had COVID-19.
Beasley, in a follow-up Twitter message, didn’t budge. Never mind the risks.
“I may die of covid, but I’d rather die living,” Beasley posted. “I have family members whose days are numbered. If they want to come and see me and stay at my house then they are coming regardless of protocol.”
Maybe so. But the workplace rules in the NFL are operating at a higher standard — and definitely for the better.
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znModeratorSee that little stutter before Jason Verrett breaks? That’s a corner playing with anticipation. Feeling the route. He knew what it was. If he would’ve jumped it when he felt it that might be to the crib lol. Verrett was locked in. pic.twitter.com/7OARGrv4cl
— Crocky⚡️ (@eric_crocker) June 18, 2021
znModeratorSeattleRams@seattlerams_nfl
This quote from Lions GM Brad Holmes as me arching an eyebrow this morning“Before the trade, I remember (Rams GM) Les (Snead) asked me if I wanted Jared and I said, ‘Yes, I do want Jared.’ He said, ‘Ok, I’m just asking because I’m getting a lot of calls.’
Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
Right – and, I think people underestimate how much team personnel talk with each other, even during the season. But if people didn’t already think something was brewing, those couple weeks lit the beacons of Gondor.znModeratorDuring an appearance on “The Hook,” [Calvin] Johnson discussed Stafford’s departure from Detroit and said he talked to the quarterback recently, who told him that he’s doing well in Los Angeles.
“I was talking to Matthew yesterday. Matthew’s doing well, I’m happy for him because he’s happy that he’s out in California,” Johnson said. “Him and his beautiful family there, they’re loving their time out there. So when he’s comfortable, he’s good where he’s at, you can only expect good things from him, so I look forward to seeing him out there.”
Then Johnson gave Rams receiver Van Jefferson a shoutout, saying Van’s dad, Shawn Jefferson, was his wide receivers coach in Detroit.
“Plus on top of that, we’ve got a friend out there in Van Jefferson,” he said. “Shawn Jefferson, he was my receivers coach in Detroit for a long time. His son’s playing with Matthew now, so that’s pretty cool.”
znModeratorSeattleRams@seattlerams_nfl
This quote from Lions GM Brad Holmes as me arching an eyebrow this morning“Before the trade, I remember (Rams GM) Les (Snead) asked me if I wanted Jared and I said, ‘Yes, I do want Jared.’ He said, ‘Ok, I’m just asking because I’m getting a lot of calls.’
znModeratorYou may not love the Chargers, but you gotta love Brandon Staley. Have to imagine the players are loving him, too. https://t.co/BmbmJW4gnC
— Rams Brothers (@RamsBrothers) June 18, 2021
znModeratorWill Matthew Stafford become the best Ram ever to wear No. 9? https://t.co/pBi9hKWezh
— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) June 18, 2021
znModeratorAfter the Bears released a statement suggesting they may move to the suburbs, the mayor of Chicago released a statement of her own, calling the Bears' move a negotiating ploy and saying they should be more focused on beating the Packers. https://t.co/WT7E4RzGQb
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) June 17, 2021
znModeratorThe entire Portland police unit assigned to protests has resigned, a day after a grand jury indicted one of their own on a misdemeanor for a brutal beating of a journalist.#DefendPDX #AbolishThePolice
— Anti-Fascist Abolitionist AWK (@AWKWORDrap) June 18, 2021
znModeratorfrom https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2021/06/17/rams-desean-jackson-offense-mind-boggling-scary/
On NFL Network recently, [DeSean Jackson] said it’s going to be mind-boggling for defenses trying to slow down Los Angeles’ offense.
“Really just having the playmaker skill ability with the other wide receivers, the other running backs, tight ends. With a quarterback like Matthew Stafford, it’s really mind-boggling for other defenses or defensive coordinators to be sitting back, like, ‘Man, how we going to stop these dudes?’ For me, I’ve been on some pretty good receiving corps, but Robert and Coop, in addition to Van and Tutu, it’s going to be scary,” he said on “NFL Total Access.”
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“For me, I just look at it as being in a position where I have an offensive-minded coach like Sean McVay who’s in-tune and who knows how to put his players in position to win, first-off is the biggest concern for a veteran receiver like myself,” Jackson said. “And just having that fit and being able to gel together and being in a similar offense, a similar system where I know a lot that what we did in Washington is switched up a little bit but the terminology is pretty much the same.”
znModeratorSources: Two teams have crossed the much-talked about 85% threshold for player vaccinations (fully vaccinated or in the process). Those two are the Dolphins and Saints.
Nothing's agreed upon yet, but NFL and NFLPA have discussed relaxed protocols for teams over that threshold.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) June 17, 2021
znModeratorSebastian Joseph-Day is coming off two productive seasons and last year he really seemed to step up to become a mainstay in the interior. With the loss of veteran Michael Brockers, I expect SJD will take his play and leadership to the next level. Excited to see the big man work pic.twitter.com/clel1JqmTs
— RAMS ON FILM (@RamsOnFilm) June 17, 2021
June 17, 2021 at 9:53 am in reply to: league, union agree on vaccination protocols for players #130512znModeratorNon-vaccinated NFL player = daily COVID testing.
Fully vaccinated NFL player = one COVID test every 14 days.https://t.co/gL2mw7LlV6— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) June 17, 2021
znModeratorTyler Lockett: Shane Waldron's offense brings 'more freedom' to Seattle WRshttps://t.co/kb9iuauuwR pic.twitter.com/8TR8yaB5o4
— Around The NFL (@AroundTheNFL) June 17, 2021
June 17, 2021 at 7:54 am in reply to: league, union agree on vaccination protocols for players #130509znModeratorICYMI: Our article on https://t.co/iLSuC0HswN on the new COVID-19 protocols for training camp and the 2021 preseason, with significant differences for players who are completely vaccinated: https://t.co/fSsd3r33Pt
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) June 17, 2021
znModeratorI’ve heard this before.. My defensive coordinator with @Jaguars (Dick Jauron) to me that the practice field is where you experiment with your game. Try new techniques and skills to see which ones could be utilize in games. Some coaches encourage their players to find their limits https://t.co/1q2PQuQONG
— Bucky Brooks (@BuckyBrooks) June 17, 2021
znModeratorfrom https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2021/06/16/rams-darious-williams-best-cornerbacks-nfl-rankings/
Mark Schofield of Touchdown Wire knows all about [Darious] Williams and ranked him among the NFL’s best outside cornerbacks. He put Williams 10th, nine spots behind the top-ranked Ramsey.
We turn now to the start of our second tandem of cornerbacks, with Darious Williams of the Los Angeles Rams. In his third season in the league Williams took a huge step forward in 2020, playing over 900 snaps and locking down one of the cornerback spots for Brandon Staley’s defense. He was impressive in coverage, allowing a completion of just 48.7% when targeted, and an opposing passer rating of a mere 55.4 when quarterbacks threw in his direction. His 11 pass breakups were a career-high mark.
znModeratorSean McVay will have plenty of options on offense when it comes to his receivers, tight ends and running backs. https://t.co/oDZuKgts0t
— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) June 17, 2021
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