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znModeratorFebruary 3, 2019 at 10:28 am in reply to: Sorry Rams, there's a problem with Todd Gurley and there's no denying it #97691znModeratori’ve read explanations of tendinitis.
the reason being he still uses a stationary bike when he’s not playing. if there was structural damage that required some kind of surgery, the trainer would not have him on a bike.
i have no idea if that’s true. just repeating what i read.
There’s lots of things it could be, and also not be surgical.
Though I don’t count a scope as surgery in the way we usually mean surgery.
February 3, 2019 at 8:28 am in reply to: NRR around the league tweets including all "of the year" guys … 2/2 #97682znModeratorChris Long named NFL man of the year
Chris Long named NFL man of the year
Eagles defensive end Chris Long has worked to make an impact off the field in multiple ways over the course of his career and those efforts were recognized by the NFL on Saturday night.
Long was named this year’s recipient of the Walter Payton man of the year award during Saturday night’s NFL Honors show in Atlanta. Long started a foundation devoted to raising funds for clean water, military appreciation, homelessness and youth programs and donated his entire salary in 2017 to support educational initiatives.
He also donated four game checks in 2018 to literacy programs in Philadelphia and his work with the Waterboys program has led to the creation of 55 wells in East Africa.
“I am honored to be named the 2018 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year and to join the long line of men who have received this prestigious honor,” Long said in a statement. “While I am officially accepting this award, we would not be able to accomplish our goals without the support and participation of countless other individuals. I am humbled by the support we have received from my peers who have donated to our various matching-campaigns, the commitment and perseverance displayed by the veterans who have climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with me each year, and the generosity of our fans who have made vital contributions to our foundation over the years.”
Long’s foundation will receive $250,000 and another $250,000 will be donated to the United Way in his name.
znModeratorAaron Donald Doesn’t Look Like a Defensive Tackle. So He Reinvented the Position.
The speed and power of the Rams’ wrecking-ball lineman show that size isn’t everything in the N.F.L.
link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/sports/football/aaron-donald-rams.html
ATLANTA —The Rams selected defensive tackle Aaron Donald with their second first-round pick in 2014, No. 13 over all, which means that 11 other teams, after assembling draft boards and consulting scouts and analyzing a trilogy’s worth of film of his demolishing offensive linemen, decided against taking a player whose dominance has since redefined his position.
“I think,” said Mike Waufle, the Rams’ defensive line coach at the time, “people were scared of his size.”
Donald is 6-foot-1 and, coming out of the University of Pittsburgh, was listed at 285 pounds. That is enormous in human terms, but smallish for a defensive tackle, whose function in a 3-4 defense is to blot out the sun.
Not everyone with the Rams coveted Donald, but Waufle was undeterred. He had long prized speed over size, and from the start, he viewed Donald as an outlier, grading him as the best prospect he had seen since 1998, his first season coaching in the N.F.L. Donald generated so much power that he reminded Waufle of the Russian boxer Ivan Drago in “Rocky IV,” who punched a computerized meter with such force that Drago’s manager remarked, “Whatever he hits, he destroys.”
In his first season, Donald was selected as the top defensive rookie. Last season, he was defensive player of the year. After registering 20.5 sacks this season, the most ever by a defensive tackle, Donald will almost certainly repeat.
The Rams’ ascent to a Super Bowl berth against the New England Patriots on Sunday from 4-12 buffoonery in 2016 reflects a certain harmonic convergence — the confluence of foresight, audacity and good fortune, with Donald embodying it all.
Coach Sean McVay, a brilliant communicator whose football acumen pushed the Rams to the forefront of the league’s offensive frenzy, has already spawned a coaching tree, and the team has traded precious draft picks to acquire volatile personalities who have meshed in a cohesive locker room. But before all that, the Rams had the conviction to draft Donald. In 2014, he was an excellent defender. In 2019, he is the avatar for defensive disruption.
With N.F.L. teams eschewing downfield passes for underneath routes, and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady averaging a mere 2.18 seconds per postseason throw in the pocket, according to Pro Football Focus, interior pressure is ever more critical. And no one plows into the backfield faster than Donald, a player New England Coach Bill Belichick called “pretty much unblockable.”
“If he keeps this up,” the Hall of Fame defensive tackle John Randle said, “he can change the game almost like a Lawrence Taylor.”
Randle transformed the position, too, playing at 6-1 and 285 pounds, but in a different era, when teams prioritized space-choking interior tackles to stop the run and tended to harass quarterbacks from the outside. Of the 54 instances in which a player had at least 16.5 sacks in a season since the statistic was first tracked in 1982, 50 came from defenders who didn’t play tackle, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Randle never quite reached that total, topping out at 15.5. But contemporaries like La’Roi Glover and Warren Sapp did, and Randle viewed them, and himself, as misfits, fueled by the perception that they weren’t fast enough to play linebacker, big enough to play offensive line or nimble enough to play running back.
Across 14 seasons with Minnesota and Seattle, Randle amassed the most sacks by a defensive tackle in N.F.L. history — 137.5 — by destroying quarterbacks and game plans much as Donald does now, just with less time to get to the quarterback. Donald had a league-leading 106 pressures, according to Pro Football Focus. The next closest player, Fletcher Cox of Philadelphia, had 95.
“When you get that interior pressure, they can’t run the sweep, the center can’t pull,” Randle said. “When you’re in the inside, you may not get there, but you’re in the quarterback’s face, and he can’t see because the pressure’s there. He sees you, and he’s more conscious of you. You’re right there in front of him.”
When watching Donald, Randle notices how his feet, hands and eyes work in concert, with a first step so quick that it can be mistaken for reflex. Donald’s arms allow him to get leverage on taller linemen — plural, considering the double teams he faces — beneath their pads, taking away their strength.
“Some guys at that position are top-heavy with skinny little legs, or are big down below but have nothing up top,” Dewayne Brown, who has helped train Donald since 2009 in their native Pittsburgh, said in a telephone interview. “He’s built like a block, totally proportional.”
A secret: Donald may be listed at 285 pounds, but, he said Tuesday, he has been playing at 270, maybe 265. (The Rams’ other defensive tackle, NdamukongSuh, is listed at 6-4 and 307 pounds.) Over texts, Waufle calls Donald a male model and tells him he’s pretty. Donald’s father, Archie, asked Brown to remind his son that he’s not a bodybuilder. In a photo he posted to his Instagram story Monday, a shirtless Donald is shown flexing, muscles bulging, his abdominal muscles clearly defined. Celery has more fat than he does.
“He’s got, like, an eight-pack,” Rams defensive tackle Michael Brockers said.
In the off-season, Brown helps Donald refine his speed and agility with45-minute workouts laden with core exercises and resistance training, like the drill he performs wearing lateral resistors on his ankles. As someone drops a tennis ball eight yards away, Donald must sprint to grab it before it bounces a second time. Go on, try it.
To increase his strength, Donald works with Dave Andrews, the strength and conditioning coach at Pitt, who called him “a genetic mutant” and “a ball of dynamite.” Andrews challenges him with exercises in which he provides Donald with resistance throughout the entire movement to isolate a particular muscle group.
“It’s no different than when they’re in hand-to-hand combat on the field, and they’re manually trying to resist what he’s doing,” Andrews said. “Most likely, it takes two, maybe three guys, to slow Aaron down. You can imagine what it’s like in the weight room. Like, good luck. I walk out in a full sweat.”
Donald has long been strong and thick; as an adolescent, he would wake before dawn to lift weights with his father. But Donald was “real chunky,” Brown said, when he first encountered him as a junior at Penn Hills High School.
That season, Greg Gattuso, then the defensive line coach at Pitt, attended a Penn Hills game to scout one of Donald’s teammates. He had heard of Donald but had never watched him. Before leaving, Gattuso offered him a scholarship.
With each successive season at Pitt, Donald had more tackles for loss. His senior year, nearly half of his 59 tackles — 28.5 — came behind the line of scrimmage. At the N.F.L. scouting combine, Donald ran the 40-yard dash in 4.68 seconds, faster that year than Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (6-2, 214), Patriots linebacker Kyle Van Noy (6-3, 243) and Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence (6-3, 251). His 10-yard split, which gauges short-area quickness, was a solid 1.65 seconds.
From afar, Waufle yearned. As defensive line coach for the Giants, he replaced interior linemen with speedier ends to overwhelm Brady and unbeaten New England in Super Bowl XLII. He said he studied more game tape of Randle than Randle himself.
Waufle wanted a Randle of his own.
On draft night, Waufle was working on a project in his office when, around the eighth pick or so, he glanced at the television and noticed Donald was still available. He cycled through scenarios in his head.
He thought Detroit, picking 10th, would grab him. He thought the Giants, picking 12th, would, too. When the Rams were on the clock, he sneaked into the draft room, hoping for good news. When he got it, he nearly yelped inside.
The next time he saw Donald, told him something he had never said to another player: Don’t listen to anything I say.
“We’ll get you lined up, and you just go, man — you just go,” Waufle said, relaying their conversation. “And he did. He tore the league up.”
Waufle left the Rams when McVay was hired, after the 2016 season, but his successor, Bill Johnson, marvels daily at Donald.
“What makes him different is no different than what makes a racehorse so great,” Johnson said. “They’re just sort of made to be, I guess. I don’t know. If I knew, I’d be cloning it.”
Donald’s trajectory might have made teams reassess their evaluations of him. It might have even made them more likely to consider undersized defensive tackles in the future — imitation and flattery, and all that.
But there is only one Aaron Donald, and to the dismay of every other team, but most of all New England this week, he plays for the Rams.
znModeratorGoff wins Courtyard Unstoppable Performance of the Year Award
https://www.therams.com/news/goff-wins-courtyard-unstoppable-performance-of-the-year-award
ATLANTA — In advance of Super Bowl LIII, quarterback Jared Goff has received the Courtyard Unstoppable Performance of the Year award.
Per the NFL release, the honor is given to the player who demonstrates the best performance in a game during the regular season. NFL media analysts chose Goff’s performance against the Vikings in Week 4 as the best of the season.
Goff finished that 38-31 victory on Thursday Night Football with 465 yards passing with five touchdowns — both career highs. He also had a perfect passer rating of 158.3.
Goff was a Pro Bowler for the second straight season after racking up 4,688 yards passing with 32 touchdowns and 11 interceptions — good for a 101.1 passer rating.znModeratorField Yates@FieldYates
The eight members of the 2019 Pro Football Hall of Fame class: Ed Reed, Champ Bailey, Tony Gonzalez, Ty Law, Kevin Mawae, Pat Bowlen, Gil Brandt, Johnny Robinson. Congrats to all.February 2, 2019 at 8:04 pm in reply to: NRR around the league tweets including all "of the year" guys … 2/2 #97654znModeratorMy favorite play by the MVP. I'll never forget everyone in the press box leaping to their feet and exclaiming some version of "holy crap," as well as the echoes of amazed laughter. pic.twitter.com/7ccCBYoRYZ
— Seth Keysor (@RealMNchiefsfan) February 3, 2019
znModeratorJoel Corry@corryjoel
If Aaron Donald goes to Rams training camp in 2019 & doesn’t win NFL DPOY next season, he should be excused from 2020 training camp. He’s won the last 2 awards without being there during the preseason.znModeratorThe @RamsNFL will have to run more than just their signature Outside Zone if they want to beat the @Patriots.@GregCosell shows two #Rams run plays that could complement the Outside Zone on #SuperBowl Sunday.#SBLIII #GoPats #LARams pic.twitter.com/DBVKmzmFCE
— NFL Matchup on ESPN (@NFLMatchup) February 3, 2019
znModeratorThe @RamsNFL will have to run more than just their signature Outside Zone if they want to beat the @Patriots.@GregCosell shows two #Rams run plays that could complement the Outside Zone on #SuperBowl Sunday.#SBLIII #GoPats #LARams pic.twitter.com/DBVKmzmFCE
— NFL Matchup on ESPN (@NFLMatchup) February 3, 2019
znModeratorThe @RamsNFL defense:
5.1 YPC allowed in the run game in the regular season (worst in NFL)
2.3 YPC allowed in the playoffsHow does a team go from worst to outstanding against the run? @MattBowen41 shows you. #SuperBowl #LARams #GoPats pic.twitter.com/TbNL2yOKUr
— NFL Matchup on ESPN (@NFLMatchup) February 2, 2019
znModeratorOnly the 3rd player to repeat, joining Watt and LT. https://t.co/xF1HYCV3fS
— J.B. Long (@JB_Long) February 2, 2019
znModeratorPFF LA Rams@PFF_Rams
The Pats D has been stingy this season & playoffs, ranking T-3rd in Team Defensive grade (Tied with the Rams); However, they may need to turn focus towards stopping the run, as they rank 14th in Team Run Stop Grade & Duo @cjandersonb22 and @TG3II both rank Top 15 in Run Grades==
He won't be on the field Sunday, but @CooperKupp is a big reason the @RamsNFL are playing in #SBLIII 👏 pic.twitter.com/sr70YsRdUC
— NFL (@NFL) February 2, 2019
znModeratorCameron DaSilva@camdasilva
Tom Brady’s passer rating when facing:– Interior pressure: 63.1
– Edge pressure: 118.7The Rams happen to have two guys named Aaron Donald and Ndamukong Suh. They might just be Brady’s kryptonite.
Joe Curley@vcsjoecurley
Sean McVay tells pool reporter Charean Williams that Todd Gurley is 100 percent entering Super Bowl LIII. “We expect him to play a big role in this game.”znModeratorThe #Rams have used zone coverage on 70% of coverage snaps w/ Aqib Talib on the field (would rank 7th-highest for full season). Will they flip script vs Brady? The #Patriots QB has thrived vs zone, and has been at his best on the intermediate throws (b/t 10-19 yds) #NextGenStats pic.twitter.com/4RL2Y8DAzl
— Michael Giardi (@MikeGiardi) February 2, 2019
znModeratorOne hears good things about The Last Kingdom.
znModerator(Mock patient passive aggressive tone): that’s okay WV I’ll just delete my earlier posting of this.
znModeratorTwitter map shows which team each state is rooting for in Super Bowl LIII. https://t.co/HutqULF03V pic.twitter.com/VeDFjJNrz4
— theScore (@theScore) January 29, 2019
znModeratorNick Foles is an Adequate Guy who benefited from every imaginable circumstance. A guy who was always in the right place at the right time.
That is not how I see Foles at all.
Foles has had consecutive+ game streaks of VERY bad play every single year since, including in 2017. He runs fairly hot and VERY cold. And it does not matter what the circumstances are. He had good circumstances in 2017 and had a Bad Foles streak THEN, too. That’s just who he is. It’s why he got traded away after 2014 and why the Rams benched him.
But they did have him on a Good Foles streak in the 2017 post-season. But then getting two bye weeks helped with that. So did the fact that Pederson knew him from when he was the Eagles qb coach in 2012.
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znModeratorThe ‘quirky and nerdy’ leadership of Jared Goff and how it inspires the Rams
Vincent Bonsignore
ATLANTA — Jared Goff was moments away from taking the field against the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship Game when crisis arrived. Given the way the Saints and the Superdome devours opponents with a lethal combination of noise, energy and talent, the Rams had been on emergency watch all week. But this was pushing it. Not even one play into the game and it was already DEFCON 1 level anxiousness.
Only you wouldn’t have known by looking at Goff.
His in-helmet communication system has malfunctioned, with the audio from head coach and play caller Sean McVay cutting out. Rather than turn his own emergency into a full-blown panic, Goff calmly, almost discreetly, traded helmets with backup quarterback Sean Mannion and carried on.
Imagine heading to the altar to get married and having to switch suits at the last second with your best man. The fit isn’t perfect. It’s a little too tight in the waist and not quite as long as needed in the leg. Everything just feels … off. Not exactly the way to start off your wedding day, right?
Yet as much as Goff could, he kept it all to himself and soldiered on.
“I didn’t even know about that until after the game,” Robert Woods revealed this week.
Woods still marvels at how Goff managed the situation on the go and overcame future Hall of Famer Drew Brees to help push the Rams into Super Bowl LIII.
“To play in a championship game (and) your microphone’s not working. You’ve got to switch helmets. It’s not yours. It doesn’t fit correctly,” Woods said. “To go through all that and remain poised and lead us to a victory, that’s a total leader. That’s a leader. That’s a warrior.”
“He just kind of handled it exactly like a veteran — even-keeled, calm demeanor — kind of like what we talk about all the time,” McVay said. “We’re very confident in his ability to lead us, knowing that it’s a big game like we’ve said, but I think Jared will be himself, which is exactly what we want him to be.”
For those who know him best, it was peak Goff.
“Unflappable” is how right guard Austin Blythe describes the Rams’ third-year quarterback.
“Calm. Cool. Collected,” right tackle Rob Havenstein said. “And always the same guy, no matter what.”
And maybe that is the biggest takeaway from the Rams’ magical march to Super Bowl LIII and the remarkable transformation of Goff from potential bust to a quarterback who has led his team to the pinnacle of pro football.
The more details are revealed — both in how he plays and the way his teammates describe him — the more we understand and know him.
“And it’s one of the things you really appreciate about him,” Sullivan said. “There’s nothing that you can question from the start. He’s just a genuine, authentic guy. The first time you meet him, Jared is unapologetically Jared.”
Goff’s persona, as teammates have come to know, is a little bit of California cool and an unassuming nature that can sometimes be construed as goofy. But it’s so genuine and unpretentious that it is looked upon as a strength and not a weakness.
Said Woods: “You want someone who is a little quirky and nerdy, of course. Like Jared. Very smart.”
In many ways, Goff is your typical 24-year-old kid. He also just happens to have a razor-sharp football mind that can decipher defenses and coverages and a cannon arm that allows him to make every throw.
And in his own way — through performance and just being himself rather than trying to be someone he’s not — Goff has become a leader who his teammates willingly follow.
He is not a dynamic personality who plays with a fire in his stomach and inspires his teams with bravado and personality. But he is someone who conducts himself with about as much stress as someone lifting themselves out of a deckside chase lounge to go take a dip in the pool.
“That was kind of evident in the Saints game,” Blythe said. “Just the way he can remain calm and gave us the encouragement we needed.”
So unfazed by everything that’s happened to him leading up to this point, Goff has been able to process and compartmentalize it all into a steady stewardship that his teammates follow.
“It’s just Jared being Jared,” Sullivan said.
Jared Goff’s cool demeanor keeps the Rams calm. (Kirby Lee / USA TODAY Sports)
Goff has endured his share of difficult challenges. First, there was the disastrous one-win freshman season at Cal when he was constantly under siege and victimized by an inexperienced and ineffective offensive line. The eventual turnaround in Berkeley saw him rise from the chaos to lead the Golden Bears to a bowl game his final season and distinguish himself as the No. 1 overall selection in the 2016 NFL draft.Then, there was the catastrophic rookie year in Los Angeles that resulted in the firing of head coach Jeff Fisher and the raising of legitimate doubts about Goff’s ability to be a franchise quarterback befitting the draft’s top pick. He helped orchestrate a swift and decisive personal and team turnaround that earned him Pro Bowl honors and placed the Rams on the doorstep of a Super Bowl championship.
Through it all, Goff has remained the same chill kid from Marin County. The effect his presence has on the Rams is one his teammates appreciate as much as they respect.
“Do I think Jared’s demeanor helps this offense? Absolutely,” Sullivan said. “I think him being so calm and cool is a really calming influence on everybody. Because we’ve got a lot of Type A guys that are high strung. Jared kind of levels everyone out. So I think he’s done an amazing job and his personality is a huge part of his success.”
“He’s just a special kid,” left tackle Andrew Whitworth said. “I’ve said it since the first day I came to training camp and really since the first day I met him. I realized that he’s a special kid. I told my wife before these playoffs started that it’s the first year it really wasn’t about me. I was more nervous for these playoffs because I believe in Jared Goff and I believe he deserves to win, and I want to be right about that. That’s what means most to me.”
What we’ve learned, ultimately, is that Goff isn’t shaped or defined by what happens to him as much as how he copes and processes situations by applying his own personality.
It’s why his struggles at Cal and in his rookie season with the Rams didn’t crush him. And why the incredible high of quarterbackinng the Rams to the Super Bowl won’t change him. Goff has floated around Atlanta this week as if he just dropped into town for a two-day minicamp.
Almost by osmosis, that personality has rubbed off on his teammates.
“Vinny, this isn’t much different than open locker room in Thousand Oaks, right?” Sullivan asked me during one of the Rams’ media availabilities this week.
There were at least three hundred reporters swarming around. It was chaotic and claustrophobic. Sullivan looked on with a smile. Just around the corner, Goff held court with his typical easy smile.
“Just a few more people,” Sullivan continued, laughing. “We’ve traveled all over the place. We’ve played out of the country. We stayed in Jacksonville for a week. We got displaced by wildfires. We went to the Broadmore in Colorado. We were supposed to play in Mexico City, had to adapt and go back to play in L.A. I mean, look I understand there’s a lot of hoopla around this, but at the end of the day, it’s a football game.
“We’ve traveled a ton and done a bunch of crazy stuff in two years as a team. I promise this is having no effect on us.”
That’s the influence Goff — in his own unique, laid-back way — can have on a team.
“I get that question a lot,” Goff said of why he has that effect on teammates. “I don’t have a good answer for you. Because I don’t know.”
znModeratorCould they lure another receiver via free agency? Someone who would be even better than Woods, Kupp or Cooks? As in, push all of the current wideouts down one notch? Just my take, but I’d love to see them find a really big receiver, with enough speed to gain separation, a huge wingspan for a dominant “catch radius,” and the skill set to win contested passes.
They could for around 18 M, which will probably be the going rate for FA WRs in 2019.
And, they are already pushing the limit in terms of big contracts. They’re getting to the point where they will be lucky to sign MOST (and certainly not all) of their own internal FAs (including Goff). Adding expensive outside FAs may be too much of a stretch for them.
znModeratorProFootballTalk@ProFootballTalk
Jared Goff becomes fifth Super Bowl QB from Cal, most of any collegeMike McCartney@MikeMcCartney7
I get tired of all the Super Bowl hype. But what does excite me is one can make an argument that the Super Bowl will pit the 2 best offensive play callers, Sean McVay and Josh McDaniel against the 2 best defensive play callers, Bill Belichick (w Brian Flores) and Wade Phillips.==
NFL asked Rams who they wanted to present trophy if they win Super Bowl. Club said Jack Youngblood and informed him. League THEN said policy is for it to be a Super Bowl winner! Youngblood told me on KFNS Radio "it was the maddest his wife has ever been!"
— Howard Balzer (@HBalzer721) February 2, 2019
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San Diego #Fleet WR Nelson Spruce on his thoughts on the #Rams pic.twitter.com/C69SVYwWi2
— Downtown Rams (@DowntownRams) February 2, 2019
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Relive the Rams run to the Super Bowl after an impressive Year 2 of the Sean McVay regime!https://t.co/sWN8JEPGh4 pic.twitter.com/mjnaCjBOv5
— Pro Football Focus (@PFF) February 2, 2019
znModeratorProFootballTalk@ProFootballTalk
Jared Goff becomes fifth Super Bowl QB from Cal, most of any collegeMike McCartney@MikeMcCartney7
I get tired of all the Super Bowl hype. But what does excite me is one can make an argument that the Super Bowl will pit the 2 best offensive play callers, Sean McVay and Josh McDaniel against the 2 best defensive play callers, Bill Belichick (w Brian Flores) and Wade Phillips.==
NFL asked Rams who they wanted to present trophy if they win Super Bowl. Club said Jack Youngblood and informed him. League THEN said policy is for it to be a Super Bowl winner! Youngblood told me on KFNS Radio "it was the maddest his wife has ever been!"
— Howard Balzer (@HBalzer721) February 2, 2019
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San Diego #Fleet WR Nelson Spruce on his thoughts on the #Rams pic.twitter.com/C69SVYwWi2
— Downtown Rams (@DowntownRams) February 2, 2019
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Relive the Rams run to the Super Bowl after an impressive Year 2 of the Sean McVay regime!https://t.co/sWN8JEPGh4 pic.twitter.com/mjnaCjBOv5
— Pro Football Focus (@PFF) February 2, 2019
znModeratorAP NFL@AP_NFL
While the Patriots have been the image of stability, the Rams moved to LA, had 7 head coaches and used 20 starting QBs since losing to the Pats in the #SuperBowl 17 years ago.Vincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
I got #Rams running back Todd Gurley going off with an MVP worthy performance Sunday against the #Patriots in Super Bowl LIII.Rich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
No injury designation for either team today, so all are good to go for Sunday, including Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein. He was listed as a full practice participant today.znModeratorWell, my take on that was not that he wanted only ‘elites’ to vote, but that he wanted only people who were ‘educated’ to vote. To me it was a vid about education, and what ‘education’ IS and what it ‘ought to be.
Maybe ‘education’ in a corporotacracy is essentially propaganda.
And what it ‘ought’ to be is…somethin else.w
vWell yeah….but as you pretty much point out, the people who run the corporotacracy ARE educated. Anyway in the Athens of Socrates they did not have universal compulsory education anyway so the 2 situations do not quite line up.
znModeratorferragamo79
Interesting comment on Golic and Wingo radio show
they had Adam Thielen on and he picked the Rams to win the Super Bowl due to their offense. Said Belichick is very good at game planning and taking away one weapon, but the Rams have multiple weapons and their offense is legit. Dangerous especially if Gurley is on his game (he too wondered what was going on with TGII vs Saints). Also, noted like many, Rams front four can get to Brady.
Wingo responded……Interesting, in all out player interviews we have had, all the players have the Rams winning the Superbowl. Keep in mind the Viking played both the Rams and Patsys. This to me says a lot because these players know the game best and many have played the Rams team, unlike radio/TV personalities who know little to nothing.
znModeratorJared Goff made some clutch throws in the NFC Championship game, and Peyton Manning is here to break them down.
Watch Manning analyze Goff’s big plays in “Detail,” exclusively on ESPN+. pic.twitter.com/Vx2jQ3WZ4G
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) January 28, 2019
znModeratorJared Goff made some clutch throws in the NFC Championship game, and Peyton Manning is here to break them down.
Watch Manning analyze Goff’s big plays in “Detail,” exclusively on ESPN+. pic.twitter.com/Vx2jQ3WZ4G
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) January 28, 2019
znModeratorRyan Kartje@Ryan_Kartje
Talking to Rams defensive players and coaches, I get the sense they’re focusing a lot of their energy on stopping the Patriots run game, first and foremost.==
Elvis
Something i heard Pat Kirwan say on SXM:
Wade has faced Brady 11 times, lost 8 of them but held Brady to an average of 23 points.
If we hold NE to 23, i like our chances.
znModeratorThere are 2 QBs in the NFL with 8,400 yards, 60 TDs, < 20 INTs and a completion rate of at least 63% since 2017
– Tom Brady
– Jared GoffThat's ithttps://t.co/VtZh1kERi5
— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) January 30, 2019
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