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znModeratorWell, i just finished watching the first quarter.
Jeezus.
Fire the offensive coordinator.
What chokers.
This team wasnt ready to play.
Wait till next year.
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vThey were just there a year too early.
Be proud they even made it that far.
znModeratorJared Goff and Rams end up making the biggest noise in New Orleans
SAM FARMER
https://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-rams-saints-farmer-20190120-story.html
The biggest game of Jared Goff’s life began with a scramble.
Before going on the field for his first series, in the deafening cacophony of the Superdome, the Rams quarterback realized the coach-to-quarterback earpiece was on the fritz. He couldn’t get the plays. So he swapped helmets with backup quarterback Sean Mannion, also fitted with an earpiece, and ran out to face the New Orleans Saints.
While the equipment staff worked frantically on his helmet, Goff cupped his hands over his earholes, trying to hear his coach. The Saints showed that on the video board, which only encouraged the crowd to scream louder. When he finally got his helmet back on the next series, he had to tape over the earholes for any prayer of hearing coach Sean McVay.
In the wake of a 26-23 upset Sunday that sent the Rams to the Super Bowl, let the record show: Goff lost his helmet but not his head.
“It was disorienting loud, but we fought through it,” Goff said. “It wasn’t loud enough, I guess.”
Three years into his NFL career, one that began with an 0-7 starting slide as a rookie, Goff has the Rams four quarters away from the second Lombardi Trophy in Los Angeles history, one to match the feat of the L.A. Raiders 35 years ago.
Goff completed 25 of 40 passes for 297 yards and a touchdown, with an interception that glanced off the hands of Todd Gurley. The Saints’ Drew Brees, sure to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, had one more completion than Goff — 26 of 40 — for 249 yards and two touchdowns.
Goff, 24, was the “other guy” in this final-four cluster of quarterbacks. Even though he was the No. 1 overall pick in 2016 and made back-to-back Pro Bowls the last two years, Goff ran a distant fourth in the eyes of many to Tom Brady, Brees and Patrick Mahomes, the likely most valuable player.
“We’re sure glad he’s our quarterback, we have a lot of belief in him,” McVay said of Goff. “When you look at the trajectory of his career, what he’s done over the last two years since our coaching staff has had a chance to work with him, we feel like he’s certainly been one of the best quarterbacks in this league. And I wouldn’t want anyone else leading our football team.”
The Rams are fine with that assessment. They’re headed to the Super Bowl, their ears still ringing from the Superdome. Goff had to get so close to his teammates in the huddle, they had to touch facemasks with the quarterback so they could hear him.
“We were almost in a piano formation, where you had one guy low, another guy high, another guy low, and he’d go down the line,” guard Rodger Saffold said.
Goff showed against the Saints what he has displayed throughout the season: uncommon poise under intense pressure. It showed in the final two minutes of the first half, when he threaded a 17-yard completion to Brandin Cooks on third and 10, then dropped the ball into a bucket on the next play, a 36-yard completion to Cooks that set up the Rams’ first touchdown.
It showed in the fourth quarter, too, when he started the tying field-goal drive at the Rams nine, as the decibel count climbed like the temperature in Dubai, and squeezed in throws for gains of 39 and 33 yards.
Then there was the toss for 16 yards to Robert Woods on third and three to set up another tying kick by Greg Zuerlein at the end of regulation …
The 12-yard throw to Tyler Higbee to cross midfield in overtime and set the stage for Zuerlein’s game-winner …
“The performance was amazing,” Rams left tackle Andrew Whitworth said. “To beat Drew Brees in this arena, this is one special place to play. … He’s just a special kid. I’ve said it since we came to training camp, and really since the day I met him.
“I told my wife before the playoffs started, this was the first year that it really wasn’t about me. I honestly felt like I was more nervous for these playoffs because I believe in Jared Goff. I believe that he deserves to win, and I just want to be right about that.”
This is the dream scenario the Rams envisioned for themselves, and for Goff, when they flew to Berkeley to work him out before the 2016 draft. It rained that day, and they gave Goff the opportunity to postpone the workout. No, he told them, he wanted to throw.
“The great thing about Jared, and Sean talks about it all the time, is he never blinks,” said Kevin Demoff, Rams chief operating officer. “He had let Cal from 1-11 to a bowl game a couple of years later. You saw that confidence that he could take over a program.
“I remember having some long chats with Jared — and certainly he had them with Les [Snead, the general manager] as well, where he said, ‘I know what this looks like. I know how to turn around this team. I’ve been part of it. We did it at Cal. We’re not that far.’ ”
Goff knew what it looked like. And Sunday, as that winning kick sailed through the uprights of the silenced Superdome, he knew what it sounded like, too.
znModeratorRams beat Saints in overtime, will face Patriots in Super Bowl
GARY KLEIN
https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/la-sp-rams-saints-20190120-story.html
The Rams spent the offseason adding pieces for a Super Bowl run.
Trade for two star cornerbacks and a star receiver here. Sign a star defensive lineman there. Reinforce the roster during the season with a dangerous edge rusher and a veteran running back.
They were the weapons Sean McVay and Jared Goff needed to take the next step, after the young coach and quarterback had returned the Rams to the playoffs and the position of title contender.
On Sunday, all the work paid off.
Amid deafening noise at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Goff helped set up longtime Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein, who nailed a 57-yard field goal in overtime to defeat the New Orleans Saints 26-23 in the NFC championship game before a stunned crowd of 73,028.
The Rams advanced to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 2001 season, and the first time since the 1979 season as a Los Angeles team. They will play the New England Patriots, a 37-31 overtime winner Sunday at Kansas City, on Feb. 3 in Atlanta.
“It wasn’t always perfect,” McVay said, “but we made enough plays, and I think really the overtime period personifies what this team is all about.”
The victory was not without controversy.
The officials did not call a penalty against Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman for pass interference or for a helmet-to-helmet hit on receiver Tommylee Lewis in the final two minutes of regulation. Instead of continuing to run the clock, the Saints were forced to kick a field goal that put them ahead, 23-20, but left time for the Rams to tie the score on a field goal with 15 seconds left.
“They blew the call,” Saints coach Sean Payton said.
Said McVay: “I am certainly not going to complain about the way that was officiated.”
There was plenty of hollering and laughter in a jubilant Rams locker room after they overcame an early 13-0 deficit, avenged a November defeat at New Orleans and silenced the crowd.
“I have a really big headache right now from yelling all day,” McVay joked.
Cornerbacks Aqib Talib and Marcus Peters, defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh and receiver Brandin Cooks — all acquired in the offseason — celebrated with joyous teammates. All played roles in either neutralizing future Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees or helping Goff on clutch drives.
“Nobody in the room’s any happier than those guys,” Rams owner Stan Kroenke said.
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On a day when star running back Todd Gurley scored a touchdown but mainly gave way to C.J. Anderson, the Rams offense got out of an early funk after punter Johnny Hekker completed a fourth-down pass to Sam Shields to keep alive a second-quarter drive.The play allowed Goff to put a first-quarter interception behind him, and he led the Rams to their first three points. The Rams pulled to within 13-10 by halftime, but trailed 20-17 entering the fourth quarter. Zuerlein tied the score on a 24-yard field goal with about five minutes left, and then the Saints settled for Wil Lutz’s 31-yard kick after the non-call involving Robey-Coleman.
Zuerlein’s 48-yard field goal with 15 seconds left in regulation set the stage for another game-turning play in overtime.
The Saints had the ball and a second and 16 at their 34-yard line. Rams linebacker Dante Fowler, a trade-deadline acquisition, and veteran lineman Michael Brockers pressured Brees.
“He was holding the ball a long time,” Fowler said. “He finally threw it and I got my hand on it.”
The ball fluttered toward Saints receiver Michael Thomas and Rams safety John Johnson, who was falling backward.
“I had ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ playing in my head,” offensive lineman Rodger Saffold said. “I was just praying that thing would come down and be for us.”
Johnson joked that he was glad he had his contact lenses in.
“It was up there for forever,” he said. “I kind of felt like a punt returner. I just fell back with it. I’m glad I caught it.”
After the interception, the Rams took over at their 46-yard line. Goff completed two passes to tight end Tyler Higbee before an incomplete pass brought on Zuerlein.
“In your head, it’s like going back to when you’re a little kid,” Zuerlein said, referring to practicing game-winning plays.
Zuerlein’s kick split the uprights and sent the Rams into a celebration.
“This is everything we expected, man,” said Talib, who along with Peters came to the Rams via trades. “We expected to get their best shot from a team with a Hall of Fame quarterback.
“We just knew it was going to take 60 minutes or more, and that’s what we did. We came out and played more.”
Kroenke said McVay, who led the Rams to their first winning seasons in 14 years, “created that special culture, and I think you saw that today.”
Saffold, a ninth-year pro and the longest-tenured Rams player, said it was “un … be … lievable” to be heading to the Super Bowl.
“Just to be able to get to this point, this is the pinnacle,” Saffold said. “Because I know exactly what we’ve been through through the years.”
January 21, 2019 at 10:41 am in reply to: Refs also missed several calls that really hurt Rams #97017znModeratorYes, there were some missed calls earlier in the game, but I don’t think there were many blatant missed calls.
The pass interference by NRC was blatant.
Doesn’t take away from the win at all imo. Great game by both teams. Don’t think anyone got hurt which is huge.
All true IMO. And unfortunately the non-call will never go away. For non-Rams fans it will define that game forever.
Is that fair or right? I am not even sure that;s the right question. It just is what it is.
I do think this though. If the situation were reversed and the Rams could have won except for a non-call near the end like that, my guess is most of us would NEVER let it go.
Here’s what we can do though. We can patiently wait for the day when the McVay Rams have done so much that the non-call just becomes old history. It won’t disappear but it can be superseded. Till then think of it as just another speed bump in the way of the Rams getting the respect they deserve.
That’s how I am taking it anyway.
Nothin wrong with that approach IMO.
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znModeratorOh by the way…
🗣 WE WEARING THROWBACKS AT THE SUPER BOWL! pic.twitter.com/MfHN6W0k4T
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) January 21, 2019
znModeratorAnd GOFF! Goff showed me something really, really big today. His numbers weren’t great (they were pretty good, though), but he held that team together through hurricane force crowd noise that lasted the entire game, but was especially fierce in the first quarter. I don’t think last year’s Goff would have made it. That was F-ing magnificent. He kept that team going, right into the teeth of that noise, and a very stiff New Orleans defense that played very well.
This is posted in another thread but fits here too.
Ben Maller@benmaller
Jared Goff outplayed Drew Brees for the balance of the game. Brees after the first quarter was 16/25, 138 yards (5.5 y/a), 1 TD, 1 Int, 75.0 QB rating. Goff after the first quarter was 22/28, 292 yards (10.4 y/a) 122.0 QB rating. #LARamsznModeratorAnd GOFF! Goff showed me something really, really big today. His numbers weren’t great (they were pretty good, though), but he held that team together through hurricane force crowd noise that lasted the entire game, but was especially fierce in the first quarter. I don’t think last year’s Goff would have made it. That was F-ing magnificent. He kept that team going, right into the teeth of that noise, and a very stiff New Orleans defense that played very well.
This is posted in another thread but fits here too.
Ben Maller@benmaller
Jared Goff outplayed Drew Brees for the balance of the game. Brees after the first quarter was 16/25, 138 yards (5.5 y/a), 1 TD, 1 Int, 75.0 QB rating. Goff after the first quarter was 22/28, 292 yards (10.4 y/a) 122.0 QB rating. #LARamsznModeratorBen Maller@benmaller
Jared Goff outplayed Drew Brees for the balance of the game. Brees after the first quarter was 16/25, 138 yards (5.5 y/a), 1 TD, 1 Int, 75.0 QB rating. Goff after the first quarter was 22/28, 292 yards (10.4 y/a) 122.0 QB rating. #LARamsznModeratorPerfectly Imperfect Rams Celebrate Bizarre NFC Conference Championship Victory
McVay makes it seem like everything is hunky-dory with Todd Gurley—Rams star back had only four touches vs. Saints, but it apparently wasn’t injury-related
Fowler’s big hit leads to Johnson’s overtime pick, helping clinch NFC Championship
Game Recap: Rams beat Saints in overtime in New Orleans, head to Super Bowl LIII
https://www.therams.com/news/rams-beat-saints-in-overtime-in-new-orleans-head-to-super-bowl-liii
Goff before hoisting NFC Championship trophy: “This team is special and I’m happy to be a part of it.”
The Rams went all-in, and now they are going to the Super Bowl
Seven Stats: Rams win the NFC Championship, advance to Super Bowl LIII
https://www.therams.com/news/seven-stats-rams-win-the-nfc-championship-advance-to-super-bowl-liii
Zuerlein leads big day for special teams, sending Rams to Super Bowl LIII with 57-yard field goal
znModeratorVincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
All those tough wins this year that drove fans nuts prepared the #Rams for all this. It’s the #NFL. It’s rarely gonna be easy. Learning how to win, battling, dealing with adversity, that’s what it’s all about. It’s how they could win a game in that environmentThe two Cali quarterbacks beat the two Texas QB’s. Settles that argument once and for all.
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Rams make it to Super Bowl once every Super Wolf Blood Moon.Rich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
I’m still trying to get over the fact that Sean McVay, six days after his 14th birthday, attended the Rams-Titans Super Bowl, coached by Jeff Fisher in 2000, IN ATLANTA.Lindsay Jones@bylindsayhjones
Another moment from the Rams’ post-game locker room: Someone tapped Josh Kroenke (Stan’s son, who runs the Nuggets/Avs) on the shoulder with a phone. “It’s Magic Johnson. He wants to say ‘Congratulations.” So very LA.ProFootballTalk@ProFootballTalk
Marcus Peters: I don’t even eat gumboDowntown Rams@DowntownRams
It wasn’t long ago Ndamukong Suh was deciding between signing with the Los Angeles #Rams and the New Orleans #Saints. He came up big in this game and last week’s game. Safe to say this game would have been different had he chosen the Saints in the offseason.znModeratorLindsey Thiry
Gurley: I’m not injured, just played ‘sorry’ game
The Rams’ star running back stood on the sideline with his helmet on throughout most of the NFC Championship Game and hardly appeared in action as backup C.J. Anderson rushed for 44 yards on 16 carriesSeth Walder
ESPN Stats & Info: This will be the first time that the same metropolitan areas will meet in the Super Bowl and World Series in the same season.Seth Walder
Aaron Donald was double-teamed at a higher rate by the Saints Sunday (79% of pass plays) than in any other game this season. He also was held to his second-lowest pass rush win rate (18%) this year. In the regular season Donald recorded a PRWR of 46%, higher than any other qualifying player in the league. PRWR is an ESPN metric powered by NFL Next Gen Stats.znModeratorI’m super happy. Who’s with me?
Me! That’s who!
I’m as happy as both of you.
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znModeratorVincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
Jared Goff had to use Sean Mannion’s helmet first few series because his communication system with sideline completely malfunctionedCharles Robinson@CharlesRobinson
#Rams Marcus Peters on #Saints anger over blown pass interference: “If they coach run the football on first and second down, they probably ain’t even going to be sitting here talking about this. … You give Sean McVay the ball back with 1:43 or something, we’re going to score.”Gregg Rosenthal@greggrosenthal
Saints got the ball 4 times in the 4th quarter and OT. Scored 3 points and Brees turned it over.Peter Schrager@PSchrags
Horrible call? Sure. But the Rams showed inredible heart there, too. Heck of a job by LA, down 10, second half in hardest building to win in, as well.Torry Holt@BigGame81
@JHekker outstanding job getting the ball held for Greg “The Leg” on that game winner. Play of the game quietly #Rams #SB53NFL Research@NFLResearch
There has never been a season where both Conference Championship games went to overtime in the Super Bowl era.Brian Baldinger@BaldyNFL
.@patriots v @chiefs @RamsNFL v @saints has given us the best Championship Sunday Ever. 2 OT’s with the stars lighting up the TV screens around the world. #BaldysBreakdownstrey wingo@wingoz
If you’re wondering….2012 was the last time both home teams lost on championship SundayznModeratorLindsey Thiry@LindseyThiry
Nickell Robey-Coleman tells me that the official told him the ball got tipped, on the hit he made when officials didn’t call pass interference.Booger@ESPNBooger
Questions to answer.Sean Payton why throw the 1st play after Ginn catch
McVay – what’s wrong with Gurley
Payton- what did the ref say to u on the non PI call ?
McVay. Why not go for it on 4th and goal from 6 inch line
I can keep going but that’s enough for now
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All of LA is proud of the @RamsNFL for securing the victory over the New Orleans Saints to send them to the Super Bowl.Tedy Bruschi@TedyBruschi
That no call wasn’t playoff officiating. That was bad officiating. Really bad.Next Gen Stats@NextGenStats
The Rams offense featured Todd Gurley on only 32 offensive plays, his fewest in a game under Sean McVay. C.J. Anderson played more snaps and finished the game with more touches.Anderson: 17 touches on 35 plays
Gurley: 5 touches on 32 playsAeneas Williams@aeneas35
Congrats to these young Rams! This is a resilient team! Wow! Good Game!=
Sean McVay coming into the building with the same suit and tie combo as his introductory press conference! Love it!! pic.twitter.com/VP9LG34qeg
— Harrison Faulk (@harrison_faulk) January 20, 2019
znModeratorDrew Brees' face looks exactly the way you'd expect someone's face to look when being chased by Suh and Donald pic.twitter.com/XGY3hhRvke
— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) January 20, 2019
znModeratorJohn Johnson really did it to ‘em pic.twitter.com/2ZmAXbKdnq
— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) January 20, 2019
znModeratorHBD LES!!!!! 🎉 pic.twitter.com/mtDgzoZTmg
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) January 20, 2019
znModeratorI am a wreck. Haven’t had the Championship Game nerves in years. I forgot how tough it gets.
I may pass out.
GO RAMS!!!!
My feeling is, if not this one, then the next couple of em.
So no personally I am not nervous.
January 20, 2019 at 11:07 am in reply to: Orlovolsky & Baldinger etc. on key Rams plays from the Dallas game #96922znModeratorznModeratorAg, I moved one if that’s okay…http://theramshuddle.com/topic/orlovolsky/#post-96922
January 20, 2019 at 10:28 am in reply to: Rams rank 6th for number of hall of famers in franchise history #96919znModeratorI noticed in going through that slideshow that they listed Dickerson as one of Atlanta’s HOF players, too. Officially, players don’t go in with a team, I don’t think. They do in baseball, I believe. So that list is “unofficial,” and there can’t be an official list.
I know a few years ago there was quite a backlog of great WRs, and I’m guessing there still is. Don’t know if/when Bruce gets in.
Thanks for the 9ers fan view. Rams fans sometimes forget about that perspective.
znModeratorHow does Aqib Talib help the defense? John Johnson explains
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It All Comes Down to Rams’ New Corners
By GARY GRAMLING January 20, 2019
1. Some 10-plus months ago, the Rams swung two deals that seemed to transform their secondary into something potentially special. First, they got Marcus Peters from the Chiefs in a trade that was immediately dubbed the stealingest steal or all stealy steals that have ever been so stealily stolen and so on and so forth. Then, they brought in Aqib Talib, an old Wade Phillips pal. The Rams hadn’t just added two talented corners, they had added two of the most dangerous ball-hawking corners in football. They’d have Aaron Donald wreaking havoc up front, then Peters and Talib feasting on the back end, grabbing pick after pick.
As the Rams head to New Orleans for the NFC title game, it’s in spite of their cornerback play. The duo that was supposed to be among the team’s strengths now looks like its biggest vulnerability. Talib missed half the season after ankle surgery and, while he’s rounding back into form, isn’t quite back to his old self. Then there’s Peters, who the Rams traveled with No. 1 receivers for a while this year. They had to abandon that approach after Peters too often became the human embodiment of a piece of bread heated to a char by some kind of electronic mechanism.
When these teams met in Week 9, Talib was out and Peters could not cover Michael Thomas. (You remember, he caught 12 passes for 211 yards including the 72-yard TD after which he performed the season’s lamest touchdown celebration by rehashing the previous decade’s lamest touchdown celebration—kind of like the TD celebration equivalent of when they remake The Emoji Movie in 2029). Even if the Peters-Talib duo had lived up to expectations this season, the Saints are a tough matchup for them. Peters and Talib are both off-coverage corners who want to keep an eye on the backfield and jump routes. But Drew Brees feeds off that. He’s arguably the best of all-time at manipulating defensive backs with his eyes and his shoulders—looking into the backfield against Brees is begging for trouble. The best way to defend the Saints right now would be to put your corners up on the line of scrimmage and make Brees, whose suspect arm strength was on display at times late in the year, beat you over the top. For the Rams, that would be asking their corners to completely change their styles, take on new identities, transform their very souls! It’s probably not a very good option.
The Rams could win on Sunday if Aaron Donald plays at his absolute peak and wrecks the game—always a real possibility. Or, if Jared Goff plays the game of his life and the Rams simply outscore New Orleans in their own building. Otherwise, Wade Phillips will have to come up with some kind of original plan for his two question marks at cornerback
January 20, 2019 at 10:06 am in reply to: Maga kids go racist on native american demonstration #96916znModerator
znModeratorAqib Talib is cornerstone of Rams’ efforts to rein in Saints
https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Aqib-Talib-is-cornerstone-of-Rams-efforts-to-13547294.php
Saints-Rams NFC title game a clash of like-minded coaches
Rams’ pricey defense has to prove its worth versus Saints
Jim Hill Goes One-On-One With Rams Head Coach Sean McVay…CBS2/KCAL9 Sports Director Jim Hill chats up Sean McVay on the eve of the NFC championship game against the Saints.
January 19, 2019 at 6:22 pm in reply to: Maga kids go racist on native american demonstration #96905znModerator‘It was getting ugly’: Native American drummer speaks on the MAGA-hat wearing teens who surrounded him
The images in a series of videos that went viral on social media Saturday showed a tense scene near the Lincoln Memorial.
In them, a Native American man steadily beats his drum at the tail end of Friday’s Indigenous Peoples March while singing a song of unity for indigenous people to “be strong” in the face of the ravages of colonialism that now include police brutality, poor access to health care and the ill effects of climate change on reservations.
Surrounding him are a throng of young, mostly white teenage boys, several wearing Make America Great Again caps, with one standing about a foot from the drummer’s face wearing a relentless smirk.
Nathan Phillips, a veteran in the indigenous rights movement, was that man in the middle.
In an interview Saturday, Phillips, 64, said he felt threatened by the teens and that they suddenly swarmed around him as he and other activists were wrapping up the march and preparing to leave.
Phillips, who was singing the American Indian Movement song of unity that serves as a ceremony to send the spirits home, said he noticed tensions beginning to escalate when the teens and other apparent participants from the nearby March for Life rally began taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd.
A few people in the March for Life crowd began to chant “Build that wall, build that wall,” he said.
“It was getting ugly, and I was thinking: ‘I’ve got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial,’ ” Phillips recalled. “I started going that way, and that guy in the hat stood in my way and we were at an impasse. He just blocked my way and wouldn’t allow me to retreat.”
So, he kept drumming and singing, thinking about his wife, Soshana, who died from bone marrow cancer nearly four years ago, and the various threats that face indigenous communities around the world, he said.
“I felt like the spirit was talking through me,” Phillips said.
The encounter generated a wave of outrage on social media less than a week after President Trump made light of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre of several hundred Lakota Indians by the U.S. Cavalry in a tweet that was meant to mock Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D), who Trump derisively calls “Pocahontas.”
[Trump invokes one of the worst Native American massacres to mock Elizabeth Warren]
In a statement, the Indigenous Peoples Movement, which organized Friday’s march, called the incident “emblematic of our discourse in Trump’s America.”
“It clearly demonstrates the validity of our concerns about the marginalization and disrespect of Indigenous peoples, and it shows that traditional knowledge is being ignored by those who should listen most closely,” Darren Thompson, an organizer for the group, said in the statement.
Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney with the Lakota People Law Project, said the incident lasted about 10 minutes and ended when Phillips and other activists walked away.
“It was an aggressive display of physicality. They were rambunctious and trying to instigate a conflict,” he said. “We were wondering where their chaperones were. [Phillips] was really trying to defuse the situation.”
[A march takes on new meaning in the age of Trump]
Some of the teens in the video wore sweatshirts from Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., which sent students to Washington to participate in Friday’s antiabortion March for Life event, according to an archived page of the school’s website that was taken down on Saturday.
On Saturday, school officials did not respond to messages for comment.
Laura Keener, spokeswoman for the diocese of Covington, said officials there are investigating.
“We are just now learning about this incident and regret it took place,” Keener said in a statement. “We are looking into it.”
Phillips, an Omaha tribe elder who also fought in the Vietnam War, has encountered anti-Native American sentiments before: In 2015, Phillips was verbally attacked by a group of Eastern Michigan University students who were dressed as Native Americans during a theme party near the town of Ypsilanti, according to news reports.
Phillips had approached the group, informing them that their celebration was racially offensive, a local Fox News station reported. One of the students threw a beer can at him, Phillips told the news outlet.
But the incident on Friday, combined with the ensuing attention from media outlets scrambling to get his story, left him shaken.
“I’m still trying to process what happened,” Phillips said. “I’m feeling a little bit overwhelmed.”
znModeratorMichael Giardi@MikeGiardi
Jason McCourty hasn’t seen anything like Pat Mahomes, “You turn the film on, you’ll see him throw with his left hand and you’ll see him roll out to the right and throw the ball back across the middle to the other side of the field and you’ll just be like, “How does he do it?”znModeratorVincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
#Rams and #Saints have played each other during the regular season the last three years and once this preseason. Sunday’s #NFC championship game will be their 5th matchup since 2016.znModeratorI will say this about that.
Somewhere in the Cowboys’ autopsy report, I saw that they played 8 in the box on less than 10% of the snaps, iirc.
I can’t see the Saints looking at that, and deciding to emulate that strategy.
I think Goff got tripped up a little in the Slump Games, and does not have exactly the same level of confidence he did before the bye. But I also regard it as a “development stage” thing. Why do I have that kind of faith? Cause he was positively awful and beat the hell up his first year at Cal and developed anyway, same with 2016 and he came out of it in 2017. So I just assume he survives his speed bumps.
And that’s not to say that post-Slump Goff is not a good qb, he absolutely is. Among his “what the hell was that?” throws against Dallas there were also some of his just fantastically accurate throws.
But if this were pre-bye Goff, there would be no contest.
I just assume that because he COULD do that, he will do it again…more consistently. It just might take an off-season.
For the record I happen to think that Slump Goff was not Goff in himself or even Goff reacting to pressure, it was Goff playing against A LOT of pressure in games where the OL had regressed a bit. But as we know games like that can erode confidence and so I just don’t see post-slump Goff as being quite as confident as pre-bye Goff. I encountered responses to that claim (it was Goff reacting to an unaccustomed level of pressure) where guys said, so he needs things to be perfect. Sigh. No. The idea is that the pressure in those games was WAY beyond the norm and only rare qbs are not affected by that (Wilson might be one … but then we have seen him crack under Rams pressure before so maybe it’s nobody).
Again though you don’t just stumble into playing like he did pre-bye. That’s in him. It’s just a matter (I think anyway) of time and seasoning drawing it out as a more consistent thing.
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Rams may have the best run-blocking offensive line ever: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/01/19/rams-may-have-the-best-run-blocking-offensive-line-ever/mark schlereth@markschlereth
This is exactly why I hate stats. The Rams are great but this is a ridiculous article and Stat… does this that take into consideration that everybody matches up in nickel and dime? That teams no longer value stopping the run because it such a pass heavy league? Just Stop—
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Can the #LARams finish drives tomorrow?Led the NFL in red zone opportunities; 18th in converting their chances into touchdowns. Settled for two early FGs vs Dallas last week.
Surprising about the Saints defense: 64% of opponents’ trips resulted in TDs (25th in the league).
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