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znModeratorInjury Report: Cooper Returning to Practice This Week
https://www.therams.com/news/injury-report-cooper-returning-to-practice-this-weekQuotes & Notes 11/15/18: McVay on Peters’ Smack Talk and Patrick Mahomes
https://www.therams.com/news/quotes-notes-11-15-18-mcvay-on-peters-smack-talk-and-patrick-mahomesDaily Dose: Comparing the Rams and Chiefs
https://www.therams.com/news/daily-dose-comparing-the-rams-and-chiefsOpposing View: Chiefs HC Andy Reid Speaks Highly of L.A. Stars, Talks Mahomes’ Growth
https://www.therams.com/news/opposing-view-chiefs-hc-andy-reid-speaks-highly-of-l-a-stars-talks-mahomes-growtNovember 15, 2018 at 10:53 pm in reply to: highlights & featured plays, Seattle game (w/ Waldman, Orlovsky, etc.) #93951znModeratorSean McVay remained a step ahead of the Seattle defense with his play-calling in Sunday's win. The Rams' touchdown drive at the end of the third quarter was a perfect illustration of that.
From @FB_FilmAnalysis https://t.co/XbzUoae6ZI
— The Athletic (@TheAthleticLA) November 15, 2018
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znModeratorRich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
Andy Reid is very happy to come back to his hometown: “I want nothing but the best for the city of Los Angeles. I was born there. I lived there through high school. I think it’s the greatest place around. It’s phenomenal. Great city.” Reid went to Marshall High and Glendale CC.Rams are now favored by 3.5 points over the Chiefs. It was 2.5 before the game got moved. Over/under sits at a large 63.5
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NFL Week 11 questions: Is Monday night's Chiefs-Rams game a preview of Super Bowl LIII? https://t.co/R04DQmuirf
— Joe Curley (@vcsjoecurley) November 15, 2018
November 15, 2018 at 10:00 pm in reply to: Rams vs KC will be moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles. #93947znModeratorThe latest on the series of events that led the NFL moving the Rams-Chiefs game from Mexico City to the Coliseum.https://t.co/UmL9IvqoJl
— Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) November 14, 2018
November 15, 2018 at 10:00 pm in reply to: Rams vs KC will be moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles. #93946znModerator“We’re just starting to scratch the surface of that relationship. Hopefully this isn’t a setback; more of just a delay.” On the "bittersweet" relocation of Monday Night Football, an exciting opportunity for LA but a void for many others … https://t.co/h91Ee15xfA
— Alden Gonzalez (@Alden_Gonzalez) November 14, 2018
znModeratorSean McVay isn't too proud to borrow, and admit to it. Andy Reid and Chiefs could be looking across at some of their own plays this week. https://t.co/30ToaaWY12
— Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) November 15, 2018
znModeratorand i hope to god i’m wrong.
i worry that he burns out. the guys is so tightly wound up.
in some ways, he reminds me of vermeil. he just cares so much. maybe too much?
we’ll see. but i think he needs to learn to relax a little bit.
My thoughts exactly. Madden, 10 years. McVay has the makings of that. (I think Madden more than DV but it’s the same general idea.)
znModeratoralyoshamucci
The Great
1) I get real satisfaction out of sweeping the Hawks.
2) Goff putting up big numbers on a workmanlike day … 300 yards 2 TDs no INTs.
3) Defense finishing the game when it counted.
The Good
4) TDs to TEs …
5) Fowler’s redemption.
6) 8 yard chunks by the O line on the ground.
7) Robert Woods in his role as “most underrated WR in the NFL.”
8) Holding on to Nick Williams.
9) Brandin Cooks pulling the extra weight …
10) Aaron getting 2.5 more sacks on Russell … I want him to have more Russell sacks than anyone else in history.
11) Another buck 20 for Gurley.
The Bad
12) It being as close as it was.
13) How many 15 yard penalties did we have?
14) How many 10+ yard runs did Russell have?
The Ugly
15) 270 rushing yards? Seriously? Like … really. What is that? And what is it with rookies cutting their teeth on us? Ugh.
znModeratorrams are cheap shot artists?
Well the Rams didn’t help their cause by stacking up personal fouls.
EG. if AD had not retaliated on Britt out of bounds, Seattle would have gotten the flag alone instead of off-setting fouls.
znModeratorAndy Reid draws from California roots, and now brings his masterpiece of a Chiefs offense to face the Rams in L.A.
SAM FARMER
http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-chiefs-andy-reid-20181113-story.html
Every so often, the artist comes out in Andy Reid.
It has nothing to do with coaching, instead those times when he puts pen to paper and allows his mind to wander.
“One time when we were talking on the phone, and he was telling me how much he remembered about when we were growing up,” said his brother, Reg, nine years older than Andy. “While we were talking, he sketched a picture of me, then emailed it. It’s just a sketch of my head, but it’s pretty realistic.”
Fans of the Kansas City Chiefs have a deep appreciation for Reid’s creativity. He draws up the offense for one the NFL’s hottest teams; finds new ways to harness the spectacular talent of quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Even now, in his 20th season as an NFL head coach, Reid remains a pigskin Picasso.
That figures. His dad, Walter, did jaw-dropping work as a scenic artist in Hollywood, creating backgrounds and props for film, television and stage production.
“My dad worked on all the Broadway plays that would come to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion,” said Reid, 60, sitting behind his desk at Chiefs headquarters. “They had these huge backdrops they’d lower from the second floor, whether it was ‘Annie Get Your Gun,’ or ‘The Wiz’ back in the day. My dad went down and worked on ‘Hair.’ It was unbelievable. You’d stand up there and look over the edge, and if you took a wrong step, you’d go down like a mile.”
The Chiefs too have reached toe-tingling heights. They’re 9-1 heading into Monday night’s game against the 9-1 Rams at the Coliseum, moved there by the NFL on Tuesday when field conditions in Mexico City became unsatisfactory. On paper, at least, it would have been the most compelling international game the league has staged. Now it will be the Rams’ first Monday night home game at the Coliseum since Nov. 19, 1979, when 54,097 watched a 20-14 victory over Atlanta.
Reid has been in plenty of huge games throughout the course of his career, including coaching Green Bay’s offensive line when the Packers won the Super Bowl in the 1996 season. Reid coached Philadelphia from 1999-2012, led the Eagles to five NFC title games and a Super Bowl, then took over in Kansas City in 2013.
There’s still a lot of Los Angeles in Reid, who grew up on Holly Knoll Drive, just around the corner from John Marshall High, his alma mater, and Walt Disney’s first California home. Reid still eats Tommy’s burgers, and not just when he’s at his offseason home in Capistrano Beach. He has frozen ones delivered by mail.
“I love those things,” he said. “It’s good for your joints — the grease. Keeps you lubed up, man.”
Comically gruff and unrevealing with the media, Reid is beloved by his players, who refer to him as “Big Red,” his hair color at an earlier age.
“He’s actually more funny than you would think,” running back Spencer Ware said. “Most people think of him as just serious. I can kind of relate to him because I always kind of have a serious look on my face and people think that I might be mean mugging. Maybe I’m joking around. So I can kind of relate to Big Red in that area.”
Reid might show his lighter side to his players, but he also gets to the point. They appreciate that.
“The biggest thing is he treats us well, treats us with respect,” tackle Mitchell Schwartz said. “I know he’s got a hard training camp and practices are long and all that. But we don’t have 20-minute meetings every day with rah-rah speeches. It’s just, ‘These are the goals, these are the expectations. Now, it’s on you to go do them.’ So he doesn’t have to be up there every day trying to get us to work hard.”
Reid, a onetime offensive tackle at Glendale College and Brigham Young University, developed his work ethic at an early age. His mother, Elizabeth, was a radiologist, and his father got him occasional work in the entertainment industry. Once, young Andy got a job serving food in the green room of a popular TV talk show, and his rule-following ways clashed with one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
“I’m not sure whether it was the Merv Griffin or the Johnny Carson show,” he said. “But they put me in charge of dishing out the sweet-and-sour meatballs — they were unbelievable — and I was told I could only give three of them out to people.
“You name it, all of Hollywood would come through those shows. I knew all the athletes, so if it was Wilt Chamberlain or one of those guys, they’d get as many meatballs as they wanted.”
But when John Wayne asked for more than three, the kid had to break the bad news.
“I found out later he was a great athlete,” Reid lamented. “Maybe I should have given him a few more meatballs.”
Reid was enormous for his age. There’s a hilarious video clip of him in a Punt, Pass and Kick competition in the early 1970s. He’s a 12-year-old man-child in a Rams uniform, with a line of kids behind him no taller than his beltline.
“The kid behind me was 8,” Reid is quick to note. “I was like 12 or 13.”
Whatever. The YouTube video leaves his players doubled over.
“Damn, that boy was huge,” Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill said. “He’s the size of Justin Houston.”
Well, maybe Reid wasn’t the size of that 6-foot-3, 258-pound Kansas City outside linebacker, but he was big enough that when he was a waterboy at Marshall, some of the varsity players asked him why he didn’t join the team.
“Mike Haynes was between my brother and me,” recalled Reid, referring to the future Hall of Fame defensive back. “He and his buddies were riding me, ‘How come you’re so big and don’t play?’ I said, ‘Listen, I’m in sixth grade.’
“They go, ‘No way!’ It’s like, I’ve been doing this waterboy thing longer than you guys have been around. I’m like the professional waterboy.”
Haynes recalls that, and more.
“I remember that when our kicker would kick the ball through the uprights, our field was so small that the ball would leave the school property and go across the street,” he said. “Andy would go get the ball and bring it back. He’d wear his youth football outfit.”
Nowadays, Reid wears shorts to practice, even when the temperature drops below freezing. He’s spent most of his adult life in cold-weather cities and is hardy like that, an artist whose medium is now Xs and O’s, a Southern Californian in spirit only.
November 14, 2018 at 12:52 pm in reply to: Dan Patrick Show: Maurice Jones-Drew Talks Rams, L.Bell, H.Berry & More (vid) #93909znModeratorM J-D is very good on Goff.
That starts at 3:05 in.
He talks about the defense missing Talib just before that, and he’s good on that too.
znModeratorInvaderRam: ok before i post this article.
Hi invader, this got double-posted so I made a judgment call and went with the version that’s stand-alone. It’s here: http://theramshuddle.com/topic/the-california-cool-of-jared-goff/
znModeratorThis got double posted (one in the Goff thread) so I made a judgment call and went with this stand alone version.
This is an exchange from the older one:
ok before i post this article. am i completely wrong or is this article off base?
i mean i know the nfl has adopted more spread concepts and i know goff was an air raid qb in college.
but in the pros goff is largely a pro style qb in a scheme that runs a lot of play action.
Well you;re right, he spends more time under center than any other qb.
That whole “the league adopted the spread and that’s what Goff is doing” stuff in that article, it’s nonsense.
November 14, 2018 at 9:42 am in reply to: Rams vs KC will be moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles. #93901znModeratorNFL must learn from Rams vs. Chiefs blunder in Mexico City for future international games
Considering all the logistical challenges, the NFL’s International Series has gone off pretty well since its inception in 2007.
Until this week, at least.
The NFL had to move Monday’s Kansas City Chiefs-Los Angeles Rams game from Mexico City back to Los Angeles due to substandard turf issues at Estadio Azteca. An October Shakira concert, a slew of soccer games and the general problems associated with new grass that was installed last spring did the game in. The playing surface just wasn’t safe to play on.
It’s certainly an embarrassment for the league. More importantly though, it should serve as a warning shot, or at least a reminder, that as much as the NFL wants to market its game around the globe, it needs to be diligent to assure conditions elsewhere match those here in the States.
“Until very recently, we had no major concerns,” Mark Waller, NFL executive vice president of International, said in a statement. “But, the combination of a difficult rainy season and a heavy multi-event calendar of events at the stadium, have resulted in significant damage to the field that presents unnecessary risks to player safety and makes it unsuitable to host an NFL game.”
It can happen and there was no other choice. The field wasn’t up to NFL standards. The players were balking. And so, with that, a dozen years into this the International Series, there was disappointment (certainly for the 90,000 fans in Mexico City who bought tickets).
Of course in Los Angeles, Rams fans get a bonus game. So, it’s not all bad for the NFL.
“Moving the game is the right decision,” Waller said. “And one that we needed to announce now in order to allow our teams and fans to make alternate arrangements.”
Commissioner Roger Goodell and his league have a chance to learn from the Rams-Chiefs Mexico City embarrassment. (Getty)
The NFL has not had a problem in London, where 24 games have been staged, 21 of them at Wembley Stadium. Locker rooms are cramped and can spill out into walkways, but the games have been fine. In an effort to deal with that, the soon-to-be-finished Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was designed to include locker rooms that can accommodate large NFL rosters and dedicated areas for medical treatment. The league has two games scheduled there annually starting next year.The NFL could only wish Estadio Azteca, originally constructed for the 1968 Olympics (although renovated four times since, including 2016) could be as plush.
The NFL wants to play games in the Mexican capital. (There’s another scheduled for 2019.) Mexico City has a metropolitan population of 22.2 million. Unlike London, there are no time zone constraints, which means the city is rich with fans of all NFL teams. The game isn’t a curiosity there, the way it especially was when the NFL first went to London.
As such, the league was pleased with the chance to give Mexican fans not just a regular-season game, but one of the marquee matchups of the season – the 9-1 Rams v. 9-1 Chiefs, in what could be a Super Bowl preview.
“It definitely adds to the excitement,” Waller told Yahoo Sports last month of exporting such a big game. “It shows fans how committed we are to the agenda. Teams are willing to give home dates for games of that caliber. Fans know that it matters.”
The NFL wants to play games in lots of places. There was a proposed 2018 season opener between the Rams and the San Francisco 49ers in China. That was cancelled before the season, with an eye toward having it played in 2019 as part of the league’s 100-year anniversary celebration. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has been bullish on China.
Meanwhile, the league has discussed putting a game in Berlin as a way to gain a foothold in mainland Europe. It’s a matter of either expanding the International Series or taking a date out of London. Ireland, Scotland and Wales have also been cited as potential game locations. So too has a second date in Mexico or even a game in Brazil, where the NFL enjoys considerable popularity.
And then there are the London games, four of them scheduled for next year alone.
It all sounds great in a boardroom. New markets. New fans. Huge cities. Huge potential.
Not everything works though. The NFL is blessed (mostly due to U.S. taxpayers) to play its games in plush facilities. With the exception of Oakland, the Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers, each of the league’s stadiums was built primarily for the NFL. And all three teams will play in new, state-of-the-art stadiums by 2020.
That can’t be assured internationally. What in America can stand up to Shakira and soccer might not elsewhere.
That’s always been the potential pratfall of taking the show on the road. It finally blew up on the league.
Tough break for Mexico City, a late boon for L.A. And for the NFL, a lesson to be learned once the humiliation wears off.
November 14, 2018 at 3:16 am in reply to: highlights & featured plays, Seattle game (w/ Waldman, Orlovsky, etc.) #93893znModerator.@Seahawks run for 273 yards Sunday @RamsNFL . Not sure how you lose when you can do this but it’s the glaring weakness in the championship run that the @#Rams hope they are on. It may derail them in Mexico City. It needs fixin. #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/W6FUt9JfbJ
— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) November 14, 2018
znModeratorBenjamin Allbright@AllbrightNFL
Successful teams get their coaching staffs raided.If you’re a Rams fan it could get ugly this offseason.
Vincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
By league rule the “home” team of any international game must also have its real home stadium available on emergency basis. The Coliseum was always in play just in case.Bucky Brooks@BuckyBrooks
Word circulates quickly in the #NFL.. OCs will see the numbers and the tape, and make it a top priority to test the @RamsNFL Run D. Wade Phillips better get it fix in a hurry or LA with see a steady diet of power runs through the rest of the season.Brian Baldinger@BaldyNFL
@Seahawks run for 273 yards Sunday @RamsNFL . Not sure how you lose when you can do this but it’s the glaring weakness in the championship run that the @#Rams hope they are on. It may derail them in Mexico City. It needs fixin.znModeratorTight Ends Make Impact with Two TDs
https://www.therams.com/news/tight-ends-make-impact-with-two-tds
znModeratorThat was pretty good and I think he’s right.
znModeratorSo I recall a big thread some years ago where people posted their Thanksgiving recipes, and I’ve searched and not found what I’m looking for. zn, I recall, had some Swear-by Turkey recipe.
My brother was going to host at his house, but he’s still not back in his house due to the Camp fire, and they have asked us to host. I’ve never cooked a turkey in my life because I’ve never cooked a Thanksgiving meal before.
Any favorite tips?
My recipe, I haven’t done it in a while. It’s not a roast turkey, it;s turkey parts basted in a broth.
If that interests you I can try and dig it up.
November 13, 2018 at 11:03 pm in reply to: Rams vs KC will be moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles. #93887znModeratorAnd I wouldn’t think they would move back to LA after they already set up in Colorado.
There’s something in the “tweets, 11/13” thread about that. Yes they are staying in Colorado.
znModeratorAndy Benoit@Andy_Benoit
what’s impressive is the #LARams offense has continued to grow and evolve as the season has progressed. McVay has not rested on any laurels.Lindsey Thiry@LindseyThiry
Before the MNF game against the Chiefs was moved to the Coliseum, the Rams were scheduled to go more than a month without playing in LA. Bye week follows MNF, then games in Detroit and Chicago.… earliest the team will return from Colorado Springs is Saturday.
znModeratorRich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
The Rams have chosen to stay in Colorado Springs in part because of the situation back home. Some players/coaches still have been under evacuation, and the team flew families to Colorado. They’ll stay here and practice with some peace of mind.The move is legitimately terrible for fans, both in Mexico and those who planned entire trips around this. The NFL will have to address that, and will. But they couldn’t play that game there.
Arash Markazi@ArashMarkazi
This will be the first Monday Night Football Game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum since Oct. 28, 1985.November 13, 2018 at 10:53 pm in reply to: Rams vs KC will be moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles. #93871znModeratorHere's another, more comprehensive story from me about Rams-Chiefs being moved to the Coliseum: https://t.co/Lnn3x8okwO
— Rich Hammond (@Rich_Hammond) November 14, 2018
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Poor field conditions in Mexico City forces NFL to move Monday's Chiefs-Rams showdown to the Coliseum https://t.co/jAKYOtAqTd
— Gary Klein (@LATimesklein) November 13, 2018
November 13, 2018 at 9:37 am in reply to: issues w/ the Mexico City game…can a game be played on that field? #93841znModeratorMexico City field in horrible shape for Chiefs-Rams, moving game to L.A. is reportedly on the table
znModeratorWhat makes Rams vs. Chiefs so intriguing? Look at the numbers
znModeratorHe’s played, what, 8 + 17 + 9 games? He has come far.
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v7 + 16 + 10.
Didn’t play in SF last year and he missed no games this year.
I don;t criticize you for getting the numbers wrong. All people occasionally make incomprehensible errors that border on malicious negligence. So it’s no big deal.
November 13, 2018 at 9:26 am in reply to: issues w/ the Mexico City game…can a game be played on that field? #93837znModeratorWhat are the odds they move the game?
It would be nice if they did.
znModeratorGood discussion guys.
WV you don’t talk about Goff much. Tell us your view of Goff.
And as for my view of Goff, it’s very much like Invader’s, though I tend to get more euphoric discussing his best, just wonky good throws.
What I like about that offense, when it’s going, is how it just eats up chunks at a time. All these wonderful 11-15 yarders to the middle of the field. There are times watching them where I look to see what yard line they’re on before the snap and am surprised when they’re inside the opposing team’s 20 or 10 and I go, wait how did they get THERE so fast?! After 5 plays I am supposed to be wondering when they will cross the 50.
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znModeratorarmstead is the number one rated tackle by pff.
I posted something a couple of days ago about the fact that the Rams know PFF’s top 5 OTs. They start 2 of them, and they played 3 of them recently — Armstead and Ramczyk (N.O.) and Bakhtiari (G.B).
The best analysis I saw of the Saints game is a vid by Baldinger who argues that what won it for N.O. was their OL. Many people argue that the Saints OL is the best in the game right now. It’s a vid at the end of this thread: http://theramshuddle.com/topic/the-malcolm-brown-touchdown-catch-is-an-unreal-feat-of-body-control/
It’s strange that Bushrod is Armstead’s back-up because in fact Bushrod started his career as the Saints LOT and then left in free agency, and was replaced by…Armstead. Bushrod is a Kromer guy, from when he was with the Saints.
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znModeratorMNF tonight ➡️ MNF next week pic.twitter.com/oioYq5zHWS
— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) November 13, 2018
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