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ZooeyModeratorSo…basically…standard-issue “I’ve never seen the Rams play” stuff, “but….”
It’s always interesting to see these comments.
They tend to be a little better from fans of teams the Rams play more frequently, but they watch the Rams play at about the same rate we watch the Bills play.
I’m predicting Josh doesn’t get 400 yards. And I don’t know what “escape hatches” Goff lost. But..whatever. This is going to be a good game, I think, and I am by no means confident.
ZooeyModeratorNo QB is more dangerous from a clean pocket than Aaron Rodgers
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Through two weeks of play, Goff is now third in the NFL in passing grade (86.1) and second in the rate of uncatchable passes thrown (10%).
wow. just wow. i don’t watch other football games too much, so it’s nice to see some comparisons.
just behind rodgers and ahead of brady with a clean pocket??? third in overall passing grade? he’s also fourth in ypa.
still too early in the season, but i hope it continues.
I’d like to see Goff’s numbers compared to other QBs under pressure. Because Goff’s numbers do drop off a lot under pressure. Is his dropoff worse than other QBs? Or is it about the same? His numbers do drop a lot, though.
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Conservatives: Let’s use the military against our populace.
Liberals: Let’s make them change their clothes first.
ZooeyModeratorWell, I think every team is going to try to do that. But i think the Defenses are trying to challenge the Rams OLine as much as the Rams QB.
The thing is, Buffalo has a topped ranked defense. 5th in the league. 3rd against the run. So that’s not just any team trying to do that.
OTOH, Buffalo has played the Jets (32nd ranked offense, 31st rushing) and Miami (22nd ranked offense, 27th rushing). So…the Rams may just cause that Defense ranking to disappear like a barrel over Niagara Falls.
ZooeyModeratorInteresting that they are still favoring Rams coverage in St. Louis. I wonder how their ratings are there. Apparently good enough that their games still draw bigger audiences than any other team.
September 23, 2020 at 4:24 pm in reply to: do the Bills stand even a fraction of a chance against the Rams? #121596ZooeyModeratorWhen was the last time I saw the Bills play? I thought maybe they were extinct.;
I know the last time I saw them play.
LA Coliseum. 3 years ago in October. The Bills won, and I was not glad.
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September 23, 2020 at 2:10 pm in reply to: do the Bills stand even a fraction of a chance against the Rams? #121588ZooeyModeratorI don’t follow the Bills, so I’m surprised that they are rated so highly, and I’m just going to accept the consensus that they’re pretty good. I guess we are going to see the Rams stressed seriously for the first time.
At the end of the day, one of the teams will be dropped out of the Top 10.
ZooeyModeratorTapping protesters’ phones. This shit is wild. Where is elite media coverage?
They made that legal in the patriot act, I think.
This country jumped the shark when it got rid of Habeas Corpus. Talk about…”where is media coverage?” I mean…that fundamental right was disposed of without a whimper.
They assassinate American citizens without a whimper.
They militarized the police. What for? Not to protect the community. They don’t need that level of armor and weaponry to protect. They need it to suppress the community, to coerce it. Why do they think they need to have police militarized to suppress people? Because they are squeezing the shit out of everybody, and they know they are going to continue to squeeze the shit out of us until we snap, and they are prepared for that snap.
Eavesdropping? Yeah, they’ve been doing that without warrants for 20 years without a whimper. Who’s going to whimper? Edwin R. Murrow is dead.
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ZooeyModeratorEnh. Showgirls was better.
ZooeyModeratorI kind of like Cowherd as far as talking heads goes. He has been one of the few national people who seems to actually know what he is actually talking about rather than just spending his energy getting Edgy with conventional wisdom. That thing that just happened in this thread is an example of how the media gets the Rams wrong all the time. Really, last year, everybody just thought Goff isn’t that good, and teams figured McVay out. That was just what everybody said. Cowherd seems better informed, at least about the Rams. I don’t know about other teams. Maybe he’s a Rams fan and actually watches their games, I dunno.
ZooeyModeratorI hesitate to think about what kind of ballot measures West Virginians would vote for, if the system here spawned ballot-measures.
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Well, as you might imagine, the “citizens’ initiatives” in California are not brought by citizens very often, but by astroturfed groups, and are backed by wealthy PACs with lofty sounding names, so Californians get duped into voting for some rank bullshit from time-to-time.
We also suffer from the fact that voters have Locked In all kinds of budget bullshit that hope will stop the government from robbing us and misappropriating funds which has tied the hands of the government so much that it can’t respond to crises that require flexibility. Then the voters blame the government for not responding to the crises that they tied their hands on. You know.
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ZooeyModeratorI think I might want that Spanish feed.
Actually, Spielman was pretty good. Not great, but he didn’t make my ears bleed.
But there are times I think that Spanish feed would be a significant upgrade.
ZooeyModeratorThe Rams’ offensive turnaround through the first two weeks of the season is pretty remarkable, given the extent to which the rest of the league appeared to figure Sean McVay out and turn Jared Goff into a pumpkin as a result.
Another way to put that is this: “The Rams’ offensive production is back to normal now that they have a healthy OL.”
I know, I know…to-MAY-to, to-MAH-to.
ZooeyModeratorThank you. I just copied that in my files.
I will tell you, reading through proposition arguments is time-consuming and not entertaining.
It’s simplified by things like:
Supported by: Civil rights groups
Opposed by: Bail bond industryOkay. Now I don’t need to spend 20 minutes reading the arguments and sifting through the misleading language.
ZooeyModeratorSomething I liked. After the Wentz-INT, the rams go on a 15 play drive, and they are down by the goal line. Penalty for Off-interference. Goff misses an open Henderson. So now its 3rd and goal at bout the 12 or so.
Goff gets pressure — and throws it away. He didnt hold it and take a sack, or lose the ball. Last year, he had too many plays where pressure lead to bad ball-security and bad decisions. This day, he just threw it away and took the three.
Thats a good decision. A veteran decision. He’s GOING to get lots of pressure on third and long this year.
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vI think it would have been a better decision to hit Henderson on the previous play, but you and I have never seen eye-to-eye on football matters.
ZooeyModeratorGurley would have joined the ranks of great Rams RB is he hadn’t come into the league with a bad knee that got worse. Gurley was a GD good football player, and I’m glad he was with the Rams, but his knees just undermined his career, and that’s the story. It’s too bad. He had the skills, the brains, the determination. He did not have knees that could get him past the quarter post. End of story.
I like Goff. He is everything I thought he would be. My one thing with him is that I had hoped he would imprtove under pressure, and I don’t see signs that he has figured that out yet. He has most everything else. But a team that gets pressure on him diminishes his game significantly.
ZooeyModeratorField Yates@FieldYates
Josh Allen already this season:▫️First Bills QB with 400+ passing yards, 4 TD and 0 INT in a game
You telling me Jim Kelly never did that?
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ZooeyModeratorPete Prisco@PriscoCBS
Nine quarterbacks are completing over 70-percent of their passes this season, led by Russell Wilson with an amazing 82.5 completion percentage. Defenses are getting shredded.Prescott against Rams: 64%
Wentz against Rams: 60%ZooeyModeratorRams’ Jordan Fuller: Continues to impress
Rotowire 7 MINS AGO
Fuller played all 71 defensive snaps and recorded nine tackles (five solo) during Sunday’s 37-19 win over Dallas.The rookie continues to prove he’s earned his starting role and is now up to a respectable 17 tackles (10 solo) through two games. As long as Fuller has an every-down role, he should be on your radar in IDP leagues.
Rams’ Micah Kiser: Ties Rams record with 16 tackles
Rotowire 13 MINS AGO
Kiser tied the Rams single-game record of 16 tackles (11 solo) during Sunday’s 37-19 win over Philadelphia.Make it 23 tackles (17 solo) through two games for Kiser, as the every-down linebacker is quickly proving to be a valuable fantasy asset. Check your waiver wires in IDP settings because Kiser projects to be a weekly starting option in the majority of formats until proven otherwise.
Rams’ Gerald Everett: Mainly blocked against Philly
Rotowire 23 MINS AGO
Everett played 30 offensive snaps but didn’t receive a target and only ran eight routes during Sunday’s 37-19 win over the Eagles.After missing practice time this week and being questionable ahead of Sunday’s contest with a back injury, it wasn’t surprising to see Everett have a quiet showing against the Eagles. However, after fellow tight end Tyler Higbee erupted for three touchdowns and caught all five of his targets Sunday, Everett’s fantasy stock is probably trending even further in the wrong direction.
ZooeyModeratorYes. It is what you think it is.
ZooeyModeratorGoff 29 points to Wentz’s 11 in fantasy points, if that’s your thing.
I love this. Good start by the Rams. Looking solid everywhere except the kicking game. 2-0 against the NFC which is good for tiebreakers. Kiser was everywhere.
Would have liked to see Wentz take a seat multiple times in the pocket, and I’d prefer a bit stouter opposition to the run, but still an overall good performance. 3 TOs is helpful.
Bosa probably has torn ACL for 9ers, and Garapolo high ankle sprain per Shanahan.
ZooeyModeratorDamn, that is scary.
Me, I’m hoping the Good Lord smiles on us and Trump eats one too many Big Macs and has the big one.
I have come around to thinking that Trump eating the big one before November would be the best thing for the country. This election looks like it is going to be ugly. November and December are going to be a nightmare, I’m afraid.
ZooeyModeratorSo…that looks like game, set, and match to me. They’ll fill that seat before November, and that’s the end of it.
Not completely. Democrats can go to McConnel and say this: ” If you insist on getting an appointment through before the election here is what will happen IF the Dems take the white house and the senate. Because the Constitution does not address the number of SC Justices we will make sure we have 13 justices on the SC. ” This is more than possible since the number has changed over the years. It is the one card that the Dems can play.
They could. But that would require the Dems to play hardball, and I can’t think of an example of them doing that since LBJ.
ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorI think about democracy a lot. I roll things over in my mind. “Which form of government is best?,” I ask myself.
All i know is Democracy is bad without an “education system” that prioritizes “critical thinking” and “compassion.” In other words Science plus Compassion.
Critical Thinking to ‘me’ is just another synonym for ‘wisdom.’ And wisdom to me, is “reason” plus “compassion”. Both. Haf to have both.
Now without an education-system that seriously prioritizes Science/reason and Compassion/cooperation, any ‘democracy’ will end up warped and dangerous and eventually a hellscape.
We did not end up with a democracy with an education system that stressed critical thinking/wisdom.
We ended up with a democracy that stressed Corporate-Capitalism. Corporate-Capitalism nurtures, greed, individualism, religion, fear, propaganda, hierarchy, obedience, imperialism, recreation, entertainment, incredible cutting edge technologies and bio-chemical-and-nuclear-weaponry. And general stupidity.
So, thats what we got.
It can be tinkered with, but it cant be reversed.
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vYeah, I think that pretty much nails it.
I would just add the the “educational system” is the media. That is the uber educational system. Kids aren’t learning their values from their teachers.
ZooeyModeratorAll I know is Robert Woods is one of the most underrated players. I love that guy. And I am glad he will be with the Rams for 4 more years. Yay.
September 17, 2020 at 10:09 pm in reply to: tweets … 9/17 thru 9/19 … ( w/ some excellent Rodrigue stuff in here) #121235ZooeyModeratorGary Klein@LATimesklein
The Rams are looking to throw money, and passes, in Robert Woods’ directionRobert Woods is still my favorite player right now. Has been ever since he joined the Rams. I loved him at USC.
He is the Old Faithful of WRs. There are other WRs that have more spectacular eruptions, but Old Faithful is the most dependable, and the most frequent.
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