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ZooeyModeratorYa know…the last time the Rams wore THIS uniform combination in the Super Bowl was in “Heaven Can Wait.” The Rams won that game behind a QB with the jersey #16.
ZooeyModeratorHey, everybody. The Rams are going to be represented by 2 male cheerleaders. It’s a first.
Needless to say, it’s a huge victory for men in their pursuit of equality in the workplace, but more than that, it’s bound to have an affect on the field. The intimidation factor, for one thing. Tom Brady has never seen anything like this before.
ZooeyModeratorTom Brady likes Tuna Noodle Cassarole.
I bet you didn’t know that.
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vI missed that story. Do you have a link?
ZooeyModeratorI think the storyline of the Rams winning is too good to fail.
Too Good To Fail.
That’s my line.
ZooeyModeratori don’t know what i’m going to do if the rams lose.
Fortunately, you are not going to have to find out.
I think you should focus on how you are going to maximize your taunting of co-workers and friends. That is where you should concentrate your energy.
ZooeyModeratorOkay. I’ve been thinking about it a long time, and now I am ready to issue my prediction (i.e. proclamation).
The Rams are going to win this game by 15 points.
I will give you 10 reasons why:
1) I really have no idea. I think this game could be played 10 times, and the two teams would split the series 5-5.
2) I have nothing at stake with this prediction other than my reputation, and frankly, I don’t have much to lose in that department to begin with, so what the hell. Only Upside here.
3) Fuck the Patriots.
4) Fuck Tom Brady.
5) Fuck Bill Belichik.
6) Go Rams.
7) The Rams have been playing really well the past 4 games. Hitting on all cylinders, as it were. Stopping the run. Stopping the pass. Nailing kicks. Scoring points. This is a really good team.
8) Karma.
9) It makes a good story. The Rams bookend the Patriots dynasty. This is Bill and Tom’s last SB. It’s just good literary parallelism, and I think people dismiss that beautiful symmetry of life at their own peril.
10) It would make me glad.
Final score: Rams 31 Patriots 16
ZooeyModeratorMichael Silver is one of the better sports writers.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t care if the Patriots are deeper. I care about the first string guys. Because in the Super Bowl…guess who plays the most?
ZooeyModeratorI think it was Goff’s best game, ever. I think he was fucking awesome.
it was a milestone game. one we’ll remember years from now.
in my 24 years of following the rams i can say without a doubt he’s the second best rams qb i’ve seen. i know that’s not saying much but he’s also got a long way to go.
hopefully he stays a ram for a long time.
Wait…
Goff was born when you started following the Rams…
That means…
InvaderRam is the Avatar! He’s John the Baptist! He is the fulfillment of the thingy!
ZooeyModeratorI think it was Goff’s best game, ever. I think he was fucking awesome. Dont care about the stats. To perform under those ridiculous conditions, and manage the game, and to overcome Gurley’s big screw up, and to make four or five elite, clutch throws under pressure, on the road, in a dome, for the NFC Championship — well…just fucking awesome.
And legatron. Good lord.
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vI think I might agree with that. I certainly believe his response to the crowd noise was amazing, especially with the championship on the line like that. He has had better numbers, of course. But the noise, the pressure…the falling behind by 13, and then by 10 half way through the 3rd…and he never got the yips. He had the presence to immediately dive on the muffed snap. When he got hit, he got right back up. He just kept playing.
He is 24.
This guy…give him another 6 years…he may very well be the best Rams QB of all time. And it may not be close. Warner might have been if not for the busted hand and the reckless coach. I never saw Waterfield, and really I was a child in the Gabriel era, and how many games did I see? Not sure. But I had no idea what I was watching, really. Who else is even in the conversation? Hadl lasted one year, I think. Good…but only a year or two of service. Everett was very good, but…he never got to the Holy Land, and there’s that phantom sack that he will never, ever live down. Warner. Bulger was very, very good, but…no results. Not his fault, but…no results. He was good.
Post-Bulger, the only QB worth a mention is Goff. IMO. And I highly doubt I’m in the minority on that.
And he’s 24, on his way to the Super Bowl, and still has a line graph with an upward angle.
I think I might be falling in love with Goff. Wow. Did not see that coming. Right now, he is still a very good accessory on that team. But if he wins the Super Bowl….
ZooeyModerator
January 29, 2019 at 1:06 pm in reply to: How the Rams overcame the disastrous end of the Jeff Fisher era ESPN article #97452ZooeyModeratorI either forgot, or never knew, that Fisher tried to hire Kyle Shanahan as OC.
That would have changed the course of history.
ZooeyModeratorI agree on the crowd noise. I’ve always thought that way, too. It really is like a 12th man advantage, and so I don’t like it, either.
I didn’t attribute that botched snap to crowd noise, but Manning is probably right.
There weren’t any false starts, though, were there? That’s very impressive.
ZooeyModeratorwatched superbowl opening night.
there’s noticeably waaaaaaaay more pats fans there than rams fans.
hope it’s not like this during the actual game.
They survived New Orleans. There has never been a Super Bowl climate anything like that.
ZooeyModeratorI just hope the Refs dont leave this game in the hands of the players.
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ZooeyModeratorAndrew Siciliano@AndrewSiciliano
Teams that return to the Super Bowl after losing in the Super Bowl the previous year have lost five straight Super Bowls.Does that make sense?
This is certainly the key statistic that will determine the outcome of this year’s super bowl.
I think what the scoreboard shows will be secondary to this.
ZooeyModeratorIt is kind of a sad commentary on our times that tickets to the game are going for only $3,500. It’s like there aren’t any true fans out there anymore, the kind who would sell their daughters into slavery for a chance to see their team play in the Super Bowl.
People just take these things for granted nowadays, without a single thought of the great men and women who died fighting for our freedom to spend thousands of dollars on a fucking football game.
January 28, 2019 at 7:46 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97420ZooeyModeratorThe perception among most fans has always been that the refs aren’t very good. I never agreed with that assessment but I would like to see replay applied to penalties. The important thing is getting the call right, no matter how that happens.
JEEE ZUSSS CHRIST!
Why don’t you just come out and SAY you hate the Rams? OMG, this has just been going on too long with you.
January 28, 2019 at 12:26 am in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97390ZooeyModeratorConcern around NFL that 4 officials in NFC Championship Game live in Southern California
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ZooeyModeratorI think the Rams are good. I think the Patriots are good.
My main concern is the decided advantage the Patriots have in experience. This is B&B’s 9th Super Bowl. Ninth. And, yeah, they haven’t gone undefeated like the Noll/Bradshaw Steelers or the Walsh/Montana/Young 49ers, but NINE Super Bowls. I really can’t come up with an argument against the proposition that the Patriots are the greatest dynasty in NFL history, and the greatest dynasty of the modern sports era.
They are old hands at the bright lights, and it’s all about the game to them.
The Rams, meanwhile, have never experienced this media onslaught with a handful of exceptions. I think 5 guys, and I don’t know who they are. Phillips, presumably, is one. But Sean McVay better have a way to focus these guys on the Patriots rather than the cameras and Twitter and swarms of celebrities from far and wide.
And the enormous pressure.
I just have a concern about the First Quarter Yips. The Rams had the Yips last year against the Falcons, and never recovered. The Patriots are not going to have the Yips. And I don’t think the Rams can afford to make a couple of mistakes before settling down, especially because a couple of mistakes could very well tighten them up.
I think we will see in the first quarter whether or not the Rams will be there at the end.
ZooeyModeratorIf we go back and fix all the missed calls on the play, it is off setting penalties, replay the down.
yeah, donald does get fouled.
it’d have to be replayed.
and payton needs five fingers across the face.
No, replay doesn’t work like that. The challenge is for a specific thing. New things can’t enter into it. So the challenge in this case would be whether or not there was PI on the play. They couldn’t identify the hands to the face on Peat or whoever was holding Brockers.
They could, however, identify the tipped ball because that would directly relate to whether there was PI or not. Since the ball apparently was not tipped, a challenge would have resulted in PI. The other penalties are not subject to review.
However…if a coach can challenge a Non-Call, then what would stop McVay from throwing a challenge on the hands to the face (which was more flagrant than the hold)?
Now that I think about it, I would think that if the rule changes, it would be to challenge a penalty call, not a Non-Call. That would be problematic…since there is a penalty on almost every single play. Yeah…I bet if there is a rule change, it would be to allow a coach to challenge a Call. You can’t have them challenging Non-Calls. That would be a nightmare.
So even if they change the rule, the rule change they adopt wouldn’t have helped the Saints anyway. That’s my guess.
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January 25, 2019 at 9:56 am in reply to: Snead’s Decisions Good & Bad Have Paid Off & Now Rams Are Heading to Super Bowl #97258ZooeyModeratorI couldn’t make it through that article.
Way too much artificial sweetener. I’m interested in the topic, but when a coy appositive made me gag for the third time, I had to hit the back button. Just…yuck.
ZooeyModeratorLMU93
a stat just mentioned on Boston sports radio
No team has ever won the Super Bowl with a losing road record (regular season). Patriots are 4-5 in 2018.
Just another anecdote.
By the way, Rams are 7-2 this year on the road (and 15-3 overall away from the Coliseum under McVay).
Actually, the Pats were 3-5 on the road in the regular season. That 4th road win is last week in KC.
3-5. They truly suck as a franchise. Word here in California is that they robbed the Chiefs, and don’t deserve to be in the Super Bowl.
ZooeyModeratorThat is a good one.
January 23, 2019 at 8:45 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97207ZooeyModeratoroh yeah. it’ll die down eventually.
in this day of 24 hour news channels. online media, and social media outlets everything seems to get amplified more than it used to. but it’ll eventually settle down.
Actually…it’s amping up. And it’s not just Saints fans.
I don’t see that. I have listened to only a little radio since Monday, but the CBS and ESPN websites don’t have any follow-up stories (well…ESPN has one about the Saints GM, but it’s a “getting over it” story, not a “fan the flames” story).
January 23, 2019 at 8:26 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97205ZooeyModeratorAgreed, Zooey. The chosen angle makes it obvious. The other one makes it look bang bang. A ref looking at it from one angle could easily make the no-call. But not the other.
I just re-watched it on my desktop computer where I have better control over Stop Go than I did on the Chromebook I used last night. From the live angle (which is a better angle than the angle they showed repeatedly on replay), R-C clearly hit him early, and by quite a bit. At full speed it looks bang-bang, but if you freeze it at contact, the ball is 4 feet from the receiver. So…yeah…I’m dropping the “it may not be as bad as they say” argument.
I will never drop the “tough shit; that’s the breaks” argument. “You lost the game AFTER that play, anyway, by letting the Rams drive not once, but TWICE on your defense.”
January 23, 2019 at 6:39 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97195ZooeyModeratorSo…I say…let’em raise hell. They are entitled to raise hell.
also. the more they raise hell the funnier it gets.
I do think there is a tipping point. Seriously, most people don’t actually care. Eventually, the non-partisans are going to get sick of the story, and since most of them know what it feels like to have their team “robbed,” they are going to turn on people who won’t get over it, and move on. Is my guess.
January 23, 2019 at 6:35 pm in reply to: the non-call issue continues & has earned another thread #97193ZooeyModerator
ZooeyModeratorHe’s an odd one. I cant think of a QB to compare him with. I’m not gonna list his attributes and flaws cause we all know them by now, but…he’s an odd one.
The important thing is, he has now answered the big question: Is he clutch in pressure-packed playoff situations? Yes. He is.
Btw, wv-mom watched the game and her comment about Goff was: “Did you notice how SKINNY the Rams QB is? He’s too skinny.”
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vBy “odd,” I assume you are referring to his uncanny accuracy combined with his canny inaccuracy. Or whatever.
He isn’t exactly erratic. That isn’t the right word. He is just odd in the way he can flick a ball into a ridiculously tight moving window time and time again, and then miss a target by 10 yards. That, I assume, will go away over time.
Dude is 24.
The youngest starting QB in Super Bowl history. And the Rams are going to have him for a long, long time. How cool is this?
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