wv wrote:

And neither is going to win the NFC.

That’s true.

It was a good trade, though,because my idiot brothers hate it.

zn wrote:

How in the hell did Verse drop to 19.

And they didn’t trade up. They just sat there waiting for it, like patient lawn gnomes.

Rams have their first 1st round pick in ages, they absolutely need an edge rusher no escaping it, and…one of the best edge rushers in their entire very storied history (a history that is full of great edge rushers) drops right to them. And is then defensive rookie of the year.

On top of it, as you point out, he’s a motivated self-starter who is very genuine about working on his game.

If I made this up in a novel about the Rams, the board would scoff at my goofy optimistic worldview.

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I thought they waited for it like a sausage in a refinery fire. Or am I mixing my synecdoches?

Yeah, the workout with Aaron Donald seems to have made an impression on our boy, Verse. You gotta love it. I think it’s reasonable to expect a breakout year. If a guy can have a breakout year following DROY honors. I think the DL is the most exciting thing to watch this coming season. Goodness, what a load of young, energetic talent they have up front.

At least Adams is going with the throwback facemask.

CBS has him listed as questionable for Week One with a knee injury. I’ve seen nothing about a knee problem from any other source.

Isn’t Pooh a candidate for the PS? Or did they cut him completely? Don’t they start filling their PS today?

Joe Mixon on IR for first 4 games.

Trade Tutu.

I saw some doctor online state that there is “no such thing” as an “aggravated disc.” A specific diagnosis is one of the following:

The Rams are purposely vague.

I’m interested in all the new additions, of course, but particularly interested in seeing Mumpfield and the run defense. And Bennett. To see if he is a future #2.

wv wrote:

Lawrence-McCutcheon-ness.

That’s a good comp.

The Rams won a Super Bowl with Cam Akers who had 13 carries for 21 yards.

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

his back hasn’t recovered. I can’t just close my eyes to this. It’s a concern.

He was throwing in OTAs. That was just 2 months ago.

And according to his wife, the injury Stafford played through at the end of last season was broken ribs. The spell with broken ribs was in the last 4 or 5 regular season games. Then after that, with recently recovered ribs, in 2 playoff games he averaged 22.5 completions out of 35.5 attempts (63.4%), throwing for 266 yards per game, 2 TDs per game, and in those 2 games got an avg. qb rating of 107.4.

Near as I can recall no one mentioned his back as having issues last season.

I don’t know anything about his current back problems, but this is not an injury that continued from last year.

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I did not mean to imply that it is a lingering injury from the end of the season. I don’t even know if I would call it an “injury.” He has had back “soreness” previously, and he’s played great. But I am concerned that back “soreness” is a Fred Wagner collision short of a back “injury.”

canadaram wrote:

Pretty sure it’s Kevin Dotson.

So you think he wears 3 layers of horns.

I respect that.

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Yeah, he’s a monster, blah blah, but i totally resonate with folks that talk about how ‘refreshing’ it is to have a monster who just says the fucking THING that the rest of them wont say OUT LOUD.

The dems have exactly nobody like that.

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Enh, disagree a bit. There’s no putting perfume on this. Trump gets elected by lying to a gullible party base about the economic agenda. What he says aloud is the “culture wars” stuff that sucks in the gullible base.

I’m currently reading “The Origins of Totalitarianism” by Hannah Arendt. She made the observation that the loyal followers of a totalitarian government paradoxically are both gullible and cynical. They believe everything, and believe nothing. When their leader’s lies are revealed, they believe that they were never fooled because they believe anything they ever hear in the media anyway, and just attribute the lies to 3D chess, basically. And that just rings true of right now. The media lies, but not the leader, except when he lies, but then he’s just doing what he has to do because that’s how the game is played. Not his fault he’s a better liar than everyone else.

Beavers, huh? I wouldn’t have guessed.

Once in a while, you come across something and ya go, “Damn. Did not know any of that.”

Today is that day for me.

He posted with us only about a year. On the Rivals board before it went to shit. He ate nothing but raw food, and let his meat spoil a little bit because that’s the way the cavemen did it, so that’s what is best evolutionarily-speaking.

Left a bigger impression on me than on you, obviously.