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October 23, 2017 at 4:58 pm in reply to: Interested in your collective take on Bannon's speech to the California GOP #76455
ZooeyModeratorI don’t know. I can’t make my way through Bannon.
All I know is that he is “anti-establishment,” but I’m not sure exactly what he thinks the establishment IS – what it represents – how it works. I think he is kind of pro-American worker, sort of, but I think he means white American workers, and I think he thinks that all our international entanglements are detrimental to us (whites), and that we would all be fine, and all be wealthier, if we didn’t get entangled with all these other people on the planet.
But I’m not SURE that’s what he thinks because he talks like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving who emerged into the conversation from the next room to take over with some rant that he thinks is somehow related to what we were talking about. I can’t follow Bannon. He isn’t lucid.
And I don’t think he knows what he is talking about. I don’t think he knows how things actually work, what policies do, what institutions do, and who backs those institutions or why. I think he is a fucking drunk uncle on an incoherent rant all the time, but with enough brains to do coherent damage.
In short, I don’t see any value in spending half an hour of my time listening to him. I might if I thought I could understand him, if he wasn’t drunk. But I just don’t have the energy to do all the work on the subtext of his rants.
October 23, 2017 at 11:41 am in reply to: Imagine what we could do with Watkins playing up to his potential #76451ZooeyModeratorYeah, that’s what I think about Watkins, too.
So far Woods has exceeded expectations, though.
And I want to see more Everett, too. He made an early splash, and vanished, and now all I see is Higbee dropping the ball. Where’s Everett?
October 23, 2017 at 12:06 am in reply to: With two weeks to prepare, can Rams challenge the Giants? #76429ZooeyModeratorThe Seahawks’ schedule is fairly similar to the Rams, of course. They have Atlanta while the Rams have Minnesota. And Seattle got Green Bay where as the Rams got New Orleans. There is no clearly easier schedule. It’s just gonna be the better team that wins.
ZooeyModeratorArians has to hate playing the Rams. This is the third time Palmer has been hurt against the Rams. He tore his ACL against them in 2014, he suffered a concussion against them in 2016 and now a broken arm. And the Rams knocked out their backup QB one year as well.
ZooeyModeratorThat’s the one stadium in the North East I’ve never visited.
Well, maybe you should go since your favorite team is playing there today.
ZooeyModeratorYeah. Well. She asked for my email address, and I gave it to her within 20 minutes.
And I haven’t received the email with the script.
So this story may drag out another year.
I gather Facebook isn’t her Go To web activity.
October 16, 2017 at 7:49 pm in reply to: tweets, jagz post-game, 10/15 (lots of cool factoids) #76199ZooeyModeratorGurley, on Fournette’s 75-yard TD: “I blame Cooper. He should’ve never scored and made him mad.”
I would leave the TV on if more players said crap like this.
ZooeyModeratorLA fans are just bandwagon fans, though tradition helps in LA just like it does everywhere else. The Dodgers and Lakers have had down years, and attendance drops, but they have a tradition of being in the mix. The Rams will get it together, but they have to show the fans they are worth watching.
Did you notice the empty seats in Jacksonville yesterday? And I don’t know what their stadium holds, but it sure as hell isn’t the coliseum.
The Rams sold a ton of tickets for the first half of last year. But last year left ashes in the mouth, and that is hardly a good football venue. If you think LA won’t pack Kroenkeworld, though, you’re out of your mind. Rams fans will pack the place. But if the Rams suck, the fans will leave. LA has a lot of options. That really IS part of the package there.
October 16, 2017 at 3:03 pm in reply to: week 7 thotz…are the Rams shaping up into a contender? #76178ZooeyModeratorPeterson was certainly a big surprise yesterday. But I don’t think Peterson has ever gained a single yard against the Rams’ defense while playing for the Cardinals, so I don’t see why that will change this Sunday.
Plus…it’s well-known that Fitzgerald and Palmer are at the age where jet lag really takes a toll physically. It’s questionable whether they will even make it to the stadium.
I think the Rams could threaten their old record of -7 total yards.
ZooeyModeratorPatrick Peterson left the game yesterday with a quad injury. No word on whether he will play Sunday or not.
I’m hoping…not.
ZooeyModeratorThat was RFL who originally wrote that, wasn’t it?
Oops.
Oh, yeah.
It MAY not have been RFL, now that I think about it….
ZooeyModeratorSmoke.
Smoke them like a sausage in a refinery fire.
I couldn’t remember. But now I do. It’s “smoke.”
That was RFL who originally wrote that, wasn’t it?
ZooeyModeratorI am one of those who is a bit skeptical about AO.
Not sure about him.
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I am another one of “those.”
ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorA little more air under that throw, and he would have had it. I see all responsibility for the incompletion directed at Kupp, but I think Goff threw it too hard. Kupp could have caught it, maybe. It would have been an outstanding catch. He was open, and with a touch less tabasco on that, the Rams would be all anyone talked about yesterday.
ZooeyModeratorIt used to still belong to the fumbling team at the one, I think. I believe that is one of the rules they changed sometime ago, along with the no forward fumbling rule that came about due to the famous Stabler fumble.
ZooeyModeratorI wish you would stop being so good to me, captain.
ZooeyModeratorI’m not going to fight over this.
I broke the story. Gary Klein got the information from me. I would have been the first one to post it if I hadn’t been fielding phone calls from John Clayton and all those other hosers.
But if you want to delete it, me and my martyr complex will be just fine, thank you.
ZooeyModeratorOh, okay. Go ahead and kill this.
ZooeyModeratorOctober 9, 2017 1:35 pm
Rams’ Mo Alexander: Released by Los Angeles
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
The Rams released Alexander on Monday, Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times reports.A surprise inactive just one day prior, Alexander quickly fell from the starting lineup to the free-agent heap. The 2014 fourth-round pick had 20 tackles in four games, but the Rams apparently weren’t impressed by his overall body of work. With LaMarcus Joyner (groin) on the shelf, Cody Davis and John Johnson started at safety in Sunday’s 26-20 loss to the Seahawks.
ZooeyModeratorThe Rams will roast them like a sausage in a refinery fire.
ZooeyModeratorOne other “singular” play. Whitworth. Hadn’t allowed but one pressure all year, and he gets beaten with Goff getting blown up for a fumble.
Still. I like the way WV put it: the Rams are a team on the rise, and Seattle is on the decline.
October 9, 2017 at 8:36 am in reply to: on the bright side–Rams defense for the last 3 halves of play #75791ZooeyModeratorYes, the defense has looked good for three consecutive halves.
And I think the team is getting better.
My two biggest concerns right now are ball-handling in general – Tavon on punts in particular – and getting Watkins more balls.
ZooeyModeratorI didnt see it. Someone sum it up.
I see the rams had….five turnovers. FIVE turnovers?
I’m betting at least two were by tavon.
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vOne by Tavon. He fumbled twice, though. Recovered his own fumble the first time. After the second muff, he was removed from punt returns.
The guy is done, imo. He’s good for 5 or 6 touches a game out of the backfield, and that’s it. He’s a goner.
ZooeyModeratorI will add…Goff drove them down the field with under two minutes to play, and no timeouts, and nearly won it. They could have won that game. He scorched that pass a little too much for Kupp, imo, but that play was there.
ZooeyModeratorWow. I’m a little surprised by the responses. I was expecting to get cheered up by you guys.
Okay. Here goes. First off, I didn’t enjoy watching that game. Not just because they lost. I would have come here saying I didn’t enjoy it even if the Rams had won, even if Kupp made that catch at the end. It was not enjoyable.
I think, though, that the Rams are better than the Seahawks right now, and I think they should have won that game. So…there’s that.
That was a close to a complete team collapse on the Rams’ part, and they still almost won the game.
The Rams’ defense played well enough to win. The DL was all over it. Donald and Quinn had big games, and the Hawks rushed for nothing. They contained Wilson, and shut down everything. The Seahawks got one really good drive…a 75-yard drive resulting in a TD. Then they had two FG drives, 43 yards, and 51 yards, and a gift FG after a turnover. That’s it. That’s what Seattle mustered all day long in spite of 5 turnovers. I believe three of those were inside Rams’ territory. The muffed punt for sure, and the Goff fumble. And I think the deflected pachinko pass that ended up intercepted was also in Rams’ territory.
The Rams drove right down their throat on the first possession. That was an absolute fluke play at the end, and it was the difference in the game, imo. I don’t blame Gurley. He was reaching for the goal line, and whozit hit his arm and dislodged the ball momentarily BEFORE Gurley’s foot touched out of bounds (so I disagree with those of you who thought the fumble was later. I think the replay clearly showed they made the right call on review…as much as I hate it). And the ball happened to hit the pylon. If it hadn’t hit the pylon, they would have ruled it out 1 foot short, and the Rams would have scored a TD, gone up by 7 points, and who knows how that would have affected things psychologically from that point. But we do know it would have added 7 points to the Rams’ total, and they would have won that game.
Nothing went right for the Rams. Bad throws by Goff, muffed punt, bad bounces, 5 turnovers, missed FG, penalties. And they still almost won that game.
It’s not worth anything in the standings, but the Rams – in spite of everything – still played better overall than the Seahawks. I am very unhappy about the outcome. But that showed me a turning tide in the NFC West. The Rams will beat them in Seattle.
ZooeyModeratorWell…
Goodbye, Arizona. See ya next year.
ZooeyModeratorSounds like a good day.
Can you drop off some sandwiches at the chat room before you go?
ZooeyModeratorWell, I don’t know much about line play, but I do know that Brockers was a wrecking ball against Dallas in what was his most visibly disruptive game I’ve seen him play.
So…whatever that was…yes, please.
ZooeyModeratorHowever, I’d rather be gunned down by an armed intruder than have one of my grandchildren hurt by a weapon I may own
That’s me.
And statistically, a grandchild is more likely to be hurt or killed with your gun than an intruder is.
I dunno. I used to be FOR getting rid of guns. Now…I dunno. I get where some people are coming from.
But I do NOT understand the resistance to gun training, licensing, and screening. And these automatic weapons…I mean…stop it. I don’t know how they are even debatable.
You want protection? Get a handgun, and pass safety training and a marksmanship test. Wanna hunt? Same thing.
Protect yourself from the government? There’s no such thing, and you aren’t using that as an excuse to buy battlefield weaponry. Get rid of internet sales, gun shows, and so on.
You can have a gun – I guess – but it’s going to be within reason, and you are going to demonstrate competency.
But I give up. That’s not happening.
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