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January 23, 2025 at 10:35 pm in reply to: set up for NFC/AFC championship games & game reactions #154927
ZooeyModeratorI must say I do have a modicum of affection for Washington
I think that in the Blue Board Charter, it was determined that nobody could have affection for Washington, and our forefathers made no mistakes; they served the lord. That Charter was passed on through multiple boards, and still exists here today.
So I’m going to ask you to leave.
ZooeyModeratorYou put in the bluesky tweet by Rapaport. Unfortunately it was only a link. I tried to get the tweet to post, but it wouldn’t–it came out link only no matter what I did (some tweets are like that, sometimes they won’t post, you get only links). So I just copied it, to be all print. Then in the process of doing that I noticed another bluesky tweet about Pleasant and just added it.
That’s all okay, right? The original intent was just to fix the Rapaport tweet, which would only post as a link.
Oh, I didn’t even notice it was a different tweet. LOL. So both tweets are from bluesky, but Rapaport’s appeared only as a link, but PFT displayed properly?
Well…okay. I think it’s the first time I’ve linked bluesky. I will watch what happens next time.
ZooeyModeratorIan Rapoport@rapsheet1.bsky.social
The Bears have requested Rams assistant head coach & passing game coordinator Aubrey Pleasant to interview for their vacant DC job under Ben Johnson, source said. A key reason Chris Shula’s defense impressed so much late in the season.
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What did you do to this? Was it just adding text that made the Skeet appear rather than just the link? (I just invented a new definition for a word, and I’m pleased with it).
ZooeyModeratorIan Rapoport@rapsheet1.bsky.social
The Bears have requested Rams assistant head coach & passing game coordinator Aubrey Pleasant to interview for their vacant DC job under Ben Johnson, source said. A key reason Chris Shula’s defense impressed so much late in the season.
.Bears request to interview Rams assistant Aubrey Pleasant for their DC.www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb…
— ProFootballTalk (@profootballtalk.bsky.social) 2025-01-23T01:22:36.671Z
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 pm in reply to: set up for NFC/AFC championship games & game reactions #154905ZooeyModeratorI have no affection for any of the teams. I do have less hatred for Washington than I used to, since they got rid of the blatantly offensive nickname, and their blatantly offensive owner, but I still don’t like them. And I don’t like Philly either, even if I don’t actively hate them. They just kinda suck. Jared Verse is right about their fans, btw.
I am neutral towards the Bills and Chiefs. I guess if you tell me I have to pick a team to win it all, I will go with the Chiefs. Just because that will get people saying that Brady never won 3 in a row. Buffalo…you know…that’s a community that deserves one, I guess. The Sabres lost 2 Stanley Cups, and the Bills notoriously lost 4 Super Bowls. I’m okay with finally giving that city a slice of pie. No objection. But I don’t really care.
ZooeyModeratorThis is not at all surprising to me.
ZooeyModeratorThe Pro Football Writers of America gave the Rams’ class some high praise with the release of its 2024 All-Rookie Team on Tuesday, picking three players from Los Angeles to represent the Rams.
Jared Verse, who was named PFWA’s Defensive Rookie of the Year, earned a spot at linebacker. Braden Fiske, rookie leader in sacks this season, got the nod along the defensive line. And Jordan Whittington was voted the best rookie kick returner in the league by the PFWA.
The Rams’ three selections are the most of any team, showing just how great their rookie class was. It’s the second year in a row that the Rams have had the most All-Rookie selections in the league after having four players picked in 2023: Steve Avila, Puka Nacua, Kobie Turner and Byron Young.
So the Rams quality draft production dropped 25% this year. That is significantly worse, and maybe doesn’t get talked about enough.
ZooeyModeratorThey were 14 yds away from beating the Eagles. Had they won that game, the Rams were going to the Super Bowl. I have no doubt in my mind about that. There’s no way they were losing to Washington in SoFi.
Could they have beaten the Chiefs or the Bills? Who knows, but they already beat the Bills. No matter who they faced in the Super Bowl, I think the game would at least have been competitive.
The Rams are definitely flawed. I agree that they don’t have what most would consider a Super Bowl roster, but with Stafford and being so well-coached I think they were legitimate contenders.
I agree with this. And that was what I was hoping for.
It was always going to be like successfully calling heads or tails a couple of times in a row, though. There are timelines where the Rams will be SB champions next month.
There’s also a couple of timelines in which they lost to the Vikings.
ZooeyModeratorI agree with everybody here. This wasn’t a Super Bowl team. They made a game of it, though, and in spite of it all, I was watching in disbelief in the final two minutes as the Rams looked like they might leave us with one of the most indelible playoff memories in their history.
I wonder if Ernest Jones would have been the difference in this game. I wonder if Braden Fiske would have made a difference.
Boy, Philly was living inside the Rams’ jerseys. That secondary is good.
Good game. Good season. Good young defense that can become dominant with a couple of more guys. Good OL. Lots of goodness.
ZooeyModeratorWhat’s next for Detroit?
This looked like the year they could do it. But this team ran out of gas. Coordinators Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson have been interviewing for other jobs. They could both move on and perhaps take some assistants with them. The team will get some key players back, but some, including Carlton Davis and Kevin Zeitler, could depart in free agency.The Lions have a road schedule in 2025 that features games against the Eagles, Ravens, Rams, Bengals, Kansas City and this very Commanders team — one that should only be better. How will the Lions respond? How will Campbell pick up the pieces? These are questions most thought would come later. Not now. But that’s the NFL.
The NFL is not kind.
If the Chiefs win it again this year, then… they have to be the NFL’s high water mark.
ZooeyModeratorI dunno how the Lions got ‘this’ far with all those injuries on defense. Wouldnt surprise me if they won the NFC next year.
Agreed. I believed the injuries would catch up with them in the playoffs, and they did. And I think you’re right about next year. They probably would have won it this year, if not for those injuries.
ZooeyModeratorThe Detroit/Washington game is what you get when two great offenses face two terrible defenses.
I like the Rams’ chances should they get past Philly.
Me, too.
Score first tomorrow.
January 19, 2025 at 12:13 am in reply to: setting up the Iggles game (Sunday 1/19, 3 et 12 noon pt) #154824ZooeyModeratorRams 16
Eagles 13ZooeyModeratorWell, well, well.
ZooeyModerator19 appearances is pretty impressive when you consider that for the better part of two decades during the Super Bowl era the Rams were among the worst teams in football.
Yeah, the Rams are either good, or terrible.
They don’t do mediocrity.
ZooeyModeratorsuper bowl era
divisional round w/l records pic.twitter.com/XGlcNq3R3M— roberto clemente (@rclemente2121) January 18, 2025
January 18, 2025 at 1:43 pm in reply to: setting up the Iggles game (Sunday 1/19, 3 et 12 noon pt) #154809ZooeyModeratorBastards. They keep making the storm earlier and earlier. Now it’s practically guaranteed.
ZooeyModeratort’d be one thing to say that during the offseason, but calling out a rowdy fanbase like the Eagles’ just days before a playoff game may not be the most advisable move.
What are they gonna do?
Make noise when the Rams’ defense is on the field?
Oh no.
January 17, 2025 at 4:12 pm in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #154787ZooeyModeratorIs the US more advanced than China? Xiaohongshu has left Americans speechless.美国比中国先进吗？小红书 把美国人给干沉默了。 pic.twitter.com/LEIGlhfSEv
— 雁过留声 (@szygls) January 17, 2025
ZooeyModeratorGreat gesture from the Rams: https://t.co/5zJNbLEJS9
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 17, 2025
January 17, 2025 at 11:05 am in reply to: setting up the Iggles game (Sunday 1/19, 3 et 12 noon pt) #154779ZooeyModeratorJared Verse: “I hate Eagles fans”
Wow. Got me all fired up. I’m ready to put on a helmet and get in there.
ZooeyModeratorSean McVay says he expects Alaric Jackson, Tyler Higbee, Ahkello Witherspoon and Bobby Brown to all play vs. Eagles
— Adam Grosbard (@AdamGrosbard) January 16, 2025
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January 16, 2025 at 6:03 pm in reply to: setting up the Iggles game (Sunday 1/19, 3 et 12 noon pt) #154767ZooeyModeratorDid you know AJ Brown was reading a self-help book. ‘Inner Excellence’
Michael Irvin defended Brown, saying Brown had some issues and was actually working on himself trying to improve.I saw that.
And I saw somebody else say that it may reveal Discontent about his “underuse.”
I don’t think it means anything. And I don’t think it means anything, even if it does mean something. If you know what I mean. Even if he’s disgruntled, the only thing that really matters is whether he catches the ball and runs with it. The more he does that, the worse it is.
Anyway. It feels like Friday to me today, but it’s not.
January 16, 2025 at 4:19 pm in reply to: setting up the Iggles game (Sunday 1/19, 3 et 12 noon pt) #154765ZooeyModeratorSo, if the Rams were to be competitive, how would it happen? What would it look like?
I dunno, but they have managed to be competitive with that other team with a great Oline – the Lions. How do they do ‘that’ ? I have no idea.
Great challenge for McVay. As Cowherd noted, going across the country, into the cold, short week, against a beast of a team thats already lambasted the Rams.
Great challenge.
One of those games where you can live with a loss, if they are competitive, smart, tough.
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vThis is where I have oceans of ignorance. The Rams said they got rolled by Philly before because they didn’t maintain gap discipline. Was that just on the two long runs? Or several times? That’s fixable, and…apparently…has been fixed. That’s not to say there will never be another mistake, but they’ve addressed that, and nobody has scored much of anything on them since Buffalo lit them up.
So how much did the Eagles steamroll the Rams when the Rams DID maintain their gap discipline? Some, for sure. A lot? I dunno. What does that mismatch look like if the Rams do what they’re supposed to do on defense? How far does Barkley get on a slick field? How much has the Rams’ OL coalesced since then? How well will Higbee play? How much will the loss of this LB dude hurt the Eagles? Are the Eagles a little too cocky/complacent about the Rams because of the ease with which they whacked them earlier this year? Does AJ Brown getting only 3 targets for 1 catch for 10 yards have anything to do with his reading a book on the sidelines? Why does he have a book on the sideline in the first place? Are there still remnants of fractures underneath the surface from last year’s meltdown? Does McVay see something on film that he can exploit this time?
I don’t have a clue.
What I can say with reasonable confidence is that the Rams pretty much need to score early and get out on top, something they have been pretty terrible at this year, because I don’t see them coming from behind in this one.
January 16, 2025 at 1:22 pm in reply to: setting up the Iggles game (Sunday 1/19, 3 et 12 noon pt) #154761ZooeyModeratorI think it’s a case of “this is a great bunch, they just don’t match up well with the Eagles.”
I don’t know if anybody does, but yeah, the Rams are quick and light on DL, and the Eagles are quick and heavy. So that’s a mismatch.
I assume the Rams are gonna just go with 12 guys in the box to try to slow Barkley, and try to make Hurts beat them. The Rams’ only chance is to keep Philly in a low-scoring game, and hope for a couple of breaks to fall their way. Nothing about this game looks like it’s an advantage for the Rams. I mean, the Rams passing attack may be superior to the Eagles’ passing attack, but the weather will stifle that. This isn’t going to be pretty. This will be as ugly as the game against the 49ers, I expect.
The only hope lies in the fact that the Rams have been winning ugly games this year, and Whitworth says that the Eagles’ advantages over the Rams will also be limited by the conditions. I’m guessing most of us will live to see.
ZooeyModeratorAlso, one of the worst gameplans in NFL history. By the Vikings head coach.
He failed to adjust. That’s for sure.
It’s nice to see McVay schooling bright head coaches like Belicheck did to him in the Super Bowl.
January 16, 2025 at 10:09 am in reply to: setting up the Iggles game (Sunday 1/19, 3 et 12 noon pt) #154754ZooeyModeratorFrom The Athletic:
The “panel” of experts is made up of coaches and team executives.
No. 4 Los Angeles Rams (10-7) at No. 2 Philadelphia Eagles (14-3)
Kickoff: 3 p.m. ET Sunday
Expert picks: Eagles 8, Rams 1Sean McVay can seemingly do no wrong.
The Rams coach rested his stars in the season finale, dropping a spot in the standings but shellacking the Vikings regardless. McVay believed in his team more than he cared about the opponent, and that’s the mark of a dangerous group.
It didn’t sway the voters, though.
“I think it’s going to be a replay of the (Eagles’) regular-season win against the Rams where they struggle to stop the run,” an executive said. “It’s a huge offensive line, and (the Rams are) small inside.”
The Eagles rushed for 314 yards in their 37-20 road victory against the Rams in Week 12. It was the second-most rushing yards by any team in a game this season. Running back Saquon Barkley piled up 255 rushing yards, 47 receiving yards and two touchdowns in that outing.
It frequently comes down to turnovers with the Eagles, too. They had eight giveaways during their 2-2 start but have only turned it over seven times in their last 14 games (counting Sunday’s playoff win over the Packers), including three in a row without a giveaway.
“It will come down to the Eagles being able to run the ball,” a coach said. “If the Rams can stop the run, they have a legit shot to win the game.”
The thing is, the Eagles run it well against everyone. They tallied 186 rushing yards in a Week 2 loss to the Atlanta Falcons and 211 yards on the ground in their Week 16 loss to the Commanders. So they are beatable even when the ground game is humming.
For the Rams to overcome these hurdles, along with the outdoor weather elements in Philly, they’ll need quarterback Matthew Stafford to be at his best and their young defense to pick up where it left off after racking up nine sacks and two takeaways in a 27-9 drubbing of the Vikings.
The Rams defense is fast, relentless and fearless.
“It will be a good game,” another executive said. “Stafford gets the ball out so quickly that it will minimize Philly’s defensive line. Can the Rams slow down Barkley? Their defense is playing well, and it will be fun to watch.”
Another coach added, “I love Stafford as an equalizer. But if Eagles QB Jalen Hurts takes care of it, I think they’re too deep and talented.”
The Eagles have knocked off the Rams in back-to-back regular-season meetings. The Rams are 2-1 against the hosts in the playoffs, but they haven’t met on this stage in 23 years.
January 15, 2025 at 4:19 pm in reply to: setting up the Iggles game (Sunday 1/19, 3 et 12 noon pt) #154732ZooeyModeratorIve seen some crazy pundits falling into the overvaluing-a-wildcard-win syndrome.
It was a great win over the vikes. Wonderful win.
Eagles are a different animal. It will get ugly.
There’s no scheming their way out of being bludgeoned by a superior OLine. By the start of the fourth quarter Saquon will be over 100 yards.
Rams get a TD in garbage time to make it look close:
Eagles 28
Rams 20.w
vYeah. This is the one matchup I hoped to avoid. If the Bucs had only done their job, the Rams would be on their way to Detroit, and I’d be much more eager for this weekend. As it is, the Rams just had to relocate their families in a few hours to another city, and then they threw every ounce of juice they had at Minnesota. That has to be exhausting mentally.
Now, on a short week, they got home at 3 am, and who knows where they’re even practicing right now, and they have to cross the country to play a frozen game with precipitation in front of the most hostile fans in the business, against a team that took them behind the woodshed just a few weeks ago and dropped a total ass-kicking on them. I always have hope because “any given Sunday” is a thing, but this is a major phuken challenge. If the Rams win, I think I’m going to get serious about placing Sean McVay’s bust next to just a handful of other ones on the top shelf of coaches historically. I mean it.
January 15, 2025 at 4:09 pm in reply to: setting up the Iggles game (Sunday 1/19, 3 et 12 noon pt) #154731ZooeyModeratorThere is a conspiracy to move the cold weather in sooner. I knew it.
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