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ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorI heard about 15 minutes of Colin Cowherd today, and what I heard him say is that basically there’s not enough ball to go around with the other star, Tatum. Analytics show that the Celtics win when Tatum gets 30% of the ball. He had said last week that he thought it was money/results, and that the Celtics wanted to break it up and reinvest. He back off that a bit today.
But it seems most people think the Celtics got the worse end of that deal, and the Celtics didn’t wait around to see if the price for Brown might improve. That says they wanted to cut their losses, or they are bad managers.
ZooeyModeratorIF Alaric Jackson is suspended it would only be for 6 games at most. Not all season.
I read that, but i wasnt sure if it was set in stone or just a ‘probable’ outcome.
At any rate, its enough time to lose homefield and get Stafford Bulgerized.
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vIn football, there are many more ways for things to go wrong than there are for them to go right.
That’s why you always pick up the ball first, even if the whistle is blown.
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ZooeyModeratorI don’t know who Dan Towler is. Never heard of him.
Where is SJ39?
ZooeyModeratorI forgot about The Road. It’s a very good book, and I’m tempted to read more McCarthy. Many of his books have a strong reputation. But, you know, he’s kinda grim.
I watched Paradise, the postapocalyptic tv show and liked it. I’m sure I’ll at least start season 2 when it comes out, but sometimes these things start off well, and the peter out. Like The Matrix series. And Dune, you know, I’ve never been tempted to read the other books because everybody says the same thing about the original Dune being the best.
ZooeyModeratorKeith,
I was stunned and saddened to see this news posted. Words fail me at these times. Every sentiment, however deeply felt and sincere, seems trite or cliche coming out of my mouth.
When my daughter died in 2001, I got a phone call from a friend of mine with whom I had been close in high school. He had experience with grief and loss himself. His wife – also a close friend of mine – had had to go through labor and birth to their only son who had died in the womb the day before, like 3 days before his expected Due Date. He called to warn me that people would say goofy things to me, and that I should accept the loving intentions with which things are said, and pay less attention to the words. And that was good advice because I heard things about my daughter being “in a better place,” or “what a blessing it is that she doesn’t have to suffer any longer” from my own immediate family, as well as friends and acquaintances.
About 6 or 7 years later, I saw a play called “Rabbit Hole” which is the story about the aftermath of a couple whose young son was killed by a car when he darted into the street after a stray ball. The mother of the boy had had an elder brother who had died from a heroin overdose some 10 years earlier, and at the beginning of the play, her own mother arrives to stay with the couple. At one point in the play, the bereaved mother asks her own mother if the “feeling ever goes away.” She puts down her sewing and reflects, and says something like, “No, but it changes over time. It’s like a brick in your pocket. You’re very conscious of it at first, but after a while, it just becomes this thing that you carry with you all the time. And then, one day, something will remind you, and you’ll feel the brick there, and you say to yourself, ‘Oh…THAT.’ And it becomes a part of you.”
That really hit home with me, and I started to silently cry sitting there, hoping nobody would notice because I was surrounded by students and a couple other teachers who were chaperoning the trip with me.
I will say that, quite often, when I notice the brick, I think about how supportive the board was to me when this happened. The responses I got to my post announcing my daughter’s death were overwhelming. It meant a great deal to me, and I’ve never forgotten it. There was a tremendous amount of sympathy expressed to me by people I’ve never met face-to-face.
And I want to make sure that you know that you are truly loved and respected by all of us here, and your grief is a pain in my heart. I’m proud to consider you a friend, and I want you to know I’m thinking about you every day, and wishing you a glorious recovery.
Jeff
ZooeyModeratorI read Dune for the first (and only) time about two years before volume one of the recent film version came out. I also found it better than I expected. Never heard of Station Eleven. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything I would call Post-apocalyptic. I don’t think that describes Dune.
ZooeyModeratorPuka Nacua has 4,191.
A full season will put him past Flipper, and possibly Fears.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, somewhere around here there’s a vid saying the World Cup powers-that-be required the corporate names to be eliminated on all the U.S. stadiums.
Its fantastic.
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vUnless it’s an official sponsor of FIFA.
ZooeyModeratorOn television, during the World CUp, they have been calling it Los Angeles Stadium, not SoFi.
ZooeyModeratorI wrote an article on yellow school buses for Parenting Magazine when I worked there 37 years ago. The only thing I remember is that the colors were chosen for high visibility, even in the fog.
I also wrote an article on the daycare center at CIA headquarters in Langley which pissed off the editor-in-chief so much that my contract was not renewed. It was loaded with jokes about “security blankets” and Big Brother, and he completely revised it to remove all of them. I also pissed off his secretary by dismissing “The Sun Also Rises,” saying it was a story about a bunch of Americans travelling all over Europe, unable to find quite enough alcohol to drink, and then going home. I said it should have been named “Tequila Sunrises Also.” The secretary’s name was Brett, and her parents named her after the character in that novel.
I was not well-loved at Parenting Magazine.
ZooeyModeratorRams Wire@TheRamsWire
Albert Breer says he’s heard that if only the Rams called SoFi Stadium home, the field could be grass instead of turf.WTF do they call it, if not home?
If it were ONLY the Rams. That is, no Chargers. (He wasn’t very clear.)
Am I to understand that if it were up to the Los Angeles Rams, SoFi would have natural grass, but the fucking Chargers won’t have it? And they have a vote?
The Chargers, last I understood, were leasing their presence at SoFi for $1/year. And THEY have the final say in this?
That doesn’t seem right to me.
ZooeyModeratorRams Wire@TheRamsWire
Albert Breer says he’s heard that if only the Rams called SoFi Stadium home, the field could be grass instead of turf.WTF do they call it, if not home?
ZooeyModeratorI don’t think I will ever get another pet. I want to get a one way plane ticket and see what happens, and pets are responsibilities.
Are you really serious about leaving this blessed nation?
Which godless country would you go to?
I’m not as bold as you, so i will stick it out here. I would be up for going to a different galaxy though. That might be far enough from, ya know, Amerikans.
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vTop of my list are Portugal, Vietnam, and Thailand. The Patagonia region has appeal. I would take a look at eastern Europe, too. But, yeah. I don’t really like it here, even though it’s “home.” I’ll come back, but I’m gonna spend the next year downsizing, and then I’m leaving until I get a craving for buffalo wings or something.
ZooeyModeratorThe Rams need a team dog.
Do you have a dog currently?
No, I haven’t had one for years. I only like to live with Giant dogs, and i figured i was too old to carry one if it got hurt, so I learned to live dogless. I have many crows, though.
You have any animals?
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vI have a dog. He killed our cat several years ago, though I let my wife believe the cat must’ve eaten rat poison at some neighbors’ house.
He is half Chesapeake Bay Retriever, and half Blue Tick Coon Hound – a freebie because the Chesie owner was a pro dog breeder, and the Hound seduced her and produced devil spawn. He looks like a black lab, and almost everybody thinks he is on first acquaintance.
The life expectancy of both breeds is 12 years, and he turned 12 in March, and while he is turning gray in places, he shows no serious signs of decay. I don’t think I will ever get another pet. I want to get a one way plane ticket and see what happens, and pets are responsibilities.
ZooeyModeratorLos Angeles generated a positive expected points added (EPA) on over 50% of its total handoffs in 2025, according to Pro Football Focus. The accomplishment marks only the second time in the PFF era, which dates back to 2006, that an NFL team has surpassed the 50% positive EPA threshold on rushing plays. Head coach Sean McVay’s 2018 squad, led by All-Pro running back Todd Gurley, was the first to establish the record.
The Rams had the best run-blocking unit in the league this past year and will likely return all, if not most, of their starting offensive linemen.
I wish Williams had breakaway speed.
I just – we’ve said it before – imagine Steven Jackson in this offense.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, its a problem. I assume the Rams thought they could get JimmyG but they couldnt and then whatever planB they had fell apart.
There’s always Philip Rivers
Quick search for remaining FA, and JimmyG is the only QB left. I forgot that Kirk Cousins was a FA. He was my choice for the job, but he signed with the Raiders where he is more likely to get some starts.
ZooeyModeratorWell, if Stafford gets hurt, I would guess the first call the Rams make is to JimmyG. The second to Russell Wilson, maybe.
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vI don’t understand not having one of those guys on the roster already. This is a super bowl year. You get your #2 on the roster before camp starts. Stetson Bennett is expendable. By the time Simpson takes over, Bennett is probably gone anyway.
ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorThere are humans who play sports, who read books.
I think I’m becoming a Spurs fan.
I guess I should find out who is on the team, and watch the next game.
ZooeyModeratorPolice said the charge was for “a person who willfully inflicts corporal injury” against a spouse.
The news of the arrest was first reported Tuesday by NBC4, which reported that “Jackson thought the woman was recording him with her phone and allegedly tried to take the phone out of her hand.” According to NBC4, “investigators said the woman had scratch marks on her arms.”
The wording here is odd.
The article is rushed and confusing, not that we would get anything definite from an article anyway, what with charges pending.
“Scratches” also don’t seem to me like a felony. Basically, all we got is Alaric is in trouble again because Alaric and women and cellphones don’t mix.
{sigh}
ZooeyModeratorthe idea of playing with Garrett… it means no more triple teams on Donald. Now the OL has to double-team two guys? That means somebody is unblocked. There is just no way to deal with two guys like that.
So…a strong chance to get a 2nd ring?
Yes, and there was a strong chance last year.
ZooeyModeratorI wonder why AD is thinking about a comeback now. Why would the signing of Myles Garrett change any of his algebra?
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vStrong chance for a 2nd ring.
He had that, anyway, though. Arguably he would have been the closer the Rams needed last year to win it all. And the Rams were clearly ascending when he retired. I mean… they made it to the NFC Championship in the first year of retirement. Maybe Saquon doesn’t go off like he did if AD is there.
I think he’s just had 2 years off, and the idea of playing with Garrett… it means no more triple teams on Donald. Now the OL has to double-team two guys? That means somebody is unblocked. There is just no way to deal with two guys like that.
I think the motivation would be legacy. It could stake a claim as the greatest DL in history. Garrett, Donald, Turner, Ford, Young, Fiske. Stewart. FFS.
ZooeyModeratorsomeone said that snead was asked the question of if donald could be brought in during the middle of the season. snead said that wouldn’t be donald’s style. that if he was going to return, he wasn’t going to cheat the system. he’d go from start to finish. can’t verify that. i don’t have the time to go back and watch the press conference.
From what I know of Donald, that rings true. He would either give everything to his teammates, or sit it out altogether.
ZooeyModeratorWell the timing is important. They are arguing the Rams were sure at the time of the Simpson pick. And they hadnt offered Verse back then, had they?
I dunno, I guess they could have known that they were gonna offer Verse if they had to.
I think from the Rams’ point of view, they could not be 100% sure. But what they did know was that if it wasn’t going to be Myles Garrett, it was going to be somebody else. At some point.
Meanwhile, if they liked Ty Simpson enough to believe he could take the Rams into the next generation, then they were going to do THAT anyway. So if the Browns had backed out, the Rams would have sat there at the Poker table for as long as it took to strike a deal that would put the Rams over right now.
ZooeyModeratori’d want to at least give him some time to get in football shape. weddle was cutting it a little close. rather he come in at second half of the season. but i also wonder if donald would want to do that especially if it meant cutting a player for him to just play half a season. i think i remember him not being keen on that idea.
I don’t remember exactly when Weddle was brought in, but it was not before camp even started. I think he came in during the season and was playing a week or two later.
And of course Donald’s presence means someone’s absence. That’s the way the number 53 works.
I don’t think it’s going to happen because of how complicated it would be, but… damn… it sure would be some jolly good fun.
ZooeyModeratorIf he comes back, I certainly hope its not early in the season. I’d hope that he would not try to play a bunch of games at his age.
There are older DTs in the league who didn’t take a 2 year hiatus. I would want him for the entire season. I want to see what they could do together. I am not worried about Aaron Donald wearing down because he’s old. He was still at his peak when he left, and the highest rated DT last year was Heyward who was 37. Bring it.
ZooeyModeratorKupp on the Donald situation: “I already texted him and he’s not allowed” (to come back)
I would assume that there would be cap problems. He retired with time left on his deal, I think. You can’t just retire and then come back as if that deal didn’t exist. I don’t know the rules, but I would think there would be issues.
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