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ZooeyModeratorI thought Keenum’s runs were studly. He didn’t even slide. He played with some grit there, and I think a QB needs to do that once in a while – not every game – but a QB that goes for it once in a while has to fire up his team, I would think. And he wasn’t reckless. He was in control, and avoided real hits. I liked those two runs he made.
I don’t think he is quite Garcia, but he is in that ballpark, I think. Haden is a good comparison. He is better than Davis, but I get the comparison there.
I will take Keenum, and know that once or twice a game, I am going to have a “What the F was that?” throw to watch. As long as they don’t hit a wide open defender, I will live with it. He hits Britt and Kendricks with good throws enough to move the chains. I’d like to see more of Higbee, and we all want to see Spruce.
ZooeyModeratorWasn’t TA signed to that big contract to help take pressure off Gurley? The O line isn’t making any holes for Gurley to get through.
I don’t think that was the “intent” of the TA signing. But they do seem to be using him less on jet sweeps, and those were effective last year.
I haven’t seen statistics, but I would guess Gurley is getting contact pretty early in his runs. Defenses are clearly playing Run First against the Rams, and they should be. I think we’re going to see pretty unspectacular play until the Rams find a way to spread out the LBs more, and make the safeties think more about passing than they do currently. But I am not a film student. I don’t know. I would hope one of the film students will write up some observations about the running attack somewhat soon. There should be a decent body of film to look at now that four games have been played.
Gurley appears completely healthy, so I don’t think it’s him. There do not seem to be holes, and when he does get through, they close very quickly.
ZooeyModeratorAt what point this season do the Rams redshirt Goff the entire season, no matter what?
If the Rams get through game 12, and are in the playoff picture, would they switch to Goff if they though he was ready? I don’t know. I don’t think so. I have to think it’s by mid-season. Game 8 or 9, or we don’t see him unless Keenum gets injured.
I think Fisher’s plan was to keep him on the bench the entire season if he could. So as long as Keenum is playing well Goff will sit IMO.
And I think I’m okay with that (as much as I am looking forward to a stronger, more accurate arm). Keenum’s misses and floats are disappointing, but he IS adequate. Barely, maybe. But he is adequate. I would like to see Goff get some garbage duty, though the way the Rams play, there may be no garbage time the entire year. Close, low-scoring games.
Bring on Buffalo. I can’t wait. I am going with my son, and sitting in 93 degree direct sun all day with no shade anywhere (and apparently no water).
ZooeyModeratorI don’t think Quick made that TD. The defenders, especially the safety, overran that are blew that play. I think Quick benefited from that mistake.
The run game is a mystery. Gurley isn’t making it past the 2nd level even on those occasions when he makes it past the 1st level which isn’t very often. Defenses are clearly keying on him, but something is wrong there. That second level needs to be loosened up somehow, either with better blocking schemes, or by making them pay attention to receivers.
I’d like to see them throw to Gurley more because those passes seem to be somewhat effective. Whatever happened to the screen? Remember when screens were about 50% of the Rams’ passes? Talk about extremes. They’ve gone from vast overuse to underuse.
ZooeyModeratorExcept he didn’t catch any of the other four passes, including one pretty critical drop.
I dunno. I’m glad, but still skeptical.
ZooeyModeratorGood to have Gaines back, and I don’t think it is a coincidence that TruJo finally turned in a good game with Gaines on the other side. I didn’t see Joyner all day (though he was credited with 4 tackles), nor much Hill.
The Gurley situation is a bit frustrating, as are untimely penalties.
The Rams have mastered Bend, don’t Break, it seems. They seem to give up a lot, but come up with the stop eventually.
Arizona got a few bruises today. Is it just me, or do the Rams seem to send an uncommon number of Cardinals to the training room every time they play?
Well, 3-1 is not a bad place to be at the quarter pole, especially since that opening game clunker. It seems like the Rams get a little better every week.
Fun fact: The Rams have been outscored 76 – 63 in the four games.
ZooeyModeratorFish and chips is a favorite of mine. Apparently that is not shared by other people in this county because there is only one fish and chips place left in the entire county that I am aware of. The others all closed down.
I have decided on buffalo wings.
ZooeyModeratorchicken tawouk
Where do you live, Invader? That’s a middle eastern thing. Are you in some urban area?
As for carnitas, pretty common in these parts, but then, out here in California, we like Mexicans, and welcome them and their taco trucks and mad construction skills into our state.
ZooeyModeratorInteresting topic. I did not realize the TV ratings were down.
I also, did not expect to read this sentence today:
” The younger generation no longer congregates around a large box; they carry small ones everywhere they go, constantly staring at them like zombies peering in to a sardine can full of brains.”
Personally, i don’t watch the NFL because i can’t afford TV. Its just about money.
I mean, for me to pay
for a TV cable or satellite hookup would cost somewhere between 60 and 100 bucks a month.
And watchin TV is just not worth that to me. Now if i could pay for the individual shows/games i want, then I might pay for TV. But i dont want to pay that big a monthly fee for a vast-wasteland of tv-garbage.w
vIt doesn’t say how much they are down, I noticed. This could just be an article written because it’s the guy’s job to write something every so often.
ZooeyModeratorWell, I am not going to pay $1,000/year, or whatever it is when you add the NFL package charge to the monthly dish charge. If I had a satellite anyway, I would possibly be tempted, but I think they charge too much. I don’t understand why anybody pays it.
I watch the Rams on TV when they are broadcast for free. But I have had it with being fleeced for entertainment.
October 1, 2016 at 11:23 am in reply to: Trump channeling Gertrude Stein as Holden Caulfield. #54195ZooeyModeratorbnw, it would be a little easier to accept some of your defenses regarding Trump if not for the fact that you dismiss all criticism of him and say it’s all part of some conspiracy. All of it. To you, he can do no wrong, ever. Despite mountains and mountains of evidence proving he’s a crook, a conman, a serial liar, you dismiss all of that — automatically.
This is from a WaPo op-ed by a guy named Robert J. Samuelson:
The pledge to “make America great again” is not an economic project. It’s an exercise in mass psychology. The idea is to get people to displace their anger and frustration onto groups that (in Trump’s view) have eroded America’s “greatness” — Mexicans, Muslims, the Chinese, political and financial elites, and “the media.” The Trump treatment is to peddle hatred and resentment for his political gain.
I think he is largely right, and I would add “intellectual elites” to the list (even though Trump hasn’t attacked them, his supporters show disdain for them). This is the deal: Trump is promising to make all these groups suffer, and to transfer comfort to white, working America. That message has such strong appeal, that his supporters are completely deaf to everything else. Completely deaf. They will not hear it. They are latched onto that core message with vise grips.
And, as president, Trump would make good on the first part of that promise – to make those groups suffer. He won’t follow through on the second part of that promise and anybody who understands the impracticality of bringing industry BACK to the US, and understands Trump’s personal business history knows exactly why he won’t fulfill that promise, but his supporters care only about that one core promise. Nothing else. And they will not be shaken, no matter how much evidence is piled up before them. Trump supporters have no interest in objective evidence, and it is apparent most of them do not even understand the process by which objective evidence is examined, or possibly even understand that there is one.
September 30, 2016 at 8:40 pm in reply to: Trump channeling Gertrude Stein as Holden Caulfield. #54164ZooeyModeratorI think…I’d rather have Holden Caulfield as president.
The guy was at least reflective, cared about other people, and possessed something of an artist’s soul. As self-absorbed and unable to read people as he was, he at least had those three virtues. Trump doesn’t have any. He is totally despicable. I cannot think of one thing about him that I find admirable. He is unintelligent and bellicose, chauvinistic, racist, a bully, and a liar. A compulsive liar that lies so much by habit that he isn’t even aware of the fact that he is lying much of the time. He has no understanding of laws, of diplomacy, the constitution, or how government works. He is so completely unfit for office that it is mind-boggling.
Trump is the worst candidate this country has ever seen. No-one this unqualified, both in terms of character and experience, has ever come anywhere near the office before.
ZooeyModeratorI think he’s dreamy.
ZooeyModeratorI wonder if the guy who owned that ticket sued Dan Reeves when he moved the Rams to LA.
ZooeyModeratorAll I can say is that what I saw of Goff in the pre-season told me that he wasn’t anywhere NEAR ready. Nowhere near.
Add to that the facts that he never took a direct center exchange, or called a play in the huddle, or was asked to read defenses…and he is 21 years old.
I am floored by the success of all the rookie QBs who have started this year without looking like a Keystone Cop. This may turn out to be a great class of QBs, and an entirely unexpected one pre-draft. And maybe Goff is the worst of the bunch, and maybe he’s the best of the bunch. I dunno. But I think he would look like a Keystone Cop if he played right now based on what I saw. Not all the time. Because he looks like he’s good. And that would show. But for all the energy he could bring, he would also shoot drives in the foot here and there.
I don’t think I want to see him start this year until he has played successfully in mop up duty.
ZooeyModeratorI challenged the veracity of his statement. He conceded the point. However your post is directed solely about me which is against the rules here.
It was directed at your rhetorical strategy (of throwing out red herrings) which is fair game.
And you didn’t succeed in challenging the veracity of anything Billy said. All you succeeded in doing was getting Billy to admit that alcohol and tobacco kill more people than guns. Which is completely irrelevant, however correct it may be, and however much anyone agrees with you that the numbers are correct. That doesn’t mean in any way that guns are not a problem, or that you succeeded in winning the argument that guns are over-regulated. Nobody conceded that.
You want to know some other things that kill fewer people than tobacco and alcohol?
Muslims.
Illegal Immigrants.
But, hey, you wouldn’t mind seeing a little more government action there, would you, bnw?
400,000 tobacco deaths a year.
In 2015, 19 people killed by terrorists in the US. But let’s support a candidate for president who wants to respond to Muslims with a policy equivalent to banning the manufacture of firearms altogether. Who wants to respond to illegal immigrants with a policy equivalent to rounding up all firearms and destroying them.
Oh…………..suddenly tobacco and alcohol numbers are completely irrelevant, huh? Because “that’s different.”
Yeah. That’s different.
Tobacco and alcohol are irrelevant to the gun conversation.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t think there is anyway around the fact that we have been insanely “liberal” in our gun policies, protecting the virtually unlimited purchase and usage of deadly pieces of metal. No other product gets this kind of pass on public safety concerns, and no other product kills or maims more often.
Use of tobacco and alcohol both kill and maim far more than private ownership of firearms.
I wonder, do you have a tendency to change the subject much?
When a critical statement is made about something you like, do you feel like saying, “Hey! Over here! Look here instead!”
September 28, 2016 at 10:12 pm in reply to: Donald having a better year than his numbers show #54070ZooeyModeratorZero sacks.
And zero TDs.
And he can’t even beat college kids at ping pong.
ZooeyModeratorWell it’s normal to test positive for the virus because of the vaccine. In other words, his immune system made anti-rubella antibodies to the vaccine. So he tested positive not because he has the measles (an actual infection) but because he had been vaccinated. We expect people to test positive for Rubella in our lab because that means they’ve had their MMR vaccine and almost everyone does test positive.
Yeah obviously I’m taking the courses online but I did have to go to the MSU campus during the previous two summers to do lab work. It’s a big campus. Similar to Penn State’s but not as pretty.
The LA board of health (whatever it’s called) called my son up and confirmed what you just said. So he missed 8 of the first 15 days of school for an illness he did not have.
ZooeyModeratorI just don’t see them winning on the road against a very good football team that just got embarrassed last week, and is looking up at a division rival that they hate. The term Must Win is going to flung around, and Arians is a very good coach. The Rams offense hasn’t shown it can compete against a good defense, and the Cards are good.
I hope the Rams don’t get embarrassed.
ZooeyModeratorThey can, but they won’t.
ZooeyModeratorThis is separate from you thesis?
And is this a MS or a PhD?
Did I tell you my son got Rubella from his vaccine?
Yes it was separate from the thesis. It’s just something I did for ‘fun’. I’m getting an MS from Michigan State University in Clinical Laboratory Science. The hospital where I work is paying for half of it so it’s a pretty sweet deal. I’m all done with my coursework and am just working on my thesis now.
Are you sure your son got the measles? The vaccine is an attenuated live virus and some people have a reaction that involves a rash and some minor symptoms but I’ve never heard of anyone getting full-blown measles from the vaccine and I couldn’t find anything on it during a (brief) search of the literature.He had only a rash, and a low fever for one day, but the test came back positive. They quarantined him for 10 days, and he missed a week and a half of college right out of the chute. I don’t know anything about it, but it seemed nobody at the clinic at USC did, either. They had about 10 people on him, and finally found 1 person who had seen a case of it years ago. But I assume the test is conclusive. I dunno.
Helluva a commute to MSU. Way to rack up frequent flyer miles. (Ever set foot on the campus?).
ZooeyModeratorI will watch a debate if:
1. The Head Moderator can turn off a mic when a candidate speaks out of turn. Nobody gets to rant over someone else’s answer.
2. There is a panel of 10 fact-checkers with laptops sitting to the side like a PBS fundraiser, each with a red light they can press when they call BS, or a meter of some kind that rates the statements as True, Mostly True, Somewhat True, and False. The panel will be made up of Political Science majors/graduates, and specialists in Rhetoric.
3. A candidate who refuses to answer a question, but instead jumps off to some other point, gets a timeout until he or she is strong enough to answer the question.
4. The mic gets cut off when time is up. There will be a light that goes on when the candidate has 10 seconds to wrap up an answer, and when the 10 seconds is up, the mic goes off.
5. Jon Stewart, John Oliver, and Samantha Bee are the moderators because they are the only serious journalists left in this country.
ZooeyModeratorThere was no running against the Rams in the 70s. They led the league in 73 and 74 with about 91 and 93 yards allowed per game respectively, and 5 TDs in 73, and 4 in 74. And they didn’t fall off from that much until 1979. I didn’t look up the 60s.
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Yeah, do you remember just how utterly Futile it was for teams to try to run up the gut on LA ? It was just a ridiculous waste of a down.w
vAbsolutely. And I loved the Seattle game a week ago. I liked those games. It was like…4th down and six inches…are you seriously going to try to pick that up running? You are denied.
ZooeyModeratorThis is separate from you thesis?
And is this a MS or a PhD?
Did I tell you my son got Rubella from his vaccine?
ZooeyModeratorThere was no running against the Rams in the 70s. They led the league in 73 and 74 with about 91 and 93 yards allowed per game respectively, and 5 TDs in 73, and 4 in 74. And they didn’t fall off from that much until 1979. I didn’t look up the 60s.
ZooeyModeratorNah, I can’t because MNF is on tonight.
And truth be told even if it wasn’t I’d find something else to do instead. Watching those two hellspawn try to out lie each other does not make for compelling television viewing.
I have too much work to do at school, but even if I had the time, I’m not sure I could watch it. I would just wanna barf the whole time, and I would feel like complete shit after watching it. It would just upset me. The only reason to watch is the spectacle of a powerful empire smugly going down the drain.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, the Long and Lauranitis decisions appear to have been good ones, sadly (in a way). But I am certainly wishing Jenkins was here. And McLeod. I sure hope Gaines can be a force.
ZooeyModeratorCount me out.
Hillary is going to sell Crazy Donald and her own “experience,” and Trump is going to sell Crooked Hillary and how he will clean up every problem lickety-split, and they will each drop some coy one-liners, and that will be that.
The media is going to want fireworks, and they will spend their post-mortem blabber talking about the most heated moments of the debate, and then decide there was no knockout blow delivered, and award some hashmarks on each side of the ledger. I have a feeling it is going to be pretty boring, and the media will decide Hillary won slightly (because she is smarter and better informed, and that will come across), and the Trump supporters will see that as proof the media is biased, and make their standard complaints there, and the whole thing makes me tired thinking about it.
ZooeyModeratorThe play calling at times was very good. The shocker was the 3rd and 11 from the five and they try a kill shot?
Very Un-Fisher-Like.
Anyway, the team still has a ways to go, starting with the run blocking. But I’ll take 2-1.
See, I would have taken that Kill Shot on 1st and 10 at the five. Instead, they handed to Gurley, then a screen pass on 2nd down. They both predictably got blown up because everybody knew that’s what they were going to do.
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