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ZooeyModeratorI’m going with No.
Right now the Rams are fortunate to be 1-1. The defense won that game. The offense did everything they could to lose the game except turn over the ball. I don’t expect the Rams to suddenly start scoring multiple TDs on offense, and I think that is what it is usually going to take, especially on the road.
I think the Rams need at least 20 points to win in Tampa, and I don’t see how they are going to get that many.
ZooeyModeratorAnother London game? London Rams some day?
some day it’ll be the shanghai rams. kroenke will pimp them out to any city that will have them.
No, he won’t. Not as long as he has a mortgage to pay on a stadium in Los Angeles.
ZooeyModerator2) Coaching adjustments … Wichmann at ORG and Hill at CB. At some point you have to say “yeah, this isn’t working regardless of what we see in practice.” Im glad they did it.
It was a satisfying defensive effort and and punishment of a rival … and there was just enough offense to give me some hope. Curious to see how we show this coming week.
So Brown didn’t start? I thought he was playing pretty well at the time of his injury last season. And does this mean Sensabaugh didn’t start, and that’s why my hatred of him did not get any nourishment this week?
On the last point…if the Rams had lost 27 – 9, I doubt anyone would be saying that the offense’s performance gives “some hope.” It’s relative, innit?
ZooeyModeratorYeah, I thought we were looking at the Rams implode on that drive. And Westbrooks didn’t jump. He lined up in the neutral zone which is inexcusable.
ZooeyModeratorRight now I would guess that only Seahawks fans worry about playing the Rams much.
ZooeyModeratorI seem to recall that last year’s London game was before the first games, too. I am going to guess that it has to do with the return flights home. Everybody is supposed to show up for work Monday morning.
ZooeyModeratorI got Lamarcus.
Winston had 4 picks last week, and the article said INTs are kind of becoming a “thing” with him, so that’s where I am going.
ZooeyModeratorI also love low-scoring games. That reminded me of the Rams circa 1976.
I want to know who will score the first TD for the Rams this year: offense, defense, or special teams?
My son wants to know if the Rams can set a record for most wins in a season without scoring a TD. I haven’t been able to find out what that record is, but it can’t be many. Like one or two.
ZooeyModeratorBritt is legit.
He is not a #1, but he is a very good #2.
He is the best WR the Rams have by far, and I don’t know who is second.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, but 7-9 will feel so much better in southern Cal.
Because of the low humidity.
That’s what I was thinking, too. The low humidity.
ZooeyModeratorOnce again, the Rams have demonstrated that they are THE team to beat in the NFL.
That is sarcasm. Or a delusion of grandeur.
You can’t handle the truth!
ZooeyModeratorOnce again, the Rams have demonstrated that they are THE team to beat in the NFL.
ZooeyModeratorYou will have to realize that disagreeing with your position doesn’t make people racist.
That’s true.
Painting everybody who fits one racial profile as more likely to meet specific behavioral criteria than people from another race is what makes people racist.
It has nothing to do with whether they agree with me or not.
ZooeyModeratorI have observed myself that photos and video of Trump rallies reveal more signs about race than about jobs. That has been true all along. FWIW.
Its worth nothing. Always playing the race card won’t work any more. The problems of illegal immigration are real and the establishment ignoring the situation and working to make it worse has energized people to respond at the ballot box. One of many issues that needs to be addressed. Ford is moving their small car production to Mexico using the taxpayer funds to build the new plant in Mexico. Government is broke and must be fixed.
It’s worth nothing to people who don’t care about racism.
It’s worth something to people who do care.
Not so much what his supporters think because I don’t care what they think. What bothers me is what he says that attracts racists. And you are the only person here who doesn’t see what is plainly obvious to everyone else. Trump is a racist.
ZooeyModeratorI forgot about Thomas. He has some promise from what I can see.
I think Quick is a goner when Spruce and Cooper are healthy, and I feel sorry for him – he was looking good when he went down – but he is out of time now.
And I am excited by Spruce, too, but only have the one preseason game of information on him. He looked like a stronger Amendola – which I would take in a heartbeat. But this year I pretty much skipped on reading camp reports, so I don’t know what the summertime word on him was. And Hard Knocks focused on the future unemployed players.
ZooeyModeratorI agree with that.
Two of the Rams top three receivers were struck down just as they were showing signs of becoming real threats. So the Rams have Britt, and a bunch of “We’ll see.”
I think they two young TEs may also be helpful. In fact, I am kind of expecting Higbee to be an important pass catcher this year.
September 17, 2016 at 10:41 am in reply to: Trees are intelligent, have emotions and tree friends #53139ZooeyModeratorI wonder how trees feel about being split and stacked for firewood.
ZooeyModeratorPaul Krugman destroys the media myth that Trump voters have economic anxiety: It’s about race
Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman shot down the idea on Thursday that Donald Trump’s supporters are motivated by economic concerns.
“Ultimately, it’s about race,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “You cannot understand anything that’s happening in this election and US politics without seeing it as — unfortunately, a fairly large fraction of Americans who don’t like the fact that we’re becoming a multiracial, multicultural country.”
“They think that eats into their economic opportunity?” Amanpour asked.
“It eats into their identity,” said Krugman. “It’s really not about economics.”
Krugman added that in his circles, “economic anxiety” has become “kind of a joke slogan” when discussing Trump voters’ ideologies.
“That is fascinating,” she said. “The conventional wisdom is that it is all about economic hardship, and you’re saying no.”
“There is economic hardship,” Krugman replied. “West Virginia is not a happy place. But, mostly, we wouldn’t be as resistant to good news if weren’t really about something else. And it’s really mostly about race.”
I have observed myself that photos and video of Trump rallies reveal more signs about race than about jobs. That has been true all along. FWIW.
ZooeyModeratorI just got tickets to the Bills game, too. My son is at USC which is walking distance from the Coliseum, and when we moved him down there, he talked about going to a game together. The Bills is the only home game that works, and it happens to coincide with a theatre teacher conference in Hollywood the same weekend which I wanted to go to anyway.
Hopefully steve_0320 and I will see a better game.
He mentioned Berman and Young. I have never, never liked Chris Berman, going back to Day One at ESPN, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard him do play-by-play before. My dislike of him aside, I can say that his call of that game was the worst call of a football game I have ever heard, and I don’t think it is even close. Is it just me? Or does he simply not have any idea how to do play-by-play? And Steve Young (whom I have always liked since his days as QB with the LA Express) was as dull a “color” commentator as I can recall. I have, of course, watched games with commentators who drove me crazy, but this duo was different. They just seemed completely incompetent.
I turned off the game before Kaepernick came in, so I didn’t know he did, and didn’t know he got forcefully booed. I am a bit surprised, as San Francisco is one of the most liberal cities in the country, about on a par with D.C. Of course, the 9ers are now in Santa Clara, but still…in the three years I lived in San Francisco, I found that most people were pretty strongly against the military-industrial corporate propaganda complex thingie.
September 17, 2016 at 9:54 am in reply to: "if Fisher had his way Goff wouldn't play in 2016"… & other Fisher/Goff rumors #53133ZooeyModeratorJeff Fisher DOES have his way. So whether Goff plays or not is 100% up to him, as far as we know.
What Silver actually said – since you have misquoted him in order to get hits and increase your revenue – is this:
Actually, the headline on the post is different than the one for the article. It’s different because I couldn’t remember the exact wording and I had already closed the site and I was too lazy to post the link, click on it, copy the headline, then edit and resubmit the post. (I just now noticed the headline is written in the link)
But I didn’t mean to imply that Fisher didn’t have control of Goff’s playing time. I only meant that if things went the way Fisher would want them to, Goff wouldn’t have to play this year. In other words, I meant the same thing Silver said, it’s just that my wording wasn’t as precise.
Okay, well, it’s manly of you to come here and apologize. That’s the right thing to do. But now I’m going to have to ask you to leave the board for a few minutes, so we can talk about how we are going to handle this situation. You’ve been a good poster over the years, and it goes without saying that we personally like you, but there are bylaws around here, and to some extent our hands are tied. I’m sorry.
ZooeyModeratorAs if anybody pays any attention to guarantees anymore. Overuse has rendered it obsolete.
In fact, I read these guarantees all the time. There have been dozens and dozens of them.
I don’t remember a single one except Namath’s.
September 16, 2016 at 10:17 pm in reply to: "if Fisher had his way Goff wouldn't play in 2016"… & other Fisher/Goff rumors #53118ZooeyModeratorJeff Fisher DOES have his way. So whether Goff plays or not is 100% up to him, as far as we know.
What Silver actually said – since you have misquoted him in order to get hits and increase your revenue – is this:
“Well, I think ideally he might not play all year, if Jeff Fisher were doing what he philosophically believes is best.”
Which means that “ideally” he would have a red shirt year. But there are factors at play such as the play of Keenum, and the Rams’ record, and whatever. So he may reach the decision that he has to throw Goff in before he would like to “ideally.”
ZooeyModeratorMakes sense.
The way the Rams always beat the Seahawks like a drum, they will be able to give him some mop up duty in the 4th quarter.
ZooeyModeratorFair enough. But like I said, losing to anyone 28-0 is cause for concern. Of course there’s the odd outlier here and there but for the most part playoff caliber teams don’t lose to anybody by 28 points. They don’t get shutout. And that’s the crux of it, because we were expecting the Rams to be a playoff level team. Why did we believe that? Well, speaking for myself I believed it because Fisher believed it and said as much.
Now, could the Rams still be a playoff team? Sure. But the way they played the first game doesn’t bode well for that. Maybe the 9ers are a decent team but that doesn’t really take the sting out of this loss because of what that loss most likes says about the Rams.
Right. That’s where I am on that. Maybe the 9ers ARE better than people expected, and maybe they DID have the element of surprise because it was a new coaching staff all the way around, but a good team doesn’t lose that way, even to another good team. And while I cannot deny that the 9ers might be better than expected, I am not convinced that they ARE, either. Watch what Carolina does to them on Sunday.
ZooeyModeratorIIRC, the pre-draft reports agreed that Wentz would be ready to start sooner, but there were also a lot of voices who thought that Goff was the better prospect for the long term. Well, the first part of that proves true: Wentz was ready to play sooner.
The other shoe will take a while to analyze.
And my position before the draft was that I would prefer a #1 WR – which I’ve been saying a long time – and I was fine with Keenum while Mannion developed, and someone else developed (coulda been Prescott? Take one every year, I say), but that I had no preference between Wentz and Goff.
They took Goff.
I am okay with that, and don’t expect to make a judgement on whether it was the right call or not for years. But I will NEVER question the decision itself because it made complete sense to me. The decision-making process was sound. Whether they made the best choice or not remains to be seen.
ZooeyModeratorThat is the first intelligent contrast between the two quarterbacks’ readiness to play this season that I’ve read.
Everything the media says is along the lines of “Wentz is starting, Goff is #3, so Goff sucks.”
ZooeyModeratorLOL.
ZooeyModeratorNot sure if any of you have a page or not. I got one for my fans. I do go on all the Ram ones, and all of them have fans wanting Jeff Fisher fired. Millions of Rams fans.
Alrighty, then.
Millions of fans click on links to see what Kim Kardashian is wearing, too.
ZooeyModeratorJust had a thought.
Maybe it should have been Poor Lives Matter.
Because it has to do with being black.
The issue is police tending to be more violent in relation to black men (and statistics back this), including especially unarmed black men, and the victims of that aren’t all poor. You’re more likely to be confronted by the police in dangerous ways if you’re a middle class black than if you’re a poor white. Race is the issue.
The term “black lives matter” offends me in no way shape or form. I’ve always agreed with the principles behind that protest, going back to when I was 13 or 14 years old.
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Yeah, I know.
I just wish we would do something about poverty because that would relieve a whole host of problems, and make lives better.
ZooeyModeratorJust had a thought.
Maybe it should have been Poor Lives Matter.
I bet that would focus the national discussion more closely on the issues that affect black lives, and therefore probably be a wider, straighter road to getting some things changed that would make a difference. Instead we got all the racially loaded baggage and side issues clouding what ought to be an important conversation.
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