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ZooeyModeratorNorCalSeahawkfan said:
They could be 1-3. And it’s fine to think that they are starting to “make plays,” but I dunno how much faith to put in that. It’s like investing some quality into the Rams, some intangible improvement that is still somewhat reliable going forward, and I’m not so sure of that.
Yeah, I agree. Can’t count on clutch plays.
Running game has to get better, period.
The whole offense is predicated on it. The Rams passing game is neither built for nor capable of carrying this offense. Eventually this whole thing comes crashing down unless the running game improves.
Annnnnnnnnd…of course Nittany comes in and agrees with a Seahawks fan. Typical.
The Rams have turned the corner, man. Definitely. No more 7-9 bullshit. They are taking the division, and Gurley is about to Bust Out.
ZooeyModerator3-1 is great, but this team has seriously problems that they have gotten away with so far. They could be 1-3. And it’s fine to think that they are starting to “make plays,” but I dunno how much faith to put in that. It’s like investing some quality into the Rams, some intangible improvement that is still somewhat reliable going forward, and I’m not so sure of that.
Gurley needs to get going.
3rd down conversions are better than the first two weeks, but could still improve.
Dum penalties need to diminish.
I’d like to see less bending, and more ball control.
And fewer drops.
They have to handle another team on both sides of the ball before I start believing their record. The Bills could be a good place to start.
ZooeyModeratorFirst of all, when Adiasor finally graduates, I think he’s worth a second round pick. He’s no Mike Franke, but he looks like he can be a solid starter, and possibly more than that if he adds some strength to his frame.
I noticed that Gurley play live, and thought the same thing, but pretty much forgot about it since he spun off and made a 7 or 8 yard gain out of it. But that is only one play. I don’t think that’s the problem. Aren’t there stats on how soon a guy gets contact? I bet Gurley is getting contact earlier than most backs. I think Boras needs to throw to Gurley more, put Austin in the backfield more, and run some draws. Throwing the guy up the middle again and again isn’t working. Change something.
Finally, why doesn’t somebody watch the game on TV? I assumed they did. The TV audience often knows before the red flag even comes out what the ruling is going to be. Good grief. Those are timeouts you’re burning, and it was clear to us both times that he was going to lose. And it isn’t just the timeouts. It’s the opportunity to challenge another call later. Have a TV feed up there.
ZooeyModeratorIf he continues upward from his rookie year, I feel a lot better about the secondary. And if Coty Sensabaugh is inactive, I take that as a good thing.
ZooeyModeratorThat stuff is always a good read.
Boy, if I didn’t see the game, or know the score, I would guess the Rams hung up 41 on them. That defense which allowed 41 yards rushing, and 288 yards total is just awful because of their DC, I gather.
That, there, was the voice of Entitled Fans.
And the Rams must have levied a few cheap shots, too? No? There was one late Push out of bounds, iirc. I haven’t seen the Rams play dirty all year. Well…Ogletree has been over-zealous a few times. But the QB injuries are not the result of dirty play.
I made the comment somewhere before that it seems to me an uncommon number of Cardinals get hurt every time the Rams play them. Of course, it’s been a fluke, but I can see why Cards fans hate the Rams. The Rams usually play them tough, and they have taken Palmer out twice now, and Palmer’s backup as well a year or two ago (forgot his name).
Very nice. Enjoyed that.
ZooeyModeratorThat’s what it looks like to me. And, really, I think that understanding was at our anticipation that they would run at the playoffs last year – Foles was good enough. And it was our understanding this year – a QB who can avoid screwing it up ought to be enough to get them to the playoffs with this team.
Of course, the biggest factor is that they now play on real grass at home which is what God always intended. I rate that as more important than Ogletree’s speed, personally. Just keep God happy, that’s what I always say.
October 3, 2016 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Watched the Good Morning Football program on NFLN, and #54431ZooeyModeratorLoyalRam
The ‘table’ said that the star of the team in Hollywood, was the DLine, which wasn’t very “LA”.
Right, cuz nobody in LA ever warmed up to Fred Dryer or Merlin Olsen.
The LA stereotype will never go away, but it is as stupid as any other stereotype.
ZooeyModeratorI watched the condensed version of the game on the InterNetz.
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vWhy didn’t you watch live? Was it up against the Seahawks’ game, or something? I get that you have bad priorities, but maybe you should just post on the Seahawks’ board.
ZooeyModeratorI think Tru Jo’s int was inconclusive and shouldn’t have been overturned….
I’ve said before, and I will say it again: I like the college rule better that requires just one foot in bounds.
I think that’s the only thing I like about college football (besides Notre Dame losing; I am happy when they suffer).
But I don’t like the two-feet down rule. I say, you’re in if you touch the field in bounds at all. And if I was commissioner for a day, by golly, I would change that rule and walk out satisfied.
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.
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