zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:
Austin Davis is an extremely lucky man.

If Bradford had not been hurt, he would not be employed in the NFL right now at all. They would have kept Hill as the #2, and the draft pick for future development, and Davis would have been gone.

I don’t know about that. I think if Bradford had stayed, Davis was the third, just based on how he started getting it together in the pre-season.

If you say so. I don’t remember reading anything positive about Davis during pre-season. I remember thinking the guy was a goner, for sure. There was no point in keeping him with a healthy Bradford, Hill, and Gilbert (either on the team or PS).

snowman wrote:

I just don’t see a development firm like AEG building a stadium and leasing it to a NFL team. I think this window closes and we see the city take over negotiations. If a team moves and a stadium gets built in LA, it will be done the old fashioned way – with shitloads of public money and promises of economic benefits to the taxpayers.

AEG is a bit of a mystery to me. Purportedly, they want to build a stadium AND own the occupying team.

But they made no move on the Bills.

There are no other teams for sale. And in my thinking, only Buffalo, Jacksonville, Oakland, and the Rams ever made sense as teams to relocate to LA. I never believed Minnesota, San Francisco, or Seattle were seriously in the conversation.

Well…the Bills were for sale. And AEG did nothing. So – since none of the other teams are for sale – I conclude that AEG is either positioning themselves for an expansion team (balanced by one presumably in London), or they have given up the idea of owning a team. Expansion does not seem imminent, and Kroenke isn’t interested in parting with ownership, and he prefers to own his facilities.

I frankly can’t make sense of AEG at all. Unless they have an understanding with the NFL office.

I guess this storyline is going to heat up over the next six months.

LadyRamFan wrote:

I’m just here for the pie…..

Apparently there is no pie. The whole thing appears to be some kind of twisted joke perpetrated by zn.

It’s alright. I’ll just get my own pie.

You can have some.

Help yourself.

Ah. Just another reminder of how much you hate apple pie.

zn wrote:

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I agree with what Fisher says here.

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When you look at it, it comes down to four or five plays on both sides of the ball. The three turnovers on offense were costly. It’s difficult to win when you turn it over three times against an explosive offense like the Cowboys. Then defensively, we had three or four plays, one play in particular, the touchdown pass on the communication issue in the coverage. It’s hard to overcome those type of things.

Yes.

I would add, though, that that was the case last year, too. And that most of us thought that this year the Rams would be on the right side of those plays 3 or 4 times out of 5.

wv wrote:

If they get routed after two weeks to prepare,
I’m gonna start watching Oprah on sundays.

w
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I hear ya.

I’m not happy.

I’ve already decided to punish the Rams by not watching them next Sunday. Kind of a one week boycott. Hopefully they will get the message and perform better in two weeks time.

I will say one thing about Davis. He seems to go through progressions better than Bradford does.

Scott Wells for the Pro Bowl this year? Anyone?

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

zn wrote:
Fisher peaks and valleys. It’s not really the case that he is a career 8-8 coach–that’s just averaging it out and erasing distinctions. Rather, he’s a career “3 consecutive winning seasons, 3 lesser seasons” coach. To me the difference is personnel.

Right now? Quarterback.

But the QB isn’t to blame for lousy run defense or all the sloppy penalties.

No but time down in the pre-season is responsible for a lot of it, I think…another pattern.

Last year too, the run D started shakey, and the diagnosis was the same as now–gap discipline, basically.

Okay, well if the run defense comes together, I will raise his grade. Right now, 6.66. That’s final.

zn wrote:

Fisher peaks and valleys. It’s not really the case that he is a career 8-8 coach–that’s just averaging it out and erasing distinctions. Rather, he’s a career “3 consecutive winning seasons, 3 lesser seasons” coach. To me the difference is personnel.

Right now? Quarterback.

But the QB isn’t to blame for lousy run defense or all the sloppy penalties.

Charlie Krueger came to our town to sign autographs when I was a kid. He asked me my name, and I said “Les Josephson.” He laughed, and asked if my name was Les. At which point I felt like an ass.

I drew an arrow through his head on the photo when I got home.

Kids.

I have wondered the same thing over the years.

I’m not sure the herd is a representative sample, though. They ran off all political dissidents, and a good chunk of liberals a while ago. I mean, the same question is discussed here, and we are all football fans, and the overall attitude is different here. So if you just read this board, you would think football fans tend to be part of the liberal conspiracy.

It is something, though, that domestic violence is seen as a part of the liberal agenda. What does that even mean? My guess is that righties are more comfortable, generally speaking, with violent “solutions” than liberals are. I think that’s true.

But as for the demographics of sports fans…I dunno. I bet somebody has done a study on that, though.

Hill is the starter this year unless he performs poorly multiple times. Davis, if he continues to play well, may be playing to replace Hill as the #2 next year. And they aren’t going to keep both Keenum and Gilbert on the roster next year. There’s really all kinds of ways this can play out before next year since there are so many QBs, and possibly another rookie added in the draft. The current 4 QBs are playing for no more than 2 spots next year. One spot if the Rams draft a QB.

snowman wrote:

They are both backups, so I assume that Fisher goes with whoever has the hot hand. Davis should be the one.

One TD in six quarters isn’t what I think of when I think “hot hand.”

zn wrote:

Speed Kills

the Rams could and should get Tavon going vertical more often and on the outside. No one can run with him… so get him down the field. Though I don’t have an issue the Rams running Tavon up the middle … they just need to execute it better (and obviously won’t make a living at doing that)

I DO have an issue with them running Tavon up the middle. I don’t know how they could think that would work. That would be a call I would make in Week 13 on a 3rd and 4 after doing nothing but using Tavon on pitch-outs and screen passes for the first 12 weeks.

Well, Tavon did not have a good day, did he.