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ZooeyModeratorI doubt he’s around when the Rams pick anyway.
But I wouldn’t take him.
A quarterback HAS to have his mental game together. Self-discipline is extremely important.
Maybe if he’s still around in the 4th round – depending on who else is available….
ZooeyModeratorWe now know Fisher will draft Offensive Linemen high. Will he do it two years in a row?
Only if there is an OL the board really wants…in which case he will take a WR.
ZooeyModeratorI’m thinking Leonard Williams. Get some depth on the DL.
ZooeyModeratorBoy, I don’t know why they didn’t plug him in immediately as the longsnapper.
December 17, 2014 at 7:27 pm in reply to: Patz sign Garrett Gilbert (so the Rams Gilbert era is probably over) #14084ZooeyModeratorDamnit. They now have the next Tom Brady as well as the current one.
ZooeyModeratorRamsMaineiac wrote:
Technically, couldn’t the Rams still finish ahead of the 49ers and thus alter their 2 games determined by place? (Washington, Tampa Bay would flip to Giants & Falcons likely)If Harbaugh leaves you can expect a sweep.As for the Cardinals as long as Bradford plays and the line is healthy I expect them to beat them.
I am not so sure about that.
While I am loving watching the 49ers implode, I am not so sure that they are worse off without Harbaugh. He’s a good coach, but right now, he is a controversial coach, and his continued presence in the locker room there is probably moderately destructive.
The potential replacements might be better. There are a couple of guys on the 9ers staff that are highly regarded, and who actually might be better for that team than Harbaugh. So be careful what you wish for.
ZooeyModeratorI believe I have to weigh in with Nittwittany. His logic is impeccable. The Seahawks simply are not allowed to win back-to-back, and that leaves Green Bay. It has to be an NFC team, and Green Bay is really the only John Facenda team in the tournament with a prayer, so GB it is.
Besides Aaron Rodgers and I grew up in the same town. Not together. Obviously. But still.
ZooeyModeratorLoL. This amuses me.
This Division has some real characters
in the coaching ranks.I just cant work up any antipathy for Arians
yet. As far as a villain goes, he’s
no Harbaugh in my book. Not yet, anyway.I will probly root for the Cards in the playoffs,
i guess.w
vYeah, what I’ve found has not seemed more than minor blustering. Though from a guy who hasn’t actually won anything yet himself, calling the Rams out for sustained mediocrity was slightly arrogant. It isn’t anything much – nothing to get riled about – but it does make a nice foundation to build on later if these teams don’t botch that opportunity.
December 13, 2014 at 11:38 am in reply to: reporters, analysts etc, do the post-mortem on the ARZ game #13802ZooeyModeratorI am very impressed with what
Arizona has done the last two weeks
against KC and the Rams.I dont think they can beat Green Bay,
but i think they can beat any other
team in the NFC.I’m startin to think Arians might
be the Belichick of the NFC.
Its not just the Rams who are
“a quarterback away.”w
vYes. And they are missing some key guys to injury. That’s a good team.
ZooeyModeratorWhere can I find these Arians’ comments?
ZooeyModeratorI don’t get my tree until tomorrow.
The crow is a nice touch.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t watch TV, so I don’t know what people are saying in the media. But the Rams beat Denver, and squashed Oakland and Washington. I would think that even the Big Picture types who follow the league generally would notice that, or have their attention drawn to it by their staff, and talk about it on their shows.
ZooeyModeratorI have heard that JJ Watt does not suck.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, well, I don’t know how Obama comes out and says “they have a point” without being completely derided because “he’s black.”
It’s a no win situation for him. And the fuel for his opponents…how he puts petty race issues above our heroic policemen…they need a WHITE president to come out and link arms with them.
ZooeyModeratorI saw that this morning.
I just…I don’t know what to say.
Imagine.
How do you even…you know…cover your tracks on this? What possible motive for this can there be other than to prevent actual evidence of wrongdoing being levied against police action?
ZooeyModeratorIt’s the first thing Lebron has ever done that makes me want to like him.
ZooeyModeratorThis is a big part of it: “It has been pretty bad all along, but mainstream Americans were lulled into thinking that the problem had been dealt with.”
Whites are the most segregated of all races in the US. The suburbs, neighborhoods, and rural areas where they live tend to be “whiter” than the country is as a whole. And I think the minorities who live among whites tend to be more assimilated, for lack of a better word. And their presence – in non-threatening numbers – I think reinforces the idea that racism is largely gone because the whites don’t see the kinds of overt racism that they identify as being symptomatic of racism. They don’t witness it personally. So when they hear calls of racism from elsewhere in the country, they easily lapse into the comfortable assumption that it isn’t there, and that it is a bunch of rabble-rousers supported by deluded liberals who are just playing the victim card and making crap up.
And somehow they escape cognitive dissonance over their belief that city blacks are thugs and lazy losers who are sponging off hard-working Americans. They just can’t see it.
And I don’t know about young people. I have seen enough to believe that they definitely see gay issues differently. But I don’t know about race. I don’t think they have any better understanding of the effects of racial profiling, or the minority perspective than older people do. The one good thing about Obama is that we now have a generational threshold that we have crossed. There are now people alive who don’t remember a time when there had never been a black president. Whatever that’s worth. Not much, I don’t think, but one can hope.
All I know is that racist stereotyping is strong in this country, and people are as reluctant to hear the black perspective as NRA types are to hear arguments about limiting gun access.
I mean…the comments I read were simply depressing.
ZooeyModeratorRams defense was great back then, very underrated.
They pitched at least 1 shut out every year from 1973 to 1979.
1973 2 shut outs
1974 2 shut outs
1975 1 shut out
1976 1 shut out
1977 3 shut outs
1978 1 shut out
1979 3 shut outs, the 3rd in the NFC Championship game.they didn’t hold anyone scoreless again until 1985, when they did it twice, to KC and Dallas, unfortunately they got skunked against the Bears in the NFC Championship.
The Rams had the #1 rated defense of the 1970s. I read that somewhere. It was rated above the Steelers and Cowboys.
ZooeyModeratorI look up the 74 season…
RAMS pitched 2 shuts that year, vs Saints and Falcons, (not back-to-back)
SF, pitched back-to-back shut outs to Bears and Falcons that year, ironically, SF was shut out the following week 7-0 in Cleveland. 7 points allowed over 3 games is not bad.
SF’s defense was getting old but were decent back then…. also, they needed a QB to replace Brodie…..didn’t happen until Montana got there in 79.
Yeah, the 9ers were crummy for a long time. The Rams routinely beat them twice a year. The opposite of the 90s.
December 9, 2014 at 1:29 pm in reply to: controversy: a few fans dropping the Rams because of the WRs's Ferguson gesture #13491ZooeyModeratorSNL skit apparently got cut from the show for some reason. Time, I think.
Anyway, it’s amusing without being inflammatory or taking sides.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/snl-ferguson-cut-sketch_n_6288448.html
ZooeyModerator“..Titans turned that trick…as did the two best defenses of the last 45 years, the 1985 Bears and the 2000 Ravens. Notably the two teams to record THREE straight shutouts are the 1970 St. Louis Cardinals and the 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers. This defense appears to have turned the corner toward living up to its hype….”
The Cardinals
had a great Defense??I dont remember that.
w
vI don’t either. But statistical anomalies happen. And it was a low-scoring era.
I saw on the list of back-to-back shutouts the 1974 49ers, and that caught my eye because my memory is that the 49ers were not a good football team in the 70s. I looked them up, and they finished 6-8 in 1974. That isn’t the 76 Steelers.
But then…neither are the 14 Rams.
ZooeyModeratorI do believe Schottenheimer is putting Tavon outside more, and that is better for his game. But I also think he is looking better because he has gone against weaker defenses that don’t have discipline. Austin is exactly the kind of player that can maximize damage against an undisciplined defense.
But I still don’t think he will ever amount to much against disciplined defenses. Tavon Austin against a tough defense like the turn of the century Bucs or Ravens would just git kilt. He will be a good regular season player, and disappear in the playoffs. Except, maybe, as a returner.
ZooeyModeratorFrankly, if Jake Long wasn’t our LT, this season may have been very different.
It’s Schottenheimer’s fault for calling a pass play there.
Or possibly Spags’ fault for firing the strength and conditioning coach.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, it’s not even clear that McCoy was expecting it, though it isn’t definitive. But clearly the LOT and G were not expecting the snap right then.
ZooeyModeratorI wouldn’t do that trade even if it was feasible.
Sam Bradford is our best hope for next year. There just isn’t anyone else.
We may or may not be able to improve on Hill, but even if they got a better QB than Hill, he would have to be a lot better to compensate for the experience edge that Hill has with this system and the players.
I really believe the best case scenario is a healthy Bradford, Hill, and a draft pick.
ZooeyModeratorI’d like a Center, too. I’ve wanted a center for 3 years. I hoped Jones was going to be that guy, but there are no Jones Sightings.
If he doesn’t take the job next year, I’m guessing he’s a goner.
ZooeyModeratorIf they lose again, I just hope it isn’t until Seattle. I think that’s definitely possible. And, no, I think this team will remain focused. There are some vets who have been waiting to play for a winner, and they’re going to want this very badly.
Yeah, me too. It would be a letdown to lose to Arizona. Losing to Seattle in Seattle wouldn’t be that disappointing, but to have put together a couple of really good games in a row (and 3 of 4 with a near miss), and make us all hope that we are seeing something to carry us into next year with real hopes…well, I think a loss to Arizona would be deflating.
Depends on HOW, of course, but beating Arizona would salvage the season for me, I think.
ZooeyModeratorPretty good. I like Chris Long a lot.
Well, why don’t you marry him, then?
ZooeyModeratorI feel their pain.
And…it makes me laugh.
ZooeyModeratorjoemad wrote:
I heard Young talk about this on his weekly segment on local SF radio. Sid Gillman tied Young’s legs with a rope to avoid Young from scrambling.SY: Well, I was throwing the ball a lot (at BYU), so I had some concepts that were taught to me by (quarterbacks coach) Mike Holmgren in college. But I also ran around like crazy. Ironically, it was in the USFL with (Hall-of-Fame coach) Sid Gillman. People don’t remember that Sid Gillman was my coach. He was an old crotchety guy, but he was the first one to basically say, ‘You can’t just run around.’ … I remember, he literally tied my feet up. He got a rope and said ‘OK, you can’t go anywhere. What are you going to do? You can’t move. What’s your next plan?’ So that got me thinking about that.
I think tying Young up and leaving him out there facing the D was a good idea. I mean I don’t know about the qb mechanics part of it, I just know he deserved it. Then, of course, they screwed up and untied him.
I was living in LA when the USFL was invented, and I had season tickets to the LA Express, the team that signed Steve Young to an eye-popping $40 million deal (payable over 40 years). I was present at a game where he passed for over 300 yards, and rushed for over 100 yards. That guy was good. Of course, the Bucs couldn’t do anything with him.
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