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ZooeyModeratorIn any event, caterpillars don’t come out of them. They go IN them.
A butterfly comes out. Or a moth.
So if the Rams caterpillar is coming out, we got a problem.
September 28, 2015 at 7:05 pm in reply to: Rams sign Toon to PS, move McGee to reg roster, and cut Pead. #31382ZooeyModeratorREPORT: St. Louis Rams Will Sign WR Nick Toon
The obvious suggested implication? WR Brian Quick is done. After the serious shoulder and rotator cuff injury he suffered last year, he nearly had his career cut short for him:
Well, does it necessarily mean Quick is finished? Perhaps it’s just a case of Fisher looking for immediate help for an offense averaging 8 pts a game over the last two weeks.
Quick may still figure into his plans when he’s finally back to full speed, if that happens.
Well, somebody is done. Presumably a WR.
Another shoe is sailing earthward now.
ZooeyModeratorIt is frustrating to think we could be 3-0. But the Washington lose upset me, this one, not near as much.
Well, prepare for 1-4 because that is where this is headed.
ZooeyModeratorTavon has actually shut me up this year so far. He has been a very good complementary player.
The problem is that so far there has been no one to complement.
ZooeyModeratorWell, I’m a broken record. After all three games, my main complaint is Foles’ inaccuracy.
Stone hands don’t help, either.
And Hekker…geez. That guy is going to get demoted to 4th string QB.
ZooeyModeratorThey all have to deal with price, performance, and fuel economy.
As do we…ie. the consumers. We want emissions standards. If some businesses can’t deal maybe they can retract some of their rhetoric about being competitive. Cause many auto makers handle this stuff and thrive.
Yeah. Because while a car with emission controls costs a bit more, it doesn’t cost as much as treating asthma, bronchitis, and cancer. Etc.
ZooeyModeratorI disagree. A car has to be able to be sold at a competitive price. It also has to achieve a certain level of performance relative to the competition in order to get market share. I believe it was a last resort considering the EPA and Eurozone mandates hit on price, performance and fuel economy. Eventually mandates serve to deny products rather than spur development. Engineering and materials science are finite. Mandates are infinite. No doubt other manufacturers were doing the same and I won’t be surprised to learn it extended to gasoline vehicles too.
But every car maker has the exact same challenge, so it levels out the competitiveness of pricing. It’s not like VW was hit with higher emission standards than everybody else. They all have to deal with price, performance, and fuel economy.
VW chose – illegally – to get an edge, not to “keep up.”
ZooeyModeratorNot funny. Though I hope I can get one much cheaper as a result. Amazing technology yet it couldn’t keep up with ever stringent EPA mandates. Won’t be limited to VW either.
I don’t think it’s because they COULDN’T keep up. It’s that it was cheaper to bypass the regulations.
ZooeyModeratorOkay. Well,I understand that, and it makes sense. But on any pass play, you’ve got to either pressure the QB, or disrupt the passing lanes. Preferably both. On a 3-step drop, there just isn’t enough time to consistently get pressure.
I will be watching this Sunday if I can get a feed.
ZooeyModeratorWell, Boehner was not a moderate in any sense other than the fact that he did reside in reality based politics. He did want to get deals done. I think he believed the shutdown was a bad idea.
And his replacement, although more conservative than Boehner (gag me), is also a resident of practical politics. The people he is aligned with ideologically aren’t, though. There are about 50 Republicans who are just nuts, who think shutting down the government is actually a good idea. They are the “drown it in the bathtub” crowd. Stunning to think nearly 10% of congress actually hates government that much.
In any event, that party may just end up eating its own over the next decade, but there’s just so many of them, and they are just so rich, I’m afraid they can continue causing damage indefinitely.
September 24, 2015 at 1:02 pm in reply to: Feeling good about Sunday…the "will Rams beat Steelers" thread #31109ZooeyModeratorThis is the game to which Steelers fans are going to point to as the one where they saw their season go down the drain.
ZooeyModeratorI saw your post about two hours ago, and didn’t catch the allusion.
Just opened up a news site….
That’s hilarious.
ZooeyModeratorSo the guy gets burned half the time, huh?
ZooeyModeratorYou know what Franke said about the defense that was brilliant?
Kirk Cousins had the highest INT rate of any NFL QB; heaven forbid we would want to defend WRs tightly and put pressure on him to try to force him into mistakes.
Ahem.
ZooeyModeratorBetter. Thanks.
September 20, 2015 at 11:35 pm in reply to: Rams not a road team yet? (official Wash game response thread) #30981ZooeyModeratorI personally, did not think Foles was “inaccurate” last week.
I dont think thats the word i would use. That pass to Stedman
was like Warner-to-Proehl. It was dead perfect in the clutch.w
vWell, you’re totally wrong. Completely and utterly, mind-blowingly wrong.
Go read Franke’s review. (I think it was him who verified what I saw). Foles had a couple bad passes, a throw completely behind Cook (I think), and one he sailed over somebody’s head. But he also had several passes that floated too much, that made the receiver hitch up, and otherwise failed to lead the way Warner and Bulger did. Throw it where the receiver can catch it in stride and run with it.
He got away with it more last week, and yes, the throw to Bailey was pinpoint accurate. I’m not saying he’s NEVER accurate. The TD pass to Britt today was pretty damn sharp. But he missed a wide open Austin for a TD today, and I don’t know how many other passes – several under 10 yards in the air – he flat out missed and threw incomplete. He was worse today, for sure, but all last week he had several completions that made me feel like I was on an old wooden roller coaster.
September 20, 2015 at 6:40 pm in reply to: Rams not a road team yet? (official Wash game response thread) #30952ZooeyModeratorFoles was inaccurate last week, and he got away with it.
He was inaccurate this week, and he didn’t. I’d say Foles is the most disappointing thing so far. It looks like that will always be a liability with him. Never mind the possibility of killer turnovers, he is missing guys who are open. That’s not good.
ZooeyModeratorLast week, they had Givens, Bailey, Britt, and Austin. Then they had Marquez because he is good at special teams – as we saw on a couple of plays he made.
There just wasn’t room.
I suspect Fisher is also telling Quick to up his game.
ZooeyModeratorI am irrational when it comes to that fucking team, so any prediction I make about it just arises from blind hatred.
So…Rams 54-6.
ZooeyModeratorI understand you’re busy, RM, and don’t expect a solution soon, but is there a quick way to up the contrast in the interim? The text is hard to read. Can it be made black, or something?
ZooeyModeratorBut why not play tight? If the blitz is coming, there isn’t as much time for a receiver to make separation.
Because if you;re blitzing there’s nothing behind the CB coverage. Either way, no matter which scenario you name, and no matter how it’s done—including what you describe there—if they play off, the completions are short and therefore there must be many of them to get down the field. It’s playing the odds by keeping the score down. You tighten up in the redzone if they get there, while making them take long drives to get there, which increases the chances of a mistake.
You don’t know the first thing about football, do you?
That’s what SAFETIES are for.
Besides. It’s not a “play on the line” or “Play back 15 yards” dichotomy. They could play off, say, 5 yards. No way a WR gets behind a CB on a blitz in that situation.
You know we’re talking about the game with the oblong ball, right?
ZooeyModeratorI buy that they trade short yards for no big gains, with the premise that (1) they tighten up in the redzone, and (2) they are forcing teams to make long drives with no mistakes.
When Wms defenses are top 10 in yards they are also top 10 in points allowed. To me that justifies the blizing. That is, when it works, it works.
But why not play tight? If the blitz is coming, there isn’t as much time for a receiver to make separation. If you’re playing loose, and the QB sees the blitz coming, he throws quicker, and completes it because you’re playing back. Tight coverage makes more sense to me on a blitz.
ZooeyModeratorOkay, well, if I get desperate, maybe I will shell out $100, but I really, really don’t want to.
ZooeyModeratorOkay, enough already.
This is weird.
It’s like…the national media are all just taking it for granted that the Rams are good. How did this happen all of a sudden?
Back in ’99, they had to go through various stages to arrive at Acceptance that the Rams were good: denial, they’re lucky, they haven’t played anybody, running up the score against bad teams, whatever.
This is just weird. A lot of the heads picked the Rams to beat Seattle, and now they’re #9 in USA Today, and all these guys are giving the Rams the WA game, like they are taking it for granted, “Yeah, the Rams are a good, solid football team.” They aren’t even being called “up-and-coming” or anything. You would think the Rams were in the playoffs the last couple of years.
ZooeyModeratorNot only does SF Market not get the Rams game. we do not get the FOX Double header (Eagles vs Cowboys)
SF @ Pitt in the AM FOX
Balt @ Oak in the PM CBSThis is the 1st time in 18 seasons that I did not subscribe to Sunday Ticket. It took me 55 minutes to cancel my DirecTV subscription on the phone. DirecTV does not allow you to cancel service on-line or in an automated fashion. I hate them. I could not justify the total cost of over $500 bucks this season to watch games…. fuck them. I could not believe that they left me on hold for that long to cancel…
So I ordered Game Pass for $99. You get the games live via audio (your choice of broadcast team Rams or opponent) then you can watch any NFL game for the past 4 years after the Sunday blackout time period (Sundays from 10 AM to 4:30 PM PT)
Game Pass allows you to watch the game on Apple TV, where last year you could not on NFLReplay.
$99?
I thought I remembered it being $29 or so last year. They tripled the price?
ZooeyModeratorPersonally, I dont like waiting until one full game has passsed
to rank teams.I think teams should be ranked after the first quarter
of the first game. And then I’d like to see a new
media-ranking after each quarter.w
vI like that idea. Live Rankings. Every time something happens, a team can slide up or down. It could be a pop out, or a scroll along the bottom that flashes. I’ve always said there just isn’t enough glitz and shiny stuff when I watch football.
My big concern at the moment is that all our pirate feeds have been shut down, and I may not see the game. Why, oh why, can’t I just stream the game I want to watch?
ZooeyModeratorYeah, I tend to think the Rams have to beat both Washington and Pittsburgh. There was an earlier conversation about what 2-0 would mean, and how the WA game is the biggest game in a while, but I just thought that – if the Rams beat WA – the Pitt game becomes an even bigger one. If they win their first three games, they can be ranked up there.
But his USA Today thing is based on total projection rather than history. Which if fine, you know, but pardon me for being skeptical.
The Rams right now shouldn’t be rated above Arizona, Dallas, San Francisco, maybe Philadelphia…I don’t know. I can see SF dropping because they had an Awful offseason, but the word from inside is that they are significantly more united as teammates than they have been in a few years, and they have a good attitude, and so on. I don’t think that can compensate for everyone they lost, but I don’t think they should have been dropped all the way down to 28 to start the season.
ZooeyModeratorNo bueno.
49er game is at the same time.
ZooeyModeratorSo.
The Rams ranked the 3rd best in the NFC.
Seems a little…optimistic.
September 16, 2015 at 10:04 pm in reply to: Tweets 9/16 …. injuries & recoveries (Johnson back?) #30701ZooeyModeratorI don’t know about “wide open numerous times” I remember seeing guys squirm around for extra yards and stuff. I thought the TEs were open a bit more than usual. But I was just overall impressed with DRIVES. In spite of sloppiness, or poor execution, they would just come back and make a play somehow, and I’m not sure how they did it. I read somewhere here that Wagner was just invisible – maybe it was Franke – and I realized I never even thought about him during the game.
For sure the Seahawks looked ordinary. They were not ’99 Tampa in this game.
I am supervising a soccer double-header tonight. The JV game is over. Varsity about to begin. The opponent is a big rival, apparently, and I was just told there have been “problems” with fans the last two times they played.
So I’m glad I have that to look forward to tonight. There was nobody much at the JV game, and I’m hoping there isn’t much increase in attendance for the Varsity.
Away I go….
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