I used to start my Sundays by watching the pre-game show.

Haven’t tuned into one in decades. They are completely unwatchable to me. I can’t even picture the demographic that actually does watch that crud.

They extended the pre-game shows from 1/2 hour to a full hour, and they have less content. I dunno.

No football for me.

A plumber stuck a camera down my sewer line, and found roots. Under the driveway. He told us that it would cost around $4,000 to have a guy repair it.

So I rented a concrete saw and a jack hammer. Dug a hole.

Weird thing: there had been a previous repair. There was a Y piece inserted in this spot. No idea why. The cleanout is about 6 feet up the line from this, and this is in the driveway. The roots had created a knot that filled the pipe, and extended about 6” in each direction. I cut away the knot with a garden trowel, and was rewarded with a “sewage geyser” that shot about 18” in the air. 

After the water drained, I shoveled out the sewage. One part of the “Y” was completely broken off, leaving the entire 4” aperture wide open. And I can’t figure this out. Nobody would put a broken piece into a line, but there was absolutely no broken pieces around (in the event the roots actually broke the Y). After pondering this mystery for a bit, I decided that the roots must have broken the Y, and I had probably washed down broken pieces when I had snaked the line previously on a few occasions. But then I realized that the end of the Y would have been capped, and the cap would have been too large to fall through the hall. And it wouldn’t have been broken into pieces. The roots wouldn’t have broken the Y, anyway. They had room to expand up and down the line. It could have cracked the Y, but broken it into small enough pieces to fall into the line? I don’t know what happened here. Total mystery. But it’s fixed now.

zn wrote:

I’m actually against drafting a qb high this year. Though I understand the argument for doing it.

I didn’t know that you are one of those fans who actually liked the “Between Good Quarterbacks” phases in the 90s and 00s.

By the way, where do you get all your camel hair shirts?

I wonder if Lamar Jackson has made Ravens fans forget about Tony Banks.

InvaderRam wrote:

he’s gotta be better than rypien.

That pretty much sums up all I have to say about Wentz, and about all I expect from Wentz.

wv wrote:

Just watched the highlights today. Obviously, this team is a helpless with a Quarterback with ‘that’ amount of talent and that amount of experience. Thing is, we knew Stafford was an aging, patched-together-QB. I have not liked McVay’s solution to the backup QB issue for the last few years. I dont get it. I wanted a decent vet backup. …basically, i ‘always’ want a decent vet back up QB though. I wanted a decent back up QB back when Trent Green went down. Like, say, Hostetler. But did Vermeil listen? No. I guess we’ll see how much fight this team has in it, as the season goes along. Wont be a lot of wins, though. But it would be nice to outhit some teams and maybe get a win over, say, the 49ers. w v

Based on nothing, I have this kind of “gut feeling” that McVay/the Rams did not really put any energy into Rypien.

Bennett was supposed to be #2, and he was, until he wasn’t. At which point #3 started holding the clipboard, and by then the season had started, so everybody got busy with the game at hand, and the Training and Teaching part of the season was largely over.

I just don’t think anybody worked with Rypien to make sure he understood the system etc., or gave him any reps. It was interesting to me that Robinson and Trammel both got their only reception of the year against GB. Stafford never threw to these guys. But they went into the game with Rypien which suggests to me that McVay was at least trying to place some guys around Rypien whom he was familiar with on a first-name basis.

Now, if I’m right that McVay put zero effort into grooming Rypien, it’s hardly a season-breaker cuz they never figured to be a serious contender, and Rypien was never in the plans anyway. If this happened during a “real” season, I think I’d be kinda pissed. This isn’t a good look for McVay, no matter how you evaluate it, but…you know…this seems like a “lapse” to me. An understandable lapse, but it’s a lapse.

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Apart from Seattle, though, I {partially} recall only one other time where I saw McVay do this, and it was when he came out with a greater emphasis on running the ball. It might have been against the Colts;

That was Arizona. Good post btw and I agree. The entire Rodrigue article I quote is at the end of this thread: media, twitter, some plays, the big articles, etc. … GB game

Yeah, I read the whole article after I wrote my post, and thought I discerned an echo in here, but I figured it was best not to mention it, or I might get banned.

If you haven’t seen this yet, you must.

This is 100% spot on and so important.

Also, whoever made this is brilliant. pic.twitter.com/lELyeU2IGY

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zn wrote:

Los Angeles Rams PR@TheLARamsPR

NT Kobie Turner recorded career-high numbers on Sunday. He totaled single-game career bests in tackles (10), sacks (1.0), and tackles causing unsuccessful plays for the offense (5). Turner also recorded 2 pressures, 1 QB hit, 1 hurry, and 1 tackle for loss.

No doubt it is helpful to play next to Aaron Donald, but what Turner and Young are doing is pretty impressive for DL rookies even so.

zn wrote:

there’s a difference between understanding how to adjust and then having the ability (skill, experience, yes inclusive to calls, menu of calls etc) to do it. Probably somewhere in the middle and a hard lesson for a coach who is used to vets to learn, plus a hard lesson for young players to learn quickly. I hearken back to 2019 …different circumstances but still had a face a league shift he helped create head on, and it was tough sledding. Did it, though. I think McVay is a great coach who is going through the learning curves and league arcs most others do while assistants, not in the big seat. That said learning and growth by ALL must occur. That’s what they promised this year would truly be about, after all.

This is one area I would really like to see growth from McVay and his coaching staff. I thought I was beginning to see it Week 1 against the Seahawks, when the Rams made halftime adjustments, and came out and rolled Seattle in the second half. This is something of a deficiency in McVay, and I would be happy to believe that he sees this year – not only as a chance to teach a bunch of young guys how to play football – but as an opportunity to focus on areas of development for him. Like this.

Apart from Seattle, though, I {partially} recall only one other time where I saw McVay do this, and it was when he came out with a greater emphasis on running the ball. It might have been against the Colts; I don’t remember. But whatever it was, I wasn’t sure I was seeing a change in strategy so much as a change in tactics, and I don’t recall it lasting longer than a single drive.

Anyway…seeing what the defense is taking away – and thus allowing – is one of McVay’s significant weaknesses, imo. I’d like to see McVay “deviate from the tape” himself, on the fly, instead of basically making all his play calls on Wednesday.

I think the Rams win that game comfortably if Stafford plays. Rypien not only played himself off the Rams’ roster, but possibly out of the NFL altogether with that performance. Heck, I think the Rams would have won that game behind Wolford.

They missed Jones as well.

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joemad wrote:

correction Zooey…., 2.33 games…. local broadcast switched from the lop-sided game in Dallas to Philly @ Wash last Sunday.

Quite right.

InvaderRam wrote:

yeah. i have doubts about whether the niners can afford young beyond this season. i think the rams are in good shape. now is not the time to be making a trade like that.

Not for the Rams. No, zn and I see the Rams situation exactly the same way. They were reloading this year, and getting a rental like Young was never considered inside HQ. They will be active this off-season.

For the 9ers, it is absolutely the right play, even if they can’t resign Young. And they probably can’t.

But they are putting together a shitload of pressure on the DL, and it’s a great move for them. Hopefully, it doesn’t pan out, but it’s a smart, bold move for them.