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ZooeyModeratorDidn’t Anchrum fill in for Noteboom while he was out Monday? Why Dotson?
ZooeyModeratorI met Senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She had just recently been assigned to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (in 2001), and it was in that capacity that she had a senior staffer from the committee ask me to come to Washington… pic.twitter.com/QQPA04hP22
— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) September 29, 2023
ZooeyModeratorFacemasks when men were men, and not little girls.
ZooeyModeratorHoldenCantor@HoldenCantorLes Snead on the Coach McVay show just now on Noteboom and Alaric: “All the news we got back is good news, now it’s just rest and recovery on a short week and I think we can get that done” Looks like we’re gonna be okay up frontThat’s a good thing.
ZooeyModeratorSunday Ticket is an add-on.
It’s also a Stand Alone. I bought the Sunday Ticket (for about $250 during the Spring “sale” period), but I don’t have the basic YouTube tv streaming service. Maybe I would get ESPN if I did? I dunno.
So far I haven’t used my YouTube subscription, so I’m not going to resubscribe next year at full price.
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ZooeyModeratorI think Cincy is a very talented team, despite their record, and they wanted it bad.
I agree with that. Cincy is a very good team, and they needed this game in a bad way. They were bound to come out laser-focused, and nobody on that team was going to relax and take a down off. They gave it everything they had, and they won.
And even so, the Rams had the upper hand until Jackson went AWOL.
ZooeyModeratorZooey, I agree about all those streaming services. Far too many. Twas, basically, a bait and switch for consumers. Since you went with Youtube, did you also go for the Sunday Ticket? As an East Coaster, without the Ticket, I’m back to the bad old days of seeing the Rams, perhaps, four games a year. When they’re a contender, it’s more, of course. NFL Gamepass seems to have raised their prices. Hoping they discount soon for a partial season. Despite the likelihood of a tough year, I’d like to see the Rams more than a few more times in 2023 . . .
I am under the impression that YouTube IS Sunday Ticket now. I don’t know what Gamepass is. I don’t know what anything is. I’ve always watched over local broadcasts, or streamed it from Moldovia, or something. I hate this. When I was a kid, I used to pull in 3 different stations that would broadcast games, and they had local control, meaning that different stations in the same network did not necessarily show the same game. It was up to the local station. So I saw the Rams every week. And there were still plenty of commercials, and I believe everyone involved still got fed.
But now, you know, you’ve got Kirk Freaking Cousins pulling in $40 million/year, so that money has to come from somewhere. All of which you know. Everybody knows. And I hate it. I wish games were pay-per-view, I guess. And that’s not a sentence I ever would have said at any time in the past 40 years, but this sucks.
ZooeyModeratorWe knew the season would be up and down, but self-inflicted wounds shouldn’t be the reason for a loss.
Seems to me, on the contrary, that the youngest team in football will lose that way more often than not.
But this one felt more like actual wounds (Jackson). Losing Jackson changed the game (whenever that happened). The Rams won the first quarter, and the defense was solid throughout. Although Cincy won the TOP and ran 22 more plays than LA did, they scored only 19 points, and they got some lucky bounces.
Their defense (Cincy’s) deserves credit. They played well; they took advantage of Jackson’s injury, and they got more aggressive once there was blood in the water. I don’t understand why Noteboom didn’t take over at LOT (who did, btw? I never saw the guy, and the announcers didn’t seem to think it was important).
I hope Jackson is not seriously hurt.
(And SCREW this sh!t about needing to subscribe to 6 different streaming services in order to watch football! This is such BS. I actually broke down and bought youtube this year, and so far, it’s been of no use to me the first 3 weeks).
ZooeyModeratorThis looks about right:
Not sure there's much to come away from this game feeling good about:
– OL was dogshit
– terrible on 3rd down
– bad in the RZ
– no adjustments made to help OL/run the ball/stop getting picked on defense
– losing to a QB who cannot move
– untimely penaltiesThis is just ugly.
— Sosa Kremenjas (@QBsMVP) September 26, 2023
ZooeyModeratorJust did a quick search to see what draft reports were like on Nacua, and the one thing that came up consistently is his tendency to miss a lot of games due to injury. Quite a few comments about his tenacity, and YAC.
ZooeyModeratorFixt it!
Thanks.
I see a bunch of active links in there. I thought those screwed up everything, so I’ve been removing them from my posts. Is that glitch fixed, or is this just your magic admin powers?
ZooeyModeratorI hated that uniform change when it came out.
I still prefer the blue and whites, but I would take that 50-year old uniform over anything they’ve worn in the past 20 years.
September 24, 2023 at 10:19 am in reply to: setting up the Bengals game (us, reporters, tweets, etc.) #145625ZooeyModeratori’m hoping the rams just blow the bengals out of the water.
I agree that this would be for the best, all things considered.
ZooeyModeratorI wonder if the Rams have “gone away from tendencies.” What with the different approach to the running game on offense, I am curious if their early success is “real,” or if defenses will catch up with the Rams once there is more film on the season.
September 22, 2023 at 4:15 pm in reply to: setting up the Bengals game (us, reporters, tweets, etc.) #145591ZooeyModeratorBENGALS FAN: I’m going over to check out the Rams board. I bet those guys are talking all kinds of smack about the Bengals!
RAMS FANS: San Diego sports teams sure do suck, man. And they’re ugly.
September 22, 2023 at 10:15 am in reply to: setting up the Bengals game (us, reporters, tweets, etc.) #145586ZooeyModeratorSo…anyways…how ’bout them Bengals?
I hope Burrow plays on a bad leg.
September 22, 2023 at 10:14 am in reply to: setting up the Bengals game (us, reporters, tweets, etc.) #145585ZooeyModeratorWhat in the world is ‘that’? Is that the Padres? Ok, somebody actually thought of that. And designed it. And got it approved. And they marketed it. And i guess there were focus groups, and surveys and profit-algebra that preceded those decisions. So who is that aimed at? LGBT folks? Teens? Color-blind people? I dunno. What do i know. I’m an old-school-curmudgeon, so i should just shut up. w
It’s mind-boggling. And on TV, you can’t make out the last names on the back of the jersey. Yellow on white. Truly bad.
And the split San Diego on front. Awful.
I had a Padres fan jump on me for criticizing them on Twitter, and they said that the San Diego represents the sunset on the ocean.
And I’m…”If that’s what the sky and ocean look like in San Diego, ya’ll got issues.”
Get that mess outta here.
ZooeyModeratorAvila has me stoked. I don’t remember ever being “stoked” by a G before. The Rams have had a lot of good ones over the years, no doubt. But Avila…I don’t know. Among other things, the guy has a little motor on him. Guards are always the slowest guys on the team. They’re just retaining walls. But Avila has some wheels, and it’s kinda cute to seem him scurry across the field like a AT-AT Walker/bunny hybrid.
Looking like the Rams mighta got themselves 2 blue chip players in the draft this year.
ZooeyModeratorYeah that was me. Xmas of 71. Rams vs Packers. All the neighborhood kids became Rams fans because of that game but it only stuck permanently with me and my brother.
I always said that your neighbors were terrible.
September 21, 2023 at 6:42 pm in reply to: setting up the Bengals game (us, reporters, tweets, etc.) #145560ZooeyModeratorThe Dodgers:
ZooeyModeratorI don’t know what it is with Akers. Now sure what that story is yet. So I don’t have any speculations about it.
Check out the dude who doesn’t have an opinion just because he doesn’t have enough information.
Jeezuschristalmighty.
ZooeyModeratorWho was it that became a Rams fan because of that electric football game? Anybody remember that? I thought that was Cappy.
ZooeyModeratorCowboys believe Trevon Diggs suffered a torn ACL during practice today and he now will undergo an MRI to confirm the injury, per source. pic.twitter.com/crfKj92ZFk
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 21, 2023
ZooeyModeratorNeither Kupp nor Woods are speedsters, but they get separation through precise route running. Kupp takes that ability to another level. When the Rams traded Woods, it wasn’t just because of the cap. Snead said they wanted someone with a different skill set because Kupp and Woods were similar players. Then they went after Robinson who had a different skill set – which turned out to be none. The no skill set. But in Snead’s defense, having no skills did set him apart from Kupp and Woods.
So you hate the pick of Nacua then.
Okay, well that’s bold. And you’re the first.
ZooeyModeratorI remember reading this book when I was a kid. Somebody gave it to me for my birthday. My mom, maybe.
ZooeyModeratorYou know, Barry Redden was a 1st Round pick. I remembered him, but i did not remember ‘that’. 14th pick of the 1982 draft. w v
They got Deacon Jones in the 14th round, so it kind of balances out.
ZooeyModeratorPurty good drafting.
Avila and Nacua.
Plus Kobie Turner and Byron Young, starting.
And some promise in other guys.
The 2023 draft is looking really, really, uncommonly good at this point. Obviously, the 3-year rule applies, by…my goodness.
ZooeyModeratorKupp and Robert Woods we’re the same guy, and that worked out ok for a few years.
I dunno about that. I think Woods’ was notable for his ability to find open space in crucial situations, and make those catches. The thing I see in Kupp and Nacua is the ability to create tight windows, fight for the ball, and then fight for extra yardage when it looks like the play is over.
How do you see Woods and Kupp as similar?
September 21, 2023 at 2:45 pm in reply to: setting up the Bengals game (us, reporters, tweets, etc.) #145541 -
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