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ZooeyModeratorPaul Thomas Anderson. Dunno if it will be any good, but its Paul Thomas Anderson.
It won Best Comedy er sumthin’ at the Golden Globes, I guess.
Bunch of attractive looking films here for me to put on my list.
ZooeyModeratorIf Rodgers retires, this is the last pass play of his career.
Calen Bullock takes it back for six!
HOUvsPIT on ESPN/ABC
Stream on @NFLPlus and ESPN App pic.twitter.com/3ma9Dt0g73— NFL (@NFL) January 13, 2026
ZooeyModeratorShula to Miami makes way too much sense for it not to happen.
Is the McVay staff the most pilfered in the league over the past 9 years?
ZooeyModeratorSteelers/Tomlin now 7 straight playoff losses.
Yeah, I was looking at that in disbelief last night. I didn’t know about falling behind by 21+ points in all of them, and that undoubtedly makes it far worse. 7 playoff losses in 9 years ( I think it is), and zero playoff victories. Wow.
That isn’t something you want to flaunt on your resume. I gotta think they have to be considering replacing Tomlin. How are you going to “run it back” next year with Tomlin and Rodgers?
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 am in reply to: Rams next game? Chicago! So…setting up the Bears game thread #161157ZooeyModeratorKickoff: 3:30 pm pst on sunday.
Your time is off by 3 hours!
Gary Klein@LATimesklein
Rams play Bears at 630 ETThe trouble with you easterners is you think you are the default center of the world. Everything is EST to you guys. In all the sports standings, the eastern divisions are always on the top. Your hubris sickens me.
I deliberately calculated kickoff to the time zone that actually IS the center of the planet. Here’s proof:
January 12, 2026 at 11:40 pm in reply to: Rams next game? Chicago! So…setting up the Bears game thread #161149ZooeyModeratorRams…first game wild card weekend.
Last game divisional weekend.
Kickoff: 3:30 pm pst on sunday.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t want the Texans to advance, so I’m sorry that Pittsburgh sucks so much.
However, Aaron Rodgers made several visits to the All-You-Can-Eat salad bar of fresh lawn, so that helps. I surely can’t wish either the Patriots or the Texans well next week, though.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 pm in reply to: 1st playoff game–tweets, plays, highlights, commentary #161147ZooeyModerator. It appeared they had fixed their STs.
I looked up the culprit from the blocked punt, #34, rookie DB Tanner Ingle. He’s had a total of 43 special teams snaps all season, and 17 of those were in the wildcard game. He was promoted from the practice squad to replace an injured player. My bet is, he hasn’t been practicing on special teams and is a green rookie who got fooled on that one play by a veteran. The punt blocker, Isaiah Simmons, is a 6’4 OLB/DB (Ingle is 5’8) who is a 6 year veteran and who has had 650 career snaps on special teams.
Does that relieve the new STs coordinator from responsibility? No, that’s not supposed to happen regardless. Especially in a playoff game. Should the new STs coordinator have anticipated that Ingle against Simmons was a mismatch? Yes. But I also think that one play was the result of one player screwing up, and that is easy to fix. You straighten Ingle out or replace him or both.
So what you’re saying is that the Rams HAVE fixed special teams, and this one play was one of those damn flukey things that happen sometimes.
I think I agree with that. One bad play in two months is probably not illustrative of an ongoing problem.
January 12, 2026 at 1:19 pm in reply to: Rams next game? Chicago! So…setting up the Bears game thread #161138ZooeyModeratorGood lord.
Just looked at the weather forecast. 16 degrees on Sunday during the heat of the afternoon.
ZooeyModeratorSeahawks 6.5 point favorites over SF.
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vFrom last week’s misery to this week’s giddy triumph, the SF fans now believe this is a team of destiny. They don’t even seem concerned about the loss of Kittle.
ZooeyModeratorI’m not sure why, but the 9ers beating the Eagles just made me laugh. I guess the defending SB champs losing to a JV team is inherently funny.
And now the 9ers are going to Seattle next week. The last time Seattle played a game was against San Francisco. After that game, the 49er radio people were slitting their wrists. Right now, they are celebrating like crazy.
And it makes no difference to me. No matter what happens in that game, I will be laughing my ass off at either the 49ers or the Seahawks.
I guess Kittle tore his Achilles, so you can toss his body on top of the pile. I have no idea how the 49ers are even in the playoffs, but they keep winning, and they won a bunch of games earlier without Kittle, so maybe they will hilariously beat the Seahawks. Or lose. I’m good either way.
January 11, 2026 at 4:17 pm in reply to: Rams next game? Chicago! So…setting up the Bears game thread #161057ZooeyModeratorI think I’d rather have the Rams go to Seattle. The weather won’t be as extreme and the Rams have won their fair share of games there.
I think I lean that way, too, but that means a cold weather game the next week anyway.
Doesn’t matter at this point. The Rams have to slog uphill no matter what.
January 11, 2026 at 4:14 pm in reply to: Rams next game? Chicago! So…setting up the Bears game thread #161056ZooeyModeratorIf LA beats Chicago, and SF beats Seattle, we get to Jaquiski Tartt all over again.
January 11, 2026 at 11:29 am in reply to: 1st playoff game–tweets, plays, highlights, commentary #161044ZooeyModeratorMiddlekauff is right, imo. You cannot trust the Rams at this point. The way they have been playing since the end of November is concerning. The secondary had been playing very well in the middle of the season, and the Rams were rolling. It appeared they had fixed their STs.
But they have been playing dangerously for the past 7 games. They’ve blown double digit leads multiple times (going back to Philadelphia), and they just aren’t reliable. They haven’t dominated. How can you trust the secondary to shut down Caleb Williams? Or cover Smith-Njigba?
The Rams will go as far as the offense can carry them this year. The good news is that that is potentially all the way. But, man, there are some leaks in the hull that Stafford is going to have to keep bailing out. Even Stafford has been inconsistent, but when the game is on the line, he delivers. He seems to always be laser accurate in the 4th quarter anyway.
So what are we rooting for here? Seattle or Chicago next?
I don’t think I care. The Packers blew up my preferred road by losing.
ZooeyModeratorDefense is just not very good anymore. Chris Shula must have been doing it with smoke and mirrors for a while. 31 against Carolina, 38 against Seattle, 27 against Atlanta, 34 against Detroit, 31 AGAIN against Carolina.
Ah well.
If the DLine is as good at pass-rushing as we think they are — then the secondary must be equally as BAD.
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vLooking at that list of FAs, I was gonna say maybe Durant was worth keeping, but after the past couple of weeks, I don’t think that anymore.
ZooeyModeratorto try and look at more positives. hopefully adams and lake were knocking some rust off. hopefully dotson is available next week. nacua could have played better but still had 125 total yards and two tds. hopefully ingle isn’t playing next week.
i don’t know. that’s all i got.
And hopefully Stafford’s index finger is okay because that bent back pretty far.
ZooeyModeratorThat will not make my Top 10 list of favorite Rams games. Not even Top 10 favorite playoff games.
I was yelling at McVay to take the FG to make it 20-7. Get the points. Wear them down. He was trying to go for the Kill before halftime, and there is just no need at that point. He ran it less than I would have liked as well, although he finally ran it near the end on the next-to-last drive (I think it was).
Lots of uncharacteristic penalties. Lots of uncharacteristic drops.
Not a good game, but a win is a win, as they say, and it’s better than a loss. A loss today would have gutted me. I couldn’t tolerate being the best team most of the season only to lose to the worst team in the playoffs as 10.5 point favorites, and they came pretty darned close to doing that.
Let’s go GB, I guess.
January 10, 2026 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Setting up Carolina game…Sat. 1/10 at 4:25 et 1:25 pt #160990ZooeyModeratorFormer Rams on the Panthers:
A’Shawn Robinson
Christian Rozeboom
Nick Scott
Robert Rochell
Bobby Brown III
Austen CorbettJanuary 10, 2026 at 4:33 pm in reply to: Setting up Carolina game…Sat. 1/10 at 4:25 et 1:25 pt #160989ZooeyModeratorI don’t see any rain, or hear any thunder.
So… we’re starting off dry, anyhow.
January 10, 2026 at 12:04 am in reply to: Setting up Carolina game…Sat. 1/10 at 4:25 et 1:25 pt #160969ZooeyModeratorJoe Person@josephperson
David Tepper fired 6 executives ahead of Panthers’ 1st playoff berth in his ownership tenure, per sources.
In addition to chief venues officer Caroline Wright & gen counsel Tanya Taylor (1st reported by @fitsnews), VP of tech Rob Bence & VP of ticket sales Mike Brown were let go.Two lower-level officials also part of the housecleaning. Via a team spokesperson, the org. confirmed Wright & Taylor (both hired in ’23) have left and thanked them for their contributions.
Tough timing after the holidays and before the Panthers’ 1st home playoff game in 10 yrs.
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Elvis
This is why Tepper is such a genius, always thinking two steps ahead. In his mind the Panthers have already lost and it’s the offseason…
Those people have nothing to do with football, though.
“Venue officer,” tech, and ticket sales. No idea why these moves happened, but they don’t affect the team on the field.
ZooeyModeratorI am hoping that Lake is the important missing puzzle piece he seems to be.
Stafford has to play well all 4 games. As we know, he can kind of only half show up sometimes.
Me too. But I can’t help but think that Lake’s injury does not alone account for the decline of the defense. The Rams’ defense dropped from top tier to middle-of-the-pack. One player’s absence can’t account for that big of a drop. If it does, then Quentin Lake is in the MVP conversation.
I’m afraid that Lake’s injury corresponded with something else, an identification of a weakness in the Rams’ approach that multiple teams took advantage of. I don’t know what else to suggest.
If Lake is that important…then…yay. Because they just signed him for 1/4 of his value, and the future is bright.
ZooeyModeratorI guess I’m pulling for all the lower seeds in the NFC this weekend: GB, LA, and SF.
I’d like GB to go to Seattle first, rather than the Rams. I don’t want to face Seattle after a bye, although history says the bye isn’t necessarily a great advantage. Nevertheless.
This would give the Rams a game at home against SF. I’m not sure that’s more desirable than facing Philly on the road, but I think it is. I’d be happy to go to Philly and exact some revenge in front of their shitty fans, but on the whole, I think SF at home would be better.
In the AFC… I don’t care. I think the Texans are the team I’d least like to see in the Super Bowl. There is something about top notch defenses that take the fun out of it. 1999 was a dream season, of course, but Tampa and Tennessee did not make it easy. I’d like to see the Rams just cruise for once in my life. I dunno. The hard-fought battles do make victory sweeter in the long run, but there is something to be said for not accelerating the gray hairs and receding hairlines.
ZooeyModeratorZooeyModerator8 out of 9 Experts at CBS pick the Rams to go to the Super Bowl. Only Pete Prisco picks another team, and he has the Eagles.
The AFC picks are all over the place.
January 9, 2026 at 12:50 pm in reply to: Setting up Carolina game…Sat. 1/10 at 4:25 et 1:25 pt #160955ZooeyModeratorThese guys play with injuries all the time, so he’s not well enough to get enough push off that ankle right now.
It’s my impression that ankles take longer than hamstrings. Higbee was out for 7 weeks, they even put him on IR. They didn’t IR Dotson, so I assume it’s less severe than Higbee’s was. Either that or I don’t understand how IR works at the end of the season.
I don’t know how IR works at the end of the season, either, but they certainly want Dotson back ASAP, so I can see why they wouldn’t IR him at all.
I’m guessing it’s a high ankle sprain. Those can take up to 6 weeks, I think. It’s been 3 weeks. But assuming the Rams advance, his absence won’t seriously concern me until the Rams run into Seattle or Philadelphia.
ZooeyModeratorThe Experts at CBS give it to Maye by a 6-5 vote.
January 8, 2026 at 9:12 pm in reply to: Setting up Carolina game…Sat. 1/10 at 4:25 et 1:25 pt #160933ZooeyModeratorJanuary 8, 2026 at 4:43 pm in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #160929ZooeyModeratorWhat stage of capitalism is it when people can place legal bets on which country the US is going to bomb next?
January 8, 2026 at 3:42 pm in reply to: Setting up Carolina game…Sat. 1/10 at 4:25 et 1:25 pt #160928ZooeyModeratorThe Rams are ruling OG Kevin Dotson OUT for Saturday’s wildcard game against the Panthers.
That’s bad. That means it’s a significant injury. They weren’t just giving a veteran athlete a little extra time to get right which seems to be what they did with Adams. These guys play with injuries all the time, so he’s not well enough to get enough push off that ankle right now.
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