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Zooey
ModeratorI wanna know what Rogers and the Rams coach/staff guy were jawing about.
Zooey
ModeratorSo, as of today, the rams would play the Packers?
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vI’d prefer that some other team try to catch the Packers on a bad day.
Zooey
ModeratorAnd Seattle loses.
Zooey
ModeratorConsecutive bad weather road wins is impressive regardless of the level of competition. The Rams are looking like gutsy team.
This is what I came to say.
Winning an ugly game is better than losing an ugly game. And the Rams have done it twice in the row, on the road, in bad weather. And I think the Jets are more talented than their record.
I was also disheartened by the lack of pressure. They only got pressure when Rogers held on a couple of beats too long. I thought Shula would blitz more in the 2nd half, but they just stuck with the plan. It worked, I guess. But if the Rams gave Goff that kind of time, he would put up a 40-spot on them.
It’s frustrating to see the Jets put together so many long drives. 2 14-play drives, a 15-play drive, and an 11-play drive.
Zooey
ModeratorWelcome to late December football: Current temp is 18 degrees, wind gusting to 20 mph. #Jets pic.twitter.com/oXOTgSeSSC
— Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) December 22, 2024
Zooey
Moderator@speed_kills@speedk1lls
I don’t understand how a team that has lost to the Dolphins and Bears and haven’t won a game by more than one possession all year can think the Jets are a trap game. The Rams haven’t played nearly good enough all year for them to think anyone is a trap game.They would have beaten Buffalo by multiple possessions if Buffalo hadn’t scored so much.
And they beat Minnesota by ten points.
Yours pedantically,
etc.
Zooey
ModeratorRandom Ramsdom: Matthew Stafford is 4-13 against Aaron Rodgers
Yeah, sure, but the only random fact that matters is that Stafford is, like, 11-1 in December under McVay.
People need to learn how to cherry-pick their facts if they’re going to accurately predict the outcome of games.
Zooey
ModeratorAdam Schefter@AdamSchefter
After losing RBs Christian McCaffrey, Jordan Mason and Elijah Mitchell to season-ending injuries, it now looks as if the 49ers will be without RB Isaac Guerendo for Sunday’s game vs. Miami. Guerendo is dealing with a hamstring injury and is unlikely to play, per source.I am actually feeling ambiguous about the 49ers. There is a part of me that actually feels bad for them. This is just a year from Hell.
No, wait. No, I don’t.
Zooey
ModeratorIt’s almost like Kobie Turner is Aaron Donald Lite.
And I don’t think that’s a bad thing, myself.
Zooey
ModeratorYeah, I think we are in the Golden Age of Rams football.
Got no idea what happens Post-Stafford, but for now, this is as good of an organization as any fan can hope for.
Zooey
ModeratorZooey
Moderator“Washed” Aaron Rodgers this season:
3,257 Yards
23 TDs
8 INTs pic.twitter.com/xEepTsHfOH— 𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙬
(@crow2x) December 15, 2024
Zooey
ModeratorI doubt Shanahan would have any interest in Cousins now. Maybe 3 years ago, but not now. They’ve got Purdy, who is younger and has upside, and while he hasn’t had a great year, his lost production has to be attributed to the loss of McCaffrey, Aiyuk, and Kittle for much of the season. It’s Purdy’s team now, for better or worse.
I haven’t watched either Cousins or Rogers play this season, and it looks like I’ve lost my chance to watch Cousins, so I think I’ll make it a priority to watch Rogers this coming weekend, so I can see would an old, used up QB looks like when he gets rag-dolled all around the field.
Zooey
ModeratorWe shall see.
Hey! That’s an interesting phrase you came up with there. Very useful in talking about things like game predictions. I like it better than “outcomes can be unpredictable so events will reveal themselves to us in time.”
If you don’t mind, I’m going to use it too.
In fact I really think it will catch on.
We shall see.
It’s market-tested.
I put that simple sentence through rigorous evaluations with a wide variety of focus groups that cut across the 11 major football fan demographics. My partners and I found that it consistently came out on top of fans’ preferences, even beating out “Time will tell,” “Who knows?” and any predictive sentence that was followed with an asterisk.
Zooey
Moderatortrap game” — peepulz iz picking the Jets
Of course, I’ve worried about that for weeks. But I think it doesn’t happen. I think it would be a trap if the Rams were 9-5, or 10-4. But they are still in “digging out of the hole” mode. I don’t think this team is on cruise control.
We shall see.
December 17, 2024 at 3:28 pm in reply to: the “healthcare” industry (thread includes entire film “Sicko” for free) #154000Zooey
ModeratorZooey
ModeratorI’d like the Rams to get the Lions, Vikings, or Commanders first. The Eagles, Bucs, and Packers scare me more. But no matter what, at this point, I don’t see the Rams winning more than one playoff game. I think they can beat anybody. But I don’t think they can beat two teams, let alone three or four of these teams in a row.
Zooey
ModeratorYep, that’s what I think, too. I’ve been surprised by how often I see Hoecht blowing things up, or in on tackles. He seems to be around the ball a lot this season.
Zooey
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ModeratorGary Klein@LATimesklein
McVay on possible Aaron Donald return: “I would almost feel disrespectful reaching out to him, just based on the principles and knowing him the way that I do. If that was something that he got interested in, then that would obviously be something that you’re always open to.”He can’t return at this point without going through waivers, and there’s a slim possibility another team would claim him before he reached the Rams.
Zooey
ModeratorBoy, if I didn’t already hate the Vikings, their uniforms tonight would turn me against them.
Why do they do this shit?
Zooey
ModeratorI think I’d prefer the 4th seed to the 3rd seed, as it stands. I’d rather play MN than GB.
And TB is probably underrated at this point. And Detroit is probably overrated.
Tampa has been getting healthier, like the Rams.
Detroit has been losing people to IR, and that’s going to weaken their defense, particularly.
Zooey
ModeratorI would like to tell you what this team is, but I have no idea, either.
My gut tells me they will win the division, and my gut tells me that they have a low ceiling.
I dunno. Fun season, though.
I hope you have a great time with your son!
Zooey
Moderator. I expect draft attention to go to both CB and ILB. (Along with OT and WR).
And QB because Stafford is washed up.
Zooey
ModeratorI should add…though maybe this is somewhere else already on the board…
The 49ers made zero trips into the Red Zone.
Not once.
Zooey
ModeratorBALDINGER: is this really a 49ers Offense. The mistakes; the missed assignments
My take? They didn’t get the offense ready in the short window before a Thursday game.
The defense was ready though.
Yeah, the defense was ready, and they were energized by Bosa and Greenlaw returning.
But the offense was lost. They worried too much about Deebo, and tried to get him involved. And Purdy pressed.
(Perhaps because he wants to prove he is worth have the largest salary increase in sports history by percentage. Dude is going from literally living with a roommate to making $50+ million a year).
And they didn’t make the right adjustments. And the air went out of the building.
That was the first time I have EVER heard Frisco fans boo their team. Ever. And Deebo drops that ball, and Campbell quits in a game he dressed up for, and the whole miserable season just…man…the looks on the faces of Shanahan and the players in their interviews. They are gonna burn the game tape, and half those guys are going to start booking their hotels in Cancun.
December 13, 2024 at 2:15 pm in reply to: the “healthcare” industry (thread includes entire film “Sicko” for free) #153899Zooey
ModeratorFun fact.
Listening on the commute to 9ers radio, and they had a bit on picking a few games this weekend, and Philly/Pitt came up, and one of the guys got distracted by the battle for PA which reminded him of the following:
Luigi’s mom filed a Missing Persons report for Luigi when he dropped out of contact for, like, 6 months or something. When that happens, police departments around the country get notified just in case.
Some SFO cop made the connection between the photo of Luigi and the missing persons photo, and reported his observations, making Luigi a suspect.
How all this fits with the subsequent arrest and the McDonalds story he did not say, but I thought that was interesting.
Zooey
ModeratorOh, and…uh.
In 9erville, everyone expects Campbell to be cut this morning.
Samuel looks like a problem bc he is due $28 next year, and they have Jennings, Aiyuk, and Pearsall, and Samuel appears to be the expendable at this point, but nobody will want that contract.
Purdy is due a payday now, and they expect the debate about his value will be off the charts.
Samuel and McCaffrey are diminishing returns. McCaffrey basically missed the whole year. What does he have left? What can they expect from Bosa and Kittle in the future? Is the window closed?
Zooey
ModeratorI guess it played a big part? So, its not really just the ‘defense finally showed up’ – its more like neither teams offense could handle the weather?
The weather was a huge part of it in the first half. You could see the rain pouring down on them the whole first half.
Plus the SF defense, which is a very good one, was just all over the Rams in the first half. No one was open. It’s like they knew the playcalls.
But the rain stopped in the 2nd half. The Rams defensive stats in the 2nd half was really their doing, they came through. Weather was not a factor then. Though admittedly the SF offense was missing key players.
^^^This^^^
The Rams got absolutely nothing going until about their 4th or 5th possession when they adjusted the plan, and quit trying to go Pass First. As zn said, nobody was open, and the ball was slipping out of Stafford’s hand (I guess), because he had some pretty bad throws. The Rams were lucky that the 9ers whiffed a couple of INTs. They finally just gave the ball to Williams, and he did enough to move the chains. Nothing spectacular, but he was probably the most important player last night. The guy is something. It’s like the first time he gets hit, the tackle is just a suggestion. It takes a couple more people to intervene and get him to go down.
Then it quit raining at the half, and the Rams got a little bit more going. The 9ers were playing tough, but the Rams just gutted it out.
The 9ers have to feel like they blew it, though. Dropped INTs. Deebo’s drop on 3rd down that was going to be a big play, possibly a TD. The Williams interception that Purdy made a terrible throw on – and he had Pearsall WIDE OPEN in the flat. Purdy was just trying to do too much on that one.
I’m getting ahead of myself now, but it looks like the Rams can/will win the division even after that 1-4 start.
BTW. Puka Nacua. Good grief.
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