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ZooeyModeratorThe Rams… pic.twitter.com/F549QzfeEt
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) January 23, 2022
ZooeyModeratorDeebo hopped off the field on one foot. I’m hoping for a high ankle sprain. Nothing serious. Nothing that he won’t recover from in 5 or 6 weeks.
Kittle also toddled off gingerly, but that looked like a fairly routine owie.
ZooeyModeratorAccording to ESPN Stats & Information research, the Rams became the first team to win a playoff game after losing four or more fumbles since the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers, who won the AFC Championship over the Raiders despite four lost fumbles.
Yeah, I wish the Rams coulda fumbled one more time, so they could have the record.
But I guess I’ll just take the tie, and settle for the win.
ZooeyModeratorPossibly the best Divisional Round in NFL history?
All 4 games decided on the last play?
Yeah, ya gotta think.
My goodness.
ZooeyModeratorThat wore me out.
The Rams really dominated that game, then did the only thing they could possibly do to make that game close – gag the ball up multiple times. And miss a FG.
They had multiple opportunities to put that game away, and didn’t do it.
I don’t know how many times in my life I have started praying for multiple TOs from the other team so the Rams could come back, and it never, ever happened. The lord nearly answered those desperate prayers of thousands of Bucs fans today.
And even so…the Rams won.
With whatever … 43 seconds? How the hell did the Bucs let Kupp get over the top on that play?
Good grief.
What a weekend of football.
Boy, the talking heads are going to have themselves an endless party tomorrow.
Every single game was won on the last play. And that Bills/Chiefs thing. I saw only the last 4 minutes, but that was a good time to tune in, I guess.
What an epic weekend for the NFL.
Just wow.
ZooeyModeratorAnd this one. On what is “news,” and what isn’t.
A thought experiment: Imagine if every day for the last 25 years every newspaper and tv station had urgent “breaking news” stories and graphics about the *thousands of deaths the night before* from air/water pollution, climate change, or poverty?
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) November 26, 2021
ZooeyModeratorAnd a fresh one on the alarming railroad theft.
THREAD. I noticed something fascinating: around the same time in recent days, each major corporate news source began talking about a new crime hysteria: a supposed crisis of theft from the railroad industry. But if you look deeper, something very scary is happening.
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) January 22, 2022
ZooeyModeratorThis guy is worth a Follow on Tweeters.
THREAD. I noticed something fascinating: many of the reporters concocting the new hysteria over "retail theft" are using the *exact same* words and patterns in each story. It's pretty wild. Let's take a look:
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) December 12, 2021
ZooeyModeratorrams really needed to end the niners that last week.
No matter whom the Rams play, they’re going to be a good team capable of beating the Rams.
Don’t you think it would be sweeter to beat the 9ers NEXT week?
Their 5 or 6 game win streak will be washed away, never to be heard of again. The Rams will own the ultimate STFU.
ZooeyModeratorI know wv already saw this, but here’s a good string of thoughts from Caitlan Johnstone:
Consider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear
ZooeyModeratorAnd…here ya go!
(I guess Aaron Rodgers did his own research on the 49ers).
I’ve read the same Aaron Rodgers “natural immunity” jokes 100 times already and still can’t get enough.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 23, 2022
ZooeyModeratorWell, they’re not going to do it this year, either.
When I wrote it, the Packers were up 10-3. Now, we have a chance to have the NFC title game at home, if we can beat January Tom, and the Buccaneers. But if we do win tomorrow, the 9ers scare me, because we lost 6 straight to them.
Me, too. But not as much as the Packers in Green Bay with the high temperature for the day projected to be 23 degrees. I like the Rams chances at home against SF better than on the road in freezing weather.
And the Rams had the 9ers down two weeks ago, and they let up. If they get the lead like that again, they will not ease off the gas. The Rams will go the full 60 minutes in that game.
But first the pesky Buccaneers.
January 22, 2022 at 11:12 pm in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135610ZooeyModeratorMan, I have never had my script for the playoffs followed like this ever in my life.
The two teams I feared the most both lost today, and if the Rams win tomorrow, they get to host the Championship against the 9ers in their 15th consecutive game, and a gimpy Deebo Samuel.
I’m totally down.
Take care of business tomorrow, and let’s go.
ZooeyModeratorWell, they’re not going to do it this year, either.
ZooeyModeratorThat INT was TERRIBLE.
ZooeyModeratorFrisco negative yardage.
Garappolo zero completions.
ZooeyModeratorWe already have one shocking upset. Bengals beat the Titans, to advance to the AFC Championship.
Yay.
January 22, 2022 at 5:46 pm in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135602ZooeyModeratorWell, if you love the Bucs so much, why don’t you marry them?
January 22, 2022 at 1:07 pm in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135599ZooeyModeratorI don’t see TB winning, even if Fournette plays. Tampa – if they are better than the Rams which is questionable – are not better with 4 of their WRs out, including 2 of their best 3. And their #2 RB is officially out. If Fournette can’t go, and with 2 stating OL hobbled (or out), I just can’t see how TB is going to pressure the Rams’ defense much. If Fournette, Wirfs, and Jensen are OUT, I don’t think Tampa puts up much more than 10 points. At least on offense.
And the Rams put up 34 on the Bucs last time they played. Of course, none of those points roll forward, and the Rams have lost Whitworth and Woods since. But they’ve got Noteboom and OBJ, and the falloff there is not a game-changing drop. Plus they have added Akers and (basically Michel). Barring a meltdown, the Rams are going to win this game.
And if SF pulls off a miracle, I think the Rams are going to the SB.
I don’t love the matchup in GB if that happens (the high is projected to be 23 degrees next Sunday), and I don’t much fancy meeting TN (which is underrated, imo), or Buffalo. But… you know… one game at a time, and all that rot, right-o! Jolly good.
January 22, 2022 at 12:47 pm in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135597ZooeyModerator“…with the Bucs facing a difficult task of keeping this team together in 2022, several of his teammates are prepared for this playoff run to be Brady’s last, sources said. ”
It’s so exciting. I can’t wait for tomorrow to watch Tom Brady’s final game as a professional football player.
And it is only fitting that his career should come to an end against the team he cheated against to launch his legendary career.
ZooeyModeratorWhole-Lee shit. No Whitworth. Sigh.
That is the sound of a ship hitting an iceberg.
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vIt’s not good. But Noteboom has filled in adequately over there. It’s a dropoff, but the Bucs seem to have a worse problem on their hands. Looks like their all pro ROT is out, and the C is iffy, so even if he plays, he’s a bit gimpy. Those guys are the ones largely responsible for helping to stop Miller and Donald, so all things considered, the Bucs situation appears a bit worse.
I’m feeling pretty good about the Rams, as a matter of fact.
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January 20, 2022 at 11:28 pm in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135577ZooeyModeratorJanuary 20, 2022 at 11:13 pm in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135576ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorThis has everything but John Facenda.
January 20, 2022 at 12:33 am in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135570ZooeyModeratorAkshually…the big difference in THAT game is the Bucs were healthy. Unlike now.
January 19, 2022 at 7:43 pm in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135568ZooeyModerator
January 19, 2022 at 3:38 pm in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135565ZooeyModeratorBut the game is changing…
Ah well. I cant pick against Brady at home.
On the 2nd point, you famously picked the Cardinals to win, so you are out of the office pool already. It’s single elimination, and you’re a goner.
On the first point, I was thinking about that yesterday.
Remember…
… when WRs would line up outside in a 3-point stance? They would put a hand in the dirt before the snap.
… when you first saw a tight end STANDING at the line of scrimmage? I mean…WTF?
… when the most common formation had a FB and a RB in the backfield. Sometimes parallel, sometimes in the I-formation.
… when the Dallas Cowboys OL would come to the LOS, then all stand up in sync, and plant themselves in a 3-point stance in unison?
… when you couldn’t make out some guys’ jersey numbers because of the mud and grass stains?
… the single-bar and double-bar facemasks?
… the school marching band performance at halftime was actually televised?
… the only highlights we ever saw were narrated by Howard Cosell at halftime of the Monday night game?
… when networks all broadcast double-headers, so depending on where you lived, you had a buffet of games to watch without subscribing to some service?
ZooeyModeratorHoward got deeper than Fletcher would get. That’s pretty impressive.
I was thinking the same thing. The guy seems build to be a safety anyway. I think he might be better suited back there.
January 19, 2022 at 9:40 am in reply to: setting up the Tampa game … us, reporters, analysts, etc. #135556ZooeyModerator“Brady, 44, is older than the three opposing NFC head coaches remaining in the “playoffs. That’s right, the head coaches of the three other remaining teams on the NFC side are all younger than Brady. Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay is 35 and the San Francisco 49ers’ head man, Kyle Shanahan, is 42, the same as Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur” (ESPN).
Brady is 44.
That is really pretty ridiculous.
But George Blanda was 48 when he retired. 26 seasons.
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