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Rogers may have been leveraging the whole time to get to this very point. He sees all the skilled QBs in the AFC, and may want to stay with GB after all. And his MVP will only command more money.

Merlin said:

They have AC under that dome... Right? I assume they do at least. Not efficient with the openings to outside air by any means but hopefully that stadium won't be a sauna.

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Why not let those Ohio snowflakes sweat & melt ?

fearsomefour said:

For sure.
My work schedule has been and likely will stay pretty crazy. Seven days a week for over a year now....not all full days on Sundays....and NO, Im not working tomorrow....
What are you doing for the game tomorrow?
I am going to my sons house where he is breaking in a new Pit Boss BBQ/smoker I got him for Christmas.

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Let's transition to PM.

Andrew Whitworth and the Wonderful Feeling of Being Very, Very Wrong​

As the left tackle prepares for the Super Bowl—against his former team—a look back on his fateful decision to join a wunderkind first-year coach in L.A.



".............He would turn 41 next December, ancient by pro football standards. Melissa hopes he’s done, but she won’t project, having long ago learned not to do that. “Ask him that,” she says, with a small edge detectable in her voice. “I thought he was going to retire for the last eight years. It wouldn’t matter what I told you. It’s probably going to be wrong.”

No, not The Police album or track. This:
It was seventy years ago that the Los Angeles RAMS won the NFL Championship over Paul Brown and the Cleveland Browns on a 4th quarter touchdown pass from
Norm Van Brocklin to Tom Fears in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Today, in Los Angeles, California, the LA RAMS vie for the NFL Title against the other franchise founded by Paul Brown.
It was fifty years ago this coming spring that the LA Lakers, after being frustrated in their pursuit of an NBA Championship during the 1960s and early 1970s finally
claimed the NBA Title, winning game 5 of the 1972 NBA Championship Series at the Fabulous Forum, a structure that still stands right down the road from the current home of the Los Angeles RAMS.

TexasRam said:

True story. I went to pickup my Mexican food tonight and while at the bar for pickup met two current football players. One a Raiders player named Kayvon Frazier who was in the Bengals and one currently on the Steelers. Didn’t get his name. There was also a cowboys Superfan there talking about his collectibles.

I asked all three who they have on the Super Bowl. All responded “Bengals”. Kayvon said the Rams have the stars but Bengals have the better team.

I said I guess we will see. I said Rams should get pressure on Burrow. The Steelers guy said “oh we know they will get pressure but it won’t be enough”.

Interesting. I guess I am living in a bubble thinking the Rams will win.

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AfC guys. They lost to Bengals. A Bengals win makes them feel better about their teams.
Everybody has an agenda or bias. Only the sharps can be trusted not to have bias when picking games.

BonifayRam said:

This Rams OL is the same starting OL set up & put together from the beginning by Coach Carberry. IMO would truly be foolish now NOT to ride these five same OL'ers off into the sunset in the west today as this day comes to a close. Just the fact that this OL is together & still intact at this time through its 22nd game this season is a modern miracle.

Letting the oldest active player in the NFL lead this OL is not a bad idea.....I am sure that Andrew Whitworth in his last game can open many kingsize holes today on that left side.

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This is the Game Plan, ride Akers & Michel like ten cent ponies along with Henderson in the passing game. Like Arizona, Stafford might only have to throw 17 times.

I think we should flip the script some in this game. Give them what they are not expecting. Show them some of the 8 man coverage looks they liked to play against KC. I feel we can generate at least as much pressure with 3 as they did against Mahomes, which lead to turnovers. We really haven't played that style of D in the past, so I can't see them having had much prep for it. AD, SJD, and Gaines getting after Burrow with 8 covering sounds interesting to me. Yes that does take Miller off the field, but I'd give it some looks.

Cam Akers is barely being mentioned. He just might steal the show!

Mojo Ram said:

Agreed there will be some tightness from both teams. My point is more about some early stage fright which is another thing entirely. I see that specifically as a possible early game advantage vs Cincy.

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Hopefully a couple good running plays to start will help with those jitters

Let’s win this game for Jackson, Tori and all the other faithful friends of Rams fans out there.

We can call this thread whatever we want.

I still call it is Sean Mcvay The Best Coach ever ???

This was asked 3 years ago & his legacy continues. His career has already been great. DV is going into the HOF. Yet Mcvay is still only 37.

Sean Mcvay weather only wants to go back to the WEST OFFENSE & Bill Walsh’s coach Tree. If you rattle it enough a Little Sean Mcvay might even fall out as a SEED. That is where his DNA starter with his Grandfather.

As we who believe in SEED(weed) & DNA. Sean Mcvay no matter how you want to Roll it up has an amazing coaching tree.

His coaching & mentoring of MEN & Woman a off the Charts.

Go Rams!! Hope Coach Sean Mcvay adds his first SuperBowl to his resume & to his LEGACY!!

I thank him & only good wishes. He is The GREATEST RAMS coach IMO of all time. I think he has many seasons left to hopefully be The Beat Coach if ALLTIME. I think his coaching tree just keeps producing annually & the growth is unbelievable. Zach Taylor is just another example today.

jrry32 said:

My point is that I wouldn't use Hopkins. I would use Skowronek. Yes, they've done that to an extent. I'd stick with it. Skow is listed at 6'3" 225. He's not much smaller than some slot TEs. It's too bad Jacob Harris suffered that season-ending injury.

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He's been kicking ass on the run plays where he's in the fullback role so agreed. Took that shit from Woody when he went down and has gotten better and better.

kurtfaulk said:

didn't they interview him intensely? how could they not work out this guy wouldn't be good?

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They thought they had found a diamond in the rough that no one else know about, is how I figure it. The story came out after the draft as though they had gotten away with a theft…

Florida_Ram said:

The second interview with Mr. & Mrs. Stafford a few days before the Super Bowl.


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Great to see the Staffords smiling and looking so genuinely happy. They've been through a lot. Ten hours of brain surgery for Kelly. Four kids waiting to know she's ok. They deserve a Super Bowl trophy.

Back in the 1980s on Super Bowl weekend beginning on Saturday morning ESPN would run the NFL Films Super Bowl highlight shows for every game back to back in order.

Those were the days.

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AD ready to go!

jrry32 said:

Agreed. The nice thing is that since he missed out this year, we'll get two picks if somebody hires him next year.

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It will be interesting to see what jobs come available next year as so many were open this season with nine.

1. Dallas Cowboys....Asshole Face will be their next Head Coach unless Mike McCarthy wins he Super Bowl next season and I don't see that happening.
2. Carolina Panthers....Matt Rhule is on the hot seat, but I don't believe the job will become available because I look for the Panthers to improve dramatically and would not be shocked if Jimmy Garoppolo ends up here. If Rhule does head back to college for one reason or another, this would be an excellent landing for Raheem Morris IMO.
3. Houston Texans...Have a feeling it will be another one & done, but maybe they will just finally hire Josh McCown.
4. Arizona Cardinals...Could be Kliff Kingbury's last stand as the Cardinals were spiraling downward. Could be a complete overhaul including GM Steve Kiem, but it could go the other way too.
5. Seattle Seahawks...Eventually Petey Carroll is going to retire and this could be another landing spot for Morris especially when the Rams duplicate their success in 2022/2023.

SJD can help in defending the run game and give Gaines some rest. I really like the added depth. Also good to have Henderson ready to go. I don't know if he gets any touches unless someone gets hurt.

Just as the Timekeepers have written.

If this was already posted, please delete or merge with the appropriate thread ROD mods.

I enjoyed this year's NFL honors show.

Even with all the silly jokes, this was enjoyable and a pleasure to see Kupp and Big Whit get their honors.

For those that don't already know...

It says Video unavailable, but all you need to do is move your mouse pointer over the Watch on YouTube area in the black box and click with your left mouse button to watch the entire NFL Honors video.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vjH60XVIpE

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the rams were looking at fucking johnny manziel? what the fuck? thank god mcvay is running the show now.

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Interesting subject.
As one of the two restaurant/bar owners that I'm aware of here in this thread, we have very different takes, and politics/'extreme capitalism' is at the heart of it imo. I'll do my best to avoid getting into the politics of it, but other western democracies handle restaurant tipping far better. They just avoid it, it's not really part of the culture, they will usually build in a service fee right on the check. Not only is American tipping confusing for them, but often considered barbaric. I once made the mistake of leaving a generous tip in a British pub and the bartender chased me half way down a street to return it.

I'm old, I was raised to believe 15% was the standard waiters tip in America, but the tip wasn't to be paid on the entire cost, just the food/drink portion, not on the tax or any other added fees. Back in the day I taught my employees this and they weren't all very happy about it, but they understood that this was a base that many customers worked from.

While it's true that wait staff who underperform are often weeded out, the same should be true for the actual restaurants themselves. Serve a poor product and you're soon gone, just the same for poor customer service from a waiter. The main problem comes down to competition from other restaurants, not employee salary. If one restaurant is paying a 'living wage' and their competition is paying $2-$3.00 dollars per hour, the one with the higher labor costs is going to quickly fold as those costs are absorbed by the customer. What people fail to realize is that most of our fellow citizens earning under a minimum or livable wage are collecting government welfare of some nature, increasing your net federal/state income taxes that you pay later, essentially subsidizing any business owner or corporation who isn't paying a livable wage. I understand that weeding out some restaurants might be the result, but if you serve a better product at competitive prices, customers will find you. One of the industry jokes is that just about anybody with a recipe will open a restaurant one day, they don't get the long hours and the difficulty in maintaining an extremely high standard day in and day out in an industry which also has a high degree of employee turn-over. I've read that the mortality rate for first year restaurants was near 90%, this shouldn't be taken lightly.

For me personally, I'd rather pay a fair wage than pay higher income taxes, but that's just me ...

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