jetplt67 said:

Who is surprised by this?? Finally he is getting recognition. He's been great since he got here, only issue has been injuries.

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I know he has played well before,but I think playing beside Whit has inspired him to another level.
I mean this guy is a BEAST this year.Pro bowl Guard.

AC/DC.
What can you say man?
Young certainly had a vision. Not even an original one really. Blues soaked rock n roll, dirty and raunchy. After Bon Scott died and they stumbled onto Brian Johnson, sometimes great bands get lucky so to speak. BJ talked about their first week or so hanging out and said over a few days they wrote, their first time writing together, Have A Drink On Me, Shook Me All Night Long and Back In Black (I think those are the three)....not a bad start. For a band to have lightening strike twice is amazing.
That said, what was the driving force? That rhythm guitar. The riff. Malcom was content to stand in the background and let his brother and the singer capture the crowds attention. They were the showmen, but it was his band.
Malcolm's approach, his rhythm guitar and vision and a very underrated rhythm section made them great. They weren't fancy or progressive, they weren't a pop band or a blues band and they didn't follow trends. No matter where the trends went, where the "market" was they stayed true to their roots. A good ol rock n roll. band. What they became, in my humble opinion, is the best rock n roll band of all time.

So far there is no proof that Stan and Demoff didn't get the wheels moving on finding a QB for the Rams future. Snead may have started the moving up process but, we still don't know who initiated the QB priority.

Elmgrovegnome said:

But it was only for the first half. Why

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A combination of getting tired and the Rams re-working how to defend against him, also, his O was letting the side down - it must be so disheartening...

Lol... You guys know Ref names?

Merlin said:

The prob is Goff makes those reads fast and might throw to him. You can't just have Tavon go long as a decoy; what if there's a busted coverage? He has to be a read. But then when Jared throws it to him he'll drop it, fail to track it and/or won't be able to bring it in with his miniscule catch radius, etc.

You can send some other WRs deep, and if they're open just throw it to them. And they actually have a good chance to catch it. Tavon simply cannot be trusted to catch real passes, he is a gadget only player.

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I think Tavon will continue to be used in a similar way, with a few new plays, in the second half of the season. He may be gone next year. If he is gradually phased out this year, the writing is on the wall. But if anyone can make chicken salad from that chicken $#!&, McVay can.

On a side note, Great new Avatar Merlin!

Ramhusker said:

Pete is just trying to withhold info. Sounds like Kam is out for awhile.

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I'll believe the unguarded comments from Earl Thomas about how hard it would be to play without Chancellor and Sherman...

DaveFan'51 said:

OFF TOPIC; Like the New Avatar Merlin, did you make that up yourself!?

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The kid did it up for me, she's a damn wizard with photoshop. If I had done it... well, it'd have duct tape on it.

Not to mention that Eagle fans are now reminding him about what he said earlier this year when he basically stated that "Doug Pederson was the most unqualified coach to be hired in the NFL in 30 years... " or something along those lines.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/philadelphia-eagles/mike-lombardi-i-think-i-know-what-good-coach-looks?amp

Griffen is not 100% yet. He may be cleared to play, but he’s not 100%. Probably not even real close to it.

And he’s going up against Whit? Who is 100% healthy? Good luck with that.

Advantage Rams.

Turducken said:

How would Goff be doing right now in an alternate universe where Kroenke gave Fisher one more season?

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I think he'd be in an offense that doesn't have as many answers and adjustments built into it for every conceivable thing the QB might see, but he would have it mastered and would be playing good ball, of that I am certain. His stats would look moreso like Brady's early stats under a defensive head coach, where he was a good QB who doesn't get you beat. And I am confident of that because of how hard Jared works plus his high end talent; giving him zero cred on his improvement is not fair to him.

McVay has accelerated his stats but there is zero reason to discount Goff because he's got a good offensive mind running his offense now. We could play that game all day with Montana and Young and many more of even the greats, but why and to what end.

Well I had no creative lure you all in... Captively to this thread. Absolutely randomly stumbled on Quicksand via my Napster app... Ya know the Recommended pop ups. Wow. I haven't checked out who they are in detail but the first track hooked me in... Rest of the album is just as impressive. Definitely not going to satisfy everyone. However I feel a strong correlation to early Deftones with Poison the Well some CKY.. Snapcase and a toss of Royal Blood. I'm a self proclaimed audiophile and haven't had many recent (new) bands totally impress to hit replay on the album 3x already. Just wanted to share for those out there. I really think @Memento will dig them. Login to view embedded media View: https://youtu.be/xgIJatX2uug
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I will have to dig up some old covers of those mags.... rainy day tomorrow and will be cleaning out the basement... I think I have some down there stored away.

dieterbrock said:

If the Rams beat the Vikings this Sunday...

Jeff Fisher will kick the first puppy he sees

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He’s got 2 Golden’s - he would never do that.
I know you were jk, but I had to defend him.

I think we will attempt to start w/ an aerial assault in order to open up the run game at the beginning of the game

Cowboys w Zeke/Tyron, on road. Best win of season.

Webster is a very solid number 2 ...y the Tru bashing ? He has been well this year and will pic off keenum Sunday!

FrantikRam said:

And as I posted above, if you're going to that length you may as well just use the NFL streams people post on Reddit. They're solid and completely free.

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Nah. I like having something I can count on each week when I need it.

Well that looks like a damn fine piece of work.
I'll for sure watch it.

And I think there's always a little bit of luck when you hit on so many draft picks

Adi said:

OLB edge rusher - need depth

CB- not sure what will happen with Tru and we lack depth behind the 3 starters .

LT- not I'm the first 2 rounds!! , free agency is the place to find starting o linemen.. we just can't seem to get it right in the draft .

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I agree with you here...If a top LT prospect is available in the last quarter of the first round of the draft I would make that high considerations if not an outside/boundary corner would be right there too. It would not bother me at all if the first 3 selections by this Ram team were an LT & 2 outside Corners. Rams do not have a 2nd rd pick.

Rams have four picks in the 5th & 6th rounds where I would hope to land a few edge rushers/tweeners, a safety plus a OG if they can not sign UFA Spencer Long..

Legatron4 said:

Great job @551staaa. Is there anyway you could lay out the rankings for each statistic? I’m sure our run defense brings that down a lot too.

Also, I wonder if you were to apply this system to last season, would it correlate with the top teams success? It seems foolproof to me.

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Okay, so here are the final regular season SOPR rankings for 2016. (Playoff teams in bold) There are some outliers in the playoffs, but a lot of it is the result of the divisional system in place.

32. Cleveland - 373
31. San Francisco - 364
30. Chicago - 309
29. N. Y. Jets - 281
28. Los Angeles - 278
27. Jacksonville - 273
26. San Diego - 264
25. Buffalo - 262
24. Tampa Bay - 253
23. Carolina - 248
22. Tennessee - 247
20. New Orleans - 245
20. Miami - 245
19. Washington - 234
18. Houston - 233
17. Detroit - 228
16. N. Y. Giants - 222
15. Green Bay - 219
14. Indianapolis - 217
13. Denver - 217
12. Minnesota - 216
11. Cincinnati - 209
10. Arizona - 198
9. Kansas City - 192
8. Philadelphia - 189
7. Baltimore - 174
6. Oakland - 173
5. Pittsburgh - 169
3. Seattle - 160
3. Atlanta - 149
2. Dallas - 146
1. New England - 98

Barwin was out (Knee) and Longacre was limited (Back) in Thursday's practice, so we might see a lot of Quinn and Ebukam on sunday.