Hey Shanny, look at this thing. It's Huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We pay the guy to play football, not to teach science. He's dumb, but fuck it, he can run fast and catch a pigskin.

Barrison said:

We better freaking BALL OUT with that airing at the conclusion of this game. Irony will be if we get shut out or don't score any touchdowns.

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This is Bad Karma, and has no place here!!

Nice

I agree with everything except that MMA is human rooster fighting.

Having rolled BJJ, I can see and tell you that it's not just guys rolling around on the ground. Moreover, there's a real and technical reason for why striking in MMA isn't the same as in boxing (most if it revolves around defensive against kicks and takedowns).

And honestly, the most awesome moments in MMA occur when someone defeats another with a sweet and super technical BJJ submission.

It only takes rolling once or twice to know how hard and how much setup some of these submissions require.

So, I'm a huge fan.

But I can also see that without the technical knowledge, it's all too easy to just see it as mud pit wrasslin' without the mud...

Ramlock said:

We broke the NFL mirror

2 weeks of crappy officiating

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Its been closer to a few decades of crappy officiating.

Merlin said:

It's definitely crumbling. Product on the field has degraded badly with the refs deciding games, over the top commercials, and too many damn rules/flags/stoppages. Players embarrassing the league and otherwise poorly representing the image the league rode to prominence.

Keep saying it too. Already follow NHL as my favorite sport now, and attend far more games at less cost with way more fun for my hard earned dollar. I can actually watch a game in the NHL without stoppage, stoppage, stoppage, stoppage filled with commercials, stupidity and refs bumbling around. It's a fast game with action, big hits, and excitement.

The owners' greed will definitely be their undoing, and ten to fifteen years down the road this will be a flag football type game that more closely resembles basketball. And at that point I won't be tuning in.

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Greed on owners and players alike. There's no difference. I'm sick of hearing about these guys saying it's hard to get by on millions of dollars a year. While the UDFA makes the league minimum and keeps to himself. Same goes for the owners. They only care about dollar signs rather than putting a good product on the field ... They're messing with the foundation of how the NFL became one of the biggest sports in the world. Reminds me of what's happened with the UFC. but at a less rapid rate.

1. How much football can people watch?

The market is a little satchurated. Before Sunday Night Football I watched the Rams (internet) and the Eagles TV and saw some other bits and pieces. I don't think scoring matters. I like defense just as much. These days you get to see your team play one way or another. The other games don't matter as much unless you're doing fantasy football.

2. Practice and Preseason
Teams don't want to risk injuries. First week had sloppy play. A little better week two. Takes three to four games before they are really ready to play

3. Replays and inconsistent officiating
Slows the game down so much.

4. Could be the play it safe throws take the excitement out of the game.

5. Everything Peaks
Even the NFL. Overall hours are probably up when you consider the draft and free agency. Lot's of time spent on the NFL but, not only on games.

JRobinson said:

Videos like these just affirm my investment and passion for this team. Win or lose, I love the damn Rams (even from here in St Louis).

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I feel you man on the investment! I am originally from STL born and raised, but now reside in Springfield, MO.

STL People tend to amaze me with their anger and want to see them fail. Yes I was pissed at first, but I got over it. I am more mad at the NFL and owner in all that went down, but at the same time, STL scrambled around at the last second like they do with everything else. The leaders are not proactive.

Anyways, go Rams!!!

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Watkins is 7 catches for 7 targets, reportedly. Ummmmm... Why not give such a WR a few more targets? I would imagine that more targets would make him even more energized and effective. Otherwise, why did we trade for him?

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For Sammy to see the ball more, other guys have to step up and make plays. The opposing D has to have others to really worry about to reduce the coverage on Watkins. Getting the Express! going is always gonna help. As Todd regains trust in his OL, he will run with more confidence. If Robert Woods is not being covered as tightly, this will be a fine time to extend the rapport between him and Jared. I love using Gurley out of the backfield too. get other guys disrupting the defensive scheme, and Sammy will get easier opportunities.

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Everett should be getting more snaps. Look at his numbers, for cryin' out loud! Such a player needs to be on the field. Don't care if it costs Higbee (or anyone else) snaps. This seems like a no brainer, y'all.

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Let's make sure he is still in one piece. That was a hellacious hit he absorbed. I'm proud of the youngster!

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Gurley is improving at his running game, thanks to his improving OL in no small part. So feed him more running plays. Helps with TOP no end. The TOP deficit vs Washington was not ALL on the D. O didn't exactly help the cause either. Maintain, or maybe even increase Gurley's role in the passing game. He's become a beast there.

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We need to set a real tone with the Express!, and there isn't a much better test subject than the damn '9ers! They spanked us three times in a row!?! We need to let all our divisional rivals know we're taking charge of the NFC West!

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And where was our vaunted pass rush last week? Cousins hardly ever seemed to be disrupted. No sacks, no ints, etc. THAT's gotta change.

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The Mighty One and Aaron need to start a friendly race for the Horns' sack crown. All other Horns' defenders are welcome to participate. We need to average a little more than 4.5 sacks per week to shatter the NFL single season sack mark. That means we need to make up for missing sacks in Weeks I & II as well as collect the quota for this week too on Thursday night. Nothing like some meaningful inspiration to get this D motivated, no!?!

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The safety (player who makes tackle) is not even in the shot when Hav falls. 54 is the next player to get, so to assume or expect him to pick the safety is somewhat above the call of duty. In a zone scheme a T is not expected to be 20 yards downfield. He is sealing the lane, which overall is accomplished.

As for Woods, he looks like he gets fooled on the play by Norman but I don't think it is a reason Gurley doesn't score

I don't know the actual assignments but based of what I know and the execution, I believe Hav is sealing and did his job.

My point is neither player caused Gurley not to score as you said on the OP. The safety comes in after 5 yards or so is gained and makes the play, or rather dives in and trips Gurley up. Neither Hav or Woods is at fault IMO. Could both of done a better job? Certainly, was it there fault the play doesn't go for a score, I don't think so.

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We'll agree to disagree, especially on Woods. My original point is the same, if both blocks are made then Gurley is in the end zone.

LesBaker said:

This is petty of me but I don't give a freak.

I want the Chiefs to go to the Super Bowl and lose.

Why the Chiefs? Well. Recently I was back-stabbed really, really, really badly. It was inexcusable to do what he did. The guy who did it knows now that I know what he did, though I didn't find out until after the fact. He's a real POS, a liar and a dirty two faced freaker that deserves very, very serious karma. I hope he gets cancer of the dick and goes blind.

Last year the Chiefs lost to the Steelers and he made a comment that someone he doesn't know is my friend overheard. That friend is the one who found out what he did behind my back. Anyway he said essentially that the only thing worse than losing in the playoffs was losing the Super Bowl. So I wish that on him.

And it would be PERFECT if it was the Missouri Governors Cup to go along with that.

I don't hate very many people in this world simply because I'm so far from perfect, I reserve real hate for a very few that truly deserve it and I've even forgiven the unforgivable in some cases. Not in this case.

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Can you please tell us what he did. It sounds so interesting.

Family, and friendly, ties bind Rams coach Sean McVay to a lineage of NFL greatness
Gary KleinContact Reporter




Framed photographs, plaques and magazine covers adorn nearly every inch of wall space, memorabilia from a life in football that spans more than seven decades.

A few are keepsakes from Massillon High in Ohio. Others are from college days at Miami (Ohio), coaching stops in the World Football League and the NFL and his Super Bowl-winning years as a San Francisco 49ers executive.

Game balls commemorating milestone victories are shelved above a window framing picturesque Folsom Lake glistening just outside.

John McVay guides a visitor around the room and stops in front of life-size cardboard cutouts of Hall of Fame quarterbacks Joe Montana and Steve Young, who stand sentry at the end of a pool table.

Rams coach Sean McVay, at 31 the youngest coach in modern NFL history, has visited this space, an enclave within the home his grandfather shares with his wife Susan.

After Rams owner Stan Kroenke presented him with a game ball for guiding his team to a season-opening victory over the Indianapolis Colts, Sean spoke of perhaps one day having a collection similar to his grandfather’s.



Gruden and also met a young real estate developer named Eddie DeBartolo Jr.

New York Giants staff in 1976, but midway through the season McVay was summoned to meet with team executive Andy Robustelli and owner Wellington Mara. They told him Arnsparger was fired.

“They said, ‘Bill’s leaving. You’re it,’” McVay recalls. “I said, ‘I don’t want to be it.’ They said, ‘You’re it.’”

After two-plus seasons with the Giants, he also was fired.

He had become friends with Bill Walsh, whom the 49ers hired as coach in 1979, through clinics, and he knew DeBartolo, now owner of the 49ers, from his time in Dayton. DeBartolo invited McVay to work for the team on the personnel side.

“I was on the next plane,” John says.

Thus began one of the most successful partnerships in NFL history.

The 49ers won three Super Bowl titles under Walsh and two under coach George Seifert.

John McVay “was the founder, really, in a lot of ways, of the 49ers dynasty,” says Jon Gruden, Jim’s son and an ESPN “Monday Night Football” analyst who coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to victory in the 2003 Super Bowl and gave Sean his first coaching job.


Says Sean: “He was kind of the unsung hero. He was always in the background — never was a guy that needed the credit.”

During the 1979 draft, the McVays’ connection to the Grudens began to emerge and pay dividends.

Walsh could not figure out why Montana had not been selected in the first two rounds. He asked McVay if he knew anyone at Notre Dame. He did. Jim Gruden was a Notre Dame assistant.

“[Walsh] says, ‘Call him and see what’s going on. How come no one’s taking Montana?’” McVay recalls. “I called Jimmy. I said, ‘He’s supposed to be not very fast and doesn’t have a good arm.’

“Jim says, ‘Just take him. Just take him.’”

The 49ers selected Montana in the third round and he led the 49ers to four Super Bowl titles, the last in 1989.

Sean McVay was 3 at the time.

As he grew up in suburban Atlanta, Sean became a 49ers fan. When the team came to town for games against the Falcons, he attended practices and rode the bus with the coaches and players. Young once tossed him a towel as he ran onto the field before a Monday night game.

“At the time, that’s just kind of what it is,” Sean says. “Now you look back at it and realize what a unique experience it was.

“I think there were a lot of things you subconsciously pick up that maybe you might not otherwise. The competitiveness, the interactions with the players, all those things that seem natural because you’re around it.”



Mike Shanahan hired Sean onto his Washington Redskins staff two years later. He worked the 2014-16 seasons under Redskins coach Jay Gruden, another son of Jim Gruden.

“We go way back as far as our families are concerned,” Jay Gruden says.

After last season, Sean McVay interviewed with the 49ers and Rams. The Rams hired him and, a few weeks later, the 49ers hired 37-year-old Kyle Shanahan, Mike’s son.

The young coaches’ teams will square off Thursday night.


Retired 49ers General Manager John McVay shows off where he would like to sit at the planned new home of the 49ers at the Preview Center in Santa Clara on Sept. 27, 2011. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)
Sean already has collected some personal mementos. A group photo of NFL coaches and a framed photo of McVay and his parents on the day he was introduced as the Rams’ coach sit on a shelf behind his desk, just to the right of a printout of John Wooden’s “Pyramid of Success.” He keeps an autographed copy of Walsh’s book “Finding the Winning Edge” nearby, and is a regular reader of Walsh’s “The Score Takes Care of Itself.”

He also has started a room at his home in Encino. A jersey presented to him by Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins is there along with a keepsake commemorating his hiring by the Rams.

As John McVay surveys his own room, he says his grandson was on his way to a successful career as a head
coach.

“I used to call him a kid, but I’ve got to quit doing that,” he says. “He’s got some amazing experience.”

http://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/la-sp-rams-mcvay-49ers-20170918-story.html

"Cooper Kupp's a dog bro" - I hope 100% to see this feeling affect the entire team! DOGS ON THE RUN!

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"we came with what was on our backs"

"back when the wind was cold. . . . "

"I woke up feeling hungry, looking straight up to the sun"

". . . There's ways of getting anything I want"

"Aint it funny how a crowd gathers round anyone living life without a net"

"Dogs on the Run"

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Gotta catch that. Good to see Kurt actually talk fondly of the Rams. He has really seemed to distance himself from the team over the years. Martz should never have given up on him.


:rant:It was the thumb. Dang thumb!

Great explanation.......
But if they were truly trying to move the game along (the supposed thoughts when this was introduced....) couldn't they just ask Boger's crew to quit calling holding (or block in the back...) on every punt unless it's blatant and actually affects the play.....?????

And Fatbot....thanks for going the extra mile to get us a definition. You da man.....

Is one practice, a walk through and film study enough to improve that much. Hyde is a much better rb than anything the Skins had. Plus, McVay is going up against another coach familiar with him. The Rams are going to need a couple of turnovers, avoid it themselves and score more points on offense. Holding the Seachickens to 1 late td is good, but they have no line. I hope McVay finds something to whip them with. (Watkins)

Prime Time said:

Richard Pryor on Jim Brown: "Played 9 years, never got hurt, never missed a game. Now they got guys that get hurt in practice." NSFW language.

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Richard was a friggin genious.

Few people transend thier own genre like Richard did...I can think of a couple only. Richard Pryor. Marshall Mathers.Michael Jackson. Robin Williams. Cal Ripkin Jr. And perhaps from your video post...Jim Brown as well.

DCH said:

Tye or Shaun?

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They're bringing back Shaun Hill!

Bench Goff!

While I'm thinking about it re: Quinn... I suspect we're going to see some changes sooner vice later in the form of decreased snaps. Ebukam will likely get some work there this week in practice and start to spell him more to keep him fresh on the obvious passing downs.

Re: snaps and Barron, they might do the same but I think we're still in that "let's get him fixed" mode where they're trying to get the production out of him. Hope they succeed there too.

RamFan503 said:

The problem with all this is that you are damning this organization for letting him go. He's not a good LT. Could he be serviceable in a pinch? Maybe. But we would always be looking to upgrade from him unless a light suddenly turns on. We did just that.

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Not damning the org..... Questioning out loud is more like it....Esp. with a top flight RB that can't seem to break 100 yards....we can't just run left for 4 yards...But Whit is the "answer"? To what...how to be average in your own stadium? He gives up sacks too...and what got me going...all this Greg's this, Greg's that...the Lions can run successfully behind Greg....yeah, he gives up penalties...but he gives them push....I'm still waiting for Whitworth to drive someone off the ball

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201709170ram.htm

90 yards rushing....not all on him....it's all 5 men....and these are the Redskins...not some super defense.

All that, I don't work out with weights....I just do yoga...I'm limber...please.....Sounds and looks like ANOTHER overpaid athlete, that, for some reason, we're starting to collect in horns....

Oh I fully expect this list will move around a bunch throughout the year. Maybe I shoulda said that.

I'll keep the list updated week to week.

Maybe "GTFO" was a poor choice for a thread title, sorry if I hurt anybody's stupid feelings.

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49ers won’t have Eric Reid Thursday
Posted by Josh Alper on September 19, 2017


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The 49ers had safety Eric Reid listed as a non-participant on their injury report from an imaginary practice on Monday and Reid will remain out when they play an actual game on Thursday.

Reid hurt his knee during Sunday’s loss to the Seahawks and coach Kyle Shanahan said on Monday that Reid will not recover in time to play the Rams. That likely won’t be the only game that Reid misses as a result of a PCL sprain.

“He definitely won’t play this week,” Shanahan said, via ESPN.com. “I guess the good news is he is not going to need surgery so it will heal on its own, but he’s definitely not going to play this week and it’s probably going to be a little bit longer than that also.”

The 49ers may be down two starting safeties come Thursday. Jaquiski Tartt would have missed practice as well due to a neck injury and Shanahan deemed him questionable to play this week. Jimmie Ward, Lorenzo Jerome and Adrian Colbert — Jerome and Colbert are rookies — are the other safeties on hand.

LACHAMP46 said:

I'd say any team start that kid...you have a chance at the playoffs.....but totally agree here.

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I was thinking of the Teams that already have elite QBs wouldn't need him