LesBaker said:

I am exactly the same way.

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Personally I listen and watch videos to not think about the daily BS. Works great, and if I laugh before bed, even better.

Nothing worse than going to bed dreading waking up.

Raptorman said:

I don't take things like that personally on boards. It makes it easier to survive. Besides If you call me names I have a standard response that goes like this. "I have been called worse things by better people than you." Always takes people aback.

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Lol I tend to tell people "That joke's so old the last time it was told my grandma couldn't even laugh, she had to roll over and poop on herself."...
Then they realize how retarded I am and have mercy on my and go away.

Nah

I like Jared as a person, he's a good dude. Needs to start playing better on Sunday hope he has a great birthday!

Love Robert Woods birthday post about him! lol

gabriel18 said:

I'm not sure what to think anymore. I was 100% behind him , but something is starting to smell fishy.
His attitude has changed and it seems like he doesn't enjoy the game anymore. Too bad it was after he hamstrung the Rams with a huge contract . I hope I'm wrong but something is going on behind closed doors . Next man up

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This may be nothing, but recall that Gurley was not voted as a team captain this season.

Don't forget we also have D. Williams as well at corner. Kid can play. Wouldn't be shocked if they tried to get Peterson back too.

RhodyRams said:

these 2 posters came the closest with a 10 point miss but @Elmgrovegnome posted 1st, so he is the winner this week...bastard

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Woohoo! Why am I not really happy about this?

Well he can refuse all he wants, but they will sure define it from this point on no matter what he refuses.

fearsomefour said:

What move would you like the team to make?

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I am happy with the Corbett move. Wasn't sure who was available. But he makes perfect sense.

Absolutely hosed on that last Flowers call. Horribly bad considering the official who called it was behind Flowers and ostensibly could see where the hand actually was and the Referee was also in a position to see what happened.

H.O.R.R.I.D.

Just been drafted by the LA Wilcats of the XFL

It sucks.. but I'm more worried about the OLine.

Holy shit! Is it just me or is japan getting a lot of natural disasters in the last 10 years compared to the decades previous on record?

I do appreciate everyone's thoughts here. Especially the ones respecting ROD's Terms and Conditions.

As Admins & Mods... we pride ourselves on doing our best to keep ROD different. We're always going to do that, but let me just say... IT AIN'T ALWAYS EASY.

Thank you very much to those of you who help us see things that bother you or don't seem to fit here. We try to clean up after everything as much as we can, but we can't do it alone.

Mahalos again.

I say use the depth we have now to see what we have and just ride the season out. Who knows the rookies could step up and play and turn out to be damn good. If they don't do that great then atleast they will have experience for next year. But I want them to do whatever they have to to keep Goff from getting hurt.

I really hate Vinobitch

Aren't we 1 and a lot of losses with Vinobitch

The only win coming with the Playoff Game where they made 1 (count em 1) call for the Rams the entire game

jrry32 said:

After taking time away to cool off, McVay hasn't figured it out. I really thought he had, but he went right back to what wasn't working. The OL cannot execute his preferred scheme. He needs to get Everett on the field and move towards more of a pass-first attack with a greater emphasis on shorter, rhythm throws. Once we start carving teams up by throwing underneath their coverage, it'll open up the run and PA passing he wants to use. I don't know why he went away from it after it worked against Seattle.

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Shame that being acclimated to something that worked for so long can turn even a young, innovative mind like McVay into a rigid stump. Hope this Whiners game was a hard slap to his face to adapt.

I blame it all on @CGI_Ram, seems ever since he introduced the 'Mood' player name options that everything has gone to crap.

It's voodoo I tell you.

MOD EDIT: Locked. 48hr rule. Moving on to Falcons.

I actually had a chance to take a look at that last ball to Everett from a different view. It looks like it landed right in front of him within his catch radius. Everett puts his head down before the ball even reaches him. Looks like he couldn't spot the ball in the air (sun was coming from the same direction).

LMAO Now Snead and McVay aren't geniuses anymore according to some....especially here. Wow the season is over according to some. Geeez dudes, get a grip. We have seen what this team is capable of in terms of ripping off wins. This team lost this game because of mistakes. Mistakes I said they couldn't make if they wanted to win. Huge penalties in terms of when they were made. Huge turnover that swung the gate wide open. It's a one score game without that turnover.

1. Clean up their own mistakes. Clean up their play.
2. McVay was primarily the reason for this loss. He didn't learn from their first missed 4 & 1 so he did the exact same thing again with the same results. He should have spread them out then run Brown up the middle. His play calling was really strange. He stopped playing to his team's strength and tried to beat the opponent at their game. That is a losing strategy. He isn't adjusting well during the game. He's no longer dictating, but trying to respond to what is being dictated to him (again a losing approach.)
3. McVay needs to accept he need to make changes in personnel. He needs to move Havenstein inside to OG. With Boom out then move him to LG. Rob doesn't have the feet for OT and never has. But he's pretty decent at blocking if he doesn't have to slide to beat an outside rush. Also, Rob is a better run blocker than pass blocker...he always has been, another reason he should be at OG.
4. Time to go to a 12 personnel base with both TE's giving chips. They have 2 good pass catching TE's so Goff is still going to have at least 3 receivers. TE short, Woods intermediate, Cooks deep w/ RB dumpoff.
5. Kromer has to see that he has the guys for a good gap blocking o-line and the perfect RB's in that type run scheme...make the change.
6. They could also go to a 21 personnel base look. On passing downs Brown stays in to block (he's a good pass blocker) with Henderson as a receiver. If they run Brown can provide a lead blocker, or they can run mis-direction...let the defense read who is getting the ball or if it's play action.

This team has the talent and the ability to turn this around. But it starts now. Peters must be forced to play the scheme or bench him. With Talib out their only true man coverage CB is now gone. This is going to be primarily a zone based secondary. It could get ugly if they don't play it right. Their base needs to be a nickel here on out playing 3 safeties.

This was a bad loss. But there is plenty of time to turn it around. Let me remind my fellow fans of all the times the Patriots were left for dead, only to get up off the mat and kick ass. There is no reason to think this team can't do likewise. They have enough talent.

dieterbrock said:

I’m assuming you mean the imbedded outlook app? I’ve always hated the integration and have used either yahoo for personal or the blackberry suite with work stuff.

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Not an option for our work IT people.

For the rest of it the update isn’t terrible but they’ve changed enough enough to be annoying But the outlook app is terrible now.

Mackeyser said:

I've learned the hard way to never say, "couldn't be worse".

It's like the universe takes a perverse pleasure in demonstrating exactly how it can be worse and by how many degrees it can be worse...

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Lol so often true it seems.

But you have seen Allen out there though. Right?

Mackeyser said:

We have a run stopping ILB in Natrez Patrick. he got in the game today and looked great... better than Reeder.

I think our biggest priorities in the draft will be OG as there will likely be nothing in FA. I think Ramsey will be in play as a CB. We may let Peters, Talib, Fowler and Brockers go and pay Ramsey and another cover CB.
That said, our top draft priority has to be stud OG or C.

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Dude, I'm so unsure of what we have now or don't have now, I will probably make no more draft predictions before late November.
We have so many undeveloped and unproven players that it will take the next part of the season to figure out what we actually do have and who will develop out. On the offense and defense.

Out of Allen, Noteboom, Edwards and Evans, I would be happy if we get two starters out of those guys.

Offensive line is always PRIORITY ONE on a team as we were just recently reminded.