It deserves it's own because this was crazy and entertaining.

I didn't know this happened, I was just poring over some news sites which I do a few times a day and saw a feature and clicked on it to see what it was all about.

Alrighty then, a few things. This was a hoot to watch. And look at her face as she starts the final tumble or whatever it's called. She was not playing around. Playtime was over!

And all the people that were giving her shit about being "too big" should be spayed and neutered. There isn't anything wrong with her in regards to her size/weight.

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From USA Today..........


We’ve all seen it by now — the viral, two-minute video of UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi's captivating floor routine.

Her unbridled joy, combined with her acrobatic flips, splits and dance moves and a legendary lineup of songs, resulted in a perfect 10 from the judges, as well as 38 million video views on UCLA Gymnastics' tweet and more than 858,000 retweets and favorites as of Wednesday morning.

Put simply: This wasn't your typical floor routine. But for more reasons than the obvious.

Rewind a few years, when the now 21-year-old senior — an Olympic hopeful who was on top of the gymnastics world, having beaten eventual four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles at the 2013 American Cup — decided to retire from elite-level gymnastics after serious injuries and years of physical and mental burnout reached a boiling point.

The Players' Tribune last August, noting that the pressure — specifically when it came to her body and what she ate — from fans and coaches left her "broken."

"I was happy to be injured," she said. "I was told that it was embarrassing how big I'd become. I was compared to a bird that couldn't fly. These are all things that I heard before I even got injured, things that, when I was skinny I was told. So what would they think of me when I had become big? I couldn't accept myself. Gymnastics was my worth, it was my life. I hated myself."

Now gymnastics is just a part of her life.

Speaking to USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday, Ohashi credited UCLA — and, more importantly, its culture — for giving her a new lease on life.

"Coming to UCLA, having been blessed to have the coaches I have that don't encourage us to just be athletes, (but be) human beings instead, has really helped me to (become) who I am today," she said. "Also, having my team to support me throughout that, which is a privilege. I felt like I was dancing with them on the floor and having as much fun as possible. That's all been a huge, huge part of my joy."

And that joy has broken the internet — more than once.

This isn't Ohashi's first time reaching online superstardom. Her routine at the 2018 Pac-12 Championships, which featured a Michael Jackson medley, accrued more than 90 million views, according to UCLA Gymnastics.

Going viral once is no easy task, but twice? Ohashi has cracked the code, and she's having a blast doing it.

"At the end of the day, I just go out there and do my best and have as much fun as I can," she said. "You never know how anyone's going to respond. So seeing not only that people have responded, but the types of people that have responded, is crazy."

Those people include Sen. Kamala Harris, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ryan Seacrest and Troy Aikman.

In other words, Ohashi is a big deal. And not just on the mat.

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He crossed the picket line during the NFL work stoppage. He sold out the players to go 8/23 with a pick. Do with that information what you will.

In a move that should surprise no one, defensive tackle Aaron Donald has been named the Pro Football Writers of America Defensive Player of the Year.

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Look back at Aaron Donald's 20.5 sacks of the 2018 regular season.


HIRO UENO

Defensive tackle (99) Aaron Donald of the Los Angeles Rams sacks quarterback (8) Kirt Cousins of the Minnesota Vikings during the Rams 38-31 victory over the Vikings in an NFL Week 4 Thursday Night Football game, Thursday, September 27, 2018, in Los Angeles, CA. (Jeff Lewis/Rams)

Donald recorded a season that could only be described as dominant in 2018, leading the league with 20.5 sacks, 25 tackles for loss, and 41 quarterback hits. His 20.5 sacks set a new single-season record for an interior lineman and a new single-season franchise record. The defensive tackle also set a new league record with 183.5 sacks yards on his quarterback takedowns. Plus, only five players had more forced fumbles than Donald’s four.

The defensive tackle was the AP Defensive Player of the Year in 2017, and is widely expected to receive that award again. But this is Donald’s first PFWA Defensive Player of the Year award. He was also named to the PFWA All-NFL team on Tuesday.

Donald now has 59.5 sacks in just 78 games in his career. And this is likely the first of many honors the Pitt product will receive in this awards season.

According to the PFWA website, The Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA) is the official voice of pro football writers, promoting and fighting for access to NFL personnel to best serve the public. The PFWA is made up of accredited writers who cover the NFL and the 32 teams daily.

Every week in the NFL, the narrative changes because the knee-jerk media has a short memory and even shorter understanding of the game of football. It’s too easy to list examples over the years so I will push through to the latest iteration and how they are clueless to the NFC Championship game this week.

Because the Rams plowed the Cowboys, they are suddenly a running team and Goff’s passing is the weakness. Since Brees wasn’t sacked by the Rams earlier this year, the Saint’s O Line is invulnerable and the Rams will struggle to disrupt the passing game. Since Thomas scorched Peters last time, he’s the key to victory. Since Zeke was held in check last week, the Rams will employ a similar strategy to shut down Kamara and Ingram. The maturity of Brees and Payton will trump the inexperienced Goff and McVay. Blah, blah, blah....

The truth is, Asshole Face will be matching wits with Wade Phillips. So...is experience really the deciding factor? If this were a chess match, would you choose Dennis Allen over Sean McVay by his years of experience? Why is it that out of 100 breakdowns of “keys to the game”, maybe a handful ever mention the best player on the field...Aaron Donald?

I said it last week and it bears repeating, Wade gave his players room to improvise and grow from their mistakes all year. It wasn’t until certain individuals had their asses handed to them on the field that he truly got their attention. The younger players have grown and the vets have learned to trust the system and focus on technique and discipline. The true nature of this talented defense is about to be unleashed.

On offense, the Bears, Eagles, and Cowboys aligned their defenses to take away the play action game first and foremost. Once Kromer broke down how to attack that strategy in the run game, and Sean went all in...the game plans became more patient and willing to grind instead of flash. Guess what happens next....

The Saints will load up to stop the run while limiting the explosives and Goff will patiently kill them with short and intermediate passes. We fans will want deep passing and running like the Cowboys game but both will be unwise because the Saints will be prepared for that. Once Allen adjusts to this, the long runs and deep passes will ensue. Hide and watch.

The big surprise that’s coming is something nobody expects from Wade Phillips this week. Rather than stick to his core principles, Wade will send the house frequently on first down. It will be a shock and awe ploy and once the Rams disrupt Drew’s timing, they will get back to basics and let the Saints make mistakes.

These are the things that will happen that the media won’t predict.

Rams 32 Saints 17

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Now some highlights of Big Whit:

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Someone check Whit’s birth certificate :eek:


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Junk yard dog, mean...Asshole Face is a grade asshole and his face is the most punchable face in the NFL, but he is tough and is willing to do almost anything to win.

I think McVay is very competitive, but he is also very young. Does he have a killer instinct? I think he does, but he looks like a babe in the woods when compared to Payton, Reid, and Bellicheat,

Let's get MAD DOG MEAN, SEAN!

After watching this clip from the Los Angeles Rams FB page

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Brings a lot of knowledge and leadership to the D.

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Jared Goff Is Championship Sunday’s Least-Proven Quarterback—and May Also Be Its Most Important
The former no. 1 overall pick is the biggest QB question mark in a field featuring Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Patrick Mahomes II. How will Sean McVay put him in the best position to succeed?
By Danny Heifetz


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For the Rams, success has many fathers. Sean McVay, his staff, and his veteran offensive line are the brains of the Los Angeles Rams; Todd Gurley is the face of the team; Aaron Donald is the best defensive player in the league for the second year in a row; and C.J. Anderson is a sentient bowling ball. But Jared Goff is likely the key to the Rams making the Super Bowl.

The third-year QB was asked to mostly play game manager in Los Angeles’s 30-22 win over Dallas last week as his offensive line paved the way for 273 team rushing yards in a dominant performance partially fueled by L.A. linemen having hints before the snap as to what the Cowboys front seven was planning to do.

Against the Saints in the Superdome, the Rams won’t be able to suss out those same tells, and McVay will likely rely more on the passing game than he did last week, when he called 48 runs and 28 passes. Whether Jared Goff can execute his coach’s game plan on Sunday will likely be the difference between the Rams having their season end on Sunday or going on to Atlanta to play for the Lombardi Trophy.

Goff is the least proven quarterback left in the playoff field by a long shot. Drew Brees is the all-time passing leader. Patrick Mahomes II is in his first year as a starter, but he’s the favorite to be named Most Valuable Player and just completed one of the best passing seasons in NFL history. And Tom Brady is, well, Tom Brady. Meanwhile, Jared Goff is such an unknown commodity that he once took part in a Red Bull campaign that centered on his anonymity.

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Goff put up excellent numbers this season. He finished fourth in passing yards (4,688), fourth in yards per attempt (8.4), and tied for sixth in passing touchdowns (32). He averaged just under 23 completions on just over 35 attempts for exactly 293 passing yards and two touchdowns with just over two sacks and just under one interception per game.

He’s a top-10 quarterback by just about every statistical measurement except completion percentage. But the Rams haven’t relied on Goff to nearly the extent the Pats rely on Brady, the Saints rely on Brees, or the Chiefs rely on Mahomes. In fact, Goff hasn’t been the key ingredient in a Rams win that mattered since their epic shootout against Kansas City in Week 11.

Since that 413-yard, four-touchdown performance, he has thrown six touchdowns and six interceptions in six games: a win over Detroit that was closer than the final score indicated, losses to the Bears and Eagles, a dominant win fueled by 269 rushing yards over Arizona’s near-league-worst defense in Week 16, a Week 17 blowout against San Francisco that featured four passing touchdowns, and a run-heavy performance against Dallas last week. For the first time since mid-November, the Rams could lean on Goff to win a game that matters.

The Rams’ rushing performance against the Cowboys hid Goff’s mediocre day. His stat line wasn’t impressive—he completed 15 of 28 passes for 186 yards with no touchdowns, picks, or sacks—but it wasn’t game-planned to be an impressive day for Goff. What was concerning was Goff’s inability to execute on several plays he was asked to make. On the Rams’ second drive, the team faced a third-and-goal from the Dallas 5-yard line. Goff dropped back and looked for Brandin Cooks in the end zone, but Cooks caught the ball out of bounds.



It’s a tough throw—along the sideline and in a tight window in the corner of the end zone—but Goff didn’t make it easier on himself. He threw the ball while backpedaling despite having no pass rush in his face. If he had stepped into the throw, he would have had a better shot at driving the ball in to Cooks. More importantly, the window would have been far bigger had Goff threw the ball earlier.

If Goff had released the ball when Cooks was running on top of the “R,” he likely would have been able to get the ball to Cooks inbounds in the corner. Instead, Goff releases the ball when Cooks is almost to the corner of the NFL shield, and Cooks has to leap out of bounds make the catch.



It’s a throw a former no. 1 overall pick should be able to make, and it forced the Rams to settle for a field goal, costing them four points. Still, it’s unfair to read too much into one missed throw that Goff would probably like to have back.

More concerning was a play Goff made in the final drive of the first half, with the Rams coming out of their final timeout, facing a first-and-10 at their own 41-yard line, and trying to get into field goal range. Looking for receiver Josh Reynolds, Goff nearly threw an interception to Cowboys cornerback Chidobe Awuzie.



It’s a bad throw, and a peek at the coaches film makes it look even worse. Reynolds was streaking across the middle of the field wide open, but had to immediately stop running as soon as the ball left Goff’s hand, and the ball still comes in about a yard behind Reynolds. Even considering where he was running, the throw was roughly 10 yards off target.



The throw is so bad that Goff may have thought Reynolds was running a different route (and perhaps he was supposed to be). Either way, it’s less than ideal coming out of a timeout. If the throw had been completed, Reynolds could have reached at least the Dallas 35-yard line, and the Rams could have spiked the ball to set up a 52-yard field goal attempt.

Instead, the Rams settled for a 63-yarder, and kicker Greg Zuerlein missed wide right. Whatever the reason for the incompletion, it likely cost the Rams three points considering Zuerlein is 4-of-6 from beyond 50 yards this year, and it also nearly ended in a Dallas interception that could have given the Cowboys a chance at a field goal.

Goff also had some issues on the second drive of the second half. Facing a second-and-2 at Dallas’s 47-yard line, Goff dropped back and fired a ball to Robert Woods on a slant, but the ball went over Woods’s head. Goff’s miss doesn’t look egregious at first glance, but considering Woods beat his man, Cooks was given space at the bottom of the play, and Goff had perfect pass protection, the quarterback should either nail the throw or hold the ball and let the play develop. Still, it happens, right? Onto the next one!

About that … here’s what Goff did on third-and-2:



This is what people in the NFL would call “some Blake Bortles shit.” Goff sailed the ball over a wide-open Gerald Everett, and the Rams were forced to punt—their only of the night.

None of this is to say that Goff had a terrible game. He certainly made some excellent plays as a passer on the day, and his bootleg on the final drive sealed the game. But Goff left enough plays on the field on Saturday that the Rams won by just eight despite rushing for more than five times as many yards as the Cowboys, gaining 11 more first downs, and holding onto the ball for 36-plus minutes.

His throw to Everett on third down was terrible, and considering their field position at the time, it probably cost the Rams a field goal attempt. Goff’s pass at the end of the first half toward Reynolds was probably (but not definitely) on Goff, and that also likely cost the Rams three points.

Goff’s pass in the end zone to Brandin Cooks was not a bad pass, but Goff could have gotten a touchdown with a better pass, and that cost the Rams four points. That’s 10 points that Goff left on the field against the Cowboys, which is exactly the amount the Rams lost to the Saints by in their 45-35 Week 9 loss.

After Saturday night’s win over Dallas, Rams left tackle and team captain Andrew Whitworth said that the preparation leading up to the game wasn’t different than their loss to Atlanta in the wild-card round last year. Rather, the team executed this time.

“I thought last year [against Atlanta], we didn’t execute very well at all,” Whitworth said. “It was really one of our worst games we played all season from an execution standpoint. This year, that was in Chicago. In some ways, it’s benefitted us to get that game out of the way and kind of have a re-check and say, ‘All right, how do we build ourselves back into what we really started this season?’ I feel like we’re on that path.”

Todd Gurley, C.J. Anderson, and the Rams’ offensive line crushed the execution against Dallas last week, and now Goff has to execute the game plan McVay draws up for Sunday against the Saints. Many of the opportunities Goff sees will likely come from play-action passing, which he has typically excelled at this season. The Rams ran play-action on more than a third of their pass plays in 2018, the most in the league, and they were among the most efficient at it too.

On his regular dropbacks this season, Jared Goff averaged 7.5 yards per pass attempt, tied for ninth-best mark in football. But on his play-action passes, Goff averaged 10.0 yards per attempt, tied for the fourth-highest in the NFL, according to Pro Football Focus. In other words, every time the Rams ran play-action in 2018, the average gain was enough for a first down.

(To put the efficiency of play-action passing versus rushing in perspective, Green Bay’s Aaron Jones led qualifying running backs with 5.5 yards per carry this year.) The efficiency is impressive enough, but what makes it stunning is the volume of play-action plays the team ran.

The players ahead of Goff in yards per attempt are Ryan Fitzpatrick, Philip Rivers, and Nick Mullens, who dropped back on a play-action pass 53, 101, and 74 times, respectively. Goff dropped back into play-action 213 times, by far the most in the league, and he also led the league in passing yards and passing touchdowns on those dropbacks.

Perhaps sensing that his team had yet to hit any diminishing returns in the play-action game, McVay doubled down against the Cowboys and used it on just over half of Goff’s dropbacks. Of Goff’s 28 attempts, 14 came on play-action, and he completed eight of those for 104 yards. Goff’s 14 non-play-action attempts resulted in seven completions and 82 yards. It was the highest rate of play-action fakes per dropback of Goff’s career.

“We run the ball to set up the play-action pass, we get big chunks off of that, it limits your dropbacks [and] your exposure to known pass-rush scenarios,” Rams center John Sullivan said after the game. “It’s all complementary football.”

When the Rams can’t do that, it can get ugly. Their worst stretch of the season coincided with a huge dip in Goff’s efficiency, including on play-action. In the three weeks following the Rams’ Week 12 bye, they had a three-game swoon that included a 30-16 win over Detroit that was 16-13 entering the fourth quarter, the loss to the Bears in Chicago in Week 14, and a 30-23 loss to the Eagles on Sunday Night Football.

In the latter two games against two of the best defensive lines in football, the Rams offensive line struggled, and so did Goff and the run game. In those three games, Goff went from the best quarterback on play-action to below average, dropping to 6.4 yards per attempt (22nd of 35 passers). His non-play-action passes were among the worst in the league in that stretch, falling to 32nd of 35 quarterbacks with 5.3 yards per attempt, only ahead of Marcus Mariota, Josh McCown, and Mark Sanchez.

In the games since, Goff has either played bad opponents (Arizona and San Francisco) or not been the focus of the game plan (Dallas). He’ll likely be the center of the game plan against a quality opponent for the first time since that epic Chiefs game.

Even with the Saints missing defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins, who ruptured his Achilles last week against the Eagles, the Rams likely won’t be able to dominate the Saints up-front the same way they dominated the Cowboys by out-preparing them. But considering the value of the play fake is mostly in the fake itself, and that the Rams already crushed Dallas last week, the play-action is likely to be a staple of Los Angeles’s plan against New Orleans.

After all, the Rams know Goff can weave an excellent game together in the Superdome after his performance in Week 9. In that game, Goff completed 28 of 40 passes for 391 yards, three touchdowns, and one interception. Of his 40 passes that afternoon, Goff attempted 13 play-action passes for 11 completions, 183 yards (14.1 yards per attempt and 84.6 percent completion), two touchdowns, and a perfect 158.3 passer rating, according to Pro Football Focus.

On his 27 non-play-action attempts against New Orleans, Goff completed 17 for 208 yards (7.7 yards per attempt and 63.0 percent completion) for one touchdown, one interception, and an 83.6 passer rating. Here’s Goff faking a sweep to Gurley before completing a great throw to Cooks in the corner of the end zone to give the receiver a score against his former team.

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And here’s Goff faking a handoff to Gurley and then tossing a 48-yard pass to Cooks down the sideline over the heads of safety Vonn Bell and cornerback Marshon Lattimore, the latter of whom had two interceptions on Sunday against the Eagles on Sunday.

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Goff can certainly make play-action passes against New Orleans, though it might be even tougher on Sunday than it was in November. Since their meeting in Week 9, the Saints lead the league in sacks (32) and takeaways (16). That could be an issue for Goff, who holds onto the ball more often than any other quarterback. Goff spends more than 2.5 seconds in the pocket on more than two-thirds of his dropbacks, the highest rate in the league.

Meanwhile, Goff’s counterpart on Sunday, Drew Brees, spends 44.7 percent of his dropbacks in the pocket for more than 2.5 seconds, 32nd out of 36 quarterbacks in football. It may not sound like a long time, but 2.5 seconds can be a dangerous proposition in the NFL’s two-seconds-or-less pass-rush battle. The Rams just put up one of the best pass-protection performances of the season against the Cowboys, but that was aided in part by the tells Dallas inadvertently gave away. If the Saints are able to get to Goff with defensive ends Cam Jordan and rookie Marcus Davenport, it could prove decisive.

The Rams will depend on Jared Goff to get the win on Sunday. A win would further cement his teammates’ trust in him and go a long way to elevating him as a peer of Mahomes—and probably get the players at Ventura College to recognize his face, too.

Trying to pass time til Sunday. Any predictions for the game.

I'll toss out Everett & Higby show up big with combined 100+ yards receiving, including a clutch catch in the game winning drive.

Yeah, this is a "just-in-case" mock, but might as well do one because I haven't in a while. Ready? Here goes:

Re-sign:

Cory Littleton - four years
Dante Fowler - four years
Kevin Peterson - ERFA
Blake Countess - RFA
Morgan Fox - RFA
JoJo Natson - ERFA
Dominique Hatfield - ERFA
KhaDarel Hodge - ERFA
Malcolm Brown - RFA

(Littleton and Fowler are obvious re-signings, as they totally changed the defense. Brown is an obvious keeper. Peterson, I think, deserves a chance. I don't like Countess' penalties, but he's cheap and a RFA, so he stays. Hatfield shouldn't be starting, but he's depth, so he stays. Fox was injured last year, but should be fully healthy this year, and provides depth. Hodge and Natson provide valuable roles on special teams, so they stay.)

Release:

Rodger Saffold
Ndamukong Suh
Lamarcus Joyner
C.J. Anderson
Dominique Easley
Matt Longacre
Ethan Westbrooks
Sam Shields
Bryce Hager
Ramik Wilson
Sean Mannion
Troy Hill
Garrett Sickels

(I hate losing Saffold, but a lineman over thirty with his injury history shouldn't get a long-term deal. Anderson is another guy I hate to lose, but he'll be looking - and probably will get - a starting job next year. Suh and Joyner make too much money for what they've provided. Easley has injury issues, Longacre has been ineffective, and Westbrooks might look for a starting job. Shields is old for a cornerback, Hager and Wilson are nothing special and should be replaced. Mannion isn't the answer at backup quarterback. Sickels is an ERFA, but has been injured and on the practice squad the last few years. I don't know if Hill is a free agent or not, but I'm planning on revamping the secondary anyway, so he goes.)

TRADE:

Marcus Peters and 2020 third to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a 2019 second round pick.

(The Bucs desperately need help at corner. Vernon Hargreaves looks like a bust, and they don't have anyone else who can play at a high level. Peters changes that.)

Mark Barron to the Cincinnati Bengals for a 2019 third round pick.

(The Bengals don't have anything at linebacker aside from Vontaze Burfict, and they might grow tired of his cheap shots under Zac Taylor. Burfict also has a concussion history, and Barron's familiarity under Taylor might be just what the Bengals need.)

Draft:

1st round pick - Jeffery Simmons, NT, Mississippi State.

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2nd round pick (Buccaneers) - Nasir Adderley, FS, Delaware.

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(Adderley is probably the best safety in this draft. The only reason he falls is because he's undersized and has a small frame. I know, the last small safety we took was Joyner, but Adderley has far more range and much better ball skills.)

3rd round pick (Bengals) - Chris Lindstrom, OG, Boston College.

3rd round pick - Germaine Pratt, ILB, North Carolina State.

3rd round pick (Tru/Watkins compensatory pick) - Chase Winovich, OLB, Michigan.

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Here's an outside linebacker to compliment our current corps. Fowler, Ebukam, and Okoronkwo are good, but Winovich adds the endless Energizer bunny motor that you see from guys like Chris Long and Clay Matthews. He's an underrated athlete, but the motor is what will get him drafted highly.

4th round pick - Joejuan Williams, CB, Vanderbilt.

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5th round - Rock Ya-Sin, CB, Temple.

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6th round - Hamp Cheevers, CB, Boston College.

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(A small cornerback (5'10", 180 lbs.) who led the NCAA in interceptions his junior year with seven. He's a slot cornerback, through and through, but he should be a solid special teams player his first year before possibly replacing NRC his second year.)

7th round (Cody Davis compensatory pick) - Sean Krepsz, OG/OC, Nevada.

Rams and their fans got bad news when they found out who their head official was going to be/ Turns out they're not the only ones. Patriots and their fans got Clete Blakeman, who instigate "inflate-gate".

Here's an article from MSN

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...l=handle-this-well-/ar-BBSiffg?ocid=spartanhp

I know there's another thread about Vonobitch offiicaing the Rams-saints but I think this deserves its own thread, might be a lot of post. Mods conbine if you want.

Can we somehow make a trade and make everyone happy?

Here we are folks, the penultimate predict the score thread. This is what we have been practicing for all season long.

The Mighty Los Angeles Rams are headed to NOLA to face the Saints for a trip to Super Bowl LIII !!!!


Debating, do I bump up the prize money to 20k/50k or do I keep it the same at 10k/25k?

Lets see a show of hands to kick things up a notch




well that settles it. Prizes are now double for this weeks contest.( Hoping I didnt just jinx us)


good luck and GO RAMS !!!!!!

Don't have to hear on TV about how the LA crowd is half Team ______ or have people on this board argue about it

https://www.canalstreetchronicles.com/2019/1/15/18184155/saints-sign-dt-tyrunn-walker

Originally a Saint, then with us last year.

It seems this is the week for everyone to create new redundant threads putting the mods to work :fighting:

Here's my thread. Public poll. You get two votes.

No this isn't the Madden curse you normally hear of, where the cover athlete gets injured or has a bad year. This one is more anecdotal, and directly affects the Rams.

See, since 2004 I have bought Madden every year. Every year I go and start a season and take the Rams to the virtual superbowl. I played with features like Hit Sticks, Truck Sticks, Truck Stick 2.0, Group Tackling, & QB Vision Cone. Every year, IRL the rams failed the season. Often failing miserably. But digitally, Steven Jackson, Tye Hill, Sam Bradford, Chris Long, Lauranauitis, james laurinaitis, and co broke many records and became enshrined in the HoF of my playstation.

Fast forward to 2017, I'm an adult and a new father, I don't really have time (or the money) to spend on Madden right when it releases. However, I enjoyed my real life Rams having a great season and finally get to the playoffs! Out of pure excitement, I buy Madden 18 and simulate a Rams Superbowl win in Superbowl 52! Then I watch us go 1 and done in the playoffs.

This year, life has made me crazy busy so I still have not purchases the new Madden game, similar to last year. But now I'm skeptical, perhaps it's a curse. Perhaps I should wait until after the Superbowl to buy the game. But I'm really itching to play it now.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...nkings-rams-rule-entering-championship-sunday


Not that it matters, but the media is taking notice of the domination on both sides of the LOS.

https://247sports.com/nfl/new-orlea...ges-NFL-cameraman-after-Eagles-loss-127809815

Michael Bennett challenges NFL cameraman after Eagles loss
By Patrik WalkerMon Jan 14 2019

That wasn't the ending to the season the Philadelphia Eagles had envisioned.

Much like the rival Dallas Cowboys one day prior, albeit not to the same degree of turnaround, the Eagles were faced with an opportunity to go from being prematurely counted out as a playoff team to landing in the NFC Divisional Round after an upset win over the Chicago Bears in the Wild Card. Hopes were flying high in Philadelphia as they prepped for a rematch with the New Orleans Saints, hoping to avenge a 48-7 blowout from Week 6, and got off to a fast 14-0 start to help their case.

The magic of Nick Foles wasn't enough this time around to withstand a revived onslaught from the Saints' defense or to motivate the Eagles' defense into figuring out how to stop Drew Brees and Co., with Michael Thomas racking up 171 receiving yards on 12 catches. Despite it all, there was still a chance for Philadelphia to mount a dramatic come-from-behind victory after New Orleans missed the PAT that would've made it a seven-point game, but a Foles pass that went through the hands of wideout Alshon Jeffery and into the grasp of rookie defensive back Marshon Lattimore nailed the coffin.

After the game, emotions ran high, especially for defensive end Michael Bennett -- who also got much too aggressive during the Saints' victory formation.

He then challenged a cameraman on his way to the locker room.

It's unclear what was said to the cameraman or why Bennett approached him so aggressively, but at face value, it appears he simply didn't want to be filmed. The league office may end up taking a look at this to prevent players in the future from coming across as threatening to film crew simply out to do their jobs -- something Bennett didn't exactly do himself at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

The veteran had only four tackles with no sacks, as Brees finished mostly clean with 301 passing yards and two touchdowns en route to an NFC Championship berth.

It almost certainly won't do anything, but I figured it can't hurt to sign:
https://www.change.org/p/roger-good...m_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

Share everywhere you can. Let's get as many Rams fans to sign as possible. At minimum, if we get media attention, it might pressure Vinovitch into calling a fair game.

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Wouldn’t it have been great if that got called back? I’d love to see the reverse reaction.


On a side note does anyone here get this crazy over a play. I can honestly say I never did. Maybe I lack passion.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...rs-unhappy-with-cody-parkeys-today-appearance

There's the link.


He's angry that Cody Parkey was on the Today show. He told Parkey that it's wasn't a we thing, he tells his players it's about We, not me. What's next? Is he going to have his wife get plastic surgery to look like Veronica? Maybe he'll get some hair transplants to look more like Sean.

I have trouble buying that Nagy is is all that good. He walked into a very good defense, had a good DC, and then copied a lot of McVay's offense. I know the NFL is a copy cat league, but how much of the Bears success was really coming from him? Is he another Harbaugh?

On another note, Parkey's cap hit is around $5 million. Is that normal pay for a not so great kicker?

The seasons over for Parkey and he's probably out of a job anyway, so why give him crap about a tv show appearance?

Everyone talking about the Rams beating the Cowboys and now we're one win from a Super Bowl appearance.

Pouring rain causing traffic logjams throughout SoCal in a city where the freeways are already impassable on a good day.

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teachers go out on strike--the first in 30 years-and walk the picket line leaving the principals and on-site staff to scramble to find replacements (scabs) and find suitable work for those students in attendance.
(PS--I taught for 33 years at an LAUSD middle school, same school where Jordan Farmar and Jeff Fisher went to school. I walked the picket line with some of my former comrades-in-arms today--just like I walked the line in '89, the last teacher strike. (Solidarity Forever!).

I’m rewatching the Rams/gurlz game and I can’t help but consider the comparison between Peters and Watkins.

Peters doesn’t seem to get the coverages. Watkins was constantly having to have first year Ram players line him up.

Peters always seems to come to other players - both on our team and others - and get in their face. Watkins would many times act like the ball wasn’t where it was supposed to be or going to him.

I realize we have Peters for another season but I can’t help but think we look to upgrade and dispatch with his excuse mentality.

This is VERY much a we not me team and I can’t help but think his mentality is one this organization can and will do without.

I had GREAT not good hopes for the secondary of Talib and Peters. I even thought Peters was the biggest upgrade. Now he strikes me as Janoris without the lock down talent.

Sorry to say this, but, step the fuck up Marcus, and shut the fuck up until you do.