How Close We are
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also a town made up of a lot of transients.
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la is a basketball town anyway....even though they have fallen on hard times...
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also a town made up of a lot of transients.
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la is a basketball town anyway....even though they have fallen on hard times...
la is a basketball town anyway....even though they have fallen on hard times...
The Clippers are doing fine........LA is what MarkO said. They are behind you, win or tie.
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The Clippers are doing fine........LA is what MarkO said. They are behind you, win or tie.
That's actually most of SoCal actually. San Diego isn't any different. Everyone is a Chargers fan as long as they're winning as soon as they start losing, no one cares or shows up for the games.
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The Clippers are doing fine........LA is what MarkO said. They are behind you, win or tie.
That's actually most of SoCal actually. San Diego isn't any different. Everyone is a Chargers fan as long as they're winning as soon as they start losing, no one cares or shows up for the games.
That's actually most of SoCal actually. San Diego isn't any different. Everyone is a Chargers fan as long as they're winning as soon as they start losing, no one cares or shows up for the games.
They didn't put up much of a fuss about the Clippers moving to LA. That was the most useless move.....to go play in the same arena as the Lakers, essentially glom on to their market. If they were going to move out of SD, then they should have gone to play in the OC....like the Ducks. They had a nice new arena there, what was wrong with that?
Now of course it is the Lakers that are the second rate citizen in that town. That don't break my heart.
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That's actually most of SoCal actually. San Diego isn't any different. Everyone is a Chargers fan as long as they're winning as soon as they start losing, no one cares or shows up for the games.
They didn't put up much of a fuss about the Clippers moving to LA. That was the most useless move.....to go play in the same arena as the Lakers, essentially glom on to their market. If they were going to move out of SD, then they should have gone to play in the OC....like the Ducks. They had a nice new arena there, what was wrong with that?
Now of course it is the Lakers that are the second rate citizen in that town. That don't break my heart.
They didn't put up much of a fuss about the Clippers moving to LA. That was the most useless move.....to go play in the same arena as the Lakers, essentially glom on to their market. If they were going to move out of SD, then they should have gone to play in the OC....like the Ducks. They had a nice new arena there, what was wrong with that?
Now of course it is the Lakers that are the second rate citizen in that town. That don't break my heart.
They moved out of San Diego and played at the LA Sports Arena which is right next to the Coliseum and just as big of a dump as the old San Diego sports arena was and still is. They should've moved to Anaheim when the Pond opened but Donald Sterling wouldn't think of moving the team out of LA because he wanted to be where he could be seen by all the famous Hollywood types.
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They didn't put up much of a fuss about the Clippers moving to LA. That was the most useless move.....to go play in the same arena as the Lakers, essentially glom on to their market. If they were going to move out of SD, then they should have gone to play in the OC....like the Ducks. They had a nice new arena there, what was wrong with that?
Now of course it is the Lakers that are the second rate citizen in that town. That don't break my heart.
They moved out of San Diego and played at the LA Sports Arena which is right next to the Coliseum and just as big of a dump as the old San Diego sports arena was and still is. They should've moved to Anaheim when the Pond opened but Donald Sterling wouldn't think of moving the team out of LA because he wanted to be where he could be seen by all the famous Hollywood types.
They moved out of San Diego and played at the LA Sports Arena which is right next to the Coliseum and just as big of a dump as the old San Diego sports arena was and still is. They should've moved to Anaheim when the Pond opened but Donald Sterling wouldn't think of moving the team out of LA because he wanted to be where he could be seen by all the famous Hollywood types.
Right...it did seem that he was primarily interested in sniffing celebrity asses.
Is that one of the reasons the Rams want to go back there? I recall when I was younger...before when the Rams moved to Anaheim and before the Raiders were there that the Rams were the "Celebrities team".
The Rams back in the 60s and 70s were frontrunners Central as much or more than the Cowboys/Steelers.
Could they be that again? Or would they have to vie for FRAK Heaven with the Raiders under this new proposal.
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Even with our QB position that always advertised the head lamp of an oncoming train, this team got to 7-4 (with 2 decisive wins over playoff teams like Cincitucky and Pittsburgh's Steeroids) in 2014. After we lost Mack, I'll admit we needed the easiest part of our schedule to win ugly against teams willing to beat themselves if our offense wasn't up to doing it on their own.
Not always the brightest apple in the orchard, I never knew wtf "the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts" meant. I thought it meant something like some poor squid couldn't make it past the inventory stages of foreplay intercepting all plan to powerglue love. In any event, the biggest improvement to our pass protection and running game seemed to be the addition of Joel Bitonio in between Alex Mack and Joe Thomas upfront. That chain of 3 gave us quite a spark while it was healthy. It was at least a reminder of Steinbach playing between LT and Center in terms of turning a nobody like Hillis into a Madden Coverboy running between the tackles. In 2009, we ranked 8th out of 32 teams at rushing the football against 9 in the box (when there was no such thing as a forward pass).
Bigger point, was we could suddenly count on running between the tackles WAY more than we could in 2013 (when we seemed exclusive to only being able to run off tackle with whatever Rent-a-squid RB we looked to from Houston's practice squad). With 5 blockers upfront starting the 2014 season, 60% are Pro Bowl caliber or fringing it, while Greco looked much umproved early on. Schwartz is average against the run (anytime we don't have a game plan running at JJ Watt 95% of our handoffs).
After Mack went down, here's what I noticed behinning the 1st game he didn't start (Jax). The Brian Hoyer that I thought was looking a lot like the one who pleasantly surprised me in 2013 - suddenly stopped stepping into any of his throws. It was like he suddenly remembered he had a huge knee reconstruction he needed to protect to the tune of watching most passes come off the back foot without a strong enough arm to okay it. Meanwhile, the yards per carry averages of Crow and Tate decreased considerably. In essence, we were right back to counting on 2 good blockers out of 5 (constituing only 40% of our interior blocker rather than 60% workign terrific.
If you're thinking the way Joe Banner was thinking - how much does Mack really matter? Well, it wasn't just replacing a Pro Bowl resume with a guy who's never won a starting job before. According to guys like Joe Thomas the communication of line calls up front went from highly efficient to mini bus fire drill mode. Not only that, but to whip somebody's ass at the line of scimmage: 1) you have to get there first, 2) you have to maintain a better pad height to win/sustain leverage, 3) you have to get to the next tier of defense when a cutback RB is passing the line of scrimmage... And when we talk pass protection, there were a bunch of sissies on Pittsburgh before our rematch expressing concern to the league that Mack doesn't allow them to jump up to deflect passes in the passing lanes. Wait a minute - the Steeroids are complaining about dirty football? Yeah okay! It's about time you had some karma coming back atchya... I just never saw Mack getting ragdolled the way his replacements were. Speaking of pad height in the trenches, I'll never forget how far back Gerald McCoy threw McDonald as quickly as he did.
Anyway, I could have seen us FINISHING teams like Indy or other opponents we had halftime leads on if we had Mack back giving us that 60% of top quality making TDs a realistic goal while time of possession flips back to our favor. We would have easily finished Indy if our secondary didn't feel like they had a half marathon on their legs from all our 3 and outs on offense. Early in the year, it was kind of nice when our best case scenario wasn't always missing Dawson's range out to 60 yards all the time. We didn't have that in 2013 so there was epic progress in the works for a team coming off 4-12. We were even winning in spite of injury for as a long as a team trying to rebound from 4-12 could do such a thing. Teams that have been drafting well since 1999 handle injury volumes better than we did after we got to 7-4.
With Mack back healthy, I could see a veteran QB like Hoyer getting back to being the pleasant surprise he was in 2013 and early on in 2014. I can also see the yard per carry averages for our runningbacks spiking back up. We have great opportunities in the draft to add taller targets (via WR & TE) for our red zone in round 1 while we have more than enough cake to re-sign Miles Austin. All very doable to the extent of making this a much easier team to QB than previous years. If this isn't still Hoyer's best situation - his agent is drinking the same stupid juice that konked Rip Van Winkle out... History already showed us we could win when our volume of injury stays above excessive. The more we improve our last 10 active roster spots - the more we can handle injury. This is doable too...
Long, long time no see Tom. Welcome back.
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