The Rooney Rule is well-intentioned.It's designed to assure that minority coaching candidates get their fair shot at jobs. It's a jab at the "good ol' boy" network, as you can't just hire some random retread who has a .450 win percentage but led a team to a 9-7 season once. Well, you can hire that guy, but not before you go through an actual interview process.
Anyway, the St. Louis Rams tried to -- in essence -- sneak past the Rooney Rule. They fired Scott Linehan, named defensive coordinator Jim Haslett the interim coach, and then gave Haslett a contract that calls for him to be named the full-time head coach automatically if he leads the Rams to six wins.
PFT reported that this provision caused Dan Rooney, owner of the Steelers and namesake of the rule, to lob a phone call to the league office.
Now, CBSSports.com's Pete Prisco (via PFT) reports the league has voided Haslett's contract.
The NFL office has notified the Rams that the contract that would have made Haslett the full-time coach after this season if he won six games was not in accordance with the Rooney Rule that the league has in place for hiring practices.Prisco's question is a valid one.
The Rooney Rule is aimed at getting more minorities interviewed for jobs, which everybody thinks is a good thing.
But the question here is this: How can the Seattle Seahawks and Indianapolis Colts name their successors without adhering to the Rooney Rule, while Haslett and the Rams are being subject to it?
And I don't buy the explanation that the Jim Mora (Seattle) and Jim Caldwell (Indianapolis) hires happened during the offseason. The teams involved clearly didn't adhere to the rules regarding the interview process.
Obviously, the league wouldn't raise a stink about Caldwell's hire, as he is a minority. However, I'm very surprised they allowed Mora's hire to go through, especially now that they have blocked Haslett from being automatically hired as the "permanent" head coach.
It's something the league needs to address, because the Rooney Rule is useless unless it's going to be consistently -- not arbitrarily -- applied.
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This smells of discrimination. The man signed a contract that would go into effect if he meets standards set by the employer and if he doesn't he is out. It is bascially a 90 day probationary period like a bunch of companies have. You perform or you are out. Now if he was Korean, German, Spanish, Dutch, Indian, Austrian, etc. the NFL would have no problem except for the fact that anyone of those people would be out if they did not perform.
I don't like this. The Rooney rule is well intentioned and, more importantly, it has worked. Most affirmative action is well intentioned and works. But non-commonsensical decisions against exceptions like these are the kind that drum up public support against such rules.
Now if it becomes clear that teams are using mid-season firings as a way around the Rooney rule, then the league would have to step in. But, come on, Haslett has already done enough to show he deserves serious consideration and if the Rams win four more, he deservers the dang job. If Mike Singletary wins six games with the 49ers I'm sure he will (he certainly should) get that job.
Let's go back to when they said Greg Williams would be the successor to Joe Gibbs. That didn't happen. Just because it's stated that Mora will become the head coach doesn't mean it will happen. The reason it hasn't been brought up, it's because Holmgren is the coach and it's 2008. When Holmgren retires, the league will step in and make sure that things are taken care of the right way.
Its all nonsense anyway,
Haslett wins 6 or more games, he's the head coach....period. The Rams will be forced to go through the motions of interviewing people, and we will all wait, and wonder, than, HASLETT will be officialy hired, as he should be. The only thing I could see that could stop the hiring of Haslett is if now not under contract Bill Cowher or someone as titanic shows intrest in the job, but thats a stretch. The way Haslett is going, and the fine job he's doing I think he could win 8 or 9 games, and have us in a wild card hunt, it's clear the team has talent on both sides of the ball, and if they remain healthy with in reason, the RAMS could make alot of sundays miserable for opponents, especially if we start getting real tough to beat in that dome once again, Haslett looks like he wants to stretch the field out a bit more, and Avery compliments Holt well, so we could be showing flashes of the past in the Jones dome.
I still don'tt agree with Haslett on the qb, I still view him as a team cancer, and maybe I'm fooling myself, maybe he's the same talented kid I first saw trot out onto the field in 2001 against Miami in a pre-season game, and marveled at his quick release, and thought this kid is one for the future. But since the pushing Warner out of the way wierdo thing in 2003, when he(Kurt) was truing to congradulate him on his TD pass along with a host of other team mates as Bulger entered onto the sideline, he shoves Warner out of the way, it was sick!, and the asking coaches to assign a player to keep Warner away from him during games(as reported by DrZ of S.I), I have had a hard time getting around this odd behavior. So, maybe he's best for the team, and I just despise him personally like I have never despised a player to strap on that horned helmet, I must live with that. Todays game is a perfect example, I can't root for Bulger to do well, but I do have to root for my team to win, and in N.E, what a nightmare.
I almost got rid of the kid just a few weeks ago, allthough the losing was humiliating, but now with every win he's more cemented in, more, and more. Anyway you cut it, just like the past 4 years when football Sunday ends, i'm sick, and empty inside just like you feel with a loss, win, or lose. It sucks man. I have even stopped watching the games it has got so bad. Seems like the other day, I would even be planning my vacation days, floating holidays and making tay trades just to get key Ram games off, I would usually have the first 4 sundays off, year in and out. Seems like just yesterday if i was working Sundays I would tell everyone to not tell me the scores so I could go home and watch the game, if televised, or with direct t.v, I ran mail for the airlines, and had a radio, all day fake scores would be blasting over the radio, paper signs in different spots I needed to stop in with fake scores awaited me all day.
In December 1988, I had an argument with my wife because the Rams were playing the dreaded NINERs, and we needed a win to get in the playoffs, it was our aniversary, yeah I know it was selfish, but this was huge! Well we won, but I missed the game. In 2000 the Rams seemingly in a must win situation against Tampa on a Monday Night, it once again was our anniversary, I said I will tape the game so we can watch it when we come back, she said" I'm not waiting till 12:00 to see what happens!", she loved Warner, the 99" Rams sparked her interest in the team again, I did not take her to many games through the 90's as it was dismal, but we moved to Florida(from Jersey), and I started taking her to the bars with me from opening day against Baltimore, right on through, it bonded us, I won't lie I could ask my wife to this day about "who is andy McCollum?, or Ernie Conwell?, and she will know.
But in the 90's I could not even say the word Rams, she would say "I don't want to hear it!" sharply, because I was allways venting on the loses, but I was allways there watching those horrible games in the 90's, even when we were horrible, and hopeless. Being from Jersey 1989 was the first year Ii almost saw every game in the sports bar, saw 14 of the 16 that year, before you waited for Monday Night, if they played the Giants, or Jets, and NYC channels would occasionaly show a big interconfrence double header, or if the giants or jets were on monday night, you may see the RAMS, and thier was playoffs.
Good thing the RAMS were solid in the 70's, and 80's because there were alot of playoff games, and alot of monday night games, I can't tell you exact scores, bnut I remember everyone I ever saw dating back to 76", first monday night game Joe Namath was at qb, and we lost to Chicago, i missed a Monday night game in 1985 against S.F because I was in the Army, stuff like that, the next year I remember watching Jim Everett and Lansford clip Chicago on a Monday Night game, revenge for the 24-0 lose the year before in the Championship game, all that stuff. Now, I don't even watch the games anymore, nothing to do with losing, I watch the game, and my team rooting against the qb, primarily, rooting against my own team when it gets down to it, I cant watch it, i feel like a traitor, but can not root for this man, I will not.
Playoffs, opening days, and Monday nights have been torture since 2004. Well, football season is a long nightmare for me, just glad its only football, thats what people will say, dont take it so seriously man, I know, how many millions of dollars do these guys make?, coaches players, owners, for a silly game we played when we were kids/, not so silly, its more serious than you think. Well my two deadliest enemies stare down each other this afternoon, Bulger, and Belicheck. Bulger took the heart out of the game I love, broke my spirit somehow, Belicheck stole our S.B, our potential dynasty, and the loss in S.B 36 I believe helped usher out Warner(The franchises most important player in history), as coach, and teammates, and brass blamed him for the loss, this is my theory, because he was cut like a piece of garbage just two years later.
The man who brought a franchise its first Championship in 50 years, and would have had two if not for cheating, and dirty play. Remmember, Brady was having D" allignments, and plays radioed into his helmet from Weiss, as Spectres report stated, a player who would not see game time would memorize the signals(we played them in 2001, and won), he would stand next to Weiss(who was allways on the sideline, as most coordinators are up in the booth) , he would decifer it, wisper it in Weiss' ear, and weiss would radio exactly what he D' was doing into Brady's helmet.
On D" the Pats did to the RAMS what they would later do to Manning, and the Colts, not just bumping recievers within the 5 yards, they were holding, mauling, and even tackling them to the ground, Faulk, who never complained as a player, complained Willie McGhinest was literaly tackling him to the ground during the game, N.E, and Belicheat knowing full well how deadly Faulk was out of the backfields catching passes as a reciever, teams could never stop that. Well, they left Warner sitting back thier looking like he was comming unglued under the pressure, or that N.E was just that good, a well coached D', by the genius Belicheck,...B.S!, Warner just had no one to throw to!
Now years later you think, thats why the errant throws, the picks, and after leading his O' to scoring over 500 pts that season for the 3rd straight season, he could muster up only 17 points in that game, now we know. So BELICHEAT took that away from me as a fan, another S.B win, and a potential dynasty, and to boot being 14 pt underdogs it was humilating to lose to them at the time, but as the PATS imaginary greatness grew through the years, it was later "Ah, they just beat the RAMS, so what!, thier a dynasty, and Brady, he's the best thing since Joe Montana, the new Joe Montana!",...yada, yada, yada,...BARF! it was all sickening, and i knew something was wrong with that game, had to be, but could not put my finger on it, but who could have known all of this?
Yet the media, NFL network, NFL analists, reporters, still talk about Brady as if he this elite qb, when the guy was having exactly what the D" was doing radioed into his helmet for 7 years, can he even read a defense?, did not look that way in S.B 42, I'll bet Coughlin changed up his signals, combined with throwing the kitchen sink at him, he crumbled unde the pressure. Now I know Brady, and N.E could not have stolen everyones signals(maybe they were, who knows, if they did not play someone, could they still have sent spies to thier games with cameras, this I do not know), but they were up to other stuff, one theory I have is they were b.s'ing on the cap(theory only, not fact like this other stuff i'm talking about, i do not want to bare false witness), putting virtually a pro bowl team around Brady, if you notice now under the microscope this offseason, they were signing no big names, and losing guys like a house on fire. Well, even I'm saying to myself this post must end someday, yeah, I went on, and on, but you get tired of the truth being swept under the rug, they mention spy gate from time to time, but 7 years of football in the NFL has been tampered with, S.B outcomes, Championship game outcomes, division titles, records, playoff recordse, heck peoples careers ruined, and its all a ripple efect caused by N.E cheating, THIS IS HUGE!
Man I wish Spectre would keep on the NFL, come Back Arlen, don't let N.E off the hook, not enough has been done, not by a long shot. I may have to root for Jeff george Jr.(Bulger) today, to lose over there, it's unbearable! I don't know, that weasil though, man I'll be sick at 4 pm no matter what. lastly, news flash, ROMAN PHIFER said when he left the RAMS he wanted to play for a winning team, he never got his wish, N.E are losers, and he's a loser,....period! Scott L. Jinks(SGJINKS) 'THE RAMMY WHAMMY WILL BE BACK!"
Its all nonsense anyway,
Haslett wins 6 or more games, he's the head coach....period. The Rams will be forced to go through the motions of interviewing people, and we will all wait, and wonder, than, HASLETT will be officialy hired, as he should be. The only thing I could see that could stop the hiring of Haslett is if now not under contract Bill Cowher or someone as titanic shows intrest in the job, but thats a stretch. The way Haslett is going, and the fine job he's doing I think he could win 8 or 9 games, and have us in a wild card hunt, it's clear the team has talent on both sides of the ball, and if they remain healthy with in reason, the RAMS could make alot of sundays miserable for opponents, especially if we start getting real tough to beat in that dome once again, Haslett looks like he wants to stretch the field out a bit more, and Avery compliments Holt well, so we could be showing flashes of the past in the Jones dome.
I still don'tt agree with Haslett on the qb, I still view him as a team cancer, and maybe I'm fooling myself, maybe he's the same talented kid I first saw trot out onto the field in 2001 against Miami in a pre-season game, and marveled at his quick release, and thought this kid is one for the future. But since the pushing Warner out of the way wierdo thing in 2003, when he(Kurt) was truing to congradulate him on his TD pass along with a host of other team mates as Bulger entered onto the sideline, he shoves Warner out of the way, it was sick!, and the asking coaches to assign a player to keep Warner away from him during games(as reported by DrZ of S.I), I have had a hard time getting around this odd behavior. So, maybe he's best for the team, and I just despise him personally like I have never despised a player to strap on that horned helmet, I must live with that. Todays game is a perfect example, I can't root for Bulger to do well, but I do have to root for my team to win, and in N.E, what a nightmare.
I almost got rid of the kid just a few weeks ago, allthough the losing was humiliating, but now with every win he's more cemented in, more, and more. Anyway you cut it, just like the past 4 years when football Sunday ends, i'm sick, and empty inside just like you feel with a loss, win, or lose. It sucks man. I have even stopped watching the games it has got so bad. Seems like the other day, I would even be planning my vacation days, floating holidays and making tay trades just to get key Ram games off, I would usually have the first 4 sundays off, year in and out. Seems like just yesterday if i was working Sundays I would tell everyone to not tell me the scores so I could go home and watch the game, if televised, or with direct t.v, I ran mail for the airlines, and had a radio, all day fake scores would be blasting over the radio, paper signs in different spots I needed to stop in with fake scores awaited me all day.
In December 1988, I had an argument with my wife because the Rams were playing the dreaded NINERs, and we needed a win to get in the playoffs, it was our aniversary, yeah I know it was selfish, but this was huge! Well we won, but I missed the game. In 2000 the Rams seemingly in a must win situation against Tampa on a Monday Night, it once again was our anniversary, I said I will tape the game so we can watch it when we come back, she said" I'm not waiting till 12:00 to see what happens!", she loved Warner, the 99" Rams sparked her interest in the team again, I did not take her to many games through the 90's as it was dismal, but we moved to Florida(from Jersey), and I started taking her to the bars with me from opening day against Baltimore, right on through, it bonded us, I won't lie I could ask my wife to this day about "who is andy McCollum?, or Ernie Conwell?, and she will know.
But in the 90's I could not even say the word Rams, she would say "I don't want to hear it!" sharply, because I was allways venting on the loses, but I was allways there watching those horrible games in the 90's, even when we were horrible, and hopeless. Being from Jersey 1989 was the first year I almost saw every game in the sports bar, saw 14 of the 16 that year, before you waited for Monday Night, if they played the Giants, or Jets, and NYC channels would occasionaly show a big interconfrence double header, or if the giants or jets were on monday night, you may see the RAMS, and thier was playoffs.
Good thing the RAMS were solid in the 70's, and 80's because there were alot of playoff games, and alot of monday night games, I can't tell you exact scores, but I remember everyone I ever saw dating back to 76", first monday night game Joe Namath was at qb, and we lost to Chicago, i missed a Monday night game in 1985 against S.F because I was in the Army, stuff like that, the next year I remember watching Jim Everett and Lansford clip Chicago on a Monday Night game, revenge for the 24-0 lose the year before in the Championship game, all that stuff. Now, I don't even watch the games anymore, nothing to do with losing, I watch the game, and my team rooting against the qb, primarily, rooting against my own team when it gets down to it, I cant watch it, i feel like a traitor, but can not root for this man, I will not.
Playoffs, opening days, and Monday nights have been torture since 2004. Well, football season is a long nightmare for me, just glad its only football, thats what people will say, dont take it so seriously man, I know, how many millions of dollars do these guys make?, coaches players, owners, for a silly game we played when we were kids/, not so silly, its more serious than you think. Well my two deadliest enemies stare down each other this afternoon, Bulger, and Belicheck. Bulger took the heart out of the game I love, broke my spirit somehow, Belicheck stole our S.B, our potential dynasty, and the loss in S.B 36 I believe helped usher out Warner(The franchises most important player in history), as coach, and teammates, and brass blamed him for the loss, this is my theory, because he was cut like a piece of garbage just two years later.
The man who brought a franchise its first Championship in 50 years, and would have had two if not for cheating, and dirty play. Remember, Brady was having D" allignments, and plays radioed into his helmet from Weiss, as Spectres report stated, a player who would not see game time would memorize the signals(we played them in 2001, and won), he would stand next to Weiss(who was allways on the sideline, as most coordinators are up in the booth) , he would decifer it, wisper it in Weiss' ear, and weiss would radio exactly what he D' was doing into Brady's helmet.
On D" the Pats did to the RAMS what they would later do to Manning, and the Colts, not just bumping recievers within the 5 yards, they were holding, mauling, and even tackling them to the ground, Faulk, who never complained as a player, complained Willie McGhinest was literaly tackling him to the ground during the game, N.E, and Belicheat knowing full well how deadly Faulk was out of the backfields catching passes as a reciever, teams could never stop that. Well, they left Warner sitting back thier looking like he was comming unglued under the pressure, or that N.E was just that good, a well coached D', by the genius Belicheck,...B.S!, Warner just had no one to throw to!
Now years later you think, thats why the errant throws, the picks, and after leading his O' to scoring over 500 pts that season for the 3rd straight season, he could muster up only 17 points in that game, now we know. So BELICHEAT took that away from me as a fan, another S.B win, and a potential dynasty, and to boot being 14 pt underdogs it was humilating to lose to them at the time, but as the PATS imaginary greatness grew through the years, it was later "Ah, they just beat the RAMS, so what!, thier a dynasty, and Brady, he's the best thing since Joe Montana, the new Joe Montana!",...yada, yada, yada,...BARF! it was all sickening, and i knew something was wrong with that game, had to be, but could not put my finger on it, but who could have known all of this?
Yet the media, NFL network, NFL analists, reporters, still talk about Brady as if he this elite qb, when the guy was having exactly what the D" was doing radioed into his helmet for 7 years, can he even read a defense?, did not look that way in S.B 42, I'll bet Coughlin changed up his signals, combined with throwing the kitchen sink at him, he crumbled unde the pressure. Now I know Brady, and N.E could not have stolen everyones signals(maybe they were, who knows, if they did not play someone, could they still have sent spies to thier games with cameras, this I do not know), but they were up to other stuff, one theory I have is they were b.s'ing on the cap(theory only, not fact like this other stuff i'm talking about, i do not want to bare false witness), putting virtually a pro bowl team around Brady, if you notice now under the microscope this offseason, they were signing no big names, and losing guys like a house on fire. Well, even I'm saying to myself this post must end someday, yeah, I went on, and on, but you get tired of the truth being swept under the rug, they mention spy gate from time to time, but 7 years of football in the NFL has been tampered with, S.B outcomes, Championship game outcomes, division titles, records, playoff recordse, heck peoples careers ruined, and its all a ripple efect caused by N.E cheating, THIS IS HUGE! Scott L. Jinks(SGJINKS)
p.s
ROMAN PHIFER said when he left the RAMS he wanted to play for a winning team, he never got his wish, N.E are losers, and he's a loser,....period! Scott L. Jinks(SGJINKS) 'THE RAMMY WHAMMY WILL BE BACK!"
Its all nonsense anyway,
Haslett wins 6 or more games, he's the head coach....period. The Rams will be forced to go through the motions of interviewing people, and we will all wait, and wonder, than, HASLETT will be officialy hired, as he should be. The only thing I could see that could stop the hiring of Haslett is if now not under contract Bill Cowher or someone as titanic shows intrest in the job, but thats a stretch. The way Haslett is going, and the fine job he's doing I think he could win 8 or 9 games, and have us in a wild card hunt, it's clear the team has talent on both sides of the ball, and if they remain healthy with in reason, the RAMS could make alot of sundays miserable for opponents, especially if we start getting real tough to beat in that dome once again, Haslett looks like he wants to stretch the field out a bit more, and Avery compliments Holt well, so we could be showing flashes of the past in the Jones dome.
I still don'tt agree with Haslett on the qb, I still view him as a team cancer, and maybe I'm fooling myself, maybe he's the same talented kid I first saw trot out onto the field in 2001 against Miami in a pre-season game, and marveled at his quick release, and thought this kid is one for the future. But since the pushing Warner out of the way wierdo thing in 2003, when he(Kurt) was truing to congradulate him on his TD pass along with a host of other team mates as Bulger entered onto the sideline, he shoves Warner out of the way, it was sick!, and the asking coaches to assign a player to keep Warner away from him during games(as reported by DrZ of S.I), I have had a hard time getting around this odd behavior. So, maybe he's best for the team, and I just despise him personally like I have never despised a player to strap on that horned helmet, I must live with that. Todays game is a perfect example, I can't root for Bulger to do well, but I do have to root for my team to win, and in N.E, what a nightmare.
I almost got rid of the kid just a few weeks ago, allthough the losing was humiliating, but now with every win he's more cemented in, more, and more. Anyway you cut it, just like the past 4 years when football Sunday ends, i'm sick, and empty inside just like you feel with a loss, win, or lose. It sucks man. I have even stopped watching the games it has got so bad. Seems like the other day, I would even be planning my vacation days, floating holidays and making tay trades just to get key Ram games off, I would usually have the first 4 sundays off, year in and out. Seems like just yesterday if i was working Sundays I would tell everyone to not tell me the scores so I could go home and watch the game, if televised, or with direct t.v, I ran mail for the airlines, and had a radio, all day fake scores would be blasting over the radio, paper signs in different spots I needed to stop in with fake scores awaited me all day.
In December 1988, I had an argument with my wife because the Rams were playing the dreaded NINERs, and we needed a win to get in the playoffs, it was our aniversary, yeah I know it was selfish, but this was huge! Well we won, but I missed the game. In 2000 the Rams seemingly in a must win situation against Tampa on a Monday Night, it once again was our anniversary, I said I will tape the game so we can watch it when we come back, she said" I'm not waiting till 12:00 to see what happens!", she loved Warner, the 99" Rams sparked her interest in the team again, I did not take her to many games through the 90's as it was dismal, but we moved to Florida(from Jersey), and I started taking her to the bars with me from opening day against Baltimore, right on through, it bonded us, I won't lie I could ask my wife to this day about "who is andy McCollum?, or Ernie Conwell?, and she will know.
But in the 90's I could not even say the word Rams, she would say "I don't want to hear it!" sharply, because I was allways venting on the loses, but I was allways there watching those horrible games in the 90's, even when we were horrible, and hopeless. Being from Jersey 1989 was the first year I almost saw every game in the sports bar, saw 14 of the 16 that year, before you waited for Monday Night, if they played the Giants, or Jets, and NYC channels would occasionaly show a big interconfrence double header, or if the giants or jets were on monday night, you may see the RAMS, and thier was playoffs.
Good thing the RAMS were solid in the 70's, and 80's because there were alot of playoff games, and alot of monday night games, I can't tell you exact scores, but I remember everyone I ever saw dating back to 76", first monday night game Joe Namath was at qb, and we lost to Chicago, i missed a Monday night game in 1985 against S.F because I was in the Army, stuff like that, the next year I remember watching Jim Everett and Lansford clip Chicago on a Monday Night game, revenge for the 24-0 lose the year before in the Championship game, all that stuff. Now, I don't even watch the games anymore, nothing to do with losing, I watch the game, and my team rooting against the qb, primarily, rooting against my own team when it gets down to it, I cant watch it, i feel like a traitor, but can not root for this man, I will not.
Playoffs, opening days, and Monday nights have been torture since 2004. Well, football season is a long nightmare for me, just glad its only football, thats what people will say, dont take it so seriously man, I know, how many millions of dollars do these guys make?, coaches players, owners, for a silly game we played when we were kids/, not so silly, its more serious than you think. Well my two deadliest enemies stare down each other this afternoon, Bulger, and Belicheck. Bulger took the heart out of the game I love, broke my spirit somehow, Belicheck stole our S.B, our potential dynasty, and the loss in S.B 36 I believe helped usher out Warner(The franchises most important player in history), as coach, and teammates, and brass blamed him for the loss, this is my theory, because he was cut like a piece of garbage just two years later.
The man who brought a franchise its first Championship in 50 years, and would have had two if not for cheating, and dirty play. Remember, Brady was having D" allignments, and plays radioed into his helmet from Weiss, as Spectres report stated, a player who would not see game time would memorize the signals(we played them in 2001, and won), he would stand next to Weiss(who was allways on the sideline, as most coordinators are up in the booth) , he would decifer it, wisper it in Weiss' ear, and weiss would radio exactly what he D' was doing into Brady's helmet.
On D" the Pats did to the RAMS what they would later do to Manning, and the Colts, not just bumping recievers within the 5 yards, they were holding, mauling, and even tackling them to the ground, Faulk, who never complained as a player, complained Willie McGhinest was literaly tackling him to the ground during the game, N.E, and Belicheat knowing full well how deadly Faulk was out of the backfields catching passes as a reciever, teams could never stop that. Well, they left Warner sitting back thier looking like he was comming unglued under the pressure, or that N.E was just that good, a well coached D', by the genius Belicheck,...B.S!, Warner just had no one to throw to!
Now years later you think, thats why the errant throws, the picks, and after leading his O' to scoring over 500 pts that season for the 3rd straight season, he could muster up only 17 points in that game, now we know. So BELICHEAT took that away from me as a fan, another S.B win, and a potential dynasty, and to boot being 14 pt underdogs it was humilating to lose to them at the time, but as the PATS imaginary greatness grew through the years, it was later "Ah, they just beat the RAMS, so what!, thier a dynasty, and Brady, he's the best thing since Joe Montana, the new Joe Montana!",...yada, yada, yada,...BARF! it was all sickening, and i knew something was wrong with that game, had to be, but could not put my finger on it, but who could have known all of this?
Yet the media, NFL network, NFL analists, reporters, still talk about Brady as if he this elite qb, when the guy was having exactly what the D" was doing radioed into his helmet for 7 years, can he even read a defense?, did not look that way in S.B 42, I'll bet Coughlin changed up his signals, combined with throwing the kitchen sink at him, he crumbled unde the pressure. Now I know Brady, and N.E could not have stolen everyones signals(maybe they were, who knows, if they did not play someone, could they still have sent spies to thier games with cameras, this I do not know), but they were up to other stuff, one theory I have is they were b.s'ing on the cap(theory only, not fact like this other stuff i'm talking about, i do not want to bare false witness), putting virtually a pro bowl team around Brady, if you notice now under the microscope this offseason, they were signing no big names, and losing guys like a house on fire. Well, even I'm saying to myself this post must end someday, yeah, I went on, and on, but you get tired of the truth being swept under the rug, they mention spy gate from time to time, but 7 years of football in the NFL has been tampered with, S.B outcomes, Championship game outcomes, division titles, records, playoff recordse, heck peoples careers ruined, and its all a ripple efect caused by N.E cheating, THIS IS HUGE! Scott L. Jinks(SGJINKS)
Its all nonsense anyway,
Haslett wins 6 or more games, he's the head coach....period. The Rams will be forced to go through the motions of interviewing people, and we will all wait, and wonder, than, HASLETT will be officialy hired, as he should be. The only thing I could see that could stop the hiring of Haslett is if now not under contract Bill Cowher or someone as titanic shows intrest in the job, but thats a stretch. The way Haslett is going, and the fine job he's doing I think he could win 8 or 9 games, and have us in a wild card hunt, it's clear the team has talent on both sides of the ball, and if they remain healthy with in reason, the RAMS could make alot of sundays miserable for opponents, especially if we start getting real tough to beat in that dome once again, Haslett looks like he wants to stretch the field out a bit more, and Avery compliments Holt well, so we could be showing flashes of the past in the Jones dome.
I still don'tt agree with Haslett on the qb, I still view him as a team cancer, and maybe I'm fooling myself, maybe he's the same talented kid I first saw trot out onto the field in 2001 against Miami in a pre-season game, and marveled at his quick release, and thought this kid is one for the future. But since the pushing Warner out of the way wierdo thing in 2003, when he(Kurt) was truing to congradulate him on his TD pass along with a host of other team mates as Bulger entered onto the sideline, he shoves Warner out of the way, it was sick!, and the asking coaches to assign a player to keep Warner away from him during games(as reported by DrZ of S.I), I have had a hard time getting around this odd behavior. So, maybe he's best for the team, and I just despise him personally like I have never despised a player to strap on that horned helmet, I must live with that. Todays game is a perfect example, I can't root for Bulger to do well, but I do have to root for my team to win, and in N.E, what a nightmare.
I almost got rid of the kid just a few weeks ago, allthough the losing was humiliating, but now with every win he's more cemented in, more, and more. Anyway you cut it, just like the past 4 years when football Sunday ends, i'm sick, and empty inside just like you feel with a loss, win, or lose. It sucks man. I have even stopped watching the games it has got so bad. Seems like the other day, I would even be planning my vacation days, floating holidays and making tay trades just to get key Ram games off, I would usually have the first 4 sundays off, year in and out. Seems like just yesterday if i was working Sundays I would tell everyone to not tell me the scores so I could go home and watch the game, if televised, or with direct t.v, I ran mail for the airlines, and had a radio, all day fake scores would be blasting over the radio, paper signs in different spots I needed to stop in with fake scores awaited me all day.
In December 1988, I had an argument with my wife because the Rams were playing the dreaded NINERs, and we needed a win to get in the playoffs, it was our aniversary, yeah I know it was selfish, but this was huge! Well we won, but I missed the game. In 2000 the Rams seemingly in a must win situation against Tampa on a Monday Night, it once again was our anniversary, I said I will tape the game so we can watch it when we come back, she said" I'm not waiting till 12:00 to see what happens!", she loved Warner, the 99" Rams sparked her interest in the team again, I did not take her to many games through the 90's as it was dismal, but we moved to Florida(from Jersey), and I started taking her to the bars with me from opening day against Baltimore, right on through, it bonded us, I won't lie I could ask my wife to this day about "who is andy McCollum?, or Ernie Conwell?, and she will know.
But in the 90's I could not even say the word Rams, she would say "I don't want to hear it!" sharply, because I was allways venting on the loses, but I was allways there watching those horrible games in the 90's, even when we were horrible, and hopeless. Being from Jersey 1989 was the first year I almost saw every game in the sports bar, saw 14 of the 16 that year, before you waited for Monday Night, if they played the Giants, or Jets, and NYC channels would occasionaly show a big interconfrence double header, or if the giants or jets were on monday night, you may see the RAMS, and thier was playoffs.
Good thing the RAMS were solid in the 70's, and 80's because there were alot of playoff games, and alot of monday night games, I can't tell you exact scores, but I remember everyone I ever saw dating back to 76", first monday night game Joe Namath was at qb, and we lost to Chicago, i missed a Monday night game in 1985 against S.F because I was in the Army, stuff like that, the next year I remember watching Jim Everett and Lansford clip Chicago on a Monday Night game, revenge for the 24-0 lose the year before in the Championship game, all that stuff. Now, I don't even watch the games anymore, nothing to do with losing, I watch the game, and my team rooting against the qb, primarily, rooting against my own team when it gets down to it, I cant watch it, i feel like a traitor, but can not root for this man, I will not.
Playoffs, opening days, and Monday nights have been torture since 2004. Well, football season is a long nightmare for me, just glad its only football, thats what people will say, dont take it so seriously man, I know, how many millions of dollars do these guys make?, coaches players, owners, for a silly game we played when we were kids/, not so silly, its more serious than you think. Well my two deadliest enemies stare down each other this afternoon, Bulger, and Belicheck. Bulger took the heart out of the game I love, broke my spirit somehow, Belicheck stole our S.B, our potential dynasty, and the loss in S.B 36 I believe helped usher out Warner(The franchises most important player in history), as coach, and teammates, and brass blamed him for the loss, this is my theory, because he was cut like a piece of garbage just two years later.
The man who brought a franchise its first Championship in 50 years, and would have had two if not for cheating, and dirty play. Remember, Brady was having D" allignments, and plays radioed into his helmet from Weiss, as Spectres report stated, a player who would not see game time would memorize the signals(we played them in 2001, and won), he would stand next to Weiss(who was allways on the sideline, as most coordinators are up in the booth) , he would decifer it, wisper it in Weiss' ear, and weiss would radio exactly what he D' was doing into Brady's helmet.
On D" the Pats did to the RAMS what they would later do to Manning, and the Colts, not just bumping recievers within the 5 yards, they were holding, mauling, and even tackling them to the ground, Faulk, who never complained as a player, complained Willie McGhinest was literaly tackling him to the ground during the game, N.E, and Belicheat knowing full well how deadly Faulk was out of the backfields catching passes as a reciever, teams could never stop that. Well, they left Warner sitting back thier looking like he was comming unglued under the pressure, or that N.E was just that good, a well coached D', by the genius Belicheck,...B.S!, Warner just had no one to throw to!
Now years later you think, thats why the errant throws, the picks, and after leading his O' to scoring over 500 pts that season for the 3rd straight season, he could muster up only 17 points in that game, now we know. So BELICHEAT took that away from me as a fan, another S.B win, and a potential dynasty, and to boot being 14 pt underdogs it was humilating to lose to them at the time, but as the PATS imaginary greatness grew through the years, it was later "Ah, they just beat the RAMS, so what!, thier a dynasty, and Brady, he's the best thing since Joe Montana, the new Joe Montana!",...yada, yada, yada,...BARF! it was all sickening, and i knew something was wrong with that game, had to be, but could not put my finger on it, but who could have known all of this?
Yet the media, NFL network, NFL analists, reporters, still talk about Brady as if he this elite qb, when the guy was having exactly what the D" was doing radioed into his helmet for 7 years, can he even read a defense? Well, even I'm saying to myself this post must end someday, yeah, I went on, and on, but you get tired of the truth being swept under the rug, they mention spy gate from time to time, but 7 years of football in the NFL has been tampered with, S.B outcomes, Championship game outcomes, division titles, records, playoff recordse, heck peoples careers ruined, and its all a ripple efect caused by N.E cheating, THIS IS HUGE! Scott L. Jinks(SGJINKS) p.s ROMAN PHIFER your still a loser!
Its all nonsense anyway,
Haslett wins 6 or more games, he's the head coach....period. The Rams will be forced to go through the motions of interviewing people, and we will all wait, and wonder, than, HASLETT will be officialy hired, as he should be. The only thing I could see that could stop the hiring of Haslett is if now not under contract Bill Cowher or someone as titanic shows intrest in the job, but thats a stretch. The way Haslett is going, and the fine job he's doing I think he could win 8 or 9 games, and have us in a wild card hunt, it's clear the team has talent on both sides of the ball, and if they remain healthy with in reason, the RAMS could make alot of sundays miserable for opponents, especially if we start getting real tough to beat in that dome once again, Haslett looks like he wants to stretch the field out a bit more, and Avery compliments Holt well, so we could be showing flashes of the past in the Jones dome.
I still don'tt agree with Haslett on the qb, I still view him as a team cancer, and maybe I'm fooling myself, maybe he's the same talented kid I first saw trot out onto the field in 2001 against Miami in a pre-season game, and marveled at his quick release, and thought this kid is one for the future. But since the pushing Warner out of the way wierdo thing in 2003, when he(Kurt) was truing to congradulate him on his TD pass along with a host of other team mates as Bulger entered onto the sideline, he shoves Warner out of the way, it was sick!, and the asking coaches to assign a player to keep Warner away from him during games(as reported by DrZ of S.I), I have had a hard time getting around this odd behavior. So, maybe he's best for the team, and I just despise him personally like I have never despised a player to strap on that horned helmet, I must live with that. Todays game is a perfect example, I can't root for Bulger to do well, but I do have to root for my team to win, and in N.E, what a nightmare.
I almost got rid of the kid just a few weeks ago, allthough the losing was humiliating, but now with every win he's more cemented in, more, and more. Anyway you cut it, just like the past 4 years when football Sunday ends, i'm sick, and empty inside just like you feel with a loss, win, or lose. It sucks man. I have even stopped watching the games it has got so bad.
Now, I don't even watch the games anymore, nothing to do with losing, I watch the game, and my team rooting against the qb, primarily, rooting against my own team when it gets down to it, I cant watch it, i feel like a traitor, but can not root for this man, I will not.
Well my two deadliest enemies stare down each other this afternoon, Bulger, and Belicheck. Bulger took the heart out of the game I love, broke my spirit somehow, Belicheck stole our S.B, our potential dynasty, and the loss in S.B 36 I believe helped usher out Warner(The franchises most important player in history), as coach, and teammates, and brass blamed him for the loss, this is my theory, because he was cut like a piece of garbage just two years later.
The man who brought a franchise its first Championship in 50 years, and would have had two if not for cheating, and dirty play. Remmember, Brady was having D" allignments, and plays radioed into his helmet from Weiss, as Spectres report stated, a player who would not see game time would memorize the signals(we played them in 2001, and won), he would stand next to Weiss(who was allways on the sideline, as most coordinators are up in the booth) , he would decifer it, wisper it in Weiss' ear, and weiss would radio exactly what he D' was doing into Brady's helmet.
On D" the Pats did to the RAMS what they would later do to Manning, and the Colts, not just bumping recievers within the 5 yards, they were holding, mauling, and even tackling them to the ground, Faulk, who never complained as a player, complained Willie McGhinest was literaly tackling him to the ground during the game, N.E, and Belicheat knowing full well how deadly Faulk was out of the backfields catching passes as a reciever, teams could never stop that. Well, they left Warner sitting back thier looking like he was comming unglued under the pressure, or that N.E was just that good, a well coached D', by the genius Belicheck,...B.S!, Warner just had no one to throw to!
Now years later you think, thats why the errant throws, the picks, and after leading his O' to scoring over 500 pts that season for the 3rd straight season, he could muster up only 17 points in that game, now we know. So BELICHEAT took that away from me as a fan, another S.B win, and a potential dynasty, and to boot being 14 pt underdogs it was humilating to lose to them at the time, but as the PATS imaginary greatness grew through the years, it was later "Ah, they just beat the RAMS, so what!, thier a dynasty, and Brady, he's the best thing since Joe Montana, the new Joe Montana!",...yada, yada, yada,...BARF! it was all sickening, and i knew something was wrong with that game, had to be, but could not put my finger on it, but who could have known all of this?
Yet the media, NFL network, NFL analists, reporters, still talk about Brady as if he this elite qb, when the guy was having exactly what the D" was doing radioed into his helmet for 7 years, can he even read a defense? They mention spy gate from time to time, but 7 years of football in the NFL has been tampered with, S.B outcomes, Championship game outcomes, division titles, records, playoff recordse, heck peoples careers ruined, and its all a ripple efect caused by N.E cheating, THIS IS HUGE!
I may have to root for Jeff george Jr.(Bulger) today, to lose over there, it's unbearable! I don't know, that weasil though, man I'll be sick at 4 pm no matter what. lastly, news flash, ROMAN PHIFER said when he left the RAMS he wanted to play for a winning team, he never got his wish, N.E are losers, and he's a loser,....period! Scott L. Jinks(SGJINKS) 'THE RAMMY WHAMMY WILL BE BACK!"
Its all nonsense anyway,
Haslett wins 6 or more games, he's the head coach....period. The Rams will be forced to go through the motions of interviewing people, and we will all wait, and wonder, than, HASLETT will be officialy hired, as he should be. The only thing I could see that could stop the hiring of Haslett is if now not under contract Bill Cowher or someone as titanic shows intrest in the job, but thats a stretch. The way Haslett is going, and the fine job he's doing I think he could win 8 or 9 games, and have us in a wild card hunt, it's clear the team has talent on both sides of the ball, and if they remain healthy with in reason, the RAMS could make alot of sundays miserable for opponents, especially if we start getting real tough to beat in that dome once again, Haslett looks like he wants to stretch the field out a bit more, and Avery compliments Holt well, so we could be showing flashes of the past in the Jones dome.
I still don'tt agree with Haslett on the qb, I still view him as a team cancer, and maybe I'm fooling myself, maybe he's the same talented kid I first saw trot out onto the field in 2001 against Miami in a pre-season game, and marveled at his quick release, and thought this kid is one for the future. But since the pushing Warner out of the way wierdo thing in 2003, when he(Kurt) was truing to congradulate him on his TD pass along with a host of other team mates as Bulger entered onto the sideline, he shoves Warner out of the way, it was sick!, and the asking coaches to assign a player to keep Warner away from him during games(as reported by DrZ of S.I), I have had a hard time getting around this odd behavior. So, maybe he's best for the team, and I just despise him personally like I have never despised a player to strap on that horned helmet, I must live with that. Todays game is a perfect example, I can't root for Bulger to do well, but I do have to root for my team to win, and in N.E, what a nightmare.
I almost got rid of the kid just a few weeks ago, allthough the losing was humiliating, but now with every win he's more cemented in, more, and more. Anyway you cut it, just like the past 4 years when football Sunday ends, i'm sick, and empty inside just like you feel with a loss, win, or lose. It sucks man. I have even stopped watching the games it has got so bad.
Now, I don't even watch the games anymore, nothing to do with losing, I watch the game, and my team rooting against the qb, primarily, rooting against my own team when it gets down to it, I cant watch it, i feel like a traitor, but can not root for this man, I will not.
Well my two deadliest enemies stare down each other this afternoon, Bulger, and Belicheck. Bulger took the heart out of the game I love, broke my spirit somehow, Belicheck stole our S.B, our potential dynasty, and the loss in S.B 36 I believe helped usher out Warner(The franchises most important player in history), as coach, and teammates, and brass blamed him for the loss, this is my theory, because he was cut like a piece of garbage just two years later.
The man who brought a franchise its first Championship in 50 years, and would have had two if not for cheating, and dirty play. Remmember, Brady was having D" allignments, and plays radioed into his helmet from Weiss, as Spectres report stated, a player who would not see game time would memorize the signals(we played them in 2001, and won), he would stand next to Weiss(who was allways on the sideline, as most coordinators are up in the booth) , he would decifer it, wisper it in Weiss' ear, and weiss would radio exactly what he D' was doing into Brady's helmet.
On D" the Pats did to the RAMS what they would later do to Manning, and the Colts, not just bumping recievers within the 5 yards, they were holding, mauling, and even tackling them to the ground, Faulk, who never complained as a player, complained Willie McGhinest was literaly tackling him to the ground during the game, N.E, and Belicheat knowing full well how deadly Faulk was out of the backfields catching passes as a reciever, teams could never stop that. Well, they left Warner sitting back thier looking like he was comming unglued under the pressure, or that N.E was just that good, a well coached D', by the genius Belicheck,...B.S!, Warner just had no one to throw to!
Now years later you think, thats why the errant throws, the picks, and after leading his O' to scoring over 500 pts that season for the 3rd straight season, he could muster up only 17 points in that game, now we know. So BELICHEAT took that away from me as a fan, another S.B win, and a potential dynasty, and to boot being 14 pt underdogs it was humilating to lose to them at the time, but as the PATS imaginary greatness grew through the years, it was later "Ah, they just beat the RAMS, so what!, thier a dynasty, and Brady, he's the best thing since Joe Montana, the new Joe Montana!",...yada, yada, yada,...BARF! it was all sickening, and i knew something was wrong with that game, had to be, but could not put my finger on it, but who could have known all of this?
Yet the media, NFL network, NFL analists, reporters, still talk about Brady as if he this elite qb, when the guy was having exactly what the D" was doing radioed into his helmet for 7 years, can he even read a defense? They mention spy gate from time to time, but 7 years of football in the NFL has been tampered with, S.B outcomes, Championship game outcomes, division titles, records, playoff recordse, heck peoples careers ruined, and its all a ripple efect caused by N.E cheating, THIS IS HUGE!
I may have to root for Jeff george Jr.(Bulger) today, to lose over there, it's unbearable! I don't know, that weasil though, man I'll be sick at 4 pm no matter what. lastly, news flash, ROMAN PHIFER said when he left the RAMS he wanted to play for a winning team, he never got his wish, N.E are losers, and he's a loser,....period! Scott L. Jinks(SGJINKS) 'THE RAMMY WHAMMY WILL BE BACK!"