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FOOTBALL
What a disgusting contest.
Fine, let’s do it.
Injuries
RB Darrell Henderson, Jr. (quad), and CB Jalen Ramsey (illness) came out with issues, but the Rams were fortunate not to add anyone the list. And honestly, that might be the story of the season yet again.
We’re halfway through the year, and as you look around the league (hell, just look across the NFC West to the San Francisco 49ers) there’s so much attrition due to injury. And yet again, the Rams are among the most fortunate on the injury front. Sure, we can assign credit to Sports Medicine and Performance Senior Director Reggie Scott, but a ton of this is up to luck.
And we should be very, very, very, very, very thankful as we approach the second half of the season that the overwhelming majority of the Rams’ roster is in good shape health-wise.
Performance Issues
Not a week after with more concerns here than this one.
The offensive line ratified why they need to be gameplanned around, QB Jared Goff reiterated why he’s a system QB that needs to be siphoned schematically and HC Sean McVay confirmed once and for all he’s just not willing to lean entirely into the running game even when (a) he’s facing the NFL’s worst run defense and (b) his running game is producing fantastic results.
Put it to bed. Let it rest. We’ve got a bye week to help us push this emotions deeper into the psyche before they resurface later to much worse outcomes. But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it! Bridges suck!
Standings
There’s just not a way out of this. The five remaining games in the NFC West are going to be excruciating battles that determine the season.
So be it.
Just a huge glut of teams between the 4-win San Francisco 49ers and everyone ahead of them plus the NFC East bottom feeders. With the new playoff template, you’d have the four division leaders (Seattle, Tampa Bay, Green Bay and Philadelphia) and three wild cards (New Orleans, Arizona and LA). So we’d be in thanks to the win over the Bears two weeks ago, but that only reinforces (a) how big that win was but (b) how thin the margins are. San Fran is only a game back and right now they've got the tiebreaker on us with the Week 6 win. We get a second run at them after Thanksgiving, but you get the idea.
It’s gonna be a fight.
FOOD
We’ve talked about grilled chicken thighs before back in September, but temps are starting to drop and grilling outside is getting less pleasurable. An easy way to work with skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs? Slow frying them.
It takes a little bit of experience to figure out what heat level works for you and your stovetop, but you’re looking essentially at medium-low and hitting them for 15 minutes skin side down before flipping and then going about 12 minutes on the other side. I first made them this way from this recipe for “Tuscan” chicken, but once you nail this method for your equipment you can use it for all kinds of applications since you’re going to get crispy skin on top and tender dark meat that you can use for anything. Creamy pastas, salads, protein-vegetable-starch separates. You can’t lose.
FUCKERY
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