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By Joe Torosian<\/p>\nBy Joe Torosian<\/p>\n
Kick it!<\/p>\n
About last night\u2026It was worse than the chicken at Tresky’s. Oh well, life goes on.<\/p>\n
Fog City kicked the Rams’ butt\u2026and I wish they had run up the score.<\/p>\n
To an extent, I do believe the Rams looked tired. To an extent, I do believe it was the typical sluggishness of starters getting on the field for the first time, and to an extent, yes, it was absolutely the 49ers’ play.<\/p>\n
I can handle and deal with all of it\u2026but, as was passed on to me: “I thought running zone on 3rd less than 7 was all done with the BEST pass rusher and 2 new corners? But call me crazy…”<\/em><\/p>\n On top of that, Chris Shula brought no adjustments. For a defense the Rams spent a lot of money on, it was dictated to rather than dictating anything themselves.<\/p>\n Note to Kam Kinchens:<\/strong> See Eddie Brown, Super Bowl 14.<\/p>\n Note to Sean McVay:<\/strong> Five tight ends, two very good running backs, on fourth and less than one at the goal line, don’t put the ball in the hands of your 38-year-old quarterback.<\/p>\n The Dodgers put Shohei Ohtani on the 15-day injured (Whatever you do, don’t say, “disabled”) list. With a knee and bicep issue, he’s not eligible to come back until September 23rd\u2014a nice vakay before October.<\/p>\n #107\u2014May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth\u2026<\/p>\n “If you want to grow the game, grow it in the United States. We got a lot of kids that aren’t playing football. So let’s play games where we need to grow the game in our country.”<\/em>\u2014Jon Gruden.<\/p>\n X\/Twitter Response:<\/strong> “Agreed. Play these games in massive college stadiums that don’t have NFL in their state. Alabama, Clemson, Nebraska, Oregon, etc would all be such cool venues for an NFL game & provide an experience to fans who don’t have NFL close by.”<\/em><\/p>\n Twenty-Five years ago this morning, I was in the shower, and my wife pounded on the door and said we were under attack.<\/p>\n I thought she was crazy. I got out of the shower, wrapped a towel around my waist, went dripping to the family room, and saw both towers burning.<\/p>\n I took our daughters to school. A lady I knew was at a stop sign smiled so kindly at me, and I wondered if she knew what was going on. <\/p>\n It was deadline day at The Mid (while we posted daily to the website, there was still a weekly hard copy circulating 12 to 15 thousand hard copies).<\/p>\n It was surreal; we listened to the radio, did our jobs, and I wrote a column about how\u2014like December 7th\u2014nothing would ever be the same again.<\/p>\n (Later I received a letter from the parents of El Monte swimming legend and Olympian (3 gold medals) Sandy Neilsen thanking me for the column.)<\/p>\n I went home, couldn’t take my eyes off the news, and left for a college Bible Study I was leading.<\/p>\n Driving West on the 210 that night, with the radio updating that there was no way to know the death count because of the destruction, I drove on. Somewhere around Eagle Rock, I broke down and cried my eyes out.<\/p>\n Razz, hassle me about the Rams today\u2014all good.<\/p>\n But…please leave a comment about where you were on this day 25 years ago. It’s important to remember and record. <\/p>\n The Dude abides\u2026<\/p>\n 1,354<\/strong> By Joe Torosian Kick it! About last night\u2026It was worse than the chicken at Tresky’s. Oh well, life goes on. Fog City kicked the Rams’ butt\u2026and I wish they had run up the score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98573,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98572\/revisions\/98573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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