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[copperfiend]

Not after Jacksonville shocks the world on Sunday!!! DUUUVVVAAALLL!!!

jk

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Not after Jacksonville shocks the world on Sunday!!! DUUUVVVAAALLL!!!

jk

I'm not so sure that we don't. 

We are fielding a team of mostly rookies.  Again.

The NFL season is a grind, so during the week, they're more focused on game-planning for their next opponent rather than focusing on fixing their issues.  (Don't ask me why this is, but the common theme I hear from those in the know is that 'mental errors' will work themselves out.  I don't buy it)

They've had a few days off to decompress and a chance to really review some tape of their flaws opposed to being force-fed another game-plan for the Colts.  This week is back to game-planning with a new sense of self-awareness.

Forecast:

We win this week in a dominant fashion and go 4-2 down the stretch.  Knocking the Ravens out of the playoffs and with losses in our last 2 weeks against the Texans and the Titans.

[WarDamJagFan]

That's a bold statement. I like it, but bold. I predict we pick up 2 more wins. We stay competitive in games, but only pull out 2 W's. Our defense just has too many injuries, and our offense is simply too young and our best receiver is on IR.

[duvaldude08]

That's a bold statement. I like it, but bold. I predict we pick up 2 more wins. We stay competitive in games, but only pull out 2 W's. Our defense just has too many injuries, and our offense is simply too young and our best receiver is on IR.

Why would it be a shock to win two more games? We were worst off last year and ended up winning four. If the offense can stop screwing up, we will be fine. Thats the main thing that has held us back. Mistakes on the offense and special teams that blow the game.

[I-10east]

Bears fan compliments Packers preceded him being stabbed outside Soldier Field. Wow, the word scumbag doesn't begin to describe. What an embarrassment for Bears fans.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/12/05/fan-alleges-compliment-about-packers-preceded-stabbing/

[I-10east]

No team will relocate to LA in 2015, so the trio (Chargers, Rams, and Raiders) is safe for now.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/story/_/id/12056126/roger-goodell-tells-teams-nfl-approve-los-angeles-relocation-2015-season

[I-10east]

Holy crap Dallas just beat the brakes off of Indianapolis, 42-7, wow.

[InnerCityPressure]

Proves how close we are to becoming a contender for the AFC South.  If the O can put it together, we're talking next year...

[tufsu1]

^  umm, no

[InnerCityPressure]

@tufsu1 - Are you really saying that if our offense puts it together, we won't be in contention to best the Titans, Texans and Colts?  You must not football much...

[Keith-N-Jax]

^^^ you answered your own question, " if "

[I-10east]

Bills head coach Doug Marrone opted out of Buffalo, wow..

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12104824/doug-marrone-opts-contract-buffalo-bills

[I-10east]

Uh-Oh for St Louis football fans!!! The Rams owner Stan Kroenke is planning to build a NFL stadium in Inglewood, CA. Stay tuned.

http://fox2now.com/2015/01/05/rams-owner-stan-kroenke-plans-to-build-80k-seat-nfl-stadium-in-los-angeles-2/

[spuwho]

Here is the LA perspective.

As Rams owner eyes L.A. stadium, St. Louis readies pitch to keep team


An artist's rendering shows the planned City of Champions Revitalization Project in Inglewood, where the owner of the St. Louis Rams plans to build an NFL stadium. (HKS Inc.)

Two business leaders appointed by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon are set soon to unveil a proposal for a new stadium for the Rams, to be located just north of downtown St. Louis along the Mississippi River. While details of cost and financing are still being worked out, the hope, according to people familiar with the plan, is to signal to the NFL that St. Louis is serious about keeping its franchise.

St. Louis and Missouri officials had no immediate reaction Monday morning to Kroenke's stadium plan, disclosed early Monday in an exclusive report by The Times. Kroenke has joined forces with Stockbridge Capital Group to add a stadium to an already massive development at Hollywood Park in Inglewood.

In St. Louis, the team and local officials have been negotiating for several years over the Rams' future. The team is free to go on a year-to-year lease after this season if the Edward Jones Dome is not in the top quarter of stadiums in the league.

The last proposals by the two sides for renovations, in 2012, were more than $570 million apart, sending the matter to arbitration.

Since then, Nixon's office has led negotiations with the team. A spokesman for the governor had no immediate comment Monday, but in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month, Nixon pledged to be "competitive" to keep the Rams.

"Being an NFL city is a matter of civic and state pride, and make no mistake about it – St. Louis is an NFL city," Nixon said in a statement in November, when he appointed two St. Louis-area business leaders to spearhead the effort.

Those leaders -- former Anheuser-Busch executive David Peacock and veteran attorney Bob Blitz -- have met with officials from both the Rams and the NFL in recent weeks and are preparing a stadium proposal which should be ready later this month. Neither was available for comment early Monday.

Local officials have promised that any new tax money for a stadium would require a public vote, an effort that would likely take months and could go down to defeat in a region still wrestling with protests over the events last summer in Ferguson, just a dozen miles from downtown St. Louis.

Even restructuring existing debt on the Edward Jones Dome or tapping other state funds to help finance a new stadium would likely require a vote of Missouri's legislature, which goes into session this week. Items related to Ferguson are expected to grab a lion's share of the attention, and it's unclear how much appetite there is in the Republican-dominated legislature to spend more public money on a stadium in St. Louis.

[JaxJersey-licious]

Here is the LA perspective.

As Rams owner eyes L.A. stadium, St. Louis readies pitch to keep team


An artist's rendering shows the planned City of Champions Revitalization Project in Inglewood, where the owner of the St. Louis Rams plans to build an NFL stadium. (HKS Inc.)

Two business leaders appointed by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon are set soon to unveil a proposal for a new stadium for the Rams, to be located just north of downtown St. Louis along the Mississippi River. While details of cost and financing are still being worked out, the hope, according to people familiar with the plan, is to signal to the NFL that St. Louis is serious about keeping its franchise.

St. Louis and Missouri officials had no immediate reaction Monday morning to Kroenke's stadium plan, disclosed early Monday in an exclusive report by The Times. Kroenke has joined forces with Stockbridge Capital Group to add a stadium to an already massive development at Hollywood Park in Inglewood.

In St. Louis, the team and local officials have been negotiating for several years over the Rams' future. The team is free to go on a year-to-year lease after this season if the Edward Jones Dome is not in the top quarter of stadiums in the league.

The last proposals by the two sides for renovations, in 2012, were more than $570 million apart, sending the matter to arbitration.

Since then, Nixon's office has led negotiations with the team. A spokesman for the governor had no immediate comment Monday, but in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month, Nixon pledged to be "competitive" to keep the Rams.

"Being an NFL city is a matter of civic and state pride, and make no mistake about it – St. Louis is an NFL city," Nixon said in a statement in November, when he appointed two St. Louis-area business leaders to spearhead the effort.

Those leaders -- former Anheuser-Busch executive David Peacock and veteran attorney Bob Blitz -- have met with officials from both the Rams and the NFL in recent weeks and are preparing a stadium proposal which should be ready later this month. Neither was available for comment early Monday.

Local officials have promised that any new tax money for a stadium would require a public vote, an effort that would likely take months and could go down to defeat in a region still wrestling with protests over the events last summer in Ferguson, just a dozen miles from downtown St. Louis.

Even restructuring existing debt on the Edward Jones Dome or tapping other state funds to help finance a new stadium would likely require a vote of Missouri's legislature, which goes into session this week. Items related to Ferguson are expected to grab a lion's share of the attention, and it's unclear how much appetite there is in the Republican-dominated legislature to spend more public money on a stadium in St. Louis.

I'm pretty sure that even with the latest plans, Angelinos are still being used for leverage as was Jacksonville was used by Baltimore, Houston, and St. Louis in the 80's. If the are really wanted a team, the localities and the county would have moved heaven and earth and built a stadium to land any team. Although having a brand new football stadium would substantially appreciate the value of their franchise in the long term, many of these same owners also realize they have very favorable deals with minimal operating costs with their older stadiums while their revenue is on par with other owners because of the NFL TV deals plus they aren't as saddled with the same amount of debt as owners of newer stadiums are.

If I were St. Louis, I wouldn't offer a dime more in their renegotiation of the Edward Jones Dome lease. Remember, the residents of Inglewood, CA still have to approve construction of the stadium. I'd have some business partners wanting to keep the Rams in the "Lou" to get with community activists in California and fund opposition to the ballot measure. Even if stadium construction would be %100 financed by the team, they could show residents that there would be many hidden costs related to the stadium the city taxpayers would have to finance such as road construction, utility restructuring, security, traffic management, police overtime, etc. on top of some very lucrative short-term tax abatements for the team. On top of that, they could bring up issues such as gentrification, traffic disruptions, noise issues, community hiring, paying a living wage, and other quality of life issues in regards to the stadium.

If they lose, they can keep fighting these same issues for years and years but meanwhile they'd go back groveling to the city of St. Louis as the team announces their "new dedication to the community" while they tuck their beaten tails beneath their legs.

Would serve them right