Rick Stroker

Last I saw was that Michigan is hoping he’ll come to the Ohio State game. The last Bryce spoke about anything he said he didn’t plan on anymore visits before he announces

By about midnight on Tuesday he’ll be yelling about how terrible of a candidate Biden was and how everyone with sense could see that Biden wasn’t really going to win, the DNC is so terrible, they should’ve elected Bernie, etc. Wash, rinse, repeat for whatever swamp rat the Democrats run in 2024

There will be a lot of "hidden" republican Biden voters in New York and California. They'll be so hidden that the voters themselves won't even know that they voted for Biden instead of Trump

Gotta set the narrative. Trump is holding a rally in Georgia tomorrow (obviously to help with down ballot races), and as soon as it was announced the poll-watchers starting saying "Well if Trump is going to Georgia this close to the election, it's obviously not a good sign." This poll helps set the narrative that Trump is desperate to hold on to even solid GOP states

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The regular polls don't poll the entirety of a state. They generally miss many rural areas.

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The ultimate irony of this election would be if we do see a huge increase in turnout like the media pollsters think, but it turns out to be a bunch of baws from the backwoods turning out for the first time to keep MAGA in office

I’m thinking that ACB is a head-fake at this point: her being the only one reported to meet with him at the White House, leaks to the press that he’s close to picking her, and all the media pieces and blue-check twitter talking about Barrett the past two days. Add to it that Trump will be in Florida for a rally on Thursday with an open date on Friday (he said he’d have a pick by Friday or Saturday), and I think he may be leaning towards Lagoa

Most of the times that Stingley has struggled this year have been against extremely quick, extremely fast route runners (see: Alabama's entire receiving core). When he's been matched with big, physical receivers (Johnson from Texas, Williams from Auburn, etc.) he has typically done pretty well. Obviously Higgins and Ross are on a different level and will get theirs, but I expect Stingley to get some big pass breakups as well.

If the defense plays like it did against Alabama down the stretch, and there’s no reason to think it won’t, LSU wins the national championship. Alabama’s offense scored 34 points and that total includes the trick snap play. That offense that has been naming their score all season before Tua went down had three sustained drives in the entire game. The Ole Miss game is nothing more than an aberration at this point since the rush defense has been pretty good overall for the entire year. Do I wish there weren’t as many big plays given up? Yes, but I also have confidence that the defense will be able to make a few key stops when it matters

While I love hearing that a loss to Georgia doesn’t disqualify us, I’d sure love it if LSU splatters UGA all over the field December 7th

I’ll take Joey Burrow against any team in the country

O/U on the amount of times Gary/Nessler gush on Saturday about how impressive Tua is on the ankle that clearly wasn’t nearly as hurt as everyone wanted us to think?

I don’t think it’s ever mentioned in the movies, but in The Return of the King book, it’s stated that Sauron didn’t have access to enough horses to supply his army with cavalry. Plus the orcs would have probably just eaten the horses as soon as they got tired of eating slop. I guess Saruman would’ve been able to get enough horses but again the orcs would’ve probably eaten all the horses before they could be effective in combat. They had such a great numbers advantage that it shouldn’t have mattered, but they didn’t count on Aragorn showing up with the ghost army

Gotta be able to run both man and zone and disguise the coverage against Tua so he is forced to hold the ball and make reads. If he knows where he’s going with the ball every play we have no chance of slowing that offense down. At the same time you have to get home fast with pressure/stop the run to get them off schedule on 2nd and 3rd down.

I could be wrong, but I get the feeling that this game won’t be as high scoring as people think. Aranda and Saban are both getting two weeks to scheme for these offenses, and I think they will both start out with some defensive schemes that will slow down offensive production in the first quarter or so. That being said, I think the first team to 35 wins because after the first quarter both offense will react with an effective answer to the defenses

I'd say the first third down conversion Auburn gets on offense on their opening possession