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Will lsu even have a team

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We have 15 guys practicing as of last week per Will Wade, this guy hasnt been part of the equation for over a month already

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So they corrected his TFL into a 2nd sack?

He absolutely had 2 sacks against Texas A&M

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Yeah livestats at the time said it was a rush by their QB and was just a TFL; later got changed into sack which it was obviously a pass play

Using transfer partners is always where you will find the most outsized value; luxury hotels; business/1st class plane tickets, etc...

Even then, Hyatt is still the best hotel option to redeem to. Using award searches is the way to go to find good ways to redeem points for hotel/flights that have high value as well.

Also consider using something like sky key for flights after you book to automatically refund you cash/points/miles if they find a lower booking in the process. Just used that for the first time for some flights to Mexico in December.

Originally paid 52,600 Delta Skymiles for 2 comfort+ seats from ATL to CUN in Dec. It found the same flight a week ago for just 37,400 miles. It refunded 15,200 skymiles back into my account, nothing changed with my booking and I pay them $38 for the finders fee (you always pay them in cash, not points/miles).

Think of it like I got 15,200 sky miles for $38; which is an insane deal. they charge 25% of the refunded amount, which they value all points/miles at just 1.0cpp. So 15,200 miles in this case = $152 * .25 = $38 to them.

In the Chase travel portal I've had lots of success with points boost and my CSR. Booked a few hotels for 2.0cpp now.

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A few years? When Nebraska was last good I was in high school and I’m a man, I’m 40 now.

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You are taking my original comment completely out of context to what I was responding to.

My point Nebraska was bad under a bad coach (Frost), before him they were not near as bad, since they havent been as bad either. I never claimed they were very good over the last couple decades, but there's a difference in losing seasons (every year under Frost) vs winning seasons and even a bundle of 9-10 win seasons back when Bo Pelini was there

No Nebraska is far away from what they were in the 90s, but they were still a "solid" program outside of the Frost years for the most part. Not some completely dead in the water program like under Frost years.

Remains to be seen what Rhule will do there, they've obviously played nobody so far this season it being a couple MAC teams, FCS team and Michigan St who just always sucks now.

Ole Miss coming off a huge emotional victory, line makes sense to me, could be easy let down game for them

It's going to be a shootout

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It’s because Leavitt is getting paid a significant amount of money to play and produce at QB.

For what he is getting paid, it’s not unreasonable to expect him to be able to complete a pass to a wide open WR.

I do think he will get better and progress throughout the season as he gets back into game shape and comfortable with the offense, but when a QB is paid what Leavitt is paid, better play is expected.

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Again, we're talking 3 games here, Burrow and Daniels were SIGNIFICANTLY better player sin year 2 than year 1 here, and Leavitt is 3 games in; missed the entirety of Spring and is with a bunch of people he never even practiced with before fall of this year. We're probably still figuring out his OL, his best receivers, he just lost his best receiver/TE for at least an extended amount of time. On top of all that, he is working his way back from a tough injury.

Obviously he has room for improvement, just weird to me everyone is talking like we need a new QB for next year without a doubt, as it stands right now, its looking more like he'll be back for another season than headed straight to NFL unless he just absolutely blows up the remaining part of the season. Not every QB comes in and just immediately dominates, some guys take some time to settle in and figure things out. Not saying Leavitt will be a heisman contender next year or by later this year, but lets let things play out a little bit before condemning the guy who just even started fully practicing with his new coaches and entirely new team earlier last month.

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First 4 years started one game. PFF against OM was 12.6 when below 50 is considered poor. Looks like a potential problem there.

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12.6 was for pass blocking only; it's actually changed to 0.5 now, which might be a glitch because i dont even know how thats possible

Bordelon was "fine" the first couple games

Whole OL just about got embarrassed at OM, including Seaton even at points. Echoles just owned everyone on our OLine and unfortunately a lot of that was up against Bordelon.

It's not to excuse Bordelon's bad game, because it was a ridiculously bad game, but keep in mind he's not even the lowest graded Olineman on the team still this season through 3 games. That belong to Davis out at RT.

It's all frustrating because after the Oline looked pretty improved as a unit week 1 against Clemson (who has talent on their Dline), they have just regressed each week since. LT handled them pretty well in 1st half and OM did it the whole game just about.

I dont understand how we're so incapable of having a functioning OLine here anymore. I was hoping wiping out most of the Olinemen would lead to something better, apparently we didnt do enough with letting Davis stick around though. He was clearly the worst Olineman last season and we let him come back and he seemingly still hasnt developed even though at the end of last season his pass blocking started to look like it came around.

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The problem is pricing hasn't fallen to create an equilibrium with the rates. Homes are still valued as if they were selling in 2021 and 2022.

We can easily deal with 7% rates if the median home price returns to levels of sanity

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This, no real big problem with 6-7% rates, but when home prices have barely crept down from their highs back in 2022, when rates were still in the 3-5% range. That's a big problem.

We got double or more than double the rate inflation with barely any of the price decrease.

In Q2 2022, the median home sold for $413,500, the 30 year rate then was around 3.5%.

In Q2 2026, the median home sold for $410,700, almost identical, but the 30 year rate averaged around 6.5%. Which the price of the home in Q3 is about the same still probably but now 7%.

If you put 20% down on each and financed the rest:

The 2022 $413,500 home would have a mortgage only payment (no ins/taxes) $1,485.44 at 3.5%

The 2026 $410,700 home would have a mortgage only payment (no ins/taxes) $2,185.92 at 7%;.

Thats almost 50% more for the same house, all due to interest rate and no real change in price. This isn't even factoring in insurance and property taxes increase from 2022 to now which for basically anyone is definitely higher as well.

We've been sitting in our current home because the jump up to the next house would just be insane. We are sitting on a 2.375% mortgage right now; tons of equity on a $400k+ property ($250k+); our mortgage with taxes and insurance is about $2,150 (on a 15 year)

Our next place, even dumping all our equity into the next house, which would be around ~$750k range house at 7%; would have a payment easily double that of our current one on a 30 year.

Jimcoily was the backup to Spears at STAR, thats why he came on the field first there

Spears is a true safety with great coverage skills but is physical enough to be a linebacker basically too. Jimcoily is more a true linebacker who lacks the coverage skills to really play STAR IMO but can be more physical in smaller spaces.

They were right to switch over to Jhase Thomas, but with him you lose a bit of physicality at the STAR position as well to gain the coverage ability.

I dont think people understand STAR is really supposed to be a hybrid/safety/LB, and thats not what Jhase Thomas really is at all; you're really just playing a nickel basically at his size. Thomas is 6'1 180, where as Spears and Jimcoily are easily well in excess of 200+.

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He catches 2 passes and he’s a star? 1 catch happens to be a TD but because he’s from Louisiana, anything that he does yall jump on his bandwagon like we missed on him

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He is a true freshman and currently is graded out as Kentucky's best WR in their room. 10 catches 183 yards and 2 TD. And thats after playing Bama and A&M. Teams loaded with defensive talent.

He is graded out higher than any WR in our room this season so far if you exclude Holloway who has played just 6 snaps.

Man 5 career altering injuries is a higher being say this is not for you my man, that's so rough