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batture boy
Favorite team: | LSU |
Location: | Nacogdoches, TX |
Biography: | Grew up in Baton Rouge and N'awlins. Received my Ph.D. in English from LSU in 1997. Love gumbo, red beans n'rice, jambalaya, da Saints, Terrance Blanchard, Satchmo, and most everything Creole and Cajun in this world. Have two kids & a lovely wife. |
Interests: | LSU football, basketball, and baseball, da Saints, cooking, gardening, and reading. |
Occupation: | English professor |
Number of Posts: | 293 |
Registered on: | 12/12/2007 |
Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: 25 years ago today Mike Ditka traded our entire draft for Ricky Williams
Posted by batture boy on 4/19/24 at 1:09 pm
25 years ago today Mike Ditka was an idiot....
re: Washington Post (different writer) wrote article on Kim Mulkey 3 months ago (paywall link)
Posted by batture boy on 3/25/24 at 8:55 pm
Perhaps the answer is that Mulkey engages with her players with far more emotional intelligence than the press or basketball audience may imagine. Much of her reputation for hardheartedness stems from tension with Brittney Griner, who revealed she felt pressure to closet her sexuality at Baylor, the...
re: Bruce Feldman on The Athletic
Posted by batture boy on 1/15/24 at 3:23 pm
Paul Dietzel, who coached LSU to a national championship in 1958, was from Ohio. He later came back to BR and made it his retirement home. ...
re: A JD hit piece
Posted by batture boy on 1/7/24 at 9:19 am
Actually, Latt’s restructure makes it easier to trade him....
re: Arthur Smith - OC
Posted by batture boy on 1/2/24 at 8:40 pm
Play action is hardly the same thing as ball control....
re: Zach Baun
Posted by batture boy on 1/2/24 at 2:47 pm
You may not have noticed that Latt hasn’t played for weeks (for the 2nd season in a row). Last year when that happened, Taylor took his place on the outside. Would have been the natural thing to do this year, but DA has decided to continue to play Taylor out of position. Just gotta “keep doing what ...
re: Arthur Smith - OC
Posted by batture boy on 1/2/24 at 11:16 am
Not the right offense for a qb like Carr....
re: You're in the driver's seat to fix the Saints offense.
Posted by batture boy on 1/2/24 at 10:45 am
Clean house on the offensive side of the ball. Time to stop trying to run Payton’s offense w/o Payton. Innovation needed, including presnap motion on almost every play and play action. O line needs to be overhauled. ...
re: Zach Baun
Posted by batture boy on 1/2/24 at 10:14 am
This is what happens when you don’t design the system around players’ strengths, but instead try to pound square pegs into round holes. DA is also doing it with Taylor in the slot, when he’s clearly a boundary corner. The other factor is poor talent evaluation, like letting Hendrickson go b/c you th...
re: I get wanting a higher draft pick, but I’d rather make the playoffs than not.
Posted by batture boy on 1/1/24 at 7:56 am
I agree, which is all the more shame that the team has probably pissed its playoff chances away. I want to beat Atlanta badly next Sunday, but the path to the playoffs requires a lot of help from other teams now even if we find a way to stop their run game and win. If only the Saints would have deci...
re: Glad the team doesn’t give up as easily as you “fans”
Posted by batture boy on 1/1/24 at 7:52 am
The team certainly hasn’t given up, but, based on reporting from Underhill, that is credit not to the hapless Allen, but to the team leaders like DD, Cam, and TM....
re: So if Buccaneers lose today then
Posted by batture boy on 12/24/23 at 6:47 pm
No, mediocrity means you’re average. We will have a losing team for the second year in a row. That’s not mediocre—that’s below average....
re: We should put DA on the trade block
Posted by batture boy on 12/24/23 at 2:36 pm
No team would even give up a water boy for him....
re: So if Buccaneers lose today then
Posted by batture boy on 12/24/23 at 2:35 pm
I can’t see us beating the Yucs or the Turds. DA doesn’t have it in him to motivate the team. Mayfield will embarrass our D and make all the money we’re paying Carr look all the more stupid, and Atlanta will run over our D again. Carr will be lucky to score a first half TD in either game. I wish I c...
re: Empty seats are the only thing that will force Gayles hand.
Posted by batture boy on 12/24/23 at 9:07 am
I know her personally, and she’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. She was a failed business woman who was in debt before she married Benson (had an interior design business). Lauscha and Loomis call the shots, and Loomis thinks he has “the right people in the building” for the Saints, so we’re stu...
re: One surprising development this season: Jordan Howden
Posted by batture boy on 12/23/23 at 10:35 am
DA knows DBs, I’ll give him that, but his FA and draft moves on the DL look pretty bad except for Bresee, and his moves at LB are still TBD....
re: If the Saints lose to 1-11 Carolina at home...will there be actual fallout?
Posted by batture boy on 12/8/23 at 8:38 am
With a 17 game regular season, it’s impossible to finish at .500. We will finish with another patented DA losing season....
re: Are you ready to give Pete and Dennis another chance?
Posted by batture boy on 10/9/23 at 5:30 pm
Need more than just rushing attempts and the occasional shot for the offense to work. We need to do more of some of the things we saw against New England—more throws to CMG over the middle, more presnap motion, more play action, and more creativity in the red sone like the shovel pass to Moreau....
re: Alvin Kamara criticizes Saints offense
Posted by batture boy on 10/2/23 at 9:04 pm
Too many low percentage shot plays on third and short or medium., not just a bunch of short throws. Problem with the short throws is they were all almost to Kamara in the flat. Very easy for the D to diagnose. Where were the slants with Thomas, the quick outs with Olave, the TE working the middle o...
re: A Non-Defense Defense of Dennis Allen
Posted by batture boy on 8/13/23 at 8:26 am
This is the year DA either delivers, or has to get fired, IMO. He’s got a good roster with a good QB. Carr isn’t great, but you can definitely win with him. Looks like the D line has successfully reloaded, and D should be potentially even better than last year. Division is weak. There are no excuses...
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