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re: Arnett to interview tomorrow

Posted by pjgary on 1/12/21 at 3:34 pm to
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Bring to lake Charles

Feed him Darrell's sandwich



Old Tyme Grocery in Lafayette is much better than Darrell's. Old Tyme's second location (called BJ's in Broussard) also taste exactly the same as original. Darrell's location in Jennings taste nothing like the Lake Charles location.

re: Graham Harrell Interview For OC

Posted by pjgary on 12/25/20 at 8:48 pm to
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Hearing he really impressed


Sure fricking hope not, because somehow, some way, Scott Linehan impressed. Suppose you have to consider who it is that is impressed.
Not at all. I live not far from where Reed played in High School, and we went to LSU together. I never played against him, but friends have and raved about how awesome a RB he was. I left LSU early to join the Marines, as I was afraid I was going to lose my scholarship because I had trouble controlling my urge to screw everything instead of studying, and my dad wouldn't let me take a semester off and move back home ("better get your arse an apartment")... I just wanted to take one damn semester off to get my dick under control.

Anyways, I was very excited for Josh when he switched positions and started playing a lot. I was also able to see most games his JR year and it was exciting this local boy was leading the nation. Was happy when he got drafted by the Bills and took Peerless Price's place.

Now, all these years later, I work not far from where Boutte played, and followed him his SR year. The reason I am not bummed at all is because it was another local kid from Acadiana, representing our state well.

I hope Boutte shatters the records set by Jefferson and Chase as well. All that does is make LSU become WR U again.

re: Don’t let O hire ANYBODY!!

Posted by pjgary on 12/22/20 at 12:44 pm to
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If O wants Nielson and LSU wants Mason... then their both incompetent and should be fired.

Nielsen is his buddy. I actually like the coach.. but Nielsen is too comfy. O needs to feel uncomfortable. Freeman would do that.



Bill Johnson was an incompetent coach who could neither spot talent, develop talent, coach talent, nor put the talent in the best position to succeed. A complete fricking idiot Sean Payton kept for about 4 years too long.

Nielson excels every in area Bill Johnson was an abject failure. The guy knows how to find that gem in the rough, exactly what he is looking for whether it be a 3 star prospect or late/UDFA. He quickly develops and coaches the talent and puts them in best position to succeed. He doesn't force a natural 3 tech to play nose, or a 5 tech to drop in coverage or ---...whevever guys will play best based on their body type and natural skillset, that's where they play. If the are versatile, they will play all positions they are good at up and down the LOS.

The Saints defense and defensive line production, performance, and development, under Nielson, is fricking night and day legit awesome and allows the back 7 to be dominant at times because they rarely have to blitz and get pressure all game long with front 4.

Hire that fricking dude ASAP
D) angry

I'm not angry because LSU is losing. O is smart enough to know what he isn't and understand he has to have quality coordinators. However, if a coordinator or other coach is head and shoulders smarter than him, a divorce is coming.

It's nice that he is often more transparent than most. It makes me angry that post game he can pin point the problems, yet during the game he doesn't force a coordinator or coach to make any meaningful adjustment.

I understand the defense is ___'s responsibility, the offense is ___'s responsibility, this position group is ___'s responsibility, and he doesn't want to micromanage or meddle. Yet when something isn't working and nothing was changed in the 2nd quarter, halftime, or 3rd quarter, at some point the Head Coach needs to nut up and take ownership and demand obvious adjustments.

My other issues are his choice in coaches. Bill Johnson hasn't developed a single defensive lineman while with the Saints. He couldn't spot talent, teach, grow, or groom. He can't communicate for shite. And he has history of playing players out of position and contrary to their strengths. That's the reason Akiem Hicks is no longer with the Saints and went on to become very good elsewhere. With all the defensive line talent LSU recruited, you see zero development. I understand he filled in in a pinch last year, but he has no business being a coach.

I can't stand the hires of washed up coaches who aren't in demand anywhere else. Especially when the come from the dumb frick tree of 1990 get r done old boy network.

He needs to hire coaches smarter than him, coaches whom need no correction because Ed will throw players under the bus before he holds his buddies and shitty hires accountable.

I don't care what coaches and players Saban loses - he damn sure wouldn't let go the ineptitude and inability to relate with players or communicate on their level - he wouldn't let the we can't cross the 50 yard line let's try the same tired shite for the rest of this game and repeat it all year because we don't have a clue - Saban wouldn't tolerate that.

I'm angry because though Ed is smart enough to know he isn't a coordinator by any measure, he's too dumb to know when he should step in, and too proud to know when he should stay the frick out of the way.

re: The Koy Moore complaint

Posted by pjgary on 11/30/20 at 9:40 pm to
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Moore's attorney has no control over when law enforcement releases the footage. It took three months to release the George Floyd body cam video, and that was in a huge nationally scrutinized case.


That took months because the video showed a crack pipe being removed from Floyd, Floyd dropping a bag of drugs on the concrete, Floyd acting high and erratic and yelling he couldn't breathe before and while they put him in the cruiser, Floyd demanding to get out and lay on the ground, the diverse cops - black, white, hispanic, and asian - all not really putting any pressure on Floyd (looks totally different from body cam angle), and Floyd OD'ing from lethal amounts of Fentanyl in his system (among multiple other hard drugs) after admitting he was hooping (drugs stuck up his arse).

Simply, the bodycam footage from the 4 cops destroyed the narrative that was being used very politically by the media and left to start a race war and distract from the Obamagate bombs that should have been going off. Instead we got a 24/7 dose of defund the police, everyone is systematically racist, and that a black, white, hispanic, and asian cop killed Floyd because they were racist.

Nevermind they were very professional and courteous to him, nevermind they put him in the cruiser and he resisted, acted erratic, and demanded to lie down on the road because he was so fricking high he was OD'ing. Nevermind the toxicology that got buried, nevermind the transcript of the body cams that leaked out before the very left Minnesota AG finally released the footage.

They purposefully held that footage because it was serving a very political purpose, and releasing it would have destroyed a narrative they desperately needed.
Apparently, an elderly man with an LSU hat was confused for an elderly man with a MAGA hat, so the peaceful protestor should not face any prosecution and according to reports, the elderly man was paying restitution.

Seriously, prayers for your father in law.

I have a special kind of inner Gerard Butler Law Abiding Citizen anger hidden away just wishing and begging to witness some shite like that so I can have a justifiable reason to explode on a coward POS predator who likes to operate in the shadows with the deck stacked.
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They didn't think they could execute zone with the personnel they had on the field.

If you want to point criticism, that's where it lies...being unprepared.


So all the players who aren't true freshman/transfers who've spent all their previous years practicing and learning zone defense under Dave Aranda, who was known as The Professor and made his living doing more with less - they all the sudden don't know how to play the most basic fricking zone schemes? bullshite.

When players are getting picked and rubbed on man beater after man beater simple slants and crossing routes, and the coach can't determine zone might give this group of personnel a fighting chance against an offense that for 20+ years has had the least success against zone, you shouldn't be getting paid millions. Period.

It's one thing to believe you have the plan and personnel to get adequate pressure and play nothing but man because you think you have superior athletes, but when it becomes evident on that particular night you are fricking wrong, you better have a plan B.

It wasn't necessary to play 100% zone, but hell, to let the same 3 plays eat your arse all night because you refuse to stop playing man is insanity.
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There is nearly 25 years of info on Leach’s offense. It the same plays over and over. Not being prepared with adjustments is the coaches fault.


Exactly. Inexcusable. This was like Les Miles in the NC vs Alabama.

When it is evident to every soul that shite has zero chance of working, keep repeating it and leaving your players in the worst possible position to succeed.

When the opponent doesn't have to guess what you are doing, has no hesitation and knows how to break what you will do and proceeds to do just that, but you decide to stick with your plan because you believe almost is a better alternative than admitting your plan is shite, you deserve to be coaching for the University of Dumfrickistan.
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they win the game if Stingley plays


They win the game if Pelini makes any kind of fricking adjustment. MSU ran nothing but man beaters with picks and rubs on nearly every play. Before we reached halftime it was very evident man coverage couldn't possibly succeed.

I don't care who was or wasn't playing - Pelini did not put them in the best position to succeed. Like he was Mike Martz, he refused to adapt to personnel on hand and tried to force them to adapt to his system, instead of adapting the system to the strengths of your players... or at the very least fricking protecting where they are most weak.

And if YOU, Lester Earl, could not tell before halftime that Leach was using plays specifically designed to break man coverage and that Bo Pelini never adjusted, then YOU don't know what the hell you are talking about... you don't know football.

Costello was damn near Brees/Burrow accurate... having played 3 seasons already, he was quick and decisive with where he wanted to go with the ball. LB's and DB's were getting picked nearly every other play, leaving guys across the middle on simple slant routes wide the frick open, repeatedly, in every quarter. Mississippi fricking State. I don't give a damn who plays, if Bo Pelini never makes an adjustment, you would have seen the same result.

Leach's route concepts are neither new, complex, multiple, nor revolutionary. There's a reason after all these year's he is coaching Mississippi State. Bo Pelini just proved there's an even greater reason he was coaching for Podunk U last year. He should really be coaching for Les Miles. The fact Ed didn't step in and force at least one fricking zone play makes him equally complicit.
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Thank you for copying and pasting War and Peace.


Learn to read and think logically. It will take you far in life. That said, if you are on the wrong side of truth, comprehension and confirmation bias might equate to a paradigm shift, so it's much easier to persist in a lie than redefine beliefs you may be invested in.
What does the science say? NOTE: the term "children", for this post, are all younger than 15.

1) For starters, in the entire world, as of August 12, 2020, almost 10 months after the first reported case of Covid19, there is not 1 documented case throughout the entire world of a child passing the virus to an adult. There isn't a single reported case on the planet of this. Not one, not after the extensive contact tracing and peer reviewed studies conducted here and abroad. Every single study, no matter the source or politics, has concluded at worst "kids don't play a significant role of spreading the virus".

2) This has actually been a great surprise, as the first thing that was shutdown was schools. It was assumed that like the common cold, influenza, and a host of other virus' that children would be the source of the biggest spread of Covid19. Yet every study and analysis of the actual facts (10 months of data) contradicts that assumption and narrative. For whatever reason, the youth react opposite than was expected to Covid19 than every other strain in the coronavirus/common cold and influenza family.

3) What the hard data does show is that influenza is 7x more deadly to children than Covid19. There have been less than 50 children Covid19 deaths in the US over the last 8 months. Through the first 8 months each of the last 10 years, the number is exponentially higher with the flu (on average 511 flu deaths per year in same age group, or 341 thru first 8 months).

4) The average age of all Covid-19 deaths in the USA is 78. That's including deaths called "Covid-19" that are presumed (no positive test for virus), including self inflicted gunshots, drug overdoses, head on collisions, and all manner of frickery.

5) Influenza death rate is estimated at 0.1% - 7x higher than the rate for children under 15, and on par with young adults under 25. Simply, unless the immune system is severely compromised (i.e. childhood cancer, morbid obesity, diabetes) Covid-19 is less lethal than influenza for all those college age and younger.

6) For all ages under 25, this year alone, Covid-19 isn't even in the top 25 for cause of death (I couldn't find a more extensive list, like say top 50).

7) All combined Covid-19 deaths under the age of 65 are less than the deaths in the 65-74 range alone, less than the 75-84 age range alone, less than the 85+ age range alone. Simply, there are 4x more deaths over the age of 65 than all combined under 65.

8) Raw data alone, no study needed, demonstrably illustrates Covid-19 is nowhere near as lethal as influenza and a host of other causes of death we count as "normal" for those under the age of 65.

9) Almost every country has reopened schools. There are a few notables who never locked down anything, never required a mask, and just lived responsibly. Their amount of cases and deaths are less per capita than countries of the opposite extreme.

10) The potency of Covid-19 is decreasing. Many epidemiologist here and abroad believe it will die out by October. The overwhelming majority of youth under the age of 25 who contracted Covid-19 had either very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, and that was true back in April and May when it was most potent.

There is zero scientific and medical reason to cancel fall sports. Argue all you want, but be a gentleman and bring hard statistical facts to the table. Unless you can show why this is more lethal than influenza, unless you can show it is more dangerous than influenza to all under the age of 25, then actual science and hard data do not demand mitigation methods more drastic than what is already being done at universities that have re-opened.

There was zero need for those other conferences to make their decisions now. And for the record, positive tests have zero bearing on potency and effect.

LINK

This link compares covid19 vs pneumonia vs influenza deaths by age group. Note 1- data in this cdc chart starts on Feb 1, 2020. Note 2 - there were more flu deaths to children (and every other age group) in January alone than what you see in the period of February through August. CDC makes it difficult to search that, as it is very revealing. However, google will show you plenty of articles before the Covid-19 fear porn narrative started. Here's one from CNN LINK in February that cites a record breaking 105 children have died from flu in 2020, but the do not give an age range. Suffice to say, this number is under the age of 18.

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With this link, you CAN see the flu deaths by age group for an entire year. Simply click the year and view the chart. Use your calculator, and as I stated in the OP, you will see the average flu deaths for children from 2010 thru 2019 (actually a 10 year average) is 511.

Being that THOSE specific figures were the crux of my argument - that the flu, on average, is 7 times more deadly to children than Covid-19 and we don't shut down schools are universities for that risk, I won't do the work for you on everything else.

We live in the age of information. I've given you hard facts from the CDC's website, and from CNN - a news source I can wipe my arse with because they are very partisan and quickly abandon these kinds of facts when the narrative changes to suit their political agenda -- notice, they aren't reporting this.

So here's more facts. You are more than free to find them on CDC or worldmeters or whatever source you are comfortable with. The point is for you to stop listening to the mainstream media's propaganda, and actually look at the data - research for yourself. You can easily verify the following:

According to the CDC, the average number of total deaths in the US per day in 2020 is 7,434. In 2017, we averaged more than 7,700 deaths per day. We have a pandemic that is so dangerous you need a test to find out whether you have it or have had it, and we are averaging less deaths per day than an average year.

In the hotspot of Texas, from through July 14, there were 3,322 Covid-19 deaths. In 2019 there were 10,020 flu deaths, and in 2018 there were 11,917. You can confirm this on CDC or on Texas Department of State Health Services, or find it on Twitter and other places very easy.

I can go on and on and on, but for the sake of brevity, I won't, as I understand some people have a problem with reading and comprehension and logic and would rather regurgitate the fake news they get from the nazi propaganda machine ABC/CNN/MSNBC/CBS/____ who have been completely and shamefully dishonest, flat out lied, and are the biggest source of misinformation, along with their colluding Twitter, Google, Facebook, and YouTube

Hint - and you can verify this easily enough - all of the MSM sources listed above, as well the CDC - they've all donated combined billions of dollars since 2015 to one of the political parties. At least 98% of all their donations have gone to ONE party. This is public record. They aren't reporting the facts, they aren't neutral, and they aren't hiding it.

So if we are going to talk of misinformation, I am giving you links to CDC - hard facts and data you can easily verify yourself. Facts that taken quite logically, destroy the narrative. Will you follow the data and the science, or are you married to a narrative?
Covid-19 is so deadly and damaging, you need a test to find out whether you have it or have had it.
Do you hear that? Crickets. That's what happen when the false narrative is destroyed by facts, science and logic. Truth is completely ignored. The only recourse is either crickets, or name calling (i.e. racist, bigot, conspiracy nut) aimed at dismissing truth by attacking the bearer of it, or completely abandoning all data, logic, and facts while changing the nature of the argument to something philosophical or simply moving the goal post.

Why? Because some are emotionally invested in the false narrative. Some are politically attached to a false narrative. Some prefer believing an absurd lie over a difficult truth because being intellectually honest would result in a complete paradigm shift, like what happened with Leo Terrell.

Why do I care what anyone believes? Because an evil ideology is behind this narrative. And that ideology has resulted in cities being destroyed, economies and businesses being destroyed, children not going to school, families not going to church, exponential increase in suicides, overdose, abuse, and violence, sports being cancelled, police being de-funded, and violent criminals and sex offenders being released from jail, violent domestic terrorist being released from jail and having no charges brought against them, and a spiraling unraveling of everything this country was founded on, of everything that makes America great.

If you want to ignore the facts that Covid-19 is seven times less dangerous to kids than influenza, is less dangerous than influenza for everyone under the age of 65 who doesn't have a seriously compromised immune system, that we aren't experiencing more deaths than on average (actually 2020 has the 2nd least weekly mortality rate in the last twenty years) -- if you want to disregard all these hard facts, then you shouldn't complain when everything you love is taken from you, including football, because instead of thinking for yourself, you bought into an ideology and narrative designed to destroy all you hold dear in the hopes of destroying democracy.

The risk for schools and universities, for organized sports to occur in the midst of Covid-19 is far less than risks we already accept, specifically influenza. Lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates - none of it serves any purpose other than political; none of it is beneficial in "stopping the pandemic".

The ONLY thing that stops a virus is herd immunity. Period. The lockdowns were only supposed to be for 2-4 weeks, in order to prevent hospitals from being overrun and allow manufacturing to rectify certain shortages. Look how far the goal posts have moved. Look how much the narrative has changed. And notice that once Covid-19 started to diminish in it's potency, the media stopped reporting scary daily death totals (which, btw, were extremely exaggerated and many states have had to adjust totals after being caught) and instead started reporting "cases".

I truly feel sorry for the players in all those conferences who have prematurely cancelled or postponed their seasons not because of science, but in spite of science.
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Scientists time and time again have said this virus is "different" from any virus (including other novel viruses) they have ever seen. If there is "proof" that Adult "X" contracted the virus from Adult "Y," why can there not be "proof" that Adult "X" contracted the virus from child "Z?" Your assertion that children never go anywhere without an adult is noteworthy but does not offer any proof for your primary assertion. That being said, (my opinion/without proof) is that children probably can transmit CoVid....and probably do.
The medical community has "proven" transmission from one adult to another adult numerous times. There is data that indicates children get a "milder" version (not just milder symptoms) of CoVid. This brings up another question..."IF" children only contract a very mild "version" of CoVid (a version that either has no symptoms or seems like a mild cold), why would we be setting our hair on fire about "that version/strain" being contracted by adults? AND, if contracting this "milder version" results in antibodies that protect you from all versions of CoVid-19, wouldn't that be a good thing? Scientists are looking at these theories as we speak. This could be a reason why countries that did not close their schools are doing so well against the virus! It would also explain why places like Sweeden and New York seem to have achieved herd immunity even though their documented cases of CoVid seem too low for herd immunity.


And that's the point. All the data, worldwide, shows that Covid-19 is simply not dangerous to children, young adults, and practically 99.9% of healthy adults under the age of 65. For God's sake, the average age of Covid-19 deaths in the US is 78! We aren't experiencing more deaths in 2020 than we have in the last 10 years - in fact, through the first 32 weeks of 2020, we have the second lowest death rate per week this century.

ALL of this lockdown and pandemic is a manufactured fear mongering. Is Covid-19 dangerous? Yes, but not more dangerous than cancer, than an average flu season, than diabetes, than many other leading causes of death. And without getting into a debate over how deaths have been classified, nor the faulty testing (England just quietly dropped their positive tests by 1.3 million, 600,000 US military members were falsely told they were positive - google it), suffice to say that the normal causes of death have mysteriously dropped drastically this year in blue states... most of those same states also forced elderly covid19 patients from hospitals to nursing homes, despite having staffed field hospitals (mostly empty)constructed specifically for this purpose.

Hint to all: use duck duck go as your search engine - they don't censor the results like google and yahoo. Look up articles and studies from epidemiologist from around the world, or from Harvard, Stanford, and other domestic institutions. Almost all specifically agree lockdowns and school closures prolong Covid-19's lifespan, because they prevent the herd immunity that occurs form kids kicking covid's arse from being achieved in timely fashion. Simply, with no lockdowns, that occurs on average in 4 weeks. Which is why more than a few schools in Europe never shut, and many more opened pretty quickly, before the previous school year ended. But the mainstream media isn't reporting any kind of analysis on that.
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Then post a link.


LINK

This link compares covid19 vs pneumonia vs influenza deaths by age group. Note 1- data in this cdc chart starts on Feb 1, 2020. Note 2 - there were more flu deaths to children (and every other age group) in January alone than what you see in the period of February through August. CDC makes it difficult to search that, as it is very revealing. However, google will show you plenty of articles before the Covid-19 fear porn narrative started. Here's one from CNN LINK in February that cites a record breaking 105 children have died from flu in 2020, but the do not give an age range. Suffice to say, this number is under the age of 18.

LINK

With this link, you CAN see the flu deaths by age group for an entire year. Simply click the year and view the chart. Use your calculator, and as I stated in the OP, you will see the average flu deaths for children from 2010 thru 2019 (actually a 10 year average) is 511.

Being that THOSE specific figures were the crux of my argument - that the flu, on average, is 7 times more deadly to children than Covid-19 and we don't shut down schools are universities for that risk, I won't do the work for you on everything else.

We live in the age of information. I've given you hard facts from the CDC's website, and from CNN - a news source I can wipe my arse with because they are very partisan and quickly abandon these kinds of facts when the narrative changes to suit their political agenda -- notice, they aren't reporting this.

So here's more facts. You are more than free to find them on CDC or worldmeters or whatever source you are comfortable with. The point is for you to stop listening to the mainstream media's propaganda, and actually look at the data - research for yourself. You can easily verify the following:

According to the CDC, the average number of total deaths in the US per day in 2020 is 7,434. In 2017, we averaged more than 7,700 deaths per day. We have a pandemic that is so dangerous you need a test to find out whether you have it or have had it, and we are averaging less deaths per day than an average year.

In the hotspot of Texas, from through July 14, there were 3,322 Covid-19 deaths. In 2019 there were 10,020 flu deaths, and in 2018 there were 11,917. You can confirm this on CDC or on Texas Department of State Health Services, or find it on Twitter and other places very easy.

I can go on and on and on, but for the sake of brevity, I won't, as I understand some people have a problem with reading and comprehension and logic and would rather regurgitate the fake news they get from the nazi propaganda machine ABC/CNN/MSNBC/CBS/____ who have been completely and shamefully dishonest, flat out lied, and are the biggest source of misinformation, along with their colluding Twitter, Google, Facebook, and YouTube

Hint - and you can verify this easily enough - all of the MSM sources listed above, as well the CDC - they've all donated combined billions of dollars since 2015 to one of the political parties. At least 98% of all their donations have gone to ONE party. This is public record. They aren't reporting the facts, they aren't neutral, and they aren't hiding it.

So if we are going to talk of misinformation, I am giving you links to CDC - hard facts and data you can easily verify yourself. Facts that taken quite logically, destroy the narrative. Will you follow the data and the science, or are you married to a narrative?

If I am relying on misinformation, do post the correct information. The numbers I used came directly from CDC.gov, but if you have a better source, I'd love to see it.
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We are in week 32/33 of 2020. Thus far, we've had lowest death rate per week at this point in the year (thru 32 weeks) than any other year since 2009.

Where's your pandemic?
It's called logic. What happens when you blow apart a false narrative with logic, science, and facts is that those who buy into the narrative abandon all logic, science, and facts and turn as a last recourse to philosophy.

Instead of answering with logic, science or facts, in return they result to name calling and being dismissive. Why? Because their argument was just blown away, and they have not logical answer and are too politically motivated or emotionally attached to the narrative to be intellectually honest.