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Magus Ossis

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  1. I know this is going to sound revolutionary, but I have a related idea. Let people who feel like wasting time and clicks on bad threads do so. Let people who want it have an option to "ignore thread" or "mark all future entries read" and just don't read or complain.
  2. The CFP seems to be Bama, Clemson, and 2 of ND, B10 champ, B12 champ, and SEC at-large. If either or both of OU/tOSU win out, their tickets are punched. The question arises in the event that one of those teams, Bama, or (highly unlikely) Clemson stumbles. There are 7 important losses to be attributed in the SEC that will help to determine how attractive an at-large CFP representative it can field. Two groups of 3 must be distributed 1-1-1 or 0-1-2 (in no particular order) among Bama, LSU, and Auburn and among UGA, UF, and Auburn. One more loss added in the CCG, most likely (but far from certainly) to UGA by Bama. Auburn is uniquely positioned to play every SEC title pretender/contender this year in the regular season, starting Saturday against UF. At this point, Auburn is a de facto top 3 team in both divisions but only eligible to advance to the CCG based on how it does versus its West opponents.
  3. That's not a bad overall percentage. If it keeps up, he will have a contract with a casino soon.
  4. I can’t speak for anyone else. I don’t hate Charlie. I’m not the sort to bear grudges against individuals. But this is a site where we mock those who stand in the way, or even seek or wish to do so, of Texas. We mock people because they look funny, go to A&M, fumble a ball in a game, or any number of other reasons. Strong has so many and so clear examples in his past of standing in the way of Texas Football success that it would be the greatest of curiosities were there no ongoing conversation in standard surly fashion. Whether through incompetence, cosmically unbelievably (literally) bad luck, or whatever, he failed to fix what was his job to fix. And he broke what it was his job not to break. And he has the temerity to continue to draw a massive unneeded and undeserved paycheck. Bob Knight refused his pay one year when he felt his work wasn’t up to par. Not that I’d expect Charlie to do it. No, he is getting exactly what he signed on for, including here. If it puzzles you, you aren’t thinking clearly enough.
  5. It may end up a little closer if they go hard after we pull the starters, but we will be way out in front in Q3
  6. We needed a coach real bad, and we got a real bad coach.
  7. Upside: it might be fun to watch; it would attract national attention as a “historic rivalry” and SEC matchup. Downside: they will bleat irrespective of how frequently, recently, or badly we have beaten them; they will cheap-shot our guys; It is hard to imagine a less interesting or enjoyable town to visit for road games; we get no credit for beating them; we already have scoreboard on those ovocopulants from the greatest game- and series-ending kick for which we could wish
  8. You could gain that much by crab walking
  9. Yes, there are. Sometimes the anatomic deficiency is clear and amenable to treatment such as a well-defined Bankart lesion. Sometimes capsuloligamentous structures are attenuated less focally and the surgery trades risk of loss of some range of motion for reduced risk of dislocation by tightening up the anterior joint capsule. For a young male athlete, a lot of orthopedists would pursue surgery after just one dislocation.
  10. My best guess is that Green’s injury is actually an AC separation (like Sam had last year) based on my recollection of watching the play on which he was hurt. If I’m wrong and it is a “true shoulder” (glenohumeral) dislocation, Green would be at such risk as well.
  11. Once a man that young has a shoulder dislocation (not AC separation as in most of the “dislocations” that have come up lately), he is at high risk to go on to recurrent dislocations. Bummer for the guy.
  12. CDC playing 4D chess. If our AD and HFC come out publicly in favor of the game, they virtually assure that the aggy masses will refuse to let it happen.
  13. Let us hope that Auburn shits in the punch bowl by beating UGA.
  14. That explains why he hasn’t looked so good lately. Oh wait.
  15. In Case we decide being Horny or some other kind of Freak Nasty doesn’t DQ him from coming here, he might be a take
  16. High praise indeed. Out of 32 NFL teams, KM ranks #35 in passer rating. You are right that there are a few non-rookies behind him. Mayfield, e.g., is #40. It is early, but when one is a QB with a reputation for lacking charisma, his two best defenses to criticism are stats and wins. KM is somewhat lacking.
  17. Worst Haiku ever Or did it only seem so Because three lines long
  18. Bravo. We have only the mizzery of wishing such information were available.
  19. They wanted to be UD, but the name was taken. Or so the story goes.
  20. Yeah. They should run a lot of plays to the left that involve pulling. The right side of the line does nothing where it is, moving them around can only help. Unless they fall on the skill guys, blow up plays, and injure teammates. OK nevermind.
  21. The 4th down abortion was ugly-- we hurried up but not enough to get the play before OSU was ready. That should have been stopped with a time-out and fixed. The other play I saw going nowhere was mid Q4 I think. Empty set on 3rd and short. It screamed "Sam is keeping with no lead blocker" before the snap to me, and apparently to the entire OSU defense as well. There is a time to get cute and set up future plays. When the run game is working and you need a short gain is not that time.
  22. Looked back at the play-by-play results to see how our offense fared in the red zone as a gauge of how crazy we were to go for 2. We ran 6 plays that I counted from the +20 or closer. The results were gains of 12, 6 (TD), 3, 17 (TD), 2, and 2(TD), not counting PAT. Granted it is a sample of low statistical significance, but it suggests that we might be leaving points on the table when we don't go for 2 against teams not named LSU.
  23. If I recall, our ground game was looking very sound leading up to the 2-pt conversion. If the likelihood of converting for 2 is greater than 50%, statistically you should be going for 2 (barring the occasional end-of-the-game situation in which the 1 point is crucial and unlikely later to be replaceable). I actually liked the 2-pt as an exclamation point and confidence statement about our offense. It did not feel like UGA when we seemed to need 3 tries to punch one in. Last September's Longhorns would have had no business doing it, but I liked the try and the result.
  24. The average fat 40-year old doesn't need an MRI when his knee hurts, swells, and feels like it is giving out. Usually he has exacerbated some arthritis, and the MRI will either be unrevealing or will lead the unwary down a path of acute meniscal pathology when they should be thinking degenerative (arthritis). If one's knee swells really big within 30 or so minutes of injury and/or he starts having painful pops and/or locking up short of full extension (straightening), an MRI may still be appropriate for someone in his demographic. The X-rays that a lot of people order before going on to MRI in such situations are typically "negative" because (1) The radiologist is looking for acute injury like a fracture instead of arthritis, (2) the degree of arthritis needed to cause such problems is not dramatic on X-ray, and (3) the X-rays are usually done in these cases without the patient's standing and bearing weight on the limb of interest. The signal change some radiologists are tempted to call contusion (which would be a logical acute change) is actually (at least partially, and possibly essentially completely) a chronic finding. Here is an MRI image of someone with acute subchondral edema ("bone bruise"). Note the subtle vertically oriented band of white right in the middle of the picture. Here is an MRI image of someone with arthritis. Ignore the arrow-- the finding of interest to us is the patchy white in the large, central, curved dark area. MRI is significantly over-utilized in middle-aged people with acute knee pain. Not everyone is going to turn out merely to have "tweaked" a 40-year-old joint, but the overwhelming majority will. Disclaimer: I am not diagnosing or recommending a treatment plan for any specific person here.
  25. It looked more likely to be an ac separation than a shoulder dislocation if I’m remembering the play correctly. We’ll see over the next few days. As hard as that impact looked, I wouldn’t get too optimistic about seeing him back in time for OU.
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