OvertheDwayneBowe

re: Northeastern 13 @ LSU 10 Final

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 3/2/26 at 7:30 pm to drizztiger

A NC team would never get run ruled by a team like Northwestern State.

re: Why is the West End (Lakeview nola) I10 entrance so short?

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 2/25/26 at 11:26 pm to jrbjr

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I have a couple friends who are retired from DoTD. I still gripe to them about it, even though they had nothing to do with it.
Notice the shadow of the tree in the lower right of your photo. They threaded the approach ramp around the north side of that tree. If they had laid it out around the south side, the merging lane would be twice as long.

This is the earliest satellite shot of that area I can find, and it seems crazy that they would have designed such an odd, curvy, entrance all because one tree.

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re: Wade is never coming back

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 2/21/26 at 11:57 am to Jizzy08

LSU fans seem to want MBB to be top tier, but it's very clearly 2nd or even 3rd tier to the fanbase.

People didn't even show up to games for the 2006 Final Four team. LSU played the final game of the season at home having won the SEC, and it still wasn't a sellout. We averaged like 8-9k fans in attendance for the SEC home games that year.

re: Lemme get this straight re:the halftime show

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 2/8/26 at 7:52 pm to Morgus

I love that this gif epitomizes both extremes now:

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re: We should stop allowing nerds and people who hate sports to be decision makers in sports

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 2/1/26 at 3:39 pm to SoFla Tideroller

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What a weak attempt to create 2 mini Super Bowls.

There are cities that would love it.

NOLA would want it probably every year instead of the Super Bowl (except for maybe every 10 years). Cities are learning that the Super Bowls don't actually boost the city economy. But, AFC/NFCCGs would because it would actually be fans traveling in and spending money in those cities as vacations.

That being said, it would go over like a ton of bricks with the fans.

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re: MBB: LSU 92 vs. South Carolina 87 | Tigers Win in OT!!!

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/31/26 at 1:47 pm to saint tiger225

If there was one thing basketball needed to get more people to watch, it was more stoppages of play and reviews.

re: Rams 27 @ Seahawks 31 Final - FOX

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/25/26 at 8:34 pm to QJenk

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re: Patriots 10 @ Broncos 7 Final - CBS

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/25/26 at 5:11 pm to LooseCannon22282

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Payton called a real turd of a game.

One of the worst I've seen from him.

He's had a number of them in the postseason.

People generally forget that the Saints were basically useless for 3/4 of the game leading to the Minn Miracle. The 2019 playoff game was kind of similar (comparable yardage by Saints in the 4th quarter as the first three quarters combined).

The Saints also nearly lost to the 9-7 Eagles in 2018 in the Dome (quickly went down 14-0, Eagles were driving to win with a minute left).

re: Unique praise for Indiana, which really sums up their greatness

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/20/26 at 4:03 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

Miami really had about 30 opportunities to win this game.

They had multiple dumb 3rd down penalties on defense. Two on the same TD drive for Indiana.

Missed FG right before halftime
Blocked punt

Multiple 4th down conversions by Indiana.

I'd argue that Indiana basically played perfectly and nearly everything bounced their way, and they still scraped by.

This one would sting for me if I were a fan of Miami.

re: The Bills make us Saints fans appreciate our SB win even more.

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/19/26 at 5:19 pm to Eighteen

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yet they injure Michael Thomas and go on to win the Super Bowl with their one lightning in the bottle year

I still blame Jared Cook for fumbling in that game. Saints were moving it at will until that gave TB a huge spark and never looked back.

I don't know if the Saints could beat the Packers in GB the next game, though.

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re: NFL Various Games - Divisional Weekend

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/18/26 at 8:28 pm to Bayouboogaloocrew

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They don’t want an incompletion that would stop it before the two minute warning though

The two-minute warning hits during the punt instead of this play.

So yeah, it didn't change anything but about 8 seconds. I don't get not trusting Stafford.

re: NFL Various Games - Divisional Weekend

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/18/26 at 7:04 pm to moock blackjack

Why do we have former refs on the broadcast if all they do is cover for the current ones?

re: NFL Various Games - Divisional Weekend

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/17/26 at 6:31 pm to wareaglepete

I'd honestly prefer a TD if I'm a Bills fan. I wouldn't have trusted that defense to hold them.

re: This team is approaching 95 Nebraska/01 Miami/19 LSU territory with these arse beatings

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/9/26 at 11:19 pm to lsupride87

That is what will be difficult about measuring the different eras of football.

The 95 Nebraska team would have rolled through a 12-team playoff, giving them two more top 10 wins.

2019 LSU similarly would have had no problem beating the 8/9-seed (Would have been Wisconsin or Florida).

It's also going to be different because it only happened once that a 3-loss team could have finished the season ranked #2 (2007 had LSU lost to Ohio State). Now we have that possibility in year 2.

re: Dellinger: An update thread on the Demond Williams situation with Washington, per sources

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/7/26 at 12:23 pm to emanresu

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No, he’s not. He’s reporting what’s in Washington’s own contract. He’s not telling Washington or LSU anything they didn’t already know. 33 up votes for this crybaby bullshite.

Imagine this board if this happened in reverse, and we lost someone who was under contract.

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re: Is child care/daycare innately expensive? What can society do to reduce cost of it?

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/4/26 at 11:35 am to PhiTiger1764

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And I am not trying to minimize the decision, but at a certain income all needs and wants are met and everything else is just lagniappe.

So it’s a totally different situation for the guy making $100k and wife making $50k. And that’s going to be your more common scenario.

ETA: I now see another poster has already brought up this scenario..

Yeah, people are talking like a 10-20k difference in family salary is manageable to live without, but to a lot of Americans, that's the difference of making rent or not.

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re: Fox NFL pregame - “Lessons We Learned this Year” Segment

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/4/26 at 11:25 am to BHTiger

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Hot takes
1. Coaching matters. See Sam Darnold after his time as the 59ers vs before.

2. QB has to be good to win.

3. GMs making the right picks and trades. See Seattle for a while with Schnider (sp?)and now Jacksonville in just 1 year.

4. Dline matters. If you dont have a pass rush you are screwed. See 49ers without Bosa or the Eagles and Texans with that talent just neutralizes everything. Hell the Brown only win anything because of the dline.

You forgot about "winning the war in the trenches."

re: Waiting for the Mcmen to get the reality dose

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/3/26 at 5:34 pm to Big4SALTbro

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Anyone that is a Mcmen after 14-41 in the sec doesn’t live in a reality

Or a lot of us realize you can't be great in 5 sports in the NIL era.

LSU is choosing football, baseball, and WBB. There just isn't enough money to go around to pay for a top tier coach, staff, and players in all these sports, and other programs are coming to similar realizations.

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re: Ouch, they said that no one would watch the Pop Tart Bowl without the Irish.

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/3/26 at 3:42 pm to RoyalWilliams

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It cost them a spot in the playoff when they would have a legit chance to win it.

The thing is there's no real basis for this opinion. It's based off of ND blowing out Navy and a mid-October win vs USC.

Nothing else on their schedule is noteworthy.

re: This is on Kirby

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 1/1/26 at 11:20 pm to slackster

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You have a FG all but guaranteed. You run a play there that gives you the best chance of scoring. Plain and simple.

And we all knew and were right that a FG giving OM one minute was a loss for UGA in regulation.

A screen pass or a run play probably had about the same chance to score as the play UGA ran. But it also guarantees OT at worst.

It's really percentages.

30% chance for a TD with a minute left. 20% chance that OM scores a TD and wins if it works. 70% chance OM wins in regulation with a FG if it doesn't.

Or 20% chance for a run/screen for a TD and 90% chance for OT if it misses.