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Magus Ossis

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  1. 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
  2. You could gain that much by crab walking
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Let us hope that Auburn shits in the punch bowl by beating UGA.
  8. That explains why he hasn’t looked so good lately. Oh wait.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. Worst Haiku ever Or did it only seem so Because three lines long
  12. Bravo. We have only the mizzery of wishing such information were available.
  13. They wanted to be UD, but the name was taken. Or so the story goes.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Stress reactions are like stress fractures that haven’t happened yet. It is a curious diagnosis to make in someone who was subjected to high forces on the bone in question. True stress injury is from repeated normal loading too frequently to allow healthy remodeling. Stress fractures manifest more often when guys are resuming or ramping up activity after periods of relative inactivity. Whether this is traumatic microfracture or stress reaction either way, he is out a few weeks until he has no pain or tenderness. Stress injuries occasionally linger a long time. Best case is 2-3 weeks but worst is done for the season, IF it is stress. My guess more likely there is a traumatic component, out about a month.
  21. Losing stinks. But at least the swamp things are gone. ‘Grats to the winners.
  22. Mudhole the mudbugs
  23. BC has his favorite picks against the lines up. You don’t have to click. SP+ says: LSU -6 over @Texas. I doubt it Marshall +11 @Boise Cincinnati +16 @tOSU @Michigan -22.5 over Army Aggy +17.5 @Clemson. I doubt this, too @Colorado +2.5 and straight up over Nebraska Diaz -5.5 @Mack Brown. Redemption beats letdown or HC over asst 2.0? UNT +3.5 @Buechele @Washington -14 over Cal @USC -1 over Stanford. Which one is tanking faster?
  24. It would be nice if there were sufficient resources to bring these possible spies in for activities like photography in uniform in front of the green screen before bringing them into the stadium. Make them feign some interest and then have chaperones of some kind around to put the kibosh on any negative recruiting against the home team.
  25. So one data point (GSU) isn’t meaningful, and last year doesn’t count. So STFU and go away until you have some data to support an argument.
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