Tinker:
What does the news media want from us now America, we went along for all the wrong reason?
The
American News Media wanted the American people to elect Barack Obama
president of the United State because he was a darker colored skin
person than the majority of white people living in America. So of course
Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, for all the
wrong reasons.
The News media was once a watchdog over the job that the
people working in Washington DC did. In fact the News Media was a
respected profession of the American people for as long as I can
rememberThe News Media is undercover with the American politicians for reasons of their own and we the people are hard pressed to simply receive the truth in the information in our daily news reports.
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Recent developments in Syria
prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to “speak directly to the
American people and their political leaders.” In order to do that, he reached out to the New York Times to publish an op-ed about the implications of “war and peace” and the consequences of taking military action against Syria.
“Relations between us have passed through different stages,” Putin writes. “We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together. The universal international organization — the United Nations — was then established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again.”
Russias
President Vladimir Putin gestures during a press conference at the end
of the G20 summit on September 6, 2013 in Saint Petersburg. Credit:
AFP/Getty Images
The Russian leader stressed that Syria
is “not witnessing a battle for democracy, but an armed conflict between
government and opposition in a multireligious country.”
“There are few champions of democracy in Syria. But there are more than enough [Al] Qaeda fighters and extremists of all stripes battling the government,” he continued. “The United States State Department has designated Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, fighting with the opposition, as terrorist organizations. This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bloodiest in the world.”
In the op-ed, titled “A Plea for Caution From Russia,” Putin expressed concern that mercenaries from Arab countries and other nations are fighting in Syria and “are an issue of our deep concern.” He speculated that extremists could return to their countries with “experience acquired in Syria,” which “threatens us all.”
Putin also addressed the chemical attack in Damascus and mentioned reports of a possible attack being planned by “militants” against Israel [emphasis added]:
In the very last paragraph of the op-ed, Putin took a jab at President Obama for referencing American exceptionalism.
“I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is ‘what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.’ It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation,” he writes.
ST.
PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – SEPTEMBER 05: In this handout image provided by
Host Photo Agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) greets U.S.
President Barack Obama at the G20 summit on September 5, 2013 in St.
Petersburg, Russia. Credit: Getty Images
“There are big countries and small
countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and
those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too.
We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must
not forget that God created us equal.”
Read Putin’s entire op-ed here.
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UPDATE: The White House responded to Putin’s op-ed, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/
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The Russian president had coldly brushed back Obama on Snowden and Syria, and only last week called John Kerry a liar.
Now, when it is clear Obama can’t convince Congress, the American public, his own wife, the world, Liz Cheney or even Donald “Shock and Awe” Rumsfeld to bomb Syria — just a teensy-weensy bit — Pooty-Poot (as W. called him) rides, shirtless, to the rescue, offering him a face-saving way out? If it were a movie, we’d know it was a trick. We can’t trust the soulless Putin — his Botox has given the former K.G.B. officer even more of a poker face — or the heartless Bashar al-Assad. By Tuesday, Putin the Peacemaker was already setting conditions.
Just as Obama and Kerry — with assists from Hillary and some senators — were huffing and puffing that it was their military threat that led to the breakthrough, Putin moved to neuter them, saying they’d have to drop their military threat before any deal could proceed. The administration’s saber-rattling felt more like knees rattling. Oh, for the good old days when Obama was leading from behind. Now these guys are leading by slip-of-the-tongue.
Amateur hour started when Obama dithered on Syria and failed to explain the stakes there. It escalated last August with a slip by the methodical wordsmith about “a red line for us” — which the president and Kerry later tried to blur as the world’s red line, except the world was averting its eyes.
Obama’s flip-flopping, ambivalent leadership led him to the exact place he never wanted to be: unilateral instead of unified. Once again, as with gun control and other issues, he had not done the groundwork necessary to line up support. The bumbling approach climaxed with two off-the-cuff remarks by Kerry, hitting a rough patch in the role of a lifetime, during a London press conference Monday; he offered to forgo an attack if Assad turned over “every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community” and promised, if they did strike, that it would be an “unbelievably small” effort.
A State Department spokeswoman walked back Kerry’s first slip, but once the White House realized it was the only emergency exit sign around, Kerry walked back the walking back, claiming at a Congressional hearing Tuesday that he did not “misspeak.”
The president countered Kerry’s second slip with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie Monday night, declaring that “The U.S. does not do pinpricks,” which Kerry parroted at the hearing Tuesday, declaring that “We don’t do pinpricks.” For good measure, Obama, in his address to the nation Tuesday night, made sure the world knew: “The United States military doesn’t do pinpricks.”
Where the mindlessly certain W. adopted a fig leaf of diplomacy to use force in Iraq, the mindfully uncertain Obama is adopting a fig leaf of force to use diplomacy in Syria.
Even as Democrats tiptoed away from the red line, eager to kick the can of Sarin down the road, their own harsh rhetoric haunted them. Kerry compared Assad to Hitler last week, and Harry Reid evoked ”Nazi death camps” on the Senate floor Monday.
Again, an echo of the misbegotten Iraq. Making his hyperbolic case for war, W. was huffy with Germans on a visit in 2002, irritated that they did not seem to grasp the horror of “a dictator who gassed his own people,” as he put it to a Berlin reporter.
Obama cried over the children of Newtown. He is stricken, as he said in his address Tuesday, by “images of children writhing in pain and going still on a cold hospital floor” from “poison gas.” He thought — or thought he thought — that avenging the gassing was the right thing to do. But W., once more haunting his successor’s presidency, drained credibility, coffers and compassion.
While most Americans shudder at the news that 400 children have been killed by a monster, they recoil at the Middle East now; they’ve had it with Shiites vs. Sunnis, with Alawites and all the ancient hatreds. Kerry can bluster that “we’re not waiting for long” for Assad to cough up the weapons, but it will be hard for him to back it up, given that a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll indicates that Joe Sixpack is now a peacenik; in 2005, 60 percent of Republicans agreed with W. that America should foster democracy in the world; now only 19 percent of Republicans believe it.
W., Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld launched a social engineering scheme to change the mind-set in the Middle East about democracy and the mind-set at home about the post-Vietnam reluctance to be muscular about imposing our values through war. They did manage to drastically change the mind-set in the Middle East and at home, but in the opposite way than they intended.
In a crouch after 9/11, the country was happy to punish an Arab villain, even the wrong one. That mass delusion, plus the economic vertigo, has sent Americans into a permanent crouch. And that’s too bad.
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America says ‘No!’ to a
“Either you convert to Islam or you will be beheaded.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Speaks ‘Directly to the American People’ on Syria, Jabs Obama
Related:
“Relations between us have passed through different stages,” Putin writes. “We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together. The universal international organization — the United Nations — was then established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again.”
Russias
President Vladimir Putin gestures during a press conference at the end
of the G20 summit on September 6, 2013 in Saint Petersburg. Credit:
AFP/Getty Images“There are few champions of democracy in Syria. But there are more than enough [Al] Qaeda fighters and extremists of all stripes battling the government,” he continued. “The United States State Department has designated Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, fighting with the opposition, as terrorist organizations. This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bloodiest in the world.”
In the op-ed, titled “A Plea for Caution From Russia,” Putin expressed concern that mercenaries from Arab countries and other nations are fighting in Syria and “are an issue of our deep concern.” He speculated that extremists could return to their countries with “experience acquired in Syria,” which “threatens us all.”
Putin also addressed the chemical attack in Damascus and mentioned reports of a possible attack being planned by “militants” against Israel [emphasis added]:
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Reports that militants are preparing another attack — this time against Israel — cannot be ignored.
It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us.”
But force has proved ineffective and pointless. Afghanistan is reeling, and no one can say what will happen after international forces withdraw. Libya is divided into tribes and clans. In Iraq the civil war continues, with dozens killed each day. In the United States, many draw an analogy between Iraq and Syria, and ask why their government would want to repeat recent mistakes.He wrote that he welcomes a “continuing dialogue” with President Barack Obama on Syria, but urged the U.S. to avoid using force and focus on “negotiations.”
In the very last paragraph of the op-ed, Putin took a jab at President Obama for referencing American exceptionalism.
“I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is ‘what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.’ It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation,” he writes.
ST.
PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – SEPTEMBER 05: In this handout image provided by
Host Photo Agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) greets U.S.
President Barack Obama at the G20 summit on September 5, 2013 in St.
Petersburg, Russia. Credit: Getty ImagesRead Putin’s entire op-ed here.
–
UPDATE: The White House responded to Putin’s op-ed, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper:
“That’s all irrelevant,” the White House official said in response. “He put this proposal forward and he’s now invested in it. That’s good. That’s the best possible reaction. He’s fully invested in Syria’s CW disarmament and that’s potentially better than a military strike – which would deter and degrade but wouldn’t get rid of all the chemical weapons. He now owns this. He has fully asserted ownership of it and he needs to deliver.”------------------
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/
Op-Ed Columnist
Who Do You Trust?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: September 10, 2013
WASHINGTON — Vladimir Putin, who keeps Edward Snowden on a leash and
lets members of a riotous girl band rot in jail, has thrown President
Obama a lifeline.
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
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Now, when it is clear Obama can’t convince Congress, the American public, his own wife, the world, Liz Cheney or even Donald “Shock and Awe” Rumsfeld to bomb Syria — just a teensy-weensy bit — Pooty-Poot (as W. called him) rides, shirtless, to the rescue, offering him a face-saving way out? If it were a movie, we’d know it was a trick. We can’t trust the soulless Putin — his Botox has given the former K.G.B. officer even more of a poker face — or the heartless Bashar al-Assad. By Tuesday, Putin the Peacemaker was already setting conditions.
Just as Obama and Kerry — with assists from Hillary and some senators — were huffing and puffing that it was their military threat that led to the breakthrough, Putin moved to neuter them, saying they’d have to drop their military threat before any deal could proceed. The administration’s saber-rattling felt more like knees rattling. Oh, for the good old days when Obama was leading from behind. Now these guys are leading by slip-of-the-tongue.
Amateur hour started when Obama dithered on Syria and failed to explain the stakes there. It escalated last August with a slip by the methodical wordsmith about “a red line for us” — which the president and Kerry later tried to blur as the world’s red line, except the world was averting its eyes.
Obama’s flip-flopping, ambivalent leadership led him to the exact place he never wanted to be: unilateral instead of unified. Once again, as with gun control and other issues, he had not done the groundwork necessary to line up support. The bumbling approach climaxed with two off-the-cuff remarks by Kerry, hitting a rough patch in the role of a lifetime, during a London press conference Monday; he offered to forgo an attack if Assad turned over “every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community” and promised, if they did strike, that it would be an “unbelievably small” effort.
A State Department spokeswoman walked back Kerry’s first slip, but once the White House realized it was the only emergency exit sign around, Kerry walked back the walking back, claiming at a Congressional hearing Tuesday that he did not “misspeak.”
The president countered Kerry’s second slip with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie Monday night, declaring that “The U.S. does not do pinpricks,” which Kerry parroted at the hearing Tuesday, declaring that “We don’t do pinpricks.” For good measure, Obama, in his address to the nation Tuesday night, made sure the world knew: “The United States military doesn’t do pinpricks.”
Where the mindlessly certain W. adopted a fig leaf of diplomacy to use force in Iraq, the mindfully uncertain Obama is adopting a fig leaf of force to use diplomacy in Syria.
Even as Democrats tiptoed away from the red line, eager to kick the can of Sarin down the road, their own harsh rhetoric haunted them. Kerry compared Assad to Hitler last week, and Harry Reid evoked ”Nazi death camps” on the Senate floor Monday.
Again, an echo of the misbegotten Iraq. Making his hyperbolic case for war, W. was huffy with Germans on a visit in 2002, irritated that they did not seem to grasp the horror of “a dictator who gassed his own people,” as he put it to a Berlin reporter.
Obama cried over the children of Newtown. He is stricken, as he said in his address Tuesday, by “images of children writhing in pain and going still on a cold hospital floor” from “poison gas.” He thought — or thought he thought — that avenging the gassing was the right thing to do. But W., once more haunting his successor’s presidency, drained credibility, coffers and compassion.
While most Americans shudder at the news that 400 children have been killed by a monster, they recoil at the Middle East now; they’ve had it with Shiites vs. Sunnis, with Alawites and all the ancient hatreds. Kerry can bluster that “we’re not waiting for long” for Assad to cough up the weapons, but it will be hard for him to back it up, given that a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll indicates that Joe Sixpack is now a peacenik; in 2005, 60 percent of Republicans agreed with W. that America should foster democracy in the world; now only 19 percent of Republicans believe it.
W., Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld launched a social engineering scheme to change the mind-set in the Middle East about democracy and the mind-set at home about the post-Vietnam reluctance to be muscular about imposing our values through war. They did manage to drastically change the mind-set in the Middle East and at home, but in the opposite way than they intended.
In a crouch after 9/11, the country was happy to punish an Arab villain, even the wrong one. That mass delusion, plus the economic vertigo, has sent Americans into a permanent crouch. And that’s too bad.
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Sports
Dandy Don's LSU Sports Report
It was great to hear from many of you yesterday about my interview with Mike Detillier. I'm glad you enjoyed it and I looking forward to producing more like it from time to time. Mike is obviously very knowledgeable and I thank him for sharing his insight.
Last night Les Miles held his weekly radio talk show to discuss last week’s win over UAB and look ahead to this week’s contest against Kent State. After briefly chatting about how well the team played last week on offense, defense (for three quarters), and special teams, Jim Hawthorn wasted no time in asking Coach Miles his thoughts on the Sports Illustrated report of improprieties at Oklahoma State during Miles’ tenure as Head Coach there. Miles replied, “It’s a story from 13 years ago. We were developing a young program and worked hard. I can only tell you this. I’m very proud of the things we did there. Our staff and players performed in a very strong manner. I don’t think there's any way that any football program is perfect, but I promise you we did right things there.” Earlier in the day Miles was responded to the question in a similar manner during a press conference and said that at some point he will have more to say on the matter.
As usual, Hawthorn and Miles started last night’s show by naming last week’s offensive play of the game. Hawthorn suggested that it was Jarvis Landry’s acrobatic 34-yard touchdown catch in the 3rd quarter to make the score 35-7 with 8:11 remaining in the first half. Miles agreed and said it was a great catch, but that Mettenberger probably shouldn’t have thrown the pass. Mettenberger, he said, decided to strong-arm it and threw it perfectly out of the reach of the safety.
Gary from Baton Rouge was the first caller of the night and he told Coach Miles that he would like to see freshman Kendell Beckwith at middle linebacker. Miles agreed that Beckwith could be a great MIKE back and said they are grooming him for the position.
A little later in the show Hawthorn asked Miles about what happened to the defense in the second quarter last week. Miles attributed the problem to the secondary not communicating and said there were some misalignments. He went on to point out that “Chief” (Coach John Chavis) got them straightened out at the break and they held UAB scoreless in the second half.
Before returning to the phone line, Miles tossed some praise to true freshman Rashard Robinson, saying, “How ’bout Rashard Robinson, stepping onto the field and playing corner? He’s 6'3" or taller, great speed, reminds you of Tharold Simon, but maybe a little faster.” To me, this unprompted praise of Robinson really says a lot about the youngster’s talent. As I've said before, I predict Robinson will be a very special defensive back before leaving LSU.
One of the next callers was Louis who commented on LSU having 40 plays in the first two games that each went for over 10 yards. I haven’t confirmed that stat yet, but I believe it to be accurate and that is truly impressive. Louis then went on to ask if Odell Beckham, Jr. was given the green light to return the missed field goal, or if that was something he did on his own. Miles said OBJ had the green light and credited special teams coach Thomas McGaughey for recognizing the play’s potential. He also praised Kwon Alexander for making two outstanding blocks on the play.
A little later, Jason from Gonzales asked about Craig Loston, saying that he seems to always go for the big hit instead of playing the ball. Miles said that he always wants his guys to make a play on the ball first, but he appreciates the fact that Loston enjoys contact.
During the live audience segment of the show, Gary asked Miles for his thoughts on next year’s playoff system. Miles replied by saying, “college football requested it, pursued it, and now we’re gonna get it.” He also said he expects it to grow from four to six to eight games and that it should be a lot of fun.
Big Ragoo, a regular on the show, asked Miles about freshmen offensive linemen Ethan Pocic and Josh Boutte. Miles praised both and said that the second line is really developing.
Another regular on the program, the Evil Twin, asked Coach Miles if his philosophy on playing freshmen has changed because players seem to be going pro early. Miles responded by saying that you have to recruit a style of player that can come in and replace those juniors that you might lose, and what happens is it becomes a three-year turnaround. He then sent out what seemed like a message to recruits saying that when the next class arrives in June, they better be ready to play.
Next, Hawthorn and Miles discussed the defensive play of the game, which they conceded was really a special teams play, as being the 109-yard return by Beckham in defense of the field goal. (If you’d like to see that play once more, here's the video.) Again, Miles commented on Kwon Alexander's blocking on the play, pointing out that he knocked two guys on their backs.
Back to the phone lines, Rickey from Birmingham called to ask about Jamie Keehn shanking a punt in each of the two games. Miles said that they are working on his consistency and spoke of what a strong leg Keehn has
Frank from Zachary called to inquire about recruiting, asking Miles if he had heard of a 6'4" 14-year-old kid from St Francisville, and asking why someone like Cam Robinson would choose to leave the state. Mile stated that he is not allowed to comment on guys they are recruiting, but that he promises they will continue to recruit the guys in-state as aggressively and hard as they can, but that sometimes the advantages of a great education and of graduating with a great job after playing for a great program like the Tigers finishes second to other things.
The last caller that I caught was Clint who asked if there was any fear of not being able to run the ball down opponents’ throats this year. Miles answered by saying no, that running the ball is something they enjoy and that we’ll see if they can get a little better at it this week.
After listening to the show, I updated my unofficial LSU Football Depth Chart based on what we’ve seen so far this season. Please note that this work-in-progress is just my opinion and I welcome your input. The last version of the depth chart I had posted was the official chart released by LSU prior to the season start, and it didn’t go very deep at many positions. In my newly posted unofficial version, I went a little deeper and made a few changes. I now have Jeremy Hill back at No. 1 at running back and I've got Jordan Allen and Jermauria Rasco as the two starting defensive ends. I have also moved Lamar Louis to the No. 2 at middle linebacker (although I think he will soon be No. 1), and I've added Rashard Robinson and TraDavious White as No. 2s at the corners.
Later this morning I’ll update our Ticket Exchange and View-In Parties pages, so check back soon if you're looking for tickets to the game or a place to watch it with like-minded fans.
I'll close with this good read by ESPN.com entitled, “Mettenberger taking offense to new heights.”
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Mettenberger taking offense to new heights
September, 11, 2013
By
Alex Scarborough | ESPN.com
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Zach Mettenberger was too quick on his first pass attempt Saturday night.
LSU's senior quarterback spun quickly to his right and rushed to plant his foot as he attempted to fire a pass to Odell Beckham Jr. on the outside. The ball skipped carelessly at the receiver's feet. Mettenberger shook his head, kicking himself for the mistake. With the UAB defender playing off-coverage, it would have been an easy pickup of 5 or more yards and, more importantly, a first down. Instead, it was now third down and 5 yards to go with the punter waiting impatiently on the sidelines. A familiar groan swept through Tiger Stadium -- not again.
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Sarah Glenn/Getty ImagesZach Mettenberger and the LSU offense are off to a flying start under Cam Cameron.
But that was 2012, Mettenberger's first full season starting and Greg Strudawa's second year as LSU's play-caller and quarterbacks coach. That combination failed as the Tigers offense floundered, punctuated by a disappointing 25-24 loss to Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
This is 2013. After failing to complete his first pass against UAB, Mettenberger went back to work the very next play, stepping into a throw that whistled 13 yards over the middle to Tarvin Dural for a first down. The crowd cheered and Tiger Stadium settled in for what would be the best passing night of Mettenberger's career. If last season is what it took for Mettenberger to get to this, then everyone could accept that. He's now 18th nationally in QBR and No. 1 in the SEC.
"If you watch Zach throw the football, he's throwing it with so much confidence," Miles said after the 56-17 win. "He knows where it's supposed to go."
Mettenberger showed all the tell-tale signs of confidence against UAB: He made quick decisions, stepped into passes and didn't mind throwing the ball into coverage. He wound up passing for 282 yards and set a school record with five touchdowns, the first three of which went into double coverage. On his first touchdown, he threw the ball before Beckham broke on his route and fit it narrowly between two defensive backs for the score. He did the same exact thing with Beckham for his second touchdown, and on the third scoring pass he inched the ball just over a leaping safety's hands and into the outstretched arms of Jarvis Landry. They were risky throws, but they were thrown perfectly.
For so long LSU's offense has been risk averse, opting to run the football even in passing situations. The Tigers were 92nd nationally in passing a season ago and have not ranked higher than 71st since 2008.
But this year appears to be different. New offensive coordinator Cam Cameron has Mettenberger and the offense going a new direction: vertical. And it wasn't just against an overmatched UAB squad. LSU did the same thing to 20th-ranked TCU in the season opener two weeks ago. Mettenberger was 16 of 32 passing for 251 yards and a touchdown against the Horned Frogs, which in itself wasn't overly impressive. But a closer inspection saw the Tigers push the ball downfield with 19 plays of 10 or more yards, compared to the 11.46 it averaged a season ago.
Through two games, an even odder trend has formed, though: LSU is passing to set up the run, not the other way around.
"Here in the past couple of years we've been very good at the run," Mettenberger said. "Teams are coming in trying to load the box on us, and this year when we take our shots we're hitting them. That's something we've all been working on."
Mettenberger said he couldn't remember a specific time where he realized this year would be different, but it could have been the first time he met his new offensive coordinator.
"Meeting [Cameron] got me really excited about the potential because I knew what talent we had," he said. "When he first told me about the X's and O's and everything, I got really excited because potentially this can be one of the best offenses LSU has had in recent years."
Beckham, who had a career night against UAB with five catches for 136 yards and three touchdowns, has been thrilled with the trio he, Landry and Mettenberger have formed, calling it a "dream come true." Together they've combined for 23 receptions, 434 yards and six touchdowns through the air, already only one touchdown off last year's total.
And Beckham said the first two games are only the start.
"Zach is going to be a great quarterback," he said. "As the year develops, he's going to develop.
"I'm looking forward to being a part of it. It's a great start for him."
Comments
Thomas Williams · Top Commenter · Im not telling u
I feel like most of the LSU 2013 tiger football fans now, because I never felt like this before..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ngnQvQ3Kk0..Zach
Mettenberger is our ticket to California!!!----------------
Barry Paul Vining · Top Commenter · Job-Search Researcher at Unemployed
His toughest games last year in which he threw the ball well, were against Alabama and Texas A&M, so this year may be even better!-----------------
Chris Lawing · Top Commenter · Works at Avis Budget Group
He's about to peak on college football as hard as he does on those unwilling bar broads!
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| The Oklahoman | S.I. should have pointed out most accusers left OSU |
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