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13 minutes ago, EaggleNation said:

East didn’t play their best game and still won by 2 scores! Congratulations to Dyersburg great season!!!

I would love to see the Eagles take down Alcoa and provide some parity to this division. I think it's a taller order this year for East. Last year they had a real shot. Three times in a row to Chattanooga is quite an accomplishment, though.

East wins 33-19. Up by 2 with about 6 minutes left, East got a really nice punt return TD from Elijah Usher to pretty much seal the deal. 
 

Round three with Alcoa, but I think this will be tough for East to even stay close. This is probably their youngest of the three teams to go to Chattanooga and Dyersburg was able to gash them all night long only to mysteriously try to throw the ball. It wasn’t their strength and East swamped their passing game. I see Alcoa running all over the East lines. 

2 hours ago, Slingitdownfield said:

Very possible, so how does this east team compare to last years?

I don't think they are quite as good, but they have talent. Their QB doesn't have the arm of last year's guy and the RBs are good, though young and not the bruisers of the last two years. The line play is about the same on both sides of the ball (The DL was probably a little better last year), while the secondary might be the one spot a little better than last year. 

Lat year's Eagle team had a real shot to knock off Alcoa and was undone, again, by some horrific special teams play. I don't see this one being able to hang with the Tornadoes. Lots of speed for the Eagles, less experience. I think Alcoa bullies them, if they meet in Chattanooga. East, though, has been the one school in 3A which has the makings of giving them a decent game in the next few years.

East had one of the worst shooting games I've ever seen until about the last 3 minutes. Really sloppy decision making and shot selection all game.

Special teams killed East. This was a very close game, by all rights and purposes. East had their chance after the punt return, but couldn’t take advantage. 

East Nashville with a horrific kicking game is going to burn them for a second year. Alcoa has two short field TDs. East has two blocked XPs and two disastrous kick offs  

Now another special teams mess. East outplayed Alcoa and is going down big at the half.

On 4/18/2022 at 8:57 PM, BigG said:

1. STEM Prep Academy
2. Madison Academic Magnet
3. Gatlinburg Pittman High School
4. Merrol Hyde Magnet
5. Alcoa High School
6. Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences
7. Loudon High School
8. Memphis Business Academy
9. Oneida High School
10. Smith County High School

Pretty solid list. All top 4 teams are in the state semifinals.

7 hours ago, Jaychapman said:

Hard for small 2A schools to compete against a large city magnet school that gets to pick and choose from best talent in Nashville East probably best team in all classes - 4A very disappointing 

Magnet schools don't get to pick and choose the best talent in the city, the private schools already do this. 

East with a nice push the last half of the 4th quarter to pull away from Power Center in a nip and tuck game from the get go. Kind of a sloppy affair, but the defense made it difficult for both teams. Power had great length and East the quickness to get their hands on balls. East has to be feeling good about Saturday's opportunity.

East Nashville is the #1 ranked team and, I haven't seen the other teams play, but I have a hard time seeing anyone else having a better guard duo than Jaylen Jones and Jarrod Taylor. East will want to play fast and create a little chaos to get their athletes in transition and play above the rim, Armstrong, their big man, in particular. The Eagles can get a little frenetic and careless at times, but they'll be a tough out for any of the teams in Murfreesboro.

East had a chance without the special teams disasters.

Whoever is doing the down and distance on NFHS should be fired.

East got screwed there. Definite fumble.

East wins, 20-7. Ugly 2nd half.

17 minutes ago, CHARGERFAN said:

Score?

14-0 East, at the half.

Kyle Upton the new girls coach at East Nashville.

3 hours ago, attila said:

Obama sat on his hands, leading  to several thousand deaths before declaring a state of emergency. Trump stopped all travel to and from China in January slowing the spread here. Europe on the other hand did not and they are now the epicenter, Trump has stopped travel to and from. The problem is this has become politicized especially from the never trumpers to be used against him when we as a country should be pulling together.

100%, unequivocally false. Again, this information is readily available. Just a simple Google search away.

In any event, this has gone on too long, which is, in large part, my fault and not the purpose of this message board. I like to argue too much, I suppose. So, I'll cease and desist.

3 hours ago, WaCoJaCo said:

Just so you know, The AP works with "Facebook Fact Check" for their "fact check" information. Says so right there in the article you posted. So you can't site one without the other. You should at least read the article you're posting as "proof".  Also your post above is full of lies and misleading statements. Pot meet Kettle. 

I suggest you read it closer. They work with Facebook to make sure false stories don't get posted, not get their info from Facebook. Also, nothing I posted was a lie.

Gerally, I avoid trying to reason with folks who use the term "libs" and buy into every nonsense right wing conspiracy, but I'll give it one shot. I'm not sure why, though. 

First, AP is a perfectly fine news source. Plus, the info is verifiable in almost innumerable sources. Facebook isn't a source I used, to my knowledge, nor do I get information from there.

Next, the "media" is a vague term encompassing a lot of different groups. But, if you think they control the governments of the world and events to the point of creating this panic all on their own, you are a complete and utter fool.

Obama got less flak because he acted quickly and didn't make this about himself, nor call it a "Republican hoax". Why H1N1 wasn't deemed as dangerous as Covid19? Ask the CDC or WHO. It's important enough to them to make these recommendations and that's newsworthy. It's also newsworthy that Trump has dropped the ball, this far.

Also, keep in mind this is early in the process, so comparing numbers is fruitless. This isn't the same as the swine flu.

In an event, I'm sure you'll get your retorts from your Fox News sources and Trump bubble. But, he's going on, what over 15,000 lies and misleading statements, that I'm not sure you are aware of truths and facts anymore.

It still sucks the kids can't play.

Have at it, guys.

34 minutes ago, MrMiyagi said:

You are making my point. Did you stop living your life when you found out a family member had the flu (which kills 10s of thousands Americans every single year)??

Did you stop living your life when the media modestly reported on the H1N1 virus (to protect the Obama admin) ??
 

I bet the answer to both are no!

So I ask you why the double standard by the media? It’s obvious, open your eyes snowflake.

Snowflake? You can't even understand basic time and dates, then compound it by thinking a point I made demonstrating how you were wildly incorrect somehow validates what you say?

And, "the media" made the WHO, CDC, world governments, epidemiologists, etc., etc. all act this way to what, get Trump? Blaming the media is always the laziest take, as is thinking the entire world simply runs in lockstep with them.

Dude, you wake up. This is a, potentially, serious problem and it isn't because CN tells us so.

1 hour ago, BruceColetrain said:

The CDC said 575 thousand were killed by Swine Flu

 

Media is a powerful tool

Worldwide. 12,000 in the U.S. It turned out to be about as deadly as the regular flu.

1 hour ago, MrMiyagi said:

Flat out lie. Research properly before commenting. 

YOU research properly.

https://apnews.com/afs:Content:8603491796

2 hours ago, MrMiyagi said:

In 2009 under Obama. The first cases of the swine flu, H1N1, appeared in April 2009. By the time Obama finally declared a national emergency that fall, the CDC reported that 50 million Americans, one in six people, had been infected and 10,000 Americans had died.

In the early months of the disease, Obama had no secretary of health and human services or appointees in any of the department’s 19 key posts. No commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, no surgeon general, no CDC director. The vacancy at the CDC was especially important, as in the early days of the crisis, only they could test for the virus; states weren’t allowed until later. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, not a medical doctor, led the federal effort. Sound familiar?

The first real H1N1 cases appeared in Mexico, though Mexicans were never forbidden to enter the U.S. And while the CDC recommended against travel there, the primary danger cited was kidnapping for ransom. Some 66 percent of Americans, supported by the media, thought the president was protecting them even as 4,000 Americans died before a vaccine was even distributed.

The emergency proclamation it took Obama seven months to declare was issued by Trump within 30 days of the coronavirus being found abroad. He announced a temporary suspension of entry into the U.S. of foreign nationals who posed a risk for transmission (CNN warned: “the travel ban could stigmatize countries and ethnicities”). And yes, Trump encouraged everyone to wash their hands.

Anybody here remember the media freaking out over Obama’s initial response, which was also to suggest everyone wash their hands? Anyone find evidence of national panic? No. So why did the media cover essentially an identical story so very differently?

Because your information is wrong. Obama declared an emergency in April 2009, before anyone died. I don't know why this easily proved incorrect falsehood is making the rounds. Well, actually, I do, but anyway....

Regardless, to show how these things can be problematic, Obama declared an emergency when only 20 cases were known and 12,000+ still died. It's a dangerous situation.

28-19, Final.

PC up 28-19 in the 4th quarter.