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This is dumb. The screen passing rate alone is a massive change. Nobody thinks Sark threw out all his concepts. Quinn's biggest issues were pocket presence (that has been majorly upgraded) and turn downs. It is not hard to see the differences in the offense. We saw the significant difference in the aDOT last year between Quinn and Arch, 7.2 vs 11.1. That is not all Arch, it is plays and frequency of the plays Sark calls. For some reason you continue to pretend that Arch is this mad bomber when the stats through 2 games are 4 -8 on deep passes. Somehow you believe that is a terrible number, which is one of the most interesting takes I have seen on this site.
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The nuance that you’re failing to grasp is that none of us like that he was murdered but are having a hard time being sad for one of the individuals most responsible for your complaints above. It sucks that this happened generally, it sucks that this is where we are, it sucks that the people who fall for this stuff again and again are falling for it once more with the revisionist history of who he was and what he stood for, and even if someone does the reaping it’s a shame when they sow something like this. It would be morally and intellectually inconsistent for people who share your sentiments above to not recognize Kirk’s role in getting us here as we talk about what his death means.
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I’m not celebrating his death. If he truly is a Christian he is with Jesus right now and if so, I believe he is having to give an account for his actions on earth. I feel terrible for his wife and daughters. No one should have their family ripped apart by gun violence. I will note that the vast majority of Americans want reasonable laws passed to lessen the likelihood of that happening to more families. And he vehemently advocated against that in his life. No reasonable person thinks we can take that number to zero, but that is not an argument for doing nothing. According to his own words Kirk believed an absolute right to the 2nd amendment is so important that the deaths of thousands of children are acceptable to protect it. He spent his life sowing hate towards marginalized people; people who are my friends and family members, my patients, and my (and his) brothers and sisters in Christ, so no I do not mourn him. But because I am called to love him I am struggling mightily right now. My eldest daughter, who is one of the strongest and most faithful Christians I know, told me last night she is questioning her faith because of all her friends who are posting about what a tragedy this is when they never had a word to say about Uvalde; or El Paso; or the Pulse nightclub; or any of the church/mosque/synegogue shootings; or the MN assassinations or school shootings. Or even the CO school shootings from yesterday. And who attacked her for saying why she does not mourn him. Note she didn’t respond to their posts expressing their grief but felt compelled to post replies to her on her timeline She has never said anything about questioning her faith to me and she has gone through some very trying times. And I don’t have anything to say to her that doesn’t feel hollow and trite. And that breaks my heart I will leave you with a quote from Charlie Kirk, which I can only assume shows us how he would want us to feel about his death, unless his whole professional life was a work: “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.” “I can’t stand th empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.”
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i mean, this is basically like saying that it’s not a good look when the small, quiet kid who’s been picked on and bullied all year finally snaps and body slams his tormentor in front of all of the bully’s friends. like yeah, violence isn’t really a good look in a vacuum, but maybe if the bully and his friends hadn’t gone out of their way so often to be giant pieces of shit to the weak and defenseless then the fat, dumb bully wouldn’t haven gotten body slammed onto the pavement. there’s a reason that so many normally compassionate people don’t give a shit about charlie kirk dying. especially on the same day as *another* school shooting, which as we all know is a necessary, “prudent” part of charlie kirk’s ideal america. yeah; fuck that guy.
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Francesco Molinari outlines Europe’s plans to tame Ryder Cup crowd By Josh Lees Francesco Molinari will once again be involved in the European Ryder Cup setup as a vice-captain, and the team have already been putting in the work to prepare for the US crowd at Bethpage Black. Much has been said about the backing that will be behind Keegan Bradley’s American team in New York. The Europeans have been warned on numerous occasions over what reception they could receive when the action gets underway later this month. An away Ryder Cup is one of the toughest tasks in golf, and things are expected to be much harder for the visitors this time around. Amid all the noise in the build-up, the European team have been putting in the work behind closed doors to ensure they are able to deal with anything thrown their way. Eleven of the 12 European players are in action at the BMW PGA Championship this week, as is captain Luke Donald and his assistant Molinari. Speaking to bunkered.co.uk at Wentworth about the prospect of the New York crowd later, the Italian vice-captain told bunkered.co.uk: “We are very aware. “It has been one of the main points of the preparation.” During this prep, Molinari revealed Donald and Co have reached out to experts from other sports on how best to deal with hostile fandom. “[We’ve been] talking to people outside of golf to see how they manage the crowd in other sports,” the former Open champion added. “But it is an experienced team, we all know what is waiting for us and we need to show up and perform.” Molinari is no stranger to succeeding in an away Ryder Cup, having played his part in Europe’s ‘Miracle at Medinah’ 13 years ago. It is the only Ryder Cup that has gone the way of the away team in the last nine editions of the event, and Molinari is not the only member of the current cohort who played his part in the historic victory. Skipper Donald starred in Illinois as a player, while Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose also featured alongside the Englishman and Molinari. They were led by Jose Maria Olazabal in 2012, another one of Donald’s returning assistants this time around. Molinari believes this experience within the locker room will prove key in their bid to recreate history at Bethpage. “Luke was there, Justin was there, Rory was there,” he commented. A core group from Medinah, we have Olazabal as well who will bring his experience… “For sure that experience helps. It also good to have guys that have played in the US even without being successful, we will know what to expect.” Despite not having home advantage the Europeans have plenty in their arsenal in their bid to defend the crown they won so convincingly at Marco Simone. One key component of the team is Molinari’s brother Edoardo, who has prevailed as Donald’s secret weapon in recent years. Edoardo has balance the latter stages of his career with working intently in golf statistics and data, and the Europeans have used this to their advantage. There have been many special moments between the Molinaris throughout their careers, and working together in the Euro camp as part of Donald’s team has been another. “It is a pleasure and honour to do [the job] with the team, especially with my brother,” Francesco explained. “It is definitely special. We were lucky to play our first one together, who could have said when we were kids that we would be here right now.” Despite their brotherly bond, the Italians seemingly have different roles in the team. I think we are quite complimentary. I am not good with numbers,” he joked. “I try to bring something different.”
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While you've had your head buried in the sand, people have been screaming from the rooftops for a decade about the danger this country and its citizens are facing. Half of our fellow men have bent the knee to an authoritarian. So go "find the human race again", aka pretend that these fascists aren't systematically destroying America, tearing us apart, and burning everything to the ground.
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And this is Kirk and MAGA’s and Trump’s total misstep with their all out power grab in addition to their complete dehumanization of their opposition. When the opposition feels totally powerless and hopeless and their leadership is ineffectual, they revert to violence. When Trump can crime with no consequence, masked men round up people and send them to Sudan, and political aligned folks are pardoned, the fatalism and cynicism it takes to murder political opposition can be achieved pretty easily
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Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
elfenix replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
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they keep posting about what an exemplary christian he was, and how he showed the world how to sit down and talk out your differences with those that you disagree with with. not only was he a bad faith debater who majored in “refusing to answer straightforward questions” from the Jordan Peterson School of Spineless Debate, but everything this asshole espoused was the opposite of the teachings of jesus christ. if this racist, fascist, misogynistic mutant represents “exemplary christianity” then we need to go ahead and label the christian church a far right wing extremist hate group and get to work on cleaning the streets of this gang of dangerous seditionists, white supremacists, and pedophiles.
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Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
Murfdogg21 replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
Is that really analogous to people saying Kirk got what he deserved or was asking for it by saying things the left considers hate speech? Some righty or NRA fanboy ever said the kids had it coming? -
‘I don’t care’ – Keegan Bradley issues Ryder Cup message to European rivals By Josh Lees •35 minutes ago Keegan Bradley has no interest in getting embroiled in mind games with his European rivals ahead of the Ryder Cup later this month. Bradley will lead his fellow Americans into battle at Bethpage Black, with talk surrounding the event intensifying as it grows closer. Two weeks out, the majority of both teams are on the golf course this week, with 11 of the 12 Europeans in action at the BMW PGA Championship alongside their captain Luke Donald. The Americans meanwhile are playing on home soil at the Procore Championship, with ten of Bradley’s players competing out in California. Despite not being in the field, Bradley is present at Silverado Resort’s North Course to oversee the prep of those in action. On Wednesday the captain faced the media with the talking points of course centring around the Ryder Cup. During his press conference the US captain was quizzed on any potential back-and-forth ‘banter’ between the teams in the build-up. Admitting he has no plans of getting involved with the Europeans in the weeks leading up to the trip to New York, he replied: “I really don’t care what they’re doing, I really don’t care what team Europe does.” More than aware of the threat his rivals pose, Bradley described the current crop of Euro players as the ‘best European team ever’ paying the same compliment to captain Donald. This however was seemingly as much as he willing to speak about his opponents. Reiterating his ‘don’t care’ stance, Bradley continued: “I don’t care what Europe is doing, “I only care about our 12 guys, our caddies, the wives. I only care about what we’re doing… “So they should be confident but I’m not really — I really don’t care what they say about us, I only care about our team.”
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More like 10 more between now and the end of the month
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I think our main issue was that it was not only egregious, but that it supported what we thought we were seeing from the officiating at the time, and there was a specific crew that penalized Texas at a anomalously high rate while simultaneously under penalizing our opponents, which was evidence based (I forgot which poster ran the numbers). The fact that the guy who ran into Strong had a job afterwards indicated this was beyond the norm. During that same timeframe, we saw the SEC fire officials for their screw ups, but the B12 seemed to laugh at it. Then there was a multi-year discussion about whether taunting was a penalty when it was against Texas, and Tom Herman was asking for rules clarity. It seemed we could be penalized for throwing up the Horns in the endzone or in celebration, but others could get in our players faces and do the horns down. We were not allowed to do the guns down or a penalty would be thrown. The goal was clarity and the B12 ultimately took 2 years to make what is a simple ruling. Either taunting is allowed or it is not, just call it evenly. Those Okie State officials were never disciplined. In fact they were allowed to officiate more games between Texas and Okie State, rather than being assigned to other teams.
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