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  2. I think Ballmer is going to have to sell the team. This is really, really fucking bad.
  3. Yeah, he was good in exactly one game last year and he was mostly taking the top off the defense. He has a lot of weight on his shoulders and it is clearly getting to him. Sark needs to recognize that and get the kid some help. Then simplify his throws. Come out early and let him hit a couple stationary targets and some wr screens first to get his confidence going. Sark wasn't helping him putting him in 3rd and long over and over. What's wrong with him isn't physical. If he was in Lane's offense he would bounce back quickly. Lane loves him some basic throws.
  4. Thoughts: - Carver and Concepcion worth every penny. They bring the ability to explode on any play and the offense needs that. - Liked seeing Moss take 20 carries although he’s still not the player he was pre-injury. The explosiveness is needed because it doesn’t look like we will be able to ride him all game like we did last year. - The defense and the penalties. Woof. Elko doesn’t have the personnel he had last year but the penalties can and must be cleaned up. I predict they’ll cost us a game we should win this year. - Reed plays competent football but Craver and Concepcion are helping a LOT. Accuracy is an issue, he only connected on 17/37. Will hold breath every time he gets hit. Right now, we will be favored in every game till number 3 LSU. But the football team has obvious flaws and 2-2 could happen as easy as 4-0. Hoping that the bye will clean up some sloppiness but I’m dreading a lethargic team overlooking Auburn (who I think will lose to OU and drop out of top 25). Just feel like a game we’d lose.
  5. I’m not as seasoned of a CFB spectator as some of you boys, but I’ve got about 15 years of solid ball watching under my belt. I can’t think of one example of a mediocre team improving week to week, so much so that they’re almost a different team by the end of the season. It’s Week 3 and you can damn near count the number of legitimate successful offensive drives on one hand. That’s not going to change overnight. That was a tough watch today, preparing myself mentally for a season of it.
  6. Hank_Hill

    A&M at ND

    I mean yea he had 200 yards. That’s probably true for a lot of teams through 3 games
  7. what do we develop? not OL. you think he’ll play defense?
  8. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Put it on the wall.
  9. https://rumble.com/v6yw9xg-the-shooter-of-charlie-kirk-was-a-groyper..html
  10. Made a 47-yder now. Dude has the Japanese symbols on the back of his jersey.
  11. I know that was a layup but we're trying to make the fucking playoffs here.
  12. CurlyDumps

    A&M at ND

    A&M defense gave up more points in one game than Texas has all season.
  13. what a douchebag.
  14. I laughed but goddamn
  15. I knew this outcome was the most likely, but let Netflix talk me into the weight being that much of an issue over the past couple weeks. Spoiler: it wasn't. The reflexes were always going to be too much, the timing, the precision. He has just had that level that only the greats have had, for a decade now. I've been a fan of Bud only half the time I've been a fan of Canelo, but I thought it was a mistake for Canelo to try this, the same way it was to fight Bivol. Just too much. He chases greatness, but could've retired as a great just sticking to 160-168. But he tried. Buds just another animal, and he has that same chin that Canelo has. Where i could not really see Canelo hurting him that bad. Maybe wearing him down, but fuck he couldn't even do that.
  16. The user considered buying a restored 1972 Chevy pickup for around \$25,000, noting that classic Ford and Chevy trucks from that era are similarly priced. They contrast this with modern trends, humorously pointing out how today’s “manly men” often use \$150,000+ lifted trucks just to haul a jet ski.
  17. Wild that this dude just said “oh, I didn’t know that huge wire transfer from a shady Euro was really Russian intelligence funding. I’m as angry as you are about this.” And just kept on going like nothing. Truly the stupidest country.
  18. You know I need to go watch them play at least once this year. Not hard to get to the stadium and it would probably be fun to go.
  19. Jordyn Tyson had a pretty good game. That touchdown where he jumped over the defender and stayed inbounds was quite the effort. Ready to start conference play. There’s no one in the Big XII that is more talented than ASU, but it just takes one play (Not going for it last week at the goal line when MSU couldn’t stop me if I was running the ball) to ruin a game.
  20. The weight of the Manning name is crushing his confidence? I dont get it, he was perfectly fine a year ago. He's seriously mentally screwed right now. The line gave him a lot of time the majority of the snaps, they weren't bad. Sark does them no favors asking them to block outside zone against small quick defensive fronts, and stupidly keeps going to jumbo compact sets inside the 10 and trying to smash it in. Neither of those things are working at all against anyone. Outside of that the line wasnt bad. Receivers were open. He just couldn't hit Charlie Kirk if the barrel was an inch from his neck
  21. I was thinking about something similar earlier. And I don't really give a fuck about the pages of inane discussion previous to this post or the pages that will assuredly follow it. Just wanted to write a little tonight. Open for feedback. Cleaned this up a bunch like I would be writing for a publication. ---- When you play for any sports team with a high level of visibility there are two forms of pressure. There is internal pressure and there is external pressure. Internal pressure is what you face from inside. Your coaches, your teammates, your equipment managers, maybe most notably your fans. It is all of the people around you or in your immediate vicinity that you interact with on a regular basis who are wanting you - and oftentimes expecting you - to succeed. Then there is external pressure. External pressure is the national media, the haters, the rivals, the naysayers on social media - the other fans that expect you to be good and when you are not good jump at every opportunity they can to immediately shoot you down. Internal pressure is the Philadelphia Eagles. If you play for that team and you do not perform you are going to find out very quickly. It might be from people within your own organization or it might be from fans on the field. You may go for a bacon, egg and cheese out in the city and someone spits on you because you dropped an interception the week prior. External pressure is the Dallas Cowboys. Everyone - except your fans - despise you and want you to lose. Every time you take the field you are on national TV and under intense media scrutiny and the subject of tens of millions of people doing nothing but hoping that you lose whichever game you are currently playing. Every player faces some combination of these two factors and has to deal with it during the course of their careers. Whether it is in high school, in college or as a professional. Some more so than others. "More so" would do well to qualify the nascent career of Arch Manning who is currently being broadsided by both forms of pressure in a way that potentially no college football quarterback before him ever has. The college football zeitgeist features Arch on its front page every week. They tend to deflate him any chance they can get. His own fanbase does their best to temper expectations but generally winds up admonishing him as well. The internal pressure is oppressive - Arch is attempting to lead a team that has made the national semifinal two-straight seasons beyond that. He is hoping to deliver a national title to a fanbase and program that since 1970 has struggled to even remain in contention most seasons. The external pressure might be worse. Arch's grandfather is in the college football hall of fame. One of his uncles is widely regarded as one of the best quarterbacks to ever take a snap behind center. Another uncle threw for 57,000 yards in the NFL and has two Super Bowl MVP trophies to his name. The team Arch is lining up for - of course - is the Texas Longhorns. Since their third national title in 1970 the Longhorns have come more than close on a number of occasions but only lifted the national title once. That title - which was won 20 years ago now - came in large part on the back of one of the most prolific college quarterbacks of all time in Vince Young. Arch - of course - knew all of this coming in. He knew the weight that his last name carried. He knew the weight that TEXAS scrawled across the front of his jersey every Saturday would carry. Yet he signed up for it anyway. Arch has delivered mixed results so far. A couple of breakout performances as a stand-in starter in 2024 excited fans and the nation alike. A middling performance to start Texas' 2025 season on the road against defending national-champions Ohio State tempered expectations quickly. His two follow-up performances against Texas cannon fodder SJSU and UTEP did little to dissuade concerns. So - is the pressure too much for Arch Manning? Only one person can determine that - and that's Arch. -----
  22. Never give a coach a guaranteed long-term contract. It fucks with his head more often than not and you can't do anything about it. At least hold off until he wins a national championship.
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