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  1. 1 hour ago, FreeHorn said:

    I’m guessing the choice is Tracy Rocker. Spent over 20 years coaching and developing DL in college. 6 years in the league and was headed back to college before he got the offer from the Eagles two years ago. Lots of SEC experience. 
     

    Clint Hurt would be awesome but I don’t see Hurt or Nielsen coming when they will have DC opportunities in the NFL. 
     

    let’s go Tampa Bay so we can see if my guess is correct. 

     

  2. 7 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

     

    Bill and Jerry together... I can't imagine that lasts even through the preseason. Think of how little Belichico can bear stupid questions from the press; now imagine it's your boss asking those questions.

    Yeah it does seem like a disastrous combo, but there was a report out there that Bill has forged a good relationship with Jerry and Stephen over the years at the Owners meetings and other league functions and if Bill is trying to break the wins record and coach a team in win now mode it makes sense. Still skeptical it doesn't blow up, but it seems like a very real possibility.

    To keep it on topic, I'd be surprised if Nielsen is the guy for Texas. He was relatively obscure as a position coach in Nola, but his work this year in Atlanta was good enough for him to get another DC job somewhere.

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  3. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    There’s also the case that Nielsen can’t go anywhere until the Falcons hire someone new and he’s released from his contract. 

    Arthur Blank is obsessed with Bill Belichick and really wants to hire him. Belichick is waiting to see what jobs come open from playoff teams who decide to move on from their coaches. If/When Jerry fires McCarthy there's a more than good chance Belichick ends up in Dallas. If Belichick does take the Atlanta job, he'll bring in his own people. If he doesn't, it would not be surprising at all if the Falcons hang on to Nielsen. He did a really good job with that defense this year.

  4. 1 minute ago, Napoleon said:

    Gressel is such a good defender that he can also keep our own guys from scoring. 

    Looked like it was the other way around. He was there clean up the rebound, but Vazquez didn't know he was there and went for it.

  5. With AD Mitchell, Neyor and Cook our receiver room is completely transformed and I hope this means Sark can use Whittington more creatively. I think he's a guy they can give a Deebo Samuel type role which they couldn't do this past year because the receiver room was so poor.

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  6. On 1/18/2023 at 2:35 PM, Chopper said:

    s3 of Derry Girls was excellent. It had the advantage of only being 3 seasons long so it didn't go stale at all but the finale has to be among the top of all finales of all time. Never in a million years would I have watched that series but for the comments here. Tip of the hat to all. 

    Don't spend a lot of time on Surly these days so I didn't know there were Derry Girls fans in here, but the scene in season 3 where 

    Spoiler

    they bring in Uncle Colm to talk to Liam Neeson's constable character

    is one of the most laugh out loud bits I've seen in a TV show in recent years.

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  7. 8 hours ago, Mittens said:

    Fair enough, but you'll have to refresh my memory as it's been a minute...  That wasn't Carmen's plan all along, was it?  He was broke until the last 15 minutes of the show, yes?  I absolutely could have missed/forgotten that plot line, but I don't recall an overarching goal of turning The Beef into a high end eatery.  My recollection is that he was trying to keep it afloat, clean it up, make it more efficient so that it was profitable.  

    I watched the show for the first time this week and loved it. I think Carmy eventually wanted to make it a profitable, good restaurant. He's also in no spot to fully achieve what he wants to because he hasn't dealt with the trauma of his brother's death. He can very clearly compartmentalize things which is how achieved the greatness as a chef that he did, but he clearly struggles with a lot of things and it's likely due to the trauma he hasn't dealt with. Slowly he gets the restaurant from a beloved shithole to a functional joint, but I think the plan was always to make it something elevated.

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  8. 5 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

    we did not have championship talent on the lines of scrimmage.  Our center, guards, and DEs were and are jags.  

    It's also mind blowing that they started Cole Hutson the entire season over DJ Campbell. If Hutson had the leg up because he enrolled early, fine, but his play never warranted him being the starter all year and leaving the #1 OL recruit on the bench behind a bad player all year in the era of the transfer portal is just insanely stupid. Let Campbell take his lumps. His upside is just so significantly higher.

  9. The window dressing in college football has changed over the 150+ years of the sport, but the fundamental truth that has always existed exists to this day: the mean, nastier, more physical teams at the line of scrimmage are the teams that are going to win most football games. That's been the problem for Texas for the past 10+ years and is the problem now and the problem is two fold.

    At the granular level, while there's a lot of talented young players on the o-line, they don't have anybody with a mean, nasty mentality in that group right now. They get pushed around in the run game far too easily and for all the plaudits Kyle Flood came to Texas with, the offensive line in two years has yet to look like they can move bodies in the run game.

    At the philosophical level, it doesn't help when the head coach views a four yard gain as a negative. Sark is so quick to abandon the run game at the first sight of any trouble. Did it in Stillwater this year when Ewers couldn't hit water from a boat. Didn't even try to establish any kind of run game against a putrid run defense last night. Starting Keilan Robinson as your every down between-the-tackles back was a joke. He certainly has a role in this offense and that ain't it. Until Texas can get back to mauling people up front, this is a program with a 8-9 win ceiling. 

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  10. Washington is 106th in the country in rush defense success rate and 91st in defensive opportunity rate (pct of rushes that go for 4+ yards) this is a defensive line that sucks shit through a straw and our o-line hasn't been able to generate any push in the rare times are dumb ass coach has tried to run the ball. Kyle Flood has a great reputation as an o-line coach, but that unit has just got to get a ton better without 5 to bail them out.

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