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There is a shot of Eagles on the sideline in the last episode of All-Access talking with Corby Meekins. Eagles is telling him he needs to back off the line of scrimmage based on what hes seeing from the CB, Meekins tells him to just work down field and read another player based on something Duvernay is doing. Eagles is clearly frustrated and not getting any answers, looking away and replying "ok, ok, alright". The exchange is a bit cut together but its a look into what the players are dealing with because of our dysfunctional coaching. Meekins has never coached WR before. Hes a high school OC, HC who was brought on by Tom to secure Ed Olivers commitment at UH, given TEs then moved to WR. He is coaching on the sideline bc Mehringer was moved to the box to assist Tim Beck in our play calling committee and continue his progression as Tom's protege. So Eagles has a technical question about what he can do in response to how a CB is covering him. Meekins gives him no advice and instead hits him with how the scheme is designed and what his job is within the scheme. I can see this playing out on both sides of the ball. Players identifying technical issues they're facing, seeking advice and getting scheme regurgitated to them because the coach lacks the technical expertise. This would be especially frustrating for young inexperienced players who have to wait to get the coaching they were searching for in the meeting room the following week, in the form of Mehrinnger lambasting their technique on film at the front of the room.24 points
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Anwar just pressed his butt cheeks against the mirror and forced everyone to stare at it. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk18 points
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Me: "So we are set, England and Scotland in the Summer of 2021?" Mrs: "Yes, that should give me enough time to learn to speak British" Me: "What?"13 points
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Stadium looks nice. Maybe 110 feet to straightaway center Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk12 points
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We can all agree that the 2016 Kansas loss was ultimately a constructive loss. But as far as this game, have we ever had a more destructive win?10 points
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I'm not a lawyer but I'll tell you pro bono Surlico that the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the Earth between Spain and Portugal, was never officially rescinded to permit the incursions of the heretic English or their descendants the self-styled "United States". So from that standpoint it doesn't matter if Trump claims to be "President" or "King" or "Pasha" as the fit may take him, nor does it matter what "Senators" or "Representatives" may think. It's all theater, all fantasy, it's not real. What IS real is that Juan Carlos I King of Spain and Emperor of the Indies Gracias a Dios has shown great forbearance, but even given the silence of his officers in New Spain, soon the time will come for action. Santiago!10 points
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This is absolutely where I am. We hired a guy with precious little CEO experience; what did we expect him to look like? Right or wrong, we hired somebody from a group where the vast majority of those who will be successful still have several years of "not successful" in front of them. Is Herman in the category of "those who will be successful"? Who the fuck knows? Whether we should be patient through the shitshow part of his maturation process is really the question, and I don't particularly feel like answering it, because it makes me want to throw up. So there's that. But the simple reality is, you have to learn how to not do stupid shit like hire Casey Horny, or put all your eggs in the Todd Orlando basket, and Herman is right now learning those lessons.9 points
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Really? Let me refresh your memory: Ed Orgeron was a horrendously bad coach, Joe Burrow sucked as a QB and LSU was gonna have a rude awakening trying to run a newly installed Big 12 offense against Texas, who sees that offense every week. Jalen Hurts was a far cry from Mayfield or Murray, wouldn't be able to operate the OU offense at anywhere near the proficiency of his predecessors and therefore would crash and burn against Texas. Because Texas beat Georgia, LSU and OU were of little concern. If OU and LSU were no concern, then the Big 12 title and playoff berth were there for the taking. There were many on Surly and tons elsewhere who blasted this all offseason. And for the record, I didn't really disagree myself.9 points
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I watched the final drive against Kansas and useless was not the impression it gave me.8 points
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This place is turning in to texags. We need moderators to get rid of stupid posts.8 points
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Maybe they don't have faith in their head coach because he's an arrogant prick and Eagles' position coach sucks.8 points
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I know you're kidding, but one of the most humorous things I observe perusing numerous cfb message boards is how each fan base really believes they're fundamentally different from the rest. Message board folks are the most fanatical of the fanatics and if you removed any reference to the specific teams/schools, you couldn't tell them apart. It's almost formulaic. The refs are biased against us/in favor of our rivals/opponents. The announcers hate us and love the other team. The other fans are, in every instance, "delusional." If we lose a recruit, the other school doled out the cash. If we get a blue chip commit, it was totally above board, because 18yr old kids will happily turn down bags full of money for the opportunity to play at our school. De-commits are good news, because he's a cancer/wasn't talented/we didn't want him anyway. Decommits are also low character guys who don't keep their word, unless they flip to us, in which case they're stand up kids. Your 3 stars are bread. Our 3 stars are GREAT EVALUATIONS! I could go on all night, but my all time personal favorite, witnessed on every single game thread on every forum, especially surly: The other team is constantly allowed to get away with egregious holding on every play.7 points
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If only there were some way to get 4 receivers on the field at the same time. Some kind of weird formation of players on the field where 4 of them are receivers. Oh well, it's just not possible. I mean you have 5 linemen, a quarterback, a running back, AND YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAVE A TIGHT END ON THE FIELD AT ALL TIMES THERE IS NO WAY AROUND DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.7 points
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Let's see how recruiting is going this week.... Look at recruiting thread7 points
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What I worry about it Herman bringing the hammer at the wrong time. He's puckered up so tight you couldn't get a greased BB up his ass. We saw this with Mack during the OU games and at the end of his tenure. There is a time for this. There is also a time to stop beating up the players and find a way to galvanize them. You can only take things to a "10" so many times before they tune you out or leave. In times like this, kids look to their leaders. So lead them. Teach them. Fucking coach them.7 points
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This is a very interesting aspect of this three ring circus, and one that deserves to be talked about more. The GOP are like toddlers who have never been disciplined for anything. Their decision making focuses on the immediate benefits to them and nothing more. The Dems using the GOP written rules to hold these hearings behind closed doors is something they need to do with every possible opportunity. If the GOP wants to fight and get their partisan judges to enforce ridiculous rules, then use those rules against the GOP at every fucking opportunity. The reason the GOP does this is because the Dems never fucking stand up to the bully. It's time to hit back hard with their own bullshit leading the way.7 points
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And Trump said no quid pro quo when asking for quid pro quo. Therefore that negates the crime even if he were to yell ‘crime’ while doing it. It’s the No Homo doctrine.7 points
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it’s not a crime unless you yell, “crime!” while you’re doing it. or immediately afterwards.7 points
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Trump's former AG, who was a former custom toilet salesman known as Matt "shitters full" Whitaker, has made a compelling legal argument that committing crimes isn't necessarily a crime. His mark on history is transcending the toilet industry by engineering a 4-wheel-drive commode that shoots .223 rounds, runs on coal and plays 'Eye of the Tiger' when it flushes. The first units were recalled due to a faulty model design -- Whittaker insisted that his engineers design a toilet that "didn't take shit from nobody." The model was later corrected with the design of "The Donkey Straddle 3000."7 points
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best part about this is picturing Harper sitting at home with perfectly coiffed hair watching his old team wrecking shop in the series the first year he's gone.7 points
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It's been a grim few weeks. It's hard to know where to even start regarding the Hermantics we're witnessing within the program and on the field right now. Still, there are few things that have struck me as more infuriating or absurd than the rest, and it's kind brimming to the top in my head, so you fellow shitheads will get the brunt of my mental Longhorn vomit. Personnel Selection on offense, 2017-Present: From Herman’s first game against Maryland to now, we continue to witness absolutely baffling personnel choices on offense that are completely fucking indefensible. The empty set with a mediocre-to-shitty TE and any ol’TB lined up wide makes no sense. Every defense we play knows that that look is going to be flashed. Only someone as weak as KU could allow for even a smidgeon of getting taken advantage of beyond a play or two by either position. It’s fucking absurd watching teams mostly ignore both players routinely and then bracketing one or more of the WRs. Meanwhile, Washington and Jake Smith are on the sidelines, witnessing this, and wondering why the fuck they came here. Picking apparent favorites at various spots and continuing to trot them out in order to watch them completely disappear and/or underperform. This season, Malcolm Epps and Cade Brewer both cover this issue. Brewer is a pure mediocrity at TE. It’s worth the program’s time to rotate in either another WR or get looks for other TEs. Fuck it, put two TBs out there at once (remember this fantasy of ours from the summer?). Epps is the smallest 6’6”+ guy I’ve ever seen on a football field. His ability to shrink to any occasion is trending towards phenomenal. There are other WRs worth the look on the roster, and yet he continues to show up and disappoint on multiple snaps. In the past, Kyle Porter, the Marble Falls buffoon at TE whose name I can’t recall and isn’t worth my time to look up, Lorenzo Joe, and sundry other WRs who brought nothing to the table over clearly better alternatives behind them. Naashon Hughes. Goldilocks legacy dildo from Westlake. Right. Attempting to use, or claiming to use, complex analytics for decision-making on certain down and distance throughout the games: Football is not baseball. Football has a sample-size issue that baseball does not. Applying algorithmic logic for decision-making in certain situations and “letting the math do the thinking” sounds great, but the same players against the same types of opponents only get so many reps on 4th and whatever, or goal-line and whatever. Interpreting results of 1000s of other “similar” situations historically and therefore having the dominating results from those situations be the executed solution doesn’t make any sense when your team, with its 11 variables per snap, haven’t faced the opponents’ 11 variables hardly ever. Tom Herman's teams are 40% on 4th down this year, whereas they were at 80% success on 4th last year? You don't say. Maybe our opponents fucking adjusted to the fact that we're going for it on 4th and short on our side of the 50 pretty much always unless a kick to win or tie the game is pertinent. Maybe they also figured out that when we do it, we tend to run for it, and quite often in a delayed push with Sam Ehlinger from the shotgun. Did I need a fucking data scientist to show me that insight? No. It's not 1000 points of data that informs me or DCs for shit on this. It's Tom Herman's fucking tendencies established over his 5 years as a HC that show me this. A sample size of less than 100 instances. Also, kick a field goal early and take the points, asshole. Part of Moneyball theory is arbitraging the fucking trends and tendencies within the industry, even as those things shift. It's not about gathering an insight once and determining all of your future outcomes around that one premise. This is what happens when moderately intelligent dickfaces coaching a children's game decide to masquerade as highly intelligent smartest guys in the room. If you feel good about guys like David Beaty and Chris Ash skulking around the program and providing advice to Herman, you might want to consider some uncomfortable commonalities. It can be argued that the 3 worst staffs assembled for P5 programs in the past 5 years are: Chris Ash's Rutgers' staff is probably one of the worst P5 staffs ever established. Here's a write-up at the time: https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/2016/01/meet_the_new_rutgers_coaching_staff.html . He basically hired his buddies and cronies and a couple of avuncular influences from his playing days. He cried at his opening press conference, also. This is the fucking guy Herman is whispering about as a replacement for Todd Orlandno? Fuck you, motherfucker. Also: Drew Mehringer as OC is one of the funniest piece of shit moves I can recall. What a fucking disaster. David Beaty's staff at KU when he arrived in 2015 is arguably better than either Herman's Texas staff, and is certainly better than Ash's at Rutgers. However, it still sucks fucking elephant balls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Kansas_Jayhawks_football_team A few of these guys have gone on to at least get decent work elsewhere. Kubiak continues to leverage his father's name as a coach with the Vikings. Thibodeaux is a decent recruiter at OU. Kane is the DC for a middling defense at SMU. Generally speaking though, this staff is a bunch nobodies that did nothing and will mostly continue to do nothing. Tom Herman's staff upon arrival at Texas in 2017, mostly still intact, is the frothing toilet water being served up to the fanbase for sustenance by the head football genius in charge. Stan Drayton is the only guy on the staff that had any legitimate and untarnished bonafides before joining the staff. Beck had coached in major P5 programs as an OC, and he'd been fired unceremoniously at every stop. Todd Orlandno was the DC equivalent of a butt plug, mostly showing up to haphazardly stop shit at a number of non-P5 backwaters. Oscar Giles was at Texas as an underperforming alum on Mack Brown's staff and otherwise meh. LOL Drew Mehringer. Most of the staff is so inconsequential to the fooball landscape that they don't even have a fucking wikipedia page. Herman could have gone out and hired anyone. He hired a bunch of fucking bros and Not Ready For Prime Time mouthbreathers. Half the staff has been demoted since starting on the staff or at least actively shopped at coaching conferences. Bleh. There is no excuse for this kind of stupidfuckery at a blue blood, much less ours. It can also be argued that Ash's Rutgers program and Beaty's KU program were the worst performing P5 programs over the past 5 years. These are lead guys that are lately in Tom Herman's ear about game prep and program dynamics. Sweet. Finally, Casey Horny being employed at Texas and shadow-coaching and leading the special teams agenda. This rape-enabling, victim-shaming cunt of a man is actively drawing a paycheck from Texas and in doing so, taking a giant hogger shit all over the game day performance of the program's special teams. Why is this guy here and why is he getting to do this shit? Because he and Tom Herman were GAs together at Texas and Tom Herman knows better than you, motherfucker. Nevermind anything else, that's what this is about. This piece of shit needs to have his office cleaned out and be handed a one-way bus ticket to Mt. Vernon, where he can help Art Briles fuck up another group of young females' lives and cheat to win games in 3A football. Anywho. Thoughts?6 points
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So my 4 year anniversary came and went and I didn't even realize it. 3 days in on my 5th year. Seems crazy. I think I did more productive stuff today than I did in the 2 years prior to my recovery. That might be literally true. Crazy to think back at how difficult life was.6 points
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That's not what happened. She didn't just overhear some comment in the club house. He directed his comment to a reporter (Footer I am assuming) who had been vocal in her displeasure with the Astros acquiring Osuna. Regardless of your thoughts on the reporter or his comments, his behavior, at minimum, showed a gross lack of awareness and judgment that is disqualifying for the position he held. He essentially poked the SJW bear, and the results were as you would expect them to be. It was colossally stupid and was a fireable offense under any circumstances. You cannot allow someone in his position to tarnish the organization's reputation even if his motivation was merely stupidity and not misogyny. Either way, when it became clear that he targeted her, he had to go. And he fucking lied about it first, which, at least in part, resulted in the initial statement that added fuel to the fire. You simply cannot look at this situation and not see how it has damaged the Astros' reputation. And for what? So some finance bro can stick it to a reporter he doesn't like? If he's willing to play that fast and loose with the organization's reputation, he needed to go. And this is without even considering the awfulness of his behavior on its own, which I believe should have resulted in his termination even if the story never broke. In short, he intentionally did something that foreseeablely resulted in the shit show around the organization that we have witnessed this week. That can't happen, and it doesn't much matter how you feel about the "something" that he did. The lack of judgment alone disqualified him from his position.6 points
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It's both absurd, but also entirely predictable. They're never going to arrest the GOP members interrupting. Schiff knows members are total babies and will just wait them out. Also, just a reminder: We spent 4 years investigating Benghazi because Susan Rice had erroneous talking points on the Sunday Talk Shows. That was the entire scandal.6 points
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I never had friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?6 points
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You've got two empty halves of coconut and your bangin' 'em together.6 points
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Not sure about that. It seems like Tom Herman pressing his buttcheeks against my window and forcing me to stare at it, would be more effective than Tom Herman pressing his buttcheeks against my mirror and forcing me to stare at it. I mean, if he's pressing his cheeks against my mirror, then isn't the front part of his body in the way of me actually seeing his buttcheeks? Or is he also simultaneously forcing me to watch from some really extreme side angle just to get a little peek at a cheek? Or is it one of those one-way mirrors that acts like a window? And if so, does Tom Herman even know he's pressing his butt cheeks against a window and forcing me to watch, or does he believe he's just pressing his buttcheeks against a regular mirror, just for his own enjoyment?6 points
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Absolutely on the nose right here. Beating the shit out of women should be spoken about in whispers and kept in the family. Completely unconscionable that people would report on that kind of thing.5 points
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Dig up Bud Adams’ corpse and desecrate it in the Astrodome? I’m just spitballing here. That really has nothing to do with baseball, it’s just on my bucket list.5 points
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It me. I mean, New Mexico is dangerous. I’ve seen “Breaking Bad”. We don’t need that in our country.5 points
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