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  1. 17 minutes ago, tokamak said:

    Bruce Feldman @ The Athletic. Don't read this if you don't like chugging kool-aid.

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    Texas is different, if not “back” — and opposing coaches and analysts agree

    By Bruce Feldman

    It’s become the overdone crack — “Texas is back again, eh?” — and the typical response is an eye-roll or a snicker. We media folk kept tripping over ourselves.

    That certainly was the case when Texas beat No. 11 Notre Dame in Austin, Tex. to kick off the 2016 season. The 50-47 thrilling double-overtime win had ESPN’s Joe Tessitore declaring, “Texas is back, folks!” The Horns vaulted to No. 11 in the AP poll the next week and then went 5-7, culminating in the firing of head coach Charlie Strong. (Notre Dame, by the way, finished 4-8.)

    There were some promising moments in the Tom Herman era, including a top-10 finish, but Texas fizzled out in his four seasons and he was also ousted. His successor Steve Sarkisian left Nick Saban’s Alabama staff in 2021 for the job; he has since dramatically upgraded the roster and, just as importantly, put together an elite staff. The Longhorns almost upset the Tide last year, but stumbled to an 8-5 record after a five-win first season.

    This offseason, the buzz had been building inside the Texas program. The development of the roster, particularly in the trenches, had several staffers excited. This group on both sides of the ball was much different than any Texas team in a long time. Quarterback Quinn Ewers, a former No. 1 recruit, had matured and was primed to take the next big step, Texas sources also affirmed. There were, as well, legitimate difference-makers on defense now.

    The hype began to build from all of that.

    The Longhorns were named the preseason favorite to win the Big 12, though winning the Big 12 didn’t necessarily equate to believing this team was a potential national title one. Was Sarkisian ready to get the Longhorns there? In a decade as a head coach at some big brand programs, his teams had never finished higher than No. 20. But momentum is favoring Texas. It visited Tuscaloosa in Week 2 and absolutely mauled Alabama, winning 34-24 in a game that didn’t feel close. The Longhorns had five sacks and nine TFLs. Their O-line didn’t allow a sack and gave up just two TFLs. Texas followed that up by steamrolling its subsequent three opponents (including No. 24 Kansas) by an average score of 33-10 and rising to No. 3 in the country.

    So … is Texas back? I’ll hold off on that for a little bit longer, but here’s what I am confident in saying: Texas is different.

    And it’s not just me saying that. The Athletic has talked to a half-dozen coaches who have either faced Texas this year or scouted them over the last two weeks. Their reaction is unanimous: This team is absolutely good enough to be a College Football Playoff team this year.

    “That is a very impressive roster,” said one longtime SEC coach. “They got linemen like Alabama used to have. Both sides of the ball. They beat the s— out of Alabama. They push everybody around. They did whatever they wanted with Baylor. They’ve got speed outside and their tight end (Ja’Tavion Sanders) is a freak.

    “I think Sark has learned his lesson. He’s running the ball. He’s required toughness. He used to be ‘Next play! Next play! Next play! Hurry up!’ He’s learned what it takes. He hired great coaches. Bo Davis is a great defensive line coach. (Kyle Flood) is a great O-line coach. It shows what those guys have done there.”

    Against Kansas last Saturday, Texas held the nation’s No. 1 third-down offense, which had been converting at 61 percent, to 0-for-8.

    “Their defense is dominant and their D-line is one of the most impressive groups I’ve ever seen,” said a Big 12 analyst whose team faced Texas this year. No. 93 (6-foot-4, 362-pound senior T’Vondre Sweat) was incredible to watch in person.”

    Byron Murphy, a 308-pound junior, was No. 18 on the Freaks List this year, and is every bit as big a problem for opponents as Sweat. Their offensive line counterparts are just as impressive.

    “Their D-line is freakish,” said another Big 12 coach. “They’re getting a huge pass rush with four. Their front 7 is a lot better than last year. That freshman linebacker, No. 0 (Anthony Hill) is super fast. He’s so hard to block coming off the edge. They made Alabama look bad. People blamed that quarterback (Jalen Milroe) but they didn’t have a lot of guys open.”

    This is a dramatic change from how Texas used to be. In the previous 15 years, Texas has only had two O-linemen drafted. A critical piece of the turnaround has been that Flood and Davis (not so coincidentally, both former Saban assistants, like Sarkisian and special teams coordinator Jeff Banks, who is also regarded as one of the best at his position) are working opposite of one another with their players going head up against each other. That battle every single day at practice, good on good, has raised the bar, ratcheting up their toughness and physicality.

    “Their O-line is so big and physical and they move people,” said the Big 12 analyst. “Both of their tackles No. 78 (sophomore Kelvin Banks) and No. 70 (senior Christian Jones) had elite movement skills. I also thought their left guard No. 76 (Hayden Conner) was also pretty damn good with great movement skills.) … I think their O-line is the strength of their offense. Their receivers can run and are as good as advertised. Their backs break tackles and are great in space.

    “Sark is the best play caller I’ve ever faced. He hardly had any tendencies going in, and if he did, he broke them during our game. He really keeps you off balance. They have a great change to make a deep run.”

    The Big 12 coach added a grim warning of sorts for the rest of their conference — and perhaps for the SEC, which will be home to the Longhorns next year: “They are better live than on film.”

     

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  2. 3 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

    I gotta think the conference wants best possible rep for post season, and that is obviously Texas this year.

    If anything, the calls should go in Texas' favor. The only reason they wouldn't would be to avoid a blow out which would also minimize "star power" in CCG.

    So look for what appears to be a fairly called game.

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    Trolling ass mf

  3. 26 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

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    this was during the baylor game last year and I went and looked.  Apparently they called one penalty on them in the 4th quarter that amounted to 2 yards.  lofl.

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  4. 18 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    Americans in a nutshell

    Js1 banned himself from the cloakroom in the past. If he isn't reading a warm blanket of confirmation bias then he's out.

     

    19 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

    Are you saying that you think there's an organized conspiracy to bring down Biden's re-election campaign? Who do you think is part of it? 

    Organized conspiracy? Lol.  Has there been multiple stories in historically Biden friendly publications in the last couple of months that are either damaging for him or outright calling for him to step down?  Yes.  Trump is the only nominee Biden can beat.  If, for whatever reason, Trump is not it, Biden won't be either.  Thanks for coming to my ted talk and look forward to another of your personal insults.

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  5. Jamie Dimon is the king of coming out with dire predictions... and then being wrong. One day he will be completely right, until then...

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/01/jamie-dimon-says-brace-yourself-for-an-economic-hurricane-caused-by-the-fed-and-ukraine-war.html
    June 1, 2022:
    "JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says he is preparing the biggest U.S. bank for an economic hurricane on the horizon and advised investors to do the same.
    “You know, I said there’s storm clouds but I’m going to change it … it’s a hurricane,” Dimon said Wednesday at a financial conference in New York. While conditions seem “fine” at the moment, nobody knows if the hurricane is “a minor one or Superstorm Sandy,” he added.
    “You’d better brace yourself,” Dimon told the roomful of analysts and investors. “JPMorgan is bracing ourselves and we’re going to be very conservative with our balance sheet.”
     

    He may have been early but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. Buckle up buttercup
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  6. Go there multiple times per year to visit family and love the city.....for about 60 hours.  Then I'm ready to gtfo.  Awful place to raise kids, culture centered around fucking off and drinking, and they now have about 1/2 the needed police force.  Criminals run rampant in city hall.  It should've been the center of commerce for the entire southeast due to the river and they fucked it up.  

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  7. 2 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    For me it's not about how much we pay in taxes, but rather what we get for them.  

    Right now I feel like we're just paying money into a black hole.  What are we getting for our taxes?  The infrastructure is a mess, the healthcare system is a mess, the education system is a mess, the social safety net has almost completely disappeared leading to a homelessness epidemic, and the list goes on.

    Instead we have military spending that outpaces the next 10 countries combined, militarized police, and a government run by big money special interests.

    'Merca!

     

    Totally agree.  Plus they (all of government) are so wheels off on spending and running such massive deficits I don't see the point of throwing more into the blackhole.  I mean this year the annual deficit is approaching $2 trillion and the economy has, thus far, massively outperformed expectations.  

  8. 12 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    My problem with “fiscal conservatives” is that there hasn’t been a Republican fiscal conservative since Eisenhower. And in general, most “fiscal conservatives” don’t even know what being fiscally conservative means, much less what policies it would entail. Most people think fiscal conservative equals less spending, which is potentially true, but in reality it means more taxes. I am for more taxes. 

     

    Why are you for more taxes?

  9. 3 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    This might be my least favorite type of political person in America. A fairly strong anti-abortion view that is absolutely, completely fucking uninformed about anything having to do with the issue. 

    Oh, you think we should be more permissive of abortion earlier in pregnancy and get more restrictive later in pregnancy, so we can prohibit late-term abortions except when the life of the mother is at stake? You colossal fucking idiot, what the fuck do you think Roe was?!

     I was just addressing what Js1 said.

  10. 3 minutes ago, TxEx84 said:

    Holy run-on sentence, Batman!😀

    I used to consider myself a moderate Republican.  Fiscal conservative (less government/lower taxes) but pro-environment and social causes (just thought the majority of funding should be from individuals and not taxpayer funded). But now the Republican party has gone bat-shit crazy.  The party of Trump, Dan Patrick, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Ken Paxton, etc. is not my party.  The party left me.  So now I vote straight Democrat until something changes.

    yeah I know.  I just started typing

  11. 3 hours ago, TexArcher said:

    I'm an independent (socially liberal, fiscally conservative, but not a libertarian) who would consider voting for a moderate Republican, if such a thing existed, and if the entire GOP hadn't permanently stained itself from 2015 to today.  So, in practice, I guess I'm a Democrat for the next 40 years.  Good job, GOP.

     

    2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    that has never existed

     

    1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    Also socially liberal, fiscally conservative is just code for "I vote/voted Republican because I hate taxes, but I have no real issue with the part of the party that demonizes the LGBT community, abortion rights, and forces their religion down everyone's throat, because I care about taxes"

     

    I guess I am your poster boy Js1.  To be honest, I don't think the GOP demonizes the LGBT community and think certain segments of the Dem base are WAY more anti LBGT, I think the practice of abortion is abhorrent but understand that the availability or lack thereof impacts lower socioeconomic folks more than rich folks but believe there should be limits and Dems haven't given an actual "up to x weeks" and so if the range is up 6 weeks or 8 or whatever versus all the way up to birth then I'll go with the smaller week number, and agree whole heartedly about religion and the GOP (personal opinion but super religious 'shove it down your throat' folks don't really have that much dough). 

    So in practice, I'll abstain from voting in certain races (i.e. if it is Trump v Biden again), and in general will vote for the least crazy option in any other race regardless of party affiliation.

     

  12. 1 hour ago, 'stache said:

    What a fucking shithead. You know he'll run for governor so they can put him on stage to show how much they love "teh blacks" knowing he has zero chance. It'll be literally just for show and he'll be given some cushy job in Austin by hot wheels or whatever fascist piece of shit holds that office next.

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    1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

    ‘Blacks for Abbott’ 

    coming soon 

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    I guess now that he's a Republican you guys can really let your freak flags fly.  

  13. 10 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    I've never, ever, ever liked this guy. He was fucking invisible during COVID. You'd have thought Clay Jenkins was the Dallas mayor. Johnson also seemed way too cozy and in line (err, bought) with the "old guard" that pulled Rawlings' strings before him.

    Clay Jenkins can go fuck himself forever. 

    Johnson has done a good job as Mayor, regardless of his party affiliation, and this is probably in anticipation for other statewide offices.  

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