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The Earl of Texas

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  1. Don’t get me wrong, excited about the win, but should’ve put them away mid 4th quarter and then again twice more after that. Let them back into the game instead, ended the game feeling like we limped to the finish and got it done thanks to a muffed punt and a stupid trick play fumble etc.
  2. Had a chance to review this game. When the game ended, I did not feel very good about it, but I came around on second review and I feel fine about it. If Xavier doesn’t have an all-time bad day, we probably put them away earlier, crazy how he alone changed the flow of that game - unlikely to happen again with him. Refs really fucked us, you’re not going to see me complain about refs often because that tends to go both ways but this was bad - Overshown penalty was absurd, props to Dugan for goading the donkey in stripes into calling that one. Defense overall was above the board, not great but they forced fumbles and tackled well. Still not getting enough QB pressure. Casey’s performance much better than stat line suggests, he’s good about feeling pocket pressure and sliding without bailing on play. OLine played good but could’ve been great, TCU’s DLine isn’t great but they got their shit together after that SMU loss and played disciplined, but got beat up. Bijan made them look better than they played, but they’re clearly improving and doing it quickly. Very few glaring errors where as prior weeks it was errors/drive ratio. Bijan is just not of this planet, probably could’ve won the game without him but not had been up with about 3 chances to truly seal the game without his performance. 37 touches no fumbles no dropped passes no bonehead plays. Elite. All in all, we missed some great chances to put them away and it began to feel like a Herman style collapse, but the fact that we played that bad and won on the road against a team who game plans more for us than anyone in conference play and all that is good, couldn’t tell you the last time we were definitively more physical than TCU but it happened both sides of the ball. On a better day we win that one 45-27. Lack of consistent or even common QB pressure makes me nervous in this conference, but PK dialed up some stuff that worked. We were the better team and it showed, we had a lot of self-inflicted wounds. The kind of stuff you learn from.
  3. I pulled a muscle in my rib section laughing from that safety. He retreated! Does fake army hold fake court martial or what.
  4. We’ve been losing to TCU because our coaching has sucked dick, not because they’re good. As our sad friend above clearly shows, it’s their Super Bowl, but a good coach overcomes silly chalkboard motivation of that type. Lets see what you got, Sark.
  5. Considering the BOB draft and personnel flush, the best case scenario is really to field a team that grows together but loses plenty, get a great draft position, and trade Deshaun for a mint. If they pull that off it’ll be as competent management as this team has had. Draft well and start building.
  6. Going to be ugly tonight. Carolina’s D is looking nasty.
  7. Even when they finally turned it loose with Card, he was missing open WRs downfield repeatedly, in a point in the game where missing or hitting those WRs kept us in it or sealed the L. Whatever the reasons are, Card ain’t it, yet. Hook ‘em, Casey.
  8. I’ll debate that. He’s good, but you think we couldn’t do better? I beg to differ.
  9. When I did it, I did a lot of advertising on places like craigslist. I got zero leads from that kind of advertising. It was only when I advertised on Facebook that the hits began to come. And what really sucked about it was that it took me a while to find client one, and as soon as I found client one they connected me to the next five, and those five connections made the next 20. So I was hoping for work for a while but when I finally found it I had to start turning people down. You will find very quickly if you’re going by word of mouth that tax help is a must, and I got pretty good at doing taxes through that which is a useful skill. I would shamelessly promote to people you know. Be proactive and be persistent and have perseverance. It will come. Being an accountant by trade is a lot like being a plumber or an electrician; lots of folks will need you at some point, you just have to let them know that you are the one they can call, or to remember you when they make that call. it turns out that I personally hated that kind of work, but it did help a transition between two jobs and I still help some of these folks from time to time from an advice perspective, and it helped expand my network in the end. Good luck.
  10. I went to see the game while a student, 04. We beat them in a real ugly game. Their fans are fucking horrid. Fuck these clowns.
  11. Fayetteville? I spent a week there one night.
  12. All Heisman winners start out with 9 car/75 yards against Kent
  13. Our eclectic group of shitheads once rented an entire plane because we ran too many WR screens.
  14. From Houston, rocking a burnt orange polo heading to my job I will be unable to concentrate on: FIGHT!
  15. This jailhouse workout yard turned soccer stadium is pretty sweet. You could pump some serious iron with the genpop out there.
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