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The Earl of Texas

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  1. 2/3 is a fraction, and the so called experts are projecting 5 years $100M for Marcus. But even that’s a lot for me. Like I said, in Click I trust, we’ll see. I was just throwing out a name.
  2. That’s not what he said - He didn’t say Houston is going to go sign top flight talent. He just said Houston is going to sign free agents with the cap space vacated by departing free agents.
  3. We are super lucky to have Luhnow and Click as GMs back-to-back. Click will do what must be done, if that includes letting someone else pay Carlos $180,000 per hit and we go scoop someone like Semien to produce the same for a fraction of the cost, let’s do it. Will miss Correa if that comes to pass, but I get a crazy feeling that my life might continue.
  4. You don’t know Boston fans very well, that is clear. But obviously you’ve made up your mind. You should travel there more, great city, but I don’t think there’s a worse sports group in this country, or at least no one who outshines them definitively from my experience. They are ‘used to winning’ and super proud of their fandom and city which often creates a less than stellar result in fans.
  5. Not sure why people don’t just Google before they say something, but, I got you.
  6. You could’ve taken this argument and run with it if you hadn’t started off by breaking your ankle like that.
  7. That was a lot of words so no one read it but good luck at the Grown Man with Hurt Feelings awards I take it you’re a finalist. 😂
  8. Congrats to the Braves! .500 at the break, and now the Champs. That’s an outstanding team full of guys who are very easy to root for, they deserve it.
  9. Disappointing end but another amazing season and we’re talented enough to run it back next year. Can’t think of more than 2 or 3 teams whose fans wouldn’t trade with us in a heartbeat. Go Astros.
  10. What the Astros have done to the Yankees and their fans is hilarious and pretty awesome. Astros odds-on favorites to win AL in 2022.
  11. Great game. Fuck.
  12. At least aggy has the fucking common sense not to bring deep kicks out when they have the lead in a tough situation, and let their O which has been having success go to work.
  13. The team is more than talented enough to do it. We’re going to have at least two very tough games ahead but I think we will be the better team in each of those games. Finish 10-2, better than I think most would’ve thought.
  14. https://247sports.com/player/brenen-thompson-46100208/ .96+ is very, very good for a ‘four star’
  15. I wonder how the board feels about Applewhite being better than Simms. They both played against Colorado.
  16. Like the enthusiasm but don’t understand why it needs to be binary. We should expect to beat them, but thanks to some donkey HCs, we haven’t. Its ok to critique the way a team wins, especially one with our expectations. But yes, good win for Sark and I liked his comments on the game too.
  17. Just felt after second watch like we were the better team, obviously Bijan had a big part in it but without him Sarkisian would’ve had to find a different way to get it done, and I thought we would’ve based on what I saw. Not trying to take anything away from Bijan, with him we were in a position to win comfortably, strangely enough, we just didn’t do it. Feel like the other backs would’ve done well too, but not as well. Would’ve needed to piece the rest together in a different way.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. I pulled a muscle in my rib section laughing from that safety. He retreated! Does fake army hold fake court martial or what.
  21. 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.
  22. He’s a freshman you saw have one bad game. Relax on the overevaluation.
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