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Goredho

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  1. This thunder dome of a thread really needs to be in classics. It's simultaneously the highest peak and lowest valley of Surly, lol. But, it needs to stay alive for the 2025 season and aftermath at least. I expect it to pay dividends for quite awhile. Every time Arch does something jaw dropping, good or bad, we'll get people digging up their receipts and rehashing the coaching decisions at the end of 2024.
  2. He's playing his heel role so well.
  3. Uh, that's not what I said at all. I mean, did you read what you quoted? It says this "Those are hypothetical outcomes, as is that Arch comes in and we beat Az State, Ohio State and win it all. The only thing that is a certainty is that Quinn wasn't capable of performing well enough against elite defenses when the offensive line got pantsed." I will stand by this as long as anyone wants to go around the hamster wheel: "When you get to the point of win or go home, you pull out all the stops, and if you don't and wind up going home, you deserve your criticism for not doing everything you possibly could in an effort to win it all at the moment you had the opportunity. There are no guarantees Texas will be in a semifinal again this year. Or next. Or the year after that."
  4. It's not a given Arch loses to AZ state, and it's not a given it's a disaster if he does. Those are hypothetical outcomes, as is that Arch comes in and we beat Az State, Ohio State and win it all. The only thing that is a certainty is that Quinn wasn't capable of performing well enough against elite defenses when the offensive line got pantsed. When you get to the point of win or go home, you pull out all the stops, and if you don't and wind up going home, you deserve your criticism for not doing everything you possibly could in an effort to win it all at the moment you had the opportunity. There are no guarantees Texas will be in a semifinal again this year. Or next. Or the year after that.
  5. And yet here we are, debating Ewers vs Arch, because that didn't happen.
  6. I can understand that thinking, and if we were just talking about the first GA game, I might agree with you, but… Looking at 2024 and the opportunity the team had had last year, we had 3 games against elite defenses where these truths were made blatantly obvious: Our oline was not effective against elite defensive fronts Against elite defensive fronts, our running game became largely nonexistent Against elite defenses, the responsibility to manufacture offense would fall on the QB who would be operating under duress Ewers was not very adept operating under duress and being the sole source of offense and would not be able to pull out victories under these conditions 3 games, 3 manifestations of the exact same problems, 3 opportunities to try a different QB who might have better success under those conditions, 3 choices to ride and ultimately die with Ewers, 1 missed opportunity to do everything you possibly could to try to bring a championship home. What’s the definition of insanity? I mean, I’m a Sark fan. He is undoubtedly a good coach building a powerhouse here and I’m happy we have him. It doesn’t mean he shits golden nuggets and farts rainbows and never makes mistakes. Hindsight is 20/20, which is why you have retrospectives in attempt to be better the next time. Here’s to Sark being less hand wavy than fans about his shortcomings in 2024.
  7. This. Why did Sark make Ewers his ride-or-die QB pick when NFL scouts evaluate him as barely worth a throwaway pick? That's a valid question.
  8. The 2024 QB competition was RIGGED!!
  9. Ok, now that the victory laps are over, what should still be a discussion is not whether or not Quinn sucks (he does) or if he will last any length of time in the NFL (it's highly likely he won't). It should be, "When NFL talent evaluators could so clearly see Quinn's shortcomings, why couldn't or wouldn't Sark?" It's pretty obvious now that we should have prepared Arch more and at least used him when Quinn was struggling if not named him the starter after the first GA game. Would we have finished better? I dunno, our offensive line was exposed against teams with dominant D lines. But I don't think there is any debate that Arch is better equipped to perform with an offensive line that isn't providing great protection. I dunno what blinders Sark had on, but I am glad the temptation to rely on Ewers has been removed from him.
  10. Oh, I fully realize its ridiculously unlikely. Ewers is just not a good QB. There's something in his head that is incongruent with competitive, full contact football. Ewers was drafted exactly where he should have been -- late, with a throw away pick, on the off chance he can exorcise whatever that thing in his head is. BUT with regards to Derka... I've never seen someone so invested in the failure of a 22 year old. I mean, ok, you called it. So did a shit ton of others in this thread, but they aren't spiking the football over it and talking about the "abuse" they endured for it.
  11. I didn't really give a shit about Ewers as a pro, I was just glad he moved on. After the last couple pages, I really want to see him become the next Tom Brady just to see what it does to Derka's brain, lol.
  12. At this point in the conversation is when you usually hear "UBI". Edit: Which to me, sounds like a tech-y way of saying the tech oligarchs will allow a little to trickle down to the masses.
  13. I mean, AI is doing a lot more than that now in some industries, but the amount of money being thrown at AI is only justifiable if general artificial intelligence and a significant elimination of white collar wage costs is just around the corner. At some point, investor patience will grow thin. I find myself in an interesting position with AI, as I have concerns as A) a tech worker in their last 10 years of a career, B) an investor with a not insignificant portfolio that is on schedule for a retirement and C) as a parent who worries about what opportunities will be left for their kids to build their own lives from. Some of the concerns from those different perspectives are in opposition to each other. Regardless, I have to be willing to be an AI-fueled tech worker now, or the last chapter of my career is going to be a lot shorter than 10 years and the rest becomes kind of a moot point. When someone like Elon has a generally available neural implant linking brains to the intardnet, and we start seeing tech workers gleefully getting implanted for the productivity boost of having a direct link between their brain and AI is when I'll say fuck it and become a plumber. Anthropic will have succeeded in making me a misanthrope
  14. I pretty much agree wholeheartedly. But, I think velocity is also a component. The speed at which the magnitude of what AI might be is realized. Its basically a race against investor expectations at this point to determine if the bubble pops. This article claims that the investment/spend on the AI race is masking a lot of other problems in the economy, and that if the AI bubble pops and all the other issues become unmasked, the general economy will be in danger, too.
  15. That's a deep cut.
  16. If anyone has any objections speak now or forever hold your peace…
  17. As far as replacement goes, in either the workplace or bedroom, these guys seem to have some misplaced anger.
  18. GG and Wishbone Ash are seriously underrated. Gentle Giant “Free Hand” is a fantastic song.
  19. Dunno, I really enjoyed “Suppers Ready” and I view it as a bit of a masterpiece. Anywho, I know my musical tastes are in the minority, but the ear wants what it wants.
  20. Yeah, everything that was "progressive rock" from the 70s did. Genesis became what they became, Yes had "Owner of a Lonely Heart", etc... But, to me, while PG obviously embraced mainstream songwriting to have charting singles like Solsbury Hill and Sledgehammer (great songs), he also had a whole lot of less mainstream stuff on those albums, too. Intruder, Biko, Rhythm of the Heat, San Jacinto, etc... were really creative, interesting and different from so much of what was being pushed on radio and MTV. I think he did a great job straddling the fence. Yeah, they certainly found a lot more people in the 80s than they did the 70s.
  21. That's cool. Yeah, I mean, it's nothing against Phil Collins, really. PG left, Collins stepped up, and they became something different. I just didn't like the band's output much after they had become much more conventional/radio/video friendly. And by the time they had gotten to "Invisible Touch", they had lost me.
  22. Missed this back in December. Yeah, it's bad (just imo). But that's ok. Peter Gabriel's solo career was really what a continued arty Genesis would have been.
  23. That would have been the smart thing to do. Instead, I listened to the one 23 minute song 7 times in a row while touring the galaxy.
  24. quornholio is still available.
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