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Hank Chinaski

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  1. I guess not explicitly, but there’s an entire page about different QB stats and how JJ McCarthy rates in a presumed effort to figure out how high he should be drafted.
  2. For Christ’s sake, NFL teams don’t give a shit about their college stats. Sure they care about on-field performance in general, but they’re primarily looking for ability, physical attributes, etc. And all metrics are “made up.” They’re all imperfect. Football is a complex sport with lots of players on the field and lots of variables; you can’t account for all of that statistically. That doesn’t mean that imperfect metrics tell you nothing, it just means they don’t tell you everything - they’re not either perfect or useless. (And if TD passes thrown in college had any correlation to NFL success, then all the Leach QBs like Symons and Cumbie and Harrell would have been stars.)
  3. These are the best: These are the worst: I didn’t like the 90s ones because they got rid of orange; that was dumb. Going to red and black was even weirder and it sucked. Fucking Drayton. The current ones are kinda boring but they’re navy and orange and the old logo so I like them. I wish they’d bring back the orange caps though: Rainbow ones were good.
  4. Dusty did give him too much banana pudding.
  5. In 1957, the University of Texas villainously seduced Texas Tech University and lured it to the Southwest Conference, thus striking the blow that directly led to the disintegration of the once-proud Border Conference. A sort of canary-in-the-coal-mine, this is the first instance of what became an unscrupulous pattern of brazen conference-icide committed by the University. UT’s Machiavellian, ruthless cunning over the decades - during which it repeatedly took the shameful, disgusting act of adapting to the economic realities of major college sports - is primarily…nay, solely responsible for the cruel and unjust treatment of victimized ex-affiliated institutions.
  6. Trading Kenny Lofton for Ed Taubensee is unforgivable. Losing Neris is whatever. His results were good last year, but the underlying metrics suggest the regression is coming.
  7. I suppose this is what you do when you look at, you know, the actual rosters of the teams who will be playing in 305 days and you don’t like what you see. Well, not what you do; what they do.
  8. Don’t disagree with this, but I like that Morris is bringing Z Robinson with him from the Rams. He’s supposed to be very well-regarded, and hopefully he is bringing a McVeigh-esque scheme to Atlanta…I think that would be a good situation for Bijan. (Of course, they still need a QB.)
  9. I know they’re good. If you want to call it “tiresome” instead of “boring,” that’s fine, but those words mean the same thing.
  10. If I were betting on the spreads I just saw, I’d easily take KC (+4.5) and DET (+7.5). I think both games will be close. I haven’t had a favorite NFL team since 1995, so I don’t really care that much who wins or loses, but KC is starting to get boring like NE was for 20 years, and LJ is fun to watch, so hoping to see BAL win. And I guess I’m pulling for SF because I like Shanahan and their general scheme/style, but DET is entertaining too, and their crazy sonofabitch coach is fun with his risk-taking style.
  11. Murphy is starting to get more R1 attention it seems. He will probably test very well. I’m starting to think he’ll be the highest pick among UT players, with a good chance of going in the first.
  12. I’m not going to go look it up, but I’d guess that it is going to become significantly more prevalent in the era of the portal/NIL.
  13. Yeah, could be a good situation if he can bring an OC from the Rams, who has been working with McVeigh. Like Ryans did with Slowick from SF. But yeah, it would have been nice for Bijan to go to a team with a QB.
  14. I remember being something like 7 years old, reading the backs of baseball cards, and realizing that maybe pitcher wins was kind of a dumb stat. It seemed quite obvious that it is heavily impacted by events well outside the realm of a pitcher’s control. Again, I was 7. Imagine being paid to cover pro football for decades and still believing that team wins is the stat that best indicates how well the QB played.
  15. This pretty much sums up exactly how I feel about almost everything I see on the internet.
  16. Cool but at what high school has he worked, and what does he know about lifting?
  17. That would be good.
  18. Reminder that Texas had zero players drafted following Sark’s first season.
  19. Not sure but it struck me as hilarious.
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