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Nivek

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  1. That is a joke right?
  2. Above his head?
  3. Why do you use the Nazi social media platform?
  4. Willful stupidity and the surrender of skepticism begets acquiescence of the cultish obedience.
  5. Is this post satire? Imagine seeing that walk into your store and selling her weapons.
  6. I think they were spooked for good reason. So the two senators had an interaction with a spy/assassin with one being the target. Mon was under constant surveillance and having multiple spies as drivers/security for her. Draven was still in the process of turning the militia into an army, but he no doubt heard about the imperial spies caught and killed (Will was there) So the members of the leadership group all had recent interactions and stories of espionage, while knowing that their espionage wing under Luthen collapsed, with some of the remnant members being undisciplined and still operating like freelance agents. A lot of time had passed since the heist, as they are procuring ships and x-wings they probably overlooked the importance of those initial funds. But I think Cassian taking the cue from Draven to not attack the other member who questioned him/Luthan also signified a change in their relationship and trust. I think Draven likely vouched for him, Mon, did so as well, and Organa was reminded what Cassian did and the costs he paid. I think that is why Bail told him. I also like how the force sensitive healer stared Cassian down with a disturbed look. I think she sensed his fate in that moment.
  7. When Andor was announced, I thought, who gives a shit? I thought Diego Luna was overrated. I thought this was a mistake at best and Cassian was the secondary character in that film. I was wrong. So I looked this up, who gives a shit about a cellist? I think Oscar Isaac is a little overrated. This is a mistake at best.... (I should be a Hollywood executive!)
  8. Are they really useless? Or are they just biding time and looking for any excuse not to act because they know they are still too weak at this point to put up much of a fight. This would be like Chamberlain hearing about the Nazi Nuke program while reading a report about the readiness of the UK forces.
  9. I think from an emotional aspect, Syrill and Dedra scene where he snaps and puts his hands around her neck threatening to kill her is brilliant. The guy lost everything late in this journey including his identity while Cassian was on the opposite arc, gaining and strengthening his identity and role.
  10. That link also seems to concludes by saying 0-9 yard completion percentage seems to be a more prolific indicator of NFL success than does the intermediate or deep ball. But again, they leave out so much of the details it is worth some skepticism about their interpretation and conclusions.
  11. I wouldn't say they are meaningless, but too much is read into them without some skepticism, but sometimes too little is thought of them as well. I am sure the NFL has guys that look at all of the percentages from all over the field to determine the velocity and completion percentages/attempts so they can better inform their defense. It possibly could also clue one into an unreported injury or the impact of a new receiver if there is a percentage deviation.
  12. BOW just stated the reason. If there was a cap on NIL, say $15 million, then Campbell could take Texas Tech and give it a NIL budget to compete with Texas and that puts them on more equal footing relative to recruiting ability at a cost saving (allegedly Texas was at $30 million last rumor I saw). So he could save half his cash to achieve that level playing ground. While not definitive, it would seem to me that saving $15 million a year and elevating a program to the elite tier would help out as according to this website there are only 9 schools above $15 million. If he opted for $20 million, he could take Texas Tech into a top 4 program.
  13. Then he should pony up instead of trying to limit others. He alone could fund the program's NIL for 30 years at 30 million and not be poor.
  14. TIme out for a second. I really wish you wouldn't post like this. Look, you have been open and honest about your struggles, but you should also treat yourself with some dignity and respect. Self-deprecation is fine if there is self-respect. Time in.
  15. This is interesting. Thank you for bringing this up, and bring up a source that I could link to. Since you are more familiar with it, can you elaborate on the on-target rate vs. completion rate and explain the meaning between the differential? For example, CK's 20+ yard differential is ~12% where as SL's and QE's are about 18% differential. Is there a metric which shows how QE was performing this year pre-oblique injury and post injury return, and one from last year and the year before? I think one of the scouting reports I read stated QE had trouble with intermediate passes to his right side, and I was curious if that was present pre-injury data. Source Link. Having read through this site a little further though, I am a little disappointed they do not include their P-values and t-statistics and residual graphs which could be used to validate the null-hypothesis, independent variable, etc. Also on the first table they present on that page, is pretty indicative that the model for intermediate/longer passes are a very poor (again though, not enough information is included here as well). Statistics and regression analysis without the qualifiers is something I would be very skeptical about. I have seen others run regression analysis and not be able to rule out the null-hypothesis just run with it.
  16. I typed that backwards. Thank you for catching that.
  17. His strategy is to ignore what you asked for 3-4 pages/days then ask what you are talking about. See request for receipts.
  18. I could argue that he was precise with his down field passes. His accuracy was off, but he missed his receiver often the same way. /thanks to Magnus for catching my mistake.
  19. That is not it at all. The issue is that it was cheaper to pay them under the table while a toothless NCAA did nothing. Now that the payment is legal, it has become more expensive and cheating through bagmen is no longer competitive. So the poorer schools who cheated cannot keep up. Schools like Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, ND will be able to leave behind OU, Alabama types. Texas Techs of the world will hate this, and they find it cheaper to try to limit others than to shell out the cash on their own. It is also unAmerican to tell people what they can earn on their own time. The NFL has a salary cap, but that cap never prevented a star player from selling insurance as a side gig.
  20. I keep forgetting about the Clemson game, thanks again for the correction.
  21. I think I left it alone based on his looks, but really the guy is a glorified blogger, not a scout/coach for some NFL/CFL team. He did post some numbers, but without any context as to how he arrived at any of it. And without that context, then then it is just junk. To the picture you posted above with the text, there is no link to the source and no context again. And once again, the topic where I got in on it, was that Ewers was a very good college QB for Texas. That he might not measure up to NFL standards is irrelevant to his performance at Texas. To claim that he was inaccurate and imprecise when he was completing approximately 65% over his 3-year career at Texas. This is like listening to people tell me Greg Davis was a horrible coordinator when his teams averaged 40 ppg for 10-years, as if it was just luck.
  22. See this type is misrepresentation is very typical of you, it is a strawman fallacy that they teach in intro philosophy class. I didn't watch the interview with the agent, but it seems maybe it came from there? @Thatguy thinks that rumor started from one of the videos of him. And @AnotherLawyer cited him being in HS and having a video out there of a long pass. I found and linked those. I also posted them with a healthy sense of skepticism because it is very unclear to me where the ball is landing and there is no context. Now you have decided that I believe he could throw a football 80 yards when he was 12 or 14 or whatever, so you could try to represent yourself as a reasonable person when really, you failed to do that from the outset by misrepresenting what was stated and by whom. The weird thing is that this all started because YOU were making all kinds of absurd claims based on his NFL draft when no one else was talking about it, trying to cite that as evidence and then using your alternate account (my assumption) to keep pushing goalposts every other post. This other post here seems to indicate this is something weirdly personal to you. QE is a record holding QB that helped lead Texas to several significant wins, including a playoff victory and statistically he sits up there in the top 10 of Texas QBs. Nothing you can ever say will change that.
  23. I normally don't like doing this, but this is who you cited. Forgive me if the esteemed Cory Kinnan doesn't inspire me with confidence in his opinion on QB play. You stood by the stance, but you are just wrong. 3 Individuals have been presented (1 college, 2 pros) to refute this claim. Now, you can stand by this stance and claim that completion percentage isn't a perfect metric, and you will get no argument from me about that, but when I press you for a better one out there what do you have? For now, it seems like the best proxy out there. And while we are being exacting, let's parse accuracy from precision and see if we can that delineated better? As far as statistics being gamed, I suppose that is true, but I tend to think that coaches will call plays with higher percentages of success than ones with lower percentages more-often, not just QE's coach. Do you have evidence this was happening? Since we are being precise with our terminology now, let's first define what pocket awareness is before bothering to discuss it. Morons like me, think definitions matter. I hardly think you should be calling anyone out for failing to show receipts. I mean you have been only requested to do what you said you could, 3 or 4 times now. Maybe it is fake, I can't tell where he is when he catches it. But it wasn't hard to find. Here is another toss, reportedly at 70 yards. Not that @AnotherLawyer needs my help.
  24. You are correct. I was not precise in my language.
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