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Homercles

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  1. You could say the same about my Pokes, the noncon schedule has proven to be putrid. The win at Baylor is impressive but their offensive style fits into our defensive strength, and it took hobbling their QB to slow down a Tech team that was throwing haymakers. But those two wins are def more impressive than TCU’s overall resume given OU (their signature win) is sheep-fucking baaaaaadd (hats off to y’all for Red River Shutout but damn I’ve never seen a sadder attempt at wildcat in my life). TCU is another air raid team and Mason the DC better implement some press coverage because CMU/Tceh showed that a QB who can make quick reads against soft zone negates our strength at the DL. The defensive backfield is young and suddenly banged up, and continued the tradition of letting a backup QB in their first start look like Omaha Manning out there. So Duggan must be salivating. Then again Sanders seems to finally be hitting his groove with a stable of WRs and a passable OL (both also banged up), and won’t wilt at the pressure of playing on the road. Suspect running game as Jaylen Warren ain’t walking back through that door, may be time to give Ollie Gordon some more snaps so long as he doesn’t fumble again. I trust Gundy over whoever the coach is at TCU to make sound decisions under pressure so long as he can resist the voice of Les Miles School of Clock Management For Coaches Who Don’t Count Good. Special Teams are suddenly a strength as seen in the punt-driven safeties, KO TD and heads-up fair catch Saturday. Our S&C continues to be excellent as seen in the fourth last weekend. So the intangibles are there in a close game, as shown in recent years’ road-dog performances ATS. Overall -3 TCU seems about right, essentially pick-em + home field for frog. It’s a huge game early in the conference season. Beating OU propelled Frog into the conversation but that’s suddenly about as impressive as banging FitLump. I’m suddenly worried about injuries and our performance against a motivated, aggressive Air Raid team was not confidence inspiring. However good teams find ways to win when everything isn’t going their way, and I actually consider this a tougher test than Baylor given offensive style…so it’ll tell us a lot about both teams.
  2. I hate that shit too, especially close to the stage beyond the no-chair zone. Don’t give me a dirty look if I step on the corner of your blanket that’s 10’ from the barricades when I’m trying to break free to take a piss. We setup our chairs off to the side between two stages, as a home base strategically located under a tree, away from any ‘rivers’ (of people) or pathways and near water/beer close to the VIP deck. People know where we typically are, come/go to see shows, and it’s a rallying point at the end of the night to police up our shit since I don’t trust cell signals out there to stay coordinated. I don’t even drink the Tito’s we bring in, prefer beer as getting sloppy out there is no fun anyways.
  3. How was security? I’d heard it was pretty intense, but seems I hear that every year. Wives want us hauling in Tito’s in plastic flasks, normally bury it in chair bags…I’ll unzip it, they feel it up, but don’t make you remove the chairs.
  4. I imagine there is one staffer at these rallies whose sole job is to find a black person and ensure they’re visible over Trump’s shoulder for the podium camera.
  5. I need some tips from Daemon on sharpening my Wusthof knives.
  6. Well…over 40k posts in 4 years, of course you’re ‘ubiquitous’. And given this thread and your rep/post ratio, seems likely a not insignificant chunk is drunken ranting…so ‘unfortunately’ isn’t a word I woulda chosen.
  7. We knew they’d be a tough one, they’re strong in the passing game against our weak secondary and team probably due a wake up call after Baylor. What I didn’t expect was the offense to be butt at crunch time. Survive and advance…had a lot nail biters last year too. No easy outs this year in the conference. On a side note, loved watching the horns butt pirate the Sooners on national tv. Really enjoyed that.
  8. Gundy learned clock management under Les Miles
  9. Feeling like a loss here. Was worried about this one. Oh well not over yet
  10. Once they announced the backup was playing I felt like it’d be a shootout. My Pokes have a long, nasty history against replacement quarterbacks. Dude looks like the deal and the announcer is basically losing his shit
  11. “He’s only doing it now to get votes”…shouldn’t politicians be encouraging policies that people like?
  12. Yeah that program has appeared to be a model of execution and secrecy, which is remarkable in the age of the Internet and people hanging out near Groom Lake/Plant 42. Then again it seems to be a scaled down version of the original planform for the B2 before the dumbass, last minute requirement for low-level added complexity to the ‘tail’, so they had a lot of experience in optimizing the design already. Smaller shape probably helps with RCS as well, the simpler sawtooth should help with low frequency returns as well. All the really good stuff will likely be things we won’t know about or be able to see at the reveal. I bet it’s networked like a mix between an F35 and Global Hawk, a flying NAT server. Certainly a newer coating requiring less maintenance. Infrastructure in place to be optionally unmanned. Compatible with NGAD to control drone swarms and AA buddies. Awesome LPI radar. That’s the stuff I want to hear about. When dad was AD he was stationed at Whiteman for a few years, got to go visit. Impressive facility and fun to watch those alien shapes come in to land, and definitely a more secure-feeling environment than your standard AMC base…and not just the far side of the base where the (nuclear) weapons depot is. Reminded me of Incirlik.
  13. Dark mode here so gonna live like this for a few more hours
  14. I was in a bit of a personal hell…visiting family in Michigan so we took the kids to a renaissance fair all day, playing a huge game on the road while hanging with one my BiL’s who is a huge Baylor fanatic and ACL-like internet quality. Could only follow effectively via ESPN and osu forums. Seems like everything that was a huge gap has been steadily improving…defensive backfield, short yardage, special teams and throwing picks against a good defense. Run game didn’t pop for 4+ ypc but did enough against a stellar D Line. Reading PbP and the box score, also feels like we took calculated risks in a smarter way than Aranda’s staff did…going for it on fourth on the first drive was a great way to show the team that last years goal line difficulties don’t need to haunt this year. Overall I think osu belongs in Tier 1 for now, as long as Sanders stays healthy (big if) and the team stays focused. Proud of them, had this game circled since the championship as a deflection point…this squad may be pretty good.
  15. Some people take this place way too fucking seriously
  16. When did Davos Seaworth go MAGA?
  17. Did that kid look like he was having fun?
  18. Jimmy Kimmel even sucked in Band of Brothers, which I didn’t think was possible.
  19. When I think of Strong, I think of a ref saying “If…if you choose defense, you’ll kickoff both halves” and Jackson still thinking that was a great proposition. So even though it worked out in my teams favor once, fuck Strong for putting his players in a position to fuck up a coin flip.
  20. Cooper was the QB at CMU when the refs full legit screwed up a call that won the game for them. Got a free play. Shouldn’t have been in that position anyways but fuck that guy
  21. Been looking for that couch than Kevin Hart is on in those commercials. Finally found it.
  22. Was a great coach at OKState until he decided, rightly, that he wasn’t gonna win much beyond occasional bowl games unless he went to Miami. He was revered when I was in Stillwater
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