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Posts posted by Dirk X West
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Looks like it. it's either him or some guy who transferred in from Rice.
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And now it seems Bowman is out 6-8 with a shoulder injury, possibly with a broken collar bone. Might be time for Alan to think about hanging it up.
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32 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
Mop and EMAW will end up dying in category 5 hurricanes and their last thoughts will be "this still isn't evidence of global warming, haha take that libs!"
"But there have always been hurricanes, right?"
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16 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:
bowman kinda sucks. probably speaks to kliff's offensive prowess that he was considered a good player last year.
Bowman is a good player. I think he's afraid of contact right now (which is fair enough, considering he collapsed his lung twice last year), and this offensive system needs a QB who can run and get hit sometimes. He wouldn't be the right QB for this offense even without that, but he is a better player than he's shown so far this year.
I hoped we'd be a little better than this, but it's a bit like when Tuberville was coaching Tech, where they wanted to run the ball but just couldn't do it consistently with the personnel left over. Tubs never did the work in recruiting to fix that, but I think Wells and his group is committed. It's going to take a couple of years to build this right, though, so I hope people can be patient.
All I really want out of this season is to see from improvement from now until the last game, instead of the patented end of the season Kliff collapse. If Wells can deliver that, I'll feel good about the future.
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I put ButtFumble on ignore just because of this anti-Leach bullshit. It gives me bad flashbacks to my days of reading raiderpower.com.
Anyway, though, fuck UH in perpetuity.
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Yeah, now I want donuts.
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8 minutes ago, JoeBurrell4538 said:
What does that mean?
You should fuck off.
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17 hours ago, Ignatius said:
You’ve obviously never been to Dumas
Oh, I've been to Dumas. I wish I hadn't, though.
#dingdongdaddy
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9 minutes ago, tantric superman said:
Ha ha. Pampa. That was one of the world places I ever visited.
You've obviously never been to Borger.
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17 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:
Why isn’t Jimbo getting shit on for being a pussy? Not using timeouts and running clock down by three scores with 6 minutes left? That is embarrassing.
Straight out of the Tommy Tuberville playbook.
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This Barnett guy has a super hot wife.
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54 minutes ago, Moby Ric said:
So Tech succumbs to the PC police and changes the name of the cotton game where they pay tribute to the cotton industry to the celebrate agriculture game. Why, not official but the rumor is because cotton is racist. It has been all downhill in football since Leach was fired. Here's to a 4-5 win season. Going see a lot of empty seats this year on Saturdays at the Jones I bet.
https://today.ttu.edu/posts/2019/08/NewsReleases/casnr-media-day
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6 minutes ago, elfenix said:
i'd be in favor of anyone with more than 3 of their own biological children being hauled in for questioning. along with anyone over the age of 14 who has a reptile for a pet (special dispensation for that 70 year old lady who got a turtle when she was 10 and still has it), and white people who name their kids shit like "chasten" or "krystyn" or "josiah".
How about "Kadence"?
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2 minutes ago, futureman said:
dude, take that racist shit elsewhere.
Zeke is as dumb as a bag of rocks. Has nothing to do with race.
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8 minutes ago, Incredulity said:
Wait...
so oral sex in the White House should now be a big deal.
Interesting.
It was back when Bill Clinton was in office. He got impeached for lying about as you'll recall.
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7 hours ago, Anastasis said:
Superficial puff piece from WSJ under the tag.
Why a Mediocre College Coach May Be the NFL’s Next Great One
Why a Mediocre College Coach May Be the NFL’s Next Great One
Kliff Kingsbury went from being fired by Texas Tech to leading the vanguard of the offensive revolution in the NFL with his college-style offense and rookie quarterback Kyler Murray
ByUpdated Aug. 21, 2019 8:24 am ETAndrew BeatonGLENDALE, Ariz.—Kliff Kingsbury was utterly perplexed the first time he entered the NFL.
It was 2003, and he was drafted in the sixth round of the draft by the New England Patriots after a college career where he broke, and in many cases obliterated, all sorts of NCAA passing records. But NFL offenses looked nothing like the frenetic—and highly productive—one he starred in at Texas Tech. For years, that remained the same.
“Not seeing anything remotely close, I was always fascinated by that,” he says. And over the years he couldn’t help but think to himself: “Why is nobody trying this?”
Somebody will be trying it this year. That will be Kliff Kingsbury, who was hired to coach the Arizona Cardinals after getting fired as the coach of his alma mater, Texas Tech. Now he’s engineering the wildest experiment in the NFL: Can the Cardinals win running a college offense led by a coach who’s an offensive guru but had a losing record in college running that same system?
Kingsbury isn’t the first college coach to leap to the NFL. Jimmy Johnson won two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys. Chip Kelly looked promising before flaming out. Nick Saban went back after one season.
But the Cardinals didn’t just hire any sub-.500 college coach. They picked one with a distinct vision: that the NFL, a billion-dollar business where endless resources get poured into winning at all costs, has been stunningly slow to adopt basic changes that are backed up by analytics and success at every level of the sport.
This is precisely what Kingsbury represents: the forefront of the offense-crazed NFL. In a rapidly changing league, the Cardinals hit the fast-forward button hard with someone who’s an offensive whiz, running the schemes and concepts that were shaping the NFL’s best offenses even before he arrived.
And Kingsbury hasn’t shied away from challenging norms that since his arrival. The coach with the unusual background began his tenure by making an appropriately unusual decision: taking 5-foot-10 Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray with the first overall pick of the draft. Murray, the Cardinals felt, was a generational talent no matter his small size. But the upshot was huge: Arizona wouldn’t abide by traditions that have governed the league for decades just for the sake of doing so.
“I’ve asked a bunch of questions since I’ve been here: ‘Why don’t people do this?’ ‘Why can’t we do this?’ ‘Why can’t we do that?’” Kingsbury says. “A lot of the time, the answer just is: ‘Nobody has.’”
Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury and quarterback Kyler Murray walk off the field after a preseason game against the Los Angeles Chargers. PHOTO: CHRISTIAN PETERSEN /GETTY IMAGES
Two words are necessary vocabulary for understanding what makes his hiring so radical: Air Raid. That’s the name of the offense that Kingsbury played in at Texas Tech, and later used there when he was the team’s coach.
The Air Raid barely resembles traditional football, and that’s on purpose. Air Raid offenses are premised on the extreme. They almost exclusively line up out of the shotgun, they play at a lightning pace, and they aggressively spread the field to pass the ball down field, again and again.
The Air Raid was an idea born out of desperation. Thirty years ago, Hal Mumme and Mike Leach needed an edge at Iowa Wesleyan, an off-the-map NAIA college, and came up with the crazy offense. And it was so effective that it trickled up the ranks of college football and produced outrageous numbers—Kingsbury left Texas Tech with NCAA records for most career passing attempts, completions and more.
Except for years, NFL teams turned their noses at it. They concluded, en masse, that no matter how well it worked in college, it would never work in the pros. More concerningly, they thought, it produced flawed players who sputtered when they had to learn NFL-style offenses.
Then the same minds that for decades considered the Air Raid a gimmick began sprinkling elements of it into their offenses. And the ideas they shunned for years began producing the most efficient offenses in the NFL. Meanwhile, those players are no longer seen as flawed—they’re the NFL’s next generation of stars. That includes Patrick Mahomes, who Kingsbury coached at Texas Tech.
Kingsbury’s expertise as a player and coach in this system—plus his experience of having briefly played in the NFL—made him a cutting-edge hire. He ran some of college football’s most dynamic offenses and developed the NFL’s pre-eminent star. There was also an obvious question mark: in six seasons coaching the Red Raiders, he went only 35-40.
And Kingsbury’s doubters may latch onto Arizona’s early pre-season games, where the offense has struggled and at times looked out of sorts. His ideas, though, aren’t theoretical: they’re supported by quants who urge offenses to play faster, out of the shotgun more often and throw it without abandon because it’s more efficient. That’s exactly what the Cardinals plan to do. With their modification of the Air Raid, they will rarely line up under center, and they’ll likely run more plays than almost every other team in the league—ideas that have driven modern NFL success and are backed up by stacks of data.
Still, it’s impossible to grasp Kingsbury’s vision without considering it through someone else: Kyler Murray. “He would’ve been playing baseball five years ago,” Kingsbury says.
Murray had the pleasant problem of being one of the best players on the planet in two sports. The Oakland A’s took him with the ninth overall pick in the draft last year and promised him millions of dollars. It wasn’t particularly controversial because Murray wasn’t seen as an elite NFL prospect.
Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury talks with quarterback Kyler Murray. PHOTO: ROSS D. FRANKLIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
This was for a few reasons. He had played only sparingly until his last year at Oklahoma. He played in one of those so-called college offenses for the Sooners. And he’s 5-foot-10, which you may have heard is just a little bit short for playing quarterback in the NFL.
But in the manner of months last fall, the NFL changed rapidly in a way that transformed the likes of Kingsbury and Murray from fringe outsiders to the vanguard of a revolution. Mahomes became the NFL’s MVP. Baker Mayfield, Murray’s predecessor at Oklahoma and another small-statured quarterback, shined as a rookie for the Cleveland Browns. Innovative coaches who adopted college offense concepts, like Andy Reid and Sean McVay, dominated the league.
So when Kingsbury took over the Cardinals, he wasn’t charged with trying to adapt to the NFL. They wanted something else: the NFL adapting to the Cardinals.
Kliff was "mediocre" at Tech? oooook. I guess life is just easier when you're good looking.
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1 hour ago, Machinator said:
It doesn't, it was just the previous tweet in the the thread.
OK, just making sure I wasn't missing something.
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What does the Tech related tweet have to do with the Houston related tweet?
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14 minutes ago, Gap03 said:
Based on the press that he got in the Washington Examiner, seems like this guy is the type that is looking to intimidate / instigate - he seems to be dying for some attention. Just once it would be nice if one of these jackasses got the Philando Castile treatment instead of someone that wasn't specifically trying to start shit.
Unfortunately, white racist cops don't seem to like roughing up white racist civilians.
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15 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:
Maybe there are a few that think they "caught" Beto trying to pull a Rachel Dolezal, who knows.
I don't think they think that so much as they desperately want to convince themselves and any one who will listen of that.
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"not an active shooter situation"
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2 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
Future mass shooters of America club, right there.
edit: and/or Republican-appointed appellate judges.
It'll be fun to see exactly how these white boy pricks fuck up America in the years to come.
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I think it's more likely he'll make some promises today or tomorrow, be congratulated by his followers for being a great leader and compromising (along with some whining about how libs will never be happy with anything he does - "he could cure cancer and they wouldn't give him credit!"), and then gradually back away from this and nothing will actually happen. As I recall, this is how his last foray into gun control/regulation went.
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20 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:
"Accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt"-Saul Alinsky "Rules for Radicals"
But Saul Alinsky!
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I think so, and I wouldn't be surprised if he never starts another game for Tech, either because hangs it up or because he transfers.