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hpslugga

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  1. this is the correct answer. The purpose of raising the ticket prices and cutting the cost of shit was just to save paper .https://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/state-fair-of-texas-coupons-jump-from-50-cents-to-one-dollar-12464951 Here’s just one example of how you can tell. That revolving tower ride that can be seen pretty much everywhere? Yeah that used to cost 20 coupons. Now? It’s 10. Another way you can tell? When you buy them at an actual stand instead of those automated kiosks, they come in sheets of 10 and not 20 (the kiosks do them in sets of 15, which is so fucking weird). If this really were just about jacking the price, they’d have kept making the sheets of 20 and they’d cost $20 instead of $10. also, from the article: ”The best news in all this is that it won’t interfere with the fair’s policy of accepting coupons from prior years. In fact, there’s some good news for those who save unused coupons from year to year. Coupons purchased for 50 cents in 2019 (or any prior year of the fair) are now worth a dollar. Try getting a return on investment like that with your savings account.” We actually saved 253 coupons from the last state fair.
  2. I mean it’s not ALL an act. Rudy Giuliani is a stupid guy, but he’s not THAT stupid. Sidney Powell is a crazy cat lady, but she’s not THAT crazy and doesn’t have as many cats as we’re led to believe. Jenna Ellis has loose screws, just not as many as you think. Lin Wood…ok, I’ll give you that one.
  3. See how she tries to cover her ass with "they?"
  4. That's because when coaches don't base their understanding in reasoning, they become susceptible to believing in all sorts of absurdity. The punt is not a fail safe strategy that the folksy conservatives think that it is. "He's playing the percentages by punting!" Really? What percentages?
  5. https://www.google.com/amp/s/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/10/08/fourth-down-conversions-way-up-this-year/amp/ “Now NFL teams are going for it 69 percent of the time on fourth-and-1, and they’re converting 77 percent of those attempts.” So a 23% chance they don’t make it, doing it with arguably the best running attack in the NFL. Whatever percentage you’d evaluate Mahomes leading a drive in a minute to get a FG (and this totally ignores the occasional botched snap, blocked punt, or huge return), it’s almost certainly higher than 23%.
  6. That shit wasn’t about balls; that was about brains. It’s fucking stupid to hand Patrick Mahomes the ball when only needing a FG. Only way to avoid it was to go for it and make it.
  7. Right because that’s another example of the wrong question being asked. Ok so down 15, you know you need to go for 2. That’s a given. Regardless of whether you decided to go for 2 on the first or second TD, missing the 2 means another possession is needed. So what’s the appropriate question, since the odds of making a 2 pointer apply in either case? To me, and I’m sure Kelley would agree, the question is: “when do I want to know that I need a 3rd possession because I missed the 2?” The answer is obvious: as soon as fucking possible. Those morons who say kick on the first TD are assuming that the 2 on the second TD is more probable, which is grotesque in its idiocy. You’d rather know you need an onside kick recovery with 2 minutes left to play rather than 2 seconds. To argue otherwise is to live outside of a sane universe.
  8. All great pocket QB’s succeeded with superb OL play. That’s one of the most universal truisms to the sport. It’s in bad faith to hold that against any one of them in particular.
  9. That’s not why he always does it. That does factor in, but the chief question he used analytics to answer is “what are the probable consequences of missing a 4th down vs voluntarily forfeiting the ball via punt?” It’s the same question he examined for onside kicks: what are the likelihoods of the opponent scoring when starting the possession at midfield vs their own 25? The answers to the flip side of those questions are obvious: ”Do we stand a better chance scoring a TD if we go for it on 4th down or if we punt?” Duh ”Do we stand a better chance reacquiring the ball by onside kicking or deep kicking?” Again, duh. Every coach is tempted to do those things but they fall short of giving into that temptation precisely and exactly out of fear the tactic will not work AND that it will be costly. Kelley’s approach is simply a rejection of conventional cost/benefit dogmatism.
  10. I’ve been to only one UT game that wasn’t against OU since 2013 and that was the 2018 game against ISU. Combination of diminished fan experience plus new family life. But honestly I’m not terribly motivated to get back in it. I’ll go to the OU game til I die because I’ve already built up a rich history with it (this year is my 30th straight) and just love everything about that day win or lose.
  11. I mean he does go for it on 4th down more often than others, but that’s about it. He wasn’t an onside kick hound and his defenses were pretty basic.
  12. I started back up this year just because Sark is having his inaugural (that and it’s quicker now that I’m using a google book instead of screen capping and uploading it to that godawful photobucket). I quit doing it on the other sites because no matter what the outcome of the game happened to be, it would always turn into a bitch fest, mostly on HF from that little clique led by that douchebag horninchicago, about the metrics and how I was being too mean by using the red color…even in games where we were hitting like 39/50. That kind of tedious minutiae doesn’t seem to exist here, so I’m letting her rip again for now.
  13. Yeah that’s why I offered 0 commentary. Don’t get me wrong, this was the exact game that needed to follow Arkansas. But the thing is there are 9 left in the regular season, so [Winston]let’s not start suckin’ each other’s dicks quite yet.[/Wolfe]
  14. Not in the slightest. Just that they failed to convert.
  15. I mean when you make 10 turnovers fumbling or throwing interceptions, 1. it says absolutely nothing about onside kicks and 2. By the time you’ve made those 10, do the 6 failed 4th downs even matter? You realize that even if they wound up scoring TD’s on all 6 of those possessions; they’re still down by 30 points.
  16. They effectively committed 16 turnovers 7 picks 3 lost fumbles 6 failed fourth downs Hard to accomplish anything with a performance that ghastly.
  17. That was a beat-down not reflected by the score. After Rockwall got that pick six, they were outscored 45-10
  18. Well yeah I mean whoever she sees before she microwaves a cat at some stranger’s house
  19. Her neurologist has probably advised against it given the massive burden the sheer weight of conditioner imposes on a head that light.
  20. Only two words come to mind when seeing an ad like that: bewildering inanities
  21. Oh you are dead ass, 100% wrong to imply that they don't. They do. It's just that their idea of "solving" a problem is to look at it and ask, as Bill Maher put it, "what would a dick do?"
  22. That and "it's their fault they weren't born in a white, Christian, wealthy family."
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