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'stache

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  1. If SF deferred, they exchange field goals, and KC gets in fg range for the win, they’d criticize that too. There’s no right call in hindsight if you lose in that situation.
  2. Yeah, I think it was a reasonable decision. You put pressure to score first, then stop them knowing they have 4 downs to play with, but if you can do that, you then have a huge advantage needing just a field goal to win. What made the difference to me is that the defense was gassed defending a long drive at the end of regulation. There being a good strategic reason to take it first (getting the first sudden death possession if you take care of business and possibly having 2 possessions to opponents 1) the defense needing rest is a good reason to take the ball first. I'll never agree with "the decision sucked because it didn't work." They were one stop away from forcing the field goal and getting the advantage. Or if KC decided to go for it all, they just needed a stop. I've seen tons of 4th down stops this year in both college and NFL. I'm good with the decision regardless of captain hindsight second guessing.
  3. Well, there were black people nearby, so... I saw the first video, what was he shooting at? Was there someone in that car? He unloaded his entire clip while barrel rolling. Do they train these guys using Lethal Weapon movies?
  4. I thought we agreed that taking the ball first in overtime was fine, just needed that stop and SF would be good.
  5. If anyone has bought the Sams Club generic version, does it work just as well?
  6. She's the sugar daddy in that relationship, and like male sugar daddies, I don't think it matters if they are any good at it.
  7. This series of responses is awesome, haha!
  8. Did Coach Prime cost too much? UCLA seems like a great fit for his personality and I think his kid could transfer again without penalty. It seems NIL opportunity in LA could be an open spigot for someone like Prime, way more than Boulder, CO.
  9. At least Hunter is banging whores along the way and having the time of his life, Don Jr. is just spiraling in the misery that everyone hates him and only the MTGs of the world want to fuck him.
  10. He's definitely right that 5+7 gives them better access. The rule already exists that a 2-team conference doesn't qualify for an automatic bid, so 6+6 just guarantees another G5 champ gets an auto bid and takes away a spot for ORST or WSU to make it as an at large (which would probably require an undefeated season but is access nonetheless). They've only really asked for time to determine what's best for them for now, most likely whether full membership in the MWC is better or worse for them at this time. I think they are probably right to not join and hope they can get into the Big 12 in the next round of realignment (I'd be all for it but only if we can shed the east coast teams to the ACC). The article says what they really want is for a CFP payment equal to the lowest P5 member, and agreeing to 5-7 helps with their relationships. The vote for 5-7 doesn't have to be unanimous, does it? It's gonna pass either way, so voting no doesn't really give them any leverage. It might also tick off one of the conferences they want to make, so I don't see any advantage to voting no. They asked for time to figure things out, which they got, and they've decided on independence for a year with a MWC scheduling agreement, so at this point they might as well go along with the vote. I would hope they have an agreement in place for their CFP payment, but voting no doesn't help them get there, it can only hurt. Maybe I'm missing something, but that's how it reads to me.
  11. Why do these idiots go out in public? Donald is insulated by having his yes men hide the hatred people have for him but Cruz is just a shitty human. Stay in your Texas bubble asshole, where at least the majority of voters still like you for some stupid reason.
  12. If its a conspiracy why didn't Kelce catch the game winning td?
  13. I disagree with your comment that Bibi's strategy is "to beat Gaza to death, and even if they live they'll never forget how bad it was and they'll never do anything to repeat it." I don't think deterrence has anything to do with his actions. He knows he's not killing Hamas but civilians, and he knows that nothing he's doing is going to dissuade Hamas from being terrorists in the future. My proposition is that he knows damn well he's creating new terrorists with every bomb and that justifies his attempts to either exterminate or remove all Palestinians, or at a minimum, to keep them oppressed under the guise of "security."
  14. Because they're terrorists, full stop. Their intent was to terrorize. The other stuff is part of the bigger picture, but Gaza resident's are caught in the crossfire, and it's not antisemitic to think Israel's disproportionate response it's wrong, evil, and a war crime. Bibi's intent is not to wipe out the terrorists, it's the opposite, to create more of them so that they can always use "security" as a reason to oppress and eventually take over Gaza and the West Bank.
  15. The 1.2 million Palestinians stuck in Rafah who are about to get mowed down like fish in a barrel aren't the ones who committed 10/7. Hamas has shown time and time again that they are not concerned with Gaza civilians, that's not their prerogative, and mowing down civilians isn't going to stop terrorism, because by definition, terrorists don't give a shit. The most basic difference with Germany and Japan have already been stated, and is obvious to anyone who gives it a modicum of thought.
  16. The strategy should be to treat Hamas as terrorists and fight them as such, not full scale war against 2 million residents of Gaza. I compared it earlier to the U.S. approach (in theory) in Afghanistan. We weren't just bombing the shit out of every city because terrorists might be hiding there, we were strategic in targeting terrorists (again in theory). I've kind of checked out on this a bit, but I heard on the radio this morning that at least 27,000 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting. An article I saw in the Economist (I think, it was a reputable source) said that official members of Hamas are estimated at 30K to 35K. The dead are almost overwhelmingly not part of that group. It's is completely disproportionate and in my view the definition of "collective punishment" which is a war crime. The same clip from this morning said that over a million people are now in the refugee camps on the southern border town of Rafah, more in fact, they said it was about 60-70% of the population, and Israel's next move is to basically wipe them out with a ground offensive. Israel is literally wiping Palestinians off the map. It's infuriating that, even if Biden wanted to flat out call Israel war criminals, he is completely hamstrung by the overwhelming majority view of voters in this country that think Palestinian = Muslim = Terrorists = "they want to exterminate the Jews." That's just how it is, a temporary ceasefire is all that can be accomplished. I want to see Bibi hung in Brussels, on a live stream, in public, because he is pure evil, no different that Hamas at this point, but with real political power and the support of the western military powers.
  17. It's fun, but none of it matters, as long as there is an R by their name, they'll be reelected with huge margins.
  18. So the maid was definitely a prostitute, right?
  19. Well they’ve changed it a few times, including just last year for playoffs where even a TD on the first drive doesn’t equal a win, so “just win in regulation to avoid advantage / disadvantage of OT coinflips” isn’t the prevailing opinion.
  20. Chiefs fans seem to like Taylor, the most hatred of Simpson came from Cowboys fans. Swift is also a million times richer and more famous than Simpson at her prime.
  21. Soccer doesn’t have set “possessions” like American football or downs. Any advantage to first possession works itself out over 15 minutes. Any system in American Football that includes a clock and possessions in overtime provides a coin flip advantage to one side or the other. Straight to conversion shootouts is the only system that doesn’t have any advantage. It would also be fewer plays almost every time since player safety is an issue.
  22. If overtime went straight to 2-pt conversion shootouts soccer style neither team gets a coin flip advantage. I’d be good with that system.
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