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  1. The overall team is much better. The O-line is better. The receivers, the defense. What I want to know if why QE is still making the same costly mistakes now, that he was making last season?
  2. Oh, it's 100% on Sark. Shit play calling. Shit preparation. And shit development and unwillingness to make changes, especially mid-game.
  3. You're splitting hairs. Nobody is saying you can just grab anyone, what they are saying is relative to the surrounding talent, star-rankings, and hype around QE, he has vastly underperformed. There are dozens of lower rated QB's that are playing at a much higher level around the country right now that most fans would trade straight up for. I don't hate Ewers. I want him to succeed. I also want him to quit making the same GD mistakes he's been making over the last two seasons. I assume he wants to play in the NFL. Can we start with making quicker reads? Consistent footwork? Consistent throwing motion? These are the bare bones stuff scouts will need to address. How are they still a thing?
  4. THIS is what I'm pulling my hair out about - teams are keying on the run, disguising their coverages, and our O-coordinators and QB seem incapable of attacking them and picking them apart. The sole TD Saturday was a great individual play and a broken tackle.
  5. QE had some good games, but also shit the bed games as well. He's frustratingly easy (apparently) to confuse when his running game is contained. As mobile as he seems to be, he also seems incapable of moving around in the pocket to extend plays, especially stepping up and into the pocket. He flushes, often back and to the right and he's no danger to run anymore like he used to be.
  6. Last year's team and this, with Sam Ehlinger, you can make the argument is looking for back-to-back MNC's. QE is a good, but not great college QB. He struggles massively with making quick reads, recognizing defensive coverages, and staying healthy. He's not willing any team to victory. He's good enough to maintain success, but with the weapons around him, he's woefully inadequate. Hell, I'd argue a healthy David Ash on this team performs better than a healthy QE.
  7. They took two of my Wilson, 1911 mags. Probably because they were still loaded and had fallen deep inside my backpack, but still.....
  8. Welp, that was fucking creepy....
  9. Guessing Duke spends all their cheddar on basketball, but who knows.
  10. If he can make himself and his family a decent amount in NIL dollars before a suspect NFL draft where he "might" get a shot - good on him.
  11. Yeah, I was there. That worthless fuck Mazi tossed a dude right on top of him. His knee is fucked, again. He was down for a while. When they finally got him up two guys walked him straight to the tunnel, no tent, no doubt.
  12. Nice.
  13. When everything is working well, QE is a really good QB. When he's healthy, when his players around him play well, when the plays work. Yeah, he's great. It's when shit goes sideways, and it always does, that he falls apart.
  14. The first thing to do when you are fucked, is to unfuck yourself. He's not helpless. Earn your GD money.
  15. Taco's are insanely expensive. 215K is a lot of miles, even for them. Can he handle a full size? Neighbor just picked up a Nissan Titan. Have another friend with one as well. They are great, great trucks with that big 5.6l engine. Does he "need" 4x4?
  16. Don't you know, ag arrogance is only a thing vs Texas. Ask Tech fans back in the day how the ags treated and looked down on them?
  17. What the actual fuck is that garbage? Good God, I can't unsee it.....is that ketchup?
  18. It's situational. Outside, open parking lot, nobody else around - you can keep your distance. Crowded store, apartment, kids in close proximity, changes the calculus. At the end of the day they need more training across the board. I have a friend that does training with many precincts. Many of them are 6 month classes (for the cadets to become cops). Many of those months are doing paperwork and other administrative stuff. They're not trained on what to do when somebody puts their hands on you. De-escalation training, etc. It falls to the training officer...who you HOPE knows what they are doing, etc. This is also why the advent of the SWAT teams came to be - front line dudes didn't know what to do, have the right gear, and again, training. Whitman in a tower, sure. Anyone remember years back that lady that drive a semi that was hijacked in DFW? Big OJ-esq chase down the freeway. SWAT dudes everywhere. What happened? They finally spiked the tires, and this scrappy old bird wrestles the gun away from this crackhead, and jumps out of the cab. The end. What did SWAT do that any well trained officer couldn't? Another dude I know is a cop in small-town, AL. They don't have much of a budget, so most of the policemen are also SWAT trained. They do some wild stuff, that nothing a "dedicated" SWAT team would be needed for. Few examples he told me: Trailer part. Old disabled vet had his grandkids over. Dude had a live grenade (Vietnam maybe?). Little kid finds it, goes outside, pulls the pin, chucks it. Goes maybe a few feet. It smokes, by the grace of god doesn't go off. Primer corroded. They roll in, just dig a hole, fill it with det cord, have their little robot thingy push it in the hole. Boom. Live video feed from outside a house. News is there for a "most dangerous" fugitive on the run. Most wanted kind of stuff. You hear a loud bang in the background. They set det cord on the front door, breached from the back. Grabbed the dude. The end. Not Jason Bourne shit at all. Another trailer part. Another old vet. Another kid involved. Can't make this shit up. Alabama football (pre-Saban) is losing, and this old fucker in a wheelchair shoots the TV. Teenager comes in, he starts popping rounds off into the ceiling from his old service-issue 1911. They come in. First question. Does he keep any other mags with him? They count the shots. Then calmly walk in, flip the chair. Cuff him. Off they go. None of this is sexy or wild. Spend the budget on situational training and stress inoculation. Not on fucking MRAPS and .50 BMGs that they never use. And get some of these fat fucks a gym membership. Jesus, some of these dudes would pass out trying to tie their own shoes.
  19. If it's policy, then fine, but that old FBI 21ft thing isn't really a thing anymore.
  20. IF, IF, IF....If MI was even remotely close to what they were last year? If OU didn't suck a big bag of dicks? If LSU wasn't as bad as they've been in a decade? If MO wasn't vastly overrated and collapsed in on themselves? How about IF the ags actually put up some semblance of a fight on their own field the outcome might have look different. We can play this stupid game all night.
  21. I've been mixing in larger pieces of wood lately and less lump. I'll take a piece of cured oak, cut a section about the size of a large coconut, put it in the middle of the bowl and ring lump around it and light on one side. When I take the food out to wrap, I can reevaluate how much more wood to add. Bark's never been better. You can also add different woods later like pecan chunks to mix up the flavor profile or go sweeter for pork like apple/cherry.
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