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  1. This was a nationally televised* (OK, cable) bowl game and some of y'all act like it was the orange-white scrimmage. When Texas plays a higher-ranked opponent in a bowl game that's practically next door to Austin, I expect to see a certain level of intensity and execution. Fuck Tom Herman but I bet his team wins this game.

    And I agree with the poster above, it's not cool with me that team leaders just sit out the bowl game, regardless of their pro prospects. If a player is on scholarship for a season, I expect them to be available to play that full season including any bowl game (unless there is a legitimate reason such as an injury).

    This was a winnable game for Texas and I'm pretty pissed about losing.

     

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  2. 4 hours ago, Hate said:

    Well, the last “cold snap” cost me $7k so I’m going to overreact to everything. The thing that will really piss me off is if I lose some of my landscaping again. That alone cost me $1500.

    This time I pre-killed my shrubs, so I'm ready.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

     

    just came to post this. I wonder which of these points anyone will try to refute or undermine as bad

    They are all too nebulous and lacking in machismo or establishing dominance. I'd go with "Biden is kicking Putin's ass up and down Ukraine," except that somehow Republicans who were all hawks on every possible opportunity for war until like 5 years ago, are now just fine with whatever Russia does.

     

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  4. 2 hours ago, General Specific said:


    He certainly has pulled more than his quota of ETBF and five heads! Advantage aggy!

    Those are some very oddly shaped heads. Did a carnival train break down in Collie Station and lose their freaks & geeks?

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  5. 6 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:


    Wow it’s not like they got their asses kicked last night. A couple of dumb turnovers, stupid penalties, and this team wins the game.

    Unlikely as it is, this team could actually win out as easily as falling to your scenario. I think they go 6-2 and finish 12-5. Then we see if they can win a wild card game.

    This game may not have quite been an "ass kicking" but it highlighted several major flaws. Dallas' DL and LB were consistently handed their ass by GB's rushing on early downs, which made it that much harder to stop drives. Green Bay is only a midpack rushing team but they dominated the line of scrimmage.

    Worse, Dallas' offense (especially passing) mostly scores touchdowns on home-run plays and on big coverage mistakes by the defense. When playing mediocre teams, this is still good enough to rack up a decent number of points, but football is situational and Dallas has great difficulty scoring or getting 1st downs when it matters most.

     

     

     

     

  6. This was a complete team failure. Dak hits some plays, racks up some points, but is unable to consistently get the KEY completions for touchdowns/first downs that are needed to put any game away. Most of Dallas's "successful" pass plays look improvised or lucky. They can't reliably hit the 8-to-15 yard stuff that you need to sustain drives, or score TDs from first-&-goal. The Dallas running game was tepid in the first half, and then was abandoned just when it seemed like it was starting to work. The defense got a few big plays but again, failed at consistency--gave up way too many run yards on 1st & 2nd down, setting up lots of easy short-yardage 3rd downs. DBs were inconsistent with coverage. How do you fucking lose to a team that lost to Detroit?

    You could feel this 4th qtr collapse coming from a mile away. In a lot of ways it was like watching UT play.

     

  7. Man, in hindsight my parents had it easy. By the time I was 10 I was getting up on my own (nobody "woke me up for school"). making my own "breakfast" (Raisin Bran or a microwaved muffin or biscuit), walking to the nearest school bus stop a half mile away (why do kids today have the bus practically stop in front of every house?), etc.  Uphill, in the snow, etc.

    To be fair my dad did take me fishing a lot but mainly because it gave him a chance to drink and be away from the wife.

  8. 1 hour ago, D3zii said:

    Might be the coolest video I’ve ever seen from the Texas media department

    from coming out to the boo’s, to Quinn being in aww of the atmosphere, to hearing the cheers and Texas fight simply amazing!!! 

     

    Is this available somewhere in better quality? Twitter is...not a great platform for video.

  9. 7 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

     

     

    My God... $@.50 for a fucking ticket to a game! What a time to be alive!

    Yeah, but $2.50 in 1962 is equivalent to $25-30 today, so not as cheap as it sounds. (But still cheap compared to current tix)

  10. On 7/10/2022 at 7:49 PM, VABuckeye said:

    They didn’t replay Grosjean’s accident until he was safely out of the car.  Same with Zhou. It’s SOP if there’s an accident that looks bad. 

    The coverage now seems really sanitized, compared to how I remember crashes and injuries being covered on American TV in the 70s and 80s. ABC's coverage of the Indy 500 routinely showed guys on fire and limp bodies hanging out of shattered racecars, replayed from every possible angle.

     

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