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I've never had a bad meal there but possibly some nostalgia clouding that as I've been going for 20 years now. Maybe an off night if that is the review (never had bad sides or a steak that wasn't solid) although haven't been in over a year though now that I think of it. Pappas Bros. might be the best with the worst location. Haven't been in almost 10 years and doubt I will any time soon. Plenty of good steaks that are half the drive or less and might actually have a place nearby for pre or post dinner drinks.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
You mean the guy that's not playing because he has a concussion? Hard to be a "consistent, solid, contributor" when injured. -
My only real complaint from a portal perspective is potentially WR and that's a bit hard to judge given injuries. But maybe should have pushed for a guy like Barrion Brown and Aggy seemed to clean up really well at receiver also. We haven't seen Mosley and Moore is hurt so maybe that won't look like a mistake a few games from now if we get healthy. I think it's really difficult to find starting level OL in the portal and even if you did there are downstream effects to your pipeline. I don't think our OL is a "portal issue". We were always going to take a step backwards this year losing so many starters, but if this crew can't improve by the time conference play starts, then safe to question prior evaluations and development of that position. Otherwise, we seemed to manage the portal extremely well at DL and Kicker/Punter to fill those holes. It's pretty obvious the biggest issue is this team is the QB position and I'm fairly certain nobody saw that coming and not sure how you manage/prep for a Manning to mentally lose it over a couple of starts. Sark is saying all the right things in the press conference. Hopefully some of that positivity works on Manning. Maybe all he needs is to hit a few in a row and he'll snap out of it.
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I'm listening and haven't had any issues with what he's had to say. Spinning things about as well as you can under the circumstances and keeping it positive. Not much else you can do.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
WTF are you even talking about. I have zero desire to relitigate coaching decisions from last year in the 2025 game thread (or the OSU game this year for that matter). What I'm certain of is "game management" against fucking UTEP when our offense was actively hitting rock bottom in a game we still had no actual risk of losing means absolutely nothing for future game management in conference play. If you can't understand that, I don't know what to tell you. Moving this clown to ignore. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Sigh. Post less. -
QB is the red flag but we are below average at OL and maybe only slightly above average at RB and WR. We need something approaching high level QB to make a run unfortunately.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
You think Sark is calling the same guy against UTEP he's going to call against Florida or OU? Cmon now. -
If Arch hasn't been such a mess agreed this would be a huge topic on this board. If that is our best option at Guard, then we have completely fucked up evaluations and/or development at that position. He's been awful.
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In a meltdown scenario where Arch is benched long term, then yeah, might as well see what Lacey has.
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Well no shit dumbass. The only possible scenario where we could still make a run is if Manning gets 'fixed'. That's the point. Benching him and trotting out Caldwell isn't getting you to the playoffs. So unless you think benching him is going to 'fix' Manning, it's dumb idea. Coaching staff has 3 weeks of practice to try to get him right. Personally I hope the top sports pysch in the country has been flown in to work with him.
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Last season he was a backup just playing the part knowing it was Quinn's team so not the same pressure. This year he's the starter with #1 ranked preseason team, heisman 'expectations' (fair or not), Manning last name and all that comes with it. I think the poor performance week 1 (which wasn't great but also somewhat explainable) is just spiraling on him. Zero confidence in his throws or decision making and it's showing.
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So you just choose to ignore the games last season before Quinn got hurt. Got it. Neither Quinn's nor Arch's problem at QB are due to lifting weights. JFC. I can't believe the dumb shit i read on this board.
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For those saying Arch should be benched, who the F is going to play? Caldwell can probably be better than the current version of Arch, but starting a guy that threw for 13 TD's and 8 picks for Troy last year lowers your ceiling on the season immediately. There is simply no way Arch has been this bad in practice. Hell, we all saw him last season play multiple levels better than what we've seen this year. If it's mental, which seems likely, you have to give him a chance to figure it out the next 2 weeks at least then start against UF and see what happens. Hell, we might be better off running a Georgia Tech/Haynes King run first offense than going to a backup to win those games in October and November. Putting aside the national media scrutiny the second Arch is benched and what all that outside noise could do, I don't think likely we somehow improve dramatically.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Calling out our OL isn't necessarily spreading blame. Granted it was an anticipated weakness but probably also falls into the category of worse than expected. I thought we would struggle against good defenses but also expected us to be able to run at will against SJSU and UTEP and that wasn't the case. Remember when last year we could just lean on the running game to close out games against UK, A&M and Clemson? Don't think we'll be able to do that this year. Which of course exacerbates the Arch problem.
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