
BurdineBandit
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I'm coming around more and more to the idea that the kid doesn't have that fire upstairs. I wanted to give him time to prove it, especially after his time last year running against A&M and UTSA. He got up from those runs with a fire, and showed me he wanted to compete. But now I see him like Ewers used to be, on the sidelines on the bench hiding from the pressure trying to catch his breath. I've heard nothing from reports that he's the leader of the team, or owns this team. And seen nothing from him that would make me think he's steering anything on this offense. That's most worrisome to me. If it is indeed lacking upstairs, it's over. Can he find a fire? Can he find some gumption?
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I knew this outcome was the most likely, but let Netflix talk me into the weight being that much of an issue over the past couple weeks. Spoiler: it wasn't.
The reflexes were always going to be too much, the timing, the precision. He has just had that level that only the greats have had, for a decade now. I've been a fan of Bud only half the time I've been a fan of Canelo, but I thought it was a mistake for Canelo to try this, the same way it was to fight Bivol. Just too much. He chases greatness, but could've retired as a great just sticking to 160-168. But he tried. Buds just another animal, and he has that same chin that Canelo has. Where i could not really see Canelo hurting him that bad. Maybe wearing him down, but fuck he couldn't even do that.
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57 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:For the record, here I'm not posting for the "content" of his argument so much as the "rhetorical style" in the face of allegations that he was a good and good faith debater that just expressed opinions many see as outrageous and despicable. And specifically that he didn't spout propaganda, lies, or attempt to confuse and mislead.
In the Newsom dialog, where I think he was on his best behavior, he was mostly a good and good faith "debater." But his mask slipped a few times.
In his more "monologic" rants, the mask falls off.
He was a fucking coward racist frat boy. The kind that are a dime a dozen at numerous universities in Texas. The type to say shock shit to get people riled up as part of Young Republicans. Parading around with the confidence of a white kid that's spent his whole life fucking around but never had to find out. They are all pros at putting the "professional" mask back on. They're taught that shit at home, they have office jobs and know that those topics stay at the dinner table.
There was nothing special about him, he just said the same shit all Young Republicans say, he just hit the podcast booth first. His problem was that he was too sheltered, like most of the frat boys are. Then they get around real life weirdo alt-right proud boy motherfuckers that aren't socialized in the suburban lifestyle, the kind that Nick Fuentes has a chokehold on, and he was nowhere near ready for that Ilk. He liked flirting with them, but he was NOT built like that.
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11 minutes ago, Thatguy said:Any one of us goes into a biker bar and starts yelling how bikers are trash, scum, and the lowest of the low. How long do you think we last before getting seriously hurt or killed? Go and sit in the middle of a Eagles game with your Cowboys shit on, hurling insults at all the people around you. What's the amount of time before you get stomped out? All of us conduct ourselves in a way to promote self preservation. As soon as you start with hateful rhetoric your life expectancy goes down. People shouldn't be violent, but people also shouldn't poke the bear. Most of us know that and conduct ourselves accordingly. Charlie Kirk did not and didn't make it to year 31.
So many right wingers are pointing the finger at liberals today instead of looking in the mirror. If Charlie Kirk was a branch manager at his local Wells Fargo, he would be coming home for dinner tonight. Instead he spent a decade spewing hate to the masses and ultimately it caught up to him, just as much as it would if you and I went in that biker bar every day talking crazy. Quit blaming us. Look in the mirror. Bruce Willis wasn't going to make it very long holding that sign either.
I had a college buddy try to engender sympathy in me yesterday by bringing up his children. Your second paragraph was EXACTLY my thought (if I'd bothered to reply). As if Charlie's own decisions didn't bring this upon him and his family. He could've chosen any vocation in this world, but he chose white nationalist ideologue for the grift. Sorry but I'm all out of fucks to give for white nationalist ideologues and the hell they put their families through.
Also, until the killer is caught, I'm not a fan of running around insinuating "liberals" did this. We all know what type is much more likely to have done this, and it's not a colored-hair LGBTQ rights activist. The whole thing stinks to high heavens and I'm not going to pretend "liberal" is on my list of Top 25 most likely to assassinate someone from 200 yards.
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10 minutes ago, aggie08 said:
Well, fuck. We're about to fight a civil war over Charlie Kirk. God damnit people.
Civil war? I hope the very well-represented people in all of those videos, including shooter and victim, handle it amongst themselves.
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2 hours ago, Pablo said:
Surely a coincidence but seems like when Hader went out so did the team’s ability to give a fuck.
Don't overlook Paredes. The team lost its pair of cojones when he went down.
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16 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:A DA that refuses to prosecute crime matches up perfectly with a PD that decided to functionally go on strike and dial the fuck back their policing of crime because someone dared suggest several years ago that maybe they shouldn't just have free rein to do whatever the fuck they wanted and beat and shoot whoever they wanted with no real oversight or consequences.
They are petulant children who took their ball and went home when someone said maybe they should follow some rules. And by the way, being a cop in Austin is one of the safest public sector jobs around. Fuck excusing APD for a single goddamned thing. Our DA sucks. But APD sucks hard regardless of that fact, and has since a time pre-dating this DA.
Put your dream DA in the job, and unless that DA takes the approach of "APD can do whatever it wants, I'll back them 100% and never, ever, ever bring charges against a cop," APD will suck EXACTLY as much as it does right now.
Their dipshit officers aimed for skulls for shits & giggles and gave that kid from Texas State skull fractures and brain damage with"non-lethal" rounds (and he wasn't the only one). Kid was just standing there on the side of the highway, video clear as fucking day. Fucking cowards got indicted and the whole shit started crumbling down. Fuck them. They want the city to forget, but I'll never forget the real reason they quit on their jobs. Protecting some shithead trigger-happy fuckwits.
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If you have trouble reaching your polo wearing, zyn packing, sports betting, Busch light chugging students, I guess Dave Portnoy is one route to go. Why tf you have trouble reaching that demographic is beyond me though. Usually if you put out a good product they'll show up. Have you tried not sucking?
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2 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:
Bill Connelly made some similar points in his article this week:
Indeed, all the major offensive measures are down compared with where they were this time last year. In Week 1 of last season, in FBS vs. FBS games, teams averaged 2.11 points per drive and 5.52 yards per play; this year it was 1.9 points per drive and 5.4 yards per play
So what's the problem? Big plays vanished: The percentage of completions gaining at least 20 yards fell from 16.3% to 14.7%, and despite the uptick in completion rate (and the downtick in sacks), average yards per dropback fell from 6.4 to 6.0. You know how pro defenses adapted to force Patrick Mahomes to settle for checkdown after checkdown because they were basically forming an umbrella at the back? It appears college defenses are doing the same thing. They're forcing quarterbacks -- who, on average, are less experienced than in recent years -- to dink and dunk and score points before making a crippling error or coming up short on third down. It's working.
It's crazy that Diego Pavia and Carson Beck exist and QBs are still on average less experienced than in recent years. There must be a lot of 18 year olds starting these days.
After Saturday I thought a bit about some Ohio State kid being quoted talking about our D and how good they are, "they keep everything in front of them". That's certainly what Ohio State intended to do, and obviously succeeded. Good defenses have safeties that are constantly deep and taking away explosive plays, and have dudes up front who can clean up whatever comes otherwise. It really seems to me like the counter is to have a reliable running game that can punish those 6/7 DBs on the field and continue to wear on them over 4 quarters. I sure would like to see CJ Baxter turn into that guy again this year. Let Wisner get his 10-12 carries too and I bet things open up. Those DEs will be protecting the edge all year, it's time for IZ to make the comeback Sark has been waiting on.
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17 minutes ago, oldhorn2 said:
young QB....huge stage....incredible pressure.....and yet I never saw any coach try nd calm/ settle him down. They were treating him like a pitcher carrying a no hitter into the 8th inning.....no one dared talk to him. Strange to me.
This bothered me too. Him and Quinn were often pictured under that same overhang staring off into the distance last year. Maybe it's just bad memories so I hated seeing it again, but damn I hate seeing him look lost on the sideline. Fire yourself up and get your team going. Or is there no other leader to go and fire him up and wake him up a bit? I get the team knows him better than I do, but are the days of lighting a fire under your team's ass gone? Vince would have had a half like that and still be bouncing on his toes on the sideline ready to make it right. Either you're going to be the leader of this offense or you're not.
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6 hours ago, Billy Pilgrim said:
My daughter (who’s at Texas now) also said Travis Scott spent a year or 2 at UT a few years ago.
I think I've heard that was UTSA. I feel like it would be more widely known if he attended.
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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:
Bobby had a player from the 80s on last week that does football commentary in Spanish. He's watched a couple of practices this month and said what stood out the most to him was Burke looked borderline unblockable. Wasn't expecting that, but maybe this is when he puts it all together.
I'm really looking forward to this. He was so solid last year but just gets overshadowed by the AA's on the Defense. A senior DE with tons of big plays already heading into his last year? We have a history of these guys turning into all-conference players and low to mid-round draft picks. He's up.
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I'm at 100% return on it now. Finally a winner! I see the vision for the industry though and fine waiting a bit longer before taking some profits out.
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11 hours ago, Frieda’s Boss said:
Impressive performance by Khamzat but dude, you gotta figure out a way to finish that fight. Kudos to DDP for continuing despite being dominated. A lot of dudes would have looked for a way out after the way the first couple rounds went.
Yep, especially since he had him in a crucifix in like 3 different rounds. How he didn't rain down elbows and strikes on him is beyond me. He throw a hundred little short baby punches to the corner of DDP's head, but he never seemed to try and put him away with actual aggression. Normally I'd have been bored of it, but I was actually entertained watching a defending champion just get absolutely manhandled and able to do nothing to stop it. 25 seconds each round and he was a ragdoll.
It is a bit funny to hear DDP claim hell be back to get his belt back. But even if he improves significantly, what does that mean? He stuffs 3 takedowns and lasts an average of 50 seconds on his feet before spending the rest of the fight on his back next time? That would be a huge improvement.
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1 hour ago, Brian Fantana said:Not everyone has the means to do shit about fuck, and people that don't have means certainly don't have time for political advocacy. Even getting themselves/their families moved anywhere is close to impossible unless they have disposable income. And some (you could argue, a lot) of those people belong to classes of people that are actively under attack by this admin.
If you don't need to be hypervigilant, you're lucky. I'm lucky. You're lucky. Probably most of the people that post here are above the median level of privilege in this country, so we're lucky. But not all of us. What do you think is going through the mind of, say, a Latino trans person that's the child of first-gen immigrants right now? They have to be shitting their pants and rightfully so. Telling them to suck it up and enjoy the fact that your football team might be pretty good this year is not really something you should be saying to them if you have any sort of empathy rolling around between your ears.
It doesn't even have to be this fringe. It could literally be a undocumented Texas high school graduate who just had to cancel their enrollment for this fall semester because the Feds pulled the "State's Rights!!!" to govern themselves and classify students who graduated from Texas high schools (and lived here for a specified amount of time) as Texas residents for tuition purposes. Now I have to deal with students asking me how they can attend UT in the fall if their tuition just rose from $5,500/semester to $21,000/semester. Oh, and that $6k/year Texas grant you qualified for and were awarded? Sorry, you no longer qualify. No, you can't apply for a loan either, because you no longer qualify for the state-funded CAL loan. It would be better to spend your time in hiding since ICE is knocking on people's doors to fill their quotas. Stephen Miller said you were born to be a 2nd class citizen and shouldn't be getting government money. Oh, and also that fucking incel is making sure the rest of Project 2025 is being carried out in the meantime. So, yeah, don't look up.
Unfortunately there's nothing I can tell them. If I want to give them the slightest sliver of hope, I can suggest paying in-district at a CC for a couple years and hope to have the opportunity to get a university education later IF the regime changes. But that would require me to believe that Trump isn't going to declare himself eligible for 3rd term with the fucking SC he paid for. And my head isn't far enough up my ass to not see where this is going. (2032? You really thing he's capable of saying "ok, enough is enough, Im rich enough, that's enough power, I've had my fill"? Fuck outta here).
But anyway, that's my rant. I'm still at the stage where I can use sports as a way to stuff the reality of how fucked up these people are ALLLLLLLLLL the way to the back corner of my brain. I'll wash off the echoes of that fucking cunt Miller spout off insane racist propaganda on TV to further their nazi agenda by reading up on the latest practice report this evening. It doesn't mean I don't give a shit, it's just one of the few ways I can cope. My gf and the occasional drinking/smoking session will have to make do for the other times that I can't fit my head up my ass enough to forget.-
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1 hour ago, bluto said:
On the one hand, generally agree… but the reality is there’s so many vast food deserts across the country, both rural and urban, where the only ‘food’ available is dollar store shit. Approx 40M Americans live in those areas per USDA in 2022
Yep. It's easy for a fucking Kennedy to lecture about it. I'll bet he won't be as interested in the details.
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19 hours ago, Horn of Gabriel said:
Kinda surprising given the logjam in the backcourt. OTOH he's a proven all-star player vs. some young guns. This spells front office confidence that they can make all the pieces fit.
"Logjam" seems more like an exaggeration to me each passing week. If Mitch and Wright are convinced it can work, then I'm going to let Mitch try to figure it out. Castle played 26 mpg last year. I think we can find Harper 24-26 mpg too.
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More staged than a fake bullet to the ear. What a clown.
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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:
The holder gets a bad snap and the ball bounces up to the kicker. The GBall defenders are coming at him in full force. He panics and starts running in the opposite direction. At around the 50, he just throws the ball behind his back, while running full speed towards the GBall end zone, at the GBall defenders. One of them picks it and houses it. Funniest shit on a football field I’d scene since earlier in the same game when Casey Hampton threw our center at our QB for a strip sack and fumble TD return.
The shit that D1 athletes do to their fellow 17-year olds in high school is hilarious. I'll never forget Brian Orakpo in the Astrodome reaching over a fully-engaged offensive tackle, likes he's committing an Over the Back rebounding foul in basketball, to yank a quarterback's shoulders pads so hard he goes horizontal a foot off the ground and falls on the tackle's legs. Just a heap of destruction in front of him for a sack.
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Anyone who bought tickets expecting Messi to show his face at this exhibition game was playing themselves. He ain't here to play school. He's here because they rolled out the red carpet, gave him a stake in the team, and allowed his family to live in Latino America without having to live in Latino America. At the ripe age of 38. This game ain't on the Top 50 list of biggest accolades in his career.
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5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
I wonder if they’ve decided to parse it by “cost” not including taxes. Or if it’s just a lie.
I can check my receipts as far back as January 2024 and I paid 2.49 for unleaded then. After 18 months I'm pretty sure it's not much cheaper than that anywhere I've seen in Austin over the past month. He can tell stories about some unnamed stations in unnamed states as much as he wants.
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5 minutes ago, Satchel said:Bibi is still a war criminal:
JFC the media giving cover by invoking Hamas, and then listing all the reasons it's horseshit. Israel now controls 70% of Gaza and is closing in on 100% all in search of Hamas. And when they don't "find" Hamas, the destruction of a people and conquering of an area is just an accidental win. What a stupid, empty report.
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Just finished the last two episodes tonight and I liked the season. Felt the acting was great from multiple characters. Wish I knew more about some and less about others, but there's only so much they can do with 10 ~30 minute episodes. I also didn't love the wedding episode and am surprised so many did. The whole thing felt a bit forced to me. But the season overall was really good.
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47 minutes ago, Your Mom said:
While I'm on my old man rant... I really want to like Howler Brothers but they make it hard to. I got one of those button up shirts of theirs that says, "I'm not a hipster or a cowboy but I'm some kind of cool in-between middle-aged mash up of the two." and that damn thing fits like a garbage bag. Boxy, square-shaped torso. I've had $19 Old Navy shirts that were cut better.
/shaking fist at cloud
Great description. I like the designs in general, but something about them is just a tad bit off. I have liked some of the UT gear they've come up with, but I'll likely just wind up with another nike polo this year. They fit well and look great in jeans or shorts.
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
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I don't know where tf to grasp hope from. This shit is coming together here pretty soon when whatever plan they have in place to make sure Trump gets his 3rd term (and then 4th and then 5th bc he will never die) culminates. Pretty sure Kirk is fitting nicely into his plans, whether it was foreseen by them or not, they are taking advantage. I log in to twitter and Musk has his personal propaganda machine just openly stating that Kirk was killed by "leftists" like it's fact. The media can't push back because they bought the media decades ago, and they're already gathered all the corporations like the infinity stones. There isn't a leader with a sack in the Democratic party to fight within the confines of whatever is left of the political system. There's fucking nothing. Since the moment he died they've bene out spouting lies in front of every camera that will record them, and who tf is left to push back? Little internet holes that cater to the types of people net-savvy enough to read Surly?
I was counting on Arch to give me some great distractions this year. So much for that shit. And apparently the only person that will outlive Trump is Jerry Jones. Could this be any more fucked?