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BurdineBandit

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  1. Point taken, but it hasn't been that long. Keenan Robinson. Emmanuel Acho. Jordan Hicks. (Dare I throw Malik in there). We've had some solid LBs that could move and had instincts in the box, they just come along way too rarely. We gotta hit on some more prospects for sure though. I'm glad somebody else is seeing that Ossai is a liability when we ask him to take steps backwards. His usage there makes him look a bit more like Anthony Wheeler than Gary Johnson. Where he should be playing off the edge closer to the line. It's ironic that a dude with 2 INTs still seems slow in coverage to me though.
  2. I only saw PPG and YPG, but apparently we were better in the S&P advanced whatever. Both did give up less yards and points, for whatever that's worth. Remember the point I was arguing was that you said the "only" hope was the out-talent and out-recruit the modern spread. Iowa State had 1 4-star recruit between 2014 and 2018. TCU, who has a much better defensive reputation, doesn't recruit on our level, yet performs better, or in the same league as us (as in 2017). I don't agree with that "hope". I think it's just flat undercoaching on our campus, especially with our talent.
  3. If this is the case, why is out-recruiting and out-talenting other offenses not a requirement for TCU and Iowa State, who have had better defenses than ours for 3 years running? We play the exact same schedules, and I can't imagine the 3 OOC games are really the complete difference.
  4. Sterns hasn't had an interception since Week 7 of last year. He's not keeping anybody up at night. He earned a rep by picking off TCU's shitty QB Shawn Robinson (who is now at Missouri) twice and got another against Tulsa. He's pretty decent tracking down receivers and tackling in the open field, he closes fast, but he's not Earl Thomas. BJ can be schemed around because you put him into coverage and he's not exactly Quandre Diggs at nickel. Ossai might be the only true difference maker we have right now, Roach could be one, but he's still a bit away from it. These guys are weapons that we can line up in different spots and who **can** make a difference when deployed in different ways, but we do not have a Malco(l)m Brown out there, or even a Hassan Ridgeway. A guy that can single-handedly disrupt an offense's drive with a big play, through sheer effort.
  5. Bumping to add Geto Boys - Still as a real cop shootin' classic. Tom Herman approved, as the Yahoo Sports dude noted it was being blasted in the locker room before the LSU game.
  6. Just to be clear, the whole "it's early in the season at least we know what are weaknesses are!" slant only works if you're confident your coach knows how to and is willing to fix those weaknesses. Last year we got our wake up call week 1. 34 points to Maryland. Then he took Malc out of the ILB spot (what a f'n idea that was) just in time to give up 45 to OU, 38 to Ok St and 42 to WVU. Then 34 to Tech (win) and another 39 to OU in the CG. With seniors galore as DBs. He had been coaching them in the system for a full year + already. How much time are these DBs going to need? I'm not down on this season yet. A strong QB can win you a lot of games, but we're basically OU with less explosive receivers right now. A QB that knows exactly how to run his system and can carry you to a victory, in spite of a defense that will hurt you when it matters. This isn't championship football, it's 4th seed in the playoff football with a 1st-round exit. As a die-hard Longhorn and Texas Ex, I don't cheer on my team for a hope that our ceiling will be OU for the past decade.
  7. I expected this from Cosmi, I think we all did. Kerstetter looked very solid himself Saturday night however. I did not expect that level of play through 2 weeks from him. I wouldn't count Cosmi as gone though. There's still a chance as a RS Sophomore he could stick around for another year.
  8. Only reading the last page of this thread, but man, Connor Williams during his first game last year compared to his first game this year is night/day. He looks like an NFL lineman now. Who knew physical maturation could matter so much in the trenches?
  9. They'll get it fixed. There won't be another game this year, or next for that matter, that will have this type of hype. The team lost a home game, mid-terms will start pretty soon, etc. etc. Nobody's trampling anybody for OK. State, Kansas or Kansas State. By the time our next marquee non-con home game rolls around I'm sure he'll have a ticketing system in place to deal with this.And if he hasn't though of it within the next 2 years there will be 500 twitter accounts to remind him of it between now and then.
  10. Just finished season 3 and I'm slightly disappointed. I can't put my finger on why, because the first two seasons definitely had some character-building, but this season felt like they were scatter-shooting. It felt all over the place with random issues and new situations. I suppose that's what story-writing is, but this season it seemed forced. Like they were throwing shit at a wall. Hard to explain....
  11. I didn't hear one outside of the beginning of the game. Even though there were 3 or 4 occasions where it would've been perfect in the 2nd half. We tried to start one on the east side upper deck in the 3rd, but as soon as we got the west side to join they decided that electronic music bullshit would sound better than a Texas fight chant at that moment.
  12. Are we confident that were gonna shut down Tylan Wallace ? Jalen hurts? What a shit performance.
  13. Surly, where we all bang 10s and wouldn't touch an 8 with a 10-foot pole. Tigerdroppings, where every swamp-floater is their own baws and has the biggest airboat on the swamp.
  14. Really, Stingley has played against Collin Johnson and Jake Smith since 8th grade? The two west coasters? And in that case every DB in our DB room knows every one of your receivers, and vice versa. This isn't a point at all.
  15. It's a damn shame how many people tweet at CDC like he's the manager at a fucking department store. I want to make a joke about it being the white woman asking for a manager syndrome, but that dude bitching about the fighting frat boys is just as bad. Not every inconvenience has to be "horrible" "terrible" "unacceptable" "embarrassing" etc etc. Some of it is just shit that happens and you fucking deal with it and maybe let him know if you're a pussy about it, but they act like making it the most dramatic thing possible will get them store credit or a BOGO offer or some shit.
  16. I am going to be paying special attention to where he is lined up, and if it's over Sam Cosmi, there will be explosions, and clouds of dust and wreckage, and if Sam is the one still standing when the dust clears, I hope he never hears the end of it.
  17. Gave Spotify's new music playlist a chance last week and it started playing 7empest during my workout. I was hooked immediately. I only know the Tool singles they played on rock radio, never considered even listening more, but this album is amazing. Sent it to a buddy with the description that it's sick workout music and he hasn't stopped talking about how great it is for 2 days too...
  18. Water is wet, etc., But damn CDC has knocked it out of the park with everything. I was there 2 hours early coming in from Dean Keeton/Red River with thoughts of checking out Smokey's Midway (?) but saw there were throngs of people just bunched up for the whole damn street. I passed. People (who don't tailgate) were looking for shit to do before the game and they come out for everything.
  19. Neg away bitches. I rolled my eyes when "Don't Stop Believing" came on and people (almost) instinctively got their phones out. The first time was organic and a bit awe-inducing. Now it's just an Instagram moment that will get less intense each time we do it. Not to be a hipster about it, but forcing it takes away the coolness. We don't need a Neil Diamond moment every game.
  20. When you really think about it, we're definitely a level below 2 SEC teams we've beaten in our last 2 bowl games. And truly on par with South Carolina. [/sarcasm]
  21. If they played in the Big 12 this year they would still lose to Clemson, OU, UT and Iowa State. TCU would not be a gimme. And they would still be battling Texas Tech and Oklahoma State for 2nd tier relevance in the Big 12. Get out of here with that "if only they weren't playing in the SEC" bullshit.
  22. Yeah nah fuck that, I just paused it when she started talking about dad dying and she got home from Cali. I'm at work, I can't be watching this here.
  23. Never have, I live on the east side and generally avoid bars outside my neighborhood after games. I didn't think about that, I might check it out if it's more of a football crowd and less of a weekend tourist crowd.
  24. I was reading that last night. My biggest eyeroll was when they said Rainey St was in walking distance of DKR. I guess it technically is, but I'm not walking it. But I'm also not stupid enough to go to Rainey St on a Saturday night - let alone the night of the LSU game. Fuuuuuuck that. Rainey St. on a Saturday night is a clustershit. I also long for the days (a year ago) where their views on East 6th would've been true (locals hang out there). It used to be hipsterish, used to be locals, but now it's just the condo dwellers and more tourists staying in the new hotels/air bnbs. Most of them probably won't even know it's a football weekend.
  25. Cheap pizza. I go to the Varsity (old double daves) once every 1-2 months bc it's cheap and I'm in the area for lunch. I even crave it sometimes, but every time I leave I hate myself for not making better choices.
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