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  1. 4 hours ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

    Shack's holding at the end of the game left we with a question.

    We were trying to kill the clock, which had like 5 minutes still left. We had four downs to play with, so we could kill a little over 2 minutes just standing there if we did nothing.

    We ran a play. We gained yards. Shack held. OU accepted the penalty. We moved back, but the down stayed the same (duh!) and the clock kept running!

    What would prevent us from gaining yards over and over by having our OL deliberately hold their opponent, probably getting a penalty, but always keeping the clock running against the 25 second play clock until the game was killed off?

    This is obviously very unsporting behavior, but it would put the defensive coaches in a position of either accepting the penalty and keeping the clock running, or declining the penalty and accepting whatever gain the RB managed to generate from a blatantly holding OL.

    I noticed that windfall too. I don't remember ever really paying attention to the fact that the clock keeps running (until we really, really needed it to Saturday).

  2. 1 hour ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    You know.... this has been the worst off season in franchise history. Your superstar, the guy who was to be the face of the franchise for the next generation, acts like a gigantic cunt and demands a trade. Manu retires. Tony moves on to Charlotte. Walker, the team's highest draft pick in forever, has knee surgery to keep him out of training camp and probably the first two months of the season. And to top it off, Murray who was seemingly poised to break out this year, is done for the season before it even started. They way things have been going, I wouldn't be surprised if Pop called it a day and they hired Derek Fisher to replace him.

    WORST. OFF SEASON. EVER.

    I just turned the corner to basketball season last week too. I was starting to get excited at the thought of DJM getting better, getting to witness the star that is DeMar, and just overall committing to this new Spurs team, but that injury is just a kick in the balls. Sports can be a real punk ass bitch sometimes.

    The silver lining is seeing Derrick White get his shot (and possibly even alleviate the talk of this team being a shit 3-point shooting team this year), but I think we all know this could be bad on the defensive end this year. I'll watch, but I'm not giddy about this season starting like I was last week.

  3. 18 hours ago, Eastwood said:

    Lol at people scrambling for moral high ground between these two. Chain of events:

    Hype for this fight had been brewing for a while and members of Conor's camp talk some personal shit on Khabib. - wrong

    Khabib and crew corner and surround Conor's training partner Artem and Khabib slaps him in the face because he was talking shit about Khabib. He got a little personal with it, sure, but Khabib put his hands on him. - wrong

    Conor was supposedly coming to the fight that weekend, anyway, to work out a contract for the Khabib fight, but upon hearing of the slap, loads up he, his best mates, and his best kilo of blow onto a private jet and immediately shows up to the arena during a media event and throws a dolly through the window of the bus that Khabib is riding on, sending glass into one fighter's eye and cutting another fighter's face. Neither fighter had anything to do with it. - wrong

    Khabib fights an almost perfect fight against one of the most dangerous fighters in UFC history and gets baited into the crowd by one of Conor's coaches. Khabib goes over the top of the cage and jumps feet first into the dude. - wrong

    At this point, why keep track? There are no heroes here. We can go back and forth with the sticks and stones/talk shit get hit argument all day long. Be my guest. But the real shame is that all of this should have been handled in the cage. None of the above should happen. Let the fighters do the talking, keep the contact in the ring. Instead of two professional athletes putting themselves to the test in the most ancient of all competitions, we get a tweaker and an emotional child. Damn shame.

    And none of this is to mention all the lines Conor crossed during build up. All the lines he could cross with Mayweather before they shared champagne (and/or blow) on the private jet before they flew to the next press tour stop.

    I'd pay a PPV fee just to hear/understand/translate what Khabib was saying to Conor when he was beating the shit out of him on the ground. That was some possessed/determined shit.

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  4. 2 hours ago, Snacks said:

    Yes. Agreed. Overall neutral. But grades at + most games.

    He had several whiffs against ou. I thought this was one of his poorer games, but still positive overall.

    He's not nearly as bad as Tristan Nickelson, or Shack last year, or Rodriguez at tackle last year, so our floor is definitely higher as an o-line, and that's important.

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  5. 13 minutes ago, Landomatic said:

    Play calling sucked, but if we had just one fucking weapon at receiver, we are a completely different team.  That was the difference last night.  Houston had play maker(s) they could throw to who could go up and get the ball and we do not.  Not one fucking threat the opponent has to take seriously.  Even Dez with his drop off in productivity the last couple years (head case shit aside)...at least they had to respect his play making potential.  Houston played us man damn near every fucking snap and that was enough.  And that blueprint has been written, so it's just going to get worse.  Unless one of our receivers steps up (don't see it).  Should have snagged Josh Brown (also head case shit aside).  That was a free acquisition with almost no risk.  Garrett fucking sucks, but this shit's on the personnel department...aka Jerrah. 

    I haven't been in this thread much because fuck Jones and Garrett and our refusal to help our secondary and our refusal to surround Dak with weapons that sorely needs............... but I'm quoting this bc I've never in my years of watching the Cowboys seen a QB throw to so many covered receivers in my life. I had just finished hearing that all of Dak's interceptions this year were apparently off of the hands of his receivers, when he threw ANOTHER one to a Texan that was also batted (and may have hit the hands of his receiver). But even if it did, it hit hands because he's consistently thrown into coverage this year. I know the receivers are bad, and it's true that the reasoning is partially because they can't fucking separate, but his decision making is not helping them out. You can't throw to a covered receiver who is below league average as it is.

    And wtf is up with these lines? Houston's O line has looked like dog shit all damn year, getting Deshaun beat up out there, and now they look like the Cowboys from 3 years ago giving him time to throw darts all across the damn field. Fucking ridiculous. I think I'm mentally done for this year too. I'll watch most of the games probably (ok maybe), but I'm done giving a shit.

  6. Went to Micklethwait a few weeks ago on a rainy sunday (so no line). I was wondering if the rain would do anything to the wood/smoke or if it's generally not a good idea to go on a bad weather day, but that brisket/tex-czch sausage/pulled lamb plate was great. I've lived within a mile from it for about 3 years now and finally pulled the trigger to try it out. I'm a fan. Sausage was the least impressive (but still above average).

  7. 49 minutes ago, luke duke said:

    That fideo looks like spaghetti.

    I almost agreed with you but on second look the 2-toned fideo (brown & tan pieces) seems to be legit. Spaghetti only has tan.

  8. On 9/26/2018 at 7:44 PM, Machinator said:

     

    Yeah this doesn't hold up. First of all it's only drawing attention because it's funny. That taunting shit we did last year v. Missouri was way more embarrassing imo (which I still loved bc fuck 'em that's why). The big man (your 1-tech) makes a play and rubs his belly and it's funny and he deserves to, why would I as a Texas Ex get all high n mighty about it and start spouting off "we're Texas"?

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  9. On 10/1/2018 at 11:38 AM, Assman said:

    Obvious man here, but damn it's hard to swallow that Tony and Manu are really gone.  You keep expecting one of them to check in but it never happens.  It's like the dog that runs away from home and never comes back.

    I felt it watching the highlights from the game. I watched the starting five and the bench, and waited to see one of "our" guys, and I saw Patty and that was cool, but then I just kept looking at whatever five were on the floor and thinking "these aren't THE guys".... No Manu, no Tony, not even a Danny. Dejounte is a great young prospect but I still don't consider him a "SPUR spur" yet. Not until he earns those wings (hell even Patty has). This is really LaMarcus' team now and it feels weird.

  10. I'm just on episode 3 and I'm already frustrated, but it's still entertaining. All the mixed reviews here are just about right...

     

    What's her hillbilly face extorting that old man for his business was pretty silly, as was his reaction, like they really needed to build that up for a 3 minute-shot climax. The FBI agent is also annoying as hell, what a trope. Just copy/paste scenes with the FBI dude from 'The Shape of Water' and call it a day, we already know his character.

  11. 15 hours ago, achooloco said:

    Really dark, hard to watch parts of this season. Had to rewatch latter half of 4 before running through all of five today. Lots to think about but will rewatch last two episodes again. 

    The last two really hit hard. I didn't expect the second to last episode. A cartoon horse really had me feeling tense as shit watching him go through his choking thing on set, that's how I know it's great writing. I honestly didn't know whether I should be feeling bad for him at that moment but I did, bc he was f'ing everything up finally.

    I liked how they wrapped everything up this season. Not everybody got a nice little bow on their story (i.e. Mr PB), but everybody did get themselves into something or out of something to finish the season.

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  12. I've been re-watching over the past few months and finally got to the seasons where Michael moves away and Andy becomes manager. What a terrible decision. Andy was always wack as shit and they decided to make him a focal point. Right about the time they decided to make Kevin a joke. He was always a bit slower but was still cool, then they turned him into a drooling idiot around the time Andy took over. Seasons 1-6 are still great overall.

    Creed is a very underrated character, he says some outlandish shit. And on 2nd watch Erin (receptionist after Pam) is pretty damn funny too, everything she does as a character is humorous.

  13. 5 hours ago, 1978horn said:

    Played baseball on that field growing up.  A lot of those scenes were filmed in Allandale where I grew up.  The front yard that they cut through in the chase scene was lived in by a kid at my elementary schools house.  There is an old cemetery right behind it.  The were some scenes also shot Northwest rec center on Allandale/Koenig lane.

    I just finished a rec league basketball season at NW rec. You don't remember what scenes they filmed around there?

  14. This is fucking great dude, thanks. I feel like a genius when I saw our guys line up with 6 guys on the line and Patterson trotted out 5 in the box and I'm screaming "PLEASE run the ball, we have them outmanned" and we ran inside zone one out of two times I saw it, and it was for a decent gain. This blows that shit out of the water. If you're seeing this shit live I'm assuming you've done some serious studying on the issues.

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    Just getting around to watching the offensive highlights from the USC game, and I am impressed with this O-line. They dominated pretty much from snap 1 versus a 4-man pass rush, and handled most blitzes and stunts well. They seem sound. Most of the linemen seem to handle stunts/loops seamlessly, and the blitzes are picked up conventionally (linemen handle inside and let the RB handle whichever defender is coming off the outermost edge) with the RB like they've been doing it for years. Sam had plenty of clean pockets to throw from, and showed some ability to hold onto the ball just long enough, even against blitzes. He missed some throws but also threw some darts when they gave him time.

    The run blocking isn't as impressive, but isn't bad at all. They seem to combo block well and most of them get off of the combo and onto a linebacker quickly. There's still some lead feet (from Vahe especially) that leads to D-linemen shedding rather easily if they have strong arms, but otherwise solid. An underrated part of the run blocking so far has been Andrew Beck too, he is put in many different positions and angles and is hitting people in all of them. I can see what we missed last year when he got hurt, they really ask a lot of the TE from this offense and he has been fearless. Probably my favorite player to watch in this video.

    Tre Watson is better than I expected. Anderson is solid, and about as good as I expected, not as strong was Connor was but very fundamentally sound.

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