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AnotherLawyer

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  1. Until 1997, Texas generally didn't out the player for fumbling, even if the fumble was lost. For example, in '95 we fumbled 22 times and lost 11 but no one is listed as having fumbled. In '97, we started keeping track of the play-by-play and fumble culprits. Ricky fumbled 10x in '97: 1x each against Rutgers, UCLA, Rice, CU, and Tceh; 2x against okie lite; and 3x against the dirt burglars. He put the ball on the ground roughly once every 28 carries. In '98, Ricky fumbled 11x: 1x each against UCLA, KSU, Rice, Iowa State, zeroU, and Nebraska; 2x against Baylor; and 3x against aggy. That's roughly once every 33 carries. That's not fumbles lost, just fumbles. I remember Ricky fumbling a lot, but in hindsight it's not that much given that he had the ball so frequently. I didn't look it up for Gibson, but he seems to fumble every 5-6 carries.
  2. Jesse Palmer sounds like he sucks.
  3. Same. He’s hurt.
  4. It’s about people who ate shit on this thread while you watched, man, now feeling a little vindication. Unless you were, you know, posting in the wrong thread. Then I don’t know.
  5. I agree. Points are points when you have 45 minutes left to play. At worst it could have been 14-6.
  6. Sark didn’t underthrow those half dozen passes, but he sure sucks at goal line offense. Arch has looked much better in hurry up O. He just needs to settle in and play. He’ll be fine.
  7. Hey...I thought of another phrase that originally meant something different but evolved to mean something different due to usage. "Blood is thicker than water" originally meant that those who shed blood together, like in a war, have a bond greater than those who merely shared a bond of being born from the same mother (the "water" of the womb). But dumbasses, probably those who never experienced bloodshed, misconstrued "blood" to mean blood running through their veins, i.e. their genetics. So that's what it means today.
  8. Jesus fuck has it been ten years?
  9. Hey, now. We were the smarties of the last mouth breather conference, as well.
  10. No. Just saying. My kids laugh at me for calling everything 'tennis shoes.'
  11. Tell me you're an old fart without telling me you're an old fart 🤣
  12. Yeah, but the air is hotter and somehow boring.
  13. Yeah, I'm sure. When a phrase is widely used to mean something different, that becomes the meaning. Language evolves. "The customer is always right" is an example of language evolving. It was originally a marketing phrase meaning the market determines the viability of a marketing strategy. Now the meaning has to do with customer service, not marketing strategy. The original Latin phrase that was mistranslated to "begging the question" meant "to assume the original premise"--basically that the conclusion is not based on reason. It's simply a conclusion or, like you said, a logical fallacy. An example would be "broccoli is good for you because it contains sulphurophane." This assumes sulphurophane is good. It lacks reason. It's a logical fallacy, even if true. It's been so often misused that it's evolved to mean "raises the question." But why trust me? I'm just that lawyer guy.
  14. Yeah, well, they're like wrong, man. The phrase is a mistranslation from Latin and our predecessors kept it because they were stubborn and couldn't admit they were wrong. In modern vernacular, "begs the question" can also mean "prompts the question." People who argue otherwise are just willfully ignorant of the fact that language evolves and some long-dead dude who probably got a D- in Latin translated the original phrase incorrectly. I had Con Law with Professor Bobbitt in the early 2000s and he dressed me down in class for using it "incorrectly." Derailed the entire lecture for about half an hour. If you didn't do the reading for class that day, you're welcome. Jesus, he was such an arrogant prick. Good for Quinn making the active roster, by the way. He may not have met expectations here, and may end up being a career back-up or out of the league early, but he definitely improved over the preseason after that rocky start. Good on him, and good reflection on the Longhorns.
  15. Fuck I'm distracted as fuck today. Sorry for three replies. Here's the reason for the difference: FTN's stat is Air Yds/Attempt: Total receiving yards intended, including both complete and incomplete pass targets. What I was quoting were Air Yds/Completion. It doesn't make a shit of a difference, I guess, since the conclusion is the same.
  16. Here's a site with the same stats I had: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2024/passing_advanced.htm
  17. I can’t get those numbers to come up for me on that site, but, sure, let’s go with that. I don’t think it changes the overall conclusion that the vast majority of passes completed are in the air for under 10 yards from LOS.
  18. That stat isn't currently tracked. Or maybe PFF+ tracks it, but I don't pay for PFF+. Tua had an average Air Yds/Comp of 4.1, so it's fair to say the vast majority were completions under 20 yards. Tua was the lowest in the league. For comparison, Anthony Richardson had the highest Air Yds/Comp at 8.2. League average was 5.6 Air Yds/Comp. That doesn't necessarily reflect the offensive passing scheme, but could also reflect check-down tendencies of league QBs. Since league average is 5.6, it's safe to say most teams are throwing completions under 10 yards. By the way, Tua threw it away only 6 times last year. Normally I'd say that's a check-down tendency, but Miami's offense is geared around quick completions in space. Their receivers run a lot of slants, hitches, and outside crossing routes, and they send both RB out into the flats a lot. That rail route that scored two TDs Ewers-to-Blue against tOSU? They run a variation of that route out of the majority of their split-back packages. It's a modified out-route or rail route depending on what the outside WR/TE does.
  19. Pressure washer will tear apart natural/knobby cedar or similar.
  20. Like knobby cedar or dimensional lumber? If dimensional lumber, pressure wash, wire brush, 60-grit sandpaper on an orbital sander. If knobby cedar or similar, wire brush. Man, what a shame about VY, but the writing was on the wall when he threw his shoulder pads into the stands. If not earlier.
  21. Honestly...I want one. Not sure what I would do with it. Probably stupid stuff.
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