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  1. 1 minute ago, smwhorn said:

    Bumping this thread.

    Mrs. Smwhorn and I binged it over the past few days.  It was our first time through.  Really fucking good but there's just some shit I didn't understand or am not smart enough to have caught the first time through.  Unfortunately, it took me 10 years to watch it the first time.  I am going to look for one thing though without binging.  Trying not to "spoil" anything and being as bland and generic as possible, I want to know why they didn't notice the "bad guy" the first time they came across him.

    Detective's curse.  Focusing on the wrong thing.  There are environmental things that obscure and distract, and before they can spend much time with him, they're called away with news on a lead they had been "hoping" would pan out.

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  2. One of the hallmarks of fast food is reliability.  Yeah we know if you go to a completely different area you might pay more due to taxes or supply differences, but anyone who has been in line behind a senior citizen screaming that their 55 cent coffee is now 58 cents knows how this is going to play out.  For better or worse, some of their customers plan out their budgets including these things.

    This really only works if you're ordering via delivery service where you can see the price instead of committing to actually drive to the store. We've already accepted that menu prices are different via those services, so this wouldn't be a huge change.  The amount of ire this is going to create is insane.

  3. On 1/23/2024 at 10:39 AM, Celery Man said:

    also, obviously there are Fargo and coen references throughout the series, but I feel like it was heavy in this one, which was cool. I enjoyed the juxtaposition of the kidnapping sequence but with a Tiger instead of a lump of hot dish.

    I read this season as a sort of re-telling of the movie, except you replace idiotic guys with capable and determined women.  This is how the story changes.  It's not 1-1, of course, but it was a really great season.

  4. 1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    I generally agree that OU should go to Arnold in 2024, but your schedule and current O-Line situation could make this a very tough year for him. Definitely throwing him into the fire. 
     

    I guess y’all also blew Arnold’s redshirt, right? In an ideal world Jackson should have redshirted and Gabriel playing one more year. But I understand the move if JA threw out an ultimatum 

    Yep, bad roster management to burn a redshirt year with next to no meaningful development in live play.  Arnold barely threw the ball outside of the BYU game.  Couple that with a rebuild along the line and who knows what you get next year.  

  5. 3 minutes ago, NoName said:

    but today i don't think Arnold give you the best chance to win a national championship.

    I think that should tell you about the staff's realistic opinion of their season next year.  I'm glad they're not trying to blow smoke about how "we're in a position to win the playoffs every year" when that's not where the team is yet.  

  6. 6 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    Who is Arnold's backup next year?  Good chance he'll be needed with a lot of unknown for the OL next year.

    Hawkins, Zurbrugg, Booty, with Hawkins being the likely second guy up.

     

    Just now, Jimmy Two Times said:

    Almost 15k yards and 125 TDs isn't quantifiable? I understand that Arnold is the more physically talented player but I'm hearing this from all the OU fans in my life. Gabriel is a high-end college quarterback who has years of strong production. I do agree that Venables made the right call, but I think it's far from a guarantee that he comes in better than Gabriel next year and certainly don't think he's superior in every way. 

    Agreed.  I think Gabriel is absolutely the higher-floor choice and if they thought the pieces were there for a playoff appearance (Veteran OL, high-prod receivers, hyper disruptive DEs), then you maybe entertain Gabriel for his last year at the expense of Arnold.  Given how things are in actuality, you have to trade one good year of Gabriel for potentially 2-3 high-ceiling years of Arnold developing alongside some of the young talent that's there.

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Constant said:

    Exactly how it should have played out. I actually believe Gabriel was told much sooner that ‘24 is Arnolds team, but semantics. 
     

    The quarterback position is its own beast, but you have to play the better player. Arnold is better than Gabriel in every quantifiable way. He still has to put it together and be what he’s supposed to be, but i’m glad he isn’t going to be sitting behind a lower ceiling guy. 
     

    The portal is cutthroat and I have no issues with coaches being cutthroats. 

    The hope was that Gabriel would be an undeniable NFL selection, and so would slide gracefully on to greener pastures.

  8. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    Something is broken in Norman, to have wanted guys portaling out. I don’t know if there isn’t enough money, can’t stand the coaches or some combination. 

    It's very possible, but so far it's just one guy who appeared to be in a great position and decided to leave.  By all accounts, it was the family pulling strings.  If we see more this year, or a continuation into next year, I'll absolutely call it a systemic issue.

    The larger issue might be that Bedenbaugh has struggled to recruit top-end talent to insulate against this sort of risk.  They need to get him a ride-along coach for his visits or something.

  9. 10 minutes ago, Constant said:

    This staff needs more heavy hitters in the recruiting department. 

    Agreed.  Love Bedenbaugh as a coach and developer, but something has to change with the ability to land and retain top-level OL.  If he can have a partner on staff that can act as support for him, that's the best of both worlds.  I had hopes that Murray might be that guy since RB recruiting is historically a smaller pool and can be locked up early.

  10. 37 minutes ago, NoName said:

    surely one of those dudes is going to change positions.

    Miachael Hawkins has been committed for a while IIRC

    Brendan Zurbrugg was committed to Northwestern and Syracuse before OU.

    Andy Bass goes to Heritage Hall (private school IIRC) and his most recent offers around OU were Kansas State, Yale, Harvard, UNLV, Penn (not Penn St), New Mexico State and Air Force.

    actually an article about Bass says he is a PWO (as was his KSU offer): https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2023/08/24/ou-football-andy-bass-heritage-hall-commits-oklahoma-sooners-2024-recruiting-class/70666124007/

     

    Bass is more of an Athlete pick, if I'm understanding his recruitment.  I think it was a panic response to the Texas game from last year when it became glaringly obvious there were zero QBs on the roster that could do the job at even a replacement level.

    The Ezukanma thing reads like a guy who was on the bubble and could possibly follow Lebby to secure a spot.  No actual knowledge, though.

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  11. 6 hours ago, The Ace of Aces said:

    Frankfurt is the worst large international hub. Fuck that place. 

    Having to exit, go through the draconian security that takes forever, waste two hours, and then return to my gate that was two down from my arrival gate?  Yeah, that's Frankfurt to me.

    Plus, I always enjoy explaining in GermEnglish why a Kindle isn't a laptop, but isn't a phone.

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