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TwiceHorn

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  1. Sorry, but, this strikes at the heart of something I am most passionate about, and that's giving addicts a break and a second chance. Some other folks that have made galactic mistakes, also. This is my greatest piece of 12th step work to date and I am proud of it. Not a single solitary minute of this was billed to her, by me or the colleagues that helped me with it. It was a labor of love (not for her). I get kind of lathered up about it. Thank God the republican Supreme Court was a lot saner then and thank God for Deborah Hankinson who assembled a majority that didn't include cunts Priscilla Owen, Greg Abbott, or Nathan Hecht. Did include Cornyn, though, so he has a small lifetime break from me.
  2. Well you'd be wrong, because she's never had any more trouble with the law or the bar and she's been practicing 20 years since. She's a good person and a good lawyer. And she wasn't entirely freed of discipline, it just wasn't "compulsory discipline" with no further questions asked. She went before a grievance committee that found she hadn't been practicing law actively (working as a paralegal) since before the arrest and conviction and hadn't done any of the shit that drug addicts are liable to do and had about five years of solid recovery and sobriety by the time they got to it. Black and white justice is no justice at all. You know I generally like and respect you, but you've been quite a dick lately. Everything ok in your life?
  3. Yeah people are always trying to say the back up has some "spark" or "fire" or je ne sais quoi that the starter doesn't have. And they may look like they do, until they don't. That said, Ewers is clearly not a VY or Ehlinger type leader. His leadership may be effective, maybe not. Someone else may be more fiery, but it doesn't mean they're a better QB or will win more games.
  4. This OL group has seemed to be feast or famine the whole time they've been here. They have gotten better but remain subject to huge lapses. Still, we seem to be able to win games behind them. The puzzling thing to me is the defense. Seems like opponents have figured out how to neutralize the front seven, which then exposes the secondary, which was always a weakness. I'm no football expert, but seems kind of hard to neutralize a front seven like ours, at least the front four, but they are. Ethan Burke, who was so key at Alabama, seems to have become a non-factor. Ant Hill, more or less, also. And Jaylan Ford seems to have fallen off a cliff into obscurity and misplays. Fucking bizarre.
  5. It mostly does, with a small bit of wiggle room depending on the offense. I was able to keep a good lawyer's license who had a deferred adjudication for a drug felony that she accepted because her dumbass criminal lawyer didn't think deferred would get her disbarred/suspended. She had a drug problem, she knew it, she voluntarily shut down her practice because of it before any of this happened. The drugs were her boyfriend's and she didn't want to have to testify against him, but he was pretty much a junkie piece of shit. She got sober, got her shit together and has a thriving family law and probate practice now. It was a good result. So, yeah, take your black and white and cram it up your ass.
  6. As good as our RB are, and were last year, the OL just seems to flop for whole series at a time. Other times, we seem to impose our will. Kind of bizarre. The "run the damn ball" crowd is foolish. One of the interesting things is Sark has continued to go to Baxter, even when he apparently wasn't quite right. He saw something there. For a while, I thought maybe he just needed to give up on that and feed Brooks. Today, I think it paid off. Baxter looked damn good and a nice change of pace from Brooks.
  7. That wasn't the point. Sam Ehlinger bailed Herman out on multiple occasions. This game was an oddity in some ways compared to the rest of the season. Started fast and strong, that's a new one. And it wasn't one of those game calling flukes like several games in 2021. Smooth, easy execution in the air and on the ground. Sark really did go for the jugular on the fake field goal. Now, whether the team was really up for that is a different question. The failure there seemed to show that they weren't. The defense thing is really troubling.
  8. And Herman without Ehlinger, and maybe with. Don't even get started on Strong.
  9. Ok D, since you're gonna go ahead and suck, just let em score. Fuck.
  10. Except when we can't, which is alarmingly frequently.
  11. Secondary is just pathetic. Not a championship unit.
  12. Really fucking hard, like always. And behind the receiver. Makes Simms look like he had a velvet touch.
  13. It's fundamentally the OL. Can't push for the run, can't protect the pass when short field eases coverage.
  14. Maybe because we don't run it every time and mix it up with what appears to be stupid shit.
  15. So, two real problems are becoming apparent: The OL is not as powerful as we thought it was going to be, or maybe should be. They just get bitched entirely too often and are the reason for our red-zone ills. The secondary just is mediocre, at best, particularly with Watts out or hobbled. Two and a half: DL/front seven is still a bit of a work-in-progress. Three: Ewers just ain't living up to billing. He's good enough, but not great.
  16. Again, this team is psychologically frail. Sark went for the jugular with the fake FG and when that failed, not particularly through poor execution, everything went to shit. They got a lot of front-runner in em. Not completely, but a lot.
  17. He's serviceable-plus, but by now he needs to be living up to his rep and he isn't.
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