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Paul Wesley

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  1. I mean, they *could have.*
  2. I mean, SF is on the road with their QB out. And yet they can still get to the locker room down 7. The chance they were gonna march 80 yards in 90 seconds with Johnson right there was **very** small. There was a far greater chance of giving up a sack, and/or a couple incompletions and giving Philly a free possession from midfield. It seems to me that, in general, coaches have learned from analytics (e.g. you rarely see a punt anymore once a team crosses midfield). But I think end-of-half clock management still errs on the side of being way too aggressive. Often, the smart thing is to run it up the middle twice and go to the locker room. Hell, UT did that with Garrett Gilbert right before the half vs Bama (also with starting QB out with an arm injury). If I recall correctly, we could have gone to locker room down 7, and instead ran a cluster-fuck of a shovel pass deep inside our own end of the field, and gave up a pick-6. Just a boneheaded high-risk-low-reward decision.
  3. Username...
  4. Yeah, Tenn player clearly landed out of bounds while holding ball
  5. Pretty bush-league accidental/on-purpose elbow to the face by TCU there. He should get tossed.
  6. I know y'all already talked about this, but when the teams were picked for these matchups, some effort was made to try to for compelling games with a lot of side stories. Kentucky vs KU - battle of blue bloods. Texas-Tennessee has the Barnes angle. Most of the other games try to make some sense geographically. How is it that all these games just skipped right over the Aggies, who used to be IN the Big 12, and who could have gone 90 miles down the road vs Baylor, or against former rivals Texas or Texas Tech? Just completely ignored.
  7. I normally don't go too hard for the conference rah-rah shit, but Bama and Auburn are a combined 14-2 in SEC play, and neither one even showed up for the first half on the road against two teams that are a combined 4-12 in the Big 12. That said, the day is young.
  8. Uh, do you know where the weight room is?
  9. Tucker is puzzled by your assertion and trying to understand it.
  10. Someone could have written this on-the-nose analysis about Greg Brown, who played only a handful of minutes vs a very un-athletic Abeline Christian, and spent what little time he was on the floor standing at the 3-point line. Ugh.
  11. I'm also a bit troubled with CNN pundits telling us what the "moderates" in the Republican Party have agreed to. Let's look at the negotiators: McCarthy - in early 2021, after polling made it clear that a big majority of Republican voters still believed some version of the big lie, he went to Florida to kneel before Trump, then used his power in the House (as the minority party, it wasn't much) to absolutely torpedo any meaningful investigation into what was pretty clearly a Trump-led attack on democracy. Gaetz - still giving speeches in 2022 blaming "Antifa" for January 6. Could one of you explain to me who is the fucking moderate?
  12. Ooof. There was a "Simpsons" scene where the robbers are speeding away from the Kwik-E-Mart, and Apu is standing at the now-empty register. He calls out to an off-screen Homer: "You may emerge from behind the chip display now. The chance to be a hero is long past." It's more like that.
  13. Agreed, but their own 2013 autopsy said they couldn't win without moderating in a way that added more women, youth, and minorities. But then Trump proved they COULD win without any more moderates, as long as they added enough whites, olds, and uneducated... all of whom watched Fox all day and were prone to conspiratorial lunacy. So here we are. You can't pick a Speaker without giving real, actual national power to Lauren Fucking Boebert. I really want to enjoy this more, but I enjoyed it immensely when they picked an idiotic racist gameshow host as their presidential nominee, and it turned out the fucking joke was on me.
  14. I like how this was implied by your first response, but then you went ahead and made it clear.
  15. Really nice song. Thanks for sharing.
  16. "Hillary Clinton does it all the time" made me seriously laugh out loud.
  17. Oh, I do, for sure. Those falsetto lines in "Kiss" are impossibly hard notes to hit. Screaming in tune ("Baby I'm a Star") is hard to do. I'll bet Tom Petty would tell you that Prince was an order of magnitude better as a singer. Edit: "would have told you"
  18. I'm sure you're right. Hell, I was a subscriber to the print magazine off and on, even up until a few years ago. I used to get it at the studio just for the conversation-starter value. But it's been a loooooong time since Rolling Stone published a list without nudging each other and going, "This will piss them off!" I'm not playing along anymore.
  19. Yeah, I'm interested in such a list, but this is where I'm at with Rolling Stone. It seems they've done the math and they're accountants say that they make more money with stupid disingenuous bullshit. That seems like a bad long-term strategy.
  20. Haha i was going to post “booth initiated targeting “ as a joke but that’s actually what it is
  21. Either we didn’t know who Michigan is or Michigan doesn’t know who Michigan is.
  22. I mean, you’re not playing an air raid offensive juggernaut that’s gonna score 45 points… you take the 3 points and play defense
  23. Stupid stupid stupid
  24. Yeah, I agree with this. In the past decade, we've seen Reagan's "government IS the problem" thesis statement become the foundation of the GOP -- i.e. burn down the government. Trump famously appointed cabinet leaders who were hostile to the very mission they were assigned to do... Ben Carson was hostile to housing poor people, Rick Perry wanted to abolish the Department of Energy, billionaire pyramid-scheme heiress Betsy Devos wanted to make it much easier to divert funding from public schools, etc, etc. I mean, the animating get-out-the-vote causes for GOP voters in 2020 either didn't actually happen (a laptop that doesn't seem to have actually existed at all, a totally fucking fictional crisis about massive voter fraud, all kind of pizzagate and Jewish-space-laser Qanon shit), or had arguably zero impact on real-world problems (Hillary's emails from more than a decade prior). Before the 2022 midterms, conservative media went on a massive blitz covering an ominous crime wave that was exaggerated or misrepresented (i.e. the spike happened under the Trump administration). At the very least -- just like Bush's red/yellow/red/yellow/red/yellow terror-o-meter in 2004 and the migrant-caravan-coming-to-kill-us-all in 2016 -- right-wing coverage of this "crime wave" (if it was even a real thing) clearly disappeared the day of the election. The GOP bemoans lack of support among young people, while simultaneously their 2020 national platform was literally "we agree with anything Trump says." Really, they're doing remarkably well in elections despite their lack of solutions, because highly coordinated propaganda works great on angry old people (many of whom have spent the past two decades mistaking it for news). On younger adults, not quite as much.
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