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Paul Wesley

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  1. I don't think there's a credible argument for "that's not holding."  It is.  

    There *might* be an argument for consistency, i.e. don't suddenly flag something that hasn't been flagged all day... but I kind of doubt the DBs on both teams were getting to yank the receivers hard enough to pull them off-balance on every snap.    

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  2. 1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    no idea why they just didnt fucking rule him ejected for unsportsmanlike 

    Yeah, if they're really interested in player safety, then taking a free full-speed shot at a punt returner who is standing still and looking up into the sky - that ought to get you ejected along with 15 yards and a 1-game (or more) suspension.  

    Sometimes I feel kind of bad for a defender who gets ejected for "targeting" when they're running up to make a play on a QB who's either already getting tackled or is about to slide.  A lot of it comes down to guessing if the runner is going to slide head-first, feet-first, or not at all... and if the defender guesses wrong, they get ejected plus they have to sit out another half.  I've seen several "targeting" collisions that seem like bad luck as much as malicious intent.  

    Contrast that to sprinting 45 yards toward a defenseless guy standing straight up.   

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  3. On 10/19/2024 at 10:22 AM, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    I read the WSJ every day. Their news room is top notch in my opinion. 

    Really? 

    I had to subscribe because I was taking an economics class that required access.  The day my subscription started, the banner headline on their front page was "An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm," where they loudly proclaimed that a child victim who got pregnant via rape and had to leave the state for an elective abortion was fictitious and did not exist (Biden had publicly referenced the case)... except they soon found out that she **did** exist and they had to print a retraction (I'll let you guess if the retraction got the same banner-headline treatment).  

    That is decidedly not the behavior of a "top notch" news room.  

    I didn't read the WSJ prior to that, and I thought they just catered to stodgy investment banker types.  I was kind of shocked at how "Fox News" they were.  The victim-denying headline story was far from the only story that seemed to be purely political propaganda and had not a fucking thing to do with business/investment/finance/Wall Street.   I mentioned my surprise to a finance friend of mine who does investment analysis, and he laughed and said, "You know they're owned by Murdoch, right?"  No, I didn't know that.

    Anyway, the class ended and I unsubscribed the first possible day I could.  

     

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  4. The kickoff hold had a huge effect on the game.  It was the kickoff after Georgia went up 7-0, and we were in excellent field position to answer a score with a score.  Instead, we're snapping it 60+ yards back from our own 8 (? - this is from memory), and end up punting from our own end zone and Georgia got an easy FG to go up 10-0.

    I was at the game, so I don't know what replays showed on TV, but the replay on the Jumbotron left 100,000 Texas fans looking at each other and asking, "Holding on WHO?" 

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  5. 14 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    More tears... 

    INSTANT REACTION: No. 1 Texas ROCKS Oklahoma amid putrid OU offensive performance

    That guy is an incoherent beating.  I am dumber from having heard him talk.

  6. 11 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

     I’m pretty concerned Liberty wins out and gets the 12th seed. Their schedule is a joke and they just canceled a game against their toughest remaining opponent. I pray they slip up. A 12-0 Liberty, best win is East Carolina,, in the CFP is going to deeply piss BIG and SEC fans that get left out. 

     

    The counter-argument is that getting a G5 team in the playoffs builds interest in leagues that otherwise might not give a shit... plus it adds a Cinderella to the dance like in March madness.  
     

    *Unless Texas finishes 12 and gets left out, in which case let me go ahead and say, "The system is a fucking joke.  We would mudhole those clowns with all 22 starters on the bench.  Ridiculous!"

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  7. As others have said, it's rarely smart to take points off the board.  

    But the score and situation made it especially dumb.  You're looking sloppy and sluggish vs a scrappy underdog, and you FINALLY got a 2-score (11-point) lead for the first time all day...

    And that's not hindsight talking.  When our offense went back out there, everyone around me agreed, "This is stupid whether we get it or not."  

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  8. 1 minute ago, BrazilHorn said:

    They need to make the player “injured” miss a series. This shit is a joke. 

    100% this.  Should have been a rule 10 years ago when it was obvious that the rules were getting clowned.  

    If we care about player safety, then these kids who go down need to sit the rest of the quarter.  

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  9. 52 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

    This new music sucks. Same thing our dads said to us, and their dads said to them. 
    We’re getting older. 

    All true.  
     

    But my disdain for Bro Country has nothing to do with its newness.  There are a ton of even newer genres that I either embrace or am indifferent towards.  

    My disgust for it is based on the distinction between art and commerce.  And the fact that the teams of (mostly Nashville-based) musicians/producers/engineers making it actually *could* make great art if they chose to do so.  
     

    But they don't.  

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