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Hermanator

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  1. I disagree. Just on ability and mobility alone he should be able to consistently do more of what Sark wants by next season. I think it'll be a slower start, really wish we didn't schedule that stupid OSU game, but I think by November Arch will be way ahead of where Quinn is. If Taafe and Trey Moore come back, we have some guys step up in the secondary, and of course round out successfully in the portal, this defense should be borderline elite again next season. They were absolutely elite this season. Having a QB that not only knows the offense, but has the ability to get the ball where it needs to be consistently, will take this team over the top. That, along with weak interior run blocking, was what kept this offense from being great. Fix those 2 issues and this thing can go to another level. I've been critical of Ewers because I felt strongly that his weaknesses and flaws were not only unacceptable for a former 5 star 4th year QB with this quality of weapons around him, but would ultimately get us beaten by championship level teams. It happened twice against Georgia and in this semi final. The defense did their job. Ewers and the offense couldn't do theirs. Oh well, it's been a successful rebuild to this point and the team should improve in necessary areas. This was just the start, and now it's time to level up. Let's look forward to better offense and close the book on the Ewers era. He was good enough to drive the bus of a very talented team to 2 playoff appearances, but not good enough to beat the top teams when it mattered. This is the last time I'll mention him in a post. Let's move on.
  2. Actually should have run Ewers. Get in gun, run the zone read look, yet call a Ewers keeper. EVERY defense expects the handoff on that look because it always happens. The ends crash hard on the snap. That was the time to break the tendency and get the game tied late. I thought Sark called a great game, but he messed up the end of that drive. I also still don't understand why he didn't establish more of a goal line OL package during the season where Nero comes in at LG, Hutson at C, and we just run power with the jumbo extra lineman package. That's the best run blocking OL we have, and if that has been tried and established all season it could have been used more.
  3. I think that's more on Ewers. Every other QB Sark coached improved. Even Mac Jones sat for a few years then came in and just made all the throws to take advantage of the talent. Ewers could never get to that level. He's just extremely inconsistent. He was a good transitional QB for Sark to build the team around, especially since he arrived with ridiculous over hype that he couldn't ever come close to living up to being. That said, I'm very happy I've seen his last game as Texas QB. He and the offense just wasted a championship level defense. This defense should have won the title this year if the QB and offense didn't sabotage the whole thing. They held OSU to 21 points even with the offense doing nothing for most of the game. That was a damn good accomplishment given what that offense had been doing recently, and it should have been enough to win the game. There better be a much less predictable and more explosive offense with Manning at QB. He can make every throw consistently, is big as an ox, and can run when necessary. With the defensive talent on campus and coming in this should be an elite defense again soon. Hopefully Manning and Sark can get it right offensively and get us a title in the next 2 seasons.
  4. ND already hung with Georgia's speed which Texas has problems with, and Penn St already hung with OSU's speed this year in a 7 or game at the beginning of November. That's just a ridiculous and wrong thing to think
  5. I think he's destined to replace Day at OSU one day
  6. And somewhere on early Russian Internet chat sites was some goober named "дважды рог" talking about how Putin couldn't serve multiple terms because it isn't allowed.
  7. I have a very strong feeling the current Texas HC feels the same way
  8. Hermanator

    Bert!

    How bad must Stone suck at kicking field goals? Also, has Bert not been nailing them in practice? He's been clanking them this whole time and nobody thought to try out the other guy? This just doesn't make much sense.
  9. That has to be a joke post
  10. So even Fox sports programming is full of immoral, low rent, corrupt scumbags? Not just their propaganda network? Jesus F'n christ
  11. I've said what I know about it. The cost in lives was more about what was to come if hostilities kept escalating over it. Was it overblown by military brass or Carter? Could be so. I have no idea what extent the tensions would have escalated, how the Soviet Union may or may not have been able to take advantage of the situation, or many of the other factors at play in the mid 1970s. What I do know is jumping into that hornet's nest today for no good reason would be the epitome of trump stupidity and an additional giant waste of resources. I have a nephew who is about to complete year 1 in the army, and although I spoke my objections based on this very scenario of a warmongering trump getting back in office, his veteran step dad convinced him otherwise. I really hope he makes it 4 years, but having to deal with him getting killed invading Panama would make family events quite weird. And I'd keep the "I told you idiots so" to myself although we'd all know it.
  12. The Panamanians came to really resent the US control over the canal by the mid 20th century. There were several instances of skirmishes costing some soldiers their lives, the biggest and most well known being the 1964 Panama uprising that killed 4 US soldiers. By the 1970s it had become much more like a hostile occupation, and it wasn't worth the cost in finances and human lives to continue to fight over it with the Panamanians. It was also on the verge of being a major diplomatic black eye on the US back when our political leaders cared about being perceived as hostile bullies. Military officials advised Carter it could take up to 100,000 US troops to adequately occupy the canal and defend against a full blown uprising. Imagine what to would take now to invade Panama and hold control against what will surely be a full scale uprising against enemy invaders. All for what? Because trump doesn't like shipping costs?
  13. The reason Carter turned the Panama canal over to Panama was because it was costing the US, not only a ton of money, but also a lot of lives to maintain control and operate it. It wasn't worth the hassle anymore. That was a US that's far more financially solvent than today. So of course, let's spend another trillion and more dead American soldiers occupying Panama. Not to mention, this immediately sets the world stage for every power to fight over any lands close to them they wish to invade. Taiwan being the most obvious. Just incredibly stupid and potentially nuclear holocaust level dangerous.
  14. Yet played in a dome because they're too scared of cold, rain, and snow for their precious TV ratings
  15. The state has become one for many reasons, but this isn't one of them. Would be incredibly stupid to allocate tens of millions to DFW for equipment and staff to clear roads when this happens once every couple of years. At most one or two days a year on a heavy year. Way too infrequent to justify spending on it.
  16. I still remember that 2010 one. Had pictures from outside my 2nd floor apartment window that showed every inch of ground, trees, etc covered with snow. Remember trying to drive right down the street, about 1/4 mile, to pick up a pizza and was going 5 to 10 mph because I couldn't see what was road and what wasn't. If it gets like that Thursday things will still be crazy on Friday all day.
  17. Take a couple days off work and drive in Wednesday. Drive back Saturday. Snow/Ice isn't supposed to get here until Thursday, and Saturday looks to be sunny with a high in the 40s
  18. The defense will show up. Question is will the QB and offense show up so the defense doesn't have to put in a super human performance against 100 fucking snaps again.
  19. I don't think he'd leave after this season even with a title because I don't think he'd do that to the Mannings. If you want to coach in the NFL probably best to not screw over one of the most influential and high profile families in the sport. Honestly, in the NFL he's just another coach. His greatest asset in college isn't his play calling. It's his program building abilities. He wouldn't have that in the NFL. You're at the mercy of how good your GM is, and how quickly you can get a game changing, play making, franchise level QB. Your culture in the NFL is as good as your QB is. Bad QB? Going to be bad culture no matter what you do. Coaching for Jerry Jones? Going to be bad culture no matter what, doesn't matter how good your QB happens to be.
  20. Of course he'd take it. The complete morons would be any team offering a QB that limited that much stupid money. It would have to be someone who did zero investigating into why a guy who was the Heisman front runner after week 2 was nowhere near being invited to NY. Ewers should get as much college money as he can because he's likely to not be a first or second round pick, and his game's got NFL bust written all over it.
  21. So just like women from Ohio
  22. Watch the Mack interview with Bobby on OTF. He and Sally are moving back to Austin and he's going to be a part of whatever Sark wants him to be a part of with this program going forward. Or so he says. Said at this point in his life he's the same age DKR was in 1998 when Mack arrived and he wants to give back like DKR did to him. Mack's a politician though, so we shall see.
  23. Americans are really in the running for dumbest collection of people on earth. Of course not all of them, present company excluded (except that Ag asshole), but a very large proportion of this country are complete idiots who don't have the first clue how the society they live in every day actually works.
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