
Thermos H. Christ
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On 11/12/2018 at 9:19 AM, Victorious1 said:
I went to the game in Lubbock this weekend.
First play and I'm asking myself why do we have three safeties back? and why are we playing prevent defense in the first quarter?
I mean I'm not saying I necessarily agree with it, but I'd say it's because Kliff/Tech's whole thing is playing offense like it's the last 2 minutes for the whole game. That's why we roll out looking like we're defending against a hail mary on the first play. Make them take the short yards over and over and bet that you will make a couple of plays and/or they will screw up a couple of downs in a row before they can march all the way down the field 6.5 yards at a time. I'd say that's the idea, anyway. Just trying not to give up the explosive play.
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This is definitely the most hype I've ever been for a game against Iowa State, and boy I'm glad we don't have to play it in Ames.
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I think it just depends on which side of the ball you believe in. If you're a ball control and type team and believe in your defense (which we obviously should not this year), you can make the other team take their first possession against a totally fresh defense primed to force a quick punt and start with good field position. And then you take your kickoff possession against an opposing defense that's already absorbed a first half worth of body blows in the run game. If you trust your offense more than your defense (which again, we certainly should this year), then maximizing your possessions and trying to strike early/often to make it so your opponent can't play conservative is a good idea. Or so it seems to me.
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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
You know, that MS-13 insurance is making more and more sense to me. Seriously. The Trumpkins have demonstrated themselves to be one thing: marks for a con. In the spirit of American enterprise and can-do spirit, I would feel remiss if I didn't jump on board the train, and con them as well.
It's the perfect insurance product. There's close to zero chance that the TARGET market will ever suffer a loss that will pay out (and our policy exclusions will disqualify anyone who has any criminal record of drug or organized gang activity, and will require representations that you are not presently engaged in any illegal enterprise involving drugs or gangs, and any voluntary involvement with either illegal drugs or gangs will disqualify you from coverage), so it will just be premiums in....and no money out.
And I guarandamntee you at least a million scared olds will send Brisketexan's MS-13 Insurance $19.95 a month for coverage, to provide a financial benefit for their loved ones left behind when MS-13 takes over your town and murders everyone -- and they ARE coming to take over your town and murder everyone. ACT NOW TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY.
Reminds me of:
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2 hours ago, sachick said:
So he's saying because we're making fun of him, the stock market will crash? Am I reading that correctly?
He's saying if the stock market drops it's because house Dems are [talking about] investigating the numerous past and present crimes/abuses of power committed by him and those close to him.
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The President is openly calling for suspending election law in favor of simply declaring his party the victors. Impeach. I don’t care if it doesn’t work, make every Republican senator say they support this. Make them all own it, all the time.
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15 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
I hate this man so much
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We probably go 3-1 or 2-2 down the stretch and make a halfway decent bowl game, likely against someone with a better record than us because bowls want to sell tickets and Texas is a big brand. It won't be some huge TEXAS IS BACK statement but especially if we win the bowl game it'll be a clear step in the right direction over last year and miles ahead of where we ever were in the Strong era. But for now I can still dream of going 12-2 culminating in a conference championship and a NY6 victory, so I'm gonna get that in while the getting is good. It's like when you buy a ticket for big lottery jackpot. You don't really think you'll win, but just knowing that you could is a good feeling.
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1 hour ago, Xcalibur said:
We also have a head coach who finally gives a shit—that is something else we haven’t had in about a decade.
I don't buy this. I think Strong and even late-era Mack both cared more about winning and losing football games than basically any fan. You don't get to be the head coach at Texas unless you care about winning to like, a clinically insane degree. They didn't come up with the answers in time to get the job done, but throughout I think they really, really cared about winning. Mack has/had the image as a folksy nice guy but often as not when you saw him on the sidelines he was purple-faced and yelling at people. I'm not sure anyone gets more worked up about anything than Muschamp does about football, but all the emotion in the world wasn't enough to allow him to put it together at Florida.
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12 hours ago, BabaYaga said:
Fuck this dogshit conference. Burn this motherfucker down. Let these little directional twat schools wander the fucking wilderness
These little directional twat schools have been kicking our ass for like a decade at this point.
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A kid dying of cancer is “sad, in a way” per the brilliant commentary team
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A dollar! How the fuck should we know?
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Just now, 903Cougar said:
This. Most of the time, I doubt they (Herpstreit, Cowherd, Skip, etc) actually believe what they spew out of their mouths.
I doubt they even come up with it most of the time. I suspect the producers have some hot takes prepped in advance and it's just somehow decided who among the on-air talent is going to be in charge of arguing which idiotic thing.
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23 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:
Serious question: Are any of those talking head morons actually not morons? Because I can't think of a single one that isn't.
As I think someone already pointed out, it is literally their job to say wild shit so as to allow for vigorous argument and make the viewer at home say oh my god somebody better tell this idiot he's an idiot! Sensible people saying sensible things and agreeing with each other isn't a show.
E: At least Finebaum kind of owns it, and makes the audience the spectacle. "I'm gonna poke these rubes with a stick for a while and then we'll all have a good laugh when they call in to holler about how mad they are."
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1 hour ago, ztejas said:
I don't. Bored at work and visited TexAgs. You can figure out the math on the rest.
So when I said you have only yourself to blame for exposing yourself to stupid shit, your defense was that you were reading TexAgs?
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If you watch things featuring sports talking heads other than actual sports games, that shit is entirely on you
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Oh my god who could possibly care? The point of all those shows is they sit around debating their takes strictly designed to get idiots riled up. That’s his job now and he’s doing it, and anyone who tunes in for that shit is far more to blame than him for the existence of Hot Sport Takes Punditry.
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It took me a few listens to fully appreciate it but the new Swearin' album is fantastic. Three years ago the band broke up following the end of the romantic relationship between the two singers/guitarists/songwriters, Alison Crutchfield and Kyle Gilbride. The reunited version of Swearin' makes more space for Gilbride. His voice and his style feature prominently on the album, and you can feel that both people are bringing in material that grew out of the time spent apart. The switching back and forth between them creates this tension and variety between the songs that makes the album more as a whole than the sum of its parts. The two singles are probably as good a place to start as any (other than starting at the beginning and listening through). Each video has an intro where they explain it works better with 3D glasses, you can skip that part.
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1 hour ago, Zavala said:
I hope Shane, Cam, and Casey got a fuck ton of 1v1 reps.
I hope LJH and/or Heard got a couple. Either of those dudes can run or pass in a tricky play situation.
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
For clarification, receiving a "buyout" does not indicate whether someone was fired, retired, etc. A coach has a contract of a term of years. That contract has very narrow terms (dead girl, live boy stuff), where the coach can be terminated with no further obligation from either party. If the coach leaves early voluntarily, as by retirement, he forfeits the balance of the pay under the term of his contract and may even expose himself to damages for having to find a replacement prematurely. If the University sends him on his way before the end of the contract, they will owe him some sum of money due under the balance of the contract.
A buyout is the result of negotiation of these terms and sums of money. It does not reflect whether the coach was terminated or left voluntarily.
Mack was fired. No other way he was leaving upright. He may have been permitted to call it retirement, and DeLo$$ had extended his contract to 20 fucking 20, so he was owed a tidy sum.
I think the contract extension actually reduced his buyout even as it increased his theoretical term under the contract. I think it was mostly for appearances, to convince potential recruits that the coaching situation was stable.
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I see no reason that Navy should ever wear anything but these or a "dress blues" equivalent with the same helmet and pants for home games.
e: like this but as a football uniform:
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Well, I wasn't thrilled about the hire, but I've gotta admit our offense is pretty solid and seemingly improving over the course of the season, and our QB has progressed a ton during his time on campus, so it's hard to say the OC/QB coach isn't doing a satisfactory job.
It's no surprise that we're running the Urban/Herman offense, but man I think it's a great fit here and it feels so good to have an identity again. The versatility is killer. We can spread it and go fast and have a vertical passing game when we need to, but also be physical and establish the run to slow down the game against all these funslingin' offenses in the Big 12.