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Murfdogg21

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  1. I was a student during Applewhite-Simms. My perspective was the fan base was split maybe 60-40 in Applewhite’s favor, but as someone said the Applewhite crowd was much louder. Simms had all the physical tools to be a legendary college QB, but he was often robotic in decision making. We had Benson, Scaife, Roy, and two other borderline NFL WRs, but ran stupid ass offensive concepts while being conservative and predictable. Good defensive opposing coaches feasted on these weaknesses. Applewhite was “coach on the field” with very limited physical skills (noodle arm, one or both bum knees, several inches shorter). He had no problem audibling out of Greg Davis’s stupid ass plays and often put us into wide open pass routes. The combination of his association with Ricky’s Heisman year, “heady” player, and underdog physical traits endeared him to many, especially among the current and former “fratboy” contingent of the fan base. Those teams had an 8-9 win floor with either QB. Many felt if the offensive coaches did a better job in scheme and play calling, the ceiling was higher with Simms. Applewhite had some horrible losses (‘99 KSU, ‘99 Big12 CCG, ‘00 Stanford, ‘00 OU 63-14), but Simms’s big (really, the only losses) were on bigger stage (‘01 CU rematch Big12CCG, ‘01 OU 14-3, ‘02 OU 35-24). Simms teams beat the shit out of aggy thrice, great win @Nebraska ‘02, ‘02 Cotton Bowl vs Saban LSU). The loud Applewhite fans glossed over his failures and limitations and still today blame Simms for not winning the national championship in ‘01 (like we would’ve been within 21 points of Miami…). Simms was loved by his teammates while most thought Applewhite was a dick. Fans shit all over Simms and vandalized his car, and Applewhite fans get mad that Simms doesn’t have the greatest things to say about UT. Applewhite cheated on his pregnant wife with an athletic trainer. Simms could’ve been better with better coaching, but his stats and W/L record didn’t leave much room for improvement. Applewhite probably would’ve won that Big12CCG, but got mauled by Miami. In the end, Greg Davis sucked and it didn’t matter who took the snaps.
  2. We already doxxed ThatGuy as Quinn’s mom. No need to argue with him. He’ll keep cherry picking stats that make Quinn appear to be a close second to VY, and he’ll be on here next season every time Arch throws an INT throwing him under the bus.
  3. Let it be elsewhere. CJ’s regression (albeit partially due to OL) in holding the ball too long and throwing more INTs is not a selling point for a promotion to OC. No, because we’re trying to win big during CJ’s rookie contract and Jerrod’s experience post-being a crappy aggy qb as a quality control coach for Indy and Minnesota and whatever his involvement with the ‘24 Texans offense probably don’t justify being the OC in ‘25. He sounds like a likable guy. That should not warrant a promotion, but stupid shit like that happens all the time in coaching (see: Steve Belichick).
  4. Am I the only one who remembers how dumb Jerrod Johnson was an 18 year old (relative to other 18 year old college recruits)? Aggy touted him as their version of VY, but his passing was mediocre (put up some stats in 2009 when they were losing big in games) and lost the QB job his senior year to Ryan Tannehill. I think he was 13-12 as their starting QB. I believe he never made any NFL team's active roster, and spent a total of like 2 weeks on the Bears practice squad one year. Maybe he turned into some offensive coaching and strategy savant after his time with in quality control with the Colts and Vikings, but promoting him to OC would get me about as excited as when they drafted Tytus Howard in the first round. Maybe they are trying to shore up fan support from the Humble area.
  5. Klint Kubiak seems like fan service to Texans fans nostalgic of the Gary Kubiak era (like so many Longhorn fans only view Mack Brown through rose colored glasses today). If you're going to fire your OC after 2 seasons (and the first being great), don't pull the trigger on mediocrity. I have no patience for slow developing zone runs that set up 6 yard passes to TE's. I'd rather them hire Kevin Sumlin and pay him in vodka. Anyone else out there available from the Kingsbury/Leach branches of the spread offense coaching tree?
  6. I looked up the 2025 cap numbers and the reworked Diggs contract. I thought it was questionable at the time trading a 2nd round pick for Diggs (a potential malcontent), then even stupider that they cut years off Diggs's contract that Buffalo was pro-rating (since they had to eat the signing bonus portion of the contract). Then Caserio did the opposite with Mixon (extended him when he was in a prove-it contract year as an aging RB). If they hadn't changed the Diggs contract, it would have been: 2024 - $18.5M; 2025 - $18.0M (only $3.5M was guaranteed, if Houston wanted to cut him this offseason) They restructured it so Diggs was paid $22.5M in 2024, $20.8M of which was a signing bonus on fictitious 5 year voidable contract. That saved Houston around $11M in 2024 (to help sign Hunter, Al-Shaair, and Autry, perhaps) but puts $16.6M in dead money from Diggs on the 2025 cap. The capology websites project he has a free agent value around $13.4M/yr on a 1-3 yr deal. If he actually accepted a 1 year, $13M deal, I guess the Texans would get net savings by last year's restructuring. I'm not holding my breath that Diggs would accept a deal at that price, plus Houston only has $10.7M in cap space. Cutting Kenyon Green saves zero, and cutting Fairbairn costs you money against the cap. Cutting Tytus Howard and/or Shaq Mason as post-June 1 could free up some money, but of course you have to sign players better than them as replacements.
  7. I think WR is the biggest need if they don’t resign Diggs (or sign Tee Higgins (barf at the cap hit)). I don’t count on Tank coming back next season and probably never with the speed and elusiveness that made him a weapon. The team is getting talented enough they can almost start taking best available talent with whoever falls to them and look like geniuses when the player is a difference maker. DT, OL, CB, RB could benefit from plugging in a stud that drops into the second half of the first round. First round TEs are usually disappointments, and are they planning to cut Schultz ($14m in 2025, but would be a $16m dead cap hit if they cut him)? He and Stover seem fine. CJ would benefit from better blocking or another playmaking weapon. Egbuka or Golden to pair across from Nico? What if Ashton Jeanty slips?
  8. I spent about 90 seconds with Google and don’t understand the extent of legal protection provided by these “preemptive pardons.” Is Fauci protected from nonsense technicalities that could get him convicted via perjury, or is it a true blank check like if it turned out he killed 5 hookers at Johns Hopkins? Only for things that occurred prior to the pardon, or during Biden’s presidency, or anything he does today forward?
  9. The NFL can read the room on fans’ ever changing attitudes towards protecting QB$/reducing CTE vs letting them play the game. I’m more pissed about the fake slides or fake going out of bounds to either draw penalties or cause the defender to stop and then the ball carrier (e.g. Mahomes) takes off for additional yardage. I think refs would be within the rules to throw an unsportsmanlike conduct flag for simulating giving themselves up when players pull that shit.
  10. Cutting Fairbairn is a $7.7m dead cap hit, since I’m sure some of you were curious.
  11. My friend coaches a D3 volleyball team back east. It’s a struggle since they can’t offer athletic scholarships, tuition is expensive, the athletic department doesn’t bring in a ton of money so he has a very limited budget for staff, travel (road games and tournaments), recruiting. He has some influence in getting kids accepted and works hard to match them up with merit scholarships, work-study, and other forms of aid to offset the costs. If my sons get accepted (academically) to a good D1 school that costs less than the D3 school that will let them play sports, we’ll have a serious conversation about the value of playing D3 sports vs. more student loans and (possibly) less respected degree.
  12. Some of y’all’s breakeven price estimates are assuming that each drug captures 100% of the market share, ignoring patients who don’t take medication, stick with competitors’ products, or often cannibalizing sales from one of their own legacy products. In acquisitions, it is common for the acquirer to assume the debt of the acquired company in addition to the purchase price and any future royalties. There could be million$ of r&d, regulatory, and marketing debt that needs to be paid. Every situation is unique.
  13. The Celtics camped on those Nets picks years ago and it turned them into a perennial contender. The Rockets traded Harden and sucked for 2+ years to get Jalen, Jabari, Amen, and the Nets (now Suns) picks. I wouldn't give the draft assets up for a 36 y.o. KD. If the Suns want to reset their franchise and clear KD's 2025-2026 salary from the books, they could take on FVV's expiring contract and get one of our promising young players (Jabari or Cam?). Those draft picks could turn into one or more studs at a time when Houston may be entering salary cap hell between Jalen, Sengun, Amen, etc.
  14. Unlike coaches like Sark, Andy Reid adapts to the defensive changes as the game goes on. If you really want to mess them up, you have to mix up your strategies every quarter if not every possession. Spy on Mahomes vs. spy on who is the hot target; man vs. zone; blitz vs. fake blitz. We have athletes on defense. Can our offense score more than 14 in frigid KC with Nico as the only viable receiving threat and run game that has gone to shit?
  15. Outlook not good for CDC keeping Mack distanced from the football program, if not our athletic department. The official Texas Longhorns facebook account highlighted Mack attending the home basketball game last week, and the demographic that follows and posts on facebook was 95% pro-Mack. Hopefully CDC doesn't take that response as the consensus among all Texas alumni and fans. I assume mostly casual or t-shirt fans only associate Mack with 2005 and have selective amnesia about the record vs. OU, lack of CCs and BCS, and the events surrounding his departure.
  16. Would be funny if it was Anakin’s light saber and this was part of the story of how it ended up with Maz Kanata.
  17. I heard there was a video on social media from a couple weeks ago where Deshaun was dancing up a storm at a club. Did he re-tear it doing social activities?
  18. I hope someone did this to our OL and DL players
  19. And her surly handle is ThatGuy
  20. He could be a Kanan Jarrus who fell in with a group of pirates.
  21. Don’t know why this post irritated me. I guess I’ve always thought Super Bowls is a flukey metric for greatness vs. looking at a team or player’s winning percentage. The Lions and Browns have never even played in a Super Bowl game. The Bengals, Bills, Titans, Chargers, Falcons, and Cardinals have never won one. Does that render them all shittier than the Raiders? And a perennial 9-7 dude Eli Manning is rolling around with two rings. The Raiders presently suck because they hired Mike Mayock as GM a few years ago, who drafted like a fantasy fanboi. One player who was a hit went to jail for murder. They jettisoned their 8-8/9-7 guy Derek Carr and got much worse at QB. They let Josh Jacobs go and traded Davonte Adams for a fraction of what they gave for him. They shouldn’t have caved after the Gruden email leak. Franchise is a mess though.
  22. Tangentially related to bowl travel: lots of folks in Pedo State gear at IAH this morning.
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