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  1. I’d watch a 24 hour Episode 1 and 2 marathon before I’d watch TLJ for the second time. It’s the only Star Wars movie I’ve only seen once.


    AOTC is pure unadulterated garbage. Saw it in the theater, will never watch it again. TLJ is cringe-worthy in parts but I don’t think it’s as bad as Clones. Of course that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.
  2. I was at UT from 91-95/96. Last year of McWilliams to the final SWC Championship. Saw a lot of shitty football in between, including 1-4 to aggy. The one silver lining, though, was 3-1-1 run versus OU.

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  3. I have a problem with rodgers in the pro bowl period....dak, cousins, anybody else

    I dont like name recognition awards that get used in HOF comparisons/tiebreakers down the road. Hell if one SB win 8/9 years ago is HOF worthy then its not worth it.
    Are we going to have every qb in there...seems the criteria is 1 SB and nothing else. Poor Romo almost had it in the bag but dez didnt catch it said the nfl


    Wait, you don’t think Rodgers’ career merits inclusion in the HOF now? I think he’s a complete douche-nozzle but if you don’t think he’s HOF material then there’s no reason to continue talking.
  4. Rodgers has not been the better QB THIS year.  And when some idiot brings up 11-5 compared to 7-7 I just laugh.  That's the same shit Dak fans said for years when they won games due to team effort and him playing pretty well, and the same people would say "the team wins, not dak" or "Dak needs Zeke and the defense to be good", well guess what?  That's what Rodgers is doing this year.  He's basically Dak Prescott THIS year, but worse than Dak is, and just because his name is Aaron Rodgers, we all get in line talking about how great he is.

    He's been a middle of the road QB this year who happens to be on a REALLY good team this year with a strong running game and good defense.  That's it.

    It's all perception.  When Dak finally wins a SB, then the entire narrative shifts.  As always QB's get to much credit and too much blame for winning championships.

     

    My bet is that if Rodgers were QB for the Cowboys, our record would be better than 7-7.

  5. So, looking ahead who are some forwards that will be available in advance of the trade deadline? We're the stingiest team in the NHL on defense and it's clear we could use a little offensive oomph especially since Jamie (and Seguin sorta) isn't what we've come to expect on that end. Who could be this year's Zuccarello?

  6. 16 hours ago, Mileslong said:

    How in the hell did we win that one? Insane in the membrane

    I turned it on when I got home from HH and saw us down 3-1 and quickly turned it off to run out the door to meet Gary P. Nunn. Checked the score today and saw that we somehow won that one! Wow.

  7. 1 hour ago, Bone3421 said:

    Sure and i'd take lamar,brady, mahomes also.
    What other fantasies do we what to interject into a conversation about how w/l is irrelevant to individual comparisons.

    Rodgers gets a lot of love for 1 SB 8/9 years ago and missing the playoffs last 2 years.

     

    They're all better QBs than Dak. The point is I have no problem with Rodgers going to the Pro Bowl over Dak. I think he's a better QB today. He's going to the Hall of Fame. Will Dak?

  8. On 12/19/2019 at 1:37 PM, anacardo said:

    Pro football reference has them at an expected record of ~9-5.    That's a pretty huge underperformance; you've got to go back to the Chan Gailey era to find something like that in previous team history.  It does seem squarely on coaching; my gut estimate is that consistent and terrible patterns of clock management, use of tempo, settling for extremely low percentage field goals, etc. has cost the team about 3-4 ppg this season.  

    That goes solely off points scored vs points allowed. The Cowboys have blown teams out when they win and have scored a bunch of cheap points late in games they were getting smoked (Green Bay and Chicago come to mind) before losing that it skews that a little bit.

  9. That cracked me up...good work lol 
    Once again you bring up record like rodgers and dak play 1 v 22. You say rodgers is consistently good even though like i showed if you take away his best 3 games like you did with dak he only has 12 td's.
     
    You did finally get to the point that started all this though after you spent hours going in a circle. Rodgers pro bowl nod is not warranted. Now you should just admit that it is laughable to think your OP phrase was accurate
     
    Also you didnt answer the question of where your blame of the defense ranks...if you watch every game then you should recall the jets and darnold shredding us not of dak being "horrible" with a 66% completion and 0 ints and a missed 2pt conversion from OT


    And yet, all things being equal, I’d take Rodgers with our roster over Dak every day of the week and twice on Sun for this season.
  10. yea I'd say Inwood Tavern is divey. lots of history there and in my experience lots of industry folks stop by there. 


    It’s not divey at all. The sketchiest fuckers in there are trust-fund burnouts. Time Out Tavern is a much bigger shit-hole across the street.
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  11. 19 hours ago, Landomatic said:

    My dive bar scene in Dallas pretty much begins and ends at Inwood Tavern.  Have had some great nights there.  Although I’m less and less apt to hit up places like that these days.  Because getting old.  Sucks.

    Dive bar? I guess for you Parkies that qualifies as a dive bar.

    How about the Step Up Lounge? It's a real shit-hole off Marsh Lane. Been there a bunch.

  12. 2 hours ago, Goodman said:

    Hook'em Jaylan! 

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    2 hours ago, CfRhTxStBobcats said:

    I'd be willing to bury my face in that ass for every recruit that signs with the good guys. Nice to see a linebacker in the fold.

    Brooke Burke's heyday is seemingly about the time we last signed a rock star LB anyways, right? (Yes, I'm using sarcasm. I remember Malik.)

  13. Was flipping channels the other night and ran across it a few mins in. I watched the rest of it. I liked it. What a tumultuous two years with my Spurs. He was so, so, so good and necessary for our team but he was a complete fuck-up off the court that it just would never work. They didn't even mention his motorcycle accident during the second season when the Spurs won the most games in NBA, Robinson was named MVP and the Spurs fell to the Rockets in the WCF.

    Was interesting to see what it was that finally sent him off the rails -- it was his brief marriage and child born when he was in Detroit. That and Chuck Daly walking away. Rodman apparently didn't like Pop, who had ZERO skins on the wall when he came back to SA and then traded Rodman to the Bulls for Will Perdue. I wonder how that relationship would've been after Pop had won a few titles. At any rate, Rodman was as good as a rebounder as I've ever seen and surprisingly had some decent offensive moves and finishes in his college career. Seems odd he was so out-of-sorts at that part of the NBA game.

  14. Not sure where to post, so I will throw this out here.  It was my turn to host out of town company execs and board members this week.   I decided to just go to my favorite places.  Board members were at the new Hall Arts Hotel.  We had cocktails there and it was cool, already buzzing even though it just opened.  Execs stayed in cool AirBnBs in my neighborhood in North Oak Cliff.
    Sunday night casual dinner (no board members):  great weather...walked to Nova.  So awesome.  Greeted with hugs as always.  The most welcoming place in town.  We had a blast and they loved the food.  The fried green tomatoes with crawfish and shrimp mornay,  smoked salmon potato skins, mussels with tasso and the hummus were all as good as always.  Several guys got the epic chicken fried pork loin.  Man, that dish should make a list of the iconic dishes in Dallas.   BIG Food.  Whiskeys afterwards at Cannon's.  A very good night.
    Monday night board dinner at Flora Street.  What a mess.  I am big fan of Stephen Pyles.  I have talked up Flora Street on several threads on here.  The first fancy dinner I ever paid for was at Baby Routh.  I was a regular at Star Canyon and even loved AquaKnox.  Spent birthdays at Stephen Pyles and was at Flora Street and Fauna as they opened.   He's got a problem here now.  On a cold, windy December night, servers were in sloppy, ill-fitting Hawaiian shirts.  It sounds like a small thing, but it so indicated where this once Michelin level restaurant is now.  Our guy actually did the "My name is Timothy and I will be taking care of you tonight thing, followed by an endless speech about the menu".  I expected him to offer bloomin' onions at a swirl margatini at the end of it.  Service was awkward at best, with endless waits as some people got coktails and wine and others did not.  The first three bottles we selected from the list were not available.  Sommelier was lost.  They could only offer 2 beers because "we can't get permission to transition", whatever that means.   They stuck is in the Fauna room, Siberia.  No music or atmosphere.    The food ended being ok, clearly upscale and presented nicely, but it was not interesting or good enough.  I had a branzino that was charred to death.  I had the same fish at Marea in NYC not long ago and this was not in the same league.  I don't know when or if I will go back.   I retract all my recommendations of Flora Street.  So sad.
    Tuesday night dinner with clients at Boulevardier.   Restaurant was packed. Only 2 servers.  No manager.  Bad table again.  Pretty much ignored for the first hour.  Really bad start.  It was only ok because it gave us a chance to talk work without the interruptions of a server trying to serve us!   But, once it got going and she caught up, it was terrific as always.  The oysters are the best in town.  We had escargot, which I had never had there and now will recommend.  We got the meat and cheese board too and a round of bone marrow, with the luge shots after.  Really fun, especially for the client guys from the Northern suburbs.  I got my burger (the best restaurant burger in town).  Most everyone else got steak or lamb (1/2 price on Tuesdays, as a note).   Fun, satisfying meal with great food....after the terrible service at the start.  it must be hard to properly execute workforce management at a restaurant this time of year.  A couple more servers really should have been there.  Still, this is a great place and I will go back soon.
    Overall, the guys left with a good impression of food in Dallas.  And I will be eating salads for a few days.


    Nova on Sun for brunch might be my favorite spot in Dallas.
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