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  1. 1 minute ago, Red Five said:

    I wish he had been more forceful. Something along the lines of "We've got a conference commissioner wanting to pick winners and losers, and you obviously can't have unprofessional behavior like that." 

    I think that would have come across like he was whining about it, but I agree he should have been more forceful about it.  "You've got a commissioner not wanting to give us the championship this year so we are going to take it."

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    I know it borders on a "hot take" but he really wasn't that great.  (Good, yes.)  They sort of glanced at it during the NFL piece but he just wasn't physically good enough to show up and not study.  (No one is, really.)  He was good at Aggy because he was surrounded by NFL guys.  He was smallish, slower than thought, and had an average arm.

    That's not hindsight, either.  I remember one scout pointing that out.  He said if you watched all of the cil, Manziel took off running when he had people wide open down field.  He just didn't see them.

    Flaming hot take.  He literally changed the whole trajectory of the aggies.  They said the football foundation raised an extra 200 or 300 million than ever before after his freshman season.  

     

    He was a great college qb who didn't have the tangible needs to make it in the NFL and more importantly the work ethic, but to say he wasn't a great college qb is a wild take.

    He's like Tim Tebow, but completely different brains.  

  3. 16 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


    Feel like this could be on the banner at Texags

    Fair point, but their realism doesn't kick in until conference play and ours comes 1st or 2nd series of game one.  If you aren't drinking the burnt orange kool-aid from Febuary-Fall Camp how can you even enjoy Texas Football.

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  4. 24 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    lemme give y'all a mental health tip

    it's better to start the season with tempered/skeptical expectations and have them proved wrong than it is to expect to win it all and have a 9-win season

    i mean 9 wins would tie Sark's best year ever, right?

    It's better to have expected greatness and lost it than to have never expected it at all.

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  5. 20 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

     

    I'll take Hippo still.  They don't turn well at that speed at all.  Keep changing directions.  Just don't let it head you off at the pass.

     

    Exactly.  Bulls are faster than humans and Matadors have been making them look pretty dumb for a long time.  There isn't a great option but that's got to be better than your chances with a bear or a lion  

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  6. 12 minutes ago, Red Five said:
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    Few days later. "Hey man, you seem down. What's up?"

    "You brutally murdered my wife and child."

    "Still hung up on that, huh."

     

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    Exactly.  Riveting content

     

  7. On 6/22/2023 at 11:19 AM, Not a cat said:

    I kind of liked Mazey and the plot twist.  Full disclosure I had taken a gummie before viewing but I definitely did not see that coming.

    Hated beyond the sea

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    Pinkman wants to break a guy's jaw for drawing nudes of his wife but he'll just sit down with him after he does something far worse?  And I assume he can radio home base to tell them "hey I'm up here with a psycho, I didn't do it."

     

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    He has no choice but to sit down with him, but that wasn't his choice to just sit down.  Hartnett pushes out the chair with the smug look of knowing AP can't do anything about it because it's a 2 man mission and both will die if one dies.  I really wish they would have cut out some of excess and then carried the story further with the new dynamic.

     

  8. On 6/16/2023 at 11:39 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021).  

    Normally teen romcoms are not my thing (unless they are 1980s romcoms, actually made in the 1980s).  A friend recommended it because they knew I liked time travel stuff, and that I liked The Magicians TV series. Lev Grossman who was responsible for writing The Magicians novels, wrote The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. Not helped that Amazon kept recommending it (not sure if it was because of what I had watched or because it's an Original movie that they are pushing).  Of course, I looked up the credits and saw Akiva Goldsmith and I have a love-hate relationship with him over Star Trek. Didn't know who the male lead was. Only knew the female lead, Kathryn Newton, from the latest Ant-Man movie and from Halt and Catch Fire.

    It was....competently made. I'm way out of the target demographic for it, but I like time travel, and this thing was Groundhog Day taken to the extreme, just without Bill Murray. Not bad, not great, and the why of what was happening was a bit of a twist.

    The last three time travel movies I actually enjoyed were Looper, Edge of Tomorrow, and Palm Springs, and it turns out that all three plus The Map of Tiny Perfect Things are a sub-genre of time travel, namely time loops, so now I have added a few more films to various streaming queues.  So thanks to Map of Tiny Perfect Things for that. 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_time_loops

     

    I'm sure you've seen it, but About Time is a fantastic time travel romcom / father-son relationship movie.  And for those of you macho men that would be turned off by the sound of that just do yourself a favor and watch this movie.

  9. Just catching up on the all the Paris threads.  My wife and I are heading to Paris at the end of May for the first time in 15 years and mainly curious on restaurants and which areas to explore in our open times.  @PenelopeWitherspoon seems to be the resident professional, but curious for any and all to pitch in.  I have a tendency to cram pack a schedule which I'm trying to make sure I don't do here, but here's a rough layout of what I have so far.  We've got 4 days in Paris and 3 days in Nice and are staying in the Latin Quarter so most dinners / breakfasts will be around there.

     

    Day 1 - Arrive to hotel around 930AM, check out Notre Dame / Saint Chappelle area then either head to Sacre Coure or Champs area depending on how we are feeling after travel day

    Day 2 Versailles in the morning open in the afternoon

    Day 3 10AM Eiffel Tower Summit, Sienne River Cruise open in the afternoon

    Day 4 Open in the morning 11PM Moulin Rouge show (I've heard Pink Mamma is a good trendy restaurant close to this)

    Day 5 train to Nice relax in afternoon

    Day 6 Explore Monte Carlo

    Day 7 Explore Cannes

    Day 8 Fly back home

     

    Thank you for taking a look!

  10. 1 hour ago, LTtxfan said:

    Thanks.  Your post made me wonder how salary cap affects draft selections in different rounds.

    Is there a ranking from most to least expensive positions in the NFL?? 

    Guessing QB, Edge and CB are most expensive -- maybe RBs are least expensive?

     

    I don't think it affects draft picks in the 3rd+ rounds, but it's definitely does in the 1st and maybe some in the 2nd.  RBs are the least expensive in the league along with safeties and LBs I think.

     

    With the latest WR deals those are up there now as well.  QB, Edge, WR, CB, LT would be my guess.

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  11. It's more about salary cap than anything else.  The 12th pick in the draft will make around 5M per year for the next 4 years.  Maybe in 2 years Bijan is Joe Mixon good who makes 10M a year.  Or say we pick Van Ness or JSN who could be Christian Kirk or Arik Amstead good in 2 years who make 18M a year.  With the salary savings of going WR or Edge at 12 you could get a Ryan Jensen quality OLineman.   

     

    Biggest problem with the number 2 pick being a non QB is we are going to be stuck in mediocre purgatory with no chance of getting a decent QB on a value contract

  12. The roster is very talented, but we've always had guys who we expected to come in and be great that just hasn't panned out.  The glaring problem with our program is that we've gone 15 years without a great QB.  Ehlinger had 1.5 good years here, but outside of that it hasn't been great.  It's the most important position in all of sports for a reason.  If Quinn gets it figured out then we should be a 10+ win team.  If not we will win 8ish.  I think it's really that simple.

  13. Yea, hopefully we won't be drafting this high again and if there's a chance to take an all pro (eventually) QB at #2 then you have to do it.  Use best available after that for all the holes on this team.  If you get a talented roster with no QB ready to take the helm, then you're typically stuck in purgatory.  We've got 9 top 3 round picks over the next 2 years to continue building this roster.

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  14. I think Texans have to take a QB.  If not, you build a roster good enough to be stuck in 8-9 purgatory and then keep running through available FA QBs.  Take the QB now and pray he is a top tier QB while you continue to build the roster over the next couple of years when he is primed to compete.  Ala Cincinati Bengals 

  15. 1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:

    Well, we would have Thompson, Red, Cook, Niblett, and Moore with experience. While likely bringing in another great WR class. Sarkisian has said he prefers 8-10 WRs in the room. That's 5 right there not even counting Cain and Alexis.

    I think he said the opposite of this.  I believe when Sark came in he referenced the scholarship numbers being way off and the fact we had too many receivers.  

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