Jump to content

ztejas

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    69834
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    27

Everything posted by ztejas

  1. This team fucking sucks. Wilson has one foot out of the league and just threw for 400.
  2. Garcia needs to fucking go man. So sick of his shit.
  3. Should be juiced 1 out. Robot umps please.
  4. Hey Bochy maybe just put him in the fucking starting lineup next time.
  5. God damn. Hey dad I can't see too good is that Randy Moss over there?
  6. This is why I'm against the death penalty. I don't trust them to get it right. I'm not morally against executing people like Robinson - although I'm not sure he fully deserves it.
  7. The key is that if the content doesn't fit your narrative you blame the source. You can even use that same source as evidence if they later post something that fits your narrative.
  8. Niggy fucked that up. Great play from Telez. Go get it back.
  9. Sitting Helman is so retarded.
  10. Jameson Williams is fucking killing me. What the fuck dude.
  11. Curry can't score inside the arc the way Durant can. KD knows what he is doing.
  12. Okie lite belongs in the convo for sure.
  13. They just showed that Ward throw. That's one of the best throws I've ever seen. Always liked him. Thought he got way too much random hate last season.
  14. The legend grows.
  15. I'm getting Jets/Bills on CBS. Is Bastrop some weird zone where I get both?
  16. It's perfectly natural to have mixed thoughts on DP. I would make sure you have the right partners and are in a safe environment where everyone feels comfortable.
  17. Bro get the fuck off tapatalk. What are you 200 years old?
  18. She's a fucking clown. Put some clothes on and get in the gym. Quit dragging your teammates while you're at it. You know who she has a lot of in her is Ben Simmons.
  19. I'm going full Derka here. I'm sure @Derka will like to submit his lineup. The spaceship lands. They tell you that they have a team full of ballers that is ready to take you out. You don't know anything other than the fact that everyone on their team is within the confines of human size and athleticism and general basketball skill. International rules. Your team gets two weeks of prep then they get thrown into the tourney. Pick whatever coaching staff you want. For this exercise you get to pick each player at their absolute peak. It doesn't have to coincide with an Olynpic year. But you have to pick a season. I'm going: 2022 Steph Curry 1993 Michael Jordan 2021 Kevin Durant 2018 LeBron James 2020 Anthony Davis
  20. I think Ballmer is going to have to sell the team. This is really, really fucking bad.
  21. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Put it on the wall.
  22. I know that was a layup but we're trying to make the fucking playoffs here.
  23. I was thinking about something similar earlier. And I don't really give a fuck about the pages of inane discussion previous to this post or the pages that will assuredly follow it. Just wanted to write a little tonight. Open for feedback. Cleaned this up a bunch like I would be writing for a publication. ---- When you play for any sports team with a high level of visibility there are two forms of pressure. There is internal pressure and there is external pressure. Internal pressure is what you face from inside. Your coaches, your teammates, your equipment managers, maybe most notably your fans. It is all of the people around you or in your immediate vicinity that you interact with on a regular basis who are wanting you - and oftentimes expecting you - to succeed. Then there is external pressure. External pressure is the national media, the haters, the rivals, the naysayers on social media - the other fans that expect you to be good and when you are not good jump at every opportunity they can to immediately shoot you down. Internal pressure is the Philadelphia Eagles. If you play for that team and you do not perform you are going to find out very quickly. It might be from people within your own organization or it might be from fans on the field. You may go for a bacon, egg and cheese out in the city and someone spits on you because you dropped an interception the week prior. External pressure is the Dallas Cowboys. Everyone - except your fans - despise you and want you to lose. Every time you take the field you are on national TV and under intense media scrutiny and the subject of tens of millions of people doing nothing but hoping that you lose whichever game you are currently playing. Every player faces some combination of these two factors and has to deal with it during the course of their careers. Whether it is in high school, in college or as a professional. Some more so than others. "More so" would do well to qualify the nascent career of Arch Manning who is currently being broadsided by both forms of pressure in a way that potentially no college football quarterback before him ever has. The college football zeitgeist features Arch on its front page every week. They tend to deflate him any chance they can get. His own fanbase does their best to temper expectations but generally winds up admonishing him as well. The internal pressure is oppressive - Arch is attempting to lead a team that has made the national semifinal two-straight seasons beyond that. He is hoping to deliver a national title to a fanbase and program that since 1970 has struggled to even remain in contention most seasons. The external pressure might be worse. Arch's grandfather is in the college football hall of fame. One of his uncles is widely regarded as one of the best quarterbacks to ever take a snap behind center. Another uncle threw for 57,000 yards in the NFL and has two Super Bowl MVP trophies to his name. The team Arch is lining up for - of course - is the Texas Longhorns. Since their third national title in 1970 the Longhorns have come more than close on a number of occasions but only lifted the national title once. That title - which was won 20 years ago now - came in large part on the back of one of the most prolific college quarterbacks of all time in Vince Young. Arch - of course - knew all of this coming in. He knew the weight that his last name carried. He knew the weight that TEXAS scrawled across the front of his jersey every Saturday would carry. Yet he signed up for it anyway. Arch has delivered mixed results so far. A couple of breakout performances as a stand-in starter in 2024 excited fans and the nation alike. A middling performance to start Texas' 2025 season on the road against defending national-champions Ohio State tempered expectations quickly. His two follow-up performances against Texas cannon fodder SJSU and UTEP did little to dissuade concerns. So - is the pressure too much for Arch Manning? Only one person can determine that - and that's Arch. -----
×
×
  • Create New...