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ztejas

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  1. I think Ballmer is going to have to sell the team. This is really, really fucking bad.
  2. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Put it on the wall.
  3. I know that was a layup but we're trying to make the fucking playoffs here.
  4. 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. -----
  5. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Arch is the truth. This site and our fanbase will come along. It's early. Most people apparently can't see it. I can live with that.
  6. Man this Minny/Cal shit is just unwatchable for me. Such a great day of college ball. It's like I was doing heroin all day and then they give me a couple tylenol 3s at the end of the night. Just not the same. Maybe it gets fun towards the end.
  7. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Cool man they got further than we have in 16 years and beat a team we couldn't along the way. I'm not a ND fan just calling it like it is. I'm also not freaking out about Arch and Texas this season unlike most of this board and fanbase.
  8. Y'all are wild. I'd smash left and right without question. Middle I may need to see more. In non-related news - SMU's starting running back - who is pretty good - was snagged from UCLA last season. So apparently their roster has already been getting poached. Good for y'all if you actually fired that clown @Sbbruin. You know I like you even though you're a dirty Lakers fan. I'd rather CLA be good than SC.
  9. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    We're gonna be salty again this season too. I'm just saying give ND their flowers they played some nice ball last season and beat a team that we lost to twice.
  10. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    ND was pretty fucking salty last season.
  11. Is that on a channel?
  12. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Sure, buddy. We believe you.
  13. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    @chemHORN was dragging alt accounts out of the closet to try and gaslight me. In case any of you think I'm deranged and my behavior on here is unacceptable. I mean I am and it is but there's still levels to this stuff.
  14. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    We probably won't give up 40.
  15. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    I can't wait for Arch to lead all of you poor, sick, miserable children out of the desert.
  16. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Still not sure what you're referring to. We beat them by 10 last season.
  17. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Huh? What dropped pass were they away from the playoffs last season?
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    A&M at ND

  19. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Reed balled his fucking ass off credit where credit is due. Texas O needs to unfuck itself before we play them.
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  21. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Good. Let's run the fucking table.
  22. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Dead dog scoreboard magic. Can't explain it from the inside - can't understand it from the outside. Stupid sip.
  23. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    Oh my God ND you fucking dickheads.
  24. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    It's easy to look good when Texas' defense isn't burning your croplands and salting the earth so that no future generations shall flourish.
  25. ztejas

    A&M at ND

    If both of them make the playoff I'm hanging myself in the shower.
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