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Burt Macklin

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  1. 4 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:


    What would you compare the talent level to? FCS? Serious question.

    Considering they are D1 FCS, I would say that’s exactly the level of competition Deion faced. Jackson State beat Florida A&M 59-3 in week 2 last year. That Florida A&M team 9-2 with it’s only other loss being 56-24 at UNC in Week 1. Something tells me that Florida A&M team was not D3 level of competition, but that’s just me. Hermanator’s clearly the expert here. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, Hermanator said:

    Not as noticeable when you have a D1/future NFL QB and several D1/future NFL players playing against D3 level competition. 

    It makes all the difference in the world when you're playing against the big boys. Ask Charlie Strong and Tom Herman. 

    Calling a Division 1 conference made up of mostly HBCUs “D3 level competition” seems rather questionable, but also the level of take I’d expect from your history as a poster. 

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  3. 13 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

    Yeah, I have to say I didn't understand Alpine's press release talking about how the Andretti agreement had expired.  All I could think about was how shit Alpine is with contracts.  Wouldn't they want a customer team?

    Alpine’s engine has shown to be 30 hp or more down on the rest of the field. I would bet Andretti is the one who declined. Using Alpine engines would be a horrible mistake.  

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  4. 4 minutes ago, NoName said:

     

    so to be clear you guys don't like stroll because he has no personality and is rich

     

    meanwhile we have a guy who has a long history of being an asshole on and off the track, who raced a leader so hard he crashed him FIVE YEARS AGO, who is cunty to basically all the teammates hes had, had a number of crashes and near crashes with his teammates on the track and who stopped talking to Gasly years ago because he was getting beat by Pierre

    but sure. rich guy = bad. actually asshole = less bad?

    Mad Come On GIF by UEFA

    I DIDN'T EVEN BRING UP HIS ASSHOLE REAL NAME. ITS SIX WORDS LONG. IT HAS TWO HYPHENS.

    AND HE'S FRENCH.

     
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    Esteban José Jean-Pierre Ocon-Khelfane

     

    Posts like these are why I consider you an autist. Ocon is my least likeable driver on the grid.  Saying something negative about Stroll doesn’t mean I like Ocon more. There’s also a ton of reason to not like Stroll beyond just him being rich. He constantly causes accidents and comes off like a whiny baby. 

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    3 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

    He has zero personality and shoving his trainer was not a good look.  Then that interview.  Oof.

    seriously, spoiled billionaire being pouty is a terrible look. There’s rumors Pap Stroll will sell to a Saudi group and have Aston focus on WEC with Lance moving over there. That would certainly be interesting. 
     

    While we’re at it, there’s also rumors Audi’s not going Greta with development and their Board is reviewing whether to scrap the F1 move. It could open up another avenue for Andretti, if true. 

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  6. 51 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

     


    Well damn since you put it like that. And of course, the offense gifted OU a short field early too. And they could have finished the last drive with one more first down.

     

    Offense gifted them two short fields. Quinn’s fumble gave them the ball at the 50, and defense forced a 3 and out to avoid a score. 

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  7. 10 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    Also, we have not had tons of garbage time in our games this year - most games have been close going into the 4th quarter. 

    You’re just flat out wrong. We’ve been up by 3 scores with 8+ minutes left in the 4th in 4/6 games. That’s the definition of garbage time. 

     

    11 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    More importantly than adjusted or unadjusted stats though, I care more about continuing coverage busts we keep seeing.  It means our guys don't know what they are doing.  That's mostly on the coaches.  

    We haven’t had that many coverage busts relative to other college defenses. Most of the deep balls on us have just been guys getting beat, like Watts (3x Baylor and Kansas) and Thompson (Bama game). The nature of these college schemes requires complicated zones and pattern marching coverages. Offenses know they force these defenses and then call plays to put those coverage sin conflict. Every college defense makes mistakes on these, but we’re not particularly bad at this. It’s just another instance of Texas fans paying way more attention to Texas than other teams. 
     

     

    15 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

     And on the last drive that decided the game, I think coverage busts played a bigger role than the actual coverages PK was calling.  Perhaps that's correctible.  We will see.  

    PK let them go 70 yards in less than 30 seconds by playing prevent/off coverages that gave up way too much space. They had 3 straight passing plays for 11, 16, and 28 plus a PI to get to our 6 in 28 seconds. That was the biggest issue. 

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  8. 3 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    Meh, our pass defense is not good, regardless of what adjusted stats say. We've played essentially no one that can pass competently this year, other than OU, yet we've surrendered 200+ yards through the air on average, and our safeties and LBs have looked lost in coverage/burned multiple times in multiple games.  

    On OU, I agree the blame goes all around.  But our defense, particularly in the 2nd half, was not "good" against OU.  There were a lot of easy OU fuckups that we did not force that killed their drives (missed FG and two or three easy passes that DG missed come to mind).  When we needed our pass defense to really step up, they shit the bed.  Badly. If that's good defense, I'd hate to see bad.  

    Your standards for defense might’ve been accurate in 2003, but it’s 2023. Giving up 200+ pass yards per game means nothing, especially when you’re not removing garbage time.

    Regarding our defense before the last drive (which we all agree was a fuck up by PK), Gabriel was 19/34 for 227 yards before the last drive. 
     Holding a top 10 offense to 55% completion for under 7 YPA is absolutely a good performance in pass defense. 

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  9. 43 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    PK has really improved our run defense (QB runs notwithstanding lol).  I said upthread prior to OU that I didn't trust our pass defense.  OU was the 1st good passing team (or one with a non-back up QB) we've faced this year and it showed. Part of the issue is we still don't have a reliable edge rusher.  But a bigger issue is we simply don't defend the pass well, with miscommunication/misunderstanding among LBs and safeties, three years into PK's system. If we played in the big 12 from a decade ago, he would get carved up.    

    This is a ridiculous overreaction. Our pass defense was good for most of the game, and by any advanced metric, we have a top 10 defense in the country (5th in FEI and 7th F+). The two biggest mistakes by PK in the game were 1)playing way too off at the end of the half and end of game (he turtles into prevent way too much at the end of halves and games) and 2) not accounting for the QB run. Fortunately, not of those are very fixable. We’ll have to see if they get fixed moving forward. I think the second one will, not so sure about the first. 
     

    But this loss was much more on the offense and turnovers than the defense. Quinn threw 2 picks, fumbled, and we hit the punter on 4th and 3. You're not going to beat many top 15 teams in the country when you have 4 turnovers. 

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  10. 10 hours ago, wood said:

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    In other news, I just saw this and chortled. Wish there was a gif for it.

    F1 Standings:

    Alpine: 90

    Alonso: 183

    Give it one more race and Piastri will be ahead of Alpine too. Just goes to show, you can never go wrong by leaving Renault/Alpine. 

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  11. 13 hours ago, ousux said:
    18 hours ago, Jebus said:
    I'm interested to see how they respond to the polls this week-
    How are these guys gonna respond when they see that beating mighty A&M on the road at the vaunted Kyle Field didn't even move Alabama up a single spot from #11?
    What about the fact that their other "good loss" Miami is just barely hanging on at #25 (and ranked behind #23 Kansas by the way)?
    And of course Texas remaining in the top 10 despite losing.
    My guess to all 3 (and much more) is some variant of the BOMC 

    It don't make a shit. If we take care of business (including beating bye week) then we'll be ranked where we should be and have a shot at the Rig12 CCG and possibly beyond. USC almost got beat by a very mediocre ASU and domer got beat by Loserville so they're out of it. If both us and BloU take care of our remaining schedule they won't hold a last second L to a one loss BloU (the loss we give them later) against us too badly.

    Congratulations. You just wrote a more TexAgs post than most of the screenshots in this thread, complete with moronic nicknames, like Rig 12 and Loserville. 

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  12. 6 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    With regards to Sergio, it's some combination of these two things:

    1) The car isn't quite as leaps and bounds faster than the field as advertised. Max is just currently the best driver on the planet, and he's made it seem that way in a very fast car designed specifically around his preferred driving style. Sergio has done just fine remaining in 2nd in a car not best suited for him.

    2) The car is the rocket ship that it appears to be, half the field would be able to finish 2nd in it, and Sergio's inconsistent performance and bad Saturdays have underperformed to the car's capabilities.

     

    I'd assume that Red Bull--and their engineers--are more prone to lean towards the 2nd option. How important is it to them to absolutely maximize the cars' performance from both of their seats?

    Checo is generally fast in the race, so it definitely leaks a lot more toward #2 than #1. 

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  13. 3 minutes ago, Minute Bull said:

    I try lawsuits for a living. We do discovery before the trial so we know what’s coming. We don’t make mistakes during trial. Sometimes we lose to a better lawyer, or because they have the better of the facts .

    How come Steve’s “trial team” makes mistake after mistake after mistake, after doing “discovery” (watching five games of film on OU).  It’s like they never saw a tempo offense or a running quarterback before.

    And then his postgame comments”aw shucks I’m proud of the team.”  Really?  Screw you buddy.  I would fired or probably sued for making the kind of mistakes this clown and his team made today. How are you so unprepared?  Jeezus.

    A self-absorbed lawyer who can’t put a period at the right spot at the end of the sentence saying he never makes mistakes is pretty great. 

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  14. 10 minutes ago, Sejjr said:

    It is absolutely bizarre that Jimbo’s recruiting strategy is to corner the market on elite DL prospects, at any cost. Meanwhile, Texas has a better D line this year despite the star rankings. Development matters. Star rankings and mythical recruiting titles belong on a t-shirt or a commemorative cup. 

    This is exactly why Jimbo is the perfect aggy coach, and I hope he stays there forever. 

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  15. 3 hours ago, wood said:

    The FIA has called FOM and the teams' bluff, forcing their hand, while covering their own asses and leaving FOM twisting in the wind with no options that they really like very much ... and it's beautiful, imho. I think in the end the teams and F1 will realize the best option is to just put on their big boy pants and let Andretti in. They won't like it ... but they don't have to like it.

    They've put the ball squarely in FOM and the teams' court, who will have to live with the consequences of whatever decision they make.

    I can’t wait to hear 2025 Crofty awkwardly exclaim that an unnamed team who can’t be shown on television has overtaken Liam Lawson’s Alpha Tauri around the outside of Maggots and Becketts to move into 10th place. 

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  16. 26 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    watching the replay some of the snaps were high/not perfect.  not to excuse Bert but that does tend to throw the timing off just a bit.  Holder was doing a good job getting the ball down.

    Our long snapper was horrible today. He noticeable screwed up Auburn timing multiple kicks with high snaps. Auburn still missed 1 with a good snap, but the snapper has to get better. 

    11 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Auburn playing like a walk-on now. There needs to be competition for the job.

    This is such a dumb post. There’s always been a competition for the job, and Auburn has beaten all the other guys out. Putting in some new kicker who’s never kicked a college field goal in his life in the middle of a season with playoff aspirations will not improve things. 

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  17. 3 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    The problem with Baxter is too much dancing. There a huge holes and Brooks is hitting them. 

    Yep. He looked more decisive in the Rice game, but he’s been banged up since then. I don’t think he’s 100% yet. Brooks is showing incredible vision. He’s hitting the hole fast and making the right decision almost every time. He’s been so impressive the last few games. 

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