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Burt Macklin

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  1. Watching Courtney Ramey jack up terrible desperation shot after terrible desperation shot in the closing minutes for Arizona felt very, very familiar.
  2. I have to say, Ferrari managing to burn through both his allocated control electronics before the end of the first race is a real fete. Most teams would have to try extremely hard to fuck up that bad already.
  3. It’s not amazing if he’s starting there by default because we have nothing returning at ILB besides Ford. PK has based out of a 2-4 for over a decade now and I don’t see that changing. We have some unknowns at edge, but the odds of Finkley, Burke, and Tapp giving us average or better play at one edge spot are much higher than us having 3 competent off ball linebackers to start the season.
  4. I think you have to separate edge and interior DL. We've done great at edge the last two years. Interior DL has been subpar the last two years, especially with Ross looking like a miss. We will definitely need a portal interior DL next year. As for this year, I'm not nearly as concerned. Sweat and Murphy are great starting interior DL. Collins is good for a first backup and then hopefully Bryant or Bledsoe can move ahead of Broughton by the fall.
  5. Speaking of, Ferrari’s head of aerodynamics just resigned. lol. Supposedly he was not a fan of Binotto getting fired, or maybe it’s because he designed a dog of a car this year that understeers and eats it’s tyres like Vic Mackey’s girl eats a plate of Fritos and Mac n cheese.
  6. As a Leclerc fan, this makes me laugh and cry at the same time. Got dam I hate Ferrari so much.
  7. That team has given him a car that half the grid could’ve won 7 titles with and made him an absolute legend. The first time they go in the wrong design direction in a decade and he throws all those hard working people under the bus because they didn’t do what he said with the car? Yeah that’s a fucking Dick move. There’s no reason he had to bash them publicly.
  8. Still kind of a dick move on his part. He's usually subtle about it, but he does tend to blame the team or other people when he fails to perform.
  9. I have a bet with a friend that Beard ends up at one of the Mississippi schools in the next two years, so this is working out nicely for me.
  10. This is definitely not right. Ross has the athleticism to play strongside edge where Sorrell plays now.
  11. And even after all this, Mike Roach, EJ Holland, and Wescott Eberts still think Quay Davis was a huge miss by the Texas staff that will plague us for years.
  12. Your takes on all this are so weird. You're completely failing to take into account height and weight when you look at raw numbers. RoJo was in the 81st percentile for testing numbers of all RBs that have ever tested at the combine, and he was 8th for RBs at the Combine. Achane was 68th percentile in RAS and 50th in SPARQ because he's tiny. RoJo weighs 30 lbs more than Achane so of course he won't have the same raw 40 time, but he performed way better overall. And Babers has no fucking clue what he's talking about on stuff like this.
  13. If it was just the pods, they could fix it relatively quickly, but they have suspension/underfloor issues that are the bigger problem. Those don’t have a quick fix and, really, no one besides RB and AM know the best design for them.
  14. Sounds like the second coming of Demond Demas.
  15. I agree they should quit going down this path, I'm just saying it's not like they even have a clue what the right path is. The observable stuff, like sidepods does almost nothing. It's all about the underfloor. That's a huge difference between these aero regs and the previous ones. It's much harder to copy/catch up.
  16. I don't think it matters what "concept" Merc pursue. RB and AM have something figured out with the underfloor that no one else knows. Merc might be able to find more improvement going with a different concept, but unless they have some drastically better way to run the floor (which they could already be incorporating to their current concept), then they going to be way behind no matter what.
  17. Ferrari confirms the issue was with Leclerc’s ERS battery pack and neither unit is salvageable, so he’ll be taking a 10-place grid penalty in his second race after DNF’ing in his first. JFC Ferrari. get the cheap F1 TV sub and watch the entire 2012 season. It’s absolutely incredible and might be the best season of F1 ever. Almost every single race was great that year. Funny enough, we’d actually have that this year if RB didn’t exist or were on similar pace as the other 3 top teams.
  18. This is how I feel. I want to get into IndyCar, but I feel like every time I watch someone pulls the same bullshit and just shoved a faster driver into the wall with no penalty. McLaughlin did it to Grosjean earlier in the race but Grosjean backed out. On lap 71, he pulled the same bullshit, Grosjean doesn’t back out and they both crash out. Makes for a shit product when you’ve been invested in the race for 71 laps only for the two leaders it be gone. They need to start penalizing guys hard or watching the whole race feels really pointless.
  19. For now Ferrari is better than AM, but AM clearly knows the RB concept, and I expect they’ll continue this rapid development pace and pass Ferrari on pace at some point in the season. RB had Max backing off after about 7 laps. He could’ve lapped almost the entire field besides maybe 3 drivers if he wanted to.
  20. I hate Ferrari so got dam much. Fucking imbeciles.
  21. Harmless? Have you ever seen him drive?
  22. Ok so AM is for real. Newey/Fallows clearly have some secret about the floor no one else knows. I guess I’m rooting for a Nando WDC this year.
  23. It certainly seems like they should be interested in selling. Having a second team was just Dietrich dream purchase and they're not getting hardly any marketing value out of the team being Alpha Tauri. F1's revenue and viewership is sky high right now, and I'm not sure how much longer that will trend up. Plus, you have at least one well-funded group chomping at the bit to get in. It seems like a pretty ideal time to sell.
  24. Just imagine if McLaren could build a car anywhere near as well as they market it.
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