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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
closetojumping replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
When you get off your meds and get loose from the orderlies, you really are exhausting. You presented two concepts. 1) If player X didn't go to Texas, no one here would even be cheering for him. 2) Everyone cheering for him is projecting success at the next level for no reason, all of the objective stats and facts point in my arguments favor, potshots at maga and comparing those folks to posters in this thread for whatever reason, blah blah blah. I addressed concept 1, which no sane person not on a manic rage-posting streak would argue against. I have no interest in further hearing you about this if you wish to challenge it because you'd be wrong on it and it is a mindnumbingly stupid take that you should have never posted in the first place. I ignored concept 2 because I reject the premise. You've provided no evidence to secure a genuine response that a bunch of posters here are calling for Ewers to be successful at the NFL level simply because they're Ewers fanbois. Note: this isn't an invite for you to go back through the more than 100 page thread and find shit people said hopefully about him in the past. I've been on the past 4-5 pages of this shitshow and I don't see much of that, if any, and it is absolutely nowhere near a consensus POV even if your amped up ass finds a needle in the haystack and you want to come back and "OH OH OMG SEE SEE!! THIS GUY DID IT!! RIGHT HERE IN THIS ONE POST IM QUOTING! THIS GUY DID IT! BOOM! MIC DROP!!" whatever perceived nugget you've managed to locate. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
closetojumping replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
You're correct that I am too intelligent for that dumbass take, which is why I didn't make it. Do you really wish to get into a game of rhetorical cat & mouse with me? You've presented a false premise and you've done it so cheaply that I don't feel like dignifying with a thoughtful response. -
The OLB/Edge responsibilities will be more experienced and deeper, that will help. The LBs are running 2 deep at starter level. We know that the safeties will play run responsibilities well. Baker did an excellent job with the interior last year. Hindsight is your position regarding Broughton and Collins. This time last year, hope was our strategy on both guys. Collins always had potential, but potential doesn't pay the rent. Broughton sucked until his JR year and then he flashed being potentially above replacement as a SR if we were lucky. And then no one knew shit about Norton or Lole and everyone was wringing their hands. The 5 guys brought in at DT don't all have to hit. It sounds like they're all pushing for PT along with January though, so, yay! for us. How many preseasons and off seasons in a row do we need to bawl all over ourselves with worry about the DT room before we just trust that the staff knows what they're doing and, if they like what we have, we should as well? My number is 2. I am out of off seasons for that handwringing with this regime. Regardless, we'll know whether our thinking is folly on the first drive of the game for OSU if Day is worth his salt, and I think he obviously is. They're going to run right at Simmons several times and make him, and the Texas staff, make absolutely sure that he's a 3 down Edge.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
closetojumping replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Has it occurred to you that maybe you're not presenting some enlightened take on Ewers to most of us? I've only watched you post for 20 years, so the question is rhetorical. It's not a revelation that people would cheer for a guy who played for their program when he gets to the next level. It's not a revelation that the majority of those same people would have no interest in cheering for that same guy at the next level if he didn't go to their school. There are very few players in the NFL or MLB, who aren't on my pro teams, that I would ever cheer for unless the player went to Texas. I don't understand why you think this is some amazing point. Is this a serious question? He returns again and again because you just don't get it, man, and he really, really fucking needs you to get it. He is going to tilt at this windmill for as long as it takes. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
closetojumping replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Well, your mother was really fat and I wasn't, so, you know, the insult worked in that instance. -
How many more replies from BO&W where he ignores your points and keeps hammering home that the move was only about the coaching room rift will it take before you realize that you’ve been wrestling a pig in a muddy pig sty who is enjoying himself as you just get filthier and filthier? I’m setting the O/U at 5.5.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Inside the article, they talk about the offense shit-talking the defense when they're playing well also. So, no, the dude isn't changing Venables' culture across the board, he's just creating a fissure within the program. Idiots forgetting that fall camp is a zero-sum game and building division within their org is a new one for me. When things start to fall apart, I'm fully expecting to hear reports of Venables doing some sort of blindsided Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka maneuver in which he knocks Arbuckle into a coma via a mid-air assault. The aftermath will include the entire OU defense and its staff doing some sort of jungle dance circling Arbuckle's limp, nearly lifeless body. Mateer, in crutches on the opposing sideline, begins to slowly and quietly tear up while pining for Pullman. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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Here is what the public is doing on the betting side, per Action Network, where I have a subscription: 64% of the bets are on Texas. 71% of the money is on Texas. They're tracking 37,678 bets for that data. They've also stated that, as of now, both the sharp action and the expert picks are majority Texas by a good margin. KJ Lacey is 5'10", 175 with a great arm and a ton of moxie. He's arguably a better QB with the same body as what ATM will be starting against UTSA.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Spoilered below is a hagiographic paean written about Ben Arbuckle and his "culture of joy" that he's installed for the offense at OU. This guy hasn't called a play yet and they're celebrating him as the second coming of Lincoln Riley. They've taken to apparently wild celebrations in the end zone after each time they score in practice. I'm sure there will be plenty of that against the Salukis, but we'll see how much "joy" is rearing its head on the rest of the schedule. -
I share this view and I hope we're correct. In my mind, the "logical" path for anyone serious about making the CFP is to schedule more seriously in the OOC. Sankey and CDC both see it that way and have publicly said as much. I would love to play Nebraska again, but assume it is just a pipe dream. I despise those idiots and I love beating them and being blamed for their demise. It would be a big national match-up if Rhule keeps them in ascent and they'd shit themselves as soon as Texas stepped off the bus. There are few match-ups among the legendary brands and schools where I think that premise is true, but I do believe it between Texas and Nebraska. They've made Texas something bigger than it is, which is a somewhat remarkable feat.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Didn't know where to post this and hadn't seen it until today, so here it goes. 247 posted their updated talent composite rankings heading into the season. Link is below. Highlights: -walk-ons like Endries and Taaffe do not contribute to the scores due to the rankings being based on high school recruiting. -STs guys who did get scholarships are counted, so guys like Lance St. Louis and Will Stone do count. -Those are two flaws with the system and that could create an imbalance for any school that doesn't develop, or portal, walk-ons and does not offer ST players. -Development of talent is pretty key, obviously. This ranking does a decent job of inadvertently highlighting who does and does not develop the talent on their campus. I know I'm biased, but ATM and OU both stand out as programs on this list who are performing below their ranking on an annual basis now. Auburn, Florida, and Miami are also pretty hideous developers if you just go off rankings versus output. ATM and Auburn are by far the worst. -The falloff from Texas at 4 to Oregon at 5 is rather large. Georgia is way out in front, but a big portion of that is that they've got so many more signees on their roster. -You can argue that there are at least 3 tiers on this list. The first 4 teams should be considered CFP favorites. 5-16 should be considered CFP regulars and 17-down is everybody else. Now, is that infallible? No. ATM and Auburn immediately debunk that premise. But as shorthand, for me at least, the premise makes sense in terms of generally matching my expectations. https://247sports.com/college/texas/team/texas-longhorns-football-43/roster/ -
I'm sorry, but Jaggy McJaggerson is not going to be a priority this weekend. Run inside, run outside, jet sweeps, hit Wingo, Moore and Endries, win by 11 and leave town. They're going to play 21 and 12 personnel as much or more than 11. Who are you taking off of the field in order to keep McJaggerson out there? A better blocking TE? One of the talented RBs? "Don't throw it to that guy!"
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This is mostly correct. There’s a strong potential for symbiosis between OTF and Texas athletics that doesn’t exist for UT anywhere today.
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God help me, I have to spend a night in Fayetteville!
closetojumping replied to locodos's topic in Food and Travel
I couldn’t get a consistent signal a few years back while driving from Houston to Memphis. Waze sent us an alternate route than our normal path due to some massive wreck and then we lost connection. I thought I was steadily driving deep into east Texas. By the time I was able to get coverage again, we were on some Louisiana backroad nearing the Arkansas border. That shit looks the same for hundreds of miles around. The drive between Little Rock and Memphis is as bland and generic as any really anywhere. True for whoever mentioned that. -
You’re heading to the portal? Headed to a safer haven where you can be the tallest midget, eh? With you leaving Surly and joining Orangebloods, you’ll be raising the collective IQ of both places.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
closetojumping replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
I saw one of the rants on that a year or two ago and have been purposely fucking with all of ways in which DE/OLB/Edge can be termed ever since. I’ve also taken to capitalizing positions across the board and I can almost see certain posters’ eyes twitching.
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