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Dbeasy

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  1. So I had to rewire my tvs and stereos to handle dropping Uverse and picking up YouTube tv. There are some complicated settings that are very poorly described in the tv and stereo manuals. Anyway, I started running into some issues with sound output to the stereo. Two one minute sessions on ChatGPT immediately solve multiple issues. It was incredible. It told me every setting, step by step, for all devices, to solve multiple sound issues. Amazing. I would have previously spent hours on Google and in the manuals trying to figure out the solution. ChatGPT is a game changer.
  2. I’m not defending anything. You said it yourself. No one seems to know much about the injury. All Oklahoma said was that he’d be out for awhile and return later in the season. Why are you so angry?
  3. Kurtis Rourke of Indiana played two weeks after thumb surgery last year. Have you heard something from inside the program?
  4. This isn’t my opinion. It’s Klatt’s. Take it up with him.
  5. The only point of my post was to share an observation by a pretty smart ex-player and current announcer, Klatt, that he believes Tech is really on to something to deal with really good defenses. Given Texas’ struggles the last year or so with Georgia and OSU defenses, I found it interesting. I think we’ve all been conditioned to believe that the Sark offense is superior because it does perform well overall, it helps recruiting, and at times looks great. Tech maybe has found another approach that looks promising. I would guess no one else is doing it because it’s not yet proven, and you’d have to know all three schemes to create it, which isn’t easy. edit: oh, and as far as using LLM’s to game plan and call plays, it’s already happening.
  6. It’s weird how this thread went down the path of “Arch is the problem”, rather than discussing the Sark scheme vs what Tech is supposedly doing. My original comment wasn’t specific to this year. So, in the interest of getting back to the original comment by Klatt, here is what a combined Leach, Malzahn and Briles offense looks like compared to the Sark Pro/West Coast scheme, which has some complexity,according to an LLM analysis: Leach (Air Raid core) Philosophy: Simplicity, small playbook, repetition, high completion %. Signature Elements: Mesh, Four Verts, Y-Cross, shallow crosses, spacing concepts. QB Role: Quick decision-maker, distribute ball, throw accurately. Malzahn (Power Spread tempo) Philosophy: Play fast, wear out defenses, force misalignments. Signature Elements: Inside zone, power, buck sweep, QB run game, jet sweeps, RPOs. QB Role: Must be a run threat, making zone-read and RPO decisions. Briles (Baylor wide-split vertical spread) Philosophy: Maximize horizontal space to open vertical shots. Signature Elements: Ultra-wide WR splits, deep choice routes, glance/slant RPOs, power run paired with vertical bombs. QB Role: One- or two-read throws — if safety creeps, bomb it deep. A Hybrid “Leach + Malzahn + Briles Offense” It would look something like this: Base Identity: Air Raid passing core (simplicity, repetition, QB-friendly concepts). Run game from Malzahn (power spread, tempo, QB run threat, jet sweeps). Formational stress from Briles (extreme splits to force defenses to declare coverage and create space). Tempo & Install: Playbook size: Small (like Leach/Briles), maybe 20–25 core concepts. Play speed: Malzahn-style hurry-up, one-word calls. Execution: Drill same plays endlessly until automatic. How it Attacks Defenses: Horizontal stretch: Briles’s extreme WR spacing widens the field. Vertical stretch: Air Raid Four Verts + Briles deep shots keep safeties honest. Run-game stress: Malzahn’s inside zone, QB power, and sweeps force defenses to load the box. Tempo stress: Defenses have no time to sub or disguise coverages. QB Responsibility: Make simple RPO/zone-read decisions (Malzahn). Identify coverage leverage pre-snap using wide splits (Briles). Execute quick timing throws and progressions (Leach). Must be mobile enough to be a run threat. What It Would Look Like on the Field Formation: WRs spread almost to the sideline (Briles). Tempo: Snap ball within 10–15 seconds of play end (Malzahn). Play Call: One-word code (e.g., “Vegas” = inside zone + glance RPO + backside mesh tag). Options Built-In: QB can hand off (Malzahn), Throw quick glance/slant to WR if DB is off (Briles), Or hit a mesh/spacing route if pressure shows (Leach). ✅ Bottom Line: This hybrid offense would be simple to learn (like Leach/Briles), brutal to defend (like Malzahn/Briles), and adaptable across talent levels. It would stress defenses in every dimension — width, depth, tempo, and assignment discipline.
  7. I feel the Texas offense is missing a component. They get shut down against teams with strong DLs. So it was interesting to hear Joel Klatt talking about the Tech offense. He said he’s in love with what they are doing, that they’ve taken the Leach offense, combined it with the Gus Malzahn running game and the Briles deep game to create an offense that can respond to whatever a defense tries to stop. I don’t know specifically what that means, but it sounds intriguing and now I want to watch Tech play to see what they are doing. They also won against Utah with a true freshman backup QB who supposedly played great. So it has to be an offense that isn’t too difficult to learn.
  8. So I’m using YouTube tv for the next few days. I’ve been using it off and on over the last month. However I can’t figure out how to go right to a channel i want to watch. For example, on cable I would just type in a channel number. How do I go right to cnbc, for example?
  9. In the last few weeks, OU fans and much of the sports world had become delusional about OU. I actually heard an OU fan say this is their best team in 15 years and that the only reason they haven’t been great every year was because of QB issues. GTFO with that lunacy. Mateer was the Vegas Heisman favorite? GTFO of here. Absolutely ridiculous. Besides Clemson, who’s already crashed, OU was the most overhyped program in the country. And it’s not just bad luck that Mateer is hurt. As many have already said, the entire offense and how it worked was destined to injure him. We should know. We saw Tom Herman use the QB as a battering ram at OSU and Texas.
  10. iOS 26 goes me so much anxiety in safari. The tiny little search bar is a pain in the ass.
  11. I still don’t understand the extreme negativity regarding Texas right now. In retrospect, they played too conservatively against OSU and some things didn’t go their way. Arch hasn’t looked great but is looking better. This team is building momentum like an F5 tornado in Norman. In a few weeks we will be destroying good teams.
  12. Guy Ritchie is the best Director in the world. Fight me.
  13. 8 guys on a text chain. Not only was there not one text about the game, ALL 8 didn’t watch the game. We all had other stuff to do. Suck it, Jerry.
  14. The Aggies best football is always a bye week.
  15. I just booked this cruise for next year. Excited about going.
  16. Out of grad school I was hired by a company with an accelerated management program. It was a large company and there were only 12 slots each year. They hired at more than 12 different schools. They finally had to drop Harvard because the graduates were either too ineffective or too entitled to succeed.
  17. Terrific post. I’ve found that reviewing history not only helps identify ways to resist, it helps reduce some of the anxiety about what’s happening today. When I watched a show about Teddy Roosevelt successfully took on Rockefeller, Carnegie and other mega rich people to get America back on track it gave me hope a figure could emerge to lead the reforms against the current billionaire class and grifting crooked politicians, ie President.
  18. I can’t watch the game tonight, and it puts me in a bad mood when that happens. So to avoid that, can someone please type out in real time what is happening on every single play on the game thread?
  19. Baron von Steuben. He also introduced the bayonet to the Americans. It’s how they countered the fact that British could load ammo faster.
  20. This happening at A&M isn’t good for anyone in the state of Texas. It’s yet another demonstration that right wing nut jobs are in control of the state. And that means the State is no longer a welcoming place for LBGTQ, foreigners, minorities, and others who helped make Texas a great place. The talent is leaving. The talent is deciding to not come here. Brain talent, trade talent, and eventually it will include sports talent. The success of the United States was built on the backs of people of all types. When you shut them out you shut out success. Did any of you right wing nut jobs realize that a gay ex-Prussian officer was responsible for training the American revolutionary army to beat the British. He was one of the most important figures in the history of the United States in terms of making the American military competent.
  21. Those of you saying that booing doesn’t help weren’t at the sporting event where we as fans made a huge difference. The first part of the game they were playing terrible, so we booed them mercilessly. And you know what, in the second part of the game they really came around and played much better. In fact even my 3 year old was able to hit it off the tee.
  22. What about the bribes UAE paid in crypto to Trump for access to AI chips? I assume there is nothing that can be done legally about it, and I guess the public doesn’t care?
  23. Ignore the Texas hammer. He’s one of the dumbest people on the planet and you can’t educate the stupid. You have to get other people on the right side of this issue and then the morons like hammer will follow because they can’t think for themselves. They’ve been brainwashed by disinformation. Forget him. He’s worthless.
  24. I’m inspired by Clara Luper who almost single handedly improved Oklahoma City civil rights, while doing it peacefully. If you can get a bunch of dumb ass racist Okies to change, then it ought to work elsewhere.
  25. The Arab Spring a long time ago was Facebook driven as well. It’s the disinformation that’s ruined social media.
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