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  1. Why do people on the football board do this? Had he led a great drive that gave us the possibility of scoring at the end, then you could crow. He didn't. Just coming close would prove your point, but that didn't happen either. He didn't even look like he'd turned a corner in the first half of OU. The sun rose burnt orange after that. Sark was vindicated in sticking with Manning. One could argue forever about the past games, but that does nothing. We'll never know what would have happened with Caldwell no matter how many times certain elements believe their absolute declarations have any weight. There is a strange, to me anyway, parallel sport for some sports fans where careful noting of their own and other's opinions over time leads to petty victories of declaring someone else wrong when you were right. There are grudge matches and rivalries and even cheating (specious recollections of other's words) in this sport. It often seems to supersede the sport on the field. It's what makes the football board often insufferable although the worst aspect is repeating the same opinion unsupported declaration (they're opinions in the form of predictions) in the same words over and over on as many threads as possible.
  2. I believe Arch's struggle was affecting the team which jumped to horrible life against Florida. Before OU, I saw the usual habit of Arch running around pre-game encouraging the team, and I wondered just how hollow it felt to the other players. Arch is sincere to the core, so it was not mere show. My point is that the team has spent weeks trying to encourage him. That gets old when you begin to believe it won't matter. Arch's successful plays in the second half, improvised or otherwise, made him inspirational rather than struggling. The offense began playing with more belief and fed on Arch's plays where he turned third and hopeless into a fucking first down by gunning a perfect pass to the sideline while on the run. Everything changes. I hope we can do this becomes fuck yeah, we're doing this, motherfucker. Oddly, getting a couple of scores ahead seemed to have a temporary negative effect on stellar defensive performance. Were we suddenly more cautious and going victory defense? I don't know, but that changed, too. The end of the game was a slaughter. It was beautiful.
  3. Some people were hearing what they wanted to hear rather than what was actually said or written. Persons shouldn't believe their own inaccurate paraphrasing.
  4. They don't play Alabama, Georgia, or Ole Miss. They did look good tonight against the team that whupped us last week, but we didn't look like the team Florida whupped last week. Gonna be a wild ride this year for everybody.
  5. Well done, Arch! A corner may have been turned. I feel like when things went poorly on a play, he abandoned the play plan and just looked for ways to move the ball down field. His improvised throws were excellent. Great day!
  6. Am I doing that or do you mean the person I was responding to? I don't see you (or myself) as Arch haters. I'd be delighted to see Arch destroy OU. Now that I think about, you're responding to me saying "we." Sorry if I errantly included you in something. I do appreciate the lessons. All is well.
  7. Surrender accepted.
  8. Always like your educational posts. Seriously. I agree with the above. I'll just add the prospect of your business complex changing like this: a few days after an inhuman Hamas attack on Israel that killed (horribly) a few hundred Israelis would be part of the equation. You didn't kill or rape or mutilate or abduct anybody. If, magically, Gaza could be returned to what it was, which sounds pretty interesting, I'd be reluctant to even vacation there for free. You and I argued bitterly in the days of the initial retaliation by Israel. Our dispute was about proportionality. Who knows which of us was correct in that moment? Maybe it was proportionate, maybe it wasn't. Some level of bloody, brutal vengeance would be unavoidable. Over time, Israel erased any doubt. Netanyahu's motives were merely justified by the right to vengeance. And here we are. It's hiroshimaesque.
  9. Well if you want to take the presumptuous and doubling down on name-calling as a position, have some rancor. 1. Dismissing what someone says as stupid, moronic, or idiotic based on a premise you don't really articulate says more about your mind than anyone to whom you direct your vacant claims. 2. You are so unjustifiably sure of yourself that you claim I am pretending about my opinion. I actually name my statements as opinions. You proclaim absolute truth supported by disdain for any who disagree. Here, eat dick, you fucking moron if you don't agree with me. Hey, I just crushed whatever you think your argument is. Neato! I guess that really is persuasive. 3. The main point I and others are making is not to take Arch down a dark road and bury him alive. Here's the line of reasoning. I know I'm wasting my time because you will destroy it by writing that I'm not serious and that my position is really really stupid. I'll likely weep. a. Arch Manning is objectively struggling to find open receivers and throw accurately to those he does find. Many promising completions have been limited by his ball placement retarding the speed of the receiver. b. We have lost twice to competitive teams (even though it's possible Florida won't be very competitive with anyone else). Many elements caused those losses. Pay attention now, other players poor play does not excuse the problems Manning has had as described in a. above. c. Amid the futile plays at the end of the game in hopes of scoring against Florida, Caldwell has to go in and makes the only competent QB play of that possession. d. It's actually not uncommon to play a player who has shown, in game, that his experience may pay off nicely by succeeding at some of the easy reads and throws that dog the starter. e. You don't fucking know how good Caldwell is. Nobody is saying he's VY. You keep harping on his time at Troy. The same coach that chose Manning chose this guy as a viable back up. Should I put more stock in Sark's evaluation or yours? (I know. I know. I'm just pretending that's a reasonable statement. Ya got me.) f. You defend your position like that skinny blond guy begged us to leave Britney alone. The difference is that he was joking. Enough with, oh he'll die behind that line, he tries so hard, he really isn't playing poorly, nobody in the world should be put in. Translation: stick to losing if it means I can hold my jackass position that not even God in heaven should bench him for a series. g. Yes, only a series or more if Caldwell moves the ball. That's all we're saying. Who is actually being unreasonable here? @Thatguy's analysis and explanation are persuasive. Your claim about the hopelessness of the one play perfectly illustrates your odd desperation. Deny your eyes all you want but maybe keep it to yourself. What's going on here is pretty much self-immolation. We're growing sad for you. I know for some this is tldr. For you, it's likely too long can't understand it. Now fuck yourself along and toss another spurt at the Arch altar.
  10. Damn you for making me keep reconsidering that word choice. You're right. Humiliation requires self-awareness which is rare among sports media types. They made fools of themselves is more apt as one needn't be aware of it for it to be true. That leads me to sportswriters make fools of themselves which is about as noteworthy as a dog shitting in the yard. Okay, I can check one thing off my obsession list. You're right about the rest, of course.
  11. Strong gif game today.
  12. Not exactly a formidable argument. 1. Maybe that's the problem and the point. 2. Hyperbole has a tough time on this board. Written without rancor, amigo. What exactly is he on the team for? How many guys do we have on the bench that are too small to play? This is a real problem. Fire Sark! I guess that's why Kyler Murray was such a failure. I doubt Lacey is even nearly ready, but, if he was the best QB, he should absolutely get the start and would be righteously resentful if he did not.
  13. Semites bicker and fight in that region for numerous reasons and always have. Blood feuds. Bouts of local imperialism. All garden variety stuff found across the world. Throw in religion and you have Sunni vs Shia vs Jewish vs sects I cannot name. I also cannot state anything about sustained religious hatred in the area, because I only have a notion about that. I sorta get the feeling that sometimes you can point to religious conflict because there happens to be such a distinction between parties opposing each other for other reasons. In N. Ireland, the fight did not start as a religious war; it was invader vs native. Anyway, that's my mild grasp of MidEast history.
  14. South Austin did us a favor by misspeaking. There were Jews and Muslims co-existing in Palestine up until the moment Israel was created and imposed on the area by the West. The rest is Greek tragedy cycle of revenge. Jews move to land promised them by people that don't own it. They are attacked by people already there. They naturally defend themselves. Revenge begets killing after killing after killing. Then you have to portray it for Americans as good versus evil. But that's a tragedy for another day.
  15. Yes. The idea that the brutality of Israel will make their victims tame is the same idea that leads us into long bloody struggles in someone else's country. The flaw in that is not recognizing what you do: people will react the same way I would. Kill my friends and family? You've made an enemy who is as brave, violent, and determined as you are. I don't see Gaza ever coming back. Pretty soon after the bloodbath/depredation/starvation campaign is over, the irony of a Jewish State doing this to another people will be razor keen.
  16. If you're whole country looks like Hiroshima, I don't a Marshall Plan rebuild will do the job. Just moving the rubble would eat up that kind of budget. At best, Gaza will be made barely livable as late as possible to encourage Gazans to leave. I think I saw that humanitarian organizations are striving to get 400 trucks of supplies into Gaza. 400 hundred trucks. That's how hard Israel is waging this obliteration. Four hundred trucks will touch hardly any of the starving, diseased, dying populace. If Israel were 100% unified behind this campaign, I'd find it hard to object to bombing them into a similar state as Gaza to make an example of the wages of tyranny. But, you know, we're not those guys anymore. We blow up civilian boats on the sea. Hey! We're a pirate nation!
  17. Don't blame him! Blame that buddy he has close to the tu program who fills him in.
  18. Gotta feed the zombies.
  19. I'm sure TV news is showing frequent live video of Portland to prove the absurd lying going on, right? This is almost as effective as having a panel argue both sides with video showing the same.
  20. I know my signal for him and Israel
  21. Thanks for responding and for the information. I share Brian Fontana's skepticism and viewpoint below. Israel has participated in talks for more than a year using their participation to blatantly carry on the obliteration of Gaza. They attack and kill journalists providing the thin stream of eyewitness accounts of what they're doing. Maybe the world leaders are swallowing their vomit and pride to praise Trump in hopes to move him to act with force. Imagine giving a peace prize to leaders from a country who abetted this: or deported persons demonstrating to stop it. Anyone associated with this is a war criminal. And, as I wrote above, this is the international community showing up just in the nick of time. Had they delayed any longer, things may have gotten really bad for the people of Gaza! In the meantime, all those stern warning and denouncements really helped! I would have used a UN force heavily backed by the US military to set up a beachheads for humanitarian relief and dared Israel to attack it. If Hamas attacked, fuck them, too. From there, if possible, keep establishing larger zones protected from attack. Maybe none of that shit would work, but that's where my head is. I'm fucking ashamed of my country and the West.
  22. Has Israel already delayed enough to complete their objective of making Gaza an uninhabitable wasteland? The "peace" negotiations seem to have been the most transparent of fig leaves to allow continued slaughter and famine. Without massive international aid and investment, can anyone really see Gaza rising from its ashes as a home for the surviving Gazans? Imagine offers of international aid after the world's nations dithered during the most brutal eradication of a people since Pol Pot in Cambodia. At least most of those countries didn't supply the bombs and ammo that killed the Gazans. We did. The greatestestest country in the whole widest world! Just ask us! Chock full of the free and the brave.
  23. I wish we had some kind of resigned sorrow emoji icon for responding to posts. I don't have tears, but I have the resigned sorrow in spades.
  24. Banned. With extreme prejudice.
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