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Octavian

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  1. 53 minutes ago, 1leggedduck said:

    The little known "shit your pants" statistic is the determiner here. When dropping back while chased by crazy angry 300 lb dudes who are really quick does the QB 1) find the open guy and make a completion with no regard for his own body, or, 2) does he load his pants before tossing up a pic 6? 

    If Ewers is just marginally above average on the shit your pants stat, he is an improvement. I don't know if that's something you can improve on with practice reps. Guess we'll see at some point.

    I think you can pick up on this from Ewers his sophomore year vs his junior year. SLC had an amazing o-line his sophomore year and it showed - he had a 45-3 TD-int and 70%+ comp. They both dropped off his junior year but if you watch his games vs. the more talented teams, there are plenty of times where he stands in the pocket and delivers with 2-3 free rushers inches from his face and then gets pummeled after release. I don’t think that will be an issue.

  2. 3 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Sure, but despite the exception to the rule of Foster playing center at A&M last year, it's very difficult for a summer enrollee who's never played the position except for at one camp to be your starting center, especially when you're playing Bama week two. Angilau has repped center plenty in practice over the years and knows the offense and all of the protections and adjustments, which is the most important aspect of this aside from having clean snaps each time 

    Gotta think that either Cam or Campbell is an upgrade at guard. I know we’ve always been pretty hesitant to run counters because we just don’t have the athleticism there - this would definitely help there and on inside zone. Although we still need an upgrade at center for inside zone to work as well as Sark wants it to (or as wel as it worked for him at Bama).

  3. 1 hour ago, DFW Horn said:

    OH, YEAH!!!

     

    I don’t know if a complex mathematical model is required to tell you that, in a vacuum, it is extremely difficult to do worse than 5-7 this year with basically the entire big 12 losing tons of returning production and us getting a huge upgrade at QB. Although I do find it interesting that the FPI is basically saying mediocrity will be widespread next year given it is forecasting double digit wins at only four schools.

  4. I really don’t understand the whole Mims vs. incoming freshmen argument. In what world is a guy who has two years of college under his belt not a better option than a freshman? The guy is huge, clearly making progress based on what his coaches have said, and was behind an AA which warranted him not getting playing time. If you’re Flood, I’d have to think this is a no brainer. If anything, this gives the guys who are projects (like Cam Williams) more time to develop into the high ceiling guys they could be.

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  5. 6 minutes ago, Dr. Teeth said:

    If we get Manning, I think the package deals go away. Every kid will have an excuse. Cook and Owens will say they are going to do what is best for them. It will be based on A&M’s best offer. At least DJ’s dad is being honest. Hopefully we will still get a healthy group of WRs, but I doubt it will be the ones linked to Manning now. 

    I think the offset to this is that if we get Arch, the general willingness of BMDs to drop $$$ for NIL deals will probably be higher.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Tylerocks said:

    Kool-aid thread didn't even last 1 spring practice.

    Bunch of chicken little motherfuckers in here.

     

    Sack up.

    Based on the timing of Herman’s 10 win season, it’s always the years where everyone thinks we suck ass that we actually play well. So I’m okay with no Kool-Aid. It’s always the hypey years that end up disappointing.

  7. 14 minutes ago, quigley said:

    @Tex Pete I encourage both of you to dig just ONE millimeter deeper on the problem. Yes, nursing salaries are going up. That isn't the problem.

    Complaining about nurses salaries is problem #1, especially now, when thousands of nurses have died from on the exposure caring while they were caring for people.Early in 2020, in NYC, is a particularly instructive example of why you either pay for nursing or people die. Staff shortages, among other shortages, wrecked NYC hospitals. This is why death rates (case fatality rates) specifically in NYC at that time are higher than at any other point in the pandemic. And your care suffered whether you had the infection or not because there wasn't staffing for other standard services because those services were redirected for care of infected people.

    Problem #2 is that hospitals in the NE didn't lose money during 2020 and 2021 because Federal funds bailed them out so that's how we all pay for it. Ask your wife's boss. And nursing salaries in the NE cities, relative to cost of living are worse than other parts of the country at baseline. Ask you wife's boss about these staff. And why was it a necessity that hospitals make money specifically in during this time when other industries didn't? Hospital closures have accelerated with with increasing corporate ownership in the space. It's because of thinking about shareholders, not patients.

    When you're sick you'd gladly pay for someone to care for you. Hopefully there are nurses trained and available to do this. Paying them for their board skills, now in a time when they risk illness and death, is the least we can do.

    Lol. “Skin deep”.

    1. The primary cause of high death rates was the city running out of ICU bed capacity/ventilators - you can ask literally any nurse in NYC and they would tell you that. Hiring 5,000 nurses wouldn’t have helped at that point.

    2. Yes, Congress approved $300B for hospital aid but this went in concentrated amounts to profitable hospital chains that didn’t need it and ran out. A lot of hospitals still closed in 2020/2021, particularly in rural areas, because the funding didn’t get allocated to them.

    This isn’t the hospital/COVID/nurse pay thread so if you feel the need to continue, feel free to DM me.

    (No CR)

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