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  1. 17 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

    Still no Chris Warren III sightings I guess.  Dude had burned his bridges at Texas (or failed all his classes) and took the only path open to him, and now what?

    Between being slow, often injured, having a bad attitude and playing out of position I really cannot see what the reluctance is. 

  2. Anyone watching how we substituted and utlilized receivers situationally would be hard pressed to think we have done a good coach receivers. Not to mention watching a lot of top end players cool on us for completely understandable reasons. 

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  3. 4 hours ago, Get ln My Van said:

    Pretty surprised Holton hasn’t been drafted yet

    Anyone  surprised Holton Hill slid down the draft is either a complete moron or a Longhorn homer of the highest order. When you are so addicted to weed that it actually prevents you from playing for your team in college, NFL scouts are not likely going to suggest to a GM you draft that guy. 

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  4. 2 hours ago, Mo Horn said:

    So maybe they weren't so dumb drafting an extra wide receiver

    People who look at the draft in a one dimensional , semi-retarded way like several fans on this board have demonstrated maybe judge each pick without context but not everyone is that stupid. 

    Unless you are the New England Patriots who are one player away from a dynasty you should always look at the draft as a place to stockpile talent. Hell, even the New England Patriots who are usually one player away do not draft for need. 

  5. 2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    A team that drafts for back-ups fails. This has been a frustrating draft watching the Cowboys get a thousand WR’s, a QB they didn’t need and a backup RB. You find backups in the open market and on practice squads, not in the draft. 

    Going through the players they took today and looking at where they were projected, it's clear Dallas took guys who looked like value. The QB was a 3rd round projection and you need to think of him like an asset. Good teams stop drafting for need and draft for value and use those players as trade bait or look to trade someone one already on the roster. The RB in the 7th round? You rarely keep 7th round players anyway. You might as well go for the one who has the most inherent upside. 

    The draft is about accumulating assets. Teams that pick for need do not get it. 

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  6. Mallik absolutely made the wrong decision to leave. Until the very end he was a physical specimen with virtually no instinct for the position and he will be drafted as such. He could have benefitted the most from playing his senior year. 

    If Connor keeps falling or if he knew he was not a first round pick I bet he would have stayed. I think there was a lot of echo chamber/fan site group think that may have lesdhim down this path. If his height and wing span are the limiting factors, that should  not have been a revelation to anyone.  

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  7. 11 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    There are three ingredients to a high draft pick. Skill, Hype, Winning Team.

    you can use any amount or combination of those three ingredients. Hopefully it’s mostly skill as to why you are drafted that high, but usually the most skilled players will be on a winning team and will subsequently be hyped up. 

    However, being on a losing or average team hurts your draft stock. It’s a fact. Being on a lower level team hurts your draft stock. If that Boise State LB or UTSA DE played for Ohio State, they would have been Top 10 picks. Media hypes up the bigger team players. 

    Connor had Skill and Hype covered after his junior year. He was projected as a Top 10 pick. 

    His skill took a hit with bad film and injury his Senior year. There was no winning team to bump him up a little. So the Hype could only support him for so long before crumbling 

     

    I must have slept abd missed Connor’s senior season. 

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  8. On 4/25/2018 at 3:19 PM, SimonBolivar said:

    Agree with this and I don't even care for college football anymore.

    Unless it is blood family, weddings are a horrible waste of time. Just send a nice gift. People get married so often anymore the idea of a big ceremony where everyone travels is such an outdated tradition. This has nothing to do with football season, really. People should not waste copious amounts of financial resources on what amounts to a lame dinner party with people you do not frequently see. 

     

  9. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    LSU is not going to be good in 2018. That isn't schtick and they're headed the wrong way. 

    -Their front 7 will be fine and they have the best LB in the SEC.

    -Greedy Williams is a stud at one CB spot but they have nothing on the other side and like 3 total on the roster. Delpit's having collar bone surgery and the safeties are going to be "okay".

    -They are thin as a leaf of paper on the defensive depth chart.

    -If they don't suffer a rash of injuries, they'll be top 30 defensively, largely a function of playing shitty offenses.

    -They don't have a QB. They have 3 shitty ones. Brennan is a stick and will probably be murdered in a game if he plays.

    -JAGs at TE and OL. 

    -TB will be solid, but losing Guice and the stud backup will be a problem that LSU hasn't had in over a decade.

    -The WRs will be talented, but underutilized. It's the LSU way. 

    -The schedule includes 4 automatic losses in Georgia, Miami, Bama, and Auburn. Florida, MSU, and Arkansas aren't gimmes. ATM, Rice. SE LA, La Tech, and Ole Miss ensure a modicum of 5 wins.

    -Numerous coaches are unhappy coaching under mushmouth and he's a micromanaging idiot.

    -The state and school are cash poor. They won't be able to afford the buyout for dufus.

    -O may legitimately leave Baton Rouge someday with LSU in smoking ruin. 

    This all bodes well for any team putting in work in the recruitment of LA players.

    Would you say LSU will gargle your balls? 

    Seriously though, I’m bearish as hell on LSU. Their offense is going to be doing a lot of gargling and their head coach has an IQ somewhere between Forrest Gump and Corky from Life Goes On. 

  10. 5 hours ago, Disco Missile said:

    Very disappointed with both Young and Carter in the O/W game. I'm hoping it was because it was just the 4/21 hangover, but even that is a bad omen.

    Young was our only bright spot at RB last year. Carter did well for several games, but Young was better. 
    I don't understand Porter. He has talent but it doesn't show on game day. Meanwhile Yoder the walk-on and Houston shine in the spring. 

    He is Tre Newton 2.0. Very good in practice, does all of the right things but only athletic enough to go as far as the play is blocked. The textbook definition of JAG. 

  11. It is still creepy as hell to see grown men tweeting at 17 and 18 year olds. I do not know what the social norm is but grown men shoukd stay away from minors on twitter in all cases. 

    I assume the offer is somewhat of an attempt to get Wilson on board? 

  12. 10 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    "What happened to Texas' momentum? Seemed like there was plenty of it but now… not so much. -- TimmyLonghorn21"

    Right after a weekend where our two biggest rivals had spring games and we didn't host anyone intentionally. Idiots.

    I think he is referring to the fact that Wilson and Leal were supposed to be Texas bound. We also had a nice fansite narrative mocking A&M’s “fauxmentum” when in reality they were building momentum. 

    We have real recruiting compeition now and it is probably not going to get any easier unless we start winning. 

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  13. 19 hours ago, TornACL said:

    This Manhattan real estate tycoon negotiation bullshit might work on condo developers, but I've yet to see any evidence that this slipshod approach gains us anything in the game of international trade. 

    This is where I am at.. The blustering and bullying people into submission tactic is not going to work against China of all people. They would literally allow a million people starve to death to not cede any ground to the USA. This was not a well thought out plan that will backfire and cause a lot of political damage. 

  14. 2020: The race to see which candidate is more populist. 

    Trump is going to have to overcome being a very unpopular President but I am not sure the strategy is to go even more populist to try to beat him in an election. What is she going to sell to the Midwest? The US economy is leaving you behind due to unfair trade policy! I know the other guy said that but I'm not as mean as him. 

     

     

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