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  1. I think he's referring to the 2018 Senate race that Beto lost by 2.5% FWIW, the Democratic primary might as well have been uncontested for how feckless the other candidates were.
  2. Maybe? What measurables are we talking here? The whole "Goosby to the NFL" is one parts legitimate conversation, and two parts Burton/Gerry running with an ESPN report from a "draft expert" whose experience is making listicles for content farm Bleacher Report.
  3. I think it's because we're both unable to buy in on your stated presumption that a contested primary results in weaker candidates that you present as if it's prima facie evident. You can blame it on fascists in charge all you want; I'd rebut that the same group of assholes keeps getting elected because they are winning the majority of votes in fairly clean elections. Even if they are rigging elections, you're not going to convince the public of it when there remains significant support for the incumbents. The best thing Talarico or any Democrat can do for the party, for the state, etc., is focus on being popular.
  4. Eh, I have mixed feelings here. Would you rather make a pariah of Cuellar and have him join the GOP? I think I’m willing to overlook a little corruption if it preserves a path to power that helps expose it in the White House.
  5. I’ll say this in defense of Nahlin-at least he’s willing to slightly risk access in order to report on the team. By comparison, Burton’s unwillingness to criticize UT or its staff in any regard is like a little kid closing his eyes and stuffing fingers in his ears to imagine the bad man going away.
  6. Translation: John Bianco sent Nahlin a DM, called him a bad name and promised zero access.
  7. I'm not sure that means anything, as they've said almost all of the outgoing portals are practicing (including Stroh). Maybe that's more out of financial obligation than some other reason.
  8. I know we're supposed to think these guys are super jaggy, but we're also losing a lot of depth/development pieces in the secondary. Right now our in-house options are Jonah Williams to replace Taafe and true frosh Zelus Hicks. 2nd string nickel is a walk-on who's major contribution is making the honor roll twice. In the Big 12. Obviously this exaggerates things because we can move guys around (Gerry and Bobby think Kobe Black goes to safety, for example), but I think it's going to be hard to recruit back-ups into programs, which basically means you're churning through portal dudes every season and selling them on playing in a rotation (and then they portal back out when it's clear they don't have the athleticism/experience to start).
  9. From what I’ve seen, he not assignment sound, which isn’t terribly shocking for a first year player and reputedly Sark’s offense requires more versatility on the line than some others (he wants to be multiple). That, plus a lack of athleticism means he can’t play strong, even against smaller players because his technique falls apart if he can’t lock on a DT. This leaves a lot of free rushers as he tries to arm block, and when it’s in the A gap it forces the center over and he’s got a bad angle there, too. He might be fine as a senior but he’s a bad eval as a player if he can’t provide meaningful snaps after 3 years on campus. I think it’s also pretty clear that there’s eval/scouting malpractice that’s more structural, I.e., maybe prioritizing size over every other characteristic is dumb.
  10. I can’t tell if you both agree with me that Talarico has some real weaknesses as a candidate and worry that Crockett might expose them, or think him invincible and therefore any challenge is unworthy of him. Regardless, I’m on team @Bozo_Casanova on this-he needs the testing and we just had all the evidence in the world that annointing a candidate, essentially forgoing a primary leads to a bad result.
  11. Why not? Texas has 4 million or so African Americans, at least half of whom are voting age, and Crockett looks and sounds far more like them than Talarico does. You think he’s entitled to their vote just because Cornyn is awful in the kitchen and Paxton is a felon in a just universe? I bet of those 2.3 million (old data, 2015 census), maybe 10% could even name who is running and Talarico needs help getting his name out. Who would you rather he be facing in the primary?
  12. I don't think it's that simple; I'd rebut they have a fair pulse on the majority of their constituents that are afraid of change and would be willing to punish the party that impairs choice or results in higher costs (even short-term). We've argued on this over decades on various threads. If you want to get voters on board you need to stand-up a public option that has all the current upsides and that doesn't appear to be what the Affordable Care Act produced, even though a lot of those surveyed are happy with the care they receive under it.
  13. He's not very fast twitch*, albeit the way that Kwiatkowski uses his ends usually includes someone who is a bit of a tweener opposite more of a rush end (i.e., he was a good fit for the role). I think the NFL tends to want more versatility and athleticism, which you can see any time you're looking at Colin Simmons, for example, to use as a comparison. *you mentioned "test well"--I'm presuming this is fairly well revealed at the Combine, pro days, etc.
  14. CSB Warning... So in, I think 1999 I spent the summer working on a ranch in Granby, CO, and I and a bunch of the staff attended the best concert I've ever been to--Red Rocks Amphitheater, Mavericks opening, followed by Dwight Yoakam, and finally Willie as the closer. One of the girls that was with us (also on staff) disappeared during the Yoakam set, coming back later to tell us that she had her own ride back to the ranch. That ride wouldn't bring her back until about two weeks had passed, and she explained she'd been traveling on the Mavericks tour bus as a groupie/band aid.
  15. Pretty crazy how good he was at limiting earned runs striking out only 6.9/9 over his career. I remember reading BA back in the day and anonymous scouts claiming he could be straight from high school to the majors based on he defense alone (when he was drafted the first time by the Expos).
  16. Wasn't it already being used as one of the pillars? If not, how convenient to have an extra rock lying around. I'm a little unclear how the rocks jail IT when he appears able to go into town whenever he wants. Granted, I was in the USMC and not the Air Force, but it would seem that dismissing an insubordinate officer who just pulled a gun and threatened to shoot a lieutenant colonel and a general would be slightly irregular, no? Maybe that's more normal in the Air Force in the 50's, in spite of the fact said officer is a minority in a presumably far more intolerant environment. My favorite part of the AVClub review was to mock the tribe having a congratulatory meeting when they took literally zero action.
  17. Apparently I have more in common with Mamdani than a love of kabab.
  18. I'm just totally befuddled that this board has defaulted into a position that Talarico's candidacy is hindered by having a primary opponent. No one was claiming he was doomed running against charisma vacuum Allred. Presumably surly would believe competition good in other arenas...
  19. Money? Also, the cause of his departure wasn’t necessarily his performance, it was general Mack Brown fatigue and the defense fell apart. I doubt he’s nursing a grievance even if it meant he had to spend the next two seasons in exile in Blacksburg.
  20. If I'm Sarkisian I'd make slapping people from Louisiana one of the job requirements.
  21. So what does that look like, exactly? She calls Talarico a dork and claims she's the best fighter for those opposed to MAGA? You think that shielding him from that makes him a stronger candidate in the general? You're carrying this sense of frailty across multiple threads--what scores you so much about Jasmine Crockett?
  22. It really is and I think every episode has more problems than the last, I.e., peeling the onion has the effect of showing how flawed it is rather than making the story richer. I just can’t suspend disbelief when multiple characters act in ways that no rational human would outside the confines of a plot that demands it.
  23. Brother, your entire post is replete of histrionics, from Talarico having a chance to the fault lying with the party. If it’s somewhat soothing, I think Crockett’s appeal is limited in areas that polling will soon reveal AND Talarico desperately needs someone in the race that appeals to voters besides the over-educated, terminally online that populate this board.
  24. LCHorn

    Senate 2026

    It’s hard to appear of the working class when you’re a Harvard grad, Teach for America alumni. That said, I think it’s also worth pointing out that our working class is much different than the post industrial, Yankee and union friendly group in Maine. It’s hard to convince a first gen Mexican American who’s driving a truck in South Texas taking sand and water to the drill sites making $130k a year with no college that he’s been screwed by the economy. Moreover, there’s ten other guys that work on that dudes crew for less money but can look at the truck or house he’s able to afford and believe them attainable. See above. Also, what draconian immigration tactics in the valley? The real shit is in Chicago, LA, etc. The Valley is the same as it ever was and everyone that lives down there has a friend, cousin or neighbor in law enforcement or the border patrol. They* don’t think of themselves as one, two, three generations removed from the illegals and don’t default to sympathy for their plight the same way we do. *they is overly broad but I’m trying to capture the consensus opinion. Anyway, my point is that relying on a playbook that’s meant to capture minority discontent has had ample opportunities in the field and it wasn’t worked. I think that’s partially what informs @Bozo_Casanova’s recommendation to be cool and funny-these voters aren’t making decisions based on policy preferences and the groups that are mostly unhappy with the status quo are already going to vote Dem or are perpetually unhappy and will never vote Dem. If you’re cool and funny you at least have a fighting chance and you’ll stand out from a bunch of old white dudes that look like high school vice principals.
  25. LCHorn

    Senate 2026

    I don't think it's really that hard--someone like Platner that codes working class, real, and is a good communicator will do well. I like Gina Hinojosa (alot, she fine), but bonus points if they aren't coming from Austin and don't have the more obvious taint of virtue signaling Texas Democratic loser on them. I'm a little disappointed that Houston doesn't seem to be a good laboratory for building candidates for anything statewide, mostly ceding that to Dallas. I like Talarico, too, but I'm expecting him to get trounced and hopefully put to bed the secular fever dream of a Christian liberal candidate that reveals the emptiness of the Christian right and wins elections.
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