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  1. Finally got around to Dog Day Afternoon.
    Pacino was great, obviously, but I was a little disappointed that Cazale didn't get to do as much.
    It's a very good movie, but I wouldn't rate it as high as other 70s classics like the two Godfather films, Chinatown, etc.

    Who would?
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  2. It seems to me that OL is the one part of the team that is the least amenable to quick fixes via the transfer portal, and no amount of NIL money can fully mitigate this.  Traditionally the best programs have had OL "pipelines" where freshmen, no matter how promising, tended to redshirt and take a year to eat massive quantities of food, work out, and learn the system.  The guys actually playing are upperclassmen who have been in the program for 3+ years.  Even if you can rob an all-star OL from a lolpoor school, he still will need time to integrate into the program to be fully effective.  That just seems to be the way it is

    Id take any 2 of the top 300 guards in college football.
  3. Watching the end of the Texas Tech game (a team who has spent some decent money by going after team captains at key positions) and seeing them beat year another opponent by more points than we seem to score in games—the announcer said “McGuire has started a culture here.” It seems like we have an unsafe and untrue slogan (all gas no brakes—which seems in real life like a shit driving strategy and also something we haven’t done except in a few games) as a “culture” and paying a lot of dudes. Yes we are Texas. But what is our identity? I submit we have none. 
     
    and as [mention=789]victory88[/mention] pointed out the months leading up to our season opener should have raised a ton of red flags. Spring practice? Ah fuck it. Spring game? Nah don’t need one. And while the teams poised to kick our ass were training like Rocky to take down Drago (teams that don’t have an endless pile of cash to blow that have to actually make good decisions on the players to fit their scheme) we seemingly sat there like King of the Hill when we didn’t even win it all last year. What is our identity other than a slogan and we have money to burn? And a bunch of dudes who aren’t gelling as a team bc our HC who ain’t never won a MNC as a HC thought this pro-style NFL fuck practice shit would fly. 
     
    i see other teams doing so much more for way less. If we are going to have a bunch of dudes just sitting there collecting a paycheck and coaches who seemingly didn’t have the first clue what these dudes can or cannot do before the season started and still don’t know now…now what? What is the culture? Keep everyone’s draft hopes alive? 
     
    The mess is Sark’s shit to fix. It’s his doing. He is in control of everything. Picking apart this thing or that thing or this player or that player doesn’t change  the fact that everything is underneath Sark. I don’t even blame the players. It’s coaching pure and simple. That requires some deep self reflection, a willingness to dig deep and ditch what ain’t working and pivot. To the strengths of the well paid dudes on our team. I don’t envy whatever they are attempting to do now as we are going into a major rivalry game. It would have to be seismic to stop the slide into the abyss of a shitty season. Can we salvage it? Why did it take 5 games and a bye week to figure out we are failing this badly? 
     
    slogans don’t mean shit. Unless ours means “someone cut our brake line and we cannot stop.” Sark is wearing too many hats and none of them seem to fit right now. I’d say get back to the fucking basics but we wasted the whole offseason. It should not be like this. Penn State BMDs are looking at the UCLA game and asking themselves “WTF?” Our press needs to be asking sark some hard questions. 
     
    OT but I found this weird: this entire season almost every game there is some new type of record that has been broken from like the 1950’s (like multiple teams and games) what gives with all these 70 year old records being broken this season in particular? 

    You killed it on this post
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  4. Browns' Stefanski to let week play out before deciding on QB2
     

    Cleveland Browns coach Kevin Stefanski on Wednesday was noncommittal on whether rookie Shedeur Sanders -- or practice squad quarterback Bailey Zappe -- would be the team's backup quarterback in the aftermath of trading Joe Flacco to the Cincinnati Bengals.

    Cleveland traded Flacco and a 2026 sixth-round pick to Cincinnati on Tuesday in exchange for a 2026 fifth-round pick, leaving Sanders and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel as the only quarterbacks on the active roster. However, Stefanski said he would "let the week play out [and] make a decision later" when asked about the QB2 role.

     

    One does simply beat out Bailey Zappe in the depth chart
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  5. Watch better movies. Also, in the field shit is allowed to grow out. But there was a concept mainly in Afghanistan of "blending in" that never worked. 
    I know a lot of SF dudes. Father, brother, #1 client were all group or more. All are clean shaven. 

    Blackhawk Down is about as good as it gets
  6. i'm okay with another season, but only with a completely different task force other than ruffalo.  that team is boring and wet behind the ears.  grasso will be dead or in prison, and the other two are uninteresting.

    Just plug Ruffalo and Pelphrey in the next True Detective as a palate cleaner from whatever that was last TD season.
  7. The secret Nazi base was on an island north of Crete in the Aegean Sea.  Assuming Katanga's ship left from Alexandria and had sailed for a day or more before it was boarded in the Mediterranean , probably not a ridiculous distance.  Assuming it was summer, surface waters of both of those oceans would be tolerable at periscope depth.  Is lashing oneself to the periscope of a Nazi sub with a bullwhip for an extended period far-fetched?  Yes. Yes it is.

    Kid, it aint that kind of movie.
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  8. The best bad solution is to put the best 5 run blockers. This offense is dead in the water from the getgo without a run game. Then you need playcalls that give them angles and has some variety and threat.

    Pass protection that can hold up in passing downs simply doesnt exist on this squad. And Arch cant make reads to take advantage even if they do. False blitz packages are killing him.


  9. I find myself wondering if I have aged out of this show (49). There is just nothing funny anymore other than the occasional laugh at JAJ’s Trump or Weekend Update.

    And for the love of god stop doing skits that have four people sitting at a table in a restaurant.

    The show has had the same format for 51 years. Opening monologue, mix of live and recorded sketches, weekend update, 2 musical numbers. It’s not exactly cutting edge. And to go viral, most of the time they rely on narrating the punchlines to make sure everyone gets it or nonsense humor. There’s nothing to miss.

    Given the combo of NBC suits, old man Lorne, and a massive cast and writers, it’s a dysfunctional mash of old corporate interests and neophyte actors struggling with creativity.

    Long story short, it’s not you, it’s the children who are wrong.
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  10. I feel pretty good, like the opposite of how Helobius must feel all the time.
    Great episode.

    Cant say I like that my horse coming in last. Not caring for all the storylines. Doesnt seem tight except to throw out red herrings and contrive drama. Like someone said - it’s trying too hard.

    With that said, all the performances are great. The action is basically to set up dramatic exchanges, not unlike when Shakespeare pits two adversaries on the battlefield so they can have some banter before getting it on.
  11. This.  In 64 years of watching Longhorn football I have NEVER seen a defense this poor at stopping the run.  Wide, off tackle, or up the gut we showed no ability to stop anything.  No way our talent can be that poor, the major problem has to be coaching.

    Dude, wtf are you talking about? I remember Rashad Salam getting over 300 yards against us. I remember Manny Diaz fire drill defenses. Remember the BYU games?

    This weekend’s abomination is not in the Top 100 worst run d performances, as bad as it was.
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  12. I think this is both writing and casting problem but Donald Glover’s comic quirky genius schtick in The Martian belongs in a shitty sitcom not a blockbuster movie.  

    Strongly disagree. Partly because it worked and also I never watched Community much, so I was unfamiliar with him at that time. Every scene he was in worked well, from drinking his piss by mistake, to patronizing his boss, to not recognizing the head of NASA.

    It’s a blockbuster movie that’s also highly regarded by critics and rewatchable.
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  13. Shocked they didn’t call Littleton for targeting on that first play.

    Chalk something up to the “Good” category. I didn’t think about the refs much. I have no recollection of what any of them look like or the sound of their voice.
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  14. Serr Criston Cole is the mole. Calling it now. I think he knows those state troopers that he called out during his toast at the bar. 

    If you mean Grasso, dude has a raging case of Catholic guilt and good guy. It’s unlikely hes the mole. There’s little reason for his scenes with Liz except to show it’s not them. It’s either Clinton or McGinty. We don’t know shit about them.
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