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Posts posted by Horn of Gabriel
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7 minutes ago, troph said:
The ONLY point of we would have won with Quinn today is to put to rest the idea that Sark left two national titles on the table out of some fealty to Quinn.
This can't be, because I know I've read multiple Derka posts on this thread about how Quinn was the 4th best QB on campus and Sark had "a fucking Manning" rested and ready on the bench.
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1 minute ago, Had Enough said:
There is the potential that opening game timing makes life more difficult too. A tad anyway. The 3rd down miss to Wingo on the last drive. Wingo needs to catch that. There may be an element to not throttling it down. We’ve all heard it said the most improvement occurs between weeks 1 and 2. Timing is likely part of that. You also can take a cue from Joe Burrow who played this preseason in an attempt to start stronger. Why do you think that is?
You play the schedule you get. Sayin didn't seem to have accuracy issues.
That last toss to Wingo can't be on him. You're asking a WR who has created separation and has nothing but green field in front of him to anticipate that his QB is going to put it short and behind and throttle down? That's dumb. Arch straight up missed that throw, it wasn't even behind it was WAY behind him, and Wingo had to stop and contort his torso just to get a finger on it. If it was on target that was a first down minimum and potentially even an explosive play.
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2 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:
I thought his pocket presence was already way better than Quinn and this was game 3 in a very difficult environment.
Long ball was a bad decision but accuracy seemed fine. Would've been caught if the second defender wasn't there.
Are you referring to the 1st one he threw into double coverage, or the 2nd one he threw that got intercepted?
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2 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:
Arch is truly the anti-Quinn in almost every way. It's almost bizarre. Think about it:
Arch's pocket presence was a very pleasant surprise. Stayed calm, shifted around, scrambled when necessary, kept his eyes downfield. Quinn was all happy feet and self-sacking.
Arch's short-intermediate accuracy was piss poor. Quinn was nails.
Arch's long ball accuracy is good (we think - really only one shot today which was well thrown but totally covered) while Quinn couldn't hit any of them.
Obviously total difference in athleticism.
Mmmm gonna have to disagree with you on some of these.
His pocket presence was OK and he didn't self-sack, which was good. But he did rush several throws and ended up airmailing or throwing them into the dirt.
The long ball shot to Wingo was bad. It was forced into coverage, it was under thrown, and it was to the inside where the coverage had leverage instead of the boundary where at worst it would have been incomplete.
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1 minute ago, Derka said:
yeah well there’s a whole bunch of objective observers who completely disagree with you. again, i can only assume that you all have completely purged QE’s play from your memory if you can’t realize that tOSU’s first half defense- blanketing our wr’s while the pocket held strong- would have seen quinn ewers repeatedly self sacking as he was as skittish as a baby deer on ice in the pocket, and as he had a penchant for turtling and freaking out whenever his first read wasn’t open, even when he wasn’t under any pressure. if QE was out there today he’s taking 8-10 yard sacks throughout the first half, and we’re down by double digits if not 2+ tds at half time. arch was really bad throwing the ball today, but he didn’t kill us in the pocket like quinn did routinely.
You're maximizing QE's bad and minimizing his good. Yeah he had self sacks. He also was elite at hitting the short/intermediate throw on target, which was a key missing element today.
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Just now, The_Great_Hornsby said:
Think of it this way, we played terribly and lost by 1 yard today. Defense is gonna keep us in games, just need the offense to improve (and they will).
Agree with this. But in the heat of the moment right now people are gonna say "that's aggy thinking"
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31 minutes ago, Derka said:
since the last game we played.
The last game we played the QB passed for 283 and 2TDs against the same team. That's a weird one to pick.
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It can be, and in this case was both the QB and the OC at fault.
OC faults:
- Ongoing stubbornness in the red zone and on 4th down
- Not taking the points after getting stonewalled
- Poor game planning: minimal bootlegs, waggles, moving the pocket. Seemed to play to Arch's weakness vs. his strengths.
- Pre-snap penalties
QB faults:
- Inaccuracy, even with minimal/no pressure in his face - I counted at least 4 throws just totally in the dirt and another 3-4 way over the head of the WR
- Forcing the throw to Wingo for the INT, coverage was there and throw was inside not to the boundary
- Missing wide open WRs to go to the higher risk option (first toss/fade in the end zone to Jaggerson)
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Why does every pass to the receiver damn near have to be perfect for them to catch it?
They don’t. But Manning didn’t just throw bad balls he threw uncatchable balls. Jerry Rice isn’t catching a ball in the dirt 5 feet in front of him, or a ball behind him as he’s running the opposite way in his route.-
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Catch the damn ball Wingo!
Shit ass throw way behind him -
Runs and check downs. Sark doesn’t trust manning to throw against this D
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1 minute ago, Laxtonto said:
I feel you but let's reserve meteor for aggy vs. ou or bama v. georgia.
This game isn't meteor worthy, it's more of a "I hope they run out of beer and everyone is sad" game
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That man on the street interview with the Irish was pretty funny.
"What do you think is Kansas State's mascot?"
"Probably... a tractor"
I mean they're not wrong
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29 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:
That first hat is Tennessee, ugly as fuck.
LOL I linked the UT coop page where they sell it
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On 8/20/2025 at 8:20 AM, heso said:
As a 14 handicap headed to 10, I’m now a 16 after a week in pinehurst.
so cool, how was the weather?
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There is flat-billed and then there is FLAT billed. For example, some might consider these Nike Texas baseball hats flat billed:
...which they are as compared to a traditional "dad hat" like this:
...but not to a super FLAT billed hat like this:
you could press that up to a mirror and not bend the brim.
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I'm trying to imagine the persona who signs up for this:
- Peaked in high school, used to be an athlete and is now bored in their day job and says "man, I just want to recapture that feeling I used to have..."
- Roid-raging crossfitter wants to go hit someone
- Napoleon-complex little man whose parents didn't want him playing football and wants to "show everyone"
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On 8/16/2025 at 11:36 PM, heso said:
A couple things, one already mentioned is flexibility. There’s a good chance you’re not rotating your hips enough so that you can use the strength you have.
Another thing a lot of people that struggle with power and/or an over the top swing do is they try to fire everything at the same time from the top of the back swing. The application of the strike from the wrists and arms fire to early and rather than a sequential addition of force, all of the force is spent too early leading to weak and inconsistent swings.
If you played baseball it would be the equivalent of striding and casting the bat behind you at the same time and then just dragging it through the zone. Or jumping, extending your arm and flicking your wrist all at the same time when shooting a basketball. There is a sequencing to it.
Something that helped me learn how to whip the club is turning your driver around and holding it upside down, with your hand at the hosel. Make one handed swings with each hand and hear where the whoosh of the club is the loudest. It should be just after where the ball would be, sort of in front of your lead foot. Make some swings getting the sound in the right spot and then try recreating that feel with the club turned around.
Imagine you were trying to pound a railroad spike horizontally into the trunk of a tree at shin height with a sledge hammer. You wouldn’t yank a sledgehammer back and then yank it down. You’d instinctively, because it’s heavy, gradually add force to assist gravity with the movement without ever thinking about it.
That’s why guys like Couples and Ernie Els made their power look so effortless. They have a nice smooth summation of force.
Also, since you squat and deadlift, do you power clean? Its a great way to train explosive power production.
My flexibility is shit; I had some shoulder issues on my L side a few years ago that continue to linger. I do stretch but could be more regular about it. I do power clean and play basketball often, so explosive force production is something I have some familiarity with, I just have the sequencing out of order for my driver swing.
Couples swing is so effortless, it's beautiful.
My big issue is sequencing...in all those examples, once he completes the take back in his backswing, there is a slight pause in the club and he transitions his lower body weight to his front foot to start the downswing. I'm relatively good at that in my iron swing but for whatever reason in my driver, I'm not - my body wants to start the swing motion in the club rather than the lower body. As a result I get really "armsy" and disconnected between my upper/lower body as they try to fire together and it warps the swing and robs power at best, at worst it sends the ball careening off to the left or right or tops it.
On Sunday my wife and I golfed our "home" course at Avery Ranch (we're not full members there but it's closest to our house). It was like I had never hit a driver before in my life. Eventually I backed off to 50% power on my swing just to try to hit relatively straight-ish. Finally around hole 12 it started to feel right. My irons and chips were great and my putting was improved, I only 3-putted I think twice in 18. Finally on the last hole, it all came together. Decent if short drive, my 2nd approach shot I was about 10 feet behind a 10 foot tall bush with no view of the hole with about 140 yards to go, and I used my 9-iron and got great loft and got it up over the bush and landed about 12 feet from the hole, which I 1-putted for par. Felt really, really good to close out strong. My wife just texted me wanting to go to the range again tonight, she's got the bug!
Thanks for the drill, I'll try that out next range session. Maybe one of these times I'll get a recording and someone more knowledgeable here can give me some feedback?
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4 hours ago, crash_davis said:
Hadn't seen any up close pics until now. I was surprised at basically the full grind. Not much heel or toe relief. I do love that they are forged for basically $90, which is a steal. I would've like the lob and sand wedges to have different bounces and relief/grind profiles.
They do have the 2 versions "F" and "V," on the SF002 model, which changes the bounce profile slightly. I got the V's for the 60 and 56 and F for the 50. I was able to hit all three this weekend and my chips were the strongest part of my game, for once, although I still need to practice more getting out of the sand.
I believe they are cast, which is fine for where I am in the game.
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I'm sure just a coincidence that they chose Tennessee for this one lol
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Oh and while I was out part of my Takomo order arrived, my wedges. Excited to try these tomorrow.


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Work trip this week to Portland, ahhh what a great opportunity to golf in some nice PNW weather! I land at PDX and it’s…97 degrees. Fuck. Oh well, got in 18 on Monday.





Then got out again on Wednesday for twilight golf, got in another 9. They weren’t doing carts so I walked it which was actually really fun, about 4 miles. Weather in the low 70’s with a slight breeze, so nice.



I actually shot my best so far, I was 49 through 9 so on track to crack 100.
Back in Austin now and am going out to golf Avery Ranch tomorrow with my wife. Hopefully can keep the good vibes flowing.-
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