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Because I'm sick of losing and all the negative crap related to not winning.

Pepsico/ Frito Lay running a campaign celebrating Hillary could do more to reverse America's obesity crisis than decades of public education and nutritional guidance.

Registered a couple coworkers today to vote.

That recording of Trump's conversation with Woodward is great. This book is going to be very damaging because of the man behind it and Trump knows it. For the 30% of the country that chugs Trumps jizz, it wont matter, but for everyone else pondering the state of the nation, it's going to resonate. I personally don't give a fuck about what Omerosa, Avenatti, etc... have to say, because their motivation is laregly their own notoriety, and their integrity is about on par with Trump. Woodward is a different beast altogether. His track record is basically the gold standard of journalism in the US. Trump didnt try to intimidate Woodward like he does the majority of the GOP, and it's because he knows it will have no effect.

You really might be onto something. One is pictured with the people he loves most in the world, and who likewise love him. The other is just with his family whose taste in hats is a little odd.

You know, you can hate losing football games and still not be a pussy.

Yeah, I was just taking a break from the Tom Herman dumpster fire and came in here to follow up on what's been going on in CR and instead of a discussion on a SCOTUS nomination people are pushing a conspiracy theory that a Mexican Jew is flashing white power signs on national TV.

Is Maryland?

If there is one thing that Nike has proven over time, it is that they don't know anything about branding.

I made a derogatory comment about Sam on Saturday, and realized a few minutes later that it was pitiful for a guy my age to be ragging on a 19 year old kid who is busting his ass on a bigger stage than I have or will ever perform. Unfortunately, posts can't be deleted and have a very short window for editing. Sorry to be a party pooper, but from this time forward, I'll try to restrict my criticism to coaches... okay, and probably seniors.

Also... Our O-line by no means is great but there was definite improvement in the pass blocking from last year. There were times Sam had 4-5 seconds to throw and couldn’t muster a single yard.

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I don't think Zina Bash was intentionally flashing a white power sign. That's actually a pretty insane thing to believe.

They're #29. Just ran out of rows.

I'm just excited because I know what the theme will be the week we play Tech.

The casual sneaker buying Trump supporter likely buys sneakers exclusively featuring Velcro.

Tom Herman watches the video below and gets inspired. Damn that crew chief is persistent. That dude doesn't quit at the first sign of adversity. He's a leader. I bet he hugs fatties after he scores a rushing touchdown. That's the kind of shit I want in my football team. SAM, SAM, where the fuck are you SAM, you're starting again next week!

Posting from 24/7: Burton: ”Guys, I was able to touch base with my sources. I’m told that Herman has assigned the offense to do a book report about ‘essentialism: the disciplined art of doing less’. The team has been coached so well by the offensive staff that the players are simplying trying their hardest. This is an issue because we need the team to try less like Maryland. If this team doesn’t match the minimal effort by Tulsa, the Longhorns may be staring a 0-2 to start the season. I’m told that Keaontay Ingram was leading the book report due to his ability to read quickly but Herman decided that Kyle Porter should complete the report because he scored much higher on his reading comprehension section on his SAT. I’m told that Collin Johnson has been trying even less in his blocking in hopes of being able to execute the WR screens. I’m told Herman plans to cater Gatti’s all week. The players should have no issues with cramping or fatigue on Saturday due to carb loading on pepperoni rolls.”

I hate to say this, but I think I'm at the point where I'm now sick and tired of winning.

Goal achieved. 40lb lost in 6 months. New goal pending.

Let me preface this post by saying that I was just as pissed as anybody, and I have zero faith that this team will turn it around and win more than they lose this year. But I also went on record with an 8-4 season and I won't believe that this team is trending in the right direction until right after the scoreboard clicks zero on their 9th regular season win of the year. Doesn't look like that will be this year. But I like Dan's answer and, as a fan, I like and respect Dan. After listening to Herman yesterday, I somewhat understand what he is dealing with, and that it isn't an easy fix. This team has no idea how to win. Had they been matched up against a team like Northwestern State, they could have made all of the same errors they made against Maryland and still won easily. Maryland has enough talent to make them pay for mistakes, so they tried to eliminate all of the mistakes, which made them play tight. I'm about to lose all of the non-golfers here, but to take it away from football and to something that I understand, think about how trying to play perfect on a golf course affects your game. It is never good. Pressing leads to bad shots, which leads to poor decisions, which leads to more bad shots and more bad decisions. It is a vicious cycle and leads to a score card that gets thrown in the trash. The best golf is played when you truly learn to focus on the one shot you can take at a time. The last shot is over, and you don't know what the next shot will be until this one has landed. Most of the time when I ignore the score card and enjoy the game, I end up with a score I am proud of at the end of the day. This is longer than I usually post, and may be just as useless to you as Dan's analogy. But I look at the Maryland game as one that the players (just like the fans) know that they should win, and every mistake gets them further from that goal and makes them press harder, leading to more mistakes like my shot analogy above. I think this thing will take time to fix and switching players / coaches / philosophies creates more variables rather than building a solid baseline. Somehow we have to get to a solid baseline of winning more than we lose.

Honestry and Loyality are 2 things I look for in a candidate.

We’re doing click bait thread titles now? Fuck

Loko Four

I love winning, man, I fucking love winning! You hear what I'm saying? It's like better than losing!

I'll do a couple specifics: @0:10 - First play. Sam throws a quick-out, but the WR runs a quick-in. Don't know who had it right. Honestly, it looks like a quick dagger concept, which means Sam both misread the coverage and misthrew the ball. But that's far from certain. @0:50 - Presnap read is a Man2. They have both LBs walked up inside on the left. The play is a shallow mesh between Beck and CJ. Sam seems to change protection to slide left. The RB is "gone" (no protection but he'll also draw off a blitzer). Beck should check hot because both LBs appear to be - and eventually are - leaving the middle wide open. As a bonus, the dime back (I believe it's their OLB) is misaligned. He's got no chance to cover anything quick to Beck. Snap. Blitzing LB peels off to the RB. The other one is actually playing an aggressive spy. No blitz, but the middle is still vacant. The slide left call actually backfires because now we have 3-1 to the "blitz" side and 2-2 the other. The center stays to double the NT. It happens. The protection isn't terrible for a quick throw. In the secondary, Maryland pulls the backside safety into the vacant middle. I call this Man1-Lurk. There's a slight chance that the Dime was supposed to drop and double Duvernay and Beck was always the safety's man, but either way the safety is there to trap the hot route and generally clog the middle of the field. He is ready to earhole Beck if the ball is thrown. There's no time for the mesh to form. The RT gets pushed back, Sam scrambles right, beating the rusher. The spy gets lost for a second, but recovers enough to force Sam to the sideline. With Beck on a shallow cross - his presumed man still nowhere to be found. This actually works out well. However, the backside safety gambles, stepping up to make sure Sam can't run, and tips what should have been a lay-up to Beck. I meant to do more, but so much happened in that one play. Maybe later.

IIRC she's one half Jewish and the other half Mexican. I doubt she was intentionally doing the white power sign, even trolling.

Holy shit, I came here to get away from the crazy talk going on in the football board and you fucking guys think the girl sitting directly behind the Supreme Court nominee was flashing a......checks tape....white power sign???? hahaha, man. That is some good shit. Good luck guys. Also, google 'got em meme circle game'. fucking idiots.

Daughter’s dinner last night. Frito chili cheese dog. I feel like I’m raising her right. Also explained to her the importance of a paper plate when eating something like this.

Damn, a real live bearded lady right up front. Beard so bushy you can't even see her mouth.

https://deadspin.com/vandals-turn-idyllic-hillside-bicycle-sculpture-into-id-1828804547

Stop being such a pussy

whoa, whoa, whoa... Greg Davis modified the offensive approach for just about every QB and RB combo. Applewhite, Simms, Mock, VY, Colt, GG, Case, Ash... Priest, Ricky, Brett Robin, Ced, Selvin, Jamaal Charles, Ogbannaya... It was always conservative and easy to figure out, but he put in wrinkles and tweaks to fit the skill set for all of those guys. We would have scored 40 if Greg Davis were the OC on Saturday... we'd get pantsed by OU and TCU, but we'd put 40 on everyone else.

Nothing embarrasses them anymore.

This is terrifying. I might be joining Brisket on the ledge pretty soon. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/politics/bob-woodward-book-donald-trump-fear/index.html?adkey=bn President Donald Trump's closest aides have taken extraordinary measures in the White House to try to stop what they saw as his most dangerous impulses, going so far as to swipe and hide papers from his desk so he wouldn't sign them, according to a new book from legendary journalist Bob Woodward. Woodward's 448-page book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," provides an unprecedented inside-the-room look through the eyes of the President's inner circle. From the Oval Office to the Situation Room to the White House residence, Woodward uses confidential background interviews to illustrate how some of the President's top advisers view him as a danger to national security and have sought to circumvent the commander in chief. Many of the feuds and daily clashes have been well documented, but the picture painted by Trump's confidants, senior staff and Cabinet officials reveal that many of them see an even more alarming situation — worse than previously known or understood. Woodward offers a devastating portrait of a dysfunctional Trump White House, detailing how senior aides — both current and former Trump administration officials — grew exasperated with the President and increasingly worried about his erratic behavior, ignorance and penchant for lying. Chief of staff John Kelly describes Trump as an "idiot" and "unhinged," Woodward reports. Defense Secretary James Mattis describes Trump as having the understanding of "a fifth or sixth grader." And Trump's former personal lawyer John Dowd describes the President as "a fucking liar," telling Trump he would end up in an "orange jump suit" if he testified to special counsel Robert Mueller. "He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown," Kelly is quoted as saying at a staff meeting in his office. "I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had." Trump irritated he wasn't interviewed by Woodward for upcoming book CNN obtained a copy of Woodward's book, scheduled for release September 11. The explosive revelations about Trump from those closest to him are likely to play into the November midterm election battle. The book also has stunning new details about Trump's obsession with the Russia probe, describing for the first time confidential conversations between the President's lawyers and Mueller. It recounts a dramatic session in the White House residence in which Trump failed a mock Mueller interview with his lawyers. Woodward sums up the state of the Trump White House by writing that Trump was an "emotionally overwrought, mercurial and unpredictable leader." Woodward writes that the staff's decision to circumvent the President was "a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world." Circumventing the President The book opens with a dramatic scene. Former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn saw a draft letter he considered dangerous to national security on the Oval Office desk. The letter would have withdrawn the US from a critical trade agreement with South Korea. Trump's aides feared the fallout could jeopardize a top-secret national security program: the ability to detect a North Korean missile launch within just seven seconds. Woodward reports Cohn was "appalled" that Trump might sign the letter. "I stole it off his desk," Cohn told an associate. "I wouldn't let him see it. He's never going to see that document. Got to protect the country." Bob Woodward's new book puts readers 'face to face with Trump' Cohn was not alone. Former staff secretary Rob Porter worked with Cohn and used the same tactic on multiple occasions, Woodward writes. In addition to literally stealing or hiding documents from Trump's desk, they sought to stall and delay decisions or distract Trump from orders they thought would endanger national security. "A third of my job was trying to react to some of the really dangerous ideas that he had and try to give him reasons to believe that maybe they weren't such good ideas," said Porter, who as staff secretary handled the flow of presidential papers until he quit amid domestic violence allegations. He and others acted with the acquiescence of former chief of staff Reince Priebus, Woodward reports. Woodward describes repeated attempts to bypass Trump as "no less than an administrative coup d'état." The Russia obsession Woodward's book relies on hundreds of hours of taped interviews and dozens of sources in Trump's inner circle, as well as documents, files, diaries and memos, including a note handwritten by Trump himself. Woodward explains that he talked with sources on "deep background," meaning he could use all the information but not say who provided it. His reporting comes with the credibility of a long and storied history that separates this book from previous efforts on Trump. The author and Washington Post journalist has won two Pulitzer Prizes, including one for his coverage of the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. In one revelatory anecdote, Woodward describes a scene in the White House residence. Trump's lawyer, convinced the President would perjure himself, put Trump through a test — a practice interview for the one he might have with Mueller. Trump failed, according to Dowd, but the President still insisted he should testify. Woodward writes that Dowd saw the "full nightmare" of a potential Mueller interview, and felt Trump acted like an "aggrieved Shakespearean king." But Trump seemed surprised at Dowd's reaction, Woodward writes. "You think I was struggling?" Trump asked. Then, in an even more remarkable move, Dowd and Trump's current personal attorney Jay Sekulow went to Mueller's office and re-enacted the mock interview. Their goal: to argue that Trump couldn't possibly testify because he was incapable of telling the truth. "He just made something up. That's his nature," Dowd said to Mueller. The passage is an unprecedented glimpse behind the scenes of Mueller's secretive operation — for the first time, Mueller's conversations with Trump's lawyers are captured. "I need the president's testimony," Mueller said. "What was his intent on Comey? ... I want to see if there was corrupt intent." Despite Dowd's efforts, Trump continued to insist he could testify. "I think the President of the United States cannot be seen taking the fifth," Trump said. Dowd's argument was stark: "There's no way you can get through these. ... Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jump suit." What he couldn't say to Trump, according to Woodward, was what Dowd believed to be true: "You're a fucking liar." Trump's insults and humiliation Throughout the book, Woodward portrays the President as a man obsessed with his standing in the media and with his core supporters. Trump appears to be lonely and increasingly paranoid, often watching hours of television in the White House residence. "They're out to get me," Trump said of Mueller's team. Trump's closest advisers described him erupting in rage and profanity, and he seemed to enjoy humiliating others. "This guy is mentally retarded," Trump said of Sessions. "He's this dumb southerner," Trump told Porter, mocking Sessions by feigning a southern accent. Trump said that Priebus is "like a little rat. He just scurries around." And Trump demeaned former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to his face, when Giuliani was the only campaign surrogate willing to defend then-candidate Trump on television after the "Access Hollywood" tape, a bombshell video where Trump described sexually assaulting women. "Rudy, you're a baby," Trump told the man who is now his attorney. "I've never seen a worse defense of me in my life. They took your diaper off right there. You're like a little baby that needed to be changed. When are you going to be a man?" Trump's predecessors are not spared either. In a conversation with Sen. Lindsey Graham, Trump called President Barack Obama a "weak dick" for not acting in Syria, Woodward reports. National security concerns Woodward's book takes readers inside top-secret meetings. On July 27, 2017, Trump's national security leaders convened a gathering at "The Tank" in the Pentagon. The goal: an intervention to try to educate the President on the importance of allies and diplomacy. Trump's philosophy on diplomacy was personal. "This is all about leader versus leader. Man versus man. Me versus Kim," he said of North Korea. His inner circle was worried about "The Big Problem," Woodward writes: Trump's lack of understanding that his crusade to impose tariffs could endanger global security. But the meeting didn't go as planned. Trump went off on his generals. "You should be killing guys. You don't need a strategy to kill people," Trump said of Afghanistan. He questioned the wisdom of keeping US troops in South Korea. "So Mr. President," Cohn said to Trump, "what would you need in the region to sleep well at night?" "I wouldn't need a fucking thing," the President said. "And I'd sleep like a baby." After Trump left the Tank, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared: "He's a fucking moron." The book provides the context for the now-infamous quote that marked the beginning of the end for Tillerson's tenure. Tillerson tried to downplay the dispute -- "I'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that," he said at a news conference after NBC reported the remark — but he was ultimately fired via tweet. Woodward also quotes an unnamed White House official who gave an even more dire assessment of the meeting: "It seems clear that many of the president's senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views." A recurrent theme in Woodward's book is Trump's seeming disregard for national security concerns because of his obsession with money — trade deficits and the cost of troops overseas. In meeting after meeting, Trump questions why the US has to pay for such a large troop presence in South Korea. "We're doing this in order to prevent World War III," Mattis, the defense secretary, bluntly explained to Trump at one January 2018 meeting, which prompted Mattis to tell close associates afterward that Trump had the understanding of a "fifth or sixth grader." Trump still wasn't convinced. "I think we could be so rich if we weren't stupid," he later said in the meeting, arguing the US was being played as "suckers," Woodward reports. The 'Ernest Hemingway' of Twitter Trump's tweets — and his infatuation with Twitter — are a theme throughout the book. Woodward reveals that Trump ordered printouts of his tweets and studied them to find out which ones were most popular. "The most effective tweets were often the most shocking," Woodward writes. Twitter was a source of great consternation for national security leaders, who feared — and warned Trump — "Twitter could get us into a war." Appalled by some of his more outrageous posts, Trump's aides tried to form a Twitter "committee" to vet the President's tweets, but they failed to stop their boss. Priebus, who was blindsided when Trump announced his firing on Twitter, referred to the presidential bedroom as "the devil's workshop" and called the early morning hours and Sunday night — a time of many news-breaking tweets — "the witching hour." Trump, however, saw himself as a Twitter wordsmith. "It's a good thing," Trump said when Twitter expanded its character count to 280, "but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters." 'A zoo without walls' Finally, "Fear" is filled with slights, insults and takedowns from both family and staff that speak to the chaos, infighting and drama that Trump allows to fester around him. Both Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are targeted by the inner circle. There is a pointed shot at Ivanka from the President's now-ostracized chief strategist Steve Bannon, who frequently clashed with the first daughter and her husband. "You're nothing but a fucking staffer!" Bannon screamed at Ivanka at a staff meeting, according to Woodward. "You walk around this place and act like you're in charge, and you're not. You're on staff!" "I'm not a staffer!" she shouted back. "I'll never be a staffer. I'm the first daughter" — she really used the title, Woodward writes — "and I'm never going to be a staffer!" Two of the harshest comments in the book are directed at Trump and come from his chiefs of staff. After Trump's Charlottesville, Virginia, controversy, in which he failed to condemn white supremacists, Cohn tried to resign but was instead dressed down by Trump and accused of "treason." Kelly, who is Trump's current chief of staff, told Cohn afterward, according to notes Cohn made of the exchange: "If that was me, I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his ass six different times." And Priebus, Trump's first chief of staff, encapsulated the White House and the thrust of Woodward's book by describing the administration as a place with "natural predators at the table." "When you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls," Priebus is quoted as saying, "things start getting nasty and bloody." PAID CONTENT

This is why I think Beto will probably win: I've always had a theory that the most successful politicians are the ones who master the dominant communication medium of their time. The founders were all great writers, because in those days most people got their news about government from the written word. Roosevelt was the first to grasp radio: He knew that he was talking to six or eight people sitting in their living room, not shouting at 40,000 people in Yankee Stadium. John F. Kennedy was the first one to truly take advantage of the power of television, and he was better at it than anyone has been since. Reagan was quite good, of course, but nobody was as good as Kennedy. Which brings us to Beto. Beto has grasped and truly taken advantage of social media at a time when social media is becoming ascendant. His social media game is 10 times that of Cruz at the moment. Given that the amount of money that each is able to bring to bear on the election is roughly the same, my guess is that Beto is going to win.

You said it in the only way that matters: you voted for it.

Watching all these 2018 slots make headlines is brutal. Moore tearing it up at Purdue, Waddle in beast mode at Alabama, and Watkins abusing people down in Florida. Oh, what might have been.

People who don't know what identical means.

Scipio absolutely destroys the coaching staff for not running the ball on the final possession versus Maryland's 3 man rush like we did successfully at the end of the 1st half. A lot of us were calling for this in the game thread. The offense is a total clusterfuck with Beck.

I'm so pleased. Kaepernick as villain is sheer, malignant slander. I've thought about him over the last week or so after hearing about his collusion case against the NFL. He's a good man and I hope he gets good rewards for it. Bravo Nike!

I think you're creating a position for those opposing Trump that is inaccurate. A good, traditional Republican could stick to his guns and still see the danger of the Trump presidency. Even the dread of leftist policies you state is sort of irrelevant with Trump as the leader of your party and president. Above I mention soft on Russia and big on tariffs. Trump operates from a world devoid of coherent policy or even the facade of a moral compass. Recognizing that is not the same thing as being compelled to embrace a more active federal government, raising the corporate tax, or feeding the poor. Chitown Doc has not become a raving lib. Brisket is not a raving lib. George Will is not a raving lib. John McCain was not a raving lib. They see what Trump means to the definition of their political party and they are (were) not having it. Trumpism is a bigger threat to your GOP than the left. The GOP largely, very largely, aligns with Trump. You can't man the barricades for the GOP and claim separation from Trumpism anymore. Trumpism has meant getting in bed with the "fine people" who support white supremacy and who want to characterize all undocumented aliens as villains looking only to rape and murder. You were never a crazy rightist as I recall. You love Reagan. You believe in trickle down and that lowering taxes increases government income. You think government is rarely a good answer to any problem. Nobody expects a person like that to embrace the liberal left, but it's sickening to see someone embrace a party and policies that spring from Donald Trump. To be a GOP today is to be a Trumpist. I'm sorry the discussion got so insulting, but exasperation at Trump is at a justifiably high level. Sorry to go on so long.