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i want to murder every one of you.

Wow, STFU already. You vote for homophobes to this very day, because you really don't give a shit about the civil rights of homosexuals other than trying to disingenuously score some kind of political points in this thread. You're literally on a Cruz thread advocating for the guy who introduced the State Marriage Defense Act. And unlike Obama, who likely was never truly against same sex marriage and never championed legislation to take away gay rights, your president is actively trying to strip trans people of their rights at this very moment. And if the vice president you voted for had his way, he'd be currently trying to electrocute the gay out of millions of homosexuals across the country. And while we're at it, you and all your conservative brethren can quit pretending with the "I want a real Latino in office and not some privileged white guy with a Latino nickname." You don't give a shit about Cruz's or Beto's heritage, you just care that Cruz is the one who wants to turn the clock backwards on this nation. And while you're feigning concern over Beto's DWI arrest, don't think we don't remember every one of you assholes could not have cared less about George W.'s DWI conviction. TL;DR: Everyone sees through your bullshit.

What did you expect? That crowd doesn’t want to listen to George the Animal Steele lecture them about respect for property. They want to see him chew a turnbuckle to shreds. Trump’s crowds are there to watch Trump give a 60-minute wrestling promo. Fuck all that peace and reason bullshit; they want to hear him challenge Nancy Pelosi to a Texas Strap Match and promise to smash Hillary Clinton’s face with a Flying Brainbuster.

Arctic Brat

He just ran out of blood

next track post is taking a vacation, please feel free to start a track discussion somewhere else on the board

listening him have to sit there and take that Purdue punishment, live, in front of the world....was fucking glorious.

If you watch things featuring sports talking heads other than actual sports games, that shit is entirely on you

It commemorates the AD 139 contest where Aggus Fellator lost to his beloved Titus Bamus but did manage to scratch Titus with a fingernail. Aggus' fans, known as Fellatori, were widely praised as classy and friendly and loud.

This is deserving of the shitty 11am slot. Dumb ass conference having a conference championship game after we play a 9 game round robin schedule. Fuck the Big 12.

I think we are all very aware of "why people on the right are so distrustful of the media." Here's an exercise for you: every time something politically good happens for the right, go to TexAgs and see which links are posted. Every single time you will see NYTimes, WaPo, BBC, AP, Reuters. The right knows what news is. They just have developed a good mechanism to protect their brain from it when they want.

400-year old shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo 400-year old shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo

Sigh, here we go again. They are not severely slanted the other way. Fox is a world of its own. Literally, they make things up. CNN leans left, but at least sticks to mainly facts and then goes to its left-leaning pundits. Fox makes shit up out of thin air and then goes to its radical right pundits who exacerbate the fiction to a laughable level. This is a pointless argument though so I'm not sure why I'm rehashing this again.

Poor choice. That is incredibly embarrassing. Booze would have been a decent excuse for your stupidity. Pretending you're that much of a fucking liar while sober is something else entirely.

I also liked how Washington warned in his farewell address against this exact type of shitbag, if we chose to engage in the hyper-partisan game (oh, and we chose to engage -- and we took all the PEDs and trained really hard in the off-season): So, to hit the highlights -- Partisan idiocy leads to people joining a cult of personality. Check. That leader is focused on his "own elevation" as opposed to the public good. Check. A movement built on fear/alarmism (Ms-13! Mooslems! CARAVAN!). Check. Party passion creates a door for foreign influence. Check. I mean, "da." By that mechanism, the policy and the will of one country is allowed to influence another. Check. George waved a whole line of these: Which we are dutifully ignoring. Seriously, read Washington's farewell address (he has more to say about the dangers of party and faction). We shoulda listened to him.

I love how you idiots think that you are just such deep and complicated thinkers that nobody can understand you. Just like an aggy — from the inside, you can't explain it; from the outside, you can't understand it. We all understand exactly what is going on. Even GOP leaders are laughing at you behind your back, while they spout the bullshit that you bite on hook, line, and sinker.

Looks like Winslow is back

Well, I tried:

Everyone will settle down once the new season of the bachelorette starts.

I sometimes pity people whose worlds have completely changed. Maybe CR is a shitshow and an echo chamber, but it's not the same shit show and echo chamber we had pre-Trump. The angry right's shitshow involved repeating known lies or treating the grossest speculations as truth so long as the ebil libs were condemned. This form of the GOP included some traditional GOPs in their net who believed the Republicans were interested in fiscal conservatism, held some level of moral high ground, and were, indeed, the adults in political discourse. For example: birthers; the morally outraged that Bill Clinton bedded women other than his wife; the vicious attacks on murdering, corrupt, Benghazi-approving Hillary Clinton that were based on lies and distortion; Feminazis; environmental wackos; a corrupt science community in disagreement with honest scientists in the employ of the oil companies. The vomit poured out and the usual suspects lapped it up and then revomitted it for the next in line. Now that's an echo chamber shit show royale. The usual suspects now wander to the boards that they once dominated and find frustration. They've lost the traditional GOPs. The echo chamber echoes truths and admitted (though somewhat substantiated) suspicions about Trump and the GOPs. Writing Trump and the GOPs is now redundant. Trump is the GOP and vice versa. Thus, the angry right loses their supposed moral high ground by choosing a pussy-grabbing constant liar as their representative. They're stuck with their foul tactics of echoing the lies of the president in an atmosphere that now dismisses those lies for what they are. The hate campaign doesn't have an avuncular face like Reagan's stretched across it. The hate campaign now has its personification out front, and it ain't pretty. Hard times for rightist amateur operatives. The old lies don't work and you've thoroughly disgusted many of your former allies. These allies haven't become leftists or ebil libs. They just stepped away from the vomit and now rightfully condemn something they once supported based on lies. I don't know if you're an idiot. If you back Trump, expect to be judged on that association. There is nothing subtle about what and who he is.

At this point he's just trolling longhorns who give him shit for his awful takes, nothing to see here.

EJ is gonna get the beetus.

Not yours.

these are the types of democrats we've been needing for a long time. strong, smart, sound in conviction. that dude is awesome. desantis continually looks like a scolded child in these debates. dude is weak - it shows on his face and in his body language. go Gillum.

Then you should be really upset with this administration and efforts by others to strip LGBT rights edit: and fuck you for telling me it isn’t a big issue. It’s a BIG fucking issue for a lot of people and posters right here.

If they do that I’m changing my name to Incumbent Republican and running for the next senate race. Or Republican Straight-Ticket. That’s gotta get me 40% right off the bat.

Ted only speaks Vichy French

"Get off my reef!"

i think you guys are crazy. there won't be an armed uprising no matter what happens next week. and anyone cheering for one is just as bad as the person explicitly asking for one.

It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.

So when I said you have only yourself to blame for exposing yourself to stupid shit, your defense was that you were reading TexAgs?

It's referencing the news reporting of that outlet. Yes, NPR carries a two hour long program about how a hippie commune in Oregon makes everything out of hemp, etc.. But NPR NEWS reporting is actually amazingly balanced. I love the fact that they get appearances from political leaders (of "both sides,") and the routine is to offer the leader a chance to deliver his planned message, including a softball or two to prompt the answer, and then a question that effectively directly quotes an adversary -- like "your critics say that this plan would increase the deficit -- what is your response to that?" I honestly get more information from a 3 minute NPR conversation with Wilbur Ross than I get from any other source. I get a snapshot of what he's thinking and what his position is, and I get to hear how he defends/justifies it in the face of criticism. It's a mini direct and cross examination exercise. I recognize that these days, fact-based-reporting is seen as having a liberal bias, but that's the whole fucking problem that we're talking about. Your definition of objective is so fucking skewed that there's little point in even discussing the subject.

Slant? Sure. Lays completely on its side? No. There's a spectrum. There's far left, far right, and then varying degrees towards the middle of the spectrum. Center right, Center left, etc. See this handy chart, which has been circulated a good bit: If you want to be reasonably informed, you should consume your content mostly from sources within the gray circle. If you want to venture to its margins, fine -- there can be some decent stuff in the National Review (although they've gotten REALLY sloppy as of late), as well as sources like the Atlantic (often a softer analysis as opposed to hard data, but still informative). I'm an Economist man, myself. For on-the-air coverage, I go with NPR, the BBC, and some network news coverage. For breaking news, CNN usually has slightly better sourcing than other cable news outlets, although to be honest, CNN and Fox are both often tripping over their dicks to be first with some tidbit, so they both end up looking silly. But again, see the gray circle. Consume within that circle, and you will surely see some "slants." Slants are fine, especially if you go in with eyes wide open. Slamming ALL media that doesn't suck Trump's dick? Well, that means you slam pretty much everything that's not in the bottom right half of this chart. That's a Trump problem, not a journalism problem. If most everyone thinks you're a deranged asshole, you're a deranged asshole. It's like that psycho bitch you dated in college, who as she ran through boyfriend after boyfriend, always found some fault with the guy. No, sweetie, the common thread here is you -- you'rea bunny boiler, that's why you can't keep a guy. Trump's a fucking bunny boiler. That's just the way it is.

"Are you not entertained?"

Again, for the 10,000th time, we are following the ACTUAL PLAYBOOKS for fascism. This ring a bell? Purposeful, 180 degrees opposite-of-the-truth lies are THE INTENDED PLAY. "I'm imposing massive tariffs!" vs. "There are no tariffs!" And "this deal will create 4,000 jobs. Wait, make that 400,000. Wait, make that a million. Wait, make it a billion!" These lies aren't accident. They are tools of authoritarian control. An enemy of the Republic occupies the White House, and he has tens of millions of sycophants supporting and enabling him. If you think we aren't at war for the survival of the Republic, re-read 1984. Or any number of other books chronicling the basics of fascism and authoritarianism.

Given a confluence of things about the Baylor game (our offense became a dumpster fire after Sam got injured; Machinator had a solid post highlighting some of our nice B.J. Foster-centric blitz schemes, and I was out of town all last week for work), I didn’t end up posting anything last week. In the last Xs & Os thread I posted, the posts turned to a really nice discussion of the mesh concept, the different ways its implemented, and how Urban Meyer/Herman have developed that concept separately from the air raid folks. With that discussion, I thought it might make sense to use this bye week to highlight another passing concept (and some of its variations) that I’m a big fan of: Mills. What the Fuck is “Mills”? Some of you are asking this exact question. “Mills” is a pass concept originally developed as part of the West Coast Offense scheme (originally called Fox 2 X/Y Hook), a play action pass designed to find an open tight end over the middle for a medium-sized (10-12 yard) gain. Here’s the play: The progression for the play is designed to hit the TE on a 10-12 yard hook route, filling in the space between the Mike and Sam (who must honor the run threat on play action) and the strong safety, who has to stay deep to honor the threat of the post. So why is it now called Mills? Because Steve Spurrier took this play and shot it up with crack. Instead of focusing on an intermediate route to a tight end, he fixated on the post. And the player who gained notoriety for streaking downfield and catching bombs on the play? Ernie Mills. How Does Mills Work? The question Spurrier had to answer was: How do you get the post open? How do you convince a safety with deep coverage responsibility to take an intermediate route, letting the post route fly past him? Spurrier’s answer: Find the person responsible for deep coverage, and run someone right at ‘em. Then, have that person break (either on an in-route or a hook) right in front of the defender, pulling them up in defense and letting the post sneak behind. Here’s what it looked like: The Evolution of Mills Some of you are watching that video and noting that those plays are run out of 21 personnel—a tight end, running back, and fullback—and only two wide receivers. You might be thinking to yourself: Why the fuck am I still reading this? There’s no way this concept still works. Except it does. It is true that defenses have been cognizant enough of this concept that it’s not generally workable as the only route concept being run on a given play. And linebackers are much more athletic than they were 20 years ago, so they’re able to get drops that disrupt the deep in. But coaches have found ways to mix Mills with the quick passing game, to attack every level of the defense at once. Here are some examples: First, over the last thirty years, Mills (and a similar play called “DDP” (Dig, Drive, Post)) became so prevalent in college football that pro teams using the concepts lumped them together in a concept called “NCAA”—named that because “everyone in the NCAA runs it.” Here’s what Mills/NCAA looks like, with a drive route and hitch on the backside: Oklahoma State Remember all those times the past few years Oklahoma State would fake inside zone with Justice Hill, then Mason Rudolph would step back, coolly wait a few seconds, and then throw a bomb to James Washington, streaking wide open down the middle of the field? You guessed it: Mills. Here’s oSu running Mills against OU: OU presents a pretty clear Cover 2/Cover 4 look. oSu runs one slot on a dig route (this is the Mills/NCAA concept I mention above). Their other slot runs the deep hook, right at the deep safety. Washington runs the deep post and by the time the ball gets to him, he’s three yards in front of the defender. Here’s another example against Tulsa: Now the outside receiver to the boundary runs the shallow cross (completing the Mills/NCAA route combo). The boundary slot receiver runs what appears to be a corner route, although it’s not very easy to be 100% sure, with the camera angle we get here. To the field side, the slot receiver runs the deep in (right to the sticks, giving the safety even more pressure to come up in support), and Rudolph puts the ball right in Washington’s breadbasket. This shit is almost not fair. West Virginia So Oklahoma State has continued to use Mills to great effect. It makes sense that WVU has, too, right? Here’s their look: It’s impossible to tell what the boundary receiver does on this play, other than to know that he doesn’t run an in-breaking route. That means WVU is not running Mills here with the NCAA (dig route) variation. Instead, they rely on their bubble screen look to freeze the defense. The strong safety actually WAY overplays the bubble screen, meaning he’s not even getting caught up in defending the deep in (although that’s the only route he can get back to cover). By the time Sills makes his break, he’s four yards in front of the defender and Grier has put the ball right on his hands. Would Mills Work at Texas? So now you’re saying: Great. Here’s a bunch of air raid teams running Mills. How the fuck is that useful to me, a Texas fan? Well, it’s useful to you because the one time I’ve seen Texas run Mills this year, it should have been a touchdown. What play, you’re wondering? I bet you remember it after I show you: That’s right. Sam’s overthrow on the first drive against KSU was running Mills. Here’s how we ran it: And here’s a better shot of the routes as they were run on the play: If Sam doesn’t miss on that ball, it’s a 55 yard walk-in TD by Duvernay, perfectly utilizing his skillset. Lethalize Mills So the shit I wrote above is basically the post. But I’d be remiss if I posted this without touching on one more concept that’s near and dear to my heart: Fully weaponizing Mills to its most lethal potential. Ignoring the fact that he’s one of the great chodes in the coaching industry, Bobby Petrino’s version of Mills is the best, most “weaponized” version I’ve seen. And it perfectly fits the personnel we have (big wide receivers and speedy, pass-catching running backs). Ostensibly, Petrino’s version is actually his preferred method of running the shallow cross. But Petrino bolts the shallow cross onto Mills with a Wheel. It’s totally fucking captivating. Check it out: The reads on this play are relatively simple: Is Post covered by the safety? If yes, is the Wheel covered? If yes, look shallow cross then to the deep in. Another variation that I’d love to see us run is a trips receiver set running Mills with a wheel route underneath. Something like this: Put Duvernay at X for this play, LJH at A, and Collin Johnson at Z, and you’ve got fireworks. Or flip those—put CJ at X and Duvernay at Z, and now Sam has a throw down the sideline to Duvernay that he’s much more comfortable with. Let’s hope we see some fireworks this weekend.

It is literally publishing a lie. NR: bomb was harmless. “The pipe bomb and white powder that forced an evacuation at CNN headquarters in New York City Wednesday morning were harmless, a law enforcement source told the Associated Press.” The underlying AP link: the explosive was live. “New York City’s police commissioner said earlier Wednesday that the package sent to CNN’s offices in Manhattan contained a live explosive and an envelope containing white powder.” At some point it would occur to me to think “it’s weird that I base my political opinions entirely on things that turn out to be utterly bullshit lies. Not slanted information. just outright lies. I wonder if I should reevaluate my positions? Is it sort of embarrassing that I let the same people lie to me over and over and learn nothing? Am I retarded?”

Jerk chicken for the first time. Won't be the last. Fuck me.

The second option is non-existent, so we can rule that one out.

Mack just wants OU to bukkake all over his face again. He loved it so much over the years.

I dare you. I double-dare you, motherfucker. Say "Stilly" one more goddam time!"