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I'm hearing Urban is out tomorrow . . .

It's just this twitter war and that lying son of a bitch McMurphy.

Full disclosure- ORIGINALLY POSTED by WIDE-E-WIDE Dec 2006 , 2 sites ago… Shamelessly copied and pasted for your enjoyment. Its been 12 years, but damn its still funny. After much deliberation, I will reluctantly tell the story of my family touring the Christmas lights in Waco last week. My wife told me about this thing at the beginning of December. To be honest I had forgotten all about it until the night before. I did not want to go. Call me a scrooge but riding around looking at electricity captured in colored bulbs is not my idea of entertainment. However, the kids were looking forward to it and apparently at some point I had agreed to do it. This little tour got us for 6 bucks a head. My wife, her parents, our 4 kids and I all went. Now I wasn’t a math major but that's $48 to ride around in a trolley and look at lights. WTF? (I found this out the day of) So we drive all the way the hell to downtown Waco and sit and wait for this trolley to take us on the tour. They’ve got a tree, Santa, hot cocoa- All that shit. Finally all the trolleys roll up and Shaquandra our official Christmas lights tour guide hops out and says “Y’all going to look at the lights?....(pause) Okay den let’s get our roll on!” My initial gripe is that the bitch is driving at mach speed and you can’t see shit but a blurry-ass Santa and the occasional Wal-Mart $9.99 wire light-up reindeer. My father-in-law asks if she could slow down a bit so that we could take pictures and appreciate the lights a little more..(his words not mine). By this time I’ve already leaned over and whispered in my wife’s ear “$48 for this shit?” She gives me the obligatory elbow and “stop being like that” We roll along for about 15 minutes looking at every tacky piece of shit overkill light extravaganza in East Waco. Suddenly we get on the highway and start heading to the other side of town. We ride for a good 12-15 minutes without seeing a single damn house decorated. So I lean over to the wife again and say “umm where the hell are we going?” Elbow “shut up” and all that again. Shaquandra has Mariah Carey’s Christmas cd blasting and we just getting our roll on...and then it happened. Signs and streets started to look really familiar. My oldest daughter says “hey there’s HEB.” As in the HEB right down the road from our house (approx. 1/2 mile) I lean over to the wife again “This bitch better not turn right at this light!” What does the driver do????? That’s right folks, fucking turns right and heads right to our neighborhood. Not only our neighborhood “BUT OUR FUCKING STREET!! I am just at a loss for words by this point. I cannot believe this is happening. Street after street, house after house for a good 30 minutes. The driver is going on and on about “oooh like over thurr- look at the Santa up on the roof kids.” I know bitch “I'M THE ONE THAT FUCKING PUT HIS FAT ASS UP THERE LAST WEEK" I can’t type this anymore it's just too painful. The point is, we spent almost $50 to look at the Christmas lights in our own damn neighborhood. My wife just hung her head in shame. I’ll be in charge of Christmas spirit next year thank you very much.

Bye bitch.

One is the actual lyric, the other is the riff off of it. You’ve got to keep them separated.

The Texas Offensive Line faces a tall task in blocking the front 6/7 for Georgia. To me, this looks like the most difficult matchup by far. If they play 3-4 base defense, there will be very little room to run but that will create a lot of opportunities in the passing game. If they play 3-3 nickel, Texas might have intermittent success running the ball but I doubt there will be a consistent rushing attack even then. The first thing that stands out with this defense is the size. Their DL goes 300-300-320 across the front. Their 245 lb Jack LB is a hybrid OLB / stand up DE like our Buck concept. The other three LBs are 245-235-242. The front end of their defense is a big and (for their size) very athletic. Statistically, UGa fields an excellent but not top tier run defense. They are #28 in YPG but give up slightly more YPC than Texas (4.06 vs 3.88) but in fairness they’ve faced better running teams. The line plays a lot of old school 3-4 2-gap technique. Instead of defending a gap by penetrating and disrupting, the Georgia DL align on an O-Lineman, seek to control the blocker, read the play and help to whichever gap the runner chooses. That protects the LBs who then fill. It’s the equivalent of building a wall at the LOS. This has many implications. Because they don’t seek to penetrate, you can’t trap their DL. The read technique makes zone blocking harder because the DL isn’t going to pick a direction which would allow a zone blocker to continue to push them that way. OTOH the designed lack of penetration minimizes TFL and makes it harder to convert run defense to a pass rush against play action. These implications are amplified by the choice of bigger, slower D-Linemen. They are harder to move but slower to move themselves. They’re tougher to block but will be slower to shed blocks and pursue. Their NG will demand a double team most of the time. Our Tackles will have their hands full blocking the DTs head up. In summary the Georgia defense is designed to stop the run for short yardage and usually succeeds. They are huge and they create matchup problems for Texas at the LOS. That’s the bad news. The good news is that UGa creates very little pressure in the backfield. They are one of the worst in FBS at generating sacks (#101 of 129 FBS teams) and TFLs (#116). Texas should be able to run some counter. Inside zone probably won’t work. Outside zone has a chance to get those big boys moving and keep pushing them to the outside. We’ll need either swing passes or jet sweep action to spread them out and create running lanes underneath. If Texas can force Smart to either play a 7 man box or bring a safety down in run support that will be a big win that can break the passing game wide open.

Gina Haspel was disallowed to stand in front of the press with Bolton while he explained why they still support MBS after Haspel's briefing. Trump knew how stupid that looked and he didn't care. He was so desperate to signal to Saudi that he'd remain loyal he followed through with that debacle because of fear. And Bolton botches the goat show even further by trying to use his lack of Arabic as a reason that is was all just too hazy for him to come to a conclusion. Haspel then briefs some Senators and fills in all the gaps of doubt that they ever could possibly pretend to cling to and are now announcing that they are certain beyond all doubt that Trump is ignoring a murder. The White House is stuck between a rock, a bone saw and Wahhabism. This is now like three weeks straight of Trump being unable to take three steps without his pants falling around his ankles. He dips his nuts in every wood chipper he sees and his loyal followers have to continue to try even harder to pretend he's a genius deal maker. He has literally sucked at everything. He even fucks up where to sign or where to stand at ceremonial functions. Nobody can convince me that he chews his own food.

I wish all of your parents never had offspring.

IT says it's a deep bone bruise for Sterns, but he should be good to go for the bowl game.

Who said he isn’t? Some of you are mocking the shit out of a kid who grew up bleeding orange and who gave heart and soul to the team from the day he hit campus. He was always playing out of position and wasn’t as productive as we would have liked for him to have been, but some of you are being disgusting about it. He’s obviously taking it as hard as anyone. Maybe shut the fuck up for a change.

Uh, yeah, gonna have to disagree with you there. They’re both insanely good. How do you know next-to-nothing about either one?

He could start by not saying that he (Trump) talked to the murderer who was very convincing when he denied the murder. He could continue by not publicly contradicting the intelligence community. He could do even more by not lying about the jobs to be created by the Saudi defense contracts. Oh, there's more. Trump could condemn the murder and at least do something to indicate US displeasure. Trump chose to acquiesce publicly and bloviate about our good friends the Saudis. The country that once led the free world has a leader who wouldn't condemn Putin as a murderer in the election. He wouldn't condemn the man who killed a woman when he drove into a crowd of anti-Nazi protesters. He's publicly stated admiration for the butcher of N. Korea. He tried to mislead us about the murder of Kashoggi. He then said, "maybe he did, maybe he didn't." When he finally acknowledged the murder, he becomes a pitch man for the Saudis and why they're such good buddies. The issue is subtler than all or nothing approaches. Yes, they buy weapons from us. They also own a lot of weapons made by us and keep an army of support people from the US there to keep the planes flying. What happens to all of that if we find a harsh response? They going to junk all their American technology and start over new? I can't believe that I need to write this, but the US has leverage, too. But, our new favored foreign leaders are three autocrats who don't blink at ordering brutal murder and torture. Fuck Donald Trump

Tired of lossing.

She's not a "leader". She's a junior rep, one of 435. She has plenty of time to learn the ropes. Let's be really honest here: the right wing is terrified that young brown liberal women are getting elected. That's it. It's the height of hypocrisy to parse her simple gaffe (see "57") while letting Trump and his merry band of traitors trample all over everything that once made this country great. I can only hope we elect hundreds more of her. Fuck the right.

So cystemic issues the excuse, systemic issues the real culprit.

Fuck Garrett Wilson.

I literally let out an audible squeal when I saw the headline. That's one bullet dodged. If we get past the Browns opening, we're in the clear until the Browns fire whomever they hired in 2 years.

Ryan Day? Is Zach Smith not even going to get an interview?

OK, Cool. Hook 'Em!

USC after they shitcan Helton next year.

"You know, people are saying I could order a miltary tribunal to investigate the Justice Department."

Welp, time to join the crew of folks dealing with a family cancer diagnosis. My mom was diagnosed with relatively advanced lung cancer a couple of months ago. She had been feeling progressively weaker, and had developed a consistent low-grade fever (it popped up every afternoon). She was losing weight, and was pretty tired. She had a nagging cough. So, she went in to the doc, and after all the tests, they confirmed lung cancer. She's a lifelong smoker -- had cut way back, but that doesn't matter much. She's from a socioeconomic group and age where smoking was ubiquitous. Not much point in pointing fingers at the obvious now. She saw a dear friend die of lung cancer a couple of years ago, and her treatment was hell -- radiation fried her lungs, and she lived out the rest of her days in significant pain. Mom didn't want to do that. She asked the doc what the plan should be. Without treatment, you've got maybe a year. And with treatment? We think 3-4 years...but it's hard to tell with the new treatments. Especially if you test as being physically eligible for one of the new immunotherapy drugs out there. Y'all remember our longhorn Nobel Laureate Jim Allison? That's what he and another guy won the Nobel Prize for this year. She tested positive for the receptor, and can take Keytruda. First treatment was a bit rough. But after that, she's responded very well. She has a great deal more energy. She looks so much better. She feels better. The fever is all but gone. She's put weight back on. Even at this early stage in her treatment, her response looks like a miracle. And they really don't know what the long-term prognosis is, because the treatment is so new, they don't have long-term data. But we're all realistic. It will buy her time. Hopefully, it's good time. She's lived a good life. She knows her grandkids, and they know her. My daughter heads off to college next year. My son will do the same in two years. Hopefully, she'll see them off into the world. Maybe, if we're lucky, she'll even see them graduate college. But we know that someday, probably sooner rather than later, the cancer will get her. But not today..... So for today, we're just more focused on enjoying the time, and the moments. Each breath, each normal day, is a good day. The inevitable will come, as it comes for all of us. So in our family, we're a bit more keenly reminded of the gift that is today. That's a good thing.

You can pray that nothing like this ever happens to your family, or your family can choose not to live their lives like pieces of shit.

No Donny, these men are cowards.

And a white surrender flag in the glove box

1) He tends to do really bad things to pro style offenses. See USC and ISU this year and last as well as Louisville in 2016 when he was at UH. 2) His LBs play much better when they can key the RB and attack instead of worrying about coverage every play against spread teams. 3) PJ Locke is a much better player close to the LOS. 4) Orlando's blitzes are more effective when the QB can't buy time with his feet to diagnose disguised coverages and when the pass rushers aren't worried about a running QB breaking contain. Fromm is the definition of statuesque, with negative 22 rushing yards. 5) UGa is a run heavy offense (63%). Focus on stopping the run can make them one dimensional. Making them one dimensional is halfway to making them zero dimensional since their high pass efficiency rating is a function of being able to throw the ball when THEY want to off play action. 6) He likes to play run on early downs and Georgia likes to force the run on early downs. Orlando's defense is especially effective when they can play single-gap responsibility against the run and that combo should allow them to do so frequently.

Right now you can donate your opentable points to provide meals for hungry children. Come on surly, punt those points for a good cause. It costs nothing and can make a huge difference to children in need. thank you all.

The absolute best people....

I love his "have to love affirmative action" line. As if she was just handed the job because of being a woman or a latina. She primaried a long tenured incumbent and then won the general election. She earned her spot.

OP was getting TL;DR so I limited it to run blocking and put pass pro in this follow up post. It’s the passing game where the shortcomings of the Georgia defensive front can be exploited. As mentioned they are #116 in FBS as creating TFLs and #101 in team sacks. Schematically their defensive front is designed NOT to penetrate and they use bigger, slower players as run stoppers. Their disruption of opposing offenses is not only limited, but that small amount is heavily concentrated in one spot: their Jack LB D’Andre Walker. That one guy has 7.5 sacks and 11 TFLs. For reference the rest of the Front 7 has 3.5 sacks and 17.5 TFLs COMBINED. He actually has more sacks than the rest of the team. Control Walker and their already limited pass rush gets more than cut in half. Smart likes to play him as a 7 or 9-tech against an uncovered OT. Anderson is going to have his hands full and I’d like to see a RB chip and/or run a swing route behind Walker occasionally to help. Kirby Smart has always been a stop the run first kind of guy. Play action on downs where running is a credible threat should keep the LBs from dropping in coverage and give Sam good time to throw. And with time those intermediate patterns like the dig, out and hook routes should be available. It gets harder on passing downs but Kirby doesn’t like to blitz and his zone defense is very mediocre by Big XII standards; too much defending grass and LJ should have less trouble finding the soft spots than in most games. To me there are 2 major systemic advantages that Texas possesses in the passing game vs Georgia. First is that their LBs look even more lost than ours when forced to cover the whole field. A lot of teams have exploited the flats with quick and delayed screens to the outside, swing passes and check downs to WRs. I look forward to watching even athletic 245 lb guys chasing Watson and Ingram in space and then getting caught trying to cover the wheel route. The second advantage is that UGa really hasn’t seen a true dual threat QB other than Hurts and that didn’t turn out too well for them. Bama’s WRs are not better than the Texas trio and Sam is a dangerous runner with a 64% completion percentage. He’s not a home run threat but he hits a lot of singles and doubles when scrambling. The ability to convert 3rd and 7-10 with his feet is more than enough to force defenses to alter their approach to account for it. We need the Sam that’s shown up for most of this season to take care of the ball. Against quality opponents, Georgia has shown they need TOs for either defensive scores or short fields to break 30 points. With ball security and ball control, I can see Texas holding them to 17 points. But it’s likely that a couple of their nickel and dime passes will turn into something bigger, which gets me right back to the 24-28 point range.

Mack Brown reached a national championship game with Greg Davis more recently than Urban Meyer reached one without Tom Herman. Also, didn't Meyer endorse Steve Addazio as a worthy successor due to his offensive acumen when he left Florida? His Temple and Boston College offenses sure are setting the world on fire. And by setting the world on fire I mean they're usually a complete dumpster fire.

A guy that’s probably 6-2, 250 got mauled by a big, physical OL? Who could have seen that coming? Hopefully we aren’t playing Hager at 4i on running downs against Georgia. I also don’t get the Hager hate. He’s a decent starter but people seem to shit on him for not being the superstar they hoped for.

I look forward to the Road Warrior scenario only because I look pretty good wearing no shirt with shoulder pads, face paint, a mohawk and riding on a bedazzled La-Z-Boy mounted on top of a dune buggy being driven by a bald chick on a leash while I whipped her like she was a horse. Maybe they were scared or just confused, but that's what a lot of people told me one day.

I wish the Texas alums that tweet him would at least use the correct there/their/they’re and your/you’re. That really greats(sic) on my nerves

Brain cyst is real and is causing him problems, but his "retirement" (he is not being pushed out) is attributable to several issues, including the cyst and his perception of his treatment by Ohio State in connection with the Smith fallout. With respect to Smith, I have also heard from someone who was there that Smith made the Herman tweets in November while getting shitfaced at a country club bar in Columbus. Other members eventually got wind of what he was up to, confronted him and he was ultimately escorted out of the club while protesting that Herman deserved it.

Negged for pushing a distortion. She mispoke by using the word branches, but she was talking about what could be taken over through elections. It's obvious. She wasn't asked to name the three branches of government nor was she trying to. Work on intellectual honesty. Stop being a lying/obfuscating amateur political operatives. The professionals at least get paid to destroy their integrity.

Was Navy all my life because of ancestors but am now Army because of my kid:

JK Dobbins, Baron Browning, Jeff Okudah, Kendall Sheffield, and Garrett Wilson all say hello

Most of us closed that file 8-10 weeks ago.

It's OU, they'll pick some annoying prick up off the street and turn him into an All-American QB.

^^with curb theme can we... Canada gets both Dakotas, we get Trudeau. Something like that.

Of course. But, no women.

If you're not already banned, here's the reason. This is the football forum on a board that has a political forum amongst others. There's a lot of people here who have differing political views but we all come together to discuss football. When you bring politics in it can quickly devolve into a shitty political argument, thus you will get your ass kicked out of here or banned if you bring your shit here. We tolerate a bunch of other fans, even fucking sooners and aggy as long as they aren't complete assholes. But keep politics out of football. The End.