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Well, you can't put your hand over your heart if you don't have a heart.

fuck me gently, Shaggy had a replacement board this whole time?! I've spent all this time on goddamn OB for nothing. i've got 597 pages to catch up on, nobody post for a sec

When I open a page and see that oatmeal avatar several times I know that the page is going to suck and be completely insignificant.

We pursued Stogner so hard we forgot to offer him

Congrats, the PRESIDENT OF THE FUCKING UNITED STATES can utter three sentences that don't offend anyone on the morning of a former President's funeral. You sure showed us!

Probably about the same time everyone lists all the dickhead moves you made in your life at YOUR funeral. Nobody's perfect. But unless you were, in sum total, just an evil SOB, a funeral ain't where you talk about that side of the ledger. Nobody talked about MLK's repeated philandering at his funeral, either. You just sound like a dick here.

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.

Well, not in the afternoon.

In 2014 Tom Herman’s offense schooled Kirby Smart’s defense in the National Championship Game. After Herman took the HC job at UH, Kirby called him and asked for help. TH and his new DC Todd Orlando agreed to a sit down. The things Smart got from that meeting caused him to totally revamp his defense. There’s a story on 247sports that makes an interesting read. https://247sports.com/Article/How-Kirby-Smarts-defenses-have-evolved-since-the-dinosaur-age-120070729/ Some of our fans may mock Tom Herman as “Mensa” but the guys in the business know how smart he really is. Even guys regarded as defensive "gurus" seek Herman's help. Perhaps he’s regretting helping Kirby right now but Herman is always thinking and adjusting. And he'll know exactly what he's up against. For any Georgia fans out there that think Kirby Smart is going to outscheme Herman and Orlando I invite you to consider that Kirby already asked for lessons once. Do you really think Tom Herman and Todd Orlando told him everything and they’ve thought of nothing new since then? Some of you will be interested in a really deep dive into the changes Kirby Smart made as a result of this meeting. You should check out the article detailing Smart's appearance at this years THSCA Conference. https://matchquarters.com/2018/07/27/thsca-football-lecture-kirby-smart-2018/

War of 1812?

Just gonna toot my own horn and say we posted this yesterday on TFB. Was pretty stoked about that. Kelee Ringo is drinking the Kool-Aid. Alright, back to my corner.

You weren't making a point. You were setting bait, which is most of what your posting schtick is all about. And it's fucking tired.

I appreciate the breakdown. Georgia is a very talented team, and they are probably a couple of years ahead of us from a talent acquisition standpoint due to their rampant and ridiculous "recruiting" tactics. Not that the OP is saying this, but I am getting really fucking sick of reading on the interwebs that we will be completely outclassed athletically against this team. Texas is not a fucking group of 5 program. We have multiple NFL caliber athletes on this team. We have a physical beast playing QB. Outside of beating Notre Dame by 1 point, what great team has Georgia beaten? When have they faced WRs like Colin or LJH? Texas is not going to be run out of the building, I can guarantee you that. We will compete, we will knock the fuck out of them, and we will make plenty of plays. Georgia is going to be a huge test for our program and will give us a very accurate barometer in where we truly and currently stand in the College Football landscape. Winning this game would be a huge shot across the bow of the SEC, ESPN, and anyone who thinks it is funny to mock "Texas is Back" and do the Horns Down. We need to treat this game like a fucking turf war knife fight and play our best game of the year.

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.

Always gotta make everything about you

Our sub was doing testing in Ft. Lauderdale back in the mid 90's and a cruise ship went by that happened to have George and Barbara on board. George saw our sub and came down to the boat. He got a tour and was humble and gracious and thanked us all for our service. No one on the boat had the balls to tell him his fly was open.

"Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes."

Keep your sex life out of this.

One of my dad's coworkers when I was in high school was an aggy. He was trying to convince me on how great college station was. The first was some bullshit about giant parties at apartment complexes where everyone has kegs in the back of their pickups and the second reason was "Austin is only 90 miles away" So I said if the second best thing about CS is Austin is only 90 miles away wouldn't it make more sense just to move to Austin? He was dumbfounded and never talked to me about it again.

Cyber security expert and habitual self-owner Rudy Giuliani just had another one of his tweet errors hotlinked.

“I vote republican because I’m fiscally conservative.” One of the many lies I was raised to believe in an insanely republican household. the entire party is built on lies.

Well, I'm old enough to have overlapped Nixon, so you're right. But otherwise, no. Egotistical? Sure. Narcissistic tendencies? All but a requirement to even SEEK the job. But so narcissistic as to be utterly devoid of empathy? Nope. Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHWB, Clinton, BWB, Obama....sorry, they all had real and basis human empathy. Some were clearly better than others, but nobody even comes close to the sociopath that currently holds the office. And finally, what we have for him isn't hate. It's utter contempt. He's beneath us. He's beneath ALL of us. He is worthy only of scorn and contempt. Shit, hate's too good for him.

Y'all keep saying it's candy. It was his hotel key. You see these moves? This boy ain't playin

Trump as NRA president would be fun. "What kind of sidearm do you prefer, Mr. Trump?" "Big. The big one. Very beautiful, and quite frankly, very very nice. Very loud, okay. Many have said that it's probably the loudest. But nice." "What rifle do you like?" "All of them. V8. Probably about a thousand hp. More, probably. HP means horse power. Not Hewlett Packard, who had a CEO who was, quite frankly, not very smart. Grenades."

Hey, did this tweet make this thread already? Here's why I genuinely admired and respected 41. Not because I agreed with him on everything at the time (although I actually did agree with him on a lot, and voted for him twice), or because I agree with him on everything in retrospect (I don't, and hindsight has shown both of us to be wrong about quite a few things). No man is perfect. Not one. I admire the hell out of MLK, but I can also sit down and list you a litany of his significant failings and shortcomings. In the end, it comes down to a core of decency and humanity. As former Senator George Mitchell was noting today, 41 thought of the Democrats as the opposition, not as the enemy (and he was quite oppositional - he vetoed more bills than either GWB or Obama did). In my life experience, I've seen this as a common thread with executives who put their enterprises in a position for long-term success: yes, they are smart, and yes, they are often tough. But the truly successful ones are also those who are not petty or small, and who are guided by some measure of basic human decency. I'll miss that about 41.

Ending the tweet with an exclamation point is not particularly proper or respectful. Standing alone, it's not much. But the fact that it's exhibit 958,867,454 in the case of "he's a narcissist utterly incapable of even a shred of basic humanity or empathy" is at least somewhat relevant. I am in the habit of sending personal notes and letters to friends and colleagues upon the death of a loved one. Depending on our relationship, I might even remind them of a humorous or even embarrassing anecdote. But that's in PRIVATE correspondence. And my tone is always one of love and respect, not showmanship and exclamation points. And by the way, that doesn't make me a particularly decent or empathetic human -- it makes me a NORMALLY decent and empathetic human. Something that Trump, again and again, demonstrates that he is not. And I don't want a sociopath who is incapable of empathy to have the power and responsibility of leading the most powerful nation in the world. That alone is a fucking dealbreaker. So, yeah. The little shit matters....to the extent that it demonstrates that we haven't been wrong in our judgment of him.

this act is kind of tired, dude.

No. I cannot stomach them winning an MNC. Ever. Under any fucking circumstance. I can't believe the people above me. If they beat Bama I hope they lose by 50 points in the title game. The Sugar Bowl is independent of OU. Fuck OU. We aren't playing them. We're playing Georgia. Cheering for a rival you have deep, mutual hatred for is some SEC aggyland bullshit. Fuck that. OU could win 2 games a year for the rest of my life and I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Donald Trump: - Literally cannot consistently tell the truth about virtually anything. - Profoundly and proudly ignorant of basic governance. - Quick to anger and lashing out. - Has no real genuine policy ideas or beliefs. - Compulsively uses social media as a way of emotionally venting and crisis management. AOC: - Hasn't been shown to be dishonest on either large or small scales - Is sassy online sometimes. - Thinks governance is important and actively seeks to learn about it. - Has very strong policy ideas and beliefs. This sentence means, "They're equal because it looks that way to me (an idiot)." Define "it's". If the 1% have manipulated the system to take the capital for themselves, how is it "un-American" to call for an equalized distribution of that wealth? Be specific.

Username checks out.

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Alabama beat Georgia on a neutral field. But Herbie doesn’t think that matters. You see, his eyeball test is better than actual results. As long as Georgia has the best stats and pass the eyeball test. Then they deserve a second chance at a title run. As long as you pass the eyeball test of a few select people, it’s better than wins. I can’t wait till the playoff expands and douche waffles like this guy fade into fanboy irrelevance.

Radford didn't do it for ya?

I think you’re every bit the bullshit artist that Lotushorn is.

You can replace trump with the entire GOP. And change debt to climate change and you've got another couple articles.

To be fair the paper they handed Trump only said, "I don't really care do U?"

You've mentioned this. A lot. Like everyday.

Make America Grieve Again!

You are an impressive machine of garbage production. Equating AOC and Trump is hilariously stupid, even for someone as dumb as you.

This is a US geography thread. Take that shit to another thread.

Tom be like...

To be fair, that’s probably the nicest thing Trump could have done. I mean, do you really think the Bushs wanted him to hang around and talk about Trump?

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.

You should marry her. After that all of this BS will go away and it will be nothing but blow jobs and cotton candy. Join us! The water is fine!

This is by no means a "right-wing" revolt and has little to do with the EU. The folks who are protesting are doing so because they are poor, and they want MORE government subsidies to prop up their dying rural towns, whose economies are largely based on older industries and agriculture, and an INCREASE in the minimum wage on top of lowering the proposed fuel tax which only amounted to centimes. French presidents of all political stripes (Chirac-conservative, Sarkozy-conservative, Hollande-socialist, Macron-moderate) have been trying to make major reforms to the labor market, underlying economy, and tax structure of France since the 1990s. But they have all inevitably had to back off to varying degrees due to mass protests. Street protests and strikes are a way of life in France - probably more than any other country on the planet - and they have long kept the elite in check or paralyzed desperately needed reforms (depending on your perspective). By the way, I can guarantee that French farmers are quite happy and grateful for the protections their products receive in the EU's common market. You Republicans/conservatives who are normally proponents of: fee-based government services (gas tax for maintaining a road network and promoting greater fuel efficiency) labor reforms (opposition to even the concept of a minimum wage and worker protections), and letting the market pick the winners and losers (allow inefficient industries to die and let people to "vote with their feet" by choosing a better place to live) don't really seem to have a consistent political or economic philosophy at all. Do not conflate your own climate skepticism and anti-European feelings with what the majority of the protesters are actually demanding. This goes to the core of what is happening all over the post-industrial West and reflects the on-going shift from a natural resource-based industrial economy to one based on information and services. Right now, the losers in this transition (rural towns with low educational attainment levels) are suffering across the US and Europe. Anyone with any intellectual honestly isn't sure what the appropriate policy response should be. Clearly, the invisible hand of the free-market would tell those "gros ploucs" from rural France to go get fucked, but do we really want to go back to the days of nationalized industries and closed economies (which some of you former conservatives seem to be implying)? Because, if you're a proponent of those, you have abandoned one of the fundamental pillars of modern right-wing political thinking: a free-market, laissez-faire economy.

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.