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Wow, not only are you a cannibal, but a glutton too.

By philosophy and design, Kirby Smart’s defense is designed to stop the running game first and then the deep ball. It makes perfect sense in a league where the typical style is run, run, deep shot. We’ve discussed the personnel choices he’s made in terms of trading size for speed. But I wanted to look in more detail. I’ve seen Georgia play several times this season but only payed close attention to their SEC CG appearance. No sane person is going to compare Texas to Bama today so I went back and watched some of their other games against the stronger teams on the rest of their schedule. It would be hard to argue that there is higher average talent among the group of Florida, Auburn, Kentucky, Missouri and LSU than at Texas so this seems like a reasonable comp. Most of my observations are based on those games. Georgia’s defense usually does an excellent job shutting down the ground game between the tackles. It displays some weakness vs off tackle runs, especially cutbacks outside once the LBs step to fill inside gaps and significant weakness against run game extensions to the perimeter. In pass defense they rarely get beaten deep but often have trouble with intermediate routes, especially off play action and with covering the flats. The 4i-0-4i front is commonly used (both Texas and Georgia do it). It puts 5 defenders (3 DL and 2 ILBs) inside the OTs. That has a distinct tendency to shut down interior running since it commits 3 guys to clog the A gaps. The inside shade on the OT does allow that man to block down on the DE to stop flow to the outside, which helps to explain the soft spot off tackle. It's risky to pull an OG against this front since the 4i DE can just follow the puller to the ball, so a good blocking TE/H-back is very valuable against this front. Against a pure running team like UK, Smart played a lot of 5 man fronts to set the edge, provide backside pursuit and contain but that will be tough to do if he goes nickel against the Horns. Coverage emphasizes mixed looks that usually end up with cover 3 or quarters to stop vertical routes. Good design to stop big plays; not so great against teams that throw a lot of intermediate routes 10-15 yds downfield. Combine a mobile Texas QB with the worst pass rush in the SEC and those safeties are often going to spend a lot of time far downfield with LBs trying to cover the intermediate stuff. Being forced to cover longer gets every level dropping deeper, which helps to explain Georgia’s problems defending the flats. Safties covering Duvernay and CJ deep, LBs trying not to lose LJ dropping 10-12 yds off the LOS. Who does that leave when Beck, Ingram or Watson releases to the flats or a short crossing route? Even without a delayed release, UGa had trouble covering receivers out of the backfield, both RBs and motion WRs. I’ve often been told I am extreme OCD. My sister says I really put the first 4 letters in analyst. But everyone should go with their strengths.

Anyone that traded Kamara for Kupp at any point this season is a dumbass.

Damn. mother-in-law’s brother comes into town with his wife to visit for the holiday. Gonna all hang out at my house because it’s nice and mother-in-law’s house sucks. Go to dinner. come back home. all is well - they’re olds so boring af, but whatever. I can abide. Sit around fireplace and talk about nothing. brother of mil goes into my bathroom and has a shit explosion. now we’re at the “can we borrow some of your clothes,” stage of the evening. sure you can. Would you like to borrow some bleach and some cleaning supplies too? damn.

A shirt made of 7s and 9s https://rotowear.com/products/7-and-9-t-shirt

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.

Came to the emergency room at 10 p.m. with symptoms of meningitis. They did four draws of spinal fluid and all of them contained blood. So then they did cat-scan & found my brain was covered in blood. They're not letting me get up and walk around, which is pissing me off. Just had MRI done at 4 AM. That sucked. I feel fine, and it's not like half my face doesn't work or I'm slurring words while sober. But any stupid posts I make from here on out will be blamed on this.

I saw a movie one time where this dude was in a hospital (they didn't say what for but I guess it could've been a stroke). Anyway, these two really hot nurses come in to give him a sponge bath. Well, one thing lead to another and the dude ends up banging both the chicks. One of them had really big tits. Maybe something like this can happen to you. If not, get better and get the hell out of there.

Dam man. So hemorrhagic? Any recent trauma? History of hypertension? and don’t worry. Even with half a brain you’ll still be more intelligent than the vast majority of posters here.

People get sensitive stomachs when they see the real world outcomes associated with American foreign policy. Arabs shot in the face in Palestine. A beheading of a homo in Saudi Arabia. It's too much, even for spoiler tags.

Sorry been off a few days. Thanks for the advice! Went ahead and took it—applied pre-stain prior to staining, definitely glad I did. Looked really blotchy on the test wood without the prestain. Not done yet—hoping to be done before next weekend when family comes in for Christmas. I’ll go ahead and post a few pics of the progress so far. Be gentle—it’s my first time!

I drank some more Buffalo Trace. So there!

not a millennial.

Went by Peggy Sue BBQ tonight. Passed up my usual order of brisket quesadillas and tried their Smoked Meat Sampler. Much better BBQ than the last time I tried their meat in lieu of the brisket quesadillas. It’s definitely gotten a lot better. I’m not saying they’re gonna end up on the next Texas Monthly list but it’s definitely a step up over last time. While the brisket was a little bland. Everything else was solid.

99% of this board just changed its position on “activist judges.” Now they’re racist nazis.

Yeah that's kinda deflating

Cross posting Vic from the Facebook thread... because of the comments

I’m a 5:30 guy myself.

So about that Biggest Loser challenge, I took 3rd place. At least I got my entry money back and dropped a couple more pounds along the way.

If aggy asks about your ring, tell them it's an aggy ring. When they start whooping and asking what year, tell them, "Oh I didn't go there. I picked it up at a pawn shop for $27. Or was it $25? Well, somewhere around 27-25."

Duvernay needs a big game here.. hopefully Sam actually looks his way

And pork is the only kind of tamale you should buy

See fellows, that right there is the color “burnt orange”.

This Stone kid comes across as being the douche in that exchange.

Texas Longhorns Helmet History

If only he would have gotten his head blown off in the Israeli consulate office in Turkey.

Slaping hands after every free throw attempt

Rhino in fine shape. Hogs last night and ducks this morning. A little slow since 400 mallards are sitting on the flooded grass farm 1/2 mile away.

I tend to over-analyze, well pretty much everything. Gonna try something a bit more pragmatic here. The biggest strengths of Georgia’s defense are interior run D, then deep coverage. The biggest weaknesses are conflicting ILB responsibilities, lack of pressure (sacks and TFLs) and flats coverage. In light of that, I’d like to see Texas DO: · Run off tackle, especially with a backside constraint like ZR or jet sweep action. · Threaten the perimeter and punish Kirby for demanding his ILBs fill A gaps AND cover RBs. · Use play action and throw to areas usually covered by dropping LBs. · Run the coverage off deep and give Sam the green light to run unless they pull a guy out of coverage to spy. · Throw back shoulder to our big WRs. DON’T: · Run straight at the interior defense. Flatten them out with swing pass, jet sweep or bubble screen looks before even trying this. · Get too stubborn trying to establish the run generally. · Throw inside screens at a DL that doesn’t even try to penetrate much of the time. · Throw the deep post or go route unless the receiver is wide open.

Garlic fries are so last year. Would you settle for whole wheat pizza from scratch?

Frenchmen Street is what’s up. Bourbon Street is like Vegas threw up in a gutter. Unless you want six Miller lites for $3 in which case go getcha some.

As a city, New Orleans makes an incredible mistress, but I would never marry her.

You are full of shit or a total fucking dumb ass if you go there all the time and need someone to tell you which areas are safe after dark. JFC. Why don't you ask your husband next time where you should go?

What a terrible fucking take. I thought reading your takes on the merits of cheering for OU was acid to my eyes, and now I see this. So you want less college football and shittier college football games? What is the end game in that vein? Some magical 64 team playoff system that isn't going to happen in our great grandchildrens' lives, much less our own? Right. I realize that you are a fucking NFL honk who basically views college football as some sort of conduit to feeding your precious Cowboys some new wife abusers to cheer for on Sundays. What I don't understand is why in the fuck you spend so much time on a college football board pontificating about as much.

Like others on this thread, our approach has been simple. If you believe in Santa, he is real. If you do not believe, the magic of christmas no longer exists. and NO ONE wants that. I repeat, NO ONE wants the magic of Christmas to stop. My jr in college at UT still believes in the magic of Christmas and still gets excited when he hears Santa's sleigh bells ring right after I finish reading the Night Before Christmas. Santa has impeccable timing. He along with our 4 other children all run to their beds and cover up their heads and go to sleep when they hear those bells... As for why people want their kids to be grateful to Santa instead, its not about credit or gratefulness. Its about believing in the greater good and that if you are a good person then good things will come your way. Its about encouraging believe in innocence and doing the right thing and not worrying about who gets credit for it. Trust me when Santa is putting together a basketball goal AND a trampoline on Christmas Eve and doesnt get a wink of sleep before the kids wake up, he doesnt give a damn who gets credit. He just wants to see those smiles on his kids faces.

Blackout drapes in a hotel that don't quite close all the way.

Greatest Christmas ever. Back in 2001 when my oldest granddaughter was 4 or so, she and our daughter and son-in-law came to our house in San Antonio for Christmas. Of course we set out milk and cookies as tradition dictated, but added a couple of small surprises. We had deliberately gathered some ash and soot and sprinkled it around the fire place and put some footprints around courtesy of my rubber rain boots. We then took a piece of red velvet and ripped it and hung it on the fireplace screen, of course it had smudges of ash and soot on it also. The next morning when she came downstairs she immediately checked to see it "Santa" got the milk and cookies (I he sure did!), and when she saw the footprints, soot and ash along with the torn part of the Santa suit she just freaked out. I've never seen a child more excited or happy on Christmas. /csb Edit, my wife and I were reminiscing about this last night and there was part of that special Christmas that I had forgotten. Around 7:30 or 8 on Christmas Eve my wife had to go to HEB, (believe it or not it was open) and ran into a Santa Claus driving a red Mustang convertible which I believe was a 64 65 model. She said he was the most real looking Santa Claus she had ever seen and told him where we lived and asked him to please come by the house. The only thing I was upset is she gave him $300 to do it. So anyway now that she is letting me in on the scheme. When he knocked at the door I told our oldest daughter to answer the door for me that I was busy. She and the granddaughter went to answer the door and I don't know who had the most shocked look on their face the daughter or granddaughter. The funny part was is after he wished everybody a Merry Christmas he went out to his Mustang, and of course he already had a pretty good buzz on, and he started laughing going ho ho ho Santa's lost his stinking keys.

Bring out the gimp.

Is that a puppy?

They are doing this precisely because Trump is in office. Cadet Bone Spurs dodged the draft during Vietnam, and he’ll pretend like nothing is happening here. It’s what happens when you elect cucks.

Fleetrack McCampbellwood featuring Stevie Nicks

The kids each represent one of the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Steve, Shirley, Theo, Luke, and Nell, respectively. I think the ghosts were just a device to express some of this theme.

Robert Ellis is good too. He kills the Grand Tour here.

I wouldn’t have fessed up to that. In fact, I would have kept leaving stone markers to see if I could convince him it was an alien invasion.

Always a little sad to me. They're more than just slots on a roster. Hope he finds a spot where he can play.

Hope it works out for Cuffee and he leaves with a good skill set from UT football and hopefully a good start on a degree.

Small government free speech Republicans strike again!

Born in 1902. He's a Millennial.