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The Earl of Texas

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  1. This. 2006 was a downright decent event.
  2. Ohio State is the worst fan base I’ve come across and it’s not close. Got a beer bottle thrown at me, landed pretty close, told the guy “hey if you were playing QB tonight y’all might’ve won”. Avoided most of the ugliness myself but saw plenty.
  3. I’ll never understand this approach. Winning a Super Bowl is not validation of talent. JJ Watt is a 3 time Defensive Player of the Year, only he and LT have done it. Only player with 20+ sacks in two seasons. He’s widely considered to be one of the greatest DEs to ever play, and he’s not done yet. ‘Wasting’ him would exclude him achieving a lot of that. He’s done very well here, and been made a focal point of the D which has allowed him to thrive, commensurate with his talent level. It’s like saying Junior Seau wasted his time in San Diego because they didn’t win a Super Bowl. Deshaun was All-Rookie in an injury shortened season where he set a bunch of records, like most rookie TDs in a game and most TDs in a month. He’s a three time Pro Bowler in 4 years. He’s won the division twice and went to the playoffs twice in four years, and I know a lot of guys would swap him spots in that regard. Now he’s led the league in passing, and has been made the focal point of the entire team, and he’s the Face of the franchise. ‘Wasting’ his talent would preclude a lot of that. It’s like saying Dan Marino went to waste in Miami. Its just a bizarre way to look at it, in my opinion. To waste someone’s talent is to hold them back from achieving individual greatness through bad coaching or scheme or whatever. These guys are achieving at incredible levels, would be hard to imagine them going elsewhere and somehow finding out all of this was only 50% of what they’re capable of, or whatever.
  4. Big Deshaun guy, but he’s not an expert on GMs or hiring, or hiring GMs. If we told him he would have input, management should have given him input, so I can totally understand his agent ego checking the Texans via the media, but Deshaun asked for leadership and structure, so getting upset when management takes leadership and looks to establish structure seems a bit overblown. But he’s not some hot headed clown like other guys who reach his level of stardom. If Nick is a good hire, then so be it. I think for sure they will give Deshaun input on the coach choice, and I think he’ll come away good with it all.
  5. Our seafood boil game has been SHIT and I’m done tolerating it
  6. No, you don’t understand, a poster earlier said that Gideon’s hire must mean Ash is out, so first it must be repeated to death, then it will be claimed as “from a source”, then we can reach the final boss, the “well we know for sure that Ash is gone if Gideon coaches safeties.” The Surly machine has no off button, but it’s a one trick pony.
  7. That great white sark account is bad, which is a bummer because we deserve good parody.
  8. The last two coaches failed because they brought inadequate staff. I think we’ll see a Sark difference in the new staff’s approach.
  9. Oh gotcha... I would think that has more to do with our peripheral “journalists” being spoon-fed info as opposed to bulldog truth-seekers.
  10. I mean with the advances in modern plane technologies I’d guess it wasn’t that big of a hurdle to overcome otherwise.
  11. It’s time for you to shut the fuck up and go away.
  12. We should make Ash the Head-Corch-In-Wading without actually hiring a Head Coach. Ultimate motivator.
  13. BREAKING NEWS: Urban to Texas... to go 4-8
  14. We should fire Tom Herman and hire Urban Meyer.
  15. We’re going to lose, and it’s going to be because we play down to competition instead of up to our talent level and head coach’s pricing model.
  16. Who wouldn’t be happy about being hung?
  17. Sadly untrue actually. They have always favored us. They’re a pillar of aggy BOMC theory.
  18. Houston Chronicle dunking on CDC now
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