Hank Chinaski

Original, authentic look you came up with there, Utah.

This is the problem. It’s a bigger problem than his inaccuracy with deep balls. There are plays where he drops back and could easily pick up 3-5 yards but stands still in the pocket too long. He just lacks that sense of how to move, when to run, etc. It’s the difference between maintaining drives and not, and over time, being a good or great offense.

It seems like QE just isn’t very instinctive as a QB. He lacks pocket feel, which is what allows QBs to extend plays, keep drives alive, etc, which is the difference between good and great offenses. In addition he just isn’t good at throwing deep balls. He never has been. Thus, the offense is going to be limited and it will be up to Sark to work around the limitations. It is not because QE lacks talent or toughness or is stupid or anything like that - he just doesn’t have that QB sixth sense that the great ones do. It is what it is. You can win with him but the offense is going to be limited.

I, for one, am stunned to find Tom Herman at the center of such embarrassing, amateurish spats.

What this post presupposes is…maybe we weren’t already broken?

This is where the new economics of CFB will be interesting. Wouldn’t it make sense for, say, Michigan to pursue QE pretty aggressively? He’d be way more valuable to them than Texas, right?

The ags must be unfamiliar with the adage “dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” They desperately want to be thought of as a top brand/program in CFB, yet here they are abandoning their brand so they can dress like a run-of-the-mill Sun Belt team.

It’s 2024, real life is stupider than any fiction.

Everything hitting at once. It’s gonna be Wild, better turn your camera on.

I am a fan of Spoon. In a related story I am 47 and white.

This sentiment is and always has been central to their collective fantasy which casts Texas as the fortunate rich kid whose successes have never been earned and casts themselves as the virtuous underdogs. The actual people involved don’t change this. So of course every Texas player and coach is a selfish, arrogant, shallow diva while all ags are genuine hard-working men of character. When you start with this conclusion (and then try to support it at all costs), you kinda have to tap into a level of cognitive dissonance that most can’t reach. Never mind that it is their program, not Texas’s, that has repeatedly been caught cheating, and that they are the ones constantly boasting about how wealthy their program is - they are the virtuous underdogs.

This has all the feel of the ags hyping this as a “top 10 victory” even after Missouri finishes the season 8-4.