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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. That, and our special teams are actually pretty f’ing good this year. Watching special teams under previous staffs makes it obvious that no, not just anyone can do it.
  2. You’re right, it was helped by an NFL OL and rush end. We’re probably a 2 loss team with a LT, elite pass rusher and QB who can complete passes against actual competition.
  3. We really need to lay our hands on those hyper accurate surveys of underwater topography.
  4. Coburn hasn’t wrecked much since last year other than the pantry when no one was looking. He’s weaker, and it shows. Ojomo, Sweat, Collins and maybe Murphy make for a solid DL. Beyond that we’re deep into JAGville and hear the outskirts of StillShitty City. We’re one deep on the DL, small and not particularly talented on the edges and our LB’s are athletic, but not terribly good even when our line keeps them clean. That’s why our front 7 sucks.
  5. I’m just thinking about us being 1 deep on the DL, and that the fall of would be precipitous once the starters tire. Maybe more three down if we can build a lead and force other teams to pass.
  6. I’m not even sure that Coburn needs to start, but suppose we were to have an epiphany and start lining up like that. Who subs in to give the big boys a breather? Because it gets pretty ugly as soon as we rotate in fresh players. I guess stuff the run early, try to build a lead and hold on for dear life as we wear down later.
  7. Exactly. We’ve got 3 guys who can do work on the DL, one semi reliable backup who’s a frosh and a bunch of individuals who get road graded. DMO is talented as hell, but not really a great LB. Brock seems to know where to be I guess. Downhill again after that. Our edge OLB’s are no very good. Cook, outside of BU, has been playing well, and our CB’s generally are very good. S is a f’ing Greek tragedy. I’d take OU’s, BU’s, OSU’s and ISU’s front 7 and safeties over ours every day of the week.
  8. The talent thing isn’t BS. The conference overall sucks. OU is going to get boatraced if they make the playoffs. I agree that our record would be better if Ash were still here, but this is not a talented football team. We have a nice RB room, one good WR, and some good CB’s. Every other position is at best one deep, and often not that.
  9. Here’s what you need to remember, Rattler and Sanders flat out suck. Both OU and OSU were playing an offense designed to keep their QB’s from losing the game for them in the first half. Lord knows both tried. Even our somewhat incompetent defense can slow people down if the pass really isn’t an option. Insert Caleb Williams connecting on fly balls, god knows our DB’s haven’t been able to defend them this decade, add a dollop of BJ Foster diving at ankles and voila. OU suddenly has some mo and can threaten us in multiple ways. Including counter plays where they hold their asses off. OSU finally started hitting the cutback on OZ against our oft out of position LB’s and suddenly their play pass game becomes valid again, and Sanders doesn’t have to read a secondary. Ball fake, throw to open guy in either the flat or the drag. Profit. Bohanon is a terrible QB too. He’s efficient within a very narrow scope of responsibilities. When he goes outside of those boundaries he throws two interceptions in the middle of the field for no apparent reason. Turn anyone over a few times in a half and usually their offense goes into “ try not to fuck uo anymore and stabilize mode”. We never really shut down BU’s run game. Bohanon settled and starting doing what little is asked of him and our defense bends over while offering some lube. My kingdom for any DC who’s players align right, play with good leverage and tackle well. Chris Ash did some of that when he didn’t lose his mind and offer free TD’s to Max Dugan. We are talent deficient all over the roster I don’t blame the coaches for that I do blame them for taking talent deficient players and highlighting their weaknesses by design in worship of some meathead dogma. We have a shit ton of that going on with our defense.
  10. They’re not being asked to be disrupters. They’re being asked to eat blocks so that our LB’s and S’s can be playmakers. And that’s fine supposing our DL can actually eat the blocks and defend two gaps or that we have playmakers at the positions set up to make the plays. Basically, we’re trying to run a defense by asking each unit to do what they’re not good at because PK has a hard on for LB play.
  11. PK calls overall defense like he doesn’t watch film of the actual opponent. Yeah, watching Matt Corral run the V/S should scare the shit out of you. Watching the Arkansas version much less so. We played BU like they had a QB capable of doing anything other than hitting a few RPO’s, hitches and max protect PA passes with only two WR out in a pattern. The passive ass 10 yard DB cushion is absolutely asinine in modern football.
  12. Absolute truth. I once took a lady who’s husband donated a library to Dartmouth up to the school to chew out the president and whoever else who would listen over the wording on the plaque. She spent $50k in transportation because she fancied herself a wordsmith.
  13. I wasn’t so much thinking buoyancy as having the same motor push an additional 2000+ tons through the water. But you bring up an interesting point. I imagine speed and acceleration isn’t everything in a world where outrunning a torpedo is unlikely, but I’m sure it still provides options in all kinds of tactical situations. Kinda the opposite supposition for the all cruise missile Ohios. Did they weigh significantly less than the traditional boomers, and if so did they perform better in the fat Seawolf role?
  14. I asked someone who was in the Navy. Isn’t that close enough?
  15. Also not where I was going with that question. In the airplane world heavier variants are typically up-engined to maintain performance. The block V Virginia will be roughly 25% heavier than their predecessors as well as significantly longer. I don’t know if that adds significant drag or is a boon with regard to hydrodynamics. It would seem that greater mass would affect its performance. I’m sure the Hollywood style battle involving subs at flank speed dodging torpedoes is fantasy and that there’s more practical speeds for maneuverability while maintaining stealth. Take away the greater mass and the greater arm the stern planes have to work with would seem a positive. Anyway, just wondering if the added section would significantly degrade a Virginia’s performance in any way. Clearly, it is now armed to the teeth.
  16. Ok. I guess what I was asking was if the additional length and 2000 some odd tons would significantly affect a Virginia’s speed and maneuverability under water? perhaps enough to reduce its ability to conduct hunter killer operations?
  17. Question for the former submariners here. The recently approved Block V Virginias will be significantly longer and heavier than their predecessors after adding another vertical launch cell amidships. This is partially to offset the retirement of the two all cruise missile Ohio class submarines. Would this added weight and length decrease the submarines underwater performance and maneuverability significantly? Would they still nominally be able to perform the hunter killer role in addition to their other missions, or would it be accepted that they’re basically smaller, and more versatile boomers?
  18. Probably true, but he’s the only bald Louisianan of note I could think of. Bradshaw still hangs on to what is left to him and Drew Brees gets honorary mention. They could go with Napier for a more complete if shortened coiffure.
  19. He believes in the James Carville school of hair styling. It probably counts for something in La.
  20. Looks like maybe the damage is underneath? I didn’t know the Seawolf class was so big until I read that article. I worked with a guy who started as a tech on a P-3 and ended up as an underwater combat diver. Some kind of demolitions expert attached the SEALs if I understood him right. Super nice guy, looked like the Marlboro man’s healthy younger brother, would go on multi hour runs up in the mountains and never talked about his service unless you asked him. Still traveled with zip cuffs and duffel bags, absconded anytime we went through Norfolk and jokingly claimed he was still finding sand in places from his training. I think he was still doing contract work on the side. I’ll never forget he had so much ammo in his house that he dug a bunker outside for him and his son for fear that it would start shooting at them in the advent of a fire.
  21. Yeah, but your mom would say yes.
  22. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42851/this-is-our-first-look-at-the-uss-connecticut-after-its-underwater-collision Grainy overhead shots of the sub in Guam.
  23. The most painful part of that OT experience was the damn ref stopping the action and announcing who would defend what endzone in each OT period. I’m betting that’s pretty obvious when the teams line up. Also, how Bert hasn’t suffocated his wife yet is beyond me.
  24. Yeah, we know Urban slings it around. Just curious if her fun bits are fun, or if you’d get stuck with her knees down.
  25. Which 1/3 of her swings?
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