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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. 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?
  2. I asked someone who was in the Navy. Isn’t that close enough?
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. He believes in the James Carville school of hair styling. It probably counts for something in La.
  8. 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.
  9. Yeah, but your mom would say yes.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Which 1/3 of her swings?
  14. T5 Blocked kicks T8 Blocked punts 5 Net punting 13 Punt return defense 71 Kickoff returns 120 KO return defense I don’t recall our KO return defense being bad outside of the TCU opener, and our return game is somewhat effected by guys making bad and or desperate decisions to bring out kicks 7 yards deep when we’re losing. Pretty damn acceptable everywhere else.
  15. Nope. Our TE’s suck. Brewer blocks ok. Wiley is turrible. What the hell’s a Liebrock? Davis, Helm and Sanders are TBD. We’ve got one guy who might see minutes for anyone not named KU in this conference. The youngsters need more time in the oven.
  16. Our TE’s have sucked because our TEs suck, and outside of the OU game with a fumble, individual bad decisions to return a kick and Dicker mishandling a punt out special teams have been just fine.
  17. What about the stupid notion that this virus will at some point stop being spread. Too late. It’s here to stay.
  18. Actually, we’ve been rotating liberally regardless of ability or game situation all season.
  19. Did they play well for three quarters or is that just the same shitastic OSU offense that’s been running ineffectively all year early and often in an attempt to keep Sanders from torpedoing them and the game in the first 20 minutes of play? Their big adjustment seemed to be realizing that our backside defender would run himself out of position and Warren should just cut back against the grain. And then their run fakes had teeth. That’s not to excuse the offensive ineptitude that started as soon as Casey served up his pick 6, but that’s a bad Poke offense that will get them boat raced a few times this season.
  20. They’re out there. Whether they come or not is another thing, but you can look at OL units all across the nation and find 1-2 year rentals from the portal who start immediately. It doesn’t take just a complete world beater to consistently out perform some of what we’ve been watching of late. I agree with you in premise. I’d love for talented 4th year juniors who’ve been working out and with each other the entire time to be littering our two deep with more like them in the pipeline. They’re not there. We really, really don’t need to be mid OL gut and rebuild by the time we hit SEC play. So it’s BMFA (best mf’er available) time. Those guys will have to transfer in.
  21. I don’t think VY made us tough. His legs made us right. Finally we had a constraint on every play that defenses had to account for, and suddenly we could run the ball. Success breeding confidence. And then he’d take off on his own and convert 3rd and 30. Similarly, Colt was completing passes at nearly an 80% clip to two NFL WRs and an NFL 3rd down back. Defenses don’t have a lot of answers for that kind of accuracy to league quality players. Note how our 2009 offense was shit against any team with a pulse. But our defense was a top 3 unit. Which will also cure a lot of ills. Texas hasn’t had any kind of sustained success on both sides of the ball since 2008. 2018 being the closest example. Largely because our talent on at least one side of the ball has been dog turds. It’s hard to leadership your way out of ineptness. And that’s before you add in any retardery between the headsets. So here’s the 2021 edition. We actually have bodies in the OL room as opposed to 2014, but it turns out most aren’t very good and or we can’t translate our pass blocking schemes into something they can understand and execute. TEs largely suck. We have one WR and a good RB group. QB is incomplete at the moment given our general lack of coherent blocking. On defense we have a couple of plus players on the DL, no complete LB’s, no safeties and talented if then CB/NB group. We don’t have the dudes. We may not have the leadership, but I think Casey has enough. We just don’t have enough around him. I’m relatively confident that current Sark would run a train on the conference with the rosters we had from say 2000-09. PK could probably at least confer competence on those same defenses. And then you’d need that one guy in the locker room that the team believed in, and didn’t dare cross or let down. in short we need dudes. And then we need the dude. Hopefully the former can be addressed with the portal. Because we don’t have time for 3+ years of developmental time line.
  22. Don’t be too hard on Vol fans. Imagine that the very fine run we had from 1999-2009 never happened and was instead replaced with the shitastery we’ve been watching since...2009. And you’d have the Tennessee football program. We’re only 12 years into our lost decade. Their 30 year mark of gross incompetence is just around the corner. Some of our fans would have already jumped. And the ticket office would be awash in the feces of season ticket renewals eaten, digested and deposited in the return envelope. We’d probably have replaced the Hook’em Horns hand sign with a slash across the belly indicating Hari Kari.
  23. I have it on good authority that Cake lists him as one of their immediate influences.
  24. Imade had a hold called on him when he pulled on a PA pass. He reached out and grabbed the front of a player’s jersey somewhat redirecting him and let go. Yeah, it was a hold, but far more egregious examples are ignored on nearly a down by down basis.
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