Bobby_Batronic

As it is done on every message board for every other program. Think people aren’t bitching about Michigan today? OSU? Think Georgia fans aren’t chirping about having to survive a last second FG attempt and all the crap that went on last night? What about Bama fans watching Georgia play for a title while being in the midst of the greatest run in college football history?

At this point one has won 30 games and a conference championship at his school and the other beat Texas and won his only bowl game. Traylor is the obvious choice today. Maybe not the right one, but the obvious one.

I don’t see it. We need immediate help at Edge, LB, S and WR. Sorrel is an ok edge, Ford has played well prior to last night and we’re hoping Neyor makes it back from the ACL. All other option will either come from the portal or be frosh/underclassmen that we’re hoping do something. It’s the Texas way. And even if we address all of those we’re likely one deep at most of them. Someone will likely step up and surprise, and we’ll probably snag at least one answer in the portal, but that’s some pretty big position groups to have no obvious solutions. Yes, there are some talented athletes waiting on playing time, but none of them pushed to start and looked ready to rock like Brooks did this year for example. And that’s not touching on the headsets issues.

We have no margin on our roster, and often between our headsets. Games rest on a handful of plays because we tend to not win the majority of the rest of them . Part of it is roster. But we gave up more than our fair share of 3rd and longs and 4th and mediums over the course of the year after winning the prior 2-3 downs. Situations where easy pick plays or dives up the middle against a spread defense don’t cut the mustard. PK did a great job at times this year. Something happened about KSU where our style of defense and a effectiveness went up a couple of notches. He still has a penchant for inane substitution practices, inappropriate situational defenses and trotting out ineffectual players en masse only to get abused for it. He shows promise, but lacks yin to his yang imoho. Someone to make him consistently right in the back end, and maybe someone above both of them to suggest that trotting DTD, Bush and Broughton in on 2nd and medium to short is not a winning strategy. The latter is a Sark function, and one he seems to need himself as Sark the OC makes some decisions that should have Sark the HC overriding.

We still can’t get off the field on 3rd and 4th down, and do things like trot out Broughton, Bush and DTD as a package. Ford had an off night, likely because the Washington coaches involved themselves directly, and we had nothing at LB in addition to our ends being owned and our DB’s consistently giving up extra chain moving yardage on money downs. We played pretty darn good defense for about a quarter and a half. And then it was the usual shit that got us beat 4 other times this year combined with the offense doing much of the same. A competent opponent will do that to you, and ask you the questions you couldn’t answer during the season. We still didn’t have answers. Some of that is roster issues, some of that is stubbornness and some of that is poor evaluation in all three phases last night.

Everybody pays for bags. The ULCC’s make you do it a la carte and the nationals and legacies bake it into the cost of the ticket and then wink at you, and suggest it’s free.

I said airlines meltdown 1-3 times per year. I didn’t say that they all go Chernobyl as SWA is doing now, or, as you noted, Spirit did last year. It doesn’t take much time on a search engine to find a given airline canceling 100’s to thousands of flights for “insert x.” Speaking of the Spirit meltdown, do you know who canceled a lot more flights than they did at the same time? SWA. Proportionally it was less drastic, but they had quite the meltdown last summer as well. Spirit was a point to point operator like SWA, and went away from that to adopt more of an Allegiant styled model of one to two days turns with aircraft flying the same routes over and over to mitigate those concerns in the future. Give it until Spring, liberally mix in a bunch of “Wanna get away?” fares and the traveling public will largely not give a rip about this.

American pilots have their iPads and personal devices that have programs that overlay their scheduling software which is probably Apollo era old. And that’s not an exaggeration. Microsoft is giving them an entire system upgrade, but it’s a huge corporate entity with tons of corporate memory etc. Most airlines have the option for crewmembers to self notify for assignments. That’s usually beneficial when you don’t want scheduling calling at 3 am to notify you of a trip that evening. But most union contracts require actual voice notification for future assignments. There is usually a limited call back time too. Crewmembers can’t just ignore company communications normally speaking. It’s also not as easy as telling a flightcrew to jump on yonder jet and take it somewhere. Contractual rescheduling rules usually require a flow chart to understand. I don’t think this is a work action at all. Most airlines have embarrassingly outdated IT infrastructure maintained on a shoestring budget and manned by a skeleton crew. They all meltdown depending on the vagaries of weather hitting hubs and said infrastructure’s ability to handle things going pear shaped. Most do it 1-3 times a year. SWA is getting their turn in the publicity blender. I’m a sure another usual suspect will go through the ringer during the next winter or spring storm. It’s equally frustrating for flight crews. One can send emails, contact flight chiefs and spend hours on hold with an overloaded phone tree and still not have the company understand where they’re at etc.

Actually, I think it was Hunt for the Red October though there’s a similar line in FG.

To an extent. It was also this season, the year of our Lord 2022, where we played a lot of inexplicably soft defense, inappropriate fronts and converses versus downs and distance and had substitution patterns that bordered on the inane. Somewhere around the KSU game someone largely put an end to that BS. If it was PK then kudos to him. I hope it continues, and will be watching to see if the issues above rear their head again in the future. Sark is getting some of that treatment too.

Have some Flash Gordon rep.

Also possible they were getting a door unsafe light and decided to descend and depressurize per a checklist.

Follow up, did the noise continue after attaining the lower altitude or did it stop?

I mentioned types after forgetting you said it had an FA which rules out the Metros, 1900’s and Jetstreams, but it was too late to edit. A turbulence encounter severed enough to cause a loss of pressurization would seem to meet the definition of an accident to me and it would be strange to press on unless there were truly no better options. They may have also been dealing with some MEL issue where part of the system was degraded before flight and it was made worse by the turbulence. Dropping down to 10-12k jives with pressurization issues. You’re limited to 30 mins above 10k cabin altitude, and that’s usually a terrain clearance tool. Did anyone from the company or the feds contact you afterward?

Yeah, the pilots didn’t continue to fly the plane to the destination as though nothing happened while losing cabin pressure. What you probably heard was a door seal that had some gravel or something get caught in it. Likely after the turbulence encounter. It’s noisy as hell and invariably harmless. The headaches were likely from the intense rattling around, vomiting and general panic level induced by the incident and sound that wasn’t understood. I’ve had the cabin pressure controller decide this life was too much and dump the cabin climbing through 38,000 feet. The cabin limiters and emergency pressurization kept the cabin from climbing above 12,000 feet, but it went there near instantly. Life was exciting, but there were no oxygen depravation symptoms. I can only guess you were in a 1900, Metro, Brasília or Saab. Maybe a Jetstream or ATR. None of which are going to fly very high to begin with. I’m sure it was a very scary in incident though.

Held in a not very accessible small, college town 5 days before Christmas. It’s not really that surprising.

Probably from shit flying around including those without their seatbelts on.

Get back to me when someone creates it in a Keurig sized attachment for my car.

I’m not worried in the least about our ability to run the ball with Brooks, Blue and Robinson. I am worried about how they perform when the ball isn’t in their hands. Blitz pickup, check down duty and leading another back to the hole are things I’m not sure any of them are good at right now.

He was the punter.

He just had two toes amputated that necrotized on his left foot due to blood clots. Karma’s got your back.

I don’t think bird legs and bitch tits will be a desired look for Prime’s teams. Even if it is just the punter.

The difference between a responsible driver and a maniacal mass murderer is just a little bit of steering wheel travel on a busy thoroughfare.

There’s things other than cameras that do that for us and indicate it on the flight deck.

Offer it to him in arctic blue and see what happens.