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And yet, that is EXACTLY what Sark did too MM when he came into the UH game. Sark has made me realize the huge difference in designing plays and calling plays. Yea on the former, BOO! on the latter! Seems like a lot of 3rd & 4th down calls come down to only having a single option. I like S.Red in the wildcat, but handing it off at least once seems like it might help spread things out. If we really tried to pulled a guard on a goal line rushing attempt, that is some ... um ... suspect play calling. "A trap play is when all the linemen go one way and, hopefully, the defense goes the same way and if they do, see, it's a big hole and if they don't, well, it's bad news. Anyway, Concannon calls this trap play, and it's beautiful - 43 yards, wasn't it 43? Ah. So, Halas sees he's tired, and sends me in, so I go in and he comes out. Concannon then figures he's gonna get really foxy - you know, Concannon is - Then, he says, "Same play. Very - same - play." A trap play is also called, a sucker play; because, it makes the defense look *real* bad when it works. Now, defenses *do not* like to look real bad, see, it makes 'em kinda surly. So, anyway, all the linemen go this way, and it's like I am lookin' at a team portrait of the Los Angeles Rams. "Hey, Deacon! Merlin! How's the family, Rosey?" I was afraid to get up - I figured not everything was gonna come with me." - Brian Piccolo So, we are calling that play once every other game now? Yippee!!! Maybe one of these days, we'll call a wheel route for a RB. You know that feeling you get when you know you made the right decision? Yes, I made a careful decision to stay away from this board yesterday. Good for me, see how smart I am? Then I came back this morning and read this. Dumb ass!!! It was MM's first start and we won going away. Bad decision on the pick. OK. 2 first quarter turnovers. Not what I wanted to see. We went into the 2nd Qtr leading 14-0. I think MM will learned more from yesterday than any day in the last 3 years. We are 7 and 1 and OU lost. I'm good with that.

"Yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the shooting down of two ATACMS. The source of VChK-OGPU described the reality ironically as follows: 'It is exactly like this. Two ATACMS missiles were destroyed as a result of a direct hit on the position of the Russian Armed Forces air defense group in Luhansk region and at the cost of 3 S-400 systems deployed there”.

Vince was given bad advice and left after his Junior year. Andrew Luck was given good advice and played his Senior year. Oliver Luck, his father (NFL QB & UT, JD '87), asked his son if he was ready to commit himself 100% to being an NFL quarterback, spending every waking moment to getting better at his craft, living right, eating right, lifting, watching film, and learning from his coaches. If he wasn't 100% ready, stay in school until you get all that other shit out of your system. There is a long list college QB's with phenomenal talent and great skill sets that were immature as NFL rookies and made poor decisions right out of the gate. Sorry Zeet... you must have been yacking in the can when this happened. This is one of the most iconic throws and catches in the history of football. Period. I met you Zeet. Funny, almost no resemblance to Yogi Berra, and yet ... "He isn't good enough to beat them, so let's play 3 deep safeties and drop 8 in coverage so he can't throw downfield and has to check the ball down." QE finished 19 for 19 against OU and started 14 for 15 against UH, the one incompletion being a batted ball at the line of scrimmage. F*CKING RIDICULOUS!!! Pre-snap read, catch ball, read defense, anticipate reaction, throw ball to wide open receiver, hit receiver in the hands, repeat as necessary. Certainly had worse? Ya think? 33 for 34 not good enough for you? That's setting an expectation that's near impossible to achieve. I have James Streets autograph and saw Vince play for 3 years, in High School. I will never forget what QE has already done in his short 1 and 1/2 years on campus. Thank you for being Thatguy, someone who understands what they are watching. The one time he had Worthy one on one, he threw another PERFECT pass that hit him in stride and he ran untouched for a TD. I'm pretty sure all 80 yard TD passes involve some YAC. Why is that an issue? Do you have a Greg Davis fetish about throwing to flat footed statues? Thank you again, Sir. QE is not the issue. Getting 2 yards in 2 rushes against a 3-8 defense (wth?) is an OL issue, and calling a slow developing, low percentage 6 yard pass play requiring YAC is a coaching issue. Murphy's first pass should have been a butterfly ending, confidence building, 1st down dump off to Brooks in the flat, not a 3rd and long that he Elway'd 3 yards behind the receiver. That is a bad coaching issue.

Boom, Mo -Fo's!!!

Near Driftwood, we got ~ 2 1/2" in about an hour. Lots of water. !!!

After all this time ... OU Sucks!!!

I saw the PFF grades for DL posted here somewhere. Anybody got it? Thanks!

Their show after the Texas-Alabama Game. "Number 11 Texas, went to #3 Alabama, and they whooped that ass! And we are Stupid, Stupid Idiots!" - Ikard "Um Hum! Um Hum! Um Hum!" - Lehman Ikard & Lehman on Texas-Alabama

I hear that kid Ewers is pretty good.

Answering a ??? from another thread, Brook's has a tattoo for his father on his forearm, and he is honoring his father after every touchdown. Some questioned JB's numbers at 3A Hallettsville (70 TD), but his twitchiness clearly translates to D-1. FYI, Jordan Whittington played at 4A Quero, ~ 30 miles down the road. Not bad for a couple of rural country boys. JB does so many things well, but one of my favorite plays is the botched QB sneak-first down v. Alabama. We always hear a RB runs too high, but what is the alternative? JB, picking up the ball, and running, with his knees a few inches above the ground and a center of gravity ~ 2 feet above the ground.

Texas has a very good team. We only have 5 games with a complete tool box; lot of meat still on that bone. Equally important, they have a great COACHING staff who is getting the best from the players. Like Patrick Mahomes has given Andy Reid the QB he always wanted to make his offense go, Sark has the skill guys he needs to get his engine purring at 6,800 RPM. The last 2 games were getting the large humans in sync. Time to put it all together and really stretch our legs Saturday. My favorite Fred OU quote, "... something, ... something..., I'll tell you one thing, they better have their headgear strapped on tight."

I think this team is special. They manhandled Alabama and Saban at home. Shutting up the SEC BS, the haters and honks from across the country stating on camera, on their shows and broadcasts, they were "stupid" or "idiots" for underestimating this Texas team. Some here drank the Kool-Aid early and believed, most are coming around. They have the potential to run the table. By design, not by accident. We are only 4 games in, by game 12, this could be one of the most explosive offenses in ... well, a really long time. Sark has realized going jumbo in short yardage situations makes a lot of sense with the large humans we have. I liked Rod Babers' take, that Sark is opening up the play book to get more things on tape, so every week, other teams prep work will have sensory overload. Come game time, they will hesitate trying to figure out what they see, and then it's too late to do anything about it. Btw, Sark offense in 2023 >>>>>>> Greg Davis offense in 2005. Sark is year almost one third into year 3 while Mac was finishing year 8.

As a proud graduate of a University that very recently was "a backwater of the CFB landscape for years", I won't hold that against them. Lived there in the early 90's, when Colorado Football was good, and it was fun. Slick Rick had is going, until he screwed it up. Saw Ricky in '96. Watched Colorado unplug "'Lectric Leland" and aggy in '95, and lived through Rashaan Salaam's '94 Heisman run. Colorado is full of "Trust Fund" babies, Colorado State is for serious kids that have to work. Not absolutes, both kinds of kids at both places. I could give a shit about Nebraska, Missouri and aggy leaving the B12, but I always liked Colorado. Perfect setting for college football. If I had been to Boulder before my teens or early 20's, I never would have left. Moved there in '93, w/ a 6 handicap and skiing double black diamonds. Boulder & Austin were probably very similar in the 60's & 70's. Boulder is still the same. Austin is in the midst of a 50 year gang rape by developers.

Deion was the GOAT CB, as mentioned by others. With the ball in his hands, probably the most exciting player of all time. The first time I saw Deion was a story before one of his FSU games, Neon Deion sitting in a convertible in his shades with all his bling. My first reaction, "Who is this pompous ass?" After watching the game, Holy F*ck, that guy is amazing, speed to burn. I saw Lam Jones, Curtis Dickey & Carl Lewis run in Memorial Stadium (before DKR); there's straight line speed and football speed, and Deion's speed on the field was the standard by which you calibrate the scale. He is the definition of "talking the talk and walking the walk." Sorry, Duke. Speed. Talent. Charisma. Style. Damn, he sure did that Star proud!!! Look at the faces behind him ... The ultimate compliment; I never really got into playing football video games, but I remember playing Sega? (maybe?) when Deion went to the Falcons. Who ever picked the Falcons, won. Deion's video player was so much faster than everyone else, it wasn't fair, but it was funny as hell. Deion blazed many a trail, his way, from college to the NFL to the present day, and he has the scars to show for it. He energized a football program that was left for dead. He inspires his players. I'm good with that.

The play that CW got hurt, they went 5 wide without either a RB or a TE for protection behind the sieve they call an OL. Over/under on Johnson making it to Halloween?

Something about the water in the Brazos River.

The plane looked like it had a lot of airspeed, and ground speed; usually those big cargo planes look like they're barely moving.

I can't imagine there is an easier target than a railroad. The heat signature of a static rail line has to be a benchmark you could use to calibrate thermal imaging equipment. Dial in the bridge coordinates, and send fire a single, high explosive round; repeat as necessary. Let 'em build it. It will facilitate Ukraine's reconstruction efforts. I was looking at Tokmat on Google Earth; It is a logistics hub for vehicular traffic, but the rail line is basically a too and through line w/ a few sidings w/o any discernible logistic/lay down yards adjacent to the tracks. The rail importance appears to be that it is the only line though the area more so than the facilities available.

Somebody get me some SRV, please!!!

Walking unassisted and limping past the parked utility vehicle on his way to the locker room. You know, rough tough real stuff ...

All Gas, No Brakes!!!