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Huckleberry

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  1. No kidding.

    Now tell me whose offensive line played better in Kansas City last night. As I've said multiple times now, QBs influence sack numbers. But that's not why Brady didn't even get hit last night, terrible roughing call notwithstanding. So it's a really dumb thing to isolate as the reason he is great when there were a dozen things he did more impressively last night than not get hit.

  2. 2 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Unfortunately, even if you adjust for conference size, the Big 12 was dead last among the P5 conferences in the most recent draft.

    The best way to combat this is for Texas to pick up its own slack in producing draft picks, and it looks like we're going to do that going forward.

    Exactly, but we can still combat even that narrative. You know who wasn't drafted? The top rated defensive rookie in the league.

    That fits in perfectly with our players and celebrity alumni telling recruits that the SEC love fest is 20% good football and 80% media hype. The best defensive rookie in the entire league was from the Big 12 and wasn't drafted. And with another 2 years close to this one he will be a very rich man in 2021.

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  3. Nahlin is much more fixated on Lindbergh and Broughton than Evan's right now. Says that if we land them, 'everything will fall into place'.
    I get the feeling our staff recognizes that Evans will go to signing day and right now they're trying to identify top end prospects who can become class leaders and recruiters if we get their commitment.
  4. He actually doesn't, they track that kind of thing.

    The quarterback does have a lot to do with that, it was just a really weird thing to pinpoint as to why he's great. Last night the offensive line did a great job and Brady didn't have to hurry many throws. When he did, they got a roughing the passer call. Ha.

  5. 4 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    Bledsoe would be pretty damn insulted that you're comparing him to Matt Cassel.

    Bledsoe didn't do much that day (10-21, 102 yards, 1TD - less than 5 YPA is not good). The Patriots were a well coached team, as usual, that played to their strengths and their opponents' weaknesses. They got two special teams touchdowns and they won, which they tend to do.

    I'm not arguing that Brady isn't great and the primary player reason for their success both on and off the field. You're just going a little overboard.

  6. 3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Watching it live, I thought it was strange that Lewis didn't argue the call. Just got up and jogged back. 

    He absolutely thought there was no doubt the flag was coming. Watch this angle and his reaction when he realizes it wasn't thrown.

    It's also possible he was gathering himself at first considering the pass interference looked like it included a helmet-to-helmet shot.

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  7. Oh he would have if the dollars were there that are there now. Everyone likes to act like Ruth was a fat dude his whole career but you know better. That video above is of 36-year-old Ruth. In his prime he was in perfectly good shape.

  8. Just now, satyanash said:

    What about holding? It happens every play, as they say, and NFL coaches could easily use this rule to negate any one big game-changing play by the opposing offense late in the game.

    Fantastic. I hate holding, too. You keep making me more and more in favor of an idea that sounded terrible at first.

  9. 8 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    You obviously didn't pay super close attention to the play in his highlights starting at 0:48.

    Ha, hadn't watched them yet but this prompted me to do so. I bet he was really pleased that one made it into the old highlight reel.

  10. 12 hours ago, satyanash said:

    Yeah, but you don't want a final Hail Mary heave to be challenged and then given a PI for the players jostling in the end zone to catch the ball.

    I do. I think it's silly that rules don't apply in certain situations. Pass interference is pass interference.

  11. 4 minutes ago, po elvis said:

    i guess i am not sure how the rule works, but it looks to me like the ball is at least even with the receiver when he gets hit. the ball might be past the receiver. really hard to tell by the angles being shown. does the receiver have the right to be unabated to a ball that is on the other side of the defender?

    Well you're completely wrong about where the ball was so the rest of the question is kind of irrelevant, but I'll answer anyway.

    Yes, it's illegal for a defender to impede a receiver's path to the ball. He can get away with it if he's making a play on the ball, which the Eagles DB clearly wasn't.

  12. 9 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    Plus no guarantee the Saints score if it is called

    Yeah, I think you're missing the point here. If the penalty is properly called, the Saints can run the ball three times and kick a field goal with about 15-20 seconds remaining instead of leaving a minute and a half for the Rams.

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  13. 4 minutes ago, George said:

    The only time they touched him was the bullshit roughing call. Dude was nails. Fuck him. But, Jesus, he is good.

    Brady is fucking awesome but what does this have to do with him being good? That's his blocking.

  14. 5 minutes ago, housious said:

    I don’t like the Patriots, but you have to give them credit. Today’s nfl is probably the most difficult sport to be consistently good at, and they’ve been damn good for going on two decades.

    You disproved your own point.

    There has only ever been one modern NFL. A team has been consistently good in it for two decades. So how is it the hardest to be consistently good in? Seems like it's the only one where a club has done it.

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