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Huckleberry

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  1. He may be leaving but I'm pretty sure he'll be loyal forever.
  2. As long as we all remember that when we start getting into our old man feelings, we're usually wrong. (yes I know you were kidding)
  3. Sir, my explanation proves that he still might have called one.
  4. I mean you do have some idea. He's done well so far but at heart he is still an Aggie meathead.
  5. Now do how good they are on the actual field. Using recruiting ratings to rebut the premise that a recruiting guy overrates something is an interesting move. Massey ratings because they're easy to parse: SEC has 6 of 14 teams in Top 25, Big 12 has 6 of 14. SEC has 12 of 14 in the Top 50, Big 12 has 10. So this big difference is that Mississippi State was slightly better than BYU. If they flipped it would be 11 each in the top 50. So yeah, the handwringing is a bit overboard.
  6. The benefit for Texas there is that the unpredictable bounces of a football are much more likely to find open space that Odunze and McMillan might not be moving toward than that a standard onside kick's bounces will escape a mass of Huskies. At least that would be the thought. Either method obviously has a low probability of success.
  7. Head coaches love to think football is some unknowable mystery only their kinesiology degrees can unlock, but it sure seems like the vast majority of hires that make fans say WTF flame out a lot faster than the ones that excite the fans. I'm just as sad to see Roof leave as I was happy when he was hired.
  8. My comment is more about Arnold than Weigman. Even in mediocre performances Weigman has shown the ability to make plays that I haven't seen from Arnold, just not consistently.
  9. Usually in this kind of message you declare that you'll do something people normally wouldn't want to do.
  10. I'm thinking he bumps to 99. @texifornia compared him to Vince Young.
  11. I have been critical of him at times for ball tracking and effort earlier in his career but anyone ripping him for Blue's fumble is being dumb. He jumped on it and went for it. In the stadium live at full speed it was hard to tell it was a fumble. The entire stadium either groaned or cheered when they showed the replay on the screens because almost nobody realized it had been a clear fumble. As soon as he saw the ball he dove in.
  12. Yep, this is the most irritating thing they do when evaluating prospects. I don't give a shit if the guy is a future starting NFL left tackle. There are only 32 of those in the world, or maybe 3-4 every year. Meanwhile there is a starting left tackle on every college football team every year. Almost by definition there will be a first team all conference left tackle in a power conference who never starts at that position in the NFL. But you can sure as shit win a national championship with him.
  13. Done with my 24 hour mourning and moving on. Told myself a while back that I'm too old to be angry or even upset with a conference championship and top 5 type season. These types of seasons are more rare than we want to believe. Yes we were close to even more but that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
  14. Yes the block in the back waveoff was terrible because the only possible logic for waving it off is that it was after the play, in which case it's a personal foul. It can't be nothing, but that's what they decided.
  15. That flare to the back shouldn't have even been an option and certainly not after a toss fake that wastes 2 seconds for no reason. Ewers has his share of the blame for sure but that call was dumb.
  16. No it was terrible because you know that play with the toss fake is going to take too long. You can actually run 4 plays with three quick shots. You can get three quick throws in 14 seconds.
  17. Absurd we had a chance. Last series was terrible by Sarkisian. We got beat all game then had a chance for a miracle and I'm not sure what happened. First down on the last series is the most inexplicable play call since Greg Davis called for play action on 3rd and 30.
  18. Not sure if it's a popular opinion but I would go for it on 4th down there so you don't have to drive all the way down if you get the ball back by some miracle. Then you can try a long field the second time.
  19. Not bad, some good roll there but he also doesn't get nearly maximum pullback before extension so there's still room for improvement in his foot velocity at impact. Wait, is that too nerdy on a high school punt clip?
  20. Yes, aggy became a funny word to use for a while but it's obviously gone on way too long but whatever. It's also not like any of us are physically incapable of calling them Texas A&M or the Aggies. Also, it seems to be forgotten now but step one of the process to aggy becoming a thing was the observation that if the plural is Aggies then the singular should be Aggy. And then it became an adjective for a short while when we discussed that basically every word that ends in -aggy is an adjective (baggy, saggy, etc.). At which point aggy was the adjective to describe Texas A&M Aggies before it took on the hive mind singularity meaning. The adjective form is still valid, imo. Texas A&M Aggies and their fanbase are aggy.
  21. Cardinals kicked Philly's ass all day and only some mistakes gave the Eagles that lead. I've never seen a team win a half and be down 21-6 like that before, at least that I can remember. Final yardage was probably 150+ in Arizona's favor.
  22. Your argument appears to be that I'm not a coach so obvious basic logic doesn't apply because of the super complex knowledge that Dan Campbell has. That's absurd. It's also telling that you abandoned logic in this post and has to switch to the you're not a coach argument. The Lions' misdirection was pointless and counterproductive. I have logic, facts, and what actually happened on my side. You have the assumed magical knowledge of Dan Campbell and his intricate knowledge of the unknowable secrets of NFL players because he's a coach and I'm not on your side.
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