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  1. Do you even Ocho if you're not watching "Slippery Stairs"?
  2. Georgia isn't #5 for nothing. They're a legit contender that eliminates variables by controlling the LOS. No single facet of their game is devastating, but put together, they keep the chains moving. When you slow the run, they throw play action to a TE that previously was sealing the edge, but now leaked out into the seam for 15 yards. Do you tell your pass rusher to ignore him again and have it happen again, or do you tell him to carry coverage? Next thing you know, they've put up 24 points and you don't have that many. Texas won the Sugar Bowl by not playing UGA's game. They played like a power SEC team. Texas played like an unpredictable Big 12 team. Over the course of the season, that introduces a ton of unnecessary risk, but when faced with a superior opponent, helps balance the odds for one game.
  3. Only thing Napier could tell him is, "It's simple! There's a hole on the left side of the Center. Just stunt your guys and blitz that gap every down. The LG will jump out of the way. Profit!". The silver lining to having completely inept OL play for the first 8 games is that there's limited tape on how to defend our offense if the "send the blitz" play doesn't work.
  4. Yep. <warning_nerditry_follows> They're also a computing company that basically set the gold standard for extracting and encoding video media. Today, running an app that lets you stream live video is common. Back in the Pentium days, when TV streams were analog signals sent over the round black 75-ohm coax cables, watching TV on a computer was instant nerd cred. It took a speedy (for the time) processor and specialized hardware. Hauppauge parlayed their proficiency at designing math co-processors (386 and 486 computers didn't natively know how to process mathematics) into extracting a video stream and encoding into a software file or playing it on the desktop. At any respectable nerd's house, the home network will include a NAS (Network Attached Storage - a minifridge or so sized box of hard drives that provides crap-tons of local storage) and a dedicated media server computing machine. The NAS will hold movies, music, what-have-you collected from various sources. The media server will be accessible to watch those movies either at home and, through a properly configured firewall and gateway (likely running pfsense) anywhere else he has a network connection. Our esteemed administrator proposes to set up a Hauppauge extractor to take the video signal from source like an antenna, forward the resulting stream to a video program, and stream it with a media server application. He's chosen an open-source (meaning not owned by a for-profit company) program as the media server, so that anyone who wants to can download a completely free app, connect to the stream he's providing, and view the game. As a bonus, that open source app natively supports Chromecast, so if you have the ability to connect your device (like a phone or computer) to a Google Chromecast item, you can watch the game on whatever TV you've chosen.
  5. This may be the first time I've heard "Hauppauge" since 1996.
  6. Thomas Harley to get 8 years at 10.6 million per. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/46762588/dallas-stars-d-thomas-harley-nets-8-year-extension Front office showing a lot of faith here.
  7. I saw them pick up a couple of stunts and twist, the kind that previously had them chasing rushers into the backfield helplessly. On one 3rd and 2, Wisner couldn't get through a gap, but that was ok because the line has displaced the LOS by 3 yards to earn the 1st down. Neither of these things were happening consistently before yesterday. The OL wasn't a full on asset. They stopped being a liability, and that was huge progress in one week. It's 1 week sample, but I might allow myself optimism that we've got the right mix in the stew.
  8. I remember how shocking it was to learn that Adrian Peterson made a miraculous comeback from his ankle injury. Through sheer will and personal awesomeness, he healed his leg! Then I watched him take pitch after pitch and casually jog out of bounds for a quarter and a half. He couldn't cut upfield if you gave him a moped.
  9. On paper, these are very complementary lines. Sam Steel is a perfect guy to dig pucks out of piles, back check an attempted breakout, and just generally do the grind work between Roope and Mikko. If you wanted all offense, you might swap Robo or Wyatt for him, but rolling in a game, you'd like Sam to set up his line mates for pretty play. Alternatively, he can collect the garbage when the opposition sends all their guys in panic mode to Mikko and Roope. I'm personally interested in the development of Lian Bischel this season. I think, at the end of last season, he was starting to get comfortable with the level of physicality a player his size should exhibit at the NHL level.
  10. There's a billion nuances to OL play that I don't understand. There's targeting shoulders with hand placement, reading slants, passing loopers off to teammates, etc, etc. It's a highly technical arena. However, it starts with being connected to the playing surface. The ground. Building a strong, solid base with your feet, keeping your body mass positioned over that base, and firing your power up from the Earth, through your legs, torso, arms and into your opponent. An OL who's off his feet is just a projectile. He's less than useless, because he's going to trip his own team. If you were going to draw the best OL player ever, you'd draw Conor Stroh. Massive. The right height. Strong. Everything ready to dominate! But he won't get his butt down! He plays high, standing straight up and down. He leans over his feet. With his body mass now high in the air and away from his base, a grandma could pull him over. He's beaten by physics. None of the other techniques or attributes are worth mentioning, because he won't stay connected to the ground. This is killing me to say, because all the potential in the world is right there. Maybe get him paired with a Sumo master for a week or two. Get the feel for what a strong base is and how to use it when an opponent tries to disrupt it. Learn it, and let me see what all that power can do. Otherwise, he's unplayable.
  11. All us oldsters wanna know why he's calling Pizza Hut
  12. Roster building is a thing. If you got to spring camp and had to spend all your money on a transfer QB because your room didn't have any usable parts in it, that's on you. Football is a physical game, and players get hurt frequently. You know the season won't stop until they heal, so just picking 22 starters and deciding that'll get you through the season isn't smart.
  13. I got to see the game live from my perch high above the North endzone with the rest of the poor but faithful. I wanted to take a win as a given, and to try and watch critically. I was happy to see us put the defense out on the field first, and of course, the defense did exactly what we've come to expect. When Texas got the ball, my stomach sank as Arch promptly did what we're used to from him. His feet were happy. He jittered around. He tossed passes at odd arm angles. One hit the OL and was lucky to be incomplete instead of a short-field INT. The OL put the offense behind the sticks with penalties. The usual. Arch then started with baby steps. His passes hit stationary receivers in the knees. They were able to grab them for 1st downs. Then, he was hitting receivers in the hands on curl routes. Small flats. Easy outs. He tried one deep out (right hash to far left boundary) and sailed it 3 feet wide. Came back and hit the same out perfectly. Moved on to crossers. Hit moving targets in front in the hands. Slants on time and in rhythm. He was largely moving through the WR passing tree. Coming out of halftime, was the 9 route to Wingo. A little uncertain, but took the correctly necessary crow-hop to fling a ball that went directly over 1's shoulder into the basket (Wingo's gotta start grabbing passes with hands and not body them). Directly after, he relied on instinct to smash a quick slant fastball to Wingo as pressure got home. Touchdown. Yeah, it's a sample size of one, against one of the weakest teams in FBS. However, the opponent didn't cause the struggles over the last 2 games. Arch can clearly do the job when he stays out of his own head.
  14. It's like 6 notes in an ascending / descending 3rd progression. Pretty sure it's an etude for learning your horn in the 5th grade.
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