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Paul Wesley

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  1. The season is halfway done, and we are underachieving in short-yardage situations. We should have a WAY more successful short-yardage package of plays. Why not Roschon at QB K Robinson coming across the formation, Bijan in the backfield, Sanders and Helm (both good blockers and big receiving targets)? We can force the other team to defend a lot of different places the ball can go (jet sweep, dives, QB keepers/bootlegs, jump passes, old-school option). Roschon got a scholarship here to play QB, and he can make those throws. Instead, we're just lining up with Ewers at QB on 4th-and-one and handing it to Bijan. We're very predictable and we're getting whipped. Effectively, our short-yardage offense rests on the hope that the back can break a tackle after getting smacked in the backfield. We've got these claws and these fangs, and we're just staring at them and thinking, "How do I kill this bunny?"
  2. Reprehensible. It's just perfect that the video captures the moment that the man has to give real-time justification for why he is choking a kid... and he clearly has none. I hope he goes to jail for a long, long time.
  3. they're sold
  4. These are my seats via the Longhorn Foundation donations. This year, I bought another pair in another section in order to be closer to some other friends, and I'm trying to offset that cost a bit. Section 114 Row 26. $210 each, which is slightly more than the face value of $175, but less than similar seats on stubhub (where they'll also tack on another $50/seat in fees). I've been on these boards for decades (back to the 360 days) and I'm a frequent poster in several forums (music, football, etc). I'd prefer to sell to someone with similar track record. Can accept payment via Venmo and I'll email or text you the seats. PM me.
  5. Having Mack tell the kids "let's not get too excited" plus Greg Davis's conservative and profoundly unimaginative offenses = a 5-year losing streak that felt like 50.
  6. It would be an interesting side-by-side comparison. I have an old Super and it's pretty great. But I hardly ever play it because I have to figure out a way to either run an instrument cable into the next room, or mic it up in the next room and listen through monitors. Even if you do the thing where you remove one tube so that it breaks up at a lower volume, it's just unreal how loud those amps are.
  7. I'm too lazy to look up the dollar amounts, but she was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars from right-wing groups to be a speaker/consultant or some other bullshit. Making justices file financial statements - that check/balance is intended to prevent EXACTLY this kind of purchase of influence, and the fact that the Thomas family would omit that considerable income from their filings, screams "consciousness of guilt" to me. (edit to add)... For Ginni to now speak of "iron clad rules" that she claims were followed in the Thomas home so as to do everything strictly by-the-book - it's laughably unbelievable.
  8. Those 1968 babies might be old, grumpy, rapidly declining, and technologically challenged in 2022, but they're not "boomers" under any definition.
  9. Those compressed felt picks for bass work really well. If (like me) you’re not an actual bass player and you don’t have the skill in the fingers of your right hand to pedal 8th notes evenly or to articulate all the notes in a phrase. It’s a great cheat that lets you do those things without the click-y attack of a pick hitting bass strings.
  10. If you were going to teach young players what is/is not targeting, you'd show them how to keep their face up (like Overshown) and not to lower your head and launch (like what we just watched). Just completely arbitrary enforcement... no attachment at all to the wording of the rule.
  11. That clip is unbelievable. "They're putting components of robotics into us." Fucking wow.
  12. Just read the last two pages, and all the talk about QB's throwing deep balls. It's also hugely important to this offense that the screen passes are delivered with a quick release and good velocity. When a receiver gets those extra couple tenths of a second (or whatever it is) to turn upfield as the defense is closing in, that split second is often the difference between a 2-yard gain and at 12-yard gain.
  13. Some of us are a garbage TD from a back door cover. priorities.
  14. I really thought Nebraska might be re-energized by a coaching change and by hosting an old rival... I even thought about betting Nebraska and the points. Glad I didn't. Their players wear the same jerseys as the players from their heyday, but they are just really, really bad. They might be down by 30 before halftime.
  15. You are getting good advice here. It seems like you’ve already addressed the situation, but I had two thoughts reading this page (in case anyone else is dealing with this): 1 In general, soundproofing a room has to be thought of in terms of “weakest link.” If windows are the weakest link (letting sound out), then every dollar you spend to treat something other than windows is a dollar almost completely wasted. 2 Soundproofing a room will make tuning that room more problematic. If you’re trying to build a flat-response mix environment, for example, it’s MUCH easier to do that if the lowest frequencies are allowed to escape. If those super-long frequencies are reflected back into the room with thick and dense walls (which is what it takes to contain them) those low frequencies are nearly impossible to eliminate - at least in any residential-sized room. I often see people wasting a lot of time and money because they mistake soundproofing for acoustically treating (and vice versa).
  16. p.s. Hard "yes" to those P90-equipped TV Yellow double-cuts.
  17. I have two signature guitars (which is a sizable % of what I own). 1. Mike Campbell Duesenberg. I kind of wish it didn't have such a flashy paint job, because my technical prowess doesn't live up to the racing stripe. But it's just sooooo fucking gloriously well engineered. Easily the most well-intonated, stays-in-tune, plays-like-butter guitar that I've ever owned, gets a pretty wide range of sounds (bridge humbucker + neck P90), and it sounds fantastic through almost any amplifier. It turned me into an evangelist for Duesenbergs. I'll never sell it. 2. Malcolm Young Gretsch - I bought it used, after the original owner had it custom painted candy tangerine, swapped out the pickups, put a Bigsby on it, and then put it right back in its case forever. I know, I know... why would you buy a signature model and then heavily modify it? I don't know. After I bought it, I took the Bigsby off and made it back into a hardtail. It's probably the guitar I play the least, but it's just super appealing to me. I think it's cool as shit. I'll try to put a photo up this week. (edit) Used to have a George Harrison signature Gretsch that I impulsively bought during a trip to New York, but just never bonded with it and sold it.
  18. Cross-posting from the Beato thread:
  19. Really enjoyed that
  20. That photo might be even sillier - in a "less authentic" sort of way - than Dukakis riding around in a tank.
  21. My wife wants to send you $9.95.
  22. The high point of my last trip to London was being on a train with our very gracious tour guide - a very sweet 60-something gentleman with an advanced degree in history - and watching his face as my wife very pointedly and animatedly argued that the queen most definitely had Diana killed.
  23. A non-stop stream of insults, bravado, hate, and lies just effortlessly roll off his tongue. A 70-something year-old grandfather who mocks the physically disabled, writes checks to porn stars, worships money, and constantly advocates for violence against brown people. ... but then pauses for a photo shoot while sycophants jockey for position so they can all be photographed sucking up to him as though he is an example of righteousness. The hypocrisy is just mind-blowing. The unwavering support by self-proclaimed evangelical Christians for such a cartoonishly immoral person who is the antithesis of everything they claim to believe -- For me, that will always be the most stunning disappointment of this era. We've been watching it for six or seven years now, and I still just cannot get over it.
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