Everything posted by Irish Wrist Watch
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Jags bench cooper rush. Put in guy off the practice squad. It took three games for John Harbaugh to give up on former Cowboys QB It's always a good idea to have a backup who is so mediocre that the starter doesn't have to worry about losing his job... doesn't have to improve. Case in point, Dak Prescott/Cooper Rush.
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Well, the team that's ahead can take say 38 seconds per play to run 4 plays. That's 2.5 min of the last five for four fucking plays, one of which is an out of bounds punt or a fair catch - usually (just boring shit). If forces the trailing team to use their time outs a lot faster. They will likely have one less possession during the "desperation period" when a victory is still possible, but you have to do everything right. They didn't have those fucking ten second runoff rules either. They weren't a bunch of pussies. Also, of course, they used to stop the clock when the ball carrier ran out of bounds or was forced out of bounds. You could see a ball carrier run laterally or even slightly backwards to drag tacklers to the sideline in order to stop the clock. (A Texas tight end did that in the waning moments against USC, btw). He stopped the clock and possibly saved our comeback. Those kinds of plays were great play when they happened. These days the refs would consider the carrier downed, and they would signal the clock to start again, even though in my mind, the runner's forward motion had not really been stopped by anyone. Currently these fuckers keep the clock running when an offensive player whose team is leading catches the ball on the sideline and is knocked out. It's just another case of creating so many gotcha fucking rules that the inconsistencies cheapen the "sport". If someone goes out of bounds, the clock should stop. We don't need an announcer explaining these ridiculous special rules, we need them talking strategy, which doesn't seem to happen anymore because they're so mesmerized watching the replay of the last 3-yard gain. All this is done to shorten the game and, in general, the end of the game - the most exciting part - the climax.
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Because the last five to ten minutes of a game took a lot longer to get thru. You would have several possession changes and teams that were trailing had a better chance of tightening up the score. Those last five minutes were almost always the most exciting part of every game. We still have exciting endings, just not as many, and they end much faster - the excitement ends much faster. Compare that to a close important baseball game in the waning innings. You can see the fans on their feet holding their breath for fifteen minutes without any commercials to break the tension. Baseball still has some integrity left. With football, it's all about the money.
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
That's right. Games running 3:30 or 3:45 used to be part of the experience - when you were immersed in a really good battle. T
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Take it from someone who watched their share of football under the 25-second rule, the 40-sec rule has done more to destroy the excitement of the last five minutes of football games than any other rule. in the last four minutes, approximately ten plays were run. In one, you had the defense acting like they wanted to tackle the runner while letting him run free - while the runner acted like he was being tackled and falling to the ground. A total sham to this hollowed out sport.
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
The only way we win this is if we let them score a TD in next play or two. Thank the 40second clock for that.
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
All he did was knock him down
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
great call and third and one. Deep pitch. Hey, go to the short side of the field while you're at it. Fucking morons
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
Arch had a good second half. We put up 3 in the first half. 3 points. We put up 20 in the second half, but 7 of that was a punt return. That means the offense scored 13pts in the second half. A TD and two long FGs. What Arch didn't do was lose it by making big mistakes on top of a mediocre coaching job by Sark. His stats were good. This should be a confidence builder for the kid and it looks like he had a lot of fun when they shot off the cannon. Hope the recruits were paying attention. The stories of this game were the defense which played strong against a pretty unimpressive OU attack, and Wisner, who kicked ass. Florida gave up 34 to a decent Aggie offense. We scored 21 on them. Our offense has a ways to go. I'm not seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Arch needs to take what he learned today and improve on it.
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- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC