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Tex Long

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  1. Between owners, general managers, and head coaches there are around a hundred NFL brainiacs, and I'll be surprised if there aren't five or six who are pretty damn sure they can teach Quinn to throw the long ball and how to check to the weak side run. I reckon one of those five or six will take him by at least the second round.
  2. Nutshell. When your plays only work properly when the D is fooled, the Smart Fucker will shut you down.
  3. One of the Talking Heads said Texas needs to have an offensive identity. I think that is a correct assessment. We don't need to surprise anybody, just line up and do what we do... whatever that turns out to be.
  4. A statement we've heard about Steve, early and often, is that his play-calling shows no tendencies. But for the second time at least, we've had defenders from a team we just lost to say "we knew what their plays were gonna be when they showed their formations". That was Captain Jack recently, and a UGa guy after the regular season loss. Sawyer even added "we knew they like to run that toss sweep there." Not showing a trend is a trend. Steve, you're showing yourself to be a damned fine HC. Quit trying to prove you're still the Man when it comes to the Offense... everybody gets it and everybody agrees. You need to find an OC who can implement your strategies in practice, game planning, and play calling. And you need to not micromanage that person. Do it.
  5. Gilbert was bad. He was I think 15 of 40, 4 INTs? Boom had Bama shut down in second half, and we were 3 points down with 3 minutes left. Gilbert didn't see an unblocked blitz coming, sacked, lost the ball on our own 3 yard line. Bama scored. Then even more desperation time, INT. Bama scored. Looks like a total ass-kicking, score-wise, but Bama got 13 at the end of the game with Texas trying to drive. It was a 3-point game, but freshman QB choked at the end, went from 21-24 to 21-37. No Snead, but we had a Junior QB who got zip for playing time all season so Mack could let his freshman get some pt. Sherrod Harris - not sure if he coulda done better than Gilbert, but prolly couldn't have been much worse. Harris quit football the next year. Can't say he shouldn't have. You're right, Snead would probably have bailed anyway. But if not, he would have beat the Tide. I don't think Bama threw more than 10 times total, and Mack decided he needed to change his offense to run instead of passing. Gilbert was no runner. What a beating that shit was. Hey, screw that. Let's get back to the Arch Era.
  6. I don't know if we could have kept Snead on the team, but if we woulda coulda shoulda had him coming onto the field against Bama when Colt went down, insteada Gilbert we'da won that game. Bet Snead woulda known where his helmet was, too.
  7. Freshman McCoy got a right shoulder/neck stinger (appeared to be basically the same injury he got in the Bama NC game three years later and at least once more in the NFL) running in the first TD at KState. Snead ran the rest of the game, put up 35 more points. We got Purple Wizarded and lost 45-42. I don't see any rational point in blaming Snead for the loss. Next up was aggy, in Austin. McCoy was still hurt and had flu on top of it, but his brilliant coach, Mack Brown, played him anyway. He was completely ineffective. Snead stood right next to Mack the whole game, arms folded, waiting - in vain - to go in. McCoy got cheap-shotted twice by aggy in the last minutes, and wound up being carried off the field (giving rise to the aggy "Cart McCry" meme). Snead got to throw one pass into the icy wind as the game ended. Snead was clearly pissed, and he fucked off to Ole Miss... it's hard to blame him.
  8. I believe the preferred group term for pigs - especially flying ones - is "passel".
  9. "We"? Well, you can, but you apparently don't give a shit.
  10. In two semifinals, we are 0 for 8 on calling the Touchdown Play at the critical juncture, with an average result of -1 point per play (rounded). This is not our preferred Standard.
  11. Sixty-plus years ago, in HS, I had a Coach who told us "All I want from you is all you've got." Quinn gave us that these last three seasons. Thanks, Quinn.
  12. I had to sleep on this, so I stepped away from it as soon as the game ended... which was, of course with a little time left on the game clock. If it's been beaten to death already, I apologize. But I overheard this and I had to figure out how to share it. Steve! Hey, Steve... it's God, Steve. I have a message for you, so listen up. Steve? Are you there? Message from God, here. Pay attention. It's first and goal, Steve, the clock is running out. The refs have done pretty much everything they could to hand you the game. Punch it in, put up two for the conversion, and start getting ready for Notre Dame. It's Arch Time, Steve. You're on the one yard line with four cracks at it. Put in the young guy and get ready to celebrate. Having Arch on the team is a gift from Me, and you need to start using it better. Quinn has done a marvelous, a wonderful job, getting you to this point, and he'll certainly get massive kudos, and he'll lead you against the Fighting Irish as well. But it's Arch Time, Steve. Put him in, score the TD – pass or run, doesn't matter: you're the World's Greatest Play Caller, you call it. Have the two-pointer ready, tempo the extra point – let them call time out, doesn't matter. This is it. If you let Will kick it (or Bert, whatever), you'll be tied and into OT, and you'll have to get the 2-pointer anyway, so do it now. Steve? Are you listening, Steve?
  13. Fuck Mack Brown. "Fuck" is not profane. At worst, you may consider it to be vulgar, which is "common", i.e. of the common folk. While a high proportion of Surlies consider us to be above and beyond common, there is a certain amount of Truth revealed in our language and convictions.
  14. Talking head #1: Yogi, it says here you hold the all-time baseball record with 25 RBI in one day. Talking head #2: Yes, but it was two games. Yogi: You're both wrong, it was a double-header.
  15. Power company handed out covers featuring Reddy Kilowatt, who promised that if we let them build Nuclear Power plants, electricity would be so cheap they wouldn't even bother with putting meters on your house.
  16. Yogi also pointed out that the game is 90% mental and the other half is physical.
  17. His Mom and Dad loved his brother, Watson, and barely even liked Mack. He has life-long issues from that, and will never change.
  18. Tex Long

    Bert!

    Too lazy to see if mentioned yet, but the last few games I've rewatched, it looks like he's rushing his first step and slowing the next, leading to a jerky motion. Maybe the holder is doing something different... just a thought, for the kickers here; I was a punter but definitely not a place kicker.
  19. Meanwhile, back at trivial things that make you surly... Posters who are already in the running for Bad Opinions Nobility but will also defend shitty opinions with repetitive responses, to the point of making threads unreadable, even when reasonably astute, even somewhat courteous, Surly folks point out the abject stupidity of their statements. I have been guilty of this on multiple occasions, but not multiple times per day on a daily basis, day after day after day.
  20. I went through a lot of Volvos (couple of 1xx and bunch of 2xx), as well as VWs. Mainly for the kids as they started driving... wanted them in a bulletproof vehicle, and it worked. Always wanted a P1800, but one never appeared at the right time.
  21. Back then I had a neighbor who went and got a Karmann Ghia convertible, and we built a 1600cc+ with Porsche-quality Brasilian parts. Also did same with running gear, and that sumbitch was a fucking blast to drive - run 100mph easy peasy.
  22. You're right about a lot of things. This is not one of those.
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