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Richard Kimball

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  1. So, you're Manti Te'o?
  2. You make good points. Shaka is a great recruiter, and at VCU he was able to recruit guys, and they could out talent most of the teams they played. Look at the VCU schedule this year. How many losses would Texas have with that schedule? West Virginia is the only possible one I see, and UT split with them this year. Thing is, though, you're not going win against Kansas, Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and West Virginia with talent alone. That's where the game planning comes in. Top to bottom, the Big 12 is a terrific basketball conference. Probably 2/3rds of the schools are recruiting at a very high level, and when you have similar talent, it comes down to game planning and setting up mismatches with the other team. Your point on Bilas, also, is important. Smart commentators know they have a megaphone and that off the cuff comments can blow up. I've never gotten this impression about Smart, but I've known some coaches that will carry a grudge for years over a relatively off hand comment.
  3. Probably posted several times already, but they have some great old classics. During the snow week I caught the original Stagecoach and Sunset Blvd again.
  4. Tell Jimmy not to worry. That son of a bitch does it to everyone.
  5. Gotta give cred to him. He was one of the first to have a crazy celebration. He was also 5'9", and did it in an era when guys like Jack Tatum could still legally decapitate you on the next series.
  6. If Cam returns to the Patriots, they get some decent receivers, and use the offense to take advantage of his running skills, he could be successful with them. I didn't watch the Pats much this year, but the change from Brady, one of the best ever at reading defenses and throwing the receiver open, but has the mobility of a small office building, to Newton, who isn't nearly as good at reading defenses, but can force the defense to dedicate players to watch his running capability, probably takes more than one year. Contract size isn't an issue with Newton right now. He's looking for redemption after being released by the Panthers and the rough season last year with the Pats. I can't think of another team that's ready to contend for the playoffs where he would fit. Rivera is coaching Washington now, and spent ten years with Newton. Their QB roster may be a little crowded, though.
  7. No worries. Take care, and fuck OU.
  8. Did you see this part of my post?
  9. If there's one thing most people don't expect, it's having an engine come flying through the front door of their apartment and hitting them.
  10. Yeah, pretty asinine for me to comment on a football player on a football thread.
  11. So do Lamar Jackson, Matt Ryan, Rich Gannon and Brian Sipe.
  12. Whether it was a good signing or not wasn't the point of my post.
  13. Yeah, here's some of Emmitt's showboating after scoring a 75 yard TD against the Redskins. Slaps hands with a few fans then hugs his teammates.
  14. It's an old meme, but it checks out.
  15. Random thoughts on Newton. Always hated that pretending to rip his shirt open like he's Superman thing. Course, I wasn't the audience for that. I'm one of the old guys who liked seeing Emmitt Smith score the touchdown and head back to the sidelines. Serious narcissist brought back down to earth by the realities of NFL football. Dude has a ton of talent and has been a great player. He could have been better if he'd kept his ego in check and been a team leader instead of a "look at me" guy. If nothing changes, he'll forever be defined by that moment in the Super Bowl when he did that stutter step instead of jumping on the ball. His wardrobe choices are questionable. When Matt Rhule did the interview saying he'd love to have Newton play for him, I knew he was never going to take a snap from a Matt Rhule coached team. Belichick went from the ultimate team quarterback to the ultimate "me" quarterback. Newton did his best with the Patriots, but he's so different from Brady, it was a huge shift for a team that was already successful. It would be like going from Troy Aikman to Michael Vick. The entire offensive philosophy has to change to accommodate that different a quarterback. He didn't deserve the lip from that kid at his camp.
  16. That's awesome. My Corvette story didn't have a happy ending. I ran up on one at the old Corvette Country in Austin. It was an 85, and about fifteen years old at the time. Never wrecked, I had an old truck they gave me $5500 for, paid cash for the other $4500. I loved that car. My wife hated it, and gave me shit about it every day for a solid year until I sold it. Traded it in for a new pickup. Closest I ever came to getting a divorce was over that car. She did shit I'd never seen her do before. Gave the keys to a friend of ours, and tried to talk him into taking it and driving by us and waving at us as he drove by. He wouldn't do it, cause guys understand that kind of shit. Anyway, for the next six months after I got rid of it, she'd keep asking me, "How do you like the new pick up?" I'd tell her, "It's a pickup. It's fine." She finally started saying, "If I knew how much you liked the Corvette, I wouldn't have mentioned selling it." This ought to be on the "Wives" thread.
  17. TL;DR McCarthy took the job for the bucks. He was burned out his last couple of years at Green Bay, but he'll take $4 million to say "sounds good boss" whenever Jerry has a random neural firing. Confession: I haven't watched a Cowboys game since Garrett iced his own kicker. That was in 2011. So, you know how up to date I am on the team. The soliloquy: Jerry's early success hurt him later, and (IMHO) he's a functioning alcoholic. His decisions remind me of playing poker with a drunk. Ever play poker with a drunk, he's sitting on two pair, and still throws money on the table like it's four of a kind? The Deion Sanders trade was what ruined him. He traded for Deion, they won the Super Bowl next year. It set two patterns. Jerry became convinced he could identify talent, and he also thinks he's perpetually one big signing away from a Super Bowl win. He picks a guy, figures HE'S THE GUY, and that's how you end up with the Elliot contact, drafting a fourth rounder, Quincy Carter, in the second round, and filling out the roster with a bunch of guys named Norm. Tom Brady turned the Patriots, and then the Buccaneers, into places people wanted to go to win. Jerry turned the Cowboys into a place where guys want to go for a paycheck.
  18. There's a couple of things I really like about WandaVision One thing I never figured out in the Avengers movies was why they didn't give the Scarlet Witch an actual Scarlet Witch outfit. She was always dressed like a goth girl going to the mall on a chilly day. The only other one they didn't give an actual costume to was Hawkeye, and I've never met anyone who gives a crap about Hawkeye.
  19. I know it was a couple of months ago, so maybe late to comment, but that letter reads like it was written by a Nigerian Prince. Probably some guy that lives in an efficiency apartment.
  20. Don't know why it occurred to me, but I loved Captain Kangaroo when I was a kid.
  21. Let me tell you a story about getting mileage off one performance.
  22. These twitter & press department press releases are a joke. Before computers, nobody had the time to look up bullshit like the longest kick return to start the second half in a domed stadium west of the Mississippi since 1987.
  23. Live is worse than TV, especially when you are broke and spend all the money and then get heartbroken.
  24. When I was young, sports seemed a lot more important. I was a huge Cowboys fan. They'd lost to Green Bay in 66 and 67 on the last play of the championship game. In 1968, Green Bay was done, and the Cowboys finished the regular season 12-2. I was thirteen, and thought for sure they were going to win the Super Bowl. Cleveland beat the shit out of them in the divisional round. It was horrible. I don't think anything sports related ever hurt worse than that loss. It was like losing my first love (which I hadn't had, yet.) Yeah, I may get disappointed over a loss now, but when I was a kid, it seemed like life and death. When I was writing this and reflecting back on my youth, it reminded me of why I hated Notre Dame so bad. Couldn't see the Longhorns in Texas, but EVERY SUNDAY MORNING the local station showed NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS. Frikkin hour of the Saturday Notre Dame game, with every good play by the opponent taken out.
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