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Nueces River Rat

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  1. 3 hours ago, babysdaddy said:

    Two tackles in particular stood out to me. One was BJ foster actually breaking down and tracking the ball carrier rather than going for a kill shot. The other was the great white hope LB tackling the qb short of the first down marker. He did the same breakdown move and used the sideline as leverage. Someone posted the vid of the Seahawks tackling drill by Pete carrol and the two tackles above looked textbook from the video. They learned that shit in 8 fucking practices.

    What I don’t get is our D is full of  4/5 star players who if you look at video going back to their high school days, they have the  basic techniques down which makes them deserving of their rankings.  My question is why all the sudden did they look like they were never taught a damn thing and belonged playing JV football as Senior on a high school squad?   

    So here goes my tin foil hat theory.   Was this their way of showing no confidence in Orlando and they were during the corse of the season trying to get Herman to listen to no avail until after the Tech game when Herman’s own future was being speculated on?   

     

    Last night was textbook  for what should be expected for a large balance of the season.  That’s a D who puts at least 10 wins on the board with 8 or 9 being comfortable wins.      None of this BS playing to the last second against fricken KU for crying out loud.  

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  2. 1 hour ago, EastTexan said:

    You should go back to 60's. Those were the days. Dandy Don Meredith has forever been my favorite Cowboy qb. He, along with many of the old timers were mugged every Sunday.

    btw, the oilers were my second favorite team. Earl was the Man.

    Oh I know.    I grew up watching the 70's and early 80's versions of both the Oilers and Cowboys.  Qb's and RB's took abuse big time.   And defensive players were allowed to their jobs, but were not looking to be in the human highlight films of the day.   This is the problem today or at least part of it, hence the league and football at all levels has now gone overboard with protecting QB's, targeting, etc.   Of course it all revolves around money too.  

  3. 20 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:

    I get so up for football that I’m scrolling the internet come July for CFL games.  I happily watch the Whatever Kickoff Classic between Eastern Idaho and UC San Luis Obispo in August because it’s football. But the Oilers are the only NFL team I ever cared about and since they left I haven’t really paid much attention to the NFL other than how Texas players are doing.

     

    I try to watch NFL games but the whole format puts me off.  The rules effectively make the game a constant 2-minute drill, the announcers make Cesspool and Desmond seem insightful, and the whole President Camacho delivery of the show makes me feel like a mark. I can’t get into it. 

    It is nice to have Sunday free, too. 

    I watched some clips of old games between the Redskins and Cowboys this weekend which were during the Staubach era or the original glory years of the Cowboys .   If the league had directives from the owners to enforce rules like they have today such as roughing the QB, every defense would have racked up 150 yards of penalties per game.  I watatched Staubach and Theismann get roughed up, literly picked up and thrown out of bounds a few times.   Today?   You can't even bump into the QB or a flag is thrown.   The sad fact is this shit is bleeding into the college game too.

    The NFL owners have made the game the No Fun League 

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    I could give two shits about the strength or weakness of the Big 12.   Do you think Clemson fans give a shit the ACC was weak sauce this year and last for that matter?

    No.  The only conference that has a fanboy following is the SEC and it’s all part of their marketing plan in order for the media to build up their teams, solidify early poll positions and make every week a critical week in that conference even though teams like aggy can only manage to win their non conference cup cake games and beat teams with losing records.  

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  5. 4 minutes ago, hookem48 said:

    LSU caught lightning in a bottle this year with that QB, Bama losing Tao and half their defense, we'll see next year if they keep it up or go back to being Bama's bitch. 

    They will take a step or two back next season kind of like we did in 2005.  They might win the SEC West, but come short of going back to the playoffs.  I think there is a good chance we see some new faces in whatever bowls are the playoffs next season.  

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