TheFlyingBoat

Nope. Never saw it as a full member from the day I joined from Shaggy to now EDIT: Oh I think I used to have legacy group permissions since my join date was March 2018

I am still seeing them

You think viewers need to be scared of a resistance to flow?

Yes they score more in the second than the first, but that ignores context. We gave them the ball on our own 30 for one drive. That drive alone is the difference in points. Couple that by going for it on 4th more frequently, which is EV positive in every situation they went for it in the second half, and you have good reason to expect increases in scoring even with better defense..

When was the last time our linebacker play was good? When Muschamp was DC? I think the problem goes beyond the coaches there.

We have a Sugar Bowl win over Georgia, wtf does A&M have to show over the past 5-6 years? A good year during the COVID year and…? No matter your spin it, we have sucked donkey balls and have not met our standards during any year over the past 12 years except for the aforementioned year. A&M has basically accomplished as much or less over that timeline than we have in terms of BCS Bowl Victories (recall the Cotton Bowl was not a BCS Bowl). They are the third best team in their division during their best years. We are pissed when we accomplish the same thing and we should be. We should demand excellence at every turn and give our coaches the time and resources necessary to achieve it. While you troll about the Quinn Ewers injury, keep in mind that if Quinn is uninjured, right now we are likely 5-0 and a top 5 team in the AP Poll. Sark is not as good as that result would make us appear nor is he as bad as this 3-2 result with an injured starting QB, an active but also injured second string QB, a recovering injured third string QB, and a walk on QB as the room. tl;dr shut the fuck up and watch you overly emotional and reactionary troglodytes. Sark can win a title here. Give him time.

From my home in San Diego, CA: FIGHT!

This suggests to me the greater issue is at the LB/DB level and a failure to cover/make tackles after the QB is pressured. 110 pressures is a fuck ton and shows good usage of the front and in this day and age with significantly quicker releases from QBs (down by about 0.5 seconds from the 2000s and 0.3 seconds from 2017 alone (latter per the Athletic)) QB pressures are of a greater significance imo in terms of measure and predicting defensive front success than sacks. Now of course given how shit our edges and LBers are there are some complicating factors in evaluating our D under that lens as these numbers with competent Edge/LB crews would result in incredibly low play counts and TOP on the offense side and very few points scored.

Can’t do it this year. Way too busy rl

Pretty sure it is Big Money Ag

yes I meant 50k from the pancakes haha

Honestly I don't get what there is to investigate. We offer them, at a minimum, $150,000 a year if they're an OL. Honestly what's surprising is we're not getting better OL talent, but I guess these are Flood prototypes so hopefully it all works out.

I mean what’s the guy supposed to say? “Yeah I saw that locker room at Bama. In there, they’re bigger, faster, badder, and better coached than us. We’re fucked.”?

So there's a lot of talk about the 3 stars bringing down our average. I think that begs the question as to what a realistic ideal class looks like at every position (including recruitments we already lost but in theory had a decent shot at) and how we measure up to that. I'll be generally operating off of Bodacious Bevo's position counts because I largely agree with it with a few changes. Realistic Ideal Offense QB: Arch RB: Baxter, Wisner WR: Cook, Pettaway, Niblett, Hale, Greathouse TE: Duce, Kaiuway, Randle OL: Sewell, Heard, Deal, Robinson, Chatman, Reed (17) Defense DL: Hicks, Spencer??? EDGE: Gullete, Shelby, Vasek LB: Ant Hill, S'Maje, Lefau, +1 CB: Toviano, Malik, Matthews, Bell S: Williams, Johnson ATH: MHP (16) === (33) QB: nailed the realistic ideal with the best QB in the country and a true bellcow on the recruiting trail RB: looks like we're in great position to nail the RB1 of the class and have a great RB2 behind him WR: Got Cook and Niblett already. Going to lose Greenhouse to ND, oh well. Pettaway is still on the board. Hale is looking good, but has unknown character concerns or something causing schools to hesitate. Jonah Wilson seems ok enough, though had a weaker junior year production wise than I would have liked given his solid sophomore year post-conversion from QB to WR. TE: If we somehow pull Duce it'll be incredible. If not. the TE class will be largely forgettable to me and I'll just hope 2 years from now they'll have been well coached and serve as a surprise breakout in their junior year. OL: Not a huge fan of Stroh or Goosby, but with no counters it isn't the worst idea to offer them a spot and see what level they can get to. Cojoe is young but has potential as well, but isn't on the same level as the ideals either. Chatman was a great get though and I trust Flood on these evals way more than I trust myself or scouts. Heard seems to be trending towards LSU which I dislike. Sewell is out. DL: In better shape than expected for Hicks and have Spencer locked up. EDGE: In decent position for all candidates. Hope to see some start to commit. LB: Went from a position of weakness and doubt before Lefau to a position of hope at this point. Major position of need has a chance to get filled with talent CB: In a good position for Toviano, should see a commitment from Malik soon, Matthews and Bell would both also be great to have. S:Already have both safeties committed with 5* Williams dropping as part of Arch-mas and 4* Johnson having committed earlier. ATH: MHP is a fun athlete, we're in a good position for him, and I can't wait to see him play for us and see what he can do

Wrong on everything but the brisket and some of the things that don’t matter

On a more serious note, without the necessary transfer to buff up key weak points on defense I see it as wholly unrealistic to expect to beat Alabama or even Baylor (a team that will return elite lines that will dominate us on both sides). That's 2 highly likely losses. Assuming we go 3-0 against ULM, UTSA, and Kansas, we're going to need to go 6-1 against the Big 12 minus Kansas and Baylor. The RRS is a coin toss no matter how good either team is and we know this because Charlie Strong's worst team beat an Oklahoma team that went otherwise undefeated that had Baker at QB, Mixon and Perine at RB, and Shephard and Westbrook at WR all while getting humiliated by Notre Dame and choking away at home to Cal on a missed XP. Oklahoma State should also be a reasonably difficult team to beat. I think with this team we're looking at 8-4 and 9-4 with a bowl win given the massive improvement in line play I expect in the back half of the year. To see us at 10-3 after a bowl game I'd need to expect an improvement on defense that I don't think the transfers we got can produce.

Fun fact: The Texas 2005 team scored 50.2 ppg. Not relevant to anything really, but that's why it's just a fun fact.

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Let’s get some more big beef!

Right lol? And they're the ones who missed out on him.

GOD IS REAL

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