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Found this today at WB in SA. First time I’ve ever seen it on a shelf. $200.

Let’s see what Quinn is focused on right now instead of watching film. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Nf43PV/

Nice to meet you, Mr. Ewers. For the sake of Longhorn Nation your son can stop being a pussy and deliver us a title.

I think @Longhornlove would enjoy watching Quinn fuck his significant other and then make excuses why he came too quickly and disappointed her.

Put me down in the 2 camp, but instead of stupidity I believe it’s arrogance. Sark believes he can “fix” Ewers, even with only a couple games left in his Texas career. Sark has proven over these four years at Texas that he is unwilling to change his playcalling style, even to the detriment of the team. He refuses to budge from his philosophy even when it’s clear the opponent has figured things out. We see the same slow developing play calls called week after week that don’t work out more than they fail. Too many drives stall out in fg tries instead of touchdowns. Yes, we were better the first half of the season, but things have really fallen off the second half. On top of arrogance I think Sark simply refuses to start a QB controversy with so few games left in Ewers’ Texas career. I think more than arrogance, this is what will eventually cost us a title. He was on the fucking sidelines when Saban pulled Hurts for Tua and it’s maddening that Sark hasn’t given Arch more of a look before now and gotten him in game reps given the way Ewers has struggled the last 6 games or so.

Unfortunately I think we’re in the same position with Sark that we are with Quinn. He is who he is and he’s not changing. He has his philosophy and while it works well against most teams and we have won a lot of games these last couple of seasons, he doesn’t look to be the kind of coach who is willing to make adjustments when his schemes have been figured out.

Sark definitely isn’t doing us any favors in this department. Consistently calling slow developing play action passes (with a non-existent running game) coupled with an immobile qb with poor pocket presence is not a recipe for success.

People need to get over the yardage stats. Georgia was going to give Quinn yards because they knew he can’t beat them in the red zone. They play aggressive man defense close to the LOS to take away the run game and the horizontal passing game. We got plenty of explosive long pass plays, but only one long td from those. Once we got into the red zone the combo of our inability to run the ball and Quinn’s inability to make the right read in the shorter red zone windows stalled drives.

We dominated yardage in the first half. That’s it. We were completely outplayed in the second half. You’re kidding yourself thinking we dominated this game. Outplayed in the running game. Outplayed in special teams. Outplayed in the red zone.

Quinn is who he is. He’s not magically changing anything about his game in two weeks. He is a major detriment that will keep this team from winning a national championship with the most talented roster since 2009. He’s good enough to beat 80-90% of the teams we play, but not the ones that you need to beat to win a title. Sure, we probably win a home playoff game (but I’m not 100% sold on that either), but I have little to no faith in Quinn at this point to win a game against a top flight team. The win last season at Bama has proven to be the exception, not the rule. The kid simply cannot be relied upon to consistently put the team on his back and go score a td in crunch time. The book on him has been out for quite some time now. Pressure the receivers because he’s going to consistently go for the checkdown if his first read isn’t there and he’s not consistent enough with deep balls to punish you throughout a game. At some point his poor footwork fundamentals, poor pocket presence, or poor decision making is going to kill a drive and he’s either going to turn the ball over or make some boneheaded throw that ends in a fg instead attempt instead of a td. Quinn is the Chris Simms of this generation. An uber-heralded QB who never lived up to the hype and their flaws kept ultra talented teams from a championship.

Being happy with Quinn’s play this year is like enjoying a sad, dry, low-energy handjob from your significant other wearing a ratty nightgown. Yeah, you’ll probably still blow your load, but it’s not very fun.

Matt fucking Nordgren could win five straight with the way this defense is playing. 17 second half points in three weeks. That’s not gonna cut it against Georgia and most of the teams we could face in the CFP.

Quinn is a known quantity this season. He was absolute dogshit against Georgia and has done very little since then (outside of having one good game against a banged up UF secondary) to show that he will do anything other than repeat the same performance. He has been nothing other than a major disappointment this season. It is because of the defense that we’re 11-1 and to think otherwise is foolish. Every major offensive statistic shows the offense has been nothing more than average since Quinn came back from injury. Any time Arch steps on then field there is a different vibe to the offense and they play with a much different energy when he’s QB1. He may only have mastery of half of the offense that Quinn does, but I believe he can run that half better than Quinn has shown this season. I have zero confidence that Quinn can beat Georgia and would prefer to roll the dice with the kid. What have you seen Quinn do since the Georgia game that gives you any confidence he can win on Saturday?

Granted, I’ve never listened to these radio hosts before, but they’re actually pretty solid. They don’t seem to be sunshine pumpers and grifters like Looch/Olin and every other TexAgs employee. Maybe they have been in the past, but there’s been plenty of criticism of players and coaches during this show, which I’m sure is lax across most of the aggy echo chamber media landscape.

Thinking back to a happier time..

Those are starting to show up more regularly on the shelf. I’ve seen several on shelves at TW and Spec’s the last times I’ve been over the last few weeks. A very welcome sight.

They’re consolidating to one or two main brokers so that they can better control the market. It’s too much of the Wild West when you have thousands of people dumping tickets at bottom out prices. Not as big of a deal when you’re sold out, but more so when you have a good amount of inventory to sell for single games like a few years ago.

Professional brokers account for probably 10-15% of most teams’ inventory these days. It’s not mostly regular fans just selling their seats.

It’s great! Great bang for your buck (most bottles are anywhere from $60-80) and they’re really starting to put out some interesting stuff. They’re doing a lot of blending with 6-8 year juice from MGP and Sagamore. I’ve been a Patron of theirs for several years so I get access to their releases.

Thompson on Riverwalk is great too. Moon’s Daughter rooftop bar on top of the hotel is a great date spot.

Totally agree. I think in 28 we have three great potential candidates in Shapiro/Beshear/Moore and then either one of them as VP or even Whitmer if any of those three need help drawing in women.

Yeah I think Shapiro/Beshear makes a great ticket in 2028. Beshear being a blue gov in a red state is a great message of uniting both parties and how it’s still possible to work across the aisle.

I’m in total agreement with you on her gender being what probably cooked her overall. That’s why I think Shapiro or Beshear at the top of the ticket kills two birds with one stone. You run a man who wasn’t connected to the current administration who could paint themselves differently.

I get that, but I think Michigan/Wisconsin are much closer politically to Penn than Minnesota. I think Shapiro might have resonated better with those voters, especially if he had been at the top of the ticket. The problem with their economic message is that while the stock market is at an all time high and most all other indicators showed a strong economy most of those working class dem voters likely aren’t playing much in that space. All they saw was that their paychecks weren’t going as far as they used to and they blamed Biden/Kamala. It was too tough story to overcome.

There’s plenty of blame to go around. First and foremost— Biden not making plans to step aside starting in 2022. He ran on being a one term president and he reneged on that idea. Whether it was arrogance, hubris, naivete or a combination of all three, this was the first major blunder that led to last night. Next, when it was obvious that Biden wasn’t up to task anymore, the rushed coronation of Kamala without the slightest amount of public discourse probably left a bad taste in the mouths of many Dems (and potentially independents). I get that a quick decision had to be made, so this is collateral damage to Biden not stepping aside sooner. I get that she’s the sitting VP and has impressive credentials, but she was one of the earliest dem primary candidates eliminated in 2020. She was extremely unpopular, so I’ll always question why they went to her with other options on the table like Shapiro and Beshear. Both are very well liked in their states and neither can be painted as a “coastal elite” like Kamala. Again, if Biden had stepped aside sooner and there was a true primary earlier this year I think either of them would have blown Kamala out of the water during that process. Once Kamala was announced, not naming Shapiro or Beshear as VP was probably the second biggest blunder behind Biden not stepping aside. With Shapiro you lock down Pennsylvania in the must-win state for both candidates. I get that Walz is folksy and is popular, but when you see him on tv he doesn’t scream “National candidate”. Governor/congress, I totally get it. But the real nail in the coffin was not distancing herself from Biden once she started out on the trail. I get that she was not trying to shit on her boss and as VP it wasn’t her agenda, but the writing was on the wall that the electorate was not happy and she needed to show how she was going to be an agent of change. And she never did and she was blown out last night as a result. I think she had a good economic policy, but she was totally ineffective with her messaging strategy.