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Dbeasy

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  1. Earlier this year I developed the yips in putting. I think I posted about it at the time in the golf thread. It was terrifying. I had no muscle control over the putter at times. One round I five putted three greens. He doesn’t have the yips. He’d look even worse than he does.
  2. I had a decent arm growing up. And my accuracy wasn’t too bad either. As soon as I played a live game I was often drilling the ball into the ground. Little did I know at that time I had an arm like Arch Manning.
  3. If you want to feel a little better, part of the reason Texas ran the ball so much yesterday was not just Arch issues, but also because they know the running offense is struggling. So now you can feel slightly better about Arch and much worse about the state of the running game.
  4. I disagree 100%. What if Sark outfitted the WR group with little people? And instead of having them run routes, just told them to go lay down on the turf somewhere. Manning’s pass completion percentage would soar.
  5. Watching the speed, execution, innovativeness, scheme, and effort by Georgia, Tennessee, A&M, and Notre Dame today makes me wonder what the fuck Sark has been doing for the last several games.
  6. At least today they found an RB.
  7. He’s back! Heisman!
  8. That’s what’s really confounding.
  9. There was a moment in last week’s game when Caldwell entered the game and he looked comfortable and competent. And the offense looked normal. I brushed it off. He’s basically a glorified walk-on. But that stuck with me and had me wondering about Manning. Now I’m really wondering.
  10. Texas went to the semifinals twice in a row. It seems ludicrous to think right now that Sark may be fundamentally flawed somehow. But….is he?
  11. This is unbelievable. This could start heading down a very bad path. This isn’t good for Arch or for Sark’s reputation.
  12. Injuries to so many other backs have given him a third chance. Hopefully he takes advantage of it.
  13. I am taking reservations for exclusive access to my secret college football picks for only 9.99 per pick. Call now!
  14. Texas 40 UTEP 10 wr yards 247
  15. Oh, so we are going to go serious for a minute. Fine. You just labeled an entire generation of 60 year olds as idiots who can’t interpret the internet. How do you feel about doing that?
  16. For the second time already this year, I watched a QB on TV who looked pretty darn good, only to realize both times it was an ex Aggie QB who transferred. Tonight it’s Weigman. Earlier this year it was Haynes King. It is amazing how Aggies waste good QB’s who have success elsewhere.
  17. We are early 60’s and we, and 11,000 of our friends in their 60’s, have no problem whatsoever understanding what crap on the internet is bs or not. It ain’t demographics. Your parents are morons. Pray that the apple falls far from the tree.
  18. Nobody knows shit about the quality of our wide receiver room yet, given the team has only played two games this season. Other than the fact that Parker Livingstone is a Longhorn Legend already.
  19. Well, I finally pulled the plug on U-verse. It was only about 5-10 years after I originally planned to drop them. The streaming services finally got close enough to U-Verse in content, combined with a massive difference in price. For now I will stream either YTTV or Hulu Live, but with the constant, regular price increases every year like clockwork, I fully expect to be on an OTA configuration in about a year or two. The U.S. corporate world has realized they can raise prices annually without fear of revenue loss, so I guess I'll do my part to give them some. The final configuration of the foreseeable future after I eventually drop YTTV/Hulu+ will be: OTA Antenna (done) ESPN Package (possibly only during college football season) Prime (because we order from Amazon all the time) Maybe Netflix (if there is compelling enough programming) Maybe HBO Max (if there is compelling enough programming) Maybe Victory Plus (if Rangers are good) Maybe Fanduel Southwest Regional Sports (if Spurs are good) Maybe Disney Plus (until they cut-off login sharing from second locations) All other services can kiss my ass.
  20. This whole update sounds like bullshit.
  21. Ya I was just telling my wife the story. They prematurely took off the shelter in place while the guy was still roaming the neighborhood, after shooting his accomplice and the cop. Thank goodness the homeowner loaded up when he heard the shelter in place message.
  22. Am I the only one who thought this was the guy who was shot?
  23. You say agree to disagree, but I stated above Biden was also to blame. So that means you believe Trump wasn’t also to blame. So using your own sources, here is the summary from them during Trump’s first Presidency. Why people don’t understand that inflation never shows up immediately, I’ll never understand. It’s completely obvious. 1. Lawrence Summers In 2020, Summers (former Treasury Secretary) cautioned that the Trump tax cuts (2017) plus emergency COVID stimulus created risks of overheating once supply recovered. He later (in 2021) became the loudest critic of excessive stimulus in the Biden era, but his warnings built on the idea that the U.S. had already primed the pump with Trump-era fiscal expansion. 2. Olivier Blanchard (former IMF chief economist) Blanchard warned in 2020 that the scale of COVID stimulus (Trump-signed CARES Act, $2.2 trillion in March 2020) was “larger than necessary” and could lead to inflation once demand rebounded. His point was that fiscal packages were not just relief, but also injected huge demand capacity. 3. Douglas Holtz-Eakin (former CBO director, conservative economist) Criticized Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and 2020 stimulus for dramatically increasing deficits without long-term growth offsets. He flagged the inflation risk, even if it didn’t show up immediately due to depressed demand in lockdowns. 4. Jason Furman (former Obama economic adviser, Harvard economist) Supported emergency spending in 2020 but also warned about lagged inflationary risks if fiscal and monetary policy stayed loose as the economy reopened. He noted that the Trump-signed relief checks and expanded unemployment benefits were unusually large compared to past crises. 5. Federal Reserve Voices While Jerome Powell (Fed Chair) emphasized in 2020 that the priority was stabilization, Fed minutes from mid-2020 reflected concerns that the size of fiscal stimulus under Trump could “eventually be inflationary” once bottlenecks cleared. Some regional Fed presidents (like Robert Kaplan of the Dallas Fed) flagged that a surge in government spending would likely push inflation higher in a delayed way. So like I said earlier, people need to stop blindly following “their team”. And you are one of the worst offenders of that. You are a smart enough person, like many others, to hold these politicians accountable for their behaviors, but why you don’t, I’ll never understand. When a politician is doing stupid things, it should be pointed out.
  24. Yes, except I would point out that the initial inflation that was so bad was caused by the trillions of dollars the Trump administration dumped into the economy during Covid, not Biden. It was the most egregious financial move in us history. Then Biden, rather than trying to rein it in more aggressively, let spending as a percent of gdp still remain too high. Trump in his second term, is making spending as bad if not worse than Biden. So we have two Presidents and three Presidencies that have caused these problems. People need to get educated and put a leader in office who is effective, Republican or Democrat , and quit being duped by disinformation.
  25. Wow. Finally caught up on the thread and it’s been interesting. I experienced the full range of emotions. Disgust. Confusion. Laughter. And Disgust. Based on that, I’ve completely revamped my top ten list of what constitutes a successful season for Texas. 10. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team. 9. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team 8. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team 7. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team 6. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team 5. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team 4. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team 3. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team 2. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team 1. Parker Livingstone makes SEC second team
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