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Posts posted by Had Enough
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Cowardly? Lol.
So Brady and Stafford were just the beneficiaries of incompetence but KC’s letting Gabe Fucking Davis run wild and Buffalo letting Tyreek run wild and kicking a touchback with 13 seconds left made their respective QB performances incredible? Huh. I’m not commenting on defensive and coaching blunders, and if I did I sure as shit wouldn’t reference Helobius to support my point. I’m just saying the NFL has a much more compelling product. And citing the bottom four teams adds nothing to the discussion because that’s every league, and every college conference, every year.
Yes this weekend was extraordinarily great but the NFL playoffs have been great just about since the NFC lost their stranglehold on the AFC in the late 90s. And even then you had NFC playoff masterpieces.
It’s game by game. And I previously cited you two Super Bowls, recent ones at that. And there’s been other duds too as you’d expect. And I’m one to doesn’t give a damn about the college playoff.
And Helobious May be right. Reduced practice time May be the cause of some of these failures. And the only reason the Bucs-Rams game was worth a shit is because the Rams made college level screw ups.
Pretty sure you said everything about the NFL was better. It’s not. Many of the rivalries are made up. Dome stadiums are generally shittier. And again 25% of your regular season games including teams no one gives a shit about is very relevant. It’s not the end all, be all, but it’s important.
Mahomes last 13 seconds of regulation was incompetence on the Bills part. I just didn’t cite it. Some of the Chiefs defensive efforts too, but that occurred with time left and is a little different than the stupid shit the Bills, Rams and Bucs pulled. But that’s ok. Incompetence and stupid plays often result in crazy, exciting finishes.
Just fyi, I’ve never said the NFL sucks. I’m looking forward to the USFL too. -
You wanna know how I know you didn’t watch pro playoffs this week? Everything about pro football is better - particularly the playoffs - particularly this weekend.
Incompetence? Referencing Helobius’ post for your support? Yeah, you’ve had enough alright.
I watched all 4 games cowardly dipshit.
Yes, the Rams handling of the 2nd half. Incompetence. Single covering Mike Evans up 14 and Tampa with no timeouts. Incompetence. Tampa covering Kupp with a single safety with no timeouts left after the kicker missed a sub-50 yarder. Incompetence. Green Bay getting a punt blocked with less than 5 minutes. Incompetence. Tannehill throwing to a secondary option and getting it picked. Incompetence. Andy Reid putting Blake Bell under center on 3rd and 1 with a chance to go up two scores. Incompetence. Now Mahomes and Allen. Incredible.
Again Jets-Giants-Jags-Texans. That’s like 25% of the weekly games being Kansas. That is not better about the NFL.
And to use the single best NFL weekend as if that is an every year occurrence is disingenuous.-
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This is the most competitive day/weekend of pro football ever.
No, the regular season is not better than college regular season. That may be changing though.
Jags, Texans games this year. Worthless.
That Chiefs-Bucs Super Bowl was not exactly great. Pats-Rams quite inspiring.
For me, regular season is generally better because you have more chances for exciting games. That’s both college and pro.
The incompetence we also saw over the last two days made them more exciting. Maybe more restrictions as someone referenced above. -
Tom Brady is the only counterpoint to that argument, otherwise pretty much true
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Also this game is so far reinforcing my believe that at the start of the playoffs, if one team has some unblockable motherfuckers on the DL, expect that team to do really well. Even if they are underdogs.
I missed much of the first half so not sure how it all went down but relate this to the Horns.
Who are the Rams LBers? How much does it matter?
The Bucs got some good LBers in White and Davis. But how much does it matter?
It all starts and can end up front. Same reason the Bucs beat KC last year. -
Snow gives the offense a big advantage; knowing where you’re going gives big leverage over the defense. What slowed scoring down last night I believe was the extreme cold. That and universal suckritude.
Yep. Dillon going out did shift the advantage to Deebo and the Niners. -
Don’t be a putz Rimbo.
I wanted the Packers to win, but Rodgers is a moron. Never stated otherwise.
And that first paragraph of mine was 100% truth. -
If McVay is as good as he thinks, Rams win.
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Oddly, many think that medicine and science aren’t really political, but…..science.
So maybe folks hate the lying, whining asshole because he’s a liar and a whiner and an asshole.
But let’s be honest what percentage of posters here are assholes? And they might not be straight up liars, but they are full of shit. And there are shit some whiners amongst us.
So essentially what I’m understanding is that people dislike Rodgers because he reminds them of themselves. Interesting.-
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Gary Anderson misses his first FG of the season in the 98 NFC Championship and the 15-1 Vikings lose at home to the dirty birds.
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It’s very interesting how the status of some of these dudes is impacted by kickers.
- Scott Norwood misses. No champ for Jim Kelly.
- Adam Vinatieri makes the tuck rule kick. Tom Brady kick starts his run. Horrendous conditions then V kicks the winner in the Super Bowl.
- Mike Vanderjagt misses. Peyton has to wait.
- McPherson hits two long ones. Burrow has the “It” factor after giving up a 10 point lead and Tennessee blowing a 3rd and 1 at the Bengals 40 as well as a senseless interception at the hands of Tannehill to make the throw to a massively wide open Chase possible.
- Mason Crosby gets one blocked but Gould hits almost a 50 yarder in terrible conditions.-
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They said it during the game. It's not necessarily the blocking, but it's not having any hot routes by the backs/ slot WRs/ TEs. On one of those sacks in the 4th quarter, the Titans rushed6, all 5 OL blocked their guy, Burrow made 6th guy miss and then another defender got him. Where the F was the hot read?
You don’t necessarily need hot routes, or at least my definition of them. You’ve got man to man coverage. Pick one and let it fly rather than waiting for them to come open.
That’s not to say hot routes aren’t easier throws and the preferred choice. They are.
If you’re talking incompletion or sack, then often that’s on the QB when it’s a sack. A few of those sacks were on Burrow hoping he can something of nothing. -
i think a lot of people had Justin Herbert as the surefire #1 in a 2020 NFL re-draft, with Burrow as the second QB (with Tua a non-factor). Burrow is saying not so fast. Herbert is freakishly talented, but you can tell Burrow has that "it" leadership factor, plus the skillset.
Maybe.
But the K made two 50 yarders. The D got 3 picks including one taking points away and another giving them a chance.
And you know why the Bengals Oline isn’t great? Cause they invest in skill players.
Burrow will get the hype, but he wasn’t particularly special today. He may be. My guess is they’ll invest in Oline at the expense of defense. We’ll see. -
Not sure what to think of a guy (Thompson) taking on a leadership role that might not start if Brini comes to Texas
Leadership comes in different ways. And Roschon didn’t start a whole lot last year so you already have an example. Even if he doesn’t start, he’ll see the field. -
Will Anderson isn't the only problem. There is also the TJ Watt starter kit named Dallas Turner.
Oh I know. And as the esteemed ctj has pointed out Anderson is a bit of a unicorn a la Corey Moore of Va Tech (a good historical comparison I’d say). Anderson set the record for TFL since they began tracking per somebody who shall remain nameless cause I can’t remember. Even though I referenced dudes ranked higher, I don’t think they’re better. But maybe they’re close enough that there won’t be an intimidation factor. -
But Brockermeyer won’t be available for the spring game and I was told without him we should be looking like the ‘85 Chicago Bears.
But Bush is still there. -
If true, their ratings really must be dogshit.
Just double checked. I was wrong on Anderson. He did not grade in the Top 50 for pass rushers at Edge. I suppose it could be arguable that he was a benefactor of those around him. He did grade very well overall.
But good news for Christian Jones. He faced 4 Edge rushers who graded out higher than Anderson.
Casey was our highest graded offensive guy vs Baylor at 82.2. He must have been perfect outside of the missed TD to Worthy, the missed 4th down conversion with green pastures in front of him and the last series in which all 4 plays he chose a less successful option than a much easier but productive choice.
I’ve touted Kerstetters pass blocking several times. He does grade very well based on their metrics, whatever those are. -
A&M was beyond confident Bledsoe wouldnt qualify, it would've been a dog fight for him otherwise and they likely would've bagged him hard. Serious athlete. Today has been a good day.
Do you have any insight on Jaxon Player?
I’ve likened him to a Poona Ford as a sawed off interior guy who out produces his profile.
Just curious if we had any interest at all before he committed to BU. I know he’s a local Waco guy. -
PFF's grading for NFL is pretty uniform and good. Outside of the basics of snap count and targets for WR, there metrics for college are wildly inconsistent and therefore unreliable. Apparently, they know this and are working on it, but it's hard because a lot of it requires significant trained human power.
Where did you come across they are aware and working on it?
A couple examples that cause to question their college stuff: Think Casey graded 80+ vs. Baylor. Umm nope. Will Anderson was barely top 20 as a pass rusher.
But when you think about it, there are way too many teams/games to be very consistent. You’d need a smaller number of graders/reviewers to be consistent. I can’t imagine there is time for that.
I think we have a grader amongst us too on this here website. -
This might be the sunshine pumper in me talking, but with the number of blowout games Bama has had the last 4 years you would think he would have more than 44 career tackles or whatever if he highly thought of as a defensive player.
You might need to recalibrate your 44 tackles. If he does and has played many plays on special teams, then those defensive tackles come down. Or he just never makes special teams tackles.
If he’s valuable as a special teamer, Saban would want him another year whether he’d think he can contribute much at LB or not. -
Also, I just realized that my fucking bama friends, longhorn turncoats, will be there visiting and gloating as well. Fuck me, fuck you, and fuck this.
If you need someone to mysteriously and surprisingly show up and whip a little ass, let me know. Might even toss a few four letter subtleties at Steve too. If the mood strikes.-
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Genuinely have no recollection of this man who apparently started 13 games for us.
https://texassports.com/sports/football/roster/marcus-hutchins/5907
He and McMillon were both converts from the DLine.
Although Hutchins may have converted to DL then back to OL.
McMillon was good in front of Donta Foreman but less good the next year under Herman. Hutchins was never quite as good as McMillon, who I believe gave up football with a year of eligibility remaining. Hmmm.
Hutchins, Raulerson, Flowers, maybe No Contact, and wheelchair recruit made up the Arkansas Texas Bowl contingent upfront. There was one backup scholarship dude for that game. Those dudes had some decent games that year but totally fell apart come year end.
Least physically talented and equipped group in Texas history. -
I actually thought it was relatively clever and no one would have an issue if they got set.
The risk/reward was never there. He could have tried the tackle over without shifting to it, but I’m not sure either causes a desire reaction from the defense.
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Not anymore anyway. Baseball used to. Football used to. 1967 the Colts were 11-0-2 but lost their last game to the Rams who they had tied earlier. Rams also finished 11-1-2. Two best records in the NFL. Rams went to the playoffs. Colts stayed home. Rams lost to the Packers. Packers beat the Cowboys in the Ice Bowl for the NFL championship.
I never knew that about the NFL in 1967. It seems like baseball division winners were not that long ago.
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You need to dig deeper. And not totally sure why you’d exclude regular season. 52% is not necessarily a decided advantage. Even the playoff numbers say 25% (maybe 36%) of the time, it goes at least 3 possessions.
Even in college the coin flip gives a decided advantage. So if you give equal possessions, it is still flawed. The team with the ball second basically gets an extra down if they choose to take it. If the first team clanks a FG, team 2 can go conservative. Or if they score a TD, they have better info in that decision on whether to go for 2. How much does a chance of a TD go up when you only have to travel 25 or 35 yards versus 75? It should drop quite a bit then the advantage switches once a stop is made.
Play a full quarter? The receiving team still has an advantage. It’s very possible they get one more possession or that team 2’s last possession is decidedly hurried.
There’s no perfect system for this. There is merit to ending it as quickly as possible for the players health.