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Well, let's see. As already established, he let the offense flail all last year without stepping in. Then he kept the dead weight trio of Beck, Mehringer, and Warehime over the offseason. Now, he's said Beck will call plays this year even though he saw enough of an issue to take over for the bowl game. So yeah, I'd say there's a definite track record of stubbornness that is detrimental to the team.

I think the obvious answer here is you don't change them back and you go find yourself a new girlfriend.

This is spot on. I remember being at the Maryland game and watching the staff line Garret Gray up as an inline TE and ask him to make block after block he would never be able to make. They let Gray kill at least 3 drives that game, and I don't even blame Gray for it. I was sure we'd do mostly a 4 WR set because we had absolutely nothing at TE. They did not adapt the offense to this team's strengths at all last year, a stark contrast from what we did on defense. Herman's inability to play to the team's (limited) strengths last year was disturbing. I get Beck is the OC, but Herman has to take control of the situation and it was obvious it was a huge problem in our first game and continued through the course of the year. I still can't believe Herman didn't take over calling plays halfway through last year, and I'm afraid he's going to be stubborn and let it cost us multiple games before he does it this year. Regardless of who's calling plays, this offensive staff, including Herman, needs to show a better understanding of personnel and what this offense can do effectively. I'm pretty shocked that it was as bad as it was with Herman being an elite Offensive mind. Play calling was terrible from a personnel standpoint as well as from the concept of building on previous plays. There was no rhyme or reason to what we were doing and often Beck would go away from plays that were working before the defense actually stopped them.

Here's the link to the interview. It starts around the 23:30 mark.

I love going back because it reminds me of that feeling I would get when I finished all my law school finals for the semester. I remember going there with friends after my first semester and feeling like I was floating because so much stress had just rolled off my shoulders and I knew I didn't have a serious obligation for the next 4 weeks. I miss those days.

Veracruz is far and away my favorite breakfast taco place in Austin, but they aren't the best run joint ever and their consistency can suffer sometimes, not to mention crazy long waits. I've only been to the one on 183 once so I can't speak much to that location. I usually go to the truck off Cesar Chavez. Anyone who goes there needs to get an agua fresca with their tacos, at least one of which should be a migas.

Fuck you. What he said.

Orlando to Herman:

fify. Plus, they have a migas taco with poblano peppers. POBLANO PEPPERS. @HenryJames

It sounds like the most likely option if they move it is to Sunday. There are thunderstorms all day, so I doubt they'd move it earlier in the day. I'd be very surprised if they cancelled it entirely.

I think the talent we face on defense this year is offset by our own talent losses. Our defense this year will have less talent, but more experience in the scheme so I expect those two to about even out. I expect our defense to perform about the same as last year, except that our depth is much shakier this year. If GJ goes down for an extended period of time,then we're absolutely fucked. If Nelson transfers and then we experience some injuries on the DL, we could be in real trouble there too. Last year my prediction was 8-5 unless Connor Williams went down because he was our most irreplaceable player. Hopefully we get some injury luck this year to curb the string of horrific seasons we've had for what feels like 25 years at this point.

Me every time I check this thread

Right, that's what I meant by functioning as a B-backer.

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Yeah, I could definitely see that, but even then, he'd basically be functioning as a B-backer. I think lining Roach up with his hand in the ground wastes a lot of his natural ability. One of the nice things about Orlando is I trust him to maximize our personnel each every game.

Right but even in base he often wasn’t in. Mainly only on third and long. Also, as a recruit, he seemed like a guy who had some good positional versatility but now the staff only seems to like him at B-backer, a position which isn’t utilized all that often when we have shaky depth at the ILB spots

That's what I though too, but I also thought Shark would slide to Rover without GJ. My guess is that Roach looked pretty good there since the staff never tried anyone else once GJ went down. Since the staff moved Roach off the line even before GJ even got hurt, it seems they believe he wasn't best utilized on teh line last year, so I doubt they put him back in that spot. It also seems like Shark isn't getting something at LB. He showed good pash rush skill last year from the B-backer spot, yet didn't play much. Seems like he's either not with it mentally or really struggling with the run game ,which makes me doubt we see McCulloch as one of 2 LBs on the field. Probably be either Wheeler or Roach.

Once GJ gets back, Roach likely moves to starter at B-Backer. Although, I'll be curious to see if GJ and Roach become the two backers when we do our dime package. Last year it was GJ and Malik and training Roach at Rover makes me think the staff might be looking to put Roach in that spot this year. I'd like to see us find a replacement for Wheeler in that dime package. He just can't read/move fast enough to play in that much space.

So we'll have Green, Shepherd, Bragg, and Johnson all on campus, plus even EJNO. That will be huge. We need to sell those first four on all playing together. We're the only school that has a realistic chance of landing all of them. I think our best shot of landing Shepherd and Green is getting Johnson and Bragg in the fold. Maybe the graphics team will even put out an update for my avatar.

Did any of that yaendowrk include the meower or any otter scharep bojects? If so, hwo many figners do yuo heav letf?

These last two visits were the first time he really heard Jimbo/Brewster's pitch. He's seen everything Texas has to offer and still picked aggy after two visits. I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about a flip, unless aggy absolutely shits the bed on the field this year, which is not entirely out of the realm of possibility. I remember a tweet posted on shaggy that was probably like a year ago now where Leal talked about how great the SEC is and he wanted to play in that league. At the time, I didn't think it was a good sign for UT but then we didn't hear anything about it and he visited Texas a ton so I figured we were in good shape. It seems like he's always felt that way and aggy was able to capitalize. In a way, Poona getting DPOY in the B12 is great because it shows how good our coaching staff is, on the other hand, it's easy for the other conferences to negative recruit because the DPOY in the Big 12 didn't even get invited to the combine. I'm sure aggy mentioned that and whored out the SEC constantly while he was on his visit, which led to him falling for the (used car) sales pitch.

All of the Expendables. Specifically if you're high, Pineapple Express and This is the End.

This can be said for pretty much every single interaction between a Baylor football player and a girl over the last 10 years.

let's be real. We're addicts.

Let's not limit it to Satya. Bruh man has some pretty great ones too dating back to NSD 2017, at least. Hell, the entire three pages after the Leal news broke last weekend would be great additions.