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wow...bad Dak today...
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John Madden style game here. Whoever runs and defends the run better wins the game. I'm still positive the Cowboys D can pull off a couple of turnovers and here's to Dak getting comfortable 2nd or 3rd series. First team to score an offensive TD probably wins the game.
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all we need now is for Buff to get a call on the next drive and we will know the fix is in.
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but of course they eschew the run and SCORE!!!
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Cincy should run the ball on this 3rd and goal to make Buff use a TO.
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Love that Cincy mixes it up so well, with running. I'm thinking 17 to 7 at half.
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play of the game so far coming up. IF Buffalo wants to stay in the game they have to hold Cincy to 0 points this drive. I am so impressed with Joe Cool. Is it possible he is cooler than OG Joe Cool? (Montana)
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wouldn't surprise me to see Cincy win this. Not calling it, just saying not a surprise.
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Depending upon inflation, the numbers are solid, as in pensions from both my wife and myself equaling $47,000 per year - Non COLA and every time I calculate every expense known to this man I get a number just south of $40,000 if buying a small home with cash-----if renting a small apartment the expenses number is more like $45,000. Then the second wave of benefits comes in a few years later- with social security---hers $12000 per year and mine about $6000 per year. Mine is low because of the GPO. Those numbers do not count my job during retirement, which should yield at least 20k per year in deferred income. Deferred accounts project to total $320k at age 60 for me before buying a house with cash and buying years of service. After those two big ticket items, deferred accounts should be in the 100-150k range. I have heard of Monte Carlo simulations and wonder if that is realistic thing to look into? I imagine planners charge a lot of dough to do Monte Carlo simulations?
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58 year old teacher in Alaska, away from the wife for year 2, except for Christmas and summers. Year 3 is almost certainly my last year away from the wife and I will come back to teach special ed in Texas. I am thinking no problem getting a teaching job in Texas, but we will see. Total of 6 years in Alaska(1st 3 were with the wife) will need to be purchased from Texas TRS.....no problem, because by then I will most likely not be maintained in the Alaska system. The "maintained rule" says I cannot purchase more than 5 years of service while maintained in a retirement system in another state. Alaska does have a bill in the legislature to give all public servants a pension, but this is all very iffy. This governor reminds me of Bill Clements, with his anti-spending stances on just about everything. I will take the retirement acct. from Alaska and roll into an IRA. After the first semester teaching in Texas, I am able to apply to buy the years and the service purchase should be complete by March 1. Have been very fortunate in my ability to save for retirement the last 2 years. Am trying to figure out how much emergency fund to bring with me to Texas. No housing ready in Texas at the moment. Wife has been staying with relatives, working, and paying off her debt. wife will most likely have an apt. mostly furnished, sometime in the next 4-6 months. Since I worked for the state of Texas for 6 years, I can choose which retirement system to retire from. I am that guy who calls ERS and TRS about once every 6-9 months and takes about 20 minutes to run down everything I have been told and at this moment I am still looking at being able to choose which system and the obvious choice is to retire from ERS, with the promise of a free health insurance premium for life for me and 1/2 off for the wife. We are both very lucky the legislature has not taken that benefit away. I still like the traditional, deductible IRA. I plan to contribute $7000 for 22 and $7500 for 23. Doing that reduces my possible emergency fund down to maybe $40k instead of $54k or so. When I land in Texas I will be 59.5 years. My income tax bracket now is much higher than I plan for it to be in retirement. One variable is the summer job market. I am looking for a summer job this summer for the first time in a while. In Texas I always worked at least one part-time job and sometimes 2. I don't care what I do, but it would be really cool to teach summer school as well as work another job to stay busy and continue to save money. Any guesses on Texas summer job market? From now to June 2025 is the final push to save as much $ as I can, and the plan is to retire from education June 2025 at age 60.5. Wow! As recently as July 2021 I had age 67 in mind to retire from education. Will continue to work in retirement, and defer all new income up to the max per year. Retire from everything at age ? Questions: 1. What holes do you guys see? 2. How bad are the utility bills? I was the guy who had the lowest possible utility bill. 3. Any guesses on job markets-specifically summer jobs this summer? 4. I keep up with inflation wrt grocery prices, so that doesn't scare me. Other areas of severe inflation?
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That's right.
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First, my alma mater's fight song was the standard. Not even close to unique, but the tune is the standard for all fight songs. On ye dragons, on ye dragons, on to victory Do your best to beat your rivals, glorify your name, fight, fight, fight On ye dragons, on ye dragons, on to victory etc. Sadly, there had to be at least two other schools in our district that played the same song. This was the old 14-5A district. We are the Round Rock Dragons, when we first moved up to 5A in the late 1970s, the schools included: Temple, Killeen, Killeen Ellison, Bryan, etc. The most unique occurred to me when I went with my then girlfriend to Pearsall. Pearsall was playing against another team with green as the school color. Their song started with the pre-amble to the Aggy fight song, but then went into the body of Texas fight. Really, really weird.
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good grief! What a total head fake. I thought the FG at the end of the first half would spur on the Seahawks. Instead, turn out the lights, the party's over! SF looking like Super Bowl champs from here.
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CFP National Championship Game: #1 Georgia vs #3 TCU.
JGrayDBU replied to FartingDreamer's topic in Football
Except that Brown did NOT totally commit to the idea of pumping up Colt's stats. My favorite what if topic. Because Mack was too busy being a "gentleman" to other teams by not running up the score, he started McCoy in the 2nd half of the game against directional Florida school in November, and McCoy was there to HAND OFF in the 2nd half. This was Mack's golden opportunity to get GG some playing time against real live competition with the first team. GG obviously needed that half of football so the 1st team receivers could get used to his fastball, much faster than Colt's ball. I, along with others, predicted GG would need to be ready. He wasn't, but more importantly the receivers were not ready for GG's ball. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
JGrayDBU replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Even though I saw limited games live, there were enough signals to me that the problem is that the WRs did not give 100% effort. X against OSU in end zone of course, but does anybody else remember the first pass from Q against TCU? Went right through the WR hands, had to be X. Then of course the end of game possible heroics against OSU, when he threw a sharp laser ball that hit our super duper TE right in the chest!, and promptly became an int. Q's body language after the first pass against TCU was "here we go again, do I have to catch the ball for them?" It's more or less either lack of repetition or whatever that is disrupting the confidence Q needs, combined with WRs who don't give a damn. Alamo Bowl Q 2nd half when completing short to intermediate passes had confidence to put the ball where it belonged. Somebody's got to step up and make a play from the WR position. -
I can't believe I'm still awake for this stuff, but now we have a game!
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I like this, lots of orange, a McCoy, a Shipley, even a McCullough. Don't remember anything Edorian did at UT, just remember the name. Was he one of the overrated guys who never played?
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re: red flags....how come this? I can sit on my couch and not watch even half the games but because of watching the OSU game live and reading all of you internet experts, I can absolutely know 98%+ that Xavier Worthy cannot see the ball into his hands on a long pass, AND tell someone in the room last night the cat cannot see and NOT be surprised in the slightest when Worthy drops 2 long passes in a row?????????!!!!!!!! And the coaches that are paid millions of dollars cannot address this situation??????? Someone please try to address this. Hyperbole, but It appears they do not want to win games.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
JGrayDBU replied to Machinator's topic in Football
I appreciate that insight. It does make me wonder just exactly what were the instructions for that play? I would think a good special teams coach would have called timeout to make sure every player knew exactly what the instructions would be. Do you ask your d to catch that ball? I can't imagine a special teams coordinator asking that of his defense. One interesting bit of trivia is that I believe Jitter Fields was the other DB back there and he evidently yelled "you" to Craig. If that is true then the call was to catch the ball? Hard to believe. -
Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
JGrayDBU replied to Machinator's topic in Football
I disagree and agree. The decision to leave the defense on the field was a very solid decision, imo. There was no reason for Georgia to punt the ball with about 4 and half minutes left in the game, unless they were psychic and predicted Texas would fumble the punt. This was a typical windy Cotton Bowl, and the instructions should have been given to get away from the ball. There was no reason to try to field the punt. About two to three first downs from the Texas offense and the game would have been over. I read years later that Akers tried to get Curry to face the media right after the game, but he just couldn't do it. And that was just Craig thinking he lost the game. It would not have entered Craig's mind he lost the national championship when he dropped that ball, because Nebraska lost to Miami that night. -
Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
JGrayDBU replied to Machinator's topic in Football
Plays are different from decisions, imo. You cannot control the play. You(the coach) can make the correct decisions. In real time, I predicted the 2009 mess. GD/Mack already had a history of making Colt injury prone by dictating a stupid battering ram decision. If you are going to use Colt as a battering ram you better damn well have a back up QB ready to go. So here comes 2009, and the ball that GG threw was a bullet, completely different from Colt's ball. The first team needed live snaps against a real team with GG. The D1 team to use for this strategy was the directional Florida team in November. We had a 30-0(I think) half time lead. GG should have come out beginning of 2nd half against Florida whomever with the first team throwing everything in the playbook. Nope. Colt was handing off. Then in the 4th quarter GG was handing off. Dumbest decision, most easily anticipated situation in the history of football at Texas. With just one half of live action, GG and receivers would have had enough confidence to handle the Alabama situation. It's the dumb coaching decisions that annoy me much more than Craig Curry and Blake Gideon dropping balls. -
Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
JGrayDBU replied to Machinator's topic in Football
Akers was the guy trying to be dragged into the new style of football wrt the forward pass, but he just wouldn't quite do it. There was supposed to be some kind of disagreement about who got credit for the famous Robert Brewer QB draw that beat Alabama in the 1982 Cotton Bowl. Then in the '82 season, the passing game was working. It is my understanding that Akers would never give up control of the play calling. He was trying to be a micromanager on offense. I get it if that is your specialty, like a Chip Kelly. But Akers was a DB. Akers was a defensive guy, but he wanted to take credit for the offensive good plays, while not taking credit for the bad plays, while at the same time putting about 90% of the really good players on defense. Prime evidence of this was the 1983 season. The best defensive talent ever seen on the 40 acres. I mean if you go back and look, we had a backup defensive player drafted. Then look at the offense. The running game was totally reliant upon a superman freshman, Edwin Simmons. As soon as Edwin went down with an injury the running game became a D+ at best. Nobody good at RB left, because Fred's philosophy put way too many of the best players on D. TCU game. Our defense outscored our offense and TCUs offense, with 2 TDs. Then look at the QB room. Fred couldn't decide which QB to stick with, so ended up throwing his hands up and starting Rick McIvor, the rocket-arm QB against Aggy. McIvor struck gold, showed off his arm, threw a bunch of TD passes, and Akers fell in love with the idea of Rick. For the Cotton Bowl, if Fred had come out of halftime with Morschell as QB the entire 2nd half, we would have won the game scoring at least one TD and one FG or two FGs. Wouldn't have been pretty, but Georgia was 100% jacked up to stop Rick. 15 to 10 or 16 to 10 final would have given us another NC. -
Anybody else have this reaction? I flew back into Texas for the holidays on Sunday, Dec. 18th at about 5:00 a.m. Needed a screen replaced on a MacBook Air. Went to Best Buy, intelligent dude said go to Apple Store. Went to store next day, Fort Worth store. Nice guy tells me price and says expect it done by end of the week. No problem, until I get four emails from Apple telling me I need to contact them ASAP...and it was way too early to expect completed work. When I finally got through, because Apple store doesn't open until 10, and Apple support didn't tell me that, just let the phone ring, ring, etc. Apple store finally answered and said they made a mistake in how they processed the repair. I went in early this morning, waited in line outside the store for 25 minutes,(yes there was a line) and by the time I explained and someone allegedly checked, the computer was reportedly "in route" to the store. B.S.!!! An hour and 20 minutes after I left the store, I got an email saying the computer was ready. 100% obvious to me the computer was ready before the store opened, they just lazily didn't have it ready until after I left. Turds! Or, my unannounced visit motivated them to get the computer ready? I think not! And talk about disorganized. When I returned to pick up the computer there was no line, just a bunch of people going wherever. A really nice lady in a wheelchair yelled for people to come to her if they needed to register. I ran up there, got registered, and then kept showing apple employees my email from apple that said the computer was ready, and they finally got tired of that and finally brought my computer to me. Yes, I am on old pain in the ass, and I look older than 58. (I am a young 58)
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