Horn of Gabriel

Just a warning we got here an hour ago and every seat in the joint is full! Standing room only!

13 and 15 y/o sons will be down for that! Will report.

Where’s a good halfwayish stop between AUS and NOLA? Was thinking Lake Charles but anything there worth eating aside from at the casino? We want quick but not drive thru.

From a regionality standpoint and rivalry standpoint yes. From a TV and recruiting perspective, no. SEC already owns Florida and the southeast. Why add a new brand there that dilutes your recruiting for existing members, and adds eyeballs you already have anyway? Might be a few net-new FSU and Clemson eyeballs but I bet they already watch SEC a ton. No way that's worth the $60-80M/yr ESPN would have to pay out. Especially when ESPN has them at a bargain rate now. It's gonna be a lawyer war for awhile.

Press man with inside leverage disrupting the free release slant, with cover 2 safeties over. 4 man rush with edges focused on setting the edge (they like to run outside), DLs run stopping between the tackles and giving interior push, and LBs in zone. Switch to nickel on 3rd and medium+ or when they go 4+ WR. Accept Penix throwing for 300+ if it's mostly between the 20's and make him consistently execute underneath and give the Dline more opportunities for interior pressure. It's a risk and Penix definitely can execute against it but I see it like stretching out the risk...the more times he passes like DKR says 3 things can happen and 2 of them are bad. More passes, more opportunities for bad stuff for UW and good stuff for Texas. The key to doing all of that is run stopping with an honest box and not having to walk down a safety, but I think we can.

I put it next to a workout shirt I'd call more burnt orange. The hoodie isn't offensively bad; but it's like that old UT shirt that you have held onto for 10 years and gotten washed out like it was left in the sun too long. That said, it's incredibly comfortable, so...

Tbh it looks like they tried to split the difference between Texas orange and Tennessee orange so they could use the same hoodie and print different words on both. I’m traveling this week but will grab a pic when I get home. It’s a shame because I love everything else about it.

I have it and love the material. BUT, it's way too big for XL, and more importantly it's not the orange you see here. It's much lighter.

I think he was fucking around in semi-retirement. He's got a bunch of side businesses, they have a tequila brand now, etc

Are we talking hard or soft-R?

Here's the problem w/ McAfee: it's actually not that he's a clown. There are plenty of clowns on TV; hell Corso at his best was a clown. The problem is he tries to make it all about HIM, as if he's bigger than the game. Spoiler alert Pat: you're not. Everything from the wife beater shirts, to his sycophant posse sucking up to him on his show, to his own simulcast from the end zone at the Bama game is all "look at ME" shit. And if people aren't looking at him enough, he yells louder, does something more outrageous. I get it, I'm old, OK boomer, etc. FTR I'm Gen X. I guess there are plenty of people who like that shit now or he wouldn't be a thing. I'm a College Gameday casual these days, I'll flip it on in the morning as I'm getting ready on a Saturday or prepping the BBQ. The thing that really turned me off this year was when he shit on Wazzu for no reason, then after he got dragged for it on Twitter, he started whining about how HE was being disrespected and maybe he should not do Gameday anymore as a result. Again, all about Pat. It's like he expected this big uprising of support for people to stroke him and say "Oh no Pat, don't leave, we LOVE you, those mean old Wazzu fans are the bad ones don't listen to them!" Instead he got... TL;DR fuck Pat McAfee. I'm sure in a few years the next iteration of him will show up wearing fewer clothes and trying to be more outrageous.

If I'm UW, it's slants, slants, and more slants. If Texas wants to keep "everything in front" of them and give that awesome 7+ yard cushion, sure I'll take 5-10 yard slants all day fucking long. Penix can make that throw in his sleep. Eventually we creep up and Odunze hits a double move deep and our slow safeties can't get to it. After that I'm running 4-5 wide, and have a couple of checkdowns. If Penix needs them it's there and if not, take the top off. Once the safeties to back off to respect the bomb, run, but not just counters - reverses, jet sweeps, quick hitters that go away from the interior DL. Mix in some screens to punish overpusuit in the D-line and slow down that rush. Will also move the pocket with rollouts, cut the field in half for Penix and get away from DL pressure. The gameplay itself isn't rocket science: the longer a play lasts, the worse for Texas and the better for UW. If Penix can let the route develop either via rollout, play-action, screen, trick-play, etc our secondary has demonstrated they won't hold up, and UW receivers are big, strong, and have NFL catch radius. 50/50 balls are more like 60/40 balls for them. Any play for UW either needs to be a super quick hitter like a slant, or something that builds the protection in for longer developing. Then once we concede the honest box with pressure, Penix can do his thing. That's what I'd do anyway...

pfft, per month...

The beauty contest is and was trash, the bowl system is the biggest joke in the world. Multiple teams claiming MNCs? Never settling it on the field? Yuck. OSU/UM will still have a lot of meaning. Getting the conference championship for one, getting over on your rival, and getting a top 4 seed bye. That bye is huge, it's one fewer game to win to win it all.

I love press coverage and disrupting the slant with inside leverage but 1) they are really good at beating it with large, fast, physical receivers, 2) we haven't demonstrated outside of TTech and oSu that we can really do it (plus UW aint TTech-level receivers), 4) our safeties aren't built for it (yet, we don't have the speed or skill there), and 5) missing in zone means you give a 10-20 yard gain and hopefully keep shit in front of you and limit YAC but missing in man press means you give up 75 yard TD's, but maaaaybe get a few INTs. High risk, high reward. UW is built to annihilate that. I loathe soft zone, but I won't be mad if we do it here, mix in zone blitzes and get to Penix while taking away the run game. He can execute all the way down the field but better to make him complete a dozen passes per drive than 1 slant that breaks for 60+.

Fair enough, but the negotiation for TX/OU to move to the SEC and the 12-team CFP are totally different issues. Regardless of whether it was bad faith or not, the expanded CFP would have significantly helped the ACC. By getting into their emotions over TX/OU and putting the breaks on the 12-team, the alliance and by extension the ACC fucked themselves. It's also hilarious to laugh at the so-called "Alliance," when the B1G immediately turned around and fucked a fellow alliance member by raiding them. "We looked each other in the eyes..." LOL

I loathe Finebaum but he made a good point on the selection show that the ACC was one of "alliance" members that stood up against early expansion to the 12-team CFP. We could have had 12 this year and FSU would be in. I believe the team is "hoisted by their own petard."

Maybe this was posted up thread but the ESPN ticker says the FSU QB is a “game time decision.” Might be looking at the 3rd string freshman QB…

"Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident." -- Daniel Kahneman

It's nowhere near as clear cut as you think: UW winning as undefeated PAC champion is in. UO losing is 2-loss and out, but UW in that CFP spot is unmovable. UO wins they are 99% in as PAC champion and the committee love they've gotten. UW with 1-loss is definitely out unless there is chaos elsewhere as non-conference champ. That 1% on UO winning only becomes relevant if Alabama and Texas also win.

You sure? This year any team in the top 7 or so I could see: Georgia, Michigan, Washington, Oregon, Texas, Bama, Ohio State

The gravity of the beauty contest argument means a lot less when it's two teams arguing over who should be #12 or 13. The bowl system was the ultimate beauty contest, pining for those days is putting the car into reverse and mashing down on the gas.

This is a joke, right? Right? You'd prefer a system where WRITERS who 1) admit they don't watch many of the games, 2) are homers, and 3) include people like Kirk Bohls unilaterally declare a MNC based on teams that DIDN'T settle it on the field? A system that dis-incentivizes marquee OOC games so you can retain a perfect record by loading up on creampuffs, where multiple teams end the season undefeated and all stake a claim to the MNC, and where the very best teams rarely if ever play each other at the culmination of the season? A system where fat cats in cheesy colored ill-fitting blazers travel around on boondoggles to see the top teams as part of their pseudo money laundering bowl setup? That's the system you'd prefer? The 4 team CFP isn't perfect but it's a million times better than the BCS, which was a billion times better than the bowl system. The 12-team CFP will be nirvana for people who actually enjoy seeing, you know, the best teams actually play against each other and settle it on the field.

It was OK. There is just no way to do internal monologue and have it not be clunky. Rule #1 of filmmaking: show, don’t tell.