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Park Gothic

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  1. I understand not having your mouthguard in sometimes. Even most of the time. That shit gets annoying when you are winded. But why does he have two mouthguards? Why is one attached to his mask and tangling while he actually has another in his mouth? Is the one on his facemask a backup? Or is it just to look cool?
  2. Hell yeah, that's what I love to hear.
  3. He also has us beating UGA and the axis of evil. I think we're going 12-0, but if we have to lose an SEC game I would rather it be Florida than any other team on our schedule. My eyes tell me that @DigglerontheHoof is right but man, do you make a compelling argument. It's interesting to see those numbers laid out. As an aside, do you find PFF reliable? I know they're good for the NFL, but I've always heard that their CFB analysis is somewhat superficial / lacking.
  4. I'm agnostic on whether I personally think Manning should have replaced Ewers. I can see reasonable arguments for and against. What I am not agnostic on is whether or not I think Sark is in a better position to make that decision than I am (or anyone else on this thread). He knows more about football than we do, he knows more about the players than we do, he knows more about the locker room than we do. He's not under any meaningful outside pressure to make a decision that is detrimental to the team as a whole. Sark isn't perfect, but I think he's at least earned a little trust in how he manages his roster and his team culture. We can speculate all day about why Sark stuck with Ewers, but we won't know. It could be misplaced loyalty or concern about Sark's image as a QB developer, and I can't definitely say it isn't, but it could be a million other real and substantive concerns indicating that Ewers was the better choice. And there's no counterfactual for us to use in order to prove the issue one way or the other - we can't go back in time, have Sark start Manning, then compare how the season went. To be clear, I'm happy to speculate and I'm happy to talk about Ewers' level of play. But the conversation loses all value when you become dug in to a position and are unwilling to keep in mind what I've just said - we can't know one way or the other what the right choice was, and that reasonable people can have different opinions. Having a different opinion doesn't make the other person malicious, arbitrary, or stupid. For my bit of speculation, I also am surprised at how few people have mentioned a very basic reason that Sark may have gone with Ewers - coaches play the players they trust, and people tend to trust someone they know well. In other words, not only is Ewers more experienced than Manning, but Sark is has more experience with Ewers. As I've noted several times, Ewers has his flaws but Sark knows those flaws. He can coach around them. That's not just a Sark thing, that's most coaches. Saban going to Tua over Hurts is so remarkable because it was so unusual. I'm just never surprised when a coach goes with a veteran. There usually has to be a compelling reason to switch to the younger guy.
  5. You're arguing with a brick wall and you will get nothing of value out of the conversation. That dude has some friends on this site and I'm glad they all enjoy talking to each other, but there will be no upside for you talking to him on this thread. Him and a few others are absolutely myopic on this issue. To be clear, there are people in the pro-Quinn group who are equally myopic, but they don't drop this "woe is me" self pitying bullshit all over the thread. Quinn was a good QB. He had many flaws. Most of us appreciate what he did for the program while acknowledging his limitations. Anyone judging Sark's decisions about who should start at QB is doing so with imperfect information, even if we have the benefit of hindsight. I also don't think Ewers' performance as a rookie in a preseason game - for the fucking Dolphins - means as much about him as a player as people on this board seem to think. Either way, the binary thinking that many people seem to apply to this topic is useless. Football doesn't work like that. This topic is cooked. I keep coming back only to satisfy my morbid curiosity and because I enjoy watching some of y'all hoot at each other like retards. But don't come to this thread hoping for productive conversation.
  6. For me, I tend to focus on what's going well. When we suck on the field but are still getting recruiting wins, I focus a lot more on recruiting. When we're winning, I pay less attention to who we pick up from high school. Both are obviously important, I'm just talking about where my focus goes personally and why. Recruiting is great, but the games are everything. These are the kinds of comparisons I don't like. I know Russo is trying to give us a compliment, but we are not the new Alabama. We're Texas. Manjack and Golden were killing our DBs. It was so weird how that game turned on a dime. We were killing Houston right until we weren't. Holgerson is a sloppy asshole, but the man can call plays.
  7. For everyone heading up to Columbus, this is the type of people you'll be hanging with: 12-year-old girl struck by sex toy thrown at WNBA game in Brooklyn; suspect sought by NYPD The NYPD on Friday released a photo and a short video clip of a man wearing a "Beavis and Butt-Head" T-shirt and an Ohio State cap at the New York Liberty-Dallas Wings game last week at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/12-year-old-girl-struck-sex-toy-thrown-wnba-game-brooklyn-suspect-soug-rcna224292
  8. It has to be intentional, right? I just cannot fathom that statement being made unironically.
  9. Don't mind me, just here for the totally normal reactions to us being ranked No. 1 in the AP.
  10. Honestly, not a bad career option for him.
  11. This is peak BLS. It's rare to find such a perfect example. I am sympathetic though. Hard to live through 2010-2021 and not feel that way. That being said, Imma need you to take a sip:
  12. Agreed and point well taken. I didn't really think much of that comment, but I saw it was generating some conversation and wanted to throw in my $0.02 Also, this is Surly. You can say "fuck" and "shit" here. Unless this is some OTF joke that I'm too poor to understand.
  13. Went to the Dolphins subreddit to read up what they think. They are being surprisingly even handed about Ewers. Talking how he showed some talent, that the OL and WR didn't do him any favors, that it's his first NFL game. I'm not sure what to make of that, because Ewers was also playing against back ups. I guess everyone is willing to be more patient with a 7th round QB. But man, do they fucking hate Zach Wilson.
  14. Honestly, if that happens then it's a valid reason to fire Sark and find someone better at evaluating QB talent. Only 2 championships? When we could have had 3? We really deserve better.
  15. "I don't like cocaine, I just like the way it smells."
  16. If we pull him from OU, great. If we force OU to drastically overpay for a specialists...also great.
  17. I took Bobby's comment to mean something along the lines of, was playcalling vanilla by design or is Sark being forced to call a vanilla plays because our offense can't run anything else? He worded it like he was wondering if Sark called a vanilla offense on accident but I don't think that's what he meant. Bobby isn't the best writer, but he usually makes some kind of sense.
  18. Are people in this thread really not familiar with the Bo Nix meme?
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