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Park Gothic

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  1. I don't give a shit who uses the word "natty" or how often they use it. It's the same with words like "irregardless" or saying "literally" when you mean figuratively. It's stupid no matter how many people do it. Words like "natty," "tuddies" and "wardaddies" can all fuck right off.
  2. He's an exciting dual threat QB is a blue blood and he won a big game. He's also improved a lot since last season when he was viewed as a project. Why wouldn't they be hyping him up?
  3. Another element to the defensive playcalling may have been that we were holding back some of the wrinkles we want to use against OU and UGA. If what we were doing (taking away the RPO and deep ball) was working, why change it? Why go deeper in our bag and show the good teams on our schedule what we can do? We still beat MSU by three scores. That may just be me telling myself what I want to believe, but it seems like the decision to not adapt our game plan to MSU's offense was intentional.
  4. I'm not going to weigh in on the whole Campbell / Hutson thing, but man is it nice that we have such a deep OL room. Hutson would have been our best lineman by a wide margin only three seasons ago. It's great that we can even have these kinds of arguments.
  5. DUI and a reputation for partying. It's dumb, but not dumb. When a team like Tennessee correctly bets that they can get him in the second round, it's a massive windfall.
  6. Yeah - at first I thought that it must be something they coached him to do, because that's not how you defend counter as the edge. But the LB's didn't seem prepared to keep contain. Although considering which LBs were in at the time, that may be more on them than Simmons.
  7. Y'all are wild about this Livingstone kid. I know y'all aren't really hating but I see this kid becoming the butt of more jokes and it seems premature. Maybe he's the jaggiest jag to ever jag. Maybe he's just at Texas to pull trim and launch his country music career. His film certainly doesn't jump out to me, at least not enough to warrant the modest amount of hype he's gotten. But he's also a true freshman who clearly had a longer developmental curve. I wasn't expecting to really see anything out of him this season. I'm just not ready to write him off yet considering that smart people think he'll be pretty good. He also gave us one of the bigger chuckles we had at A&M's expense during the 2023 recruiting cycle. So there's that.
  8. I'm honestly more worried about how he plays against counter / pulling guards in the run game. Instead of crashing down on the pulling guard to jam the lane up from the outside, he tries to dip inside the guard to put himself in the lane. It happened at least three times on Saturday. I understand wanting to get in the running back's lane, but when he goes inside he gives up contain. It did not look like Gbenda or Blackwell were prepared to trade jobs, and that shit can bite us on the ass with how bad their run fits have been. Maybe Simmons isn't not big enough to effectively crash down, but we can't give up contain like that. At any rate, it's not a huge issue. Burke struggled with it too back in '22 and figured it out soon enough. I'm just picking nits because he's otherwise so good as a true freshman. Edit: Here's an example of what I'm talking about
  9. Look, I'm all for bashing California. But if we're going to talk about basketball and talk about title game appearances, rather than just titles, you have to include SDSU from 2023. I'm reasonably certain that San Diego is still in the state of California.
  10. I agree with pretty much every thing you've said, but with one caveat. I've watched a bit of his high school tape and all of his snaps at Texas. I think he is actually a sophisticated pass rusher, but is still working out what he can and can't do as a college freshmen. He used the basic rip move pretty well in high school and was happy to bull rush, but has avoided those at Texas, which is probably smart. He's not strong enough (yet) to bull rush most OTs he'll face and the rip move is really more useful after you've gotten tangled up with the tackle - something he's avoided as much as possible. I've haven't really seen him use the swim move in college or high school, but maybe that's because he doesn't like giving the tackle a chance to get under his pads. I think he's been relying primarily on speed rushing because that's the advantage he has at this point in his game and at this level. But I recommend watching his feet. He very good at playing the "game within the game" against the OT across from him. He'll use a stutter step inside in a series after the OT scene a stunt or two, making the OT pause and lean inside just enough to give Simmons an easy path around. He'll also change his pace up from down to down, making it harder for the OT to get into the same rhythm. To be clear, he's still playing like a freshman. But his pass rush is probably a little more developed/sophisticated than it seems so far this season.
  11. Does he have the size? I know he's listed at 6 ft and 200 lbs, but I'm under the impression that they were being generous about his weight. Not that being under 200 lbs disqualifies him, but it's a bit light for doing work between the tackles.
  12. The whole OTF crew has been talking about whether Ewers should start in terms of him being at 90% to 95%. I don't know if there's an agreed upon method for determining what percentage Ewers is at, but if FCB and OTF have similar sources then it sounds like he's going to sit.
  13. Poor bastards. At least they're honest with themselves.
  14. Seems like this Sluka situation has everyone wound a bit tight, huh?
  15. I'm not trying to give you shit, but you said that (1) our goal isn't beating A&M, (2) the game is meaningless if we've already secured our spot in the CCG, and (3) that we shouldn't risk injury just for "bragging rights" - have I got that correct? I vehemently disagree with all of that. I want to win championships AND beat the shit out of our rivals. A season where we win the SEC but lose to OU and A&M is tainted and will taste bittersweet at best. I get that rivalries don't matter as much to some people, but it is hardly an "Aggie-like" mindset to heavily weigh beating one's rivals as an important goal for the season. And that's before I even get into the importance a win has for recruiting and fund raising. I don't want to make assumptions, but are you young? That's the only reason I can think of why a Texas fan would downplay the significance of beating A&M. I'm not old old, but I'm old enough to remember playing A&M in the early 1990's when we were down and they were up. It fucking sucked. A person whose football memory doesn't include experiencing a loss to A&M can't full appreciate how insufferable they can be.
  16. Did someone actually post that the A&M game is meaningless to us? On this board? That's a real thought that someone had in their head and they actually took the time to type it out? I'm baffled. Flummoxed. Let me tell you something - it will be extremely meaningful when we skull fuck the Aggies up and down Kyle field. When we demoralize them so badly that your Aggie coworkers and neighbors won't look you in the eye for a week. When the in-state recruits that we want don't even consider A&M as anything better than a second choice. I want to send their asses back to the stone age where they belong and every other Texas fan should too. Seriously fuck them, for all the shit they've talked over the past 10+ years. All the Big 12 games they didn't play but would've won. We are going to cram more than a decade's worth of bullshit back down their throat on November 30 and it will be very meaningful to every Texas fan, every Aggie, and everyone who might have any input on our reputation or future as a program. I swear, I am about the blow a gasket reading this shit.
  17. Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng? I know he was a Notre Dame lean but he's not committed and was fairly high on our list.
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