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Dahobbs

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  1. Technically that may be against the rules. We've been called for it it at least once this season. A&M was called on it once in the game. But it doesn't get called that often. It is a vague and poorly written rule.
  2. Helm is definitely better than Sanders. And as far as after the catch goes, have you not seen Helm hurdle a defender almost every fuckin game? Sanders had a bit more shake and bake in his routes, but god damn Helm is the man with the ball in his hands. And Helm can actually block this year, which is something Sanders barely aspired to do.
  3. Fixed. Signed - insurance companies.
  4. We can't screw up our slide protection this time. We also just need to not have Blue in a situation where he is at all responsible for protection. It will never work. He can't do it.
  5. Damn, I just saw this thread. Prayers.
  6. I'm assuming you started watching around dinner time last night and just now finished the game.
  7. That bottom bit is literally every person who owns stock of any kind. The majority of large employers are self-funded. Insurance companies make money charging a fee to administer those plans. The employer itself "profits" (lowers costs) when a claim is denied. You played yourself homie.
  8. Texas doesn't blitz very often. And we make sure our ends play run first on standard downs. We get pressure when we want to get pressure.
  9. Come on, he was just a guy doing his job. He had worked his way up to the top of his company, but that doesn't make him responsible for our broken healthcare system.
  10. Not only are many companies operating self-funded ERISA health benefit plans, but when a company does that the health plan can magically ignore all state insurance law. Does your state require coverage for mental illness? Doesn't matter if your company is self-funded. Is balance billing outlawed in your state? Doesn't matter if your plan is self-funded. Does your state require that in the case a personal injury settlement that the employee be made whole before the insurance company is entitled to take any part of the settlement? Again, doesn't matter if your plan is self-funded. Literally the only law that matters to a self-funded ERISA plan is ERISA itself (which doesn't say shit about insurance) and the plan language. The fact that insurance companies are typically hired to administer those self-funded plans (e.g., BCBS, United Health Care, Cigna) makes it very confusing to figure out who actually provides your healthcare. In Texas, your insurance card will say "self-insured" in tiny text if it is a self-funded plan.
  11. Yes. If the ball crosses over or inside the pylon, it is a TD. I posted the Approved Rulings earlier. Your situation is V below. Arch's actual TD was VI below. Basically, if no part of the player's body touches the endzone or the pylon, then the ball has to cross the endzone between the pylons (including over the pylons). If any part of the body touches the pylon or the endzone before the player is down, then the ball just has to cross the plane, but doesn't need to be between the pylons. Stretch Armstrong could have the ball in Africa and so long as his foot was in the endzone, he'd score a TD.
  12. I agree, likely nothing nefarious. I think Georgia just had us really well scouted and maybe picked up on something that at least tipped them pass/run. That said, I do know that after the game Texas reworked its signs. And the whole non-encrypted helmet communication issue revealing itself a couple of weeks after that game as well. So there is some possibility of some gray area shenanigans happening as well.
  13. Judging by the rant, he is correct.
  14. Here is the part you need: And here is the most relevant Approved Ruling:
  15. No. If for instance he had fumbled after being out of bounds (and didn't touch the pylon), the ball would be brought back to the point it crossed the sideline. The rule is specific about this. The pylon is a separate special rule. The pylon is considered out of bounds. The moment a player touches the pylon, they are out of bounds. However, when they touch the pylon, the goal line also extends beyond the sideline markers just as if their feet were in bounds but the ball was in the outside arm out of bounds. That means that if Arch had touched the pylon BEFORE the ball crossed the plane of the endzone, it would have been a dead ball at wherever the ball was when he touched the pylon. Again, diving at the pylon is actually wrong. You should dive out of bounds and extend a leg or arm horizontally to touch the pylon.
  16. It is a rule that frankly should be abused a lot more than it is. Players shouldn't be diving at the pylon. They should be diving 2 yards out of bounds with an arm or leg stretching towards the pylon.
  17. Maybe he didn't realize it changed from ASU's stadium nearly 20 years ago.
  18. Trump did say he could shoot someone on 5th avenue...
  19. Part of that will have to be improvement with our receivers. Quinn and the receivers really need to get on the same page. I think people have underestimated the affect of replacing all our top catch passers.
  20. Yeah, this seems like a short sighted decision by the board. The replacement will tell us a lot about who is really to blame for Intel's problems. My guess is they hire another finance guy to try and work some short term magic while neglecting the core business assets.
  21. But, why are you wearing a ratty nightgown?
  22. Calling a zone read with a hobbled QB (even if he was moving better than expected) was bad. While Quinn fumbled, it was a good play by the defender on an absolutely brain dead, unnecessary play call. I get doing it if we were struggling to move the ball and needed to surprise the aggies with something. But we were stuff it down their throat at that point. Asking your gimpy QB to run a zone-read in that situation is just tempting the football gods. Overall, Quinn played really well on Saturday. The fumble was at least 50% on Sark for the play call. The int shouldn't have been thrown because it had no chance (defender was all over that route), but I'm pretty sure he was throwing it to the pylon where worse case scenario was going to be an incomplete absent the tip. This team in general just seems a bit snake bit when closing out games. Whether its the QB, the RB, the oline, or special teams, something goes wrong to keep us from comfortably finishing off the game. The only group that doesn't fuck up almost ever is the defense.
  23. Sark should bring some extra water bottles.
  24. If we fix the protection issues, which were largely communication issues, that alone drastically changes our performance on offense. Not turning the ball over in our territory would certainly help as well. Given the trends, I'm a little less confident that we can do that.
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