JBJ

It's really not that deep:

Seriously, Disney, this is how you do corrupt Jedi council: "She has brought truth and you condemn it? You will not harm her, you will not harm her ever again. As you would pass judgment on her, I have come to pass judgment on you all. Do you wish to feel the teachings born of the Mandalorian Wars, of all wars, of all tragedies that scream across the galaxy? Let me show you. You, who have forever seen the galaxy through the Force. See it through the eyes of the Exile."

I watched Ep1 and thought I was done. The show literally started losing me at "Attack me with all your strength." The hubbub over Ep3 made me decide to keep going (for now). I'm also watching with my wife now, so we will see how far our combined forces take us. The diaglogue is terrible. Sol (the Korean jedi) has been a great actor, along with the lead witch, and the fake apothecary dude. So it seems like it's all bad writing and not bad delivery. But so many scenes just feel off in tone or have forced dialogue. Maybe they have something going with the plot? I don't know what could actually make the show salvagable, though. Seems like we are headed towards a "the whole thing is a big misunderstanding" conclusion, which would be the most unsatisfying thing ever. --- Also, I'm growing into the theory that when a studio realizes it has a flop, they'll push diversity as a marketing tool because they know it'll act as a shield from criticism and that it'll still draw eyes from some demographics. Others have pointed out Andor, Boba Fett, Mandolorian are as diverse if not moreso and we didn't get all the bizarre press and/or white knighting.

The problem is that liars keep claiming recruits that they lost are being paid $15MM/year to play somewhere. You hear it enough and it becomes believable.

Definitely a possibility since my "evaluation" was watching the first half of his pinned hudl.

TBF, that's not at all what Albert's said. He said that this year's game was not going to be on Thanksgiving.

Honestly, the only rivalry in the same discussion is The Big Game. The SEC rivalries are great regional rivalries, but that's really all they have been. The Iron Bowl and WLCP haven't been very significant historically. Bama-LSU has been at times, but that's more along the lines of the Texas-Arkansas rivalry than Texas-OU.

He looks like more of a project RB. Or I'm just used to every RB we sign looking NFL-ready.

I think UT was this way originally with the Lambo group, but there's actually decent corporate money that view it as a low-cost way to get themselves associated with the school. AT&T, Nike, et.al. pay upwards of $3MM annually to be official sponsors. Lambo let's a kid drive a rental for nearly the same exposure.

I'd like to add that Congress could pass a law tomorrow that reset the NCAA to where it was in 2000, and it wouldn't have the impact people think. Braintrusts and systems have been established that didn't exist back then. I know several people that have put careers on hold to build businesses around NIL. There's really no putting the genie back in the bottle.

Was going to say the same thing. He was actual ass defending the run as well. His type of OLB get criminally overrated by fans and media because they can make 1-2 big plays a game and that's all people notice.

Wasn't that like 3 years ago? 🤔

I wonder how hard it would be to create a Surly chat bot to appropriately post the same 30 gifs over and over.

The first thing I do when recruiting news breaks is call up my daughter's in-laws and discuss NIL deals.

May update: From the beginning of the year, I'm down 16 lbs, 4.5" from the waist, and 2" off the hips. I'm pretty much on the pace for fat loss that I set for myself. I'm a little behind on lean gains. Not really worried about it, I'm focusing more on health and athleticism more than hitting certain numbers or bulking up. I'm pretty sure I'm thinner than I was on my wedding day a decade and half ago. I've been getting to the gym a lot more last month - I'm going during lunch, which limits time but greatly improves with consistency (4 kids and a lot of after school activities). I want to be more deliberate about diversifying workouts: zone 2 and zone 3 cardio, plyometrics, and white-fiber focused weight workouts into my schedule. I'm thinking about turning every 3rd workout into a revolving door. Will essentially one day per month actually going to be enough to get anything out of these? I was doing zone 3 once a week in the fall and didn't feel it was doing much. --- Commenting on the protein talk: it don't make a shit. Studies that identify a certain chemistry/mechanism in the body almost always fall flat when follow ups measure the actual final outcomes, or there's like one or two genetic outliers that carry the average. This goes beyond the body: complex systems generally don't produce the overall outcomes intuited from first-order results. If it is working for you, don't fix it.

His arm was vertical last year compared to before. And you know what? It made him better. If he would narrow his stance a touch and get his hip rotation ahead of his shoulders he'd improve a bit more.

95% of NFL QBs. It's amazing to me that there's a contigent on this board that throwing mechanics don't matter.

Now summarize it in no more than 10 bullets and reformat for darkmode.

His issue was blowing assignments, understanding down+distance, and taking plays off. He's okay physically, so maybe this will be a wake up for him.

Feel like I was one of the last holdouts to actually make posts on those. At some point they turned into gif celebrations instead of articles/discussion on the player. Which sicks because those were great to bump after 5 years.

Agree with these.

nvm. Thread is off the rails right now.