Everything posted by capnamerca
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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
I hate this so much (that it's been 20 years since that night) ...
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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
This is a fair assessment. Our talent was so thin that dude was a day1 starter because he was a legit talent, and not a JAG or a 4* we were trying to convince ourselves was a 5* in sheeps clothing. I will say that at the time, I was entirely, totally convinced that he was the keystone recruit to fully unlock our return to greatness. Alas.
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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
Are we talking about 'as freshmen', or just at any point in their careers at UT? Because Ricky needed some seasoning. He was damn good as a freshman, no doubt, but he wasn't Ricky Fucking Williams until his Jr. year. Jeffcoat and Hicks showed up D1-starter ready, and just got better. Malik Jefferson, too. Orakpo's final year here was something else, along with many years in the league.
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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
Cory Redding showed up on campus as a fully-grown man, and played like it too.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
I'm not 100% sure of your angle with this question, but I see tons of parallels between Strong and Herman. The biggest one being Teddy Bridgewater making it look like Charlie could coach.
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Tariff wars, they have began
Now there is chinese-made Fetanyl, being routed through Canada, destined for Texas? I can't keep up.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Take heart, because even if you've showed them 100 times how to load the dishwasher, they'll still claim to not know how to do something. Or, on a different given day when you try and have them arrange things slightly differently, you'll get "DAD, I know what I'm doing," or my other favorite, "NO, mom told us to do it this way."
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Post a pic that makes you lol
AND THEY ARE FUCKING DELICIOUS
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Your most embarrassing moments...
Sophomore year in college, walked into a buddy's dorm room and asked "hey, where's your tiny-ass roommate?" To which my buddy replies, "right there, sitting on his bed." I think I managed to apologize through the red haze on my face, but I'm not sure.
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Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
He was 100% concussed. If you watch the ball on the slo-mo replay of the hit, it comes out as if he dropped it, and it comes out just before he hits the ground, without being hit by the defender at all. It comes out because Arch's hand went limp, and Arch's hand went limp because he got knocked out.
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Shoresy (Letterkenny Spin-off on Hulu)
My Marrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaa ....
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Shoresy (Letterkenny Spin-off on Hulu)
The Jims are such beauties ...
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American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
So we all agree to just never fly into Reagan again, right?
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Off-Season Thread of Sadness: College Football’s Biggest Busts. Who Let You Down the Most?
What a weird time, to be that highly touted (top10 in Fab55, right?), and to have fuckin VY behind you.
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Off-Season Thread of Sadness: College Football’s Biggest Busts. Who Let You Down the Most?
Man, this topic just makes me sad. I have tons of empathy for both Gray and Brown. I think they played for 3 different OCs in three years? Brown got recruited over with Gray's signing, but then Mack/Davis absolutely refuse to establish a clear RB1. How was either one of them supposed to excel with all that turmoil? Then you throw in the achillieses, and it's just a sad outcome all the way around. And the inexplicable number of carries for Joe Bergeron during the same timeframe?!?!? Add me to the list for Fowler and McCullough and Eagles and Neyor and JakeSmith. Simms doesn't belong anywhere on this list, FOH with that noise.
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Federal Worker RTO and Buyout Offers
You mean that you think they'll get paid via appropriated money, managed by the same folks that just unilaterally stopped all outgoing money from all departments by usurping the Treasury? They're literally actively not paying people RIGHT NOW, previous commitments be damned. Right in front of our faces, without process of any kind, really. You think THOSE people will somehow honor a commitment drawn from thin air, not even passed by Congress, eight fucking months from now? You are not serious people. There's no debate to be had here about the 'merits' of anything because nothing is being done on merit. It's being done out of spite, or ignorance. Likely both, with a healthy dose of narcissism and outright malice.
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Who’s more likely to make the hof? Josh Allen or Jalen Hurts?
It's bonkers to me that he didn't get in. Two rings should be an auto-admit, especially with all the JAGS that have already been admitted over the years.
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On what subject should you be considered Surly's resident expert?
I'm curious if I'm the highest-ranked Foosball player on Surly. I'm a complete liability against a player of any real skill, but I do carry a national ranking and i'd never lose the table in a bar or gameroom.
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Where Should I Retire...?
This was a thing we really noticed; the foot traffic didn't slow down AT ALL when it rained. Folks all seemed to own a good rainjacket and good duckboots or the like. So when the rain showed up, they just dressed appropriately and went about their day. It was awesome.
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Where Should I Retire...?
We lived there for six weeks last year, just in a long-term AirBnB. Your read on it is pretty spot-on. It's not NEARLY as dreary as Seattle or Portland, although still definitely in the PacNW. It's also inland, actually in a bit of a valley, which moderates the weather quite a bit. Eugene pretty regularly gets up into the 90's in the summer, and even hit 100 fora couple of days we were there. Amazing vibe to the town, incredibly friendly, etc. I found the airport perfectly serviceable - effectively two flights a day on each of the 4 major airlines, to a hub. So Seattle (Alaska), SF / Denver (United), DFW (American), and SLC (Delta), plus some regional carrier stuff. Not super-connected, but not off the grid either. I'm looking at it as a retirement conversation, so where can we perhaps build our ideal house without needing to care about schools.
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Where Should I Retire...?
Just found this thread. Wife and I have been ramping up the discussions about where we should move, given the dangerous slide of Texas politics away from women's health. My wife has a few health concerns, and we've got a 10 year old daughter, and I'm more and more concerned about their safety here. Denver/Csprings and Eugene are basically our short list. I hadn't really considered the idea of two condos instead of one house, and the wife likes the idea of Santa Fe / Scottsdale in the winters, so that's on the table too (home-base likely still either D/CS or Eugene). Following along for the continued conversation!
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All time Texas QB Ranking Discussion - 2025
Yeah. It's clearly a personality trait; we've got three years of sideline tape on him now. From my outside view, his teammates seem to really like him - folks celebrate together, warm-ups are lively, etc. So I'm hopeful that his stoic demeanor is a strength, that it serves to calm the crew. You don't have to be fiery and loud to lead, but you do have to lead. Again, I'm hopeful.
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All time Texas QB Ranking Discussion - 2025
a fair point here, appreciate the clarity. said with love, you're wrong about Street, tho :).
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All time Texas QB Ranking Discussion - 2025
He's on-record as being that guy these last two weeks, setting coverages and audibling into plays for scores. Maybe something is changing or starting to click?
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All time Texas QB Ranking Discussion - 2025
The title of the thread isn't "Best QB since 1998," though. The point is to discuss the best ALL-TIME QBs, which by definition needs to include Layne and Street. This is the right order. The next one down would be James Brown, and some combination of Applewhite, Simms and Ehlinger.