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ATLLonghorn

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  1. If he really said he thought Mack would've been fired around 2005 if he didn't land Vince is an amazing statement of bullshit. For one, no, it's highly unlikely they would have. The donors loved Mack. Mack would've been given significantly more rope than that. Secondly it's making a statement that's not rooted in any reality that you're using to support a thesis which is really dumb. There's no way to know what would've happened if Mack hadn't gotten Vince. It's making a blanket statement and supporting it with an iffy hypothetical. It's best just to tune out the media types. I know you guys get a rage hard on every time anyone says anything bad about Texas but the reality is the college football media traffics in Texas' misery. They love cracking jokes and taking shots at the program when it shits the bed and then wonders why fans are so unhappy. It's all intellectual laziness on their part. It's low hanging fruit to rip on Texas when they're down and then easy to rip fans because we're incredibly loud and unhappy that we can't beat the 10th best team in the Big Ten and can barely beat Tulsa.
  2. The bullpen was good today too. Tonight was just the 6th time this year the Braves pitching staff did not allow a walk.
  3. If I'm using pro football reference right he's just the second punter since 1950 to average at least 59 yards per punt with a minimum of six punts in a game. It's undoubtedly one of the greatest debuts in NFL history.
  4. The Braves have starting pitcher they can count on to go more than 6 innings, no relievers they can count on to get outs and a manager who has no idea how to manage his pitching staff and yet they keep clawing and scratching their way to wins. It's incredible to watch in every sense of the word.
  5. This team has played three incredibly dumb games in the past 5 days.The ending last night was absurd.
  6. The bright spot is the only way they're getting into the playoffs is to win the division which is good to avoid the Wild Card game (fuck the infield fly rule forever). The future is bright if the young pitchers can pitch at the major league level. I'm about done with Newcomb. Given the relative youth of the top pitching prospects in the organization I'm willing to give him part of 2019 to prove he can be consistent, but we're no longer dealing with a limited sample size. He has yet to prove he can throw strikes consistently at the ML level. With Soroka, Wright and Touki breathing down his neck for a spot (and Allard and Gohara too even though nobody knows what the hell is up with them right now) the clock is ticking on him. Since the start of July he's been non-competitive against good teams save for the near no-hitter.
  7. Anyone excited for this, or even aware it exists? In effort to do away with non-competitive friendlies UEFA is starting a new competition this week and there are some pretty tasty matchups. It's convoluted as fuck to explain, but the simple way to explain it is all 55 UEFA nations are put into four leagues. League A is the top 12 teams split into four groups of three. Each group plays home and away matches with the group winners advancing to the Final Four next summer. There's also Euro 2020 qualifying implications and ways for teams to get promoted and relegated to different leagues. There are some intriguing matches this week starting with France vs Germany on Thursday. Italy and Poland is mildly intriguing Friday. England vs Spain on Saturday should be fun and the headliner Sunday is France vs Netherlands. These aren't B teams either. France is basically bringing the World Cup winning squad and everyone else is bringing their A rosters so these games could be really fun. Groups can be found here https://www.uefa.com/uefanationsleague/season=2019/standings/ This event airs mostly on ESPN+ so if you have that you can watch the whole thing and some matches, like France vs Germany Thursday, will be on TV (ESPN2)
  8. After the interceptions that cost us the USC, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech games, the fact that Sam Ehlinger is allowed to continue to start after throwing that pick at the end is as big a reason to doubt Herman's competency. Protecting the ball is the most important thing for your quarterback and Ehlinger has proved time and again he can't do it. It's a joke.
  9. Tom Herman has been head coach for 647 days. The idea that he can change the culture in the next 81 while having to game plan each week and get ready for a game is comical. He had a year to start building things and then an offseason to re-enforce it and we saw the same poor preparation, poor in game coaching and mental mistakes we saw last year and under Charlie. If Tom Herman hasn't figured things out yet he likely isn't going to. He'll be here through next year so fretting about it won't matter. If he goes 6-6 again this year or worse the big money donors will blame it all on Charlie Strong. You can mark my words on that.
  10. Sitting in 100 degree watching Isner play tennis has to be miserable. Like, yay, he's American, but I don't like watching him.
  11. It's weird that with a young pitcher his secondary stuff is better than his fastball by a wide mile but that's the scouting report on Touki. He also only started pitching like 6 years ago or something like that so for him to get a call up to the majors already is indicative of his raw potential. Hopefully he can reach his ceiling because it is quite high.
  12. Score today made the game look worse than it was. Braves had a million scoring opportunities and couldn't deliver, but the Phillies lost to the Marlins so it was a wash.
  13. I saw a question on Twitter the other day. It was "What was the dumbest game your team won?" I started thinking about how I could probably name one from 2002 (my Freshman year) to 2009 (the end of the good times) and I had a thought that in that time period typically our teams weren't the ones that committed dumb mistakes. Most of our losses were games where we just got our asses kicked, but usually when games were close and came down to a razor thin margin of a couple of plays we'd be the more composed team. The differences between Strong and Herman are one coach was a defensive coach while the other was an offensive coach, one guy didn't kiss the "right" peoples asses and was good to other people while the other kisses the right ass and is an insufferable prick otherwise. The lack of discipline instilled in players, the nepotism of hiring shitty coordinators you know. The inability to make adjustments in game. It's all the same. The packaging is all that is different.
  14. THIS.
  15. Before the 7 in 11 days with the Phillies to end the season we have Boston, Arizona, SF, Washington, St Louis. The Phillies have the Marlins, Mets, Nationals, Marlins again and Mets again. That's a significant advantage for them in theory, but they're just .500 against those teams. If they stay consistent there and we can tread water with our brutal stretch the final 11 days of the season favor the Braves heavily. Also, Toussaint starts tomorrow so we get Touki vs Mookie and dammit I love a good rhyme.
  16. Newcomb in his three starts against teams with winning records since nearly no-hitting the Dodgers: 13.1 innings, 18 earned runs allowed. There were solid starts against the Marlins and Nats mixed in there, but his inconsistency presents a problem for the team going forward. He's clearly capable of being dominant, but not nearly consistent enough to rely on. When the roster expands they're going to need a backup starter ready to go when he pitches whether it's Touki, Wilson or someone else.
  17. I wish it was the Nats chasing us and shitting the bed constantly because I have nothing against the Phillies, but they're hanging by a thread right now. The Braves are 42-21 against the NL East this season. The Phillies are 25-28. The Phillies have an advantage of having more games with the Marlins and Mets left but that hasn't worked out well for them so far.
  18. Gall's ascension has been crazy. He went from the Austin Aztex in 2015 to the 3rd division of Swedish soccer the next year to a mid-table team in the top flight for two years before transferring to Malmo at midseason this year. I know that the Swedish league isn't exactly known for it's prowess (21st in the UEFA coefficient) but Malmo is the top team in that league.
  19. Bielsa Ball is a high pressing, fast attack system. I'm curious to see if it will hold up over the course of the 90 game or whatever schedule they play in the Championship
  20. I'm casually following Leeds this year because Bielsa is Tata Martino's mentor. I enjoy watching them play.
  21. The other night I watched NAIA football between SAGU and Evangel because I missed college football and you want to take games away from us? You're a savage, man.
  22. I take back my optimism. We've scored one run in two games against the fucking Marlins. We suck again.
  23. MLS is consistently shitty in its application of VAR.
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