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2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
I don't have the numbers, but I am pretty sure when we have a first down play that doesn't gain any yards or loses yards (whether it was a run or a pass), Sark calls a run when it's second and long like 99% of the time. This usually leads to third and long so not a fan of running on second and 10 or second 14.
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the cotton bowl weather/travel thread
I am showing 9-11 inches of snow on Thursday with 3 more inches on Friday morning. A foot of snow in DFW would be brutal for days here. Not sure the accumulation would melt (on non highway roads) and they aren’t going to have snow plow trucks clearing all the side streets. Total shit show. I’m supposed to head to Tampa for work on Wednesday but think I may bail as I may not be able to get back.
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What they are sayin' up North...
- Manchester-London-Paris-somewhere else this Spring
Totally agree with what has been said. The first time I took the wife and kid to London we did 7 days in London. The British Museum, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Churchill War Rooms, etc… take days to see and explore. I recommend the British Library also as their “treasure room” had some cool stuff. We also took the train for a day to Stonehenge and Bath. Another day we did Windsor and Windsor Castle. We spent time one day out in Greenwich to see the Royal Observatory and Cutty Sark ship. We didn’t have time to go to Oxford and some other places which just shows there is tons to do just in London and the train rides out side of town. Also, like others have said you do the tourist stuff but you need to spend time roaming the streets, museums, pubs to get a feel for being in London. My wife is one of those plan everything day out fully and it takes away from just enjoying a city so I have had to work to break her from that. Do Paris a different trip as that also can take a week of wandering around Paris and different parts of France.- 2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
So is Mike Farrell a dipshit or does he have a clue about football. Listening to him now on the radio and he says Ohio State is far and away the most talented team in college football and should win the rest of their games by double digits easy. Basically he is saying the last two games against Tennessee and Oregon are the real Ohio State and all the other games didn’t matter. He said they were “tight” against Michigan with a bad game plan and that’s why they lost. If they play as good as they can nobody is close to them. I hope our team hears shit like this and comes out with something to prove.- Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
I know this is the Quinn thread, but this play really shows Hayden Connor at his best. I don't think he makes contact with anybody and just kind of stands there. Maybe that is just the play call/ way the defense lined up and he did a good job, but I see way too many times where a run or pass play get blown up and number 76 basically whiffed and didn't touch anybody and is just standing around.- Bert!
- RIP Rickey Henderson
Back when I was in college at UT, a bunch of us went to a Rangers-A's game and we sat in the front row in left field. This was around the time when Rickey was publicly arguing about his pay and that he should be the highest paid player in the league. My buddy yelled at him that if he is the best player in the game, why is he paid as the 30th best player or something like that. Rickey turned around, took his glove off and smiled at us while clapping. He then put his glove back on, turned around and gave us the middle finger behind his back. As far as a baseball player, the dude was the greatest leadoff hitter ever and one of the greatest baseball players of the last 40 plus years. If he got on base (via hit or walk) it was basically a double or triple. With his crouched stance, pitchers were forced to groove a fastball to him instead of giving him the walk and then he would knock it out of the park. Yeah, he had an ego, but all pro athletes do, and we would also if we were playing pro ball somewhere.- 2024 CFP Playoffs Round 1: Texas vs. Clemson - 3:00pm on TNT
- Indiana at Notre Dame Round 1 Playoffs
Which SEC teams would beat this Indiana “playoff” team? I mean, even the LSU’s, Aggies and Florida's would beat them in my opinion. Not to mention Texas, UGA, Bama, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina. Shit, Arkansas, Kentucky and Vandy could beat this team. 12 team playoffs is fine but they need to not fall for overrated Big 10 teams who play soft schedules.- Indiana at Notre Dame Round 1 Playoffs
At least Indiana makes up for their lack of speed and athleticism with being soft, weak and poorly coached.- RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
I am pretty sure he is proposing ideas similar to the EU. He mentioned Europe how cereal has like 4 ingredients and here it has 20 most of which are not good for you. I believe chemicals refers to food additives and not just chemicals or pesticides in our food which should also be addressed if we were an intelligent country. Which we are not.- RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
I may be one of the only people on this site that actually thinks some of RFK Jr's ideas are good. I am all for trying to take some of the chemicals out of our food supply and making the food we eat healthier. I am all for ending Rx advertising on TV/radio. That being said, the idea to stop vaccines like the polio vaccine is bat shit crazy and like many on here know, dangerous to all of us. Can't wait for the small pox parties in the future and every other horrible disease we have found ways to eradicate but I guess if we just stop relying on stupid shit like science and modern medicine, and just pray to Jesus that will take care of us.- Bill Belichick Rides Again: Hired at North Carolina to build NIL NFL Factory
So what is considered success with this hire? National championship? Win 9-10 games a year? I am most curious if the NIL he gives out plus the idea of him helping players get “NFL ready” will appeal to young kids or not. If I was a defensive back I would love to learn from Belichick but not sure most kids realize how good he is at teaching that position.- 2024 Playoffs Round 1: Clemson at Texas
If Golden knocked the DBs arm away I am 100% confident he would have been called for offensive pass interference by that ref crew.- 2024 Playoffs Round 1: Clemson at Texas
- FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
calm down bro. I don't agree with what will happen just stating what will happen. No, the patriots lost the last game of the year and didn't win the title even though they beat the Giants earlier that year. That is why you have a last game, winner take all playoffs.- 2024 SEC Championship Game: Texas vs. Georgia - 3pm on ABC
old article but worth a read. So long, goal-line fade - Why one of the NFL's least efficient passing plays is disappearing - ESPN- FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
I think this is accurate, but you should add that after that happens, Kirby Smart and the whole world will complain that they won 2 out of 3 and should be the real national champions. It wasn't fair to make them have to beat a team three times in one year.- Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
I am not sure that was a poor effort by Bond. Last night I thought it was but watching it again, Bond comes out of his break and the ball is there totally behind him. I don't think that is a catch for a lot of receivers on our team or any team. After Bond reached back and it him the ball took a lucky bounce up and right to the CB. I don't think Bond knew where the ball was for a split second and that is why he didn't fight for it. Sadly, I think Ewers needs to shove a horseshoe up his ass or kill a live chicken voodoo style because he seems to get a lot of unlucky bounces. Yeah they are bad throws but many QBs (see Mahomes) somehow get away with them more often than not.- FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Murderers row if you ask me. I can't think of any other team in the country that could get that schedule and only lose one game to Northern Illinois. A&M Northern Illinois Purdue Miami, OH Lousiville Stanford Georgia Tech Navy FSU Virginia Army USC- FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
I think Georgia gets the easiest draw in this scenario with a bye, Notre Dame and then Penn State. Texas has an easy draw also except we get Oregon in the semi's.- Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
You are actually wrong about Ewers. You speak about him like you’re his agent. Like many have said he is a decent college QB who will get a NFL GM fired if he gets drafted too high. I’m guessing he gets drafted in the 4th round and never amounts to anything in the NFL. Now, did he lose this game. Partly, but there is blame on the O line, Sark’s play calling, PK’s play calling in the second half (should have spied and blitzed the shit out of that kid the entire second half), and yeah, the refs didn’t exactly help us in the game. Now since this is the Ewers thread, is there anyone here who actually has confidence that Ewers will lead the team to a victory at the end of a big game with clutch throws? He seems to screw up quite a bit when the game is on the line. He is the anti Tom Brady. Also, and this should go in the Sark thread but when you do a first down play that doesn’t work, whether you ran it or passed it, on second and long, calling a run play must have the lowest percentages of success for keeping a drive alive as it just leads to a 3rd and long which is tough to move the chains. By the way, Sark isn’t the only one that does this and I can’t understand it as statistically it leads to a drive stalling a high percentage of the time.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Justus Terry?- The Long Awaited You Can Run, But You Can't Hide Friday
- Manchester-London-Paris-somewhere else this Spring
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