You haven't missed a thing.
They're always on the cusp of an incomparable greatness for the ages that will put everyone else in the nation to shame forever, right up until the moment they're not. Then it's dead dog cemeteries, squeezing their left nut, and the cult of some guy named Gill who did a simple thing any number of students in that era did at other schools, only nobody else was delusional enough to think it was some uniquely awesome act of heroism.
In one sense, it's a shame we'll ever play them again. Continuing that stupid off campus bonfire after they quit playing us is about the most Aggie thing ever. It symbolizes their burning hatred of whatever.
I have literally no interest in this owner, and I certainly don't love it when he bum rushes any camera in sight to start yapping away like an ugly dog on meth.
My respect for any owner of a team is in direct proportion to how well their team does in meaningful wins through the years. So, yeah, fuck Jerry.
So, let me get this straight.
Jeff Fucking Fisher (JFF) has a kicker who is 1 for 5, including TWO missed extra points.
JFF has just watched his team drive from the 50 to the opponent's 3 yard line.
JFF has first and goal at the 3, twenty-nine seconds left and TWO time outs. And yet...
JFF doesn't even try for the touchdown. He just lets the clock run down and hands the game over to his 20% kicker.
JFC, JFF!
I thank the USFL for this much--it has allowed the perfect JFF game, his Platonic ideal as it were, to finally manifest in our reality. He belongs to the ages now.
And it was a team in no small part assembled by Beard on the fly after he came here.
I look forward to what the future holds. It's been a while since we could say that.
That pretty well sums it up.
Some people call Beard's offense boring. Whatever. But at least it's genuine, recognizable basketball. An actual attempt at doing something that's doable. That's something we never had under Shaka, which is why he is ultimately a disappointment no matter where he goes. He's just a reactive, doofus leprechaun spouting motivational cliches as he tries one stupid stunt after another with no coherent vision of what he wants. Watching his teams play is just excruciating. It's like watching a walrus try to fuck a giraffe.
This post-game drivel speaks more loudly to me about Rodgers than his vaccine status.
His teams is a few days removed from blowing a good shot at the Super Bowl, where Special Teams and the Offense both badly under performed. A reasonable excuse for a teammate would still be feeling the sting of that. This prima donna is back to making everything about himself and his childish grievances (as if there needs to be some extra reason about him for people to watch a prime time divisional playoff game between two storied franchises). Just like he was publicly spewing before the game about Biden of all things. Maybe his focus should have been on San Francisco.
Rodgers is extremely talented, but he puts himself and his self absorbed whims ahead of the team. It's reasonable to assume that costs them something on the margins in big games.
I'm long past considering this stuff painful.
There's actually a certain morbid fascination to the how the Cowboys consistently pull this off. They can't even simply lose like a normal team. There's always something freakish about it.
I would agree that the Rams appear brittle. Stafford wanted to find out if he was truly a elite quarterback, and the answer seems to be "No." He's actually looking more like a late-career Phillip Rivers.
Obviously, SF is going to try to gash us on the ground to keep pressure off of Garappolo. If we let them, it could get tough. If we keep that shit under control, the schizoid G-man is going to have to produce one of his "step up" games for them to have a serious chance. The odds of that for SF are 50-50 at best.
All things considered, I'd give Dallas a slight edge.
I agree with this.
Dallas actually looks pretty decent this year. Doesn't mean they'll make the Super Bowl, but it's one of their better-looking chances in the last 25 years. Might as well try and believe in spite of Jerry.
It's what they deserve for having failed to rename their team for two years now--a generically bad football team performance.
Still, Cowboys are looking pretty damn good.
That's cuz the Ginger was no threat to Jerry taking credit for everything. The Jones trust even bragged about how much training they'd put him through.
On the flip side, I wonder why Jason was so quick to go the Giants anyway? It seemed like a thankless task at the time, even though as a Cowboy fan he clearly deserved it..
Well, we're definitely in the playoffs this year. With a win tonight without Dak, we've got a strangle lock on the East. It'll be interesting to see how we progress the rest of the year.
It's also nice to see us forcing someone else to dump off to the short shit time and time again. Of course, that said, it was Kirk Cousins, who pretends to be a franchise QB but inevitably regresses to the mean.
Hail to Cooper Rush.
If the measuring stick is hanging with Georgia or Alabama this year, I think we're destined for disappointment. I'd like to just see some sustained improvement and a decent final record. Next week will tell us how we stand in the Big 12, and if we play well enough the rests of the year to make the playoffs, I'd be happy even though a quick loss is likely.