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Off topic but there's a podcast with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano called "Our Thing", which is nothing more than him telling stories firsthand of being in the mafia, rising through the ranks, wacking people, etc. It's an absolutely riveting and fascinating listen that I highly recommend.

What? Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, Jalen Hurts, Caleb Williams...

unreal

man i feel gross having to decide between wanting bama or texas to make it

I haven't read any articles or anything, but people always confuse this as some type of achievement award when it really isn't. He is accurately the sportsperson of the year based on what the recognition actually means, which is just the biggest impact/storyline. Has nothing to do with being good, it's just the amount of attention paid.

imo, only for a year or two

Riley's one score games: BYU - L Miami - L (OT) (although to be fair we were down 27-3 in that game and had no business even being close) Southern Miss - W Illinois - L (ugly as it gets) Wisconsin - L (gut punch) Northwestern - L Michigan State - W Iowa - L UCLA - W Oregon - W Indiana - W Wisconsin - L Minnesota - W Arkansas State - W Oregon - L Northern Illinois - L Purdue - W Northwestern - L 8-10 overall in one score games, and when you account for the fact that he and his staff just weren't very good coaches, it paints a much different picture than an unshakeable curse.

How could Matt Rhule do this to them?

Who's the third staff? Riley? He had some excruciating losses but also had a comparable amount of grit-it-out one score wins as well. Pelini was remarkably good in one-score games, so much so that a superstitious person would think we're just regressing to the mean in a painful way.

First question, when you say 'we', who are you talking about? The fans? The athletic department? The coaches? The players? Second question, if us being bad is the result of 'settling' for bad performances, is your premise that the key to being successful is nothing more than just pure will power?

• Without knowing the stats, this seems like the most disciplined and least penalized squad we've had in years and years. Far from perfect, but so many less moments of crucial false starts, PI calls bailing out the opponent on 3rd and long, etc. • The staff routinely showed the ability to figure out what was and wasn't working and make good second half adjustments in games • Not having bowl practices sucks, but the amount of live game reps given to so many young players is a massive aid to the next few years of the program • Honestly didn't even remember what player development looked like before this season. We saw a lot of career-long mid level guys grow into solid and dependable players. • Purdy, put into a really tough position, showed some promising spark of moxy, poise and improvement as a player compared to the chicken with his head cut off performance of last season. • Obviously Tony White has been a revelation and I feel pretty good that he'll still be here for at least another 1-2 years.

The funny part is that if a few more of our one score losses were 2-4 score losses people would probably be more optimistic. The PTSD is real.

What about diarrhea upset stomach?

Him and Armstrong had a near 50/50 split in a 2 qb system for 9 games that season with Martinez' injury.

Last year we lost a one possession game to a 1-11 team who won zero games in North America, and we also lost a one possession game to a Sun Belt team we paid 1.4 million dollars to play us. This year we haven't been at risk against the payday teams we out talent, and we've found some ways to win some close games that were losses last year. It's year one with a new staff and a roster depleted by injuries and full of reps for young up and comers. We all knew we weren't going to be good, but unless you're determined or traumatized, it's easy to see we're either ahead or worst-case exactly on schedule for the Rhule rebuild project.

And what about HOW we are winning the games we're winning that we are used to seeing only as losses? Think critically about this for two minutes and realize it's not the argument you think it is?

That's just because of his "old man in the church league" eastern european skin

WHAT DO WE WANT? ARTIST RENDERINGS WHEN DO WE WANT THEM? LITERALLY FREAKING NOW

Wayne has also been ranked #1 almost the entire season.

There is a way. Have rules of engagement within your military that don't condone a bombing if the civilian risk is (insert whatever insane number that still seems reasonable in comparison to the actual current ratio) compared to the target, and if you want or need to get specific agents in specific places, send in troops.

In MAGA America in 2020 that same turkey was $150 so...

Going 2nd in overtime isn't conservative, it's strategy (although to be fair, the edge it gives statistically is very small). You're giving yourself knowledge of what you need but you're also giving yourself 4 plays instead of 3.

That's not critical thinking, it's just a baseline observation of fact. Keep going.

Decolonization = genocide? Jeez when did the free speech boner brigade become a bunch of snowflakes?

As anyone with critical thinking and an even somewhat open mind knows, it's at least a little like that.