Off we go.

So, Georgia State is winning 14-0 in the 1st qtr…..so glad we smoked App back in Sept

Peyton Bowen is a bad man. Just took a punt return to the house. Guyer up 42-7 early 4th.

Want to see what FBS players are in the portal? This just went live last night.

Anyone with FUBO know how to get the game not in Spanish?

Pulls no punches whatsoever ....

Midway through Fisher’s fifth year at Texas A&M, the Aggies have lost seven of their past 23 games, are unranked at 3-3 and have no hope of a title once again under the slick-talking West Virginian.
Did the Aggies buy a bunch of snake oil from Tallahassee, Fla., five years ago? No, considering they finished fourth in the country in 2020 in a pandemic-shortened season, their highest ranking in the final Associated Press poll since winning the national title in 1939.

Does Fisher’s awful offense need an overhaul for the Aggies to contend for a Southeastern Conference title? As the late lyricist Meat Loaf once crooned in a song about paradise, “Ain’t no doubt about it.”

Fisher, enveloped by flatterers in the Bright Football Complex, is a sensitive sort when it comes to analysis of his dated offensive approach, so we’ll go easy on the evaluation: It’s terrible — and that’s putting it delicately — especially for the resources Fisher has been given to try and get it done at A&M.

For instance, Fisher last week was trying to make a point about the Aggies’ improvement at receiver at the halfway point of the season, instead he provided one more example of A&M’s ongoing issues on offense. “Think of the plays we made tonight compared to what we dropped in the last two weeks,” Fisher said last weekend and following the Aggies’ 24-20 loss at then-No. 1 Alabama. “It’s part of growth and how things go and what happens, and how you mature and it’s that simple.”

Fisher, a persistent defender of his plodding offense, had pointed out one of the many misadventures leading to one of the nation’s worst units. In other words, the Aggies weren’t anywhere near prepared for the start of SEC play — much less Appalachian State in a 17-14 home loss to the Mountaineers in Week 2 — based on their sloppy play on offense, including multiple dropped passes.

Fisher, too, has mostly wasted what’s likely the final season of junior running back Devon Achane, one of the nation’s most dynamic players who’s had trouble getting rolling behind an appalling offensive line.
The Aggies (1-2 SEC) had Saturday off and will have had two weeks to prepare for the start of the second half of the season: at South Carolina (4-2, 1-2) on Saturday night.

“We need to regroup … and play our tails off and get better and finish these last six games the way we need to play the rest of the year,” Fisher said.

The Aggies will need a much better offense if they’re to do so, and quick fixes likely aren’t part of the equation entering the South Carolina contest. Out of 131 Football Bowl Subdivision programs, the Aggies entering this weekend’s action ranked outside the top 100 in total offense (110th at 333 yards per game), scoring offense (109th at 21.5 points per game), third-down percentage (104th at 33.8 percent) and plays per game (127th at 60.2).

Their average number of plays were 36 fewer than Texas Tech, for instance, entering the weekend, and Fisher’s failure to consistently get his skill players plenty of touches has not and will not sit well with recruits on that side of the ball.

What must the Aggies improve upon on offense? Start with everything, but chief among the issues is the sieve-like offensive line under first-year assistant Steve Addazio, long an area of poor development under Fisher at A&M.

Alabama defenders consistently chased A&M quarterback Haynes King, who hurt his foot early in the Aggies’ narrow loss and got smashed in the ribs late in the contest. His status for the Gamecocks is unknown, and if he’s not able to go, five-star freshman Conner Weigman of Bridgeland likely will get the call.

King started the first two games of the season before he was replaced by Max Johnson, who injured his left (throwing) hand three games into his A&M tenure as a starter. Fisher turned back to King, who also won the starting job last year before he had a season-ending leg injury in Week 2, against the Crimson Tide.

Fisher comically said following the Alabama loss, “We’re playing a backup quarterback, too,” when he was reminded Alabama relied on occasionally-shaky backup Jalen Milroe of Tompkins over then-injured reigning Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young.

A&M’s defense under first-year coordinator D.J. Durkin more than did its part against the Crimson Tide by creating four turnovers, three fumble recoveries and an interception, and giving the offense short fields to work with.

“We did a lot of things that were not winning football,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said in an understatement.
Despite the Crimson Tide gift-wrapping multiple opportunities and with short fields galore, the Aggies failed to score more than two touchdowns on offense for a fourth time against their five FBS foes this season.

The disorganization and general confusion on offense under Fisher, who calls the plays, was again evident late in the Alabama game. That’s when the Aggies collected consecutive false start penalties on the offensive line on a fourth-and-8 from the Alabama 17-yard line and trailing 24-17 with 4:17 remaining. A&M’s consistent disorder on offense under Fisher has become a national punchline.

The back-to-back bumblings led to a 46-yard Randy Bond field goal (and the eventual final score) instead of a potential first down. Finally, Fisher the play-caller was too busy dialing up a poor final call for the Aggies on the last play of the game for Fisher the head coach to notice the play prior might have had about five or six seconds on the clock when it ended.

As opposed to the official and seemingly erroneous three seconds remaining, meaning A&M potentially could have run two plays instead of one to try and pull off the upset, had Fisher questioned the time remaining.

It all adds up to widespread ineptitude, and why the university’s play-callers, weary of clumsiness and stubbornness, might force Fisher to hire an innovative, clear-minded offensive coordinator in the offseason — to keep a promising 2023 season from being “too late” at this point under Fisher, too.

Ok, wanted to start a thread on a topic that has been on my mind for a while. In my opinion, 5-stars just don’t sit. I’m curious on the opinion of the rest of the board on this topic.

I get it, these kids should just be happy to be here and wait until they fight and EARN their turn to play. I think that’s a real life lesson and I tend to agree with that philosophy, but it just is not realistic and unworkable in the day and age of the transfer portal and NIL. They can now transfer freely and get paid big money to do so.

These 5-star kids have been the man forever…they likely can’t remember the last time they sat. They were highly recruited…and now paid as such. The only notable exception would be when there is already an entrenched star/5-star likely to leave to the NFL within a season. In that very limited occasion a 5-star may choose to sit and become the heir apparent to the outgoing star. No 5-star is going to happily sit behind anyone less than that to “develop.”

You recruit a 5-star, you play the 5-star. Ready or not, that is what you signed up for when you recruited that player. That’s just the 5-star game.

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altuve is 0 for 19.

let that sink in.

Are here.
Cody has the flu, and being Dr. Dad is no joy.

What kind of meat do you use to make Barbacoa and how do you prepare it?

WE BETTER NOT BE PLAYING AT TEXAS IN THE 1ST YEAR AND THERE IS NO WAY THEY SHOULD GET ALABAMA, LSU AND US AT HOME THE 1ST YEAR.


Schedule would have Longhorns open league with Arkansas, close with Texas A&M
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A theoretical 2025 Texas football schedule posted by Kyle Umlang, cohost of the Statistically Speaking Podcast, not only features a road trip to Arkansas to kick off the Longhorns' SEC history, it gives Texas fans a clear idea what the conference move will mean for their team.
While it's theoretical, the first two games on the schedule are legitimate non-conference games that are already slated.


Texas 2025 Schedule Circling Internet Shows How Tough SEC Move Will Be© Provided by All Hogs on FanNation
While this is a schedule similar to what SEC teams face each year minus dropping Vanderbilt to have room to schedule a weak non-conference opponent between Alabama and LSU to heal up before closing the season, it's jarring to think of Texas trying to make the run even for those of us who have covered the league for a long time.

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I read off the schedule to another SEC reporter. He wasted no time responding.
"D@*n, Texas better be back," he exclaimed.
Obviously, it's difficult to determine how the schedule will shake out.
Should the SEC stick with divisions, it would be likely that either Auburn or Alabama would come off the schedule so Missouri could be added as a division opponent after geographical adjustments are made during realignment.
Kentucky would also have to be removed to allow for Ole Miss unless the number of required conference games is expanded. Either way, the Rebels would have to be added to the schedule.
























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Money is no object and you have no financial responsibilities aside from an average rent or mortgage. What would you do and how many of you are doing it now?

If you aren’t doing it now, how close are you?

I’d own a small 20-30 seat diner cooking one meal a night and serve it family style. Currently work in consulting on the compensation and benefits side of the corporate world so I’m a world away.

I expect lots of hunting/fishing guides too.

Headed down there tomorrow for 3 days of fishing. Never fished that far south.

What do I need to know?

I'm not doing well and may not be up late.

I look forward to Wednesday morning.

Thanks in advance.

R23

I have fubo and we can't watch any Astros games now because TBS left the network. Wife only keeps fubo for Aggie games.

Any downsides in your personal experiences to sling vs YouTube or fubo?

What are the rules about the TP? Can coaches/other players contact current players with offers or do the players have to initiate contact? How is this controlled? For example if a coach asked a player on the sly to contact a player from another school to gauge interest how would anyone know this is a violation? Are there any players we need to be worried about who aren’t playing QB?

This is impossible to do on a phone, so I'm back in the office today. Let's break it down, shall we?

Ok, so first of all, you have to know that Jimbo's brand of football is THIS. He wants every single game to come down to the last drive/play. He lives for it, loves it. It's like every game is a high school epic movie.

But, on the play, this is what I see...I see that he has a QB that he was ready to move along from two weeks ago for good but who he now has to use as his dude. This QB has all the smarts in the world, but he can't execute. He can think it, but he can't do it. So, the play he calls is for ONE read, and it will require incredible accuracy and immediate timing in one spot that's completely indefensible by even the best defense ever.

That one spot is the short side of the field on the goal line shadowing the pylon with his best receiver maybe ever.

Pic #1: Seven in the box, four wide, man coverage. Someone is a spy, someone is dropping back into zone, and one of those linebackers is going to either disrupt the throwing lane or come free on a blitz.



Haynes can see what they are giving him, and he's already made his read. It's going to Stewart. Everyone knows it, but the thing is that if it's executed correctly, there's nothing they can do to stop it. Snap, quick bullet throw, catch on the goalline, glory. Calzada would have made this throw, by the way.

Pic #2: Confirms the play, confirms Achane to stay right on his shadow and don't let anyone near his stupid rainbow arm.



Pic #3: Here's the cheater code, by the way.



Defense needs to push uphill as fast as they can, clog the middle of the field and make Haynes make a dumb throw. OR, have him panic and scramble to the left, where he will be cradled in the soft arms of the zone defender who is dropping back into zone as the spy.

Pic #4: Play starts and King already has decided where he's going.



Inexplicably, though, he takes a 3 yard drop back to the 10 instead of putting that ball like a laser where it needs to go so that Stewart just needs to turn around to glory and a waterfall of pussy.

Notes:

-Moose is going to sit right underneath in the middle. 13 is digs underneath and runs to the middle of the endzone, but he's covered by the back safety. Lane is on the bottom running a fade to the corner, which does nothing but make this a 10v10 play.

-Disruptor LB gets up near the passing lane, but oddly enough stops short. Maybe he wasn't expecting Haynes to drop back so gawdamned far.

-Zone defender plays this perfectly...drops out and then falls into the big side of the field where he will destroy QB if he tries to break for it.

-Also, the backside S that is covering up the backside of Stewart just in case is out of this play completely. This is 10v9 now, but it's on the short side of the field, so it's inconsequential.

Snap the ball, fire the ball, win the game.

BUT....he sees that linebacker sneaking into the passing lane and he hesitates. Stepped back into a five-step, three yard drop, and by that time the entire play is blown up.

Pic #5: He who hesitates masturbates



It's right there, but it's 1 second too late. Snap the ball, turn immediately, don't try to look anything off like you have a full field in front of you, just gun the ball into it's spot. Nope. He waited for it, and then after doing a full arms length Curly Howard windmill wind-up has zero chance of making this work.

Pic #6: Abject failure



Safety is beaten, so QB has a clear throwing lane because that LB didn't press up into it. But he did his job and made Haynes piss his panties so it doesn't matter where he is standing.

He threw that ball like a trebuchet. Make a cartoon bomb whistle sound watching this and you'll giggle a bit at it.

But here's what will drive you crazy...Let's just say that he recognized that he screwed up and didn't hit his timing so it's over...if he had the ability to react and scramble, he's got a pancake on the left end, and the spy is on the 2 waiting for him. Everyone else is tied up.

If Moose, who jammed the defender and sits down, turned and brokright down the sideline, then Haynes could have run into the open space to draw his defender in and let Moose run free and he's got an open WIDE side of the field.

Pic #7: Look



There's no one over there. It's easy for me to say because I'm just a dude at his desk on Monday, but watch the presnap and look how nervous King is. He's not JFF in the first place, but he froze up and didn't make his pass. Moose didn't do anything but just look.

I think it's not the best call ever, but frankly it's not a bad call. Jimbo is trying to give this guy who is smart but overmatched a way to win no matter what IF he executes but he didn't and therefore we lost.

Good game, but not a gamesman.

Heading out next weekend was wondering what places y’all would recommend within 30 minutes or so.

....to hire illegals? I believe we still have to document legal status before we hire anyone and there are steep fines if we do hire an illegal.