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One game suspension is probably all that would be warranted for speeding. The attempt to flee makes me wonder if he’s going to have more serious consequences.
The Film Guy, Austin, said an off-handed comment about one of our runs that made me think we’re under practiced on the run game. Could be that we’re trying to do too much like you said.
Our line is not that great but there more instances of our backs dancing than the line losing badly. The execution does need work though. They don’t block zone block well, they don’t run man concepts well, they don’t pull well.

In theory we ought to be a dominant duo team because it is a gap scheme attack that doesn’t require lateral quickness like inside zone scheme. However either the linemen press their vertical release too quickly or the back misreads the blocks badly.

Honestly, I think the problem is that we do not practice the run game enough. I think we invest most of our practice time to 3rd down passing and it shows both ways: we do 3rd down passing situations exceptionally well, we run just about as bad as we have in a generation.
Can’t argue with Dear getting snaps. We need someone who can break a big run or two.
Yeah, I would not recommend those. Every summer they just put big dumpsters and toss furniture and mattresses out of the apartments. Seems like rager parties would be happening all over the place.

The Traditions condos down Veterans Memorial past University Mall is more mixed between undergrads, graduates, and non-students by my memory.

I think homestead exception in Alabama makes your tax bill nearly a quarter of what it would be without it. At least that was roughly the case for me in Tuscaloosa County.

Since you’d be taking out a mortgage then it would be built into the escrow monthly payments, so your bottom line payment will be higher but you won’t have to eat it all at once until you own it.

I’d agree with the comments about being careful about renting it out after your kid graduates from college. You will be doing significant repairs.

I’d make sure to understand what are your repair responsibilities and what the property management is responsible for before buying it.
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So you consider capitalism to be a form of cultural lust for immediate self gratification that is only interested in the “self” being #1. A teaching that aligns with Freud. Like I said before … “ Sounds like you have subscribed to modern day progressive university teaching about Capitalism”.

I don’t think capitalism has those characteristics in a vacuum. I think it can indulge those characteristics in the right cultural context. I think as it exists in the US, it is closer to the negative analysis I provided than it should be.
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Sounds like you have subscribed to modern day progressive university teaching about Capitalism.


I prescribe to the teachings that we must make ourselves second and love one another. If modern conservatism wants to grasp onto libidinal pleasure instinct applied to all things, then it has stopped being conservative and has started being reactionary liberalism.

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Posted by Diego Ricardo on 11/11/25 at 11:00 am to
People are buying into bullshite from biased people trying to position their preferred conference for more CFP bids.

If you think the SEC is bad this year then you haven't been watching the games.

Reality is that there were probably a half dozen rosters each season in the late 2010s that would be all-time dominant playing against all these unlimited free agency and pay for play ravaged rosters for the 2020s.

So the ceiling for a roster in any given season now is lower but the quality of competition in the SEC has never been better to be quite honest.
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D. Harris- 135
Scarbrough- 124
N. Harris- 61
Josh Jacobs- 46
Brian Robinson- 24


Brian Robinson and Najee Harris were true freshman. Josh Jacobs was playing on a broken ankle for most of the season. Damien Harris was in the midst of another productive season averaging over 7 ypc.

Frankly, I think Scarbough is the only guy I can buy into the talk that he was "stealing" snaps. We had a huge run tell with him on the field from what I remember. Might as well been handing off to a fully healthy Najee Harris. When it was put up or shut up, that's exactly what our staff did in the CFPCG v. UGA.
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Amish are nothing close to Socialism, they are theocratically insular but individual contribution through labor and discipline is paramount. They also embody the early Protestant work-ethic which Socialism, in all its forms, abhors.



For whatever its worth, the USSR had a criminal charge of social parasitism for those who refused to do assigned labor. This would often be charged against intelligentsia and academics who thought they were above manual labor duties.
This is sort of clickbait-y. What the Pilgrims attempted was not some Marxist project. They didn't even have the secular vocabulary for something like 19th century philosophical concepts like communism. I'd argue that these groups sought to maintain the deeply spiritual community of feudalism in an early-modern, post-feudal civilization. Feudalism was full of faults and contradictions but the fixed nature of society led to deeply engrained communities center of Christian faith.

I think there is something admirable in this reoccurring theme of early American Protestantism coming to terms with the deeply isolating - both interpersonally and spiritually - nature of early-modern secular (market capitalism) and Christian theology. I think you see a consistent questioning of the individual relationship with God, individual relationships in economic utility in these European migrant movements then the altogether new Christian movements developed in North America.

I see this less as a communist style anti-capitalist critique and more of an argument that communities cannot thrive when everyone is an individual actor only looking out for their self interest. It reduces the community to nothing more than a marketplace where units of production interact with one another. There is no substance to grow the Christian body in that environment. And to be sure, when you look around the country today...I think they may have been more right than wrong.
I was a maybe it’s coaching guy but it someone smarter on a subject area than me says the opposite and demonstrated why then I’m flexible.

Granted this lack of execution may still be a fault on the OLC in film study and the practice field
When a former O lineman in that video says that it isn’t scheme, it’s execution…I’m going to defer to him because he had the cut ups to back it up.
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We have nailed the portal for the most part but it looks like we whiffed on our 2 in-line tight end targets who never even get snaps (Troy and WVU kids).

Yep. I figured they were both dirty work players to cover down for Cuevas being a big receiver. Just didn’t pan out. Edwards been getting snaps.
I’m not betting against this team because they’ve been finding a way but this game is our biggest test. I think they are a tougher matchup than UGA albeit UGA having more overall talent imo. Not that OU lacks for it.
Our offensive play calling from the Saban era was probably best classified as traditional pro-style play calling conventions.

This staff's play calling is very much the new school NFL's conventions. They'll throwaway plays to setup something on the next down or series. 4th downs on the other side of the 50 are usually a go unless you're well behind the sticks.

There is something going right despite all that is wrong with our run game because in broad generalities Alabama and LSU are essentially the same offensive profile yet one has been able to cobble together points and the other has not. To that point, in the last two disappointing offensive performances, Alabama has been a nearly caught or catchable ball or two from blowing the game wide open.

At the same time, that is the thing to lament because if this offense had a middle-tier running game then it would probably be unstoppable.
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OC has a tell for when it’s a run play. If it’s 1st down that means run and most likely right up the middle.


If you’re bad at it already, might as well have a tell like this to make play action have the stickiness you’d get if your team could actually run. Some real galaxy brain coordination going on in Tuscaloosa, folks.

I’m serious to some degree. 2nd and 10 runs are analytically the worst decision in play calling. I don’t believe we can get a tough yard between the tackles on 3rd/4th and short. Running on 3rd and medium seems like a wasted play unless we’re wanting to setup a 4th and short for some reason (not to run I hope). So maybe 1st down run tell is the best deployment of threadbare run/pass play call balance. If nothing else, it may help dull 1st down pass rush.
They're the last credible road block between us and the playoffs in my opinion. They're also the best team we've played since UGA.

Gotta find a way to win this game. Really hoping that our bye week was Oklahoma heavy. Gotta imagine DeBoer been focused on this one after Venables essentially stuffed us in a locker and out of the playoffs in 2024.