Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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MoCo_Vol said:
Also Ballers...with the Rock on HBO is pretty great, I've enjoyed that show a ton.
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yep. last season was good, really interesting take on the whole recruiting deal. totally over the top story line...but i liked the buttons it pushed. and the set up for the next season was cool.
 
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gainesvol82 said:
I've always related to Rand because I'm 6'2, Auburn hair and blue/grey eyes. But I love all three characters fairly equally.
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They are all terrific. I am likely ready to read them all again. I read the first five many, many years ago and then stopped reading. I started over when the A Memory of Light came out. That has been a few years ago. I absolutely love Sanderson. I have read many of his books. I think he did an awesome job finishing the series.
 
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jakez4ut said:
i didn't watch it while it was actually on air. i binged it on Prime like a year ago.

2 things....watching it now vs. when it was on air is a trip because of the gap in technology...lol....and it is a GREAT show regardless.....
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Yeah I binge watched it on HBO about 6 months ago and loved it. Great cast
 
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HoleInTheRoof said:
It’s actually kinda funny because people are busting his chops and he’s talking like he’s billy badass..... all the while looking like a 150lb stick in his profile pic.

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Don't let size fool you. Not saying this guy is the stuff but I have an uncle that is 5'-8" maybe 150 and I watched him beat up 4 men that tried to mess with him and his 8 year old stepson. Sent one to the ER to receive 50 stitches in his head, another was unconscious and the other two looked pretty rough by the time the throw down was over.
 
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itsme said:
Don't let size fool you. Not saying this guy is the stuff but I have an uncle that is 5'-8" maybe 150 and I watched him beat up 4 men that tried to mess with him and his 8 year old stepson. Sent one to the ER to receive 50 stitches in his head, another was unconscious and the other two looked pretty rough by the time the throw down was over.
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Dont worry, I beleive you.
 
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BigOrangeVols said:
Dont worry, I beleive you.
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I don't care if you believe me or not.

Just a hint for future reference, when you type something out on this site and there is a squiggly line under the word, it's a help feature that helps to hide the fact that you are illiterate.
 
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itsme said:
I don't care if you believe me or not.

Just a hint for future reference, when you type something out on this site and there is a squiggly line under the word, it's a help feature that helps to hide the fact that you are illiterate.
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i was using text-to-speech mode sorry
 
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I’ve been thinking about what JG needs to do to help us win more football games. It may not be fair but I was sort of comparing him to Josh Dobbs in a way. See, I think Josh Dobbs was a football player first and a quarterback second and I was thinking maybe JG has that backwards. He’s a quarterback that needs to be more of a football player. That may not make sense to some. I understand. I did some research because I wanted to better understand the “IT” factor that I’ve often heard about. For sure, by his senior year with us, I think most people would agree that Josh Dobbs had the “IT” factor. I found this article which lays it all out. It’s long but it’s a good, well researched, article and an interesting read. I think you, like me, will come away from reading this article, perhaps believing that JG does in fact have the “IT” factor and all we really need to do is give him a decent offensive line and an above average defense and then it will be clear for everyone to see. jmo.

The article is from 2014.

Tony Romo. Everyone’s favorite Cowboys passer might have had the strongest case of the It Factor before Tebow arrived onto the scene. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram speculated in an Andrew Sharp fever dream of a column that Romo had it in January 2006, after Romo had sat on the bench for two years without throwing a single NFL pass! Before Romo’s first professional start, nine months later against the Panthers, Bill Parcells said Romo had “a personality [that exudes confidence].”

Romo started his career by playing brilliantly in winning five of his first six starts, a feat that turned Romo stories into a shooting gallery of projection. Teammate Bradie James said Romo had “always had the swagger” and had “been the coolest dude around for a while.” Sean Payton, Romo’s former mentor in Dallas, noted that Romo was “confident” and “takes coaching well.” Even the most dissenting opinion, from Jennifer Floyd Engel of the Star-Telegram, noted that Romo “already has shown us that he possesses the ‘it’ factor” while fretting over whether Romo was elite. A Minnesota Star-Tribune profile detailing Romo’s It Factor from the viewpoint of opposing players noted that “there’s just something special about Tony,” a sentiment shared by London Fletcher.

To top it all off, a November 2007 article in The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey, contrasted Romo’s It Factor and specialness with what was missing from Eli Manning, who lacked Romo’s “athleticism, instincts, and charisma.” This really deserves your undivided attention:

Born less than eight months apart, Romo is years ahead of Manning in the unscientific rankings of quarterbacks who might someday win a ring. Why? Start with the It factor, that impossible-to-define, easy-to-see something that Romo wears around as easily as the star on his helmet. The smile telling you he knows something you don’t. The swagger announcing that no season-crushing, Parcells-retiring fumble of a field goal snap will ever diminish the blind game-day faith he has in himself. Eli doesn’t have It, whatever It is.​

Four months later, Eli and the Giants beat Romo and the Cowboys in Dallas before upsetting the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. And that was it. People stopped writing articles suggesting that Romo had the It Factor virtually overnight. If I wrote an article today suggesting that Romo had it, I wouldn’t be able to check Twitter for a week. The world turned and left Tony Romo here.

A reporter actually asked Romo what he thought about the It Factor. Romo, who often gives great answers to cliché-riddled questions, didn’t bite. “I don’t know what ‘it’ is,” Romo said. “I think you try to work hard, try to get better each week. I think I play the game with a little bit of passion. I think that’s the way I play. For some reason, people like me.” Oh, if only I could go back in time and warn that Tony Romo.
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The It Factor
 
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901LookAlive said:
Stop by Lambert's on the way to STL if you're driving. You won't be dissapointed
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...hot take incoming...

The food at Lambert's really isn't all that great. It's marginally good.

The atmosphere is fun, and a hot roll with some apple butter and/or sorghum is a must. But the food, meh.
 
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Sleegro said:
That post seems a little over the top. I don't believe his little girl had $1000 cash in a piggy bank. And if she did, he's dumb.
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I had over 450$ saved in mine in just over a year before we went on vacation. I cashed out my paychecks and paid for everything in cash and threw my change in everyday..I called it vacation tax..lol. it paid for my gas to go to Wyoming and back last year.
 
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The GOT books were infinitely better than the show. The show sucks. @ me if you want but you will be wrong.
 
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