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Jack in his prime was incredible. A cutting edge flyer with charisma to spare. Would’ve been a HUGE star in WWE if they had been at all interested in guys his size in the 00’s. They also probably thought his “white guy who is very into hip-hop” act was too close to Cena, at the time.

A couple weeks ago they did the terrible WWE thing where the camera lingered on Bill making a Deep Contemplation face after Jericho said you should never trust anybody who says they’re your friend in wrestling, so that is definitley the long-term direction.

Well, my first thought was “Can Blue Kane sue?” but upon further review, it seems like that is Blue Kane.

I hate to say this, because I know how hard Quen has been struggling to make it back from injury, but Zay is a future singles star—really, really underrated dude who keeps getting better in every area—and I think Private Party is kinda holding him back at this point in his development. At the very least, I hope they’re going to be legitimately pushed moving forward. Hate to see Zay wasting away his youth doing nothing.

I feel like this post is the DVDVR equivalent of one of those movies reviews you sometimes see, where a critic is like “I’ve never watched any of the Fast & Furious movies, but now I will review Fast & Furious 19.”

I would start streaming it on Max if they did. I hope that’s an option for Max’s ad-free tier, at least.

I won’t repost it here to avoid spamming the thread with the same clip, but if you’re a member of this board, you MUST hear the Japanese radio call of that play. The announcers go off like it’s the finish of a Tokyo Dome main event.

They are in deep trouble when Cam Rising doesn’t play. The Big 12 might be a worse league than we thought going in to the season, but as a result, maybe twice as competitive. Through 2 games, the top 3 are…BYU, Colorado, and Texas Tech. Doubt anybody had that at this point.

Trying to fathom the combination of body control and hand-eye coordination required to pull off something like this…running full speed, jumping, stopping, pirouetting, somehow doing all this while tracking a football that you’re juggling on your fingertips.

Conversely, if Jalen Milroe can be as consistently good in the short/intermediate passing game as he was in the 1st half tonight… CFB is gonna have a BIG problem on its hands.

In the moment, I didn’t hate the decision, because UGA had been abusing Bama’s freshmen in single coverage the whole 4th quarter, and that was the coverage on that play. I totally get why you would take a peak at that. But when you see that Brown was playing a 10-yard cushion, basically backpedaling to plant his heels on the goal line, knowing that he doesn’t have to cover a bunch of field behind him…and he’s clearly staring you down all the way…and you’re throwing from the hash to the far sideline (and you don’t exactly have a rocket arm)… Yeah, you can’t throw that ball. And you absolutely cannot throw it back shoulder. Horrible read. I know it’s gonna sound weird to criticize a guy who ended up throwing for like 400 yards and brought his team back from 28-0…but they did not in fact winthe game. And his 4 turnovers were a huge part of that. They’re not going to win many games against other great teams playing Beck Ball like that. UGA gotta get the run game going, if they’re gonna turn this season around.

That catch and run by Ryan Williams was absurd.

This game just got DUMB

Lol what a meltdown

So Kirby made good adjustments and DeBoer has not had good counterpunches. Geogria still has a chance!

I’ve seen Bama blow bigger halftime leads at Bryant-Denny…but this is not UGA’s ideal game state. Very interested to see Kirby’s halftime defensive adjustments, because he usually has great ones. And what kind of counterpunches DeBoer might have.

What is going on

I get Georgia taking shots downfield early. I thought they would. But UGA has GOT to commit to the run to settle into this game. Beck is not a win-it-by-himself QB. Georgia definitely appears to be the team playing with more anxiety early.

Dawgs pissing down their own leg: Confirmed.

DeBoer in his bag: Confirmed

Don’t know how much it really would’ve mattered in the end, but Auburn being penalized a 10-second runoff because the refs badly miss-spotted a ball and incorrectly gave them a first down felt wrong. That’s a rule that needs tweaking.

I mean, Auburn can still come back and win this, but still. That was hilarious. A totally clean game, and then…

Payton Thorne gave Auburn fans hope for 56 minutes, and then threw a pick-6 to give OU the lead. A storybook ending.

UNLV is beating Fresno 45-7, and the new QB is 13/18 for like 180 yards and 3 TDs, plus 100+ rushing with another TD. I think the Sluka kid *might* have misplayed his hand a bit.

So we’ve got Bama/Georgia tonight. Coming off the SEC Championship disappointment to Bama, the ugly Kentucky game, and a bye week, you would expect Georgia to come into this game focused and looking to make a statement in classic Saban/Smart fashion. They always tended to win the get-back game in emphatic fashion. That said, I think there’s also way more pressure on Georgia here than Bama. In the era of the 12-team playoff, this isn’t a competitive must-win, but I think it *is* a bit of a psychological must-win game for the Dawgs. With the Bad Man gone from Tuscaloosa, the onus is on Smart/Georgia to assert themselves as the undisputed dominant program in the SEC now, and I’m interested to see how they handle that. There’s a lot of mystery about both teams right now because they’ve only played 3 games. Bama has only played one game with their full starting OL. And how much of the full DeBoer offense have they actually shown? And what to make of Georgia, who have had their own injury issues, but looked like a Death Star against Clemson (who…might be good?) and then came perilously close to losing to a thoroughly “blah” Kentucky team? The on-field matchup to watch is Georgia’s run game vs Bama’s run defense. UGA has really struggled to establish a new offensive identity without Bowers/McConkey through 3 games. I think the *idea* was to lean on Travis Etienne and the run game while the pass game figures itself out, but that hasn’t emerged yet. And as we saw against Kentucky, when the run isn’t there, Carson Beck looks pretty average at QB and things can get ugly. I expect UGA to scheme up a lot of misdirection and play-action early to try to pick on Bama’s young secondary (who have turned some receivers LOOSE this season but haven’t been made to pay for it yet) and help Beck out. Good news for Georgia: Bama had some struggles defending the perimeter run against USF (radically different offense, sure) and in the 2nd half vs Wisconsin (maybe Bama switched off in a blowout, sure), so there’s potential for UGA to get right in the run game tonight. If they do, UGA’s gonna have a great night. Because surely, SURELY, Smart is gonna have a great plan for containing Jalen Milroe and roughing up 17-year old freshman sensation WR, Ryan Williams. Like, Kirby might commit seppuku at midfield after the game if his secondary gets victimized by that kid. If Bama wins this game, it will be because Kalen DeBoer earned his money as an offensive mastermind to create opportunities for the 2 things Bama does really well (run Milroe, throw deep to Williams) against Georgia’s resolute desire to NOT let them do those things. It would be a hell of a statement if the Jalen/Jam/Justice triumvirate just ran roughshod over UGA. I don’t necessarily see that happening, but I think that’s the game state that most likely leads to a Bama win, short of Georgia cracking under pressure and pissing down their own leg, which is kinda what happened in the SEC title game.