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SPOILER ALERT: Gladiator 2 Review

Spoilers below. You were warned so no complaining if you read further.











Alright so who saw it and what yall think?

I thought the story line was good but the acting was awful. I thought they had the actors in the wrong place. Pascal should’ve been the main character with Denzel as General Acasia.

The main character didn’t have any real character building to me compared to Crowe in #1 and you aren’t really rooting for him. Mescal isn’t nearly a strong enough actor for that role imo.

CGI was surprisingly bad as well. The rhino/rider was pretty bad. The sharks really bad. The baboons, what the heck was that??? Overall really surprising for a Ridley Scott movie how bad those pieces were.

Overall an entertaining and decent movie I probably wouldn’t watch again.

I’d go 5/10 but it’s biased because #1 is a top 10 movie for me and it doesn’t hold a candle to that but is instantly compared to it

The tale of two salesmen

Prime recognized he had an issue with coordinators and went out and improved his coaching staff with veteran coaches who can make adjustments.

Joey doesn't have the smarts or guts to do the same thing.

It's okay to be a salesman if you are the frontman of a program, but you've got to have some serious football coaches backing you up. In year 2 Colorado has surpassed us in our three year "rebuild" of a bowl team. We really aren't any better than we were when we hired Joey, and unfortunately unless some major changes are made getting your teeth kicked in back to back home games is going to be more of the norm, not the exception.

OT: Old dog question

So we have a 10+ year old male border collie. He's always been big for the breed (70ish lb). The past 6 months or so he's really started showing his age. Aug/Sep he had several days he went to the bathroom in the house during the day. That seemed to get better but happened overnight last week. He also has had some times where he seems to struggle to get his business done outside.

All that could just be a flash in the pan, but he's also starting to meet us at the door less and less, going back for quite a while now. Recently he has started barely moving from a spot when people come through a room. E.g., yesterday everyone took a nap in the afternoon trying to get prepped to get back into the normal routine. My wife and my son got up and walked through the living room and I don't think he even picked his head up from the couch, he just looked at them. Previously he would always get down and come up to us.

Finally, there's been some times I come home for lunch and, if doors were left open, he's in like the back of our master closet or upstairs in our son's closet. Basically the farthest, darkest corner he can go to and lay down. Clearly it has us a bit concerned about the changes.

He's developed some growths that could be something, but not sure we want to get them tested. One is right next to his femoral artery and the vet said even if we wanted to remove it, there's a decent chance his mobility would get screwed up and of course the artery could get hit and kill him, so probably not great to do.

So all that to say, I've never been a huge pet person and am struggling with this. I definitely don't want to just jump at putting him down too quickly because he's old and its showing, but at the same time if his quality of life is really suffering then I don't want to have him hang on well past when it should have been time.

Thoughts?

OT: Drake v Kendrick rap beef

Anybody else following the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef? Not doing a full recap but a couple weeks ago (after J. Cole got himself laughed out of the conversation) Drake released a legit diss track:

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And tbh even though I'm not a drake fan I thought it was pretty good. But today Kendrick ended that man's career:

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@M. Clare and other hiphopheads, what do y'all say?

For everyone who doesn't care: thanks in advance for sharing that opinion.

UConn Basketball Coach Loses It After Late-Game Call in Stunning Upset — Trashes Refs in Presser


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That's what I'm talking about.

Big 12 football refs deserve to be trashed after the Colorado and Oklahoma St games.

UPDATE: Texas Tech HC Joey McGuire breaks down 2025 signing class pres. by All Hands Craft Cocktails

Lengthy press conference that is extremely insightful. A must listen if you care about Texas Tech football. Lot of content coming from us but here is the notes from HCJM.

Player by Player breakdown...

OL Ren Brown: "They got beat in the state championship. He's a two way player. Really excited about him. Ren can play guard or tackle. He's played eight man football, so whenever he gets on campus, will be the first time he's played 11 man football, and he'll adapt really well."

WR Michael Dever: "Next guy, a local guy, y'all know him covering he had an absolutely incredible year this year for Cooper. What we love about him is we do think he can play inside or outside receiver. He's also got return ability. I think one of his first touchdowns this year against Lovejoy was a kickoff return. So he's really special, tough guy. Other thing I love about him is he came to our camp and earned a scholarship in front of us, working his tail off all the stuff that we saw. And he was a 4.43, on mine and Blanchard's watch."

WR Tristian Gentry: "Has been committed to us for a while, he actually also earned his scholarship at camp, he ran a 4.35 on our watch. Great story about him. He's from Stephenville, where he played football with Coy Eakin. At camp whenever we decided we were going to offer him, coy actually offered him the scholarship. And I thought that was cool that teammates could do that. He has been committed to us for a long time. They're still in the playoffs and excited to watch them. He's got a chance to win a state championship. I don't know the exact stat line last week, but he had over 300 yards receiving, and so, you know, he's a guy that, again, inside, outside guy, probably more of a slot for us."

OL Elias Gillen: "I'm really excited, because whenever you look at him, he's 6-6, 310 pounds. You look, like there's no way that he's 310 pounds, because he has no fat. I mean, he is a large human. He is super explosive. He threw the shot last year over 60 feet. Won the state championship in South Dakota, and has a chance, and should win it again. But also, just a incredible person."

LB Brock Golwas: "He's coming from the DFW area, 215 pounds. This year at the district track meet, he ran a 10.7 100m. So he's, like a lot of our linebackers we've got, we want guys that can run, and he's definitely a guy that run. Is very physical and excited. You know that he's a part of this we were not going to take a linebacker that didn't fit our system as far as the speed and everything, and he definitely did."

OL Danilo Guberinich: "Danilo the Italian Stallion. I am not going to try to pronounce his last name. There's no way that I will get it right. He came on late. He actually took his visit this last weekend, whenever we played West Virginia, he and his mom just an incredible person. Whenever you watch his film, he's very physical. He's very athletic, and gave us an opportunity to add to that offensive line group."

TE Preztynn Harrison: "From Mineral Wells, you're going to see a lot of this, especially like Ren brown plays both ways. Harrison plays both ways. He's played corner that big. He's played defensive end, he's played slot receiver, outside receiver, tight end. We like him at tight end. Very versatile."

DB Michael Henderson III: "Hollywood Henderson. We when we watched him and met with him, we thought a lot of Rabbit whenever we did high football IQ. He's played running back and safety. He's a two way player at the 5A level in the state of Texas, it's hard to do as productive he is, but we really look at him as a safety. He reminds us a lot of Rabbit."

WR Bryson Jones: "He's going to remind you body type and the way he runs is Caleb Douglas. He's a long receiver. They're still in the playoffs. They got a huge game this weekend against Highland Park. That's going to be a great game to watch. But he's a guy that can really stretch the field and really run. I got to watch him live a couple weeks ago, and was really excited."

QB Lloyd Jones III: "QB1 in this class. Has won a state champion. Won the state championship in basketball the last two years. They won the 7 on 7 tournament in state this year. They were probably on the verge but he got hurt a couple weeks ago, or they would probably be favorite to win the state championship this year in football. But a guy that came to Camp, he's long, he's going to be a big kid. You know, he's 6-4 230 pounds, can do both. Dual threat guy, and he's a leader. He's been a real leader in his class."

DB Deante Lindsay: "I made a joke this morning, Deante Lindsay saved coach (Dave) Martin's job. You know, we don't have a lot of Oklahoma guys. We're recruiting Oklahoma harder. But, you know, you think about Rabbit was from Oklahoma, Pat Curley, who's a good player for us, from Oklahoma, Isaac Smith, so they played really, really good football. It's almost an extension of Texas. Whenever we go up there to recruit, he is a long corner. He plays wide receiver and DB, but we recruited him as a corner."

OL Garin Maley: "Another Midwest offensive lineman. I got to watch him play, Clay and I. He started both ways. Never came off the field, so he started at tackle and started at defensive end. We look at him as a tackle, big body. That's going to be really good for us."

DB Braylan McDonald: "Another two way player for Lancaster, and that's at the 6A level. So you know, he's pretty special. He's playing both ways at the at that size, we look at him as a safety possible corner, but a safety, just to give you an idea. He broke my heart, but at least he was our guy, because he knocked Cedar Hill out of the playoffs in a double overtime game where he had the interception that that ended the game. And he's a guy that's really physical and and he's got really good ball skills."

OL Patrick McMath: "Patrick is oming from one of the greatest high schools in the country, in Katy, Texas. He was a captain at Katy, and if you play offensive line at Katy, you love football. You're have a really high football IQ coming from Katy. The style that they play. You know how important football is, and so he plays tackle for Katy, a mid-year, and we will move him to center. We recruited him from the get go at center. He knows that. So as soon as he gets on campus, he will start snapping during winter."

TE Sean Robinson: "A late addition, we're able to get him committed. He was committed another school, and we're able to flip him. He plays both ways. I mean, he has interceptions this year. He says quarterback sacks, tackles for loss. He's got 100 yard rushing, playing, running back, receiving, tight end. We look at him as an outside receiver/tight end. He was here last week, he has huge hands very physical. Whenever he shook my hand, I thought he was trying to break my hand or intimidate me, but has a huge smile on his face, and whenever he's doing it."

DL Dylan Singleton: "Mr. Singleton, it was a huge addition. We've had him for a long time, but he is a guy that can cancel gaps in the defensive line. And we did not take a defensive lineman last year in that class, but we did get a late addition walk-on that had scholarship offices at other places and with Keyshawn, and we feel great about him. At some point he's going to be on scholarship. But Dylan was really big because we needed a guy that's 6-4 He's 300 pounds, plays basketball and football, and is going to be huge for us."

WR Leyton Stone: "Last but not least, another guy that everybody's covered in here for a long time, I would like to see, I'll have one of our guys research it, but to research anybody's high school career, in the last three years, that've been more productive than Leyton Stone. especially in the amount of games that he's played in, whenever you're talking about not playing in 15 and 16 games a year. But he's over 4000 yards receiving. I think he's like 229, catches, 66 touchdowns. I could be totally off on some of these numbers. But what a guy, he bleeds red and black. This is his dream school. It was pretty awesome. Whenever he did commit, it was in the old FTF, his dad and he and he came in and we sit down and talk. And it was pretty, a pretty cool moment, because, you know, they didn't get too emotional. Nobody shed tears or anything. But it was really a cool moment because I think it was both a dream for them."

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When you come to West Texas folks, saddle up. You're gonna go on a wild ride.

In the last 48 hours, we have:

Secured an 8 win season
Winning Record in the Big 12
Totally dominated West Virginia
Fired the Defensive Coordinator
Lost a 5 Star WR
The OC is taking a Head Coaching position at FAU.


This is not about who is right, who is wrong, etc. This is about what I think the new landscape of college football will be for a few years.

"When you come to West Texas folks, saddle up. You're gonna go on a wild ride."
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