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09-27-2017, 03:06 PM
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He wasn't that big but you could always count on him picking up a tough yard if you needed one. He wasn't insanely fast but I don't remember any corner ever running him down. He was great at blitz pickup. But I think my most lasting memories involve that Kubiak bootleg where the defense for some incomprehensible reason lost track of Arian and let him get 30 yards downfield, in the MIDDLE of the field, for a huge gain.
I remember the first time they ever ran that play. I somehow knew where all the receivers were and what they were doing. Schaub's rolling out and suddenly he launches one down the middle of the field. Who the hell is he throwing that to??? Then I see Arian, running completely unmolested, no one anywhere near him. 
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09-27-2017, 03:10 PM
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#3
09-28-2017, 08:45 AM
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Had to make one comment about the Pats game before the thread is closed out. Was out of town and watched the game from a sports bar in the small mountain town of Dillon, Montana.
I was so excited and I was going to buy the bar of strangers a round if the Texans won the game because I knew if they did the Chuckster would go out and bet every dollar (and peso) he has that they'd win the Super Bowl and I couldn't be out done. Silly me, nobody outdoes the Chuckster. Anyway what a game and I honestly think we've finally got a QB - the kid played a great game. Now I'm really pumped about the Titans game. Oh BTW, screw Duane Brown, i've had it with him. Let's get whatever pick or picks we can and let him go on his way.
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09-28-2017, 02:07 PM
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You know what, I'm not much of a gambler. My brother lives in the Vegas area and he bets the NFL every weekend. I go up there from time to time and once in a great while I'll put a little money on a game for the hell of it but usually not. I'm not all that smart but I am smart enough to know that I can't be dispassionate about sports gambling, and that's a terrible handicap in that particular activity.
Craps is my casino game. I don't play it very much anymore but if I were to play a casino game I would play craps. I've done very, very well at some craps tables over the years. There are some locals casinos in Vegas that give the odds I need to play. There's one decent place on the Strip that gives good odds. I can't remember the name, it's newish and over by the Linq. There are a million casinos here but they give shit odds and I know from experience that they get their panties in a twist if you set the dice so whenever I go to casinos here, which is less frequently than I go to Vegas, really, I tend to eschew the tables and spend my time drinking beer and chatting with the Colombian hookers of which there typically is no lack. I was in Vegas a number of years ago when my national team was playing a futbol game against hated Mexico. I just had to bet on that, you know. I was out with my poor wife and my poor mother and I dragged them over to the Hilton. They call it something different now I think, but the sports book over there will take action on any damn thing and I knew they'd have odds on the futbol. And they did, of course. There was no one in the sports book at the time and really only a couple of windows open. I wandered up to one and had a couple of questions about how the futbol odds work. As I mentioned, I'm not a tremendously experienced sports bettor and while I understand football gambling just fine the futbol with its draws and whatnot was a little unfamiliar to me. So I clarify things with the fine fellow there and I place my modest wager and I get my slip (and my drink tickets, of course) and I turn around to see that my wife and my mother are staring at me in horror. At first I have no idea what their problem is. I walk over to them and their expression does not change, just mouth wide open amazement. I turn back to look at the window and I see that without realizing it I'd wandered up to the $1,000 minimum window. The guy at the window didn't say a word to me about my bullshit bet, of course. It was kind of like the few times I've ever gone into a gay bar by mistake. The dude knew I was an idiot and rather than raise a fuss he'd just take my bet and assume I'd quickly get the hell out of there and not bother him anymore. Which is what happened, of course. But my wife and my mother didn't know this. So once I figured out what they were so shocked by I slowly turned back around and gave my best Barney Fife style deep sniff and said, Yeah, well, sometimes you've got to go big, and walked off. We lost that game, needless to say. 2-1 if I recall correctly. But you know what, nu? I'm going to be in Vegas next month and maybe, just for you, I'll throw a couple of sawbucks at the Texans as Super Bowl champs. Say, now that I think about it, I'm surprised you're not boycotting the NFL.
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#5
09-28-2017, 03:11 PM
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Vegas of course doesn't keep building casinos because they lose.
My brothers both live in southern california with the rest of my family and they go to Vegas a lot. My wife and I go sometimes and I almost always resist the urge to bet on anything sports or cards or dice. But a few years ago I was there during the opening weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament and it couldn't be helped. I made a modest bet but wanted big returns so I went with a 6 team teaser on the late games that afternoon/evening. I hit the first 5 and was in a sports bar with my wife and brother watching the 6th and it was going my way. That is until the University of Texas lost at the buzzer on a beyond half court shot. Moral of the story is Vegas doesn't build casinos because they lose.
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#6
09-29-2017, 08:21 PM
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Foster, IIRC, was recruited by some college and then transfered to Tennessee, which means he sat out a year. He also waited until his senior year to enter for the draft so that counted an extra year. Did he not also take a redshirt year for an injury?
As for picking up that tough yard, I remember differently. Yes, he was good at stretching for the first down. But on 3rd-and-1, we ran an off-tackle to the left so many times that we might as well have announced it on the PA before the ball was snapped. Foster didn't get many first downs on that play but it wasn't his fault since blind sisters of the poor could have forecasted Kubiak's play call. And as for Vegas - flew there once in 2008 to hook up with an old friend who was flying in from out of the country. I even forgot it was Election Night and hundreds of union thugs stampeded through the casino chanting "Obama! Obama! Obama!" Didn't matter since I wasn't there to gamble. My lady friend and I holed up in her room until all the commotion died down and got caught up on old acquaintances. Next night, I was flying back to Texas and she back to Japan. Hadn't flown again until last week. Did a minor amount of gambling at the airport but didn't win once. FWIW, the casinos in Lake Charles were more fun. Oh, and Duane Brown. If we won't/can't sign him, let's see if we can find someone willing to part with a first or second-day draft pick next spring to trade him to. We don't have to worry about caps now until next spring.
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#7
09-29-2017, 10:42 PM
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I went back through the game thread and looked at all the 3rd and 1 situations for the Texans:
Watson kept for 5 and the 1st down. Foreman went for 4 and the 1st down. L Miller stopped. L Miller stopped. (yes, that would be twice) Also of note: On a 3rd and 2, Watson did a QB draw and got 7. On a 2nd and 1, L Miller got 2 yards. Conclusion: In this small sample size, give it to anyone but L Miller on 3rd and 1. I can remember complaining (last year?) here about how the Texans must lead the league in 4th and 1. Seems to happen too much in OB's offense....
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