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I am assuming you are in the United States. As far as I know, Amazon only has it in the US, and I think Netflix has it in other countries. I just logged in to Amazon to check, and season 1 and 2 are still on Prime. Season 3 debuted last week on Syfy, but you can purchase it on Amazon. Amazon is how I found out about the show, after they picked up season 1 and were selling a season pass for season 2. I binged season 1 and promptly bought the season pass for 2. For once, they correctly deduced what I might like from the contents of my watchlist and history. It is very much a show for viewers that appreciate complexity and can follow multiple story arcs at once. Its depiction of space travel and colonization is about as realistic as anyone could really pull off on television. If you are squeamish about the death of anyone, you may wish to steer clear. While it is not really graphic or anything, you will see women and children killed.

Season 1 and 2 are included with Amazon Prime. EDIT: It is the best show on television that SyFy and NBC apparently want no one to watch.

Anyone watching the Expanse?

Old post, but I will second the Daiwa. Tatula CT Type R paired with 13 Fishing Omen Black has been my favorite combo for a while now.

Try an Antarctic cruise then. The trip through the Drake Passage is likely to be physically demanding.

For an incoming offensive coordinator, there is no QB on the roster that is unquestionably the starter (including Stidham). Assuming he is indeed allowed to do his job, I would imagine a competition between all QB's on the roster to be high on his list of priorities. I do think Franklin being in that competition is a waste of everyone's time.

I cannot really say either philosophy is right or wrong. I can say that I do not think Gus' philosophy is effective when he is holding up the snap in order to confer with the OC about what they see in the defense before changing or confirming the called play. I think his philosophy is effective when the coaches are thinking a few plays in advance, signalling plays quickly, and the offense is then hammering away with snaps as a fast as possible. In that scenario, the coaches are not being hit by anyone, leaving them better equipped to concentrate on strategy and playcalling. Given the way he ran his high school offenses (and wrote about in his book), the desired tempo causes that philosophy to make sense. More importantly, he is just now on his 2nd collegiate QB that has played for more than one season, and that QB is probably about to be replaced by Stidham. I can see why removing decision making from the revolving door that has been the QB position would appeal to a guy like him.

Personally, I think a QB that can read a defense and call plays on the fly is probably better (especially with tempo). However, all the evidence we have from QB's at Auburn under Gus indicates that he either does not want that taught or does not want it used. I suspect Gus' theory is that he wants his QB thinking as little as possible, and just executing the called play. It makes sense both ways, and I can understand the appeal of keeping things as simple as possible for the players on the field when you are asking them to execute at a blistering pace in a violent contact sport.

I do not think Gus knows how to teach a QB such things. For one, he never played the position. Another point is that if you look at his offense, prior to this recent annoying tendency of hurrying to the line and waiting patiently while the sideline (Gus/Lashlee) play peek-a-boo with the defense, it is clear that the emphasis was on quickly signalling plays to then be executed quickly. I would expect QB skills that Gus would want to focus on is ability to scan progressions quickly, and make quick decisions on what to do with the ball smartly.

I give Hurts a lot of credit for handling the pressure that comes with the QB position for that particular team. Most 18-year-olds would probably fold under that. Even Jameis Winston had the benefit of a redshirt season. That said, I think the combination of his legs, Lane Kiffin, and the offense as a whole did a lot to keep him out of bad positions, thus making him appear better than he is. He did not spend too much time playing behind on down and distance, nor was he expected to shoulder the team and carry them to victory.

Defense missed tackles, but was generally in position to make the play more often than not. After several years of watching WR's running around wide open all over the place, I still consider even being in position to miss the tackle a substantial improvement. They took advantage of defensive mistakes, but Ole Miss' offense had to earn most of that yardage by playing well.

In the modern era, which in this case I would say is from Dye onward, only one of those hires was considered a headscratcher at the time: Chizik. I do not recall anyone thinking we were crazy for hiring Bowden, Tuberville, or Malzahn. For that matter, most people considered Malzahn to be the brains behind 2010 and welcomed him gladly. He was dominant in high school, had a good year in Arkansas, did well at Tulsa, was part of our first national championship since before Vietnam, and did well in his first year as a head coach at Arkansas State. A lot of major programs hire coordinators with no head coaching experience to run big-time programs. A lot of major programs also hire head coaches with limited head coaching experience. It is neither guaranteed to succeed or fail, or considered to be an uncommon practice. Stat might actually have the failure rate. I very seriously doubt that UA alumni are influencing Jay Jacobs to hire coaches poorly. Some of the theories I hear about UA are the kind of thing that would make Illuminati conspiracy theorists say "Man, that is a bit far-fetched." If anything, post-Tuberville Auburn has a problem with itself: too much weight is given to people that have been here before (IE Auburn men), and possibly too much meddling. I doubt an exhaustive head coach search went out and objectively concluded that Gene Chizik and Gus Malzahn were the best coaches for the job, especially if either of them were competiting with Gary Patterson.

While his delivery can be brutal, he rarely ends up being wrong.

It sounds like even Stat is on the verge of throwing in the towel on Gus. That is not a good sign.

My first thought was the same, "Why waste that?". I quickly thought about it another way, in the context of last year and the first game, and it seemed like it was a confidence/chemistry builder. Developing team chemistry, which appeared to emerge in this game, seems like it would be more important than any advantage gained by keeping a fake field goal under wraps. As you mention, the psyche.

I still think that had more to do with building and/or showing confidence than it did anything else. Fake FG's are fake FG's. SEC opponents practice executing and defending them. Our execution of it was not some groundbreaking way of going about it.

Having been a member of this forum for over a decade, you can absolutely criticize Gus (or any member of the coaching staff). Rational criticism will almost always be treated as such by anyone worth responding to here. That said, trashing players is (and should be) off limits.

It is probably in the best interest of his career to do so, as he is not in a very good position here. Any success seems attributed to Gus, and failure seems attributed to him. He will be better off to get out from under Gus' umbrella. I have no idea how good of a coach he actually is, but I do think he gets far more criticism than he deserves.

Indeed. He was one of the 2015 offense's few bright spots.

Poor Bobby Petrino. What he did barely made headlines beyond sports media, pales in comparison to Baylor, and his career still has not fully recovered. Art Briles and the saga of Baylor made national headlines, was definitely a bigger deal than Petrino's affair, and there is an expectation that he will be at a major program a year from now. I do not necessarily think you are wrong E, but dammit you should be.

Would Texas A&M really want the heat that would bring?

Indeed. That would just be the competitive nature that you would expect an athlete at this level to have. "Cam Newton is the best, I want to beat the best." I definitely see some Cam in the link aujeff posted, both in the way he was running/eluding and the way he made something out of nothing.

You're welcome. Whole album is great. Would have been a great band throughout the 90's but the lead singer died before the album was released. Damn shame. I meant the band in general, and you're quite right about Wood's death being a shame. I guess we did get Pearl Jam out of the whole SNAFU though.

That was a nice trip into nostalgic obscurity api, thank you.

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