Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (A few more things about the quarterbacks...)

[Ketchum]

Pacino in Donnie Brasco was my favorite as far as seeing him transform into a lower level mob guy. Fuhget about it.

His transformation in The Godfather is as good as anything I have ever seen in film.

 

[Ketchum]

Yes, Brasco though not a huge financial success was some of his finest work.

That's fine, but I'd argue that doesn't make it his Apex.

 

[Ketchum]

Which set of issues do you think is potentially more costly this season?

So, like Ricky Williams with Mack?

Why do I have suspicions about C?

Yeah I remember Silva doing it too, but that Weidman one was crazy. He tried to stand on it after and that almost made me hurl.

Yeah if Jon is going to get slept by Francis he wants to get PAAAAAID!

Ok end of this week I may have something open.

I'm torn. If you can't throw the ball accurately consistently, I'm not sure how you play in this offense as the starter.

yes

I refuse to ever look at it. I missed it on Saturday.

bingo. PAAAAID

cool. let's remember to hit each other up.

 

[SarkAfterDark]

Speaking of good stuff, there's a lot to unpack here.

a. I think the question with Card is how quickly he can clean up those issues he needs to clean up. Is he two games of action away or another season. Sark's call.

b. Sark is going to use Bijan like the Cowboys used DeMarco Murray in his final season IMO. For two years.

c. Omeire said it was just the brace.

d. Kwat was a low-key excellent hire IMO. Best looking defense in terms of the basics after a few months since Robinson was hired in 2004.

e. I'm not expecting Jake back. 🤷‍♂️

f. It takes a special kind of dude to go to OU and they know how to find them. It's like they al have magnets to each other.

g. Crazy to see Weidman's leg go like that after his fight with Silva.

h. Thug Rose has a knack for going big when the spotlight is brightest. She's great tv.

i. Usman had Cormier thing going, but he has snapped out of it the same way Cormier did. It's like one day he decided "****, this boring shit."

j. Feels like Bones doesn't really want to fight. But, he needs that cash, I'm guessing. Those magnum condoms don't purchase themselves.

k. I should be in town at the end of this week/weekend. I'm down.

"Kwat"?

Speaking of good stuff, there's a lot to unpack here.

a. I think the question with Card is how quickly he can clean up those issues he needs to clean up. Is he two games of action away or another season. Sark's call.

b. Sark is going to use Bijan like the Cowboys used DeMarco Murray in his final season IMO. For two years.

c. Omeire said it was just the brace.

d. Kwat was a low-key excellent hire IMO. Best looking defense in terms of the basics after a few months since Robinson was hired in 2004.

e. I'm not expecting Jake back. 🤷‍♂️

f. It takes a special kind of dude to go to OU and they know how to find them. It's like they al have magnets to each other.

g. Crazy to see Weidman's leg go like that after his fight with Silva.

h. Thug Rose has a knack for going big when the spotlight is brightest. She's great tv.

i. Usman had Cormier thing going, but he has snapped out of it the same way Cormier did. It's like one day he decided "****, this boring shit."

j. Feels like Bones doesn't really want to fight. But, he needs that cash, I'm guessing. Those magnum condoms don't purchase themselves.

k. I should be in town at the end of this week/weekend. I'm down.

We got to come up with somethng better than "Kwat".

 

[McGuapo]

I'm torn. If you can't throw the ball accurately consistently, I'm not sure how you play in this offense as the starter.

yes

I refuse to ever look at it. I missed it on Saturday.

bingo. PAAAAID

cool. let's remember to hit each other up.

Exactly. Maturity without Accuracy only gets you to Sam level, if you hit his ceiling. That never won a title. Unless Casey is obviously way ahead I think this is a pretty easy call.

Even though I hate Jon, I don’t blame him. They are ridiculously under paid. However, he really has almost no leverage. What else is he going to do? Fight Jake Paul? Wait....that could happen. He’d make more than any fight in the UFC most likely. My head hurts thinking about that though.

As far as hitting each other up...

 

[Ketchum]

"Kwat"?

We got to come up with somethng better than "Kwat".

I was just trying it out. lol

 

[Ketchum]

Exactly. Maturity without Accuracy only gets you to Sam level, if you hit his ceiling. That never won a title. Unless Casey is obviously way ahead I think this is a pretty easy call.

Even though I hate Jon, I don’t blame him. They are ridiculously under paid. However, he really has almost no leverage. What else is he going to do? Fight Jake Paul? Wait....that could happen. He’d make more than any fight in the UFC most likely. My head hurts thinking about that though.

As far as hitting each other up...

 

[Charlie Work]

you think Pacino's APEX is Brasco? explain that one to me.

I know there was a dose of hyperbole when I typed it because it's impossible not to recognize how great he was so early in his career with iconic parts coming one after another...but after watching so many of his movies over a few weeks it just felt like everything he was as an actor came together in that role...he wasn't the boss, he was an aging street soldier that had little to nothing to show for his years of loyalty & I thought he played into that really well...dare I say, nuanced...
.

 

[Charlie Work]

Another one that is way, way out of his typecast, a role he played in Author, Author.... a movie from back in the 80s, more artsy than I normally like but for whatever reason, we watched it a lot when it came on HBO back in the day.

have never seen it...have never seen Scarecrow either & he teams up with the greatness of Gene Hackman in that one.

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[Ketchum]

I know there was a dose of hyperbole when I typed it because it's impossible not to recognize how great he was so early in his career with iconic parts coming one after another...but after watching so many of his movies over a few weeks it just felt like everything he was as an actor came together in that role...he wasn't the boss, he was an aging street soldier that had little to nothing to show for his years of loyalty & I thought he played into that really well...dare I say, nuanced...
.

fair enough

 

[texasfight11]

That's a fine analysis in pointing out that throw by Card. That 10-12-yard out from the opposite hash is a throw, along with the deep ball down the seam, that Sam Ehlinger was highly inaccurate at making, and Card just stuck it in there. It will be an asset to the offense to have a quarterback who can stick that throw.

And on to Pacino . . .

I think you missed one of his great performances.

There is deliberation in the acting world as to how Shylock the Jew in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice should be played. Some actors have played him as traditonally, characteristically Jewish of that era, while others have played him as a straight-ahead character (Sir Patrick Stewart did the role in this vein).

In the 2005 film, Pacino did a brilliant turn as Shylock, playing him as traditionally Jewish but understated and unthreatening, even though he demanded his pound of flesh from Antonio. Pacino made Shylock a layered human. This was surely one of his top 10 all-time performances, much better than Tony D'Amato in Any Given Sunday, a cliche sports movie. I'd probably slot it at No. 5 or 6.

By the way, Lynn Collins, playing Portia, did a masteful job with the famous "The qualifty of mercy is not strained" speech in rebuking Shylock at the trial in that film.

You should check out Pacino in The Merchant of Venice sometime when the kids are occupied elsewhere.

Wow haven’t seen that movie in forever but was really good. merchant of Venice was awesome bc of him.

 

[Ketchum]

Good stuff on #5. Tip of the cap to Kentucky, they played a great all around game and just didn't make many mistakes, especially in their passing game. Give their setter good passes and it puts a ton of pressure on the defense.

As for Texas, the serve receive was just a little too sloppy, and they didn't do as well getting out-of-system rallies back on track. That was a hell of a match, though, to cap a great season.

Kentucky looks like a team Texas will have to go through in 2021 if it wants that title,.

 

[mattfrey]

Does Card have an NFL Level arm? Meaning, let’s say he has a great college career and gets draft consideration. Do the scouts say “he can make all the throws”?

I’m always surprised by great college QB’s that don’t project well to the NFL. Colt is a great example.

 

[Ketchum]

Does Card have an NFL Level arm? Meaning, let’s say he has a great college career and gets draft consideration. Do the scouts say “he can make all the throws”?

I’m always surprised by great college QB’s that don’t project well to the NFL. Colt is a great example.

Yes. Big-time.

 

[BurntOrange]

I was just trying it out. lol

What about “Kwit” Isn’t that the way you pronounce the beginning of his last name? “Kwitkowski” but spelled differently.

 

[Ketchum]

What about “Kwit” Isn’t that the way you pronounce the beginning of his last name? “Kwitkowski” but spelled differently.

Yes, but I wasn't the one who started it.

 

[J Tull]

Great Pacino list. What an actor!