I have no idea why you are bringing this up.

Wouldn't the best comparison be Wild Card winners (and not division winners) winning the World Series? E.g. 97 Marlins, 2021 Braves, 2023 Rangers.

No it's what happened.

And then after he got a bad draft grade (which wasn't solely due to the injury, he was just inconsistent last year even aside from the drops), wanted more money to return to UGA.

Because of the dumbass narrative on him this year, which ignore about half of all the issues in 2024. He certainly wasn't responsible for WR dropping balls or the run game being weak. But he basically alienated the bulk of the team in 2024 with his attitude and behavior. /1

I should note he was much worse on twitter in that phase than on the blog. Probably felt there were limits to what he could post. But at the time of the purging, we were maybe 6-12 months into him getting increasingly weird on twitter. At the end he was starting to do outwardly gross shit there.

He didn't post anything very icky - everything he posted was weird because he would never say in ten words what he could say in a hundred - until after the Urbit "phase". And when it came, it was still out of left field.

There's no doubt whatsoever why Urbit attracted him - it's a complex, terrible idea that solves no real problems and most people couldn't understand. Getting into Yarvin via tech and falling down that rabbit hole was perhaps easy for someone like him. /3

He wouldn't have been invited to blog at Popehat - a push made by Patrick - if he had held his late-Popehat views in any discernable way.

The man's ego is massive though, and he loved complex things for the sake of "I understand what many do not". /2

No, he changed. I know who he was pre-Popehat stint. He had many faults, and he was sort of loony and obnoxious. But then-him would not recognize his current self (or at leas the self that was prowling socials a few years back, I have no idea what he's up to now). /1

His politics were perhaps starting to turn around this time. There is no doubt in my mind getting exposed to Yarvin et al broke him, as he was very infatuated with faux-intellectual bullshit. And had an over-inflated sense of self worth.

Clark started a series of posts raving about Urbit, which was the first time he had mentioned Yarvin.

David used to troll Clark by posting something quickly after one of Clark's, ahh, "posts" published to knock him down the front page. Clark eventually got very butt hurt in the staff room.

You also picked me.

Just awful work by you.

That death scene hits hard.

I missed it too. It seems like there is a much better chance of doing something weird running a play from scrimmage versus on a kickoff from the back of the zone (note: still a miniscule chance, but still).

Can't take them with you.

In fairness on third down, the OL failed to block and there was immediate pressure. I don;t know if Gunner still could or should have made the play, haven't seen a replay.

But, that third and fourth down feels like a microcosm of Gunner Stockton.

No he just misses the second half of this one.