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Riding The Swagger Wagon

Mack Brown on swagger and the 2010 season.

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(All real quotes from this summer)

Choosing a QB

"We want somebody that can get the swagger back and make sure that the rest of the kids know that this person's going to lead them to victory."

When swagger is missing, a good QB finds the swagger! And then uses the swagger to make wins. The first place I'd look is the laundry hamper.

Conan, What Swagger Is Best?

"We've got to force more turnovers and we've got to play with more confidence and a better swagger."

Swagger is variable in quality. One must aspire to better swagger; rich Corinthian swagger.

I believe it was St Jerome who said: Good better best. Never let it rest. Until the good becomes swagger and flows like a Peter North money shot.

Swagger is like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone

"We lost our swagger," Brown said. "And then people start playing better against you, because they feel like they have a better opportunity to win. Sometimes in the past, people would not think they could come into Austin and win. We let that slip away, for whatever reason, as a group."

Swagger can be lost like car keys or reading glasses. Or it slips away like a three year old in a grocery store. Teams sense this and pounce by asking you to move your car, or read fine print in a contract, or by calling child protective services. Sometimes when you look for the swagger, the other team won't even help you by saying, "Getting colder....cold...cold...colder...you're freezing...wait, warm, warmer, burning up!"

Other teams - why won't you tell us where the swagger is?

Young Coaches Reek Of Swagger

To get the swagger back, Brown overhauled the coaching staff.

Swagger is so powerful, it can cause coaching gentrification. Manny Diaz sprays himself every morning with Swagger Body Spray. Because he is a Latin.

Conclusion

Swagger is the most powerful force in the world. Those with swagger control the planet and can alter matter with their minds. Sure, bravado is nice. And derring-do has its merits. But neither can compare to swagger.

Swagger can kill fire ants!


Swagger could kill all of these ants

Not So Fast

There are other opinions on swagger. Grumpy, stupid opinions that understand the difference between cause and effect.


Which is the emperor?

The book Patriot Reign documents that when the 2002 Patriots were struggling after their 2001 Super Bowl season, several players told the media that they needed to recapture "their swagger."

Head coach Bill Belichick heard about it and addressed it in a team meeting:

You know what? We didn't have a 'swagger' last year. What we had was a sense of urgency about playing well, being smart, and capitalizing on every opportunity and situation that came our way ... It wasn't about a fucking swagger. You can take that swagger and shove it right up your ass, OK?

Whatever, Bill. I'm riding the Swagger Wagon to the Dream Stable so I can saddle up the Hope Pegasus. Who's with me?

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Swagger and chemistry, baby, swagger and chemistry.

by Huckleberry on Aug 18, 2011 1:55 PM CDT reply actions  

i will ride with you into Mordor

by eloy on Aug 18, 2011 1:58 PM CDT reply actions  

please do not let gideon see this post. he will absolutely blow his load and try up his average of 1.8 targeting penalties per game from last year

by nmckenzie1 on Aug 18, 2011 2:00 PM CDT reply actions  

Surely if they can’t find swagger, they’ll at least end up with some schwag (and by that I mean longhorn-themed gift baskets, rather than low grade weed).

by Arriviste on Aug 18, 2011 2:01 PM CDT reply actions  

It ain’t a minivan,
It’s a Sienna van,
You can’t see in’the van,
Cause it’s so tinted, man
I got so many fans
Won’t fit in twenty vans.

Swag.

by Young Williams on Aug 18, 2011 2:01 PM CDT reply actions  

Dre Kirkpatrick made the diagnosis before we even felt the symptoms.

by burntorangeandblue on Aug 18, 2011 2:03 PM CDT reply actions  

Swagger is the most powerful force in the world.

You, my friend, are apparently unfamiliar with an unstoppable force known only as The Surge. Only by combining forces with Talent and Perserverence can Swagger overcome The Surge.

by BrickHorn on Aug 18, 2011 2:07 PM CDT reply actions  

Shapiro was giving the Miami players some swag, does that make him a swagger?

Hey Aggies, it’s swagger, not waggers.

Hopefully the HarsApple scheme, since it seems to be an actual coherent scheme, can help find, return, and this time keep some of the swagger for the offense.

HarsApple is my entry for the two headed OC name, it’s pronounced like a Texan would say horseapple and a picture of a horseapple can easily be substituted.

by tdwalsh on Aug 18, 2011 2:07 PM CDT reply actions  

Is all swagger created equal? If Paden Kelley tried to get his Tevin Jackson swagger on I’m sure he’d pull something.

In before Nordberg.

by Texastough on Aug 18, 2011 2:09 PM CDT reply actions  

Does one have swagger or a swagger? Or are both possible based on context? This is a useful primer for the season.

by Drew Dunlevie on Aug 18, 2011 2:10 PM CDT reply actions  

This post should have been titled Riding the Ennui Wagon in Search of Anything. For Example, Swagger.

People with swagger are 68% more likely to win at Craps than those without swagger. #lessonsfromlasvegas

by Vasherized on Aug 18, 2011 2:10 PM CDT reply actions  

“This post should have been titled Riding the Ennui Wagon in Search of Swagger.

People with swagger are 68% more likely to win at Craps than those without swagger. #lessonsfromlasvegas"

And people should learn to keep their damn hands off the table when I’m rolling…if you don’t have your bet down, tough shit…if one of my die hits your meat hooks and we all crap out because of you…then you owe me a ride on the dreamwagon.

by uthookem on Aug 18, 2011 2:15 PM CDT reply actions  

Want this team dripping in swag juice

by Tim Westwood on Aug 18, 2011 2:25 PM CDT reply actions  

Now I know what happened last year. It’s the age of the internet … someone misspelled “swagger” as “stagger” in an email to the team, and it was downhill from there.

by BEHorn on Aug 18, 2011 2:29 PM CDT reply actions  

Want this team dripping in swag juice.

Brickhorn gets his at the Yellow Rose, imo.

by Vasherized on Aug 18, 2011 2:29 PM CDT reply actions  

nmckenzie1 FTW.

by Joetx on Aug 18, 2011 2:31 PM CDT reply actions  

It doesn’t matter if the secondary is looser than a Corinthian’s asshole or tighter than Hayden Panettiere, if the swagger isn’t there we’re buggered.

by spider on Aug 18, 2011 2:34 PM CDT reply actions  

Teams gain swagger by having their coach coddle them to the point where they can’t speak with the media.

We should all hope for Golf Prick swagger.

by ColoradoAg on Aug 18, 2011 2:41 PM CDT reply actions  

This is similar to Mack constantly talking about the need for more explosives.

Scipio, have you crunched the numbers on the correlation between the loss of explosives and the subsequent loss of swagger?

by nordberg on Aug 18, 2011 2:44 PM CDT reply actions  

You’re all going to be very disappointed when you realize this has just been a drawn-out unveiling of Mack’s new promotional endorsement with 5 Hour Energy.

by Mano Cornuda on Aug 18, 2011 2:47 PM CDT reply actions  

Scipio – You always leave me entertained.

Boy do I feel stupid. All this time I thought our problem last year was poor player development, incoherent schemes, and idiotic playcalling. Turns out it was just the swagger. Who knew?

This is similar to Mack constantly talking about the need for more explosives.

Scipio did mention Peter North so apparently explosiveness has something to do with swagger.

by Nunna Yo Bizness on Aug 18, 2011 2:59 PM CDT reply actions  

The surge need not be overcome. One merely needs to withstand It to be successful.

by Jake Lonergan on Aug 18, 2011 3:02 PM CDT reply actions  

“Manny Diaz sprays himself every morning with Swagger Body Spray. Because he is a Latin.”

http://www.oldspice.com/products/product/61/old-spice-body-spray-swagger/

Where’s Ace when we need him? Manny endorsement, chop chop!

by Texastough on Aug 18, 2011 3:11 PM CDT reply actions  

And I thought the off season was over.

List of the twenty greatest Texas players of all time anyone?

by roach on Aug 18, 2011 3:18 PM CDT reply actions  

Ingredients: Alcohol Denat., Isobutane, Sooner Tears, Dipropylene Glycol, Alpha Wolf Jesus Fire, Hydrofluorocarbon 152a, Essence of HarsinWhite, Propane, Fragrance/Parfum eu Wylie, Isopropyl Myristate, Zinc Phenosulfonate, Incantation of Manny D. as enhancer/preservative

by Texastough on Aug 18, 2011 3:20 PM CDT reply actions  

You’re all going to be very disappointed when you realize this has just been a drawn-out unveiling of Mack’s new promotional endorsement with 5 Hour Energy.

Hate to shit on your plan, but Texas will be unveiling Swagger Orange, sold in Longhorn shaped cans, with a wide-mouth tab in place of the ass hole… to satisfy your energy needs.

by texasengr on Aug 18, 2011 3:22 PM CDT reply actions  

I like it when Mack keeps it more objective and less existential, like when he says we need 3 TOs every game or the defense has let us down. That’s the Mack I love.

by Mad Clapper on Aug 18, 2011 3:24 PM CDT reply actions  

TexasTough -
 
Great ingredients. Well done.

by Scipio Tex on Aug 18, 2011 3:27 PM CDT reply actions  

Texastough — nice link. wow, those guys are old spice must really be killing it with taglines like, “Turn up your mansmell.”

by Cult McCoy on Aug 18, 2011 3:28 PM CDT reply actions  

Mad Clapper, I think it was “we need 3 TO’s a game from the defense to even have a chance to win”.
I wonder if Muschamp immediately got Jeremy Foley on the line after reading that.

by nordberg on Aug 18, 2011 3:36 PM CDT reply actions  

Scipio – As a reader who adulates your writings, may I say I find this one incomplete.

In other news, what is the podcast schedule for this year – great stuff !

by torre on Aug 18, 2011 4:00 PM CDT reply actions  

I don’t think we should settle for swagger this season – we should shoot for swaggEST.

by nobis60 on Aug 18, 2011 4:01 PM CDT reply actions  

Stacy Searels once killed a man because he thought he had thieved his swagger. He later found it, but felt no shame.

by Big Ern on Aug 18, 2011 4:02 PM CDT reply actions  

Texastough — nice link. wow, those guys are old spice must really be killing it with taglines like, "Turn up your mansmell."

They are. Old Spice brand sales are up substantially.

by Really? on Aug 18, 2011 4:06 PM CDT reply actions  

Hey, when yer just about done,
When yer lookin’ fer a roadside park,
To take a nap in.
Fergit that!
Stop at the next convenience store.
Getcha Five Hour Energy.
Getcha SWAGGER Back!

Hi, folks! Mack Brown here.
For Five Hour Energy.
I got my SWAGGER,
How about you?

Swagger on down the road!
Swagger on down the road!
Swagger on down the road!

and the colored girls sing
Doot-de-doot-de-Swag-guh!
Doot-de-doot-de-Swag-guh!
Doot-de-doot-de-Swag-guh!

by Tex Long on Aug 18, 2011 4:13 PM CDT reply actions  

Texastough = Apothecary Now

by Young Williams on Aug 18, 2011 4:14 PM CDT reply actions  

Want this team dripping in swag juice.

Brickhorn gets his at the Yellow Rose, imo.

Landing Strip, imo.

by BrickHorn on Aug 18, 2011 4:18 PM CDT reply actions  

The Sienna Family has the illest jams.

In other news, the emperor is one and the same.

Dark side!

by Saul on Aug 18, 2011 4:29 PM CDT reply actions  

Does Mack carry a swagger meter to practice to help pick the starting Qb? Did GDGD take it with him when he left?

by Kilgore Trout on Aug 18, 2011 4:35 PM CDT reply actions  

Great piece, been meaning to find a way to kill all those friggin lack-of-a-natural-predator ants!

To be fair, Mack has been mentioning swagger for years, although he’s ratcheted it up this past year.

I feel like he has been using 2005 as a blue print to win it all again. We had LOADS of swagger then and won a MNC, wants another MNC, therefore must haz swagger! But like Belichick says, you know you can win if you just play smart football and play with energy. Problem is, schematically we weren’t playing smart, the onus was put on the players to overcome these deficiencies with overwhelming skill and/or swagger. This is not a blueprint for success when you don’t have other worldly talent and/or swagger saturation. I think Mack is about to find out how much onus should be on the coaching staff now that he sees what an advantage we will have schematically with HarsinWhite. Or perhaps it’s all just coach speak and it’s just easier to criticize players than coaching assistants.

I also think the 2005 season influenced him in that he fell in love with USC’s power running game when he watched what they did to us during the Natty. Swagger and power running have been a theme for years now on what he wants out of his team. I can’t really blame him for trying to be successful by emulation success, that of 2 extremely talented national championship teams. However sometimes you have to adapt to what you have, and focusing on playing smart football would go along way, because playing dumb football, both schematically and execution wise, was why we lost last year, not the result of swaggerlessness.

Here’s to a 2011 of smart football and dead ants.

by Erik The Orange on Aug 18, 2011 4:56 PM CDT reply actions  

Swagger? Surge? Mansmell? Haven’t any of you read Principia or watched ESPN?

It’s all about momentum, you disciples of Leibniz. You need to have the momentum going in to a game, or a down, or a half, because you will have it going out.

Momentum in = momentum out.

Ask that Peter North chap.

by Isaac Newton on Aug 18, 2011 5:03 PM CDT reply actions  

Swagger can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change states.

by Scipio Tex on Aug 18, 2011 5:11 PM CDT reply actions  

Swagger can, however, be acquired in bulk. Maybe a trip to Costco is in order.

http://brand-name-discounts.com/prod_images_blowup/OldSpiceSwaggerDeod.jpg

As an extra-special bonus, it may be helpful in the Red Zone.

by RedmondLonghorn on Aug 18, 2011 5:34 PM CDT reply actions  

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women. – Tony Montana

First they score points.
Then they get the wins.
Then they get the swagger (back).

by Longonhorns on Aug 18, 2011 5:38 PM CDT reply actions  

“Swagger can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change states.”

So lets see, in 2010 Cleve B. found a way to transmogrify most of the team’s swagger, and Bible took anything leftover to swagger up to the buffet, leaving the team in a state of anti-swagger?

by Texastough on Aug 18, 2011 5:40 PM CDT reply actions  

I slept they swagger.

by Greg Davis on Aug 18, 2011 6:03 PM CDT reply actions  

a state of anti-swagger?

The anti-swagger particle (or wave, your choice… both, if you like) has not yet been seen to exist.

In the meantime, we must settle for simple swaggerlessness – or, to revert to the FatherTongue, they can be said to be swaglos.

by Fong the Merciless on Aug 18, 2011 6:24 PM CDT reply actions  

Which is the emperor?

This underscores my suspicion concerning Rick Perry’s true endgame. So far from leading Texas in seceding from the US, he secretly intends to annex the US.

by Louis L'am Jones on Aug 18, 2011 6:51 PM CDT reply actions  

“Does Mack carry a swagger meter to practice to help pick the starting Qb? Did GDGD take it with him when he left?”

GD’s swagger meter only went horizontally

by Kasey on Aug 18, 2011 7:20 PM CDT reply actions  

The Longhorn Volleyball team kicks off the season ranked in the top four for the fifth-straight season…not gazelles, Swaggalopes

by Castle AAARGHH!!!!! on Aug 18, 2011 9:09 PM CDT reply actions  

swagger can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change states

I created golf prick swagger.

by srr50 on Aug 18, 2011 10:09 PM CDT reply actions  

Observing swagger changes its behavior.

by CS on Aug 18, 2011 10:40 PM CDT reply actions  

Schrodinger’s Swagger asks if the cat really is simultaneously arrogant and humble?

by Scipio Tex on Aug 19, 2011 12:29 PM CDT reply actions  

Bill Little, in his similar fashion, is officially on the swaggertrain:

“regain that swagger that brought Texas football to a similar place in the first decade of the 21st Century.”

http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082511aac.html

“And in that space, we celebrate with Dr. Cooley in his mandate for optimism, and rest assured by Mr. Hecke.” – BL

by Texastough on Aug 25, 2011 4:28 PM CDT reply actions  

“And then he said this, and I am paraphrasing here; as he looked at the weather maps, north of Canada, he could see the stirring of atmospheric phenomena which meant one thing:

Fall is coming."

AMEN

by Texastough on Aug 25, 2011 4:30 PM CDT reply actions  

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