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Make sure you only use Traeger brand pellets. Any other pellets don’t work. Think that’s by design. After getting it started, keep it open for 10 minutes on smoke setting first before you set it to the temp you are going to cook your meat. Also, you might have too much soot or ash in the hopper. Make sure (when the grill is cool of course) that you clean out the granules and soot from your hopper, then refill with full pellets. If you’ve already tried all this, I would return it, because it should smoke.

I have the XXL big green egg. I use lump charcoal and some wood and occasionally some lump charcoal logs my wife bought online from Japan (those last days, don’t know what is in them). Also have an Argentinian grill with a box below and mechanism I can hang meat and lower it to the coals. Also a Traeger at the RV, and kettle Weber. Pizza oven and a table top balckstone. Whew! 😅. You asked. Right now I use the BGE the most, I start a nice fire then get it to coals and you can do most anything. For the Traeger chicken on the bone (about 40 min 300) and pork tenderloins (45/50 min 350) , pork chops (less time just watch these depending on thickness 300) come out nice. You can do a brisket for sure because you can keep such a consistent heat with the Traeger (it’s cheating but who cares), make sure your brisket is about 1 1/2 to 2 inch thick with consistent thickness to the point. Trim excess fat to 1/4 inch or less. Olive oil salt and pepper brisket (kosher salt and cracked peeper best, a lot of it. You can add some coffee grounds and paprika if you want to get fancy. Cook on 275 for 4/5 hours just on the grates, spray with water or apple cider vinager q1 hour, cover with butcher paper after 4 hours and cook 8/9 more hours check internal temp with probe at end last hour to get brisket to 190/200 temp then cut off. You want brisket at 204 temp at the end after rest. So know it will still cook after you take it off and rest. Eat it soon and you will be golden.

What we usually do well, we didn’t. Getting early favorable pitching counts, and laying off bad pitches to get into good hitting counts. It’s annoying it was against the hogs. They are insufferable. With all the pig yelling.

What a butt kicking this weekend. It was way better being competitive in losses. Oh well, hope we get it together for the next series.

Is anyone else having trouble with videos cutting off by themselves when you enter them from the OTC site? Wondering if it is just something with my phone, or if something with the site.

Well of course, but competitive losses are better than the alternative. (Getting your butt kicked)

And pitching wise behind in more counts lately to be fair. However, overall we’ve been good.

Yes, gird your loins, and hold onto Weiner.

Will be much harder with the injuries, hope we aren’t saying what if, but one of the strengths of the team has to be untouchable by injuries, Max Weiner. We have held most teams, and all of the top teams to under their scoring percentage for the year. The pitching transformation is unbelievable. We are getting a lot of pitches in the zone early and getting ahead of batters . This is also true of the at bats (Tulo) , our batters have nice patience and don’t swing at a lot of balls that they shouldn’t. This discipline will certainly play in our favor for the long haul of the season.

You know what’s even crazier about this 37-5 team? Three of the five losses were extra innings losses and the 5-3 loss to Texas State I believe we left runners on base in the 9th with a chance to win. Only the LSU loss (which we won the series) was a decisive win for the bad guys . Great team!

Wow

Traditionally yes, last 2 years the top 2 guards (maybe 3 in 2025 depending on where you put North Dakota state guy) have gone in the first round. If DJ is top two IOL in college football, and lights come fully on senior year, he has the measurables and athleticism to be 1st,/2nd round.

Is there a list of just the longhorns drafted? Rounds and teams?

Ahhh, it’s alright little brother. Big brother did get hurt last week, maybe tomorrow. 🤷

When will Ace Whitehead be back?

Add Kelvin Banks to that list. His fall off is mind numbing. Playing the actual game of football against high level competition for four years should be what he is graded on, not an inch or two here or there. The players are in fact getting drafted to play football, right? Sheesh, some of these pundits should watch the tape. IMHO he is a franchise LEFT TACKLE that should go top 10.

RIP

He’s not coming back to coach, so just chill. Why can’t you guys just be gracious to the 70 or so year old man who did a lot for this university. His former football players have much more invested in this university than any of you, and they don’t hate. They respect the man.

I agree, I didn’t say it was wrong, but had enough of those guys. We just needed to shut it down. . We change pitchers differently during the weekend series, I get it, but we were allowing too many walks and hit batters at the end. Time to put those guys away. Glad it worked out, good win.

Just put Volantis in and let’s finish this nonsense. They’ve been throwing their best all night, and we are exploring pitching depth and saving our best.

Maybe that third baseman for Tx state can take off those shorts, and put on some real baseball pants now.

This is good, thank you.

Wow, you’re right, didn’t know that . That’s interesting, I wonder how they determine cut off time for grad transfers since they don’t have to wait for portal opening and can transfer anytime. I guess just anytime after spring semester starts no SEC to SEC.

I think if the player is a grad transfer, they can play immediately even SEC to SEC.