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So did he serve his term as sentenced or did Biden commute his sentence or did Biden's adminstration somehow introduce guidelines for releasing prisoners early? I honestly don't know the answers here. Most prisoners get out early. . . . That alone doesn't make Biden culpable. Was there something else?

You don't take a QB just to take one, but if there is a guy you like no matter what round you should draft one. We don't know who will be available next year and which QBs will improve next year, going into this year this was considered to be a really good QB draft but guys like Allar, Klubnik, and Nussmeier didn't develop as hoped and guys like Manning, Moore, and Sellers decided to return to school.

Huge deductible?

I'm not sure but I would highly doubt that insurance would cover an entire players salary. You know how it works. The devil is in the details.

And this is why they are where they are......

Energy Secretary Wright says U.S. ‘not ready’ to escort oil tankers through Strait of Hormuz yet

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/12/ene...ankers-through-strait-of-hormuz-yet.html

Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz

The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump’s national security team failed to fully account for the potential consequences of what some officials have described as a worst-case scenario now facing the administration, the sources said.

While key officials from the Departments of Energy and Treasury were present for some of the official planning meetings about the operation before it started, sources said, the agency analysis and forecasts that would be integral elements of the decision-making process in past administrations were secondary considerations.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright have been key players throughout the planning and execution stages of the conflict, the sources acknowledged. But Trump’s preference of leaning on a tight circle of close advisers in his national security decision making had the effect of sidelining interagency debate over the potential economic fallout if Iran were to respond to US-Israeli strikes by closing the strait.

And now it may be weeks before the administration’s efforts to alleviate the intensifying economic fallout take hold, officials said Thursday, including high-risk naval escorts of oil tankers through the strait that the Pentagon believes are currently too dangerous to conduct. The president, meanwhile, has continued to downplay the tumult in energy markets and the danger. He told Fox News that oil tanker crews should “show some guts” and go through the strait.

The reality in the strait has left diplomatic counterparts, former US economic and energy officials and industry executives who spoke with CNN in a state of confusion and disbelief.

More than a dozen vessels have been attacked near Iran since Feb. 28

There have been at least 14 reports of attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf and near the Strait of Hormuz since war broke out between Iran and the US and Israel, according to UK Maritime Trade Operations. The incidents have effectively halted traffic through the vital oil corridor.

“Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.”

Shipping industry executives have made regular requests to the US Navy for military escorts, all of which have been rebuffed. In regular briefings for industry participants in the region, US military officials have repeatedly made clear they have not received orders to begin any escort operation and the risks to US assets remained extremely high, according to two executives with knowledge of the matter.

Bessent told Sky News’ Wilfred Frost on Thursday that those escorts would begin “as soon as it is militarily possible.”

“That was always in our planning, that there’s a chance that US Navy, or perhaps an international coalition, will be escorting oil tankers through,” he said.

But the path to this point, sources said, appears to mark the complex convergence of geopolitical assumptions, energy market forecasts and cross-cutting strategic priorities.

Lawmakers pressed top Trump administration officials during a recent classified briefing about the lack of an operational plan to re-open the strait as the conflict continued, according to multiple sources familiar with the closed-door session. An administration official disputed that there were no plans, noting that the US military has long planned and trained to address a major disruption to the critical thoroughfare for global commerce.

But there was no indication that there were any near-term solutions to the problem that threatened to consume the international economy given the scale of the threat still posed by Iranian assets in and around the strait, the sources familiar said.

The reason the administration underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the strait, multiple sources said, was officials believed their doing so would hurt Iran more than the US — a view that was bolstered by Iran’s empty threats to act in the strait after US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last summer.

The White House touted the administration’s planning in a statement on Thursday.

“Through a detailed planning process, the entire administration is and was prepared for any potential action taken by the terrorist Iranian regime,” spokeswoman Anna Kelly said, while touting the US military’s success.

“President Trump has been clear that any disruptions to energy are temporary and will result in a massive benefit to our country and the global economy in the long-term,” she added.

After this story published, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X on Friday that Trump was “fully briefed” on planning for the possibility of Iran closing the strait.

During a press briefing Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the idea that officials underestimated the war’s impact on the Strait of Hormuz is “patently ridiculous.”

“Of course, for decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” Hegseth told reporters. “This is always what they do hold the Strait hostage. CNN doesn’t think we thought of that. It’s a fundamentally unserious report.”

CNN had reached out to the Pentagon for comment prior to publication.

Multiple current and former US officials told CNN that plans for any military action against Iran would account for the possibility of Iran closing the waterway. The US military has long maintained and updated plans to address Iranian military action in the critical corridor.

But at a moment where global oil and LNG supplies were plentiful, US oil production sat at record highs and Trump officials were basking in a pliant Venezuelan government and the potential for rapid expansion of new production from a former foe, the global scale of the downside risks was not viewed as a major consideration.

Even in weighing the potential for disruption in the strait, the administration has been far more focused on its overwhelmingly positive — if still aspirational — view of how markets would respond to eliminating the threat of Iranian disruptions entirely.

“To win in life, you’ve got to suffer short-term pain for the long-term gain, and that’s what we’re in the middle of doing right now,” Wright said in a Wednesday interview on NewsNation. “I think the American people will be thrilled with a peaceful world on the other side and more secure supplies of energy for decades to come.”

The prospect of naval escorts

On Thursday, in his first public comments since being elevated, new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said the strait would remain closed as a “tool of pressure,” according to a statement read on his behalf on Iranian state TV.

Energy executives have conveyed to administration officials they want an early end to the war, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. For now, they are wary of putting their assets and people at risk by running tankers through the strait and do not foresee that changing until the kinetic nature of the war slows dramatically, sources said.

Military officials have been holding daily calls and briefings with energy industry representatives for the last several days, according to sources familiar.

But from nearly the start of the conflict, US officials have told energy company representatives it was not safe enough for the Navy to conduct the escorts in the war’s early days.

A US military official told CNN that Iranian drones and missiles, followed by mines, are the chief threat facing vessels trying to cross the strait. In wargaming a possible conflict with Iran in recent years, one of the biggest risks to the US military was ships being packed tightly into the waterways in the strait, Bab-el-Mandeb and Red Sea, vulnerable to attack by Iranian missiles and drones, another source said.

Nate Swanson, a former career State Department official focused on Iran, noted that there had been military escorts of oil tankers through the strait in the 1980s, but Iran’s use of drones this time around makes it a very different situation.

Military officials have also indicated to energy industry representatives they can’t spare Navy vessels anyway, since they’re already engaged in offensive operations elsewhere. As of Wednesday, there was no precise timeline on when escorts would be available.

Wright said Thursday the Navy is unable to escort commercial vessels through the strait, though he suggested that capability could be in place later this month.

“It’ll happen relatively soon, but it can’t happen now. We’re simply not ready,” he said on CNBC. “All of our military assets right now are focused on destroying Iran’s offensive capabilities and the manufacturing industry that supplies their offensive capabilities,” he added.

Pressed on whether it’d be possible by the end of the month, he said, “I think that is quite likely the case.”

It wasn’t clear how aware Trump was of the limitations on naval escorts when he first raised the idea in a post on Truth Social on March 3. He has downplayed the risk to tankers trying to transit the strait, even though Iran has begun attacking ships in the waterway.

And while many Republicans are eager for him to refocus on domestic issues ahead of the midterms — and acknowledge Americans’ cost-of-living struggles — he struck a different tone on Thursday, suggesting there could be a benefit to higher oil prices.

“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” he wrote on Truth Social, without explaining who he meant by “we.”

He added that his military aims against Iran were more consequential than shifts in global energy costs.

“Of far greater interest and importance to me, as President, is stoping an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, and destroying the Middle East and, indeed, the World,” Trump wrote.

Other options to alleviate pressure

Administration officials tasked with helping alleviate the energy crisis are eager for tankers to be escorted as quickly as possible, but for now, they’re more or less on the same page about managing the crisis in phases, according to a US official and other people familiar with the matter.

Bessent announced Thursday that the Treasury Department is temporarily lifting sanctions on Russian oil stranded at sea.

And earlier in the day, the White House said it is considering easing restrictions under the Jones Act, the century-old maritime law that requires goods transported between US ports to be carried on American ships, as part of an effort that might slow the rise in gas prices.

“In the interest of national defense, the White House is considering waiving the Jones Act for a limited period of time to ensure vital energy products and agricultural necessities are flowing freely to U.S. ports,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement. “This action has not been finalized.”

There are a wide range of other moves that the administration could take — likely in the form of an executive order — in an effort to ease the rising prices at the pumps.

One step being considered is waiving production requirements for gasoline producers during the warm months to reduce air pollution, the sources said. (The evaporation of gasoline into the air is greater in the summer, which is why there are strict requirements then to prevent high greenhouse gas emissions.)

An executive order to reduce regulatory burdens on US gasoline producers could help to somewhat lower costs, even in the weeks after the crisis ends, sources said.

Yet the effects of such a move are unlikely to stunt the price increases in a major way, experts said.

“I think that it would be a very small potential offset compared to the factor that’s driving gasoline prices higher, which is concerns for the physical supply of refined products around the world, and also crude oil,” said Clayton Seigle, an energy expert at CSIS.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/politics/hormuz-trump-administration-underestimated-iran

Yes, they were so prepared for it that's it's going to take at least a month after the initial attack to escort those oil tankers and they had to lift sanctions on Russian oil to help Make Putin Great Again!

No sane person believes the trump administrations BS about that. No wonder trump and his cronies hate CNN.

And what was trump's response to oil tankers traveling through the Strait of Hormuz?..........................

Hormuz Strait Attacks Follow Trump Saying Crews Should ‘Show Some Guts’

https://www.newsweek.com/hormuz-str...ing-crews-should-show-some-guts-11660339

Did Captain Bone Spurs really say that with a straight face?

The Trump administration denounced CNN on Thursday for airing a portion of the new Iranian supreme leader’s public statement, the second time in three days that he’s targeted the network for reporting on how the regime is responding to the American attacks.

The attack illustrated the care news outlets must take in reporting during wartime, and the responsibilities of American journalists to report the perspective of countries its government views as enemies. It also exposed inconsistencies. The message of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during his first public statement since he succeeded his father, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, was widely available elsewhere.

The White House said on social media that “fake news CNN just aired four straight minutes of uninterrupted Iranian state TV, run by the same psychotic and murderous regime that prided itself on brutally slaughtering Americans for 47 years.”

Earlier CNN interview criticized by Trump’s communications leader

Two days earlier, White House communications director Steven Cheung took issue with CNN anchor Erin Burnett’s interview with Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian nuclear negotiator. Burnett asked Mousavian what he had been hearing about the Iranian government’s interest in having talks with the United States. There wasn’t much, he said.

“Ever notice how CNN just regurgitates quotes and unverified information from Iranian terrorists?” Cheung wrote on X. “Total disgrace. They have become the murderous Iranian Regime’s version of Pravda,” he said, referring to the official newspaper of the former Soviet Union.

CNN did not address Cheung’s statement but did respond to the White House attack on Thursday. It noted that CNN, Sky News and Al Jazeera also showed portions of the ayatollah’s statement live.

“The world is watching with anticipation which direction this war will take,” CNN said. “Purported remarks from Iran’s new supreme leader are a critical component in helping audiences understand where this conflict is heading and were aired for their obvious news value.”

Other news outlets, including The Associated Press, sent out alerts on what Khamenei said. His vow to keep up attacks on other Arab countries in the region and plans to choke off the world’s oil supply were headlines. The New York Times led its website with a story on the speech in its immediate aftermath, later writing that the speech “was an early indication of how the new supreme leader would approach the war, as well as how he would lead the country.”

CNN has long been a favored target of President Donald Trump, dating back to his first term. It’s a particularly vulnerable time for the network with Paramount Global’s agreement to purchase CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, raising questions about its future editorial independence.

CNN showed a news anchor reading a portion of Khameini’s remarks in Farsi, with an English translation. It did not air them in full. After the speech, correspondent Nick Paton Walsh gave a debrief to anchor Kate Bolduan, noting how the non-appearance of the leader — reportedly injured in an air attack — was as important as what he said.

“We were waiting to see the face of the man to have proof of his health and survival,” Walsh said, “and they’ve not met that moment. Instead, a handwritten message, it seems, that mostly reiterates things we kind of already knew.”

A social media message board for Iran’s point of view

The Tech Transparency Project has reported that several Iranian leaders and institutions maintain verified accounts on X, formerly Twitter, owned by Trump ally Elon Musk. CNBC said Thursday that Khamenei has one of them, and an X account with his portrait posted the text of his remarks, available in Farsi and in an English translation.

Even though Khamenei’s father is dead, an account with his portrait was active on Thursday, mainly reposting messages from his son. “The revenge we have in mind is not just because of the martyrdom of the illustrious Leader of the Revolution,” read one message posted Thursday. “Every member of the nation martyred by the enemy is a separate case that demands we seek revenge.”

X is officially blocked in Iran, though many use a virtual private network to bypass restrictions. A message sent to the platform on Thursday was not immediately returned.

There’s a long history of journalists seeking interviews with world leaders, even when they are regarded as enemies of the United States. Most notable was “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace’s interview with Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, when that country was holding Americans hostage.

Thursday’s remarks by Iran’s new supreme leader were absolutely newsworthy and legitimate for CNN to air them, said Jane Ferguson, a veteran international correspondent and founder of the journalism platform Noosphere. It’s not the job of government leaders to pick apart what CNN is reporting, she said.

“We’ve always faced this,” she said, about when reporters interview leaders or other figures hostile to American interests. “This has been a bit of low-hanging fruit for awhile.”

Historian Douglas Brinkley of Rice University said that it’s unfair for CNN to be singled out in this instance. He, too, believes it is newsworthy to learn what leaders of an adversary are thinking, but it’s important to make sure that journalists are careful.

“You have to be leery of being used as a propaganda tool by the Iranian regime,” he said. “On the other hand, knowing what the enemy is saying and looking for a sign of a peace offering or a nuance is important … It’s a difficult balance.”

https://apnews.com/article/khamenei...ech-war-6c5d24c0de5469d01c4c41b2b432a879

And trump has found a tag team partner here on Dawgtalkers.

Yeah, I've been seeing the issue as well. I'm still trying to nail down the cause; every time I take out one issue, it seems there's another.

The bulk of the most recent (the last year+) issues were a result of bots & crawlers on the site overwhelming the Who's Online table and crashing it. I can't actually stop them from doing that (they have to choose to respect my bots.txt file), so I'm left with trying to manage it and keep that table cleared and clean, which I have tasks set up to handle this.

In the end, I may have to just transition the site to different software, but I really do not want to do that, ever.

He is solid and needed . Welcome back!

I just pulled this up from YouTube. I know it’s a highlight reel. I just wanted to point out his quick feet.

Watch his pulling ability, we had nothing close to this last year.


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Not necessarily. I read a little thing that he's waiting for the market to dry up and specifically for another tackle to get paid, then start responding. That article said $25MM/yr is what he's after minimum. Lots of buyers, few viable tackles. We'll see how it shakes out.

Donald Trump Gifted Matching $145 Shoes to His Closest Advisers After Guessing Their Shoe Sizes: Report

Top White House officials are "afraid not to wear" the shoes gifted to them by the president, according to one staffer

President Donald Trump has reportedly found a way to unite his top advisers during a controversial moment in his presidency: matching shoes.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, March 9, that the president has taken to gifting his top Cabinet members and political allies pairs of his favorite dress shoes. The footwear, from an American brand called Florsheim, reportedly cost just $145 a pair and are paid for by the president himself, according to the outlet.

“All the boys have them,” one female White House told the Journal.

It seems to be true. In recent photos, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff have all been seen wearing matching shoes.

“It’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them," another female official said.

Other recipients of Trump's favorite shoes reportedly include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, White House communications director Steven Cheung, deputy chief of staff James Blair and speechwriter Ross Worthington, as well as Fox News personality Sean Hannity and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Trump, 79, has also reportedly developed an affinity for guessing the recipient's shoe size in front of them before he orders their pair.

"He asks an aide to put in an order and, a week later, a brown Florsheim box arrives at the White House. Trump sometimes signs the box or attaches a note of gratitude, according to people familiar with the ritual," the Journal reported.

According to a recent photo of Rubio, however, the president's guessing may be slightly off. Following the reporting on Trump's shoe shopping, an image of the secretary of state went viral, showing him seemingly wearing loose Florsheim dress shoes with a noticeable gap between his heel and the back of the shoe.

Trump's preoccupation on the shoes being worn in the White House didn't come out of nowhere. Back in December, Vance recounted a "behind-the-scenes" Oval Office moment he said he would "never, ever forget."

The vice president told right-wing commentator Benny Johnson that he, Trump, Rubio and another unnamed politician were discussing a serious policy issue — until Trump abruptly shifted the conversation to their footwear.

"The president kind of holds up his hand and says, 'No, no, no, hold on a second. There’s something much more important. Shoes,' " Vance recounted. Trump then "peers over the Resolute Desk" and declared, "Marco, JD, you guys have s----- shoes. We gotta get you better shoes."

Trump then allegedly asked the men in the room for their shoe size. When one unnamed politician answered "7," Vance said, Trump apparently "leaned back in his chair and joked, 'You know you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.' "

https://people.com/donald-trump-matching-shoes-closest-advisers-11924020

#broshoes

Maybe trump is trying to prepare himself for life after the presidency. In stead of a guess your weight booth at the fair he will open up a guess your she size booth?

And BTW- Florsheim shoes are primarily manufactured in China, India, Cambodia, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.

Just remember to tell your Doc

It's Bidens fault!

What's wrong with Pocket Protectors?

Just some minor confirmation.......


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/iran-war-missile-strike-elementary-school

Well according to PFF his run blocking grade was worse than Blake Whiteheart's last year who was our #3 TE. We will be Stoll's 4th team in 6 years this coming season. MEH

I think he means that he will be removed from office but that will never happen. To impeach a president, which pretty much amounts to an accusation only needs a majority vote in order to move forward to the senate. To remove a president from office takes a two thirds majority vote by the senate. That's not going to happen.

The 'g' is silent just like in phlegm!

I had NO idea he ranked anywhere near that high

FYI- Spotrac's website says it is $41M for the Browns' total dead cap.

You would have thought after this people may have taken the hint. But NOOOOOOO!

Watch out for a record in 2026 for QB release time against the Browns...I don't know what that record is, but every coordinator should be scheming for that game right now.

j/c...

Read the comments lol.