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it's hard to win games with no 1rst round picks on offense, no legit QB, no offensive line, and no real WRs. That's on the GM not the HC.

Harbaugh or bust. Give him whatever he wants. Give him so much money he can't refuse and fire everyone he doesn't want. PERIOD. I bet he would keep our DC too.

If Harbaugh wants to come here I say you make him the king with complete authority over everything. No questions asked. He grew up rooting for the Browns now it's time for him to bring glory back to the Browns. Let him hire his own GM. He is bonafide. You do whatever it takes. He has the pedigree to change the culture instantly.

The commie that says "homeownership a weapon of white supremacy" bursts into tears when someone says they should start with her mommy's 1.6M home. This side-show that goes down in NY is going to be very entertaining.

Except.. all that off the field stuff absolutely should have rung every last bell to pull the brake and pull hard. An entire season of holding out of football (how often does that happen?), and 1, 2..3.... nay twentyfreakintwo (!!!) active sexual assault allegations. Maybe even worse from a pure judgement standpoint: the refusal to settle them as early as possible. I mean, who was advising the guy? It's mystifying.

Look, I'm as cold a utilitarian bastard as the next guy, I can put away my self righteous indignation and evaluate the talent. If we indeed had the next great QB in our midst and there's a reasonable expectation he'd be able to perform (key caveat) then you swallow hard and so be it. But there's a critical mass you can't ignore. Or g-d help you, you shouldn't anyway. This is a general life truth, a basic rule of thumb: if a person's outside life is that chaotic, that epically screwed up, that full of head-exploding distraction with mountainous evidence of sub basement poor judgement, it DOES NOT MATTER how talented they are, they will blow up. You cannot make that person the center of your whole organization. Or... it will blow up!

I know I'm preaching to the choir and hindsight is a helluva drug (tho I was vocally 1000% against it from jump) but this is classic Greek tragedy siren song stuff. Stuff that's supposed to be baked into every smart, reasonably educated person's DNA. There were PLENTY of people that knew this was a disaster in the making. They just weren't in Berea. Anyone with any real life experience and the ability to reflect upon it should have been able to look at that set up and known that there was practically no way that series of data point leads to cake and streamers. 99/100. If you don't, you have no business running a taco stand. I'll get off the soap box now.

What facts are you damning

LOL...a pretty good take. I wish I had thought to say that.

I assume you are talking Muchado. I might agree with that and in the end suspect she will take over.

The problem is with all the turmoil in the country I think we need to stick around a while to make sure that happens in an orderly fashion. There is still enough structure to the existing government to take it away again.

I only brought up Venezuela in the context of how its ramifications dovetail globally with the ramifications of what is happening here and I didn't want to derail this Iranian thread with that.


I think the U.S. stays out of it unless/until Khameini's people begins slaughtering its people, then it's gloves off.... and then we merely lend all the support we can to hold the uprising together.

I just saw a report that Khameini is bringing in 800 Iraqi "gunmen" to begin squashing things, so the gloves may come off sooner rather than later. I don't know how much truth is behind that headline, but I wouldn't bet against it. Hopefully, their game plan is more of a stand-up fight against the protestors and not a repeat of an Iraqi IED-fest. I hope the Iranian people - and parts of the Iranian military - stand up and prevent us from feeling any need to act. I think the U.S. just needs to hold girlfriend's hair while she vomits up what she drank; we don't need to go punishing the bartender or do any sympathy puking.


I think a big part of things is what happens with the people over the next 24 and 48 hours. Pahlavi has asked them all to act at 8pm tonight and 8pm tomorrow night to let him know if they want him to return and that this will largely impact what happens next. I think the people are fully ready for this and I just hope that Pahlavi has the stones to step into the role he inherited, even if it is in a transitional nature; e.g. step in and restore the pre-Islamist Iran, then step aside for proper elections, etc..

By no means, even if everything goes perfectly, will this be an instantaneous "Kumbaya". The Islamists (and when I say that, I do not simply mean Muslims, but specifically those who support Islam as a political thing with Sharia Law and all that garbage) will not simply give up and walk away. They will fight, they may go underground, they may pull a Hamas and become a "legitimate" political party for elections... they will have to be rooted out and any interim government that comes in will have to take steps to outlaw them immediately, to make Sharia unacceptable and illegal. They have to recognize that they are an enemy that will use any new system against the people to get back to what they've had. You can't shoot an ideology, you have to smother & suffocate it until it dies off over time.

DOJ says it has released less than 1% of its Epstein files and is still reviewing more than 2 million documents

The Justice Department on Monday said it has released 12,285 documents – less than 1% – of its Jeffrey Epstein-related files, with more than 2 million documents still being reviewed.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told a federal judge in a Monday court filing that “substantial work remains to be done.”

Looking to update the court on their progress, they told Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York that the 12,285 documents the department has already released contain roughly 125,575 pages.

“There are more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” they added.

It comes after Congress passed a law in November – with near-unanimous support – giving the Justice Department a December 19, 2025, deadline to release all of its files about Epstein, the convicted sex offender who was accused of abusing dozens of underage girls. Epstein died by suicide in 2019.

The files are made up of papers, videos, photographs and audio files that live within the FBI’s main electronic case management system and largely originate from the FBI’s two major investigations into Epstein, in Florida and New York, spanning decades. A July 2025 FBI memo said that the department had uncovered “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence” during a review of the investigative materials.

“This work has required and will continue to require substantial Department resources,” the Justice Department wrote to the judge in the Monday court filing.

“We noted in our prior letter the hundreds of attorneys dedicated to the review at the time of that letter. Currently, and anticipated for the next few weeks ahead, in the range of over 400 lawyers across the Department will dedicate all or a substantial portion of their workday to the Department’s efforts to comply with the Act.”

Trump appointees at the Justice Department have said they’re acting in good faith to release as much material as fast as possible, while also going through the painstaking work of reviewing every file to make sure victims’ identifies are shielded, as required by the law.

In a letter to Congress released on December 19, Blanche said the department was working “diligently” to meet the deadline but that the “volume of materials” meant it “must publicly produce responsive documents on a rolling basis.”

The Justice Department announced in late December that there were more than a million more newly discovered documents potentially related to Epstein – and that they would take “weeks” to review and release them.

And as CNN previously reported, the Justice Department’s leadership also asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the the holidays to help redact the documents.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/politics/epstein-files-justice-department-review

Yeah, I've been seeing this, too. I'm trying to figure it out, but every avenue I've gone down has been a red herring.

It is definitely not a resources issue on the server, it seems to be more like a deadlocking issue in the database combined with excessive amounts of activity from internet bots. They aren't a server load problem, per se, it's just that the (my theory) number of them increases the chances of the deadlocks occurring. One of the previous issues that is now handled was those bots basically crashing the "Who's Online" table in the database.

I think "economy is booming" is only if you take some big liberties with the data. I can understand wanting to take a victory lap on the economy given all the doom-and-gloom from earlier in the year not really materializing. That said, unemployment is a problem, and inflation is still something we're dealing with.

Overall, I don't agree with you at all regarding the political shift. The Trump admin continues to push the envelope on things that were already trending in the wrong direction (hyper-partisanship, governing via EO, pushing both parties further to the fringes being some examples). None of these things started with Trump, but he not only continues to push these in the wrong direction, but also seems to like to add his own little "flourish". These are things that, when the voters decided to whiplash back to the DNC, their stooge is going to do the same things and then Republicans are going to complain like it hasn't been happening within their own admins.
Specifically with Trump, however, is he seems perfectly fine eroding/attacking bedrock elements of our government. Founding-Father level stuff.

I'll hold back on my thoughts regarding the US's international footing internationally. I don't particularly care for our treatment of our allies, however it's interesting how some countries are responding. The emergence of the Coalition of the Willing and their recent announcement of troops in Ukraine without "daddy" is something I doubt would've happened without getting smacked around a little (so to speak).

Grandpa speaking to his grandson about the good old days....

"Yes Billy, back in my day we had to use the CIA, secretly fund and hide their operations from the public to steal another country's resources. Those days are long gone."

Makes me glad that I don't live in Cuyahoga County and won't be paying for it.... and I hope the courts block their intention to use the Ohio's Unclaimed Funds... that money isn't anyone's to touch for ANY reason.

Well played.

I'm becoming more convinced that AI actually means "Almost Intelligent"

thanks guys

Vietnam's economy grew 8% in 2025, highest in three years

Exports increased 17% to $475 bn despite US 'reciprocal' tariffs

https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/vietnam-s-economy-grew-8-in-2025-highest-in-three-years

Make Vietnam Great Again?

It can't effect the strength of schedule since both teams are in the the AFCN.

#6 it is.

I don't think Sanders was over drafted in round 5. At that point in the draft you are drafting a QB with very low odds of succeeding. It's much akin to throwing a hail Mary. And the results we are seeing is that the hail Mary pass they threw fell incomplete as they most usually do.

Fair enough, credit where credit is due.

100%!

Any head coach with Stefanski’s record should be fired, especially with the last two seasons train wreck.
The sad part is that Berry’s contribution was even worse.

I was lucky enough to live near a city just large enough to have what was then called "alternative". Only then it meant an alternative to music that was very popular and they played more obscure yet talented Rock & Roll. WVUD out of The University of Dayton in the 1970's. I learned very early on that many great artists were overlooked.

trump decided to obey the law. this is big news