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IF I were the Browns I would draft a stud LT, and WR if they are to be found in this draft. The thing is I would trade back in the draft as far back as I could and still get those good players while picking up every second round pick I could because you can get very good offensive linemen in the second round.

I want us to draft Nyck Harbor no matter what. This kid is going to be one of the best WRs in the NFL since Calvin Johnson except he is even faster and stronger. He is a high character kid who will be a hard worker and a great role model to the kids. I have just fallen in love with this kid the more I watch him. At 6'5" 235 pounds and running a 4.2 he is so fast and big if he doesn't make you whiff he will run you over. I can only dream of him and Fannon on the field together and Judkins breaking a long one and Myck gets to the endzone first and then turns around to block Judkins pursuers head on. This kid is a real monster! The thing is he will either be a first round pick because of his athletics or a third round pick based on his hands. I would take him with our second first round pick after putting a priority on getting a real LT.

There seems to be several good LT's in this draft so honestly I wouldn't mind moving back up into the first round so we could draft two of them. One for LT and one for RT. Centers and guards are easier to find than tackles in FA and in the second and third rounds of the draft.

Trevor Goosby (OT): 4.80 seconds
Spencer Fano (OT): 4.90 seconds
Jaeden Roberts (OG): 5.00 seconds
Olaivavega Ioane (OG): 5.35 seconds
Conner Lew (C): 5.05 seconds

Imagine an offensive line that fast! The things that would do for the run game! I know it would be hard to get all those guys but I can dream right?

Just give me Nyck and an offensive line and I think the Browns will do great things even with Sanders as QB. IF Sanders doesn't work out then we draft a QB in 2027 but it would be nice if Sanders does work out and we can draft another stud WR in 2027 to have a really great offense. That would give us a fast and young offensive line for the next 10 years and a very dangerous WR core. I honestly think with that offensive line our QBs and WRs will all look a lot better since plays will have more consistent timing which helps WRs a LOT. I have noticed a LOT of timing issues with the WRs and to me that is bad coaching. WRs should know how long the QB has to throw the ball and be looking for it instead of getting hit in the head with it ...

If Manning did declare it would add a wrinkle to the draft.

Haslam is a guy who could bite. In fact it may be his dream scenario.

Haslam brings doubt to the first round. I do not know if he would force his choice?

If Manning did not come out. I think he would go along with his GM.

Manning declaring could change that. At this point I have no clue as to how Manning would be looked at by Berry.

Trump didn't win the Nobel Prize, but after Putin looked over Trump's "peace proposal" on Ukraine which was a list of Putin's every wish, he did name trump the Russian employee of the month.

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I thought that's why the "trump troops" were sent to Chicago? To stop things like this? Just another fail we can add to the list I suppose.

Sadly for you it's exactly what happened. Did you bother to watch their meeting before spouting that nonsense? Try to keep up next time.

I almost feel sorry for your kind who after almost 10 years still haven't managed to come up with anything more creative than TDS. I've known 12 year olds who could do better. That may be one of many reasons trump said smart people don't like him.

we need a completely new OL, WR, and QB

MTG statement

I’ve always represented the common American man and woman as a member of the House of Representatives, which is why I’ve always been despised in Washington DC and never fit in.

Americans are used by the Political Industrial Complex of both Political Parties, election cycle after election cycle, in order to elect whichever side can convince Americans to hate the other side more. And the results are always the same.

No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman. The debt goes higher. Corporate and global interests remain Washington’s sweethearts.

American jobs continue to be replaced—whether it’s by illegal labor, legal labor by visas, or just shipped overseas. Small businesses continue to be swallowed by big corporations.

Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars always fund foreign wars, foreign aid, and foreign interests. The spending power of the dollar continues to decline. The average American family can no longer survive on a single breadwinner’s income as both parents must work in order to simply survive.

And today, many in my children’s generation feel hopeless for their future and don’t think they will ever realize the American dream, which breaks my heart.

I ran for Congress in 2020 and have fought every single day believing that Make America Great Again meant America First. I have one of the most conservative voting records in Congress—defending the 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, unborn babies because I believe God creates life at conception, strong safe borders. I’ve fought against Covid tyrannical insanity and mandated mass vaccinations, and I’ve never voted to fund foreign wars.

However, with almost one year into our majority, the legislature has been mostly sidelined. We endured an 8-week shutdown, wrongly resulting in the House not working for the entire time, and we are entering campaign season—which means all courage leaves and only safe campaign re-election mode is turned on.

During the longest shutdown in our nation’s history, I raged against my own Speaker and my own party for refusing to proactively work diligently to pass a plan to save American healthcare and protect Americans from outrageous, overpriced, and unaffordable health insurance policies. The House should have been in session working every day to fix this disaster, but instead America was force-fed disgusting political drama once again from both sides of the aisle.

My bills—which reflect many of President Trump’s Executive Orders—like calling for a new census counting Americans only to draw new districts, making English the official language of the U.S., making it a felony to medically trans a minor, and other bills like eliminating capital gains taxes on the sale of your home and eliminating H1-B visas—just sit collecting dust. That’s how it is for most members of Congress’s bills; the Speaker never brings them to the floor for a vote.

Many common Americans are no longer easily convinced by paid political propaganda spokespersons and consultants on TV and paid shills on social media obediently serving with cult-like conviction to force others to swallow the political party talking points.

Because they know how much credit card debt they have. They know how much their own bills have gone up over the past 5 years. They actually do their own grocery shopping and know food costs too much. Their rent has increasingly gone up. They have been outbid by corporate asset managers too many times when they put in an offer to buy a house. They have been laid off after being forced to train their visa-holding replacement. The college degree they were told to earn only left them in debt with no big six-figure salary. They see more homeless people than ever on their own community streets. They can’t afford health insurance or practically any insurance. And they just aren’t stupid.

These are the people I represent and love, because that is who all of my family and friends are—common Americans.

I have been blessed to represent the 14th district of Georgia for 5 years, which is filled with some of the most wonderful, kind-hearted, God-fearing, patriotic, hard-working people you will ever meet. Good, regular, common Americans.

I’ve worked hard to bring taxpayer dollars back home to help district needs. I impeached Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security after watching my constituents die as he facilitated the dangerous open-border invasion into America, and I led the effort to defund hard-left, politically biased NPR, PBS, and the corrupt USAID as the Chair of the DOGE Subcommittee.

I have fought harder than almost any other elected Republican to elect Donald Trump and Republicans to power—traveling the country for years, spending millions of my own money, missing precious time with my family that I can never get back, and showing up in places like outside the New York Courthouse in Collect Pond Park against a raging leftist mob as Trump faced Democrat lawfare. Meanwhile, most of the Establishment Republicans—who secretly hate him and who stabbed him in the back and never defended him against anything—have all been welcomed in after the election.

And I will never forget the day I had to leave my mother’s side as my father had brain surgery to remove cancerous tumors in order to fly to Washington D.C. to defend President Trump and vote NO against the Democrats’ second impeachment in 2021. My poor father and my poor mother—it was way too much.

Through it all, I never changed or went back on my campaign promises and only disagreed in a few areas like my stance against H1-Bs replacing American jobs, AI state moratoriums, debt-for-life 50-year mortgage scams, standing strongly against all involvement in foreign wars, and demanding the release of the Epstein files. Other than that, my voting record has been solidly with my party and the President.

Loyalty should be a two-way street, and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest because our job title is literally “Representative.”

America First should mean America First—and only Americans First—with no other foreign country ever being attached to America First in our halls of government.

Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for.

However, while yes hurtful, my heart remains filled with joy, my life is filled with happiness, and my true convictions remain unchanged because my self-worth is not defined by a man, but instead by God who created everything in existence.

You see, I have never valued power, titles, or attention in spite of all the wrong assumptions about me. I do not cling to those things because they are meaningless and empty traps that hold too many people in Washington. I believe in term limits and do not think Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility.

My only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America First. And I have fought against Democrats’ damaging policies like the Green New Deal, wide-open deadly unsafe border policies, and the trans agenda on children and against women.

With that has come years of nonstop, never-ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies about me that most people could never withstand even for a day.

It has been unfair and wrong—not only to me and especially my family, but to my district as well.

I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for—only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms. And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.

It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a “battered wife” hoping it all goes away and gets better.

If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can’t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.

There is no “plan to save the world” or insane 4D chess game being played.

When the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington’s machine from gradually destroying our country—and instead the reality is that they, common Americans, The People, possess the real power over Washington—then I’ll be here by their side to rebuild it.

Until then, I’m going back to the people I love, to live life to the fullest as I always have, and look forward to a new path ahead.

Students doing certain degrees may no longer receive the same amount of reimbursement for their studies now that the Department of Education is implementing various measures from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.

One measure coming into action is that whether a degree is considered "professional" will influence how much reimbursement a student receives for their higher education.

However, there are a number of what many see as "professional" degrees missing from the new list, such a nursing, which sparked significant concern among nurses and nursing organizations.

Newsweek has contacted the Department of Education via email outside of regular hours for comment.

Why It Matters

The costs of doing a college degree are getting higher and higher—over the last 30 years the average tuition for both public and private colleges has doubled after adjusting for inflation, according to a report by NPR.

In just the last decade, costs of undergraduate tuition in public universities have also gone up by 30 percent, according to the University Herald, and some colleges were also set to bring in 4 percent cost hikes for this academic year as well.

This means that those doing high-costing degrees, who may no longer receive the same amount as their degree may not be deemed "professional," could financially struggle to cover the costs—which could deter students from choosing to pursue those high-demand careers.

What To Know

Under the terms of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, the Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) will be brought in to replace previous programs.

This means that the Grad PLUS program, designed to help graduate and professional students cover educational expenses, will be scrapped while Parent PLUS loans, student loans available for parents of dependent undergraduate students, will be limited.

The "new and simplified" RAP will see annual loans for new borrowers capped at $20,500 for graduate students and $50,000 for professional students.

This means that what degrees count as professional and non-professional is now a determining factor in how much financial support students will receive.

In the regulatory definition of a professional degree (34 CFR 668.2) from 1965, the text lists a number of professions, but says a professional degree is "not limited to" those mentioned, meaning it is unclear how many of the degrees not counted professional now have always been considered non-professional.

That said, the occupations not deemed professional among the health care space include nursing, physician assistants, physical therapists and audiologists, according to the education news outlet Inside Higher Ed.

Per the outlet, other professions not included are architects, accountants, educators, and social workers—which sector representatives pushed to be included in the list, given that they are high-demand occupations.

It has also been reported that engineering, a business master's, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology will not be considered "professional" either.

Many are now concerned about the impact this will have on students training in these professions, with particular concern raised over how this could reduce the number of nurses across the country if less students decide to enter the profession over financial concerns.

The American Nurses Association has, as a result, started a petition to get the Department of Education to include nursing as a professional degree.

List of Degrees Not Classed as 'Professional' by Trump Admin

Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers

What People Are Saying

Amy McGrath, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky, wrote in a post on X: "Can someone explain how a theologian is considered more "professional" than a nurse practitioner? As part of the "Big Beautiful Bill" the Department of Education just proposed a reclassification of a "professional degree," and it means fewer students will qualify for the higher loan limits they need for grad school. Programs being excluded include many fields dominated by women like health care, counseling, and social work. This isn’t a coincidence. This is a way to quietly push women out of professional careers. Limiting who can pursue advanced degrees in critical professions will only deepen the workforce shortages we’re already facing."

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) said in a statement: "Excluding nursing from the definition of professional degree programs disregards decades of progress toward parity across the health professions and contradicts the Department’s own acknowledgment that professional programs are those leading to licensure and direct practice. AACN recognizes that explicitly including postbaccalaureate nursing education as professional is essential for strengthening the nation’s health care workforce, supporting the next generation of nurses, and ultimately supporting the health care of patients in communities across the country."

Kevin Kinser, professor of education policy studies at Pennsylvania State University, told Newsweek: "I don’t think the point is to discern professional degrees from other degrees in terms of loan eligibility. It is to limit the exposure of the government to loans that will not be repaid, whether because of default or through public service loan forgiveness policies. So the list includes professions that generally result in high salaries, and neglect professions that have lower earnings or less prominence. The exception here is theology, which may reflect more political calculations than anything else. There is also less of a sense of using loans to encourage people to enroll in other programs from a workforce development perspective. We need nurses and teachers for example, yet loans would be unavailable to support people entering these professions."

He added: "As a wider impact, on the positive side, it will prevent people from taking on unreasonable amount of debt for the salaries they can expect to receive in employment. It will also reduce the incentive for universities to use professional programs as cash cows and increase the pressure on affordability. On the down side, it is yet another pressure point that universities are faced with as their business models are upended by sharp breaks from previous policies. Many institutions will struggle to readjust. For institutions that value public service, such as land grant institutions, it may be especially difficult to maintain community commitments to providing relevant educational credentials when the financial support for these has been reduced or eliminated."

Paul Gaston, a professor of English at Kent State University, told Newsweek: "There are two different issues. One is abstract, an argument about definitions: which disciplines should be regarded as "professional?" Definitions that appear contrary to common sense should be reexamined. By what conceivable standard are nursing, physical therapy, and audiology not to be regarded as "professional?" It should be obvious that nursing and allied health programs prepare students to enter the health care professions."

He added: "But the more important issue is whether funding policies driven by specific bureaucratic definitions serve the public good. If such policies discourage or prevent students from pursuing an education to become health care professionals, American citizens will face an increasing challenge in gaining access to health care. A patient refused a hospital bed because of a nursing shortage will have little patience for discussions of definitions."

He also said: "The abstract questions should not be ignored, and the definitions being used to allocate funding should be examined and refined. There is no lack of evidence that could fuel a good discussion. For instance, the case can be made that liberal arts programs preparing individuals for corporate leadership or legal studies or journalism should also be regarded as "professional." But the immediate priority should be that higher education funding policies serve the obvious public good and, in this case, public health."

Peter Lake, a professor of law, and the chair and director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stenson Law, told Newsweek: "There are a variety of what I have come to know as "learned professions" under other legal standards that the current administration does not consider to be professions for extended loan opportunities, notably a variety in the health care field such as nursing. A learned profession features specialized higher education training and skills, licensure requirements and accelerated accountability by the profession itself and/or legal consequences for malpractice under professional standards of care. The federal administration in my view should track more commonly held views of what qualifies as a profession under the law."

He added: "The impacts of narrowly construing professions could include barriers to opportunities for students seeking a career in what is otherwise considered a profession under other legal standards. The private loan market might not be sufficient or sufficiently affordable especially for promising students who have faced economic challenges. There may be some pressure as well on institutions to reduce tuition; and the major question is whether doing so might result in diminution of necessary instruction and training, particularly in person. As the current administration seeks to control the costs of professional education we are all waiting to see if the goal of efficiency competes with creating a sufficient future cadre of well-trained professionals."

What Happens Next

The new measures will be implemented from July 2026.

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-degrees-professional-trump-administration-11085695

Please explain and good luck with that.

Would you like to see videos of border agents on the other side of the river checking them in signing up for asylum?

There are legitimate reasons for denying or revoking visas. Then there's just doing it for the sake of doing it to "create" illegality. I suppose one could make excuses for doing that but we've watched it happen with no actual reason for it.

And reminding people, any group of people that their responsibility is to follow the law is neither one.

Lakewood St. Edward vs Mentor is on Spectrum channel 1 at 7 pm tonight.

I support the rule of law and the constitution. You don't. I get it. Your only excuse is , "Yeah but they are Brown."

You have now stooped to the level of refusing to debate the substance of the constitution and the law to throw BS one liners. In your situation I don't blame you. You have nothing else left. I get it. And from reading this thread, so does everyone else.

Not as far as I'm concerned but I'm guessing the answer you would get to that question may depend heavily on who you ask.

At this point in time it appears to many Republicans it may be considered a ring of honor if that counts.

"I only hire the best people." - Donald Trump

Kinda like his tax returns were under audit. lol Text book Trump.

I thought I was specific when I asked which 2020 rookie GM has proven better than Berry in your opinion.

In my opinion, drafting a project quarterback in the third round or later is simply a project. If you can obtain a backup caliber quarterback, you struck gold. If you cannot establish anything during their rookie contract and trade away to recoup the lost draft capital, it was a worthy pick.

To say the worst quarterback talent evaluator on a mid to late round player is mind-blowing. Percentages clearly indicate that the success rate at any position drafted in the mid to late rounds is in the single digits.

not operating well for me, either..mac

Way to go Brian.

Trump says he would be 'OK' launching strikes in Mexico to fight drug smuggling

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has repeatedly said U.S. military action in the country without her permission won't happen.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump opened the door Monday to launching U.S. strikes in Mexico, a move that would be a dramatic escalation of his administration’s fight against drug cartels.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump answered a question about potentially striking Mexico or sending American troops or other personnel into the country by saying it would be “OK with me."

“Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? OK with me, whatever we have to do to stop drugs. Mexico is — look, I looked at Mexico City over the weekend. There’s some big problems over there,” Trump said after he was asked whether he was considering such action.

Asked whether he would conduct strikes only with Mexico’s permission, Trump said he “wouldn’t answer that question.” He added that he has been speaking with the country, adding that Mexico knows “how I stand.”

“We’ve stopped the waterways, but we know every route. We know every route, we know the addresses of every drug lord,” Trump said. “We know their address, we know their front door. We know everything about every one of them. They’re killing our people. That’s like a war. Would I do it? I’d be proud to.”

The Mexican Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NBC News reported this month that the Trump administration has begun planning for a new campaign in which the United States would send American troops and intelligence officers to Mexico to target drug cartels. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has repeatedly said U.S. military action in Mexico without her permission will not happen.

In the middle of answering the question about Mexico, Trump pivoted to talk about Colombia, saying he would be "proud" to dismantle cocaine factories in the country.

“We have nobody coming into our southern border, but we know exactly how they get their things here. How they get the drugs here. Fentanyl, cocaine,” Trump said. “Colombia is — has cocaine factories, where they make cocaine. Would I knock out those factories? I would be proud to do it, personally.”

The Colombian Embassy in Washington did not immediately provide a comment on Trump's remarks.

The Trump administration has launched nearly two dozen strikes on boats allegedly carrying narcotics in the region and near Venezuela, killing more than 80 people, including Colombian citizens.

The strikes led leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro to denounce the Trump' administration’s actions and to a subsequent diplomatic rift between Petro and Trump. Trump has called Petro a “drug leader,” and the United States took the unusual move of sanctioning him.

Trump said Sunday he was considering talks with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro amid the U.S. decision to ramp up pressure in the region, including by designating the Cartel de los Soles, which the administration alleges is run by Maduro, as a foreign terrorist organization.

Asked Monday in the Oval Office whether he would rule out troops on the ground in Venezuela, Trump said no.

"I don't rule out anything. We just have to take care of Venezuela," he said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/wh...strikes-mexico-drug-smuggling-rcna244484

Makes you wonder if Pardons are worth the paper they are printed on.

True. A woman in my community here had a heart transplant when she was 13. She’s 28 now and her heart is shutting down and there’s nothing that can be done , so I’ve heard.

I’d forgotten Kenny Easley over the years but reading that story about his career, he was a stud.

My thoughts all day have been with Bernie Kosar.

Courage and grace he is a testimonial for being positive.

All day I have been checking on his liver transplant which took place at 5:00 AM.

He has been fighting for his life for quite some time.

Finally:

“Hey, I’m out and I’m feeling good,” Kosar said in a video from his hospital bed. “Just ready to enjoy the rest of the week and the rest of our lives. You matter.”

"Keep it going Bernie you matter."