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Nick Chubb, former Browns running back, announces retirement from NFL at 30

Chubb made the Pro Bowl for Cleveland 4 consecutive seasons from 2019-22

Nick Chubb, a four-time Pro Bowl running back who starred for the Cleveland Browns, announced his retirement from the NFL on Instagram on Friday night.

Chubb, 30, spent seven of his eight seasons in the league with the Browns. He played for the Houston Texans during the 2025 campaign, and the Georgia product finished with fewer than 600 scrimmage yards for the third straight go-around.

While he appeared in 15 games — his most since 2022 — he didn't have the makings of the star he used to be. Chubb wasn't the same after he suffered a pair of heartbreaking injuries.

The first saw him tear his MCL and damage his ACL in his left knee — the same knee he severely injured as a sophomore in college — early in the 2023 season. That setback required multiple surgeries. Chubb returned amid the 2024 season, and he broke his left foot less than two months later.

"Today's the day I've been avoiding for a while," Chubb wrote in his IG post. "Twelve-year-old me could never imagine this day, and 30-year-old me is wondering where all the time has gone.

"I've known for some time now, but I'm finally ready to share that I'm done playing football. I wanted to end my career on a healthy note, along with a winning season, and I was able to do that."

Last season, Chubb was part of a Texans squad that went 12-5 and made the divisional round of the AFC playoffs. He had been on only two playoff teams before that, and one of them was the 2023 Browns, for whom he was sidelined most of the season, including the postseason.

A bruising runner in his prime, Chubb clocked out with 7,349 rushing yards and 59 total touchdowns. The bulk of those arrived from 2019-22. Each year during that span, he earned Pro Bowl recognition while eclipsing the 1,000-yard rushing barrier. In 2022, he registered a career-high 1,525 yards on the ground. His 13 total touchdowns that season were also a personal best.

That said, thanks to a career-high 278 receiving yards, his most scrimmage yards (1,772) came in 2019, his second year in the league after the Browns drafted him in the second round with the No. 35 overall pick.

In Chubb's IG post, he mentioned that he made several promises to himself at the start of his football journey. He admitted he wasn't able to keep all of them.

"In college, I wanted to win the Heisman, become an All-American and win a national championship," he wrote. "In the NFL, I wanted to lead the league in rushing, win MVP and win a Super Bowl for the city of Cleveland.

"I wasn't able to accomplish any of those things."

He added, though: "And what's most frustrating, but also gives me peace, is that I know for a fact that I gave it my all."

Chubb discussed his injury troubles in the post as well. He explained how hurting his left knee for a second time, then in his late 20s, was a vastly different experience than the one he had at 19 when he was at Georgia.

"At UGA, when it first happened, I was young, naïve and didn't fully understand the extent of the injury," he said. "I believe that played a part in me being able to bounce back and eventually return to form.

"At 28, it's different. You understand that you have the rest of your life to look forward to. And that's exactly what I started to do. I say this to all my brothers still on the field, still in the heat of it: There's a life waiting for you after football, too. And health is the real wealth.

"I end my career in a great place. Even though there are some things I wish had happened differently, I can say that I have no regrets."

https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breaki...retirement-from-nfl-at-30-012850666.html

And if that's the discussion we're having - business's don't price fix at a low point - they price fix to gouge and maximize profits.

The arrangement in this song is soo good.

Sometimes players just run out of juice quickly. Sometimes it's physical, sometimes mental, sometimes both.

Yeah, this one gets it's own thread.

RNC Chair Blames Trump’s Bad Approval Rating On (Checks Notes) Joe Biden

Trump currently has low marks with voters and Joe Gruters is laying the blame on his predecessor.

The current head of the Republican National Committee is apparently blaming President Donald Trump’s low approval ratings on (checks notes) Joe Biden.

The Republican Party currently controls the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court ― and, frankly, some terrible approval ratings thanks to Trump.

But a new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows that only 33% of Americans approve of the president’s performance while 64% disapprove. It’s his lowest approval since his first term in December 2017.

Considering the midterms are just a few months away, the news obviously isn’t great for the party overall, but RNC Chairman Joe Gruters is prepared. Prepared to blame anything but Trump for her own failures, that is.

Gruters addressed the low approval ratings during a Friday interview on NewsNation.

But if you thought he was going to concede that rising inflation, high gas costs and the war in Iran might be blamed for the bad polling numbers, you’d be dead wrong.

Instead, he decided to follow the lead of previous Republican officials and blame Biden, who, you might remember, hasn’t been president since Jan. 20, 2025.

After host Markie Martin noted that the economy is the biggest factor “when it comes to elections,” she asked, “How do you convince people you’re the right choice to make things like gas and groceries cheaper — and not the Dems?”

Gruters suggested the upcoming midterm convention might help win voters, before suggesting the real culprit to the current political predicament is a man who is no longer in power.

“The president is still dealing with the Biden issues that were left over under the disastrous four years they ruled,” Gruters said before falsely claiming gas prices were higher under Biden.

He also mentioned the Iran war is a factor, despite it being Trump’s doing entirely.



The unemployment rate in January 2025: 4.0%
The inflation rate in January 2025: 3.0%
The unemployment rate in July 2026: 4.1%
The inflation rate in July 2026: 3.4%

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rnc-...88505e4b021f20f8897c9?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001

There are replies that point out this is nuts but some of the language can not be posted here. This is what BDS looks and sounds like.

Not really an accurate statement as of right now.


Lowest approval ever recorded Harry Truman 22% (Feb. 1952)
2nd-lowest approval Richard Nixon 24% (1974)
Highest disapproval recorded George W. Bush 71% disapprove (Oct. 2008)
Lowest average approval over a completed presidency Donald Trump, first term 41.1%
2nd-lowest average Joe Biden 42.2%

I see some of the contracts for bench/role guys and I can't believe it - tens of millions of dollars for an 8th man

Nothing has really ever changed for me, either at home or work.

Sorry to hear about the job Purp - hoping you end up on the better side of that one, which I'm sure will happen


Maybe we can plan something for the 21st reunion

And to further muddy the waters Kushner said the talks with Iran that trump said they are not having were ongoing and "robust".

Kushner: US having robust talks with the Iranians, but they’re not ready to make deal we want

18 August 2026, 12:29 am

US special envoy Jared Kushner says conversations between the US and different areas of the Iranian government have probably been more robust than ever, but the two sides have not yet reached an understanding.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...t-theyre-not-ready-to-make-deal-we-want/

So let's try to keep up here shall we?

First they claimed there were back channel talks which were then claimed by trump not to have happened which Kushner said were robust?

I'm going to have to invest in a new lie counter. My last one broke from overuse.

BATTLE 2

^ That's ^ the 22 minute video

(You'll often get "Video unavailable" if it's copyrighted, but you can always click "Watch on YouTube")

I think he is hospice at home and the next thing we will hear is about his passing.

I'll say:
Ravens 11-6
Bengals 10-7
Steelers 9-8
Browns 5-12

I suppose one could say that. I was raised that by omitting the truth made it a lie. But that's when I lived in America and not trumplandia. I have no idea what the new rules are.

So you claim the entire population of Gaza celebrated the acts of Hamas in October? Or was it a select minority of the citizens of Gaza you saw? You try to use an election held in 2006 as your excuse? You do realize that Hamas has not allowed an election since then, right? And you do realize that children don't have the right to vote. That means that anyone who was under the age of 18 in 2006 hasn't ever been able to vote.

It's strange that any Christian would try so hard to find excuses to kill innocent people. What part of the Bible did you get that from?

You fail to see innocent people because you refuse to look and don't want to see them.

Supreme Court rejects final Trump appeal of $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict

Carroll has received the money in the 2023 case, her representatives said.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from President Donald Trump to reconsider its rejection of his appeal in the 2023 E. Jean Carroll case.

The decision means it's the end of the line for Trump's bid to overturn a $5 million jury award to Carroll, which the writer's representatives said was paid in July.

The Court did not explain its decision and there were no noted dissents. No request for a rehearing has been granted since the 1960s.

A jury determined in 2023 that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!"

In 2024, following a separate trial, Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual abuse.

Trump, who denies any wrongdoing, is continuing to appeal that judgment with a petition to the justices currently pending. They are expected to decide later this year whether or not to take up the case.

In his appeal, Trump alleges that his 2019 comments about Carroll -- which were later found to be defamatory -- were "official" statements as president and therefore immune from use in a legal case against him.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/supreme-court-rejects-final-trump-appeal-5-million/story?id=135707525

So in Trumplandia making derogatory statements about a woman involved in a personal lawsuit with you are "official" statements as president?

And the beat goes on......

His career is one of pure craftsmanship.

Augustus McCrae was his favorite character.

He was amazing in The Great Santini, Tender Mercies, The Apostle, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Mash, To Kill a Mockingbird.

No matter what he was in he brought craftmanship.

Now trump threatens to bomb ally Oman.

Another dose of insanity. "Oh it's OK it is trump being trump."

Yes.

Maybe so. I don't know how often that happens. Maybe it should happen more often. You never know when a games critical inning is going to happen. The don't always come in the late innings.

No one has had their injuries disclosed yet. Monken isn’t talking until he has to. I’m not worried about Carson but I am worried about a couple of the others who limped out.

You know the game.......