Shebengal
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3 hours ago, High School Harry said:
Just for gits and shiggles...
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/rumor-browns-looking-upgrade-tight-015852921.html
The Cleveland Browns need to find more depth at tight end after the room did very little outside David Njoku in 2022. The NFL Scouting Combine is full of rumors and Dawgs By Nature’s Jared Mueller dropped some exciting bits about tight ends. The Browns are set to target the Cincinnati Bengals’ tight end potentially Hayden Hurts or the Las Vegas Raiders’ Foster Moreau to bolster the room.
Hurst had a great season with the Bengals and it would be a massive upgrade. The team wants to use fewer tight ends but with Njoku’s injury, someone good enough to start might be crucial. Hurst having only two drops this season with his ability to block and skill in the redzone would be a great addition.
First of all, I would hate to see Hurst leave, let alone got to an AFCN rival, let alone the Browns.
But, it would be fun to watch hubby and the son's reaction to this if they let Njoku go. Both of them really like him, for some reason.
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Meanwhile, in Cleveland, this drama may be starting:
Yeah-good luck with that. Browns are currently 14 million over the salary cap.
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Good article on Drew Pitt (last season’s preseason hero).
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9 hours ago, Montana Bengal said:
I think you are right. Met Whit at that time and they became friends.Didn't he stay with Whit and his family when he was doing his rehab?
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1 hour ago, Jackie Treehorn said:
https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2023/1/26/23572013/joe-burrow-evolution-sacks-afc-championship
Pretty good read on how Burrow has changed from last season to this season.
Good read. Thanks for posting.
This is what I keep trying to explain to my hubby why I prefer Burrow over Herbert. He has "it". Call it perception, call it a knack, call it whatever you want. He just has "it".
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The Ohio House Republicans are feuding, too. They elected a Speaker of the House who worked with the Democrats to get elected and the 22 Republicans who voted for him were censured by the state Republican Party. 😂
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8 hours ago, claptonrocks said:
And Joe gives them leeway to keep the cap reasonable .
You know he will..
That's what great leaders do.
Agreed. I don’t think he’s about the money or the bragging rights about being the highest paid QB. He wants to win. Period.
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2 hours ago, T-Dub said:
The mainstream Republicans will complain about them.. then nominate them again. So long as wackos like her & MTG are under their tent I will classify the entire party as a circus.
True.
Here ever after, I will refer to Lauren Boebert as “Look at Me Lauren”. 😂
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30 minutes ago, T-Dub said:
The scary thing about her is she's one of the Q conspiracy loonies plucked from an escort site. Ted Cruz "discovered" her (ahem) & some real shady people made her into a viable candidate. Who knows what her actual personal politics may be - she's literally a paid actor. Paid by who and to what end is what's concerning, even more so than the absolute lunacy she promotes. "Far right" doesn't do it justice, she's not even grounded in reality. The fact that half of western Colorado is on board with that is reason to avoid the area, just like NW Georgia or all of Texas.
There was an Op-Ed in the Columbus Dispatch today by Connie Schultz, who is a prize winning journalist and Sen. Sherrod Brown’s wife and part of it does call out Boebert. It mentions that she only won by 546 votes.
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20 hours ago, T-Dub said:
Watching them turn on each other is no less enjoyable for being entirely predictable.
Weird how supporting unhinged lunatics makes for unreliable allies, isn't it?
Didn’t Little Miss Lauren Boebert’s election have to be recounted because it was so close? That should serve to remind her that a large part of her constituency would like a more moderate and willing to compromise point of view from her instead of her mega right wing stubbornness.
But if she is like most Congresspeople , she’ll ignore the minority who voted against her anyway.
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Republicans promised their voters an ambitious agenda, including securing the border, outlawing abortion, getting inflation under control, investigating Hunter Biden, etc.
They can't even elect a Speaker of the House. 😂
Methinks that they won't get nearly as much done as they promised, especially with a Democratic Senate and President.
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1 hour ago, T-Dub said:
I'm still trying to get my head around this. The map gets rejected as unconstitutional by the courts how many times? And then we just go with it anyway?
The spin where they've been showing the majority red US map is pretty funny. People vote, not acreage. Hold that L.
Only because the Federal Appeals court with 2 Trump appointees upheld it. It’s only good for this election.
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1 hour ago, Jamie_B said:
Wasn't there a state wide prop a few years ago to look at a bi-partisan election board that would address the gerrymandering?
Yes, there was, but their idea of bi-partisan was 5 Republicans (including the governor and the AG, I think), and 2 Democrats. The maps right now are only good for 2 years, but with the Republicans controlling everything, it will be lather, rinse, repeat in 2024. The only thing that kept these maps only good for 2 years was the Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice siding with the Democratic justices and she is now retired.
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36 minutes ago, Jamie_B said:
Watching Lindsey Graham talk about how all the Democrats wanted was power a few years ago was such a projection on his part it was embarrasing.
Watching Faux News (and no, I don’t actively watch this-I just happen to be in the room when it’s on.) still claim this is embarrassing 😳. You want proof that the Republicans are power hungry-look at Ohio and how badly it’s gerrymandered right now (and probably will be for years to come.)
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13 hours ago, T-Dub said:
Say what you will about Bonzo no one mistook him for a Russian stooge
He would probably be considered too moderate for today’s Republican Party.
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23 hours ago, T-Dub said:
I never used to vote a straight Dem ticket by default & still may check a couple of independents but I can't vote for a Republican candidate until the party unequivocally rejects the MAGA/Qonspiracy lunatics, theocrats and white supremacists.
Unfortunately, right now they'd never win another election without them.
What bothers me more are the people that claim not to support that shit then try to rationalize it. THAT I don't understand.
Also the racially-motivated El Paso massacre that didn't even move the needle on domestic terrorism. Guess it's going to take another incident like the OKC bombing for Americans to take that shit seriously. No doubt in my mind it's coming.
Agreed. In Ohio it’s even worse because the Republicans have a stranglehold on the state and unfortunately, for the next two years and possibly beyond, it will continue because the state is so gerrymandered. The current legislative map is only good until the next election because it wasn’t agreed upon by the commission (comprised of 5 Republicans and 2 Democrats) and was rejected as unconstitutional numerous times by the Ohio Supreme Court but upheld in Federal Court (with 2 Trump appointees on it). But if Republicans continue to control the state (and they probably will), then the same thing is going to happen for 2024. Lather, rinse, repeat. 🤬😞
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2 hours ago, RayDoggBengal said:
I think it should always be 1 old school and 1 new school.
Out of curiosity, where would you draw the line?
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16 hours ago, Montana Bengal said:
Good call. Could sell our playbook to the highest bidder.
Who would want it right now??? LOL!!
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3 hours ago, T-Dub said:
My thing is I'm not really seeing a whole lot of radicalism from the Democrats. Extending basic human rights to gay people or making healthcare affordable do not strike me as particularly radical ideas.
For my part I wish the Democratic party was half as progressive or liberal as they're accused of being. As a party it looks like fairly centrist corporate neolibs to me. People call Obama a radical leftist and I have no idea what they're basing that on.. Nancy Pelosi a radical? The Clintons? Really?
Some would debate that Obama and the Clintons are not liberal enough for today’s Democratic Party. But some of the ideas that are being thrown out there, especially about some of the green initiatives, are unrealistic. Do you think California is going to have the electrical infrastructure in place by 2035 to ban gasoline car sales? Do you think the rest of the country would be ready for a similar initiative? My sister recently experimented with driving her EV from Virginia to Cincinnati and what is normally a 7 hour trip turned into an overnight trip because West Virginia doesn’t have any fast charging stations. And what’s going to power these electric stations? I’m all for clean air and I believe that the threat of global warming is real, but I just don’t think that getting away from gas and oil won’t happen for a long time.
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2 hours ago, Jamie_B said:
Privately most of them hate him, or are at lest exhausted with him, but the electorate is so whipped up on him that opposing him gets you what it got Cheney.
That's a problem.
I’m not fond of what the Democrats are doing right now, but at the same time, I can’t vote or take seriously any Republican who is maintaining that Trump won the election, or any Trump supporter, really. Here in Ohio for the Senate race, we have JD Vance, who was an anti-Trumper until he got his endorsement, and is cringey for a million other reasons, and Tim Ryan, who at least tries to work with the Republicans (and gets criticized by the radical left for doing so.) TBH, if Matt Dolan had won the Republican primary, I would probably vote for him in November over Ryan.
I think a lot of the reasonable congresspeople on both sides, who want to work together for the common good, are drowned out by the louder and more radical voices on both sides and feel like they have to fall in line or lose their seat.
It’s sad 😔.
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Faux News and all of their collective "contributors" were losing their collective minds last night. All the usual suspects were whining about this-Lara Trump, Eric Trump, Jim Jordan, Marc Levin, and others. They were calling it the "end of democracy" and 'weaponizing the FBI and DOJ" amongst other things.
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18 hours ago, T-Dub said:
Therefore I think maybe he's appealing to a bunch of racist shitheels and the "economy" stuff is just a way of justifying being a racist shitheel. If it wasn't jobs it'd be drugs or something else.
Part of the whole Mexican prejudice does have to do with drugs, given Vance’s family history with drug addiction, which was the basis for “Hillbilly Elegy”. (Which I have not read, nor have any desire to read.)
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2 hours ago, Jamie_B said:
Yeah the same one who once called Trump "America's Hitler"
These people believe in nothing except what it takes to get and remain in power
I know, right? I guess opinions can change but I’m still scratching my head over that endorsement.
But I did find it amusing to watch the Republicans fight each other during the primary season. Some of the ads I heard were just plain bizarre.
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