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If Schwartz has expressed real interest and is even remotely opposed to staying at DC, I'm slow-playing my lukewarm interest until I've interviewed everyone on my list. I think Schwartz is a clear Plan B in a field of Plan As.

I would consider Schwartz, It would depend upon his plan forthe offense and special teams, but if he has a good plan, heck yeah.

Didn't the Ravens just request to interview Jim Schwartz? That'll throw a Monkee in the wrench!

Maybe I would draft him in the 2nd round. Definitely in the 3rd. I don't think he would be around after that. It would depend on who we took up to that point and how he looked in workouts.

This entire Ice thing isn't about immigration... It's about Power over Blue States. Two other states with HUGE immigrant populations are Florida and Texas...I don't see Ice going there in a show of force..... Not like they are doing it in Blue States.


https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2026/january/ag-lawsuit/



Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, on behalf of the state and alongside the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and related agencies and officials, asking the court to end the unprecedented surge of DHS agents into the state and declare it unconstitutional and unlawful. They also ask the court for a temporary restraining order, citing the immediate harm the state and cities are facing.

In December 2025, the federal government initiated “Operation Metro Surge,” during which thousands of armed and masked DHS agents — including from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — have stormed the Twin Cities to conduct militarized raids and carry out dangerous, illegal, and unconstitutional stops and arrests, all under the guise of lawful immigration enforcement. DHS agents have brazenly and repeatedly deployed excessive force against the people of Minnesota, spreading terror throughout the Twin Cities and beyond.

This surge has resulted in tangible harm to the state of Minnesota and its people, as well as the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. As a result of this surge, municipalities have been forced to divert local law enforcement resources away from their normal public safety duties, emergency responder resources have been strained, schools have been forced into lockdowns and closures, businesses have been forced to close, and the rights of Minnesotans have been violated time and time again.

The State and the cities allege the surge amounts to a violation of the First and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution, as well as the Constitution’s guarantee of equal sovereignty between state and federal governments. They also allege the surge violates the Administrative Procedure Act.

The State and the cities seek an end to Operation Metro Surge and the deployments of thousands of DHS agents to Minnesota, as well as an end to the unlawful behaviors of DHS agents within the state, including but not limited to:

using force against individuals peacefully engaging in constitutionally protected speech;
arresting, threatening and using force against innocent bystanders;
pointing firearms at individuals who pose no threat to DHS agents; and
carrying out enforcement actions at sensitive locations like schools, churches, hospitals.

“The unlawful deployment of thousands of armed, masked, and poorly trained federal agents is hurting Minnesota,” said Attorney General Ellison. “People are being racially profiled, harassed, terrorized, and assaulted. Schools have gone into lockdown. Businesses have been forced to close. Minnesota police are spending countless hours dealing with the chaos ICE is causing. This federal invasion of the Twin Cities has to stop, so today I am suing DHS to bring it to an end.”

“Minneapolis didn’t ask for this operation, but we’re paying the price,” said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. “When federal actions undermine public safety, harm our neighbors, and violate constitutional rights, we have a responsibility to act. That’s exactly what we’re doing today.”

“Federal law enforcement’s occupation of our city is putting us all at risk,” said Saint Paul Mayor Kaohly Her. “They've come into Saint Paul and needlessly invaded our neighborhoods and homes; they’re targeting us based on what we look and sound like. Our residents are scared, and as local officials, we have a responsibility to act. Today we’re standing side by side with Minneapolis and the Attorney General to fight back.”
Operation Metro Surge is causing serious harm

The deployment of thousands of armed, masked DHS agents to Minnesota has resulted in serious harm to the state of Minnesota and its residents, as well as the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and DHS agents have committed numerous, significant violations of law.

Peaceful bystanders and law-abiding citizens have been arrested, had riot control munitions and chemical irritants used against them, had guns pointed at them, and more. Many United States citizens have been the victims of unlawful racial profiling by DHS agents due to the color of their skin or, in the words of one ICE agent, because “I can hear you don’t have the same accent as me.” These individuals are frequently handcuffed and detained for hours by DHS agents for no reason. Immigration agents have targeted individuals in sensitive locations, including schools, medical facilities, places of worship, daycares, and funeral homes.

And on January 7, 2026, a DHS agent shot and killed Renee Good.

The aggressive and often unlawful actions of DHS agents have caused fear and terror throughout the Twin Cities. Schools have been forced to go into lockdown to protect students. Business owners have closed their doors due to fear of DHS violence. Customer-facing businesses in Minneapolis are reporting decreases in revenues of 50-80% because their customer base was not comfortable to patronize the businesses due to the increased immigration enforcement.

Local and state law-enforcement resources in Minnesota are struggling to keep up with increased public-safety needs that the actions of thousands of armed, aggressive, and poorly trained DHS agents have caused. Police in Minnesota have had to respond to multiple incidents to maintain public safety where there is tension between people’s First Amendment right to protest peacefully and DHS agents’ aggressive and reckless actions. Minnesotans unsure if a DHS apprehension was an act of kidnapping have called 911, requiring a police response. DHS agents have abandoned the vehicles of individuals they detained in public roadways, requiring a police response.

On January 7, 2026, the Minneapolis Police Department began tracking overtime related to the increased public safety needs caused by DHS agents' reckless and aggressive immigration enforcement tactics and public reactions to the same. By January 9, 2026, Minneapolis Police officers had already worked more than 3,000 hours of overtime, and the estimated cost of overtime to taxpayers for the period between January 8 and January 11 is more than $2 million.

The coalition alleges that DHS agents’ actions violate the Tenth Amendment, which reserves to the states all powers not delegated to the federal government. This includes both policing powers and operation of schools. DHS agents have essentially commandeered police resources in Minnesota by forcing state and local law-enforcement agents to clean up the chaos that DHS agents have caused. Furthermore, the coalition alleges that the use of excessive force against the people of Minnesota, the warrantless arrests of individuals without an assessment of immigration status, and that targeting of individuals in sensitive locations is a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act’s prohibition against federal agency actions that are arbitrary and capricious.
Operation Metro Surge’s goal is to retaliate against political opponents

The Trump Administration’s decision to target Minnesota and the Twin Cities has been motivated by a desire to retaliate against perceived political enemies rather than good faith immigration enforcement, public safety, or law enforcement concerns. President Trump made this clear himself on January 9, when he stated Minnesota is “corrupt” and “crooked” because its officials accurately reported election results and those results did not declare him the winner. “[T]hey’re crooked officials. . . . I feel that I won Minnesota all three times. I think I won it all three times . . . I won it all three times in my opinion . . . It’s a corrupt voter state . . . I won Minnesota three times and I didn’t get credit for it. That’s a crooked state.”

Immigration enforcement is clearly a pretext for the surge, as the percentage of Minnesota’s population that are noncitizen immigrants without legal status sits at roughly 1.5%, which is less than half of the national average. States like Utah, Texas, and Florida have higher percentages-of-population ratios of noncitizen immigrants, yet Utah, Texas, and Florida have seen no corresponding surge of federal agents. Indeed, the combined non-citizen immigrant populations of Utah, Texas, and Florida add up to nearly the size of the entire population of the state of Minnesota. Furthermore, if the goal of DHS was to detain and deport dangerous individuals as they claim, this would not be accomplished by their practice of stopping random people on the street to demand proof of citizenship. In fact, many of DHS’ arrestees in Minnesota lack any criminal convictions whatsoever.

Claims of fighting fraud are clearly a pretext as well, as immigration enforcement agents generally have no specialized expertise in combatting fraud and randomly stopping people on the street and demanding their papers does nothing to combat fraud. The Trump Administration’s citing “Feeding Our Future” as the reason for the deployment of federal agents also rings hollow, as it was a Minnesota state agency, the Department of Education, that originally alerted federal authorities to suspicious activities in 2020, during the first Trump Administration, and kept advocating for the federal government to work with the state in 2021 and 2022 to get the case charged. That case was one in which the state and federal resources worked together to bring wrongdoers to justice — but now, years later, the Trump Administration is trying to repurpose it as a foothold to attack an entire ethnic group and an entire state.

Operation Metro Surge instead fits the Trump Administration’s pattern of targeting Democratic municipalities, including Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and Washington-DC. Furthermore, the Trump Administration has made a habit of repeatedly and unlawfully attacking the state of Minnesota, both verbally and by attempting to illegally cut federal funding for programs the people of Minnesota rely on.

In the lawsuit, Attorney General Ellison and the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul allege this clear targeting of Minnesota due to the state’s voting habits and the political viewpoints of its leaders is a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution and its prohibitions against both viewpoint discrimination and retaliation for engaging in protected speech. They also allege the targeting of Minnesota violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal sovereignty of states, which requires that states must be treated equally by the federal government, and the Administrative Procedure Act, which bars agency actions that are arbitrary and capricious.

In addition to filing today’s lawsuit, the coalition filed for a temporary restraining order to obtain temporary protection from DHS’ unlawful actions as quickly as possible.

I'm not sure how you work, but if people want to work out a deal with me, the worst thing they can do is start out by threatening me....I'm very likely to tell them where to stick it.

Besides, Many deals are in place and have been for years. No need to threaten them. Your orange god is a damn fool for operating on this manner....

I would not feel bad if it ends up Schwartz and Rees stays as OC.

It would be ok with McDaniel as OC.

But really I like Tommy Rees and he knows the roster. I am uncertain about Shedeur but Rees might be his best choice.

I don't think he is ready to be head coach. It would be hard to hire a staff. He doesn't have experience at all on defense.

I sure don't see Schwartz under Rees.

So Schwartz and away we go.

None of that was an option with Venezuela because it was in 1000% China's & Russia's pocket, same as Iran. Us finally getting rid of Venezuela's illegitimate president and flipping them to us not only bolsters us, but diminishes Russia-China ... and Iran.
A Greenland that isn't ours can be bought or influenced... or outright taken .. by someone else. If it's ours, it cannot be. It's just a matter of coming up with a deal that Denmark and the people of Greenland accept. We talk force, they talk "we can't be bought", but in the end, people will accept deals that are too good to pass up like the one mentioned in that video. Us basically absorbing Denmark's debt while protecting the Arctic for them while also paying them a ton of money and then paying the people of Greenland would make a LOT of sense. We have the resources to develop Greenland infrastructure in ways they simply cannot, but why would we do that if we're not reaping all the rewards? It's business on a governmental scale.

This then takes us to the next two items that are reshaping the world over the next few months for the next half century: both the fall of the Islamic Republic in Iran and possibly WEXIT in Canada where definitely two, and as many as six, provinces have expressed interest or passed referendums to look at becoming independent of Canada and who would be immediately welcomed as new states. Alberta's oil and Yukon's minerals with BC's pacific ports and contiguous access through Yukon to Alaska would be HUGE (YUGE?).

Note: I'm not necessarily arguing for or against anything - I'm just pointing out the very clear signs in the tea leaves. I see all of these moves as a more global overall strategy where each integrates and overlaps with the other. Each one on their own stands on its own, but together this absolutely reshapes the world in favor of the United States. Venezuela gives us an option for Heavy Crude other than Alberta, but that also might make it more favorable for Albertans to come to us. Greenland's minerals and location cannot be ignored, but then Yukon is similar and boxes out the other coast with Alaska and connects Alaska to the Continental 48. Iran takes away MASSIVE amounts of cheap energy that China has enjoyed for a long, long time and puts it all back in the global market instead of being sold on the black market to avoid sanctions. At the same time, it removes the single largest source of state-sponsored terrorism of the last half century and puts a MASSIVE dent is funding for global Islamism which is one of the largest threats to the western world today. Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS/Al-Q militias in Iraq/Syria, the Houthis... their funding largely dries up as most of it flowed from China to Iran for their oil at cut-rate prices.

If you feel this response...


Over example #45,855 of the endless fraud and lying by our politicians...

is instigating, that's on you and your sensitivities.

I already responded to that. You chose not to read it.

Someone keeps saying MAGA fan boy. It's almost as if they're an insecure 12-year-old.

We can talk about all that as soon as you admit you lied.

Your choice though.

I don't think he would ever be quite as dynamic "off script" and not nearly the same threat with his feet; but there's no reason to discount the tools and say he can't be a fQB.

I wouldn't draft him at 6, would you draft him at 24?

"Hey Chat!"

If you entertain every coulda, shoulda, woulda scenario I'm pretty sure at appears much weirder than it will ever turn out to be. The imagination is a powerful tool that can sometimes work overtime.

Someone keeps saying Nazi ... It's almost like they are trying to bait others. LOL

Yet that has nothing to do with what they're investigating. Odd how that works. What do you think about what they are actually investigating him for?

You do understand that you can say things without using those exact words don't you? Because that's what you're doing here and you're fully aware of it.

Are you saying a man can turn his body in a totally different direction and resume firing his weapon by not processing what's going on around him? Because that is most certainly your assertion here and trying to flip the script on me doesn't change any of that.

My dad taught me that. That leaving our parts of the truth and refusing address the truth is also a lie.

Haslam has made it clear we want to keep Jim.

Well then. What will he do if offered both jobs?

If he gets a head coach offer. He is not going to be our DC.

Sometimes when you look at the NFL.

It seems like soap opera. Who is effing who and who knows?

We fire KS. He could go to Baltimore. Harbaugh gets fired and he could land here.

The Steelers don't fire guys. They retire.

Just win baby.

I'm not sure. Sometimes I don't think you are. Sometimes I do. Not so much you are really like that as a person per se but that it is more the type of thing you wish to convey in your posts. More that you use such tools as means of instigation rather than out of sincerity.

I use satire a lot to accomplish the same goal. So I'm not trying to claim I'm guiltless here. I just think the way we go about it comes from at least slightly different angles.

So, just say you lied instead of ignoring the question.

It's a lot easier, I'm sure your mom told you that in kindergarten.

I’d start fresh…new city, new team and new conference. I don’t want to go into my last teams place once a year. Too much unnecessary added stress. Willing to bet that’s what he does.

Ehhh, maybe. We've lived through about 10 years of that now - on all levels. Some is cosigned as just and pure, some is villainized.

Is it warranted? Again - debatable.

I'm pretty sure he lied to congress. It's most strange to me that zero accountability for that seems to be perfectly acceptable these days. If you erase Trump and Trump hatred from the equation, do you think he should be investigated?

Beyond that, he sucks at his job and has for some time. He hates Trump to the point that Trump should just ask for the opposite of what he wants. It would be a better world with him on his couch flaming someone on Twitter rather that further screwing up the job he can't do now. jmo

I wonder how many of these interviews are actually interviews for offensive coordinator