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I would be delighted if they brought the Stones or Springsteen back for next year’s Super Bowl. I haven’t watched one in years (maybe Prince is the most recent?).

Still have not heard bad bunny’s music, don’t care to, his stage name is stupid, and I don’t like listening to a song that isn’t in English, I don’t like foreign-made films with English subtitles.

I just don’t.

I despise Trump, always did, long before he became president; I can’t stand far-right Conservatives and far-left snowflake liberals, either.
I believe that political correctness stifles healthy debate.

Oh yeah, the thread topic….

The Lazy Boy may be doable. The personal masseuse....Browns may want to steer clear of that one.

Man. Seems like coaches in the B1G need to start wearing chastity belts!

Falcons fire assistant coach LaTroy Lewis after sexual assault allegation surfaces - CBS Sports
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-fire-assistant-defensive-line-coach-latroy-lewis/

The Atlanta Falcons have fired assistant defensive line coach LaTroy Lewis after allegations of sexual assault surfaced Friday morning.

The team said in a statement Friday morning that it was "aware of allegations regarding" Lewis and was "in the process of gathering information." Hours later, the Falcons announced that Lewis had been dismissed from his role.

Lewis, 32, was hired by the Falcons under new coach Kevin Stefanski earlier this month after he was the defensive line coach at Toledo during the 2025 season. He previously spent multiple seasons as an assistant at Michigan. The sexual assault allegations stem from his time with the Wolverines, and the Ann Arbor Police Department confirmed to ESPN that it is investigating the claims against Lewis.

After a college career at Tennessee, Lewis went undrafted in 2017 before having brief stints with the then-Oakland Raiders, Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans. His playing career ended following one season with the XFL's Houston Roughnecks in 2020.

Lewis broke into coaching at Akron in 2020 as a graduate assistant. He then spent one season at South Alabama and another at Wake Forest before joining then-Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh's staff at Michigan ahead of the 2023 season.

lol. Perplexity actually just said he "kicks the can" when I asked for an explanation af his Cap Wizardry...


how is andrew berry of the browns so good at manipulating the salary cap?

Andrew Berry is widely regarded as one of the sharpest cap‑managers in the NFL because he aggressively uses the NFL’s salary‑cap rules—especially “void years,” restructures, and cash‑over‑cap structures—to keep the Browns flexible in the short term, even if it makes the long‑term picture look messy.
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Why people think he’s so good

Berry isn’t “cheating” the cap; he’s optimizing it within the CBA’s scripted loopholes. His background in economics and computer science (Harvard degrees) plus a heavy reliance on analytics lets him plan multi‑year cap curves, rollover years, and guaranteed‑cash timing in a way most GMs don’t. The result is that Cleveland can spend more actual cash than the cap number suggests while still having room to maneuver in free agency.

How he manipulates the cap

1. Void years and “kicking the can”
Berry regularly loads contracts with “void years” at the end so money that would hit the cap in the next year gets pushed off the books. Those void years eventually create dead‑cap charges, but the league’s cap keeps rising, so a dollar owed in 2030 is cheaper in relative cap terms than one owed in 2025.
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2. Cash‑over‑cap / proration tricks
He’ll front‑load deals with big signing bonuses and then prorate them over many years, so the early cap hits are low but the team pays a lot in real cash. That lets the Browns go after high‑end free agents without the cap sheet looking like they can’t afford them, while the true cost is just delayed.
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3. Rollovers, restructures, and June 1 cuts
Berry aggressively uses:

Carryover cap space (money saved from one year applied to the next).
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Contract restructures (converting base salaries into bonuses or creating new guarantees) to lower immediate cap hits.

Post‑June 1 releases (trading players or cutting them after June 1) so dead‑cap hits are spread across two years.

Taken together, this is why Berry can look like he’s “always” tight on cap space on paper but still sign or extend players others assume he can’t afford.

The downside fans point to

The flip side is that this strategy leaves the Browns vulnerable if the cap growth slows or if the “win‑now” window flops. Critics argue that after betting big on Deshaun Watson and the 2024–2025 window, the team is now stuck with heavy commitments and little room to quickly rebuild without pain at the back end of contracts. So people say he’s “good at manipulating the cap” but debate whether that’s always been aligned with long‑term team building.

Trump wants a do over.....

I really don't know. I know at some point the bills comes due. I know the money put off by kicking the can down the road has added up to a huge amount and if you continue that amount will only get larger. All it really means as that player salaries will increase along with the salary cap and those with the least amount of salary cap going into this year really wont gain much ground with an increase in the salary cap since the cost of contracts will rise along with it.

You'll have to ask someone with a lot more knowledge about the salary cap than I have to get a full explanation to your question. That's why I opened it up for discussion. Hopefully this will help answer both of our questions about the salary cap to at least some degree.

And once again you can call a hog a steer. That doesn't make a hog a steer. You still can't grasp the basics.

Erika Kirk Will Earn A Hefty Salary As CEO Of TPUSA. For the fiscal year of June 2023 to June 2024, that amount was reported as $390,493, according to recent filings. Now, with Charlie's wife, Erika, taking over as the CEO of TPUSA, it is expected that she will likely receive a similar or higher salary than her husband.

Yes, she's doing all of this out of the goodness of her pea picking heart.

So I post actual stories from news sources while you use randos posts from X?

I did mention exactly what Charlie Kirk said about women with children. Just to point out you seem not to hold the "do as I say not as I do" crowd accountable when they share your politics. Once again you're welcome.

It's odd how you whine about my posting but when called on your replies you resort to your childish BS because you can't refute it. When you try you always end up resorting to your childish antics. Trump is counting on people like you and you certainly never disappoint him.

Humping your leg? That's who you are. I'm not humping your leg. You thinking I'm the one fulfilling your sexual fantasies may call for you to be medicated. When I am done you'll know it Nancy. Until then buckle up.

I'm not sure what this means. Can we still kick cans??

1. Nobody, anywhere said anything about mothers in the home but you and the voices in your head.

2. Raising funds for a non-profit and "using his memory trying to get richer" are two different things. Unless you're a Democrat... or a Somali... or both.

3. You can have a half time show anywhere and call it a half time show if it's going on during half time. This wouldn't be hard for a sleeping dog to understand.

4. Calling you a deep thinker was obviously hyperbole. Anyone wondering needs to merely read your 539 posts of mumbo-jumbo daily.

5. Cool story. With all your copy/paste stories and threads, let us know when we'll be expecting our refund checks.

Now, please quit humping my leg. Run along, little doggie.

Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI technology

Washington — President Trump announced Friday that he is ordering all federal agencies to "immediately" stop using Anthropic's AI technology, as the company nears a Pentagon deadline to drop its guardrails over the military's use of its AI.

"I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. "We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again!"

The president said he will give agencies six months to phase out its use of Anthropic's products and threatened to take additional action against the company if it does not assist during that period.

"Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow," he wrote.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-...CHR9qVQfYn1w4_aem_JYBIDfpPCCspx0fTgDK2fw

That's very good news; especially for us!!

Since we have a draft forum but no FA signing period forum I thought I would post this. The salary has been raised every season for many years now with I think the exception of the Covid shut down year. Having said that, with every rise in the salary cap so does the rise in NFL players contracts coincide. The 2026 NFL free agent signing period officially begins at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, coinciding with the start of the new league year. A two-day legal tampering/negotiation window opens on Monday, March 9, 2026, at noon ET, allowing teams to contact agents and negotiate terms.

With the FA signing period looming I thought this would be a good topic for discussion.............

The NFL salary cap is continuing on its astronomical trajectory in 2026.

On Friday, the league informed clubs it is projecting a salary cap in the range of $301.2 million to $305.7 million for the upcoming 2026 season, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported, per a source.

Such a number would represent an increase of more than $20 million from the 2025 mark of $279.2 million and reach nearly $100 million in additional space since the $208.2 million cap set for the 2022 season.

The projection follows the same pattern exhibited in recent increases. The cap jumped by $23.8 million from 2024 to 2025, creating excesses of space that exceeded $70 million for some teams and even cleared $100 million for the 2025 AFC champion New England Patriots.

As recent history has proven, it seems the booming business of the NFL will only continue to produce greater salary cap limits in future years. The projected number for 2026 is nearly double 2018's cap of $177 million, demonstrating incredible growth in both popularity and prosperity for the league.

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-salary...o-305-7-million-per-team-for-2026-season

A commentary on the state of Catholicism in modern day Ireland.

Jimmy Haslam has proven that he wants to win and will do whatever it takes. Unfortunately, the DW trade didn't work out as we all know. There's competition among the owners no doubt. Every one of them would like to walk into an owners meeting as the guy whose team won the Super Bowl. Or, at the least have his franchise well run and competitive every year. I know I would!

I don't disagree with this at all. Are you talking using the #6 on Lemon? He won't be available to us at #24. Lemon is also valuable as a returner.

The only thing I will add is, Jerry Jeudy is a very productive slot receiver who gets pushed outside way more than he should have because of need. We didn't have anyone else that they trusted, so he played out of position a lot. This diminished his output in my opinion and if we are really going to revamp the WR room, I think the first thing Monken is going to say is we need to get a true X receiver in here so we can use Jeudy in the slot 75% of the time.

Tate can be both X and Slot... which would give you more opportunities to conceal plays and routes. We could utilize a lot more motion as well, imho.
I think Lemon is pigeonholed as a slot...But again, he is extremely effective in that role as well as the extra benefit of his return skill set.

At the end of the day, I would be good with either. I would also be good with either Tyson or Boston...

I just want the best receiver and O-lineman combo they can come up with in this first round.

Pentagon shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone in Texas, federal officials say

A U.S. official said a laser weapon was used to down the drone, which occurred in the area of Fort Hancock, a small community located on the U.S.-Mexico border.

"This reported engagement occurred when the Department of War employed counter-unmanned aircraft system authorities to mitigate a seemingly threatening unmanned aerial system operating within military airspace," the Defense Department, CBP and the FAA said in a joint statement late Thursday night. The Department of War is the White House's preferred term for the Defense Department.

"The engagement took place far away from populated areas and there were no commercial aircraft in the vicinity," the statement said.

"These agencies will continue to work on increased cooperation and communication to prevent such incidents in the future," it added.

In a previous statement provided to CBS News Thursday night, the FAA indicated that an incident had prompted it to expand a temporary flight restriction that was already in place around Fort Hancock. The temporary flight restriction was issued for "Special Security Reasons," the FAA said.

The FAA said the flight restriction was not impacting commercial flights.

Democratic Reps. Rick Larsen, André Carson and Bennie Thompson, all members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, said in a joint statement, "Our heads are exploding over the news that DoD reportedly shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone using a high risk counter-unmanned aircraft system." They pointed to lack of coordination between the agencies.

This marks the second time this month that the U.S. military's use of drones near the southern border in Texas has prompted airspace flight restrictions.

On Feb. 11, the FAA sparked chaos when it briefly closed airspace around El Paso over a safety disagreement with the Pentagon regarding military drone tests near Fort Bliss, which is adjacent to the El Paso International Airport and located about 50 miles northwest of Fort Hancock. Sources at the time said the drone tests involved a high-energy laser.

The FAA initially announced that it would shutter El Paso's commercial airspace for a period of 10 days, but then backtracked and reopened the airspace just hours later. White House officials told CBS News that the closure was triggered by Mexican cartel drones breaching U.S. airspace.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentag...xwOR20p7eShys_aem_652vfIvMOmtyIpbOyjuelA

I agree with you on all counts. They were right to go "all in on a QB that could get them over the hump."

But they got it wrong and struck out. Where I am from we call that an abject failure. As I said before I had no idea you would be the person handing out a participation trophy for failure.

Naturally that's the first place your mind would go. You can buy tube steaks in beef, pork, chicken or a mixture of the three. Unlike rump roast and ham you really can't tell the difference. Unless of course you have a different preference in your choice of tube steaks. Here is where you went of the rails..... again.

FACT; It was Charlie Kirk himself that said a mother should be at home raising her children. Not "liberals".

FACT; Erica Kirkhas been focused on being out running events to raise funds and membership for TPUSA. I don't make the news I'm just reporting it.

FACT; You claimed that somehow, somewhere in trumplandia you can hold a football halftime show at a location where there is no football game being played. Since you can't seem to tell the difference between the two I told you a simple story about how to understand when someone was obviously lying to your face.....


You replied with how it was profound and I must be a very deep thinker yet it wasn't me who believed an obvious lie which you claimed was the truth. So it seemed as though I needed to explain it to you in the most basic way possible. You're welcome BTW.

You posted this...
FACT; speaking of elected officials it was trump who the SCOTUS found illegally took close to 200 billion dollars from America tax payers and American businesses.

So since you had nothing of substance to dispute any of that you started acting like a 10 year old. That's straight from the trumpian playbook.

I'll never fault Haslam for his willingness to spend money to support the team winning.


Using the Watson trade as proof Haslam is a good owner because he's willing to spend is glossing over the lack of attention paid to how poor of a fit Watson was with the framework at the time. I hate using the benefit of hindsight to judge a decision, but if there's anything we can agree on, it's that Watson was a bad fit for the Stefanksi offense.


As I've mentioned before, my assumption is that Watson was primarily driven by Haslam... with Stefanski and Berry (at least) acquiescing to their boss.

Never mind. I think there may be too much Viagra in the Pop Tarts.

In a way yes but the FO thought they had a SB window and did not feel their current QB was capable of getting the team over the hump. It was the right move to go all in on a QB that could get them over the hump. Watson just was not the right QB. The Browns or most teams are not going all in on every FA like they did Watson because they were swinging for the fences in this instance. They just struck out. Hopefully next time they connect. Many Owners never make bold moves to win. At least Haslam did.

Sounds like you may be in need of a tube steak.

I understand that as you have regressed reality is no longer your friend. It's time you take personal responsibility for that rather than looking for someone else to blame it on.

But I suppose when the facts are something to can not dispute you gotta blame that $#!+ on somebody.