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Haslam and Berry hit a home run with that trade.

Great job, fellas!

please show me a video of last years audience

The economy is softer than Jello.

The economy has finally run out of Biden Bucks coupled with keeping interest rates too high for too long.

Companies are laying people off and calling it because of "Ai" - it's not. It's because the consumer demand no longer exists and credit cards are maxed.

Next up - lenders are going to start tightening the credit they were extending to everyone.

Realistically, the only thing that is saving the economy from a total meltdown is that companies blaming "Ai" for the layoffs.

Awkward... lol

Cleveland Browns Hire Special Teams Coordinator After Bubba Ventrone’s Departure
https://www.si.com/nfl/browns/onsi/...-bubba-ventrone-s-departure-01kh519ygphk

Cleveland Browns Hire Special Teams Coordinator After Bubba Ventrone’s Departure
Here's everything you need to know about the first-time special teams coordinator just hired by new Cleveland Browns head coach Todd Monken.

The Cleveland Browns are aiming to have their full coaching staff assembled by next week, and they made major progress towards that on Tuesday evening.

According to several reports, the Browns have hired their new special teams coordinator. The Browns didn’t retain Bubba Ventrone, who was quickly hired as the new special teams coordinator of the Los Angeles Rams.

The Browns are hiring Green Bay Packers assistant special teams coordinator Byron Storer.

Who is Byron Storer?
Storer played fullback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2007-2009. Immediately following his playing career, he transitioned to a special teams assistant with the Buccaneers from 2010-2011.

After a few seasons with the San Diego Chargers, Storer took a five-year hiatus from coaching football until he landed with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2018. The 41-year-old has been a key assistant for Rich Bisaccia with the Raiders and Packers and now gets to run his own unit for new head coach Todd Monken.

Special teams has always been a part of Storer’s story, as he was a second-team All-Pac-10 special teamer from 2004-2006 at the University of California Berkeley.

ource: The #Browns are hiring #Packers Assistant Special Teams Coordinator Byron Storer as their new Special Teams Coordinator.

A big hire for HC Todd Monken, Storer has been a key assistant for Rich Bisaccia with the Raiders and Packers and now gets to run his own unit in… pic.twitter.com/7hmyhNb1xs

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) February 10, 2026
The Browns will need to be much better on special teams than they have been over the last few seasons. Under Ventrone’s watch last year, the Browns had the No. 29 ranked special teams unit.

As the Browns watched their season spiral, Ventrone called out the lack of talent on his special teams unit as the reason for so many repeated errors.

"We haven't played near our capabilities," Ventrone said in December. "We've had too many, too many issues with just, just dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb football, dumb mistakes.”

When a roster is young and inexperienced, special teams tend to struggle as teams might not have many talented depth players to play on that unit. That was the case for the Browns at the end of last season, as undrafted free agent receiver Gage Larvadain struggled with return responsibilities. Unfortunately, the Browns had to keep playing him as they didn’t have many other options.

When the team introduced Monken, Browns general manager Andrew Berry stated that they would work to become one of the youngest rosters in the NFL next season. This would signal that special teams might not be a major priority.

But with Storer’s experience working under an established special teams coordinator like Bisaccia, the Browns will hope that their unit will vastly improve.

Spencer Rattler should be available too.

it’s not even the NFL really… they outsourced the Super Bowl half time to Jay Z and have basically given him total control to have whoever he wants doing the show…

Honestly I never heard of bad bunny before he was picked for the SB halftime… didn’t care for some of his political messages or cross dressing… but thought his show was fine… I appreciated some of the visuals and story telling…. I wish more of it was in English but honestly at times it felt like he was mumbling, so not sure i would have understood in English… Liked the fact that an actual wedding took place, liked the shot with the little kid… and can appreciate the shout out to the various American nations when the NFL is going more global…

I’ve basically gotten to the point where I know I most likely not have a clue who the halftime performer is or at least most of their songs

But overall I thought it was fine…. We’ve had much worse halftime shows

I love the Olympics… prefer summer over Winter… but still enjoy watching the competition and cheering for the US…. Really love that NBC has used the drones more - that’s my favorite angel for the skiing and luge…

I would have expected the NFL to have had closed captions in English to reach out to the non-spanish speaking population.

That was a big oversight.

Love this song.

The new Apartheid Party is on a roll.

Turning Point U.S.A. officially announced today that next years alternative halftime show will be titled "The Whites Only DEI Halftime Show".

Where only white artists with a fraction of the sales of the real halftime show will be allowed to perform. Because we all know only the best, most qualified people should be performing. No, wait....

Of his big contract he has $1.98 left…

Nearly five years after the first civil lawsuit against Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was filed, all of them have been resolved.

Via Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today, the last two of 27 lawsuits against Watson have been dismissed. They were due to go to trial in February and March 2026. The cases were dismissed with prejudice on January 6, an indication that the lawsuits were settled.

The plaintiffs accused Watson of misconduct during massage-therapy sessions.

One of the last remaining plaintiffs was one of the first. Lauren Baxley had previously refused to settle her claim.

Baxley’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee, confirmed that the case is over.

“Case is settled,” Buzbee said Monday, via Schrotenboer. “That’s all I can say about it. That’s the last case, so that ends my involvement with Deshaun Watson litigation.”

Buzbee handled 26 of the 27 lawsuits. The situation began when Watson’s lawyers refused to engage in settlement discussions as to the first claim. That led to an avalanche of cases, resulting in a 10-game suspension for Watson in 2022.

Watson has yet to rediscover the form that had made him one of the best quarterbacks in the league. His last solid season came in 2020, when he threw for 4,823 yards with the Texans. He didn’t play in 2021 while awaiting a trade, and then he missed the first 10 games of the 2022 season. Along the way, the Browns gave Watson a five-year, $230 million contract, with every penny of it fully guaranteed.

He remains under contract through 2026. The Browns intend to keep him on the roster.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profo...uits-against-deshaun-watson-have-settled

I would be happy to help pay his air fare out of Cleveland as soon as the Browns cut ties with him. The sooner the better.

All National Park Service sites that normally charge an entrance fee will offer free admission on Monday, February 16, 2026, for Presidents Day. This fee-free day is available to U.S. residents and citizens, allowing free entry to popular spots like Yosemite or Death Valley. Other fees, such as camping or tour fees, may still apply.

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For 2026, the U.S. Department of the Interior and National Park Service (NPS) officially removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of fee-free entrance days for national parks. Instead, the 2026, calendar features8 fee-free days, with new additions including President Trump's birthday/Flag Day (June 14) and the NPS 110th Birthday (Aug. 25)

There's nothing subtle about the racism here.

I don't think we are going to be able to "fix" the Oline in one off-season. We are going to have rookie(s) as starters at some positions and unknowns at others.

Campbell is going to be a good LT, and he got straight bullied in the SB. I felt bad for him.

Here is yet another example of trump acting like a petulant child..............

Annual governors gathering with White House unraveling after Trump excludes Democrats

WASHINGTON (AP) — An annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.

The National Governors Association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month, after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors. On Tuesday, 18 Democratic governors also announced they would boycott a traditional dinner at the White House.

“If the reports are true that not all governors are invited to these events, which have historically been productive and bipartisan opportunities for collaboration, we will not be attending the White House dinner this year,” the group wrote. “Democratic governors remain united and will never stop fighting to protect and make life better for people in our states.”

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican and the chairman of the NGA, said in a letter Monday to fellow governors obtained by The Associated Press that the White House intends to limit invitations to the association’s annual business meeting, scheduled for February 20, to Republican governors only.

“Because NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for that event, and it is no longer included in our official program,” Stitt wrote.

The NGA is scheduled to meet in Washington from Feb. 19-21. Representatives for Stitt, the White House and the NGA didn’t immediately comment on the letter.

Brandon Tatum, the NGA’s CEO, said in a statement last week that the White House meeting is an “important tradition” and said the organization was “disappointed in the administration’s decision to make it a partisan occasion this year.”

The governors group is one of the few remaining venues where political leaders from both major parties gather to discuss the top issues facing their communities. In his letter, Stitt encouraged governors to unite around common goals.

“We cannot allow one divisive action to achieve its goal of dividing us,” he wrote. “The solution is not to respond in kind, but to rise above and to remain focused on our shared duty to the people we serve. America’s governors have always been models of pragmatic leadership, and that example is most important when Washington grows distracted by politics.”

Signs of partisan tensions emerged at the White House meeting last year, when Trump and Maine’s Gov. Janet Mills traded barbs.

Trump singled out the Democratic governor over his push to bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports, threatening to withhold federal funding from the state if she did not comply. Mills responded, “We’ll see you in court.”

Trump then predicted that Mills’ political career would be over for opposing the order. She is now running for U.S. Senate.

The back and forth had a lasting impact on last year’s conference and some Democratic governors did not renew their dues last year to the bipartisan group.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ke...R_Q5Xs1GHo4rE_aem_Vsdo-MLUv2FZYkP56EdqXg

This is who he is. This is what he does. Yet when you show things like this, they try to act like it's somehow your problem because you have TDS. The petulant child routine seems to have risen to epidemic proportions.

Well I think we've come to understand they expect more accountability from posters on a message board than they do the POTUS. That's become painfully obvious.

POTUS posts overtly racist tweets ... And crickets.

Sounds about par for the course.

No doubt when the next post comes up that is easy to pull apart because someone said something ... They will pop up again and ignore the issues but troll the poster that said something dumb.

j/c:

I don't really care for Kid Rock's music. Not a fan. Bad Bunny was a fun halftime show, I guess, but I don't know his music or what he was singing. There are a few people I work with from Puerto Rico and they all love Bad Bunny. This group also plays reggaeton music sometimes for hours on end over a loudspeaker setup at work. Actually, it is not bad. About 70% of the time it is the same drum beat with a droning tone behind it. It's kinda hypnotic. I like that. Something different for me.

I think anyone looking at Darnold's production and play over the past two seasons would have to admit his level of play has been well above an "adequate QB".

But it certainly shows that defense can still win championships.

Well, the Seahawks just once again proved that you can win it all with a smothering defense and an adequate QB. The 85 Bears, the '00 Ravens, the '02 Bucs, the '15 Broncos (with an old & broken Manning), etc.... the formula is solid. No formula is bullet-proof, but that one definitely works. Yeah, it's probably a better plan to hit on a Brady-Belichick combo and ride that, but, good luck with that.

We already have a really good defense that could end up a whole lot better with some additions (Maxx!). We simply need "Good Enough" at QB, and for that, I'm in agreement that Carr or that Malik Willis guy would fit the bill, and perhaps even Watson of Monken can revive his career, but the last time DW did anything worthy, the world was in the midst of a pandemic, so it's been a hot minute for him, but we have him and as bad as he has been for us, he's better than the two other kids on the roster.

Fix the OLine by turning it into one that doesn't get pushed around and can run block, then get the QB some legitimate targets to throw to instead of the scrap heap WR room we have now.

A "Good Enough" offense with a soul-eating defense is all we need.

I'm really sad to see him leave, but I think the writing has been on the wall for a while with this one. He will command a big price and he was outplayed by the rookie Fannin.