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Well one thing stands out.

The North will not be the same. After close to 20 years Tomlin and Harbaugh are gone from the AFC North.

And here in Cleveland there is a new sheriff in town as well.

The Steelers look like a team that will begin a fall. I don't see Rodgers playing again and even if he does. They do not look like a team on the rise.

The Ravens? No doubt a culture change there. Lamar was hurt most of the year. He is beginning to show that he will not be what he once was. No matter he is still a great player. I don't know what to expect from the Ravens both on offense and defense. They may slide a bit from where they were. Change is not always good.

Bengals have the longest tenured head coach. That in itself is strange because of the underachieving teams. The Bengals are right up there. They have the quarterback and receivers. But they have not been able to put a good offense and defense on the field. Something is not working there.

Then there is the Browns.

We fall into the wait and see mode. New head coach and a good defense. We know that every effort will be made to upgrade offensive performance.

It begins with the OL. We need front line talent and depth.

Quarterback is still in question. At least Shedeur has seven games in the vault. That small sample gives him a starting point. He should know what he has to do to be a better quarterback. I expect an addition to the QB room. Either a free agent like Willis or drafting a guy maybe Simpson.

It will be another year of going into the off season without a straight answer at quarterback.

We have to add receivers. If we are ever going to be an offensive threat. We need difference makers at receiver.

With or without Jim Schwartz we have a talented defense. It would be better if Schwartz returns. But a new DC is going to make the defense go down the tubes.

IMO we can be a better team. How good will depend upon the play at quarterback more than any single other factor.

Moderna won't invest in new late stage Vaccine trials due to uncertainty in the US market.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-eme...n-t-invest-new-late-stage-vaccine-trials

"“You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market,” Bancel told Bloomberg TV. He said the vaccine market in the United States is much smaller as more anti-vaccine guidelines have become the norm."

Two takeaways —

1. Questions were actually good except from MKC (and I believe Lloyd with Haslam about Giannis; he’s slowly becoming a buffoon).

2. Monken won the presser by simply not addressing the reporters by their first names in every response. One of the most insincere, inauthentic, fake crap Stefanski did here. I swear that bought him two extra years here. I heard he did it in his first presser with the Falcons. Stefanski approaches everything based on what he read in a book. Just be real.

No idea if this will work but will be interesting to see.

Yes. Mike Macdonald currently calls the plays on defense in Seattle. Aden can be the guy in Cleveland. Seattle's defense is similar to the Browns. Having success with two teams makes his resume look pretty good for a head coaching job.

I don't know. Mitchell needs to sign an extension this off-season and doing nothing likely doesn't get him to sign on again. I know Harden's defense is a liability, but Garland just gets bullied in the playoffs by bigger guards. When Garland is good, he's really good, but he has been brittle the past couple seasons. I wish his toe the best in L.A. The warm weather may be the magic elixir!

Now Giannis.

This might be one of those win win compromises Michael Scott talked about.

I think this was more about getting out from under Garland's contract than getting Harden.

I like this for this year. Not sure about having to extend Harden. That's worrisome. Cleveland needs more strip clubs for Harden.

Do they take oaths on the Bible there?

You saying he's going to leave a team that is playing on Sundays Super-Bowl to come to the Browns ?

If Schwartz does not return, remember this name Aden Durde.

We do that in Ohio... MUST have ID... I gather a few states don't require it.

You know how sometimes you have a coach that is articulate and sharp... Maybe a little too Ivy League. Monken doesn't come across like that.. He comes across like a guy you'd talk to at the corner bar while having a Beer and a Burger.

That, for Cleveland, Just might be the best thing. Someone used the word Sincere.. I think that fits pretty well. I do hope he can work it out with Schwartz.. but I have some doubt. After all, Schwartz had a mini meltdown after Monken was announced. So he may not be able to role that back... Probably would have been better all around if he'd have held his mud....

He had one hell of a D here.. but as Monken said, it's the players.. with out players, his best chance to get noticed is right here. So we'll see if that resonates with him.

Ofc Mary Kay has to start off on is Shedure going to be your starter going into the season ?

What an idiot thing to say

I liked the hire from the beginning and after hearing him throw in football coach words, as in cuss words. I like this hire even more.

Football has been his life and dream. The Halloween reference was great !

Hopefully this translates into on field success.

It is understandable why TM was hired.

I felt all along it would be an offensive guy. If a defensive coach would have been hired it would have JS.

The Browns have lots of decisions to make on offense.

TM has college experience. He has been in coaching his entire life. His father and uncles were football coaches.

He knows the North. He can run any scheme.

Now it is up to Berry to find offensive players. I expect TM will have some say. He will be asked his opinion at the least.

What will he do with the quarterback position? He will play the guy he thinks can win games.

First things first. Schwartz has to decide what he wants to do.

Fill out the coaching staff. Move on to free agency and the draft.

I agree Pit. Let's just wait and see and hope TM is given a fair shot. He may turn out to be a very good HC.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The records viewed by ProPublica list Ochoa, 43, and Gutierrez, 35, as the shooters during the deadly encounter last weekend that left Pretti dead and ignited massive protests and calls for criminal investigations.

Both men were assigned to Operation Metro Surge, an immigration enforcement dragnet launched in December that sent scores of armed and masked agents across the city.

CBP, which employs both men, has so far refused to release their names and has disclosed few other facts about the deadly incident, which came days after a different immigration agent shot and killed another Minneapolis protester, a 37-year-old mother of three named Renee Good.

Pretti’s killing, and the subsequent secrecy surrounding the agents involved, comes as the country confronts the consequences of President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. The sweeps in cities across the country have been marked by scenes of violence, against immigrants and U.S. citizens, by agents allowed to hide their identities with masks — an almost unheard of practice in law enforcement. As a result, the public has been kept from one of the chief ways it has to hold officers involved in such altercations accountable: their identity.

Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have called for a transparent investigation into the killing of Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse working at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital.

“We must have a transparent, independent investigation into the Minnesota shooting, and those responsible—no matter their title—must be held accountable,” Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah wrote on X on Monday.

The agency sent a notice to some members of Congress on Tuesday acknowledging that two agents fired Glock pistols during the altercation that left Pretti dead. That notice does not include the agents’ names. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees CBP, said the agents had been placed on leave after the Jan. 24 shooting. And after a week of protests and calls from lawmakers for a review, the Justice Department said Friday that its Civil Rights Division is investigating the shooting. A DOJ spokesperson did not answer questions, including whether DHS has shared materials, such as body-camera footage, with its investigators.

Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. He is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units. Records show both men are from South Texas.

In the aftermath of the shooting, Gregory Bovino, who has orchestrated high-intensity immigration sweeps and arrests in a string of Democratic-led cities since early 2025, was removed from his role as Border Patrol commander at large and reassigned to his former post in El Centro, California.

A spokesperson for DHS declined to answer questions about the two agents and referred ProPublica to the FBI. The FBI declined to comment. ProPublica made several attempts to call Ochoa and Gutierrez but neither answered.

Ochoa, who goes by Jesse, graduated from the University of Texas-Pan American with a degree in criminal justice, according to his ex-wife, Angelica Ochoa. A longtime resident of the Rio Grande Valley, Ochoa had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there, she said. By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.

DHS’ disclosure to Congress was drawn from an internal review of the agents’ body-camera footage, which has not been released to the public. State investigators, meanwhile, have accused their federal counterparts of blocking them from investigating the shooting.

“We don’t have any information on the shooters,” a Minneapolis city spokesperson said. A spokesperson for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that his office also had “not been given the names, and we don’t have any new information on the investigation.”

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi Monday, accused the Justice Department of covering up evidence in both Pretti’s and Good’s killings.

“DOJ has also blocked prosecutors and agents from cooperating with state law enforcement officials and prevented state officials from accessing evidence,” the letter said.

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN on Sunday that immigration agents should not be masked.

“They should not be anonymous. They should be identifiable. And they have to have rules of engagement that don’t allow them to terrorize and intimidate, harass and assault U.S. citizens and other people,” he said.

The notice to Congress said that the shooting happened when Pretti resisted arrest after officers were unable to get him and a female protester out of the street.

The CBP officer “attempted to move the woman and Pretti out of the roadway. The woman and Pretti did not move,” the report reads. “CBP personnel attempted to take Pretti into custody. Pretti resisted CBP personnel’s efforts and a struggle ensued.”

According to the report, one agent then yelled “He’s got a gun!” multiple times, and two others “discharged” their Glock pistols.

In videos widely shared online, Pretti can be seen holding up a phone, documenting the movements of federal agents and officers as they roamed the streets of a popular food and arts district. According to news reports, Pretti was concerned about the increasingly volatile siege of the city by federal agents.

In the videos, a masked agent appears to knock a woman to the ground. Pretti comes to her aid, getting between them, at which point the officer deploys pepper spray at his face. Two agents then grab Pretti and pull him to the ground, while more federal personnel pile on. During the struggle, the agents unleash a series of shots — approximately 10 — as onlookers scream.

Pretti was armed at the time of the encounter with a legally owned handgun, according to state and federal officials. Some analyses of bystander video appear to show a federal agent taking Pretti’s gun from his hip before the first shots were fired. The agents’ masks and the chaos of the altercation make it difficult to differentiate one from another.

Those videos appear to contradict the claims by Bovino and other officials, including DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, that Pretti had come to attack agents.

“The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violently resisted,” Bovino said in a Jan. 25 news conference. “Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, a Border Patrol agent fired defensive shots.”

In the initial aftermath, Stephen Miller, a top Trump aide and a leading force behind the immigration enforcement operations, called Pretti “a would-be assassin.” But Miller changed tack later in the week when he said in a statement that CBP officers “may not have been following” protocol related to confronting bystanders.

Additional video has surfaced showing Pretti in another altercation with federal agents 11 days before he was killed. The video shows Pretti yelling at the agents, who get in an SUV and start to drive away. Pretti then kicks out the taillight of the vehicle and the agents, who wore protective masks, jump out and tackle him to the ground.

It is unclear if any of the same agents were involved in both incidents.

Lauren Bonds, executive director of the National Police Accountability Project, said that many local and state police departments are “much more transparent” than CBP when officers shoot people. “More and more police departments are choosing to release bodycam footage or dashcam footage within a couple of days.”

Gil Kerlikowske, a former CBP commissioner, told ProPublica that it’s difficult to draw conclusions from the chaos in bystander videos. Still, he said, the shooting might have been prevented. Pretti’s attempt to help the woman knocked to the ground could have been seen as interfering with federal law enforcement, he said. But the decision by the officers to immediately use pepper spray created a chaotic scene that likely contributed to Pretti’s death.

“The other agent could have said ‘don’t interfere’ or ‘stand back,’” Kerlikowske said. “Rather than move immediately to pepper spray, you can arrest the person.” It’s part of a pattern, he said, of federal officers jumping straight to use of force in situations that could have been de-escalated but instead create danger for both agents and their targets.

Pretti’s death, and the federal government’s characterization of the event, sparked immediate protests, spurring thousands of people to go out into frigid conditions in Minneapolis and other American cities. The shooting has also drawn intense criticism from political leaders, including Walz, who has promised his state’s law enforcement will conduct its own criminal investigation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/...dentified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez

What hides in the darkness shall be brought into the light.

"oath" look that up too

"Constitution" look it up

Very rarely. It's much, much better.