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Remember 9/11. I do. Looks like many forgot.

Everybody wants to fill in the blank.

Who is going to be? IMO from this point on it is going to be game on. Not that it has not been but now all systems are on go.

They are preparing to play games and the offense is installed. Execution from the huddle till the end of the play is under the microscope.

Since most of us cannot attend we have to rely on what reporters are saying. Who knows if that is accurate or if it is what the coaches think?

In many ways this is awkward. I doubt that many are excited by either guy.

I am more curious than anything else. I wish my expectations were higher.

When you are starting a season and you don't know who is the starting quarterback. It feels like leaving home with no money.

I truly envy teams like Buffalo.

I'm expecting hiccups too but also / mainly due to progress being hampered by the lack of quality QB play.

I can't tell you why - I haven't watched a lot of Ravens games, and even if I had the playbook with Lamar is going to be very different than what we can try to implement - but I feel like Monken will take shots deep, if nothing more than to keep the D honest. That was one of my gripes with KS - he was conservative with play calling. I remember reading a deep breakdown (probably in the Athletic) on how many routes were 8 yards or under and how that compresses the D and lets CB's and LB's make quicker decisions on what their role/responsibility is. It **felt** like KS only started to try to go deep when we were chasing games.

Regardless of the success of the new offense early in the season I think it will interesting to see what we're trying to do and how we're trying to do it.

Well that may be - there are plenty of staunch old school Repoublicans who are aggressively anti-Trump. There are plenty of people who couldn't tell you what communism is vs facism that are aggressively anti-Trump.

That said - it's one more example of some idiot - in this case a high profile idiot - saying something dumb and then having "social media" present them as representing one side or the other. And then the muppets that get fed that in their echo chamber spamming the web with it. That's really the issue. But hey. All is fair in love and politics - Spread the S**t - that's what good fanboys do.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

It's hilarious to see people claim to be Constitutionalists or even claim to respect the constitution and then support a POTUS who has virtually zero regard for the constitution.

Democrats supporting Muslims is hilariously ironic.

Theodore Roosevelt (1902): Built the West Wing to separate executive offices from the living quarters, utilizing existing funds and administrative authority.
William Howard Taft (1909): Expanded the West Wing and constructed the very first dedicated Oval Office.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1942): Substantially overhauled the West Wing (adding a second floor and relocating the Oval Office) and later built the East Wing, partly tied to wartime security needs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934): Built an indoor therapy pool in the West Terrace using $12,000 raised by a public fund
President Franklin D. Roosevelt did build an indoor pool in the White House in 1933 for his polio physical therapy, but it did not require a congressional appropriation because it was entirely funded by private donations through a public fundraising campaign. President Richard Nixon converted the space into the White House Press briefing room.
President Gerald Ford built an outdoor pool on the South Lawn in 1975, also financed via private donations.

Stephen Vogt has severely regressed in his pitcher selections.

He keeps pulling bullpen pitchers with 2 outs and the lead and the next pitcher responds by giving up runs.

Too many people think they're going to get a degree, then get a job sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours a day, maybe working from home 1-3 days a week, and making $80,000 a year. Truth? The trades. Plumber, electrician, road construction, etc. Might start at $50,000, but if your good, doesn't take long to move up. Young man I know: Had a baseball scholarship if he wanted it. Also, had a choice. He took the choice. He's now, when he might have been just graduating college............he's instead making $120,000 a year, and moving up.

But, he travels. (and I know many people that spend a week at a time away from home). He/they work in the heat, the cold, etc.

How timely, Fate. Bill Maher has Mike Rowe on his show. Can find the full clip but here is a snippet.


#NILF

Share? I'm not sure what you mean.

All I can surmise is that, apparently, Watson looked better with the number 1 with pads than Sanders. I'm not sure how that is a surprise to anyone (not saying you are). Monken might like Watson more than Sanders so far. The turn on the dime to replace Watson with Sanders for first team reps tends to indicate that. But we'll see.

Personally, I saw Sanders last year....he was absolutely terrible. Blame him. Blame the OL. Blame Stefanski. I don't care. He was bad. He was one of the worst QBs in 2025 right next to Gabriel. I get it, they were both rookies...there is a window to improve. But, I think there is higher upside with Watson than Sanders. The highest probability is we look for a QB in the 2027 draft but if there is anyone to upend that strategy, it is Watson. Not Sanders.

We'll see if I am wrong.

He misled us more than once, lies and exaggeration. I am willing to be the bigger guy and let him make up the difference out of his own pocket for all stated shortfalls. Sell that chainsaw!

Memphis, share what happened to cause that, please. I want to get a feel about what what Monken likes, the metric moving this bar.

Took her right out of the air, bro! Very dangerous play. The scumbags calling it a "basketball play", defending her and/or whining some tired-@ss b.s. about "racism" should rot.

Ya got me — I laughed.

We are undefeated.

The "Birds of a feather" theory proven as factual.

DiJonai Carrington is vocally anti-Donald Trump and has publicly worn explicit anti-Trump apparel. I'm not saying that 100% means she is a liberal/democrat but it's a pretty strong indication.

Remember all the claims - and how MAGA fanboys gushed over Musk and what he was going to do?

Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-efforts-cut-spending-170100893.html

In terms of demoralizing the federal workforce and demolishing the public sector, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency was a success.

In terms of actually saving money, though — its ostensible raison d'être — it was a dismal failure.

Musk vowed to slash $2 trillion in government "waste and fraud." Then he lowered that target to $1 trillion, and behind the scenes reportedly promised Trump to save just a tenth of that figure. In the end, DOGE boasted on its website's "Wall of Receipts" that it had saved around $215 billion — peanuts compared to its original promise.

But the actual amount of spending it slashed may be even lower than that. In a sweeping audit, the Government Accountability Office looked through the $110 billion that DOGE claimed it saved between January and July 2025, and found a trail of staggering incompetency that let loads of supposedly saved money fall through the cracks. That framing, though, could be too generous to Musk and his pimple-faced lackeys.

You could also take the view that DOGE, in all likelihood, was deliberately cooking the books.

Per the GAO's new report, released this month, DOGE claimed it terminated 13,476 contracts, but nearly 2,000 of them weren't actually terminated. Spending-wise, about $27.4 billion of the purported savings came from these contracts that DOGE botched the terminations of.

The clumsy — or deceptive — bookkeeping didn't end there. The receipts "includes leases identified for termination before [the group] was established," the report states, as quoted by The Washington Post. And 108 of 264 of the leases it claimed it nixed "were already in process for termination."

In all, the GAO found that over half of DOGE's claimed $61 billion in contract savings couldn't be verified or came from contracts that weren't actually terminated. Similarly, 96 percent of the savings that it claimed came from grants couldn't be verified by the accountability office, either.

Last August, an investigation by Politico found that of the $52.8 billion that DOGE had claimed to save by cancelling contracts at the time, its actual savings were closer to just $1.4 billion. To calculate how it saved money, DOGE dubiously used the maximum spending limit listed on the contracts it axed, figures that in practice are much higher than what the government ends up spending.

At the time, government procurement expert Jessica Tillipman told the outlet that the practice was akin to "taking out a credit card with a $20,000 credit limit, cancelling it and then saying, 'I've just saved $20,000.'"

So are you saying DiJonai is a Liberal / Democrat ?

You posted that in this thread ... so that's the point right? Accept I don't see anything anywhere about what party she is affiliated with.

White privilege strikes again!

Imagine if a politician had posted this exact same message replacing the word Muslim with Jew or Christian............

Iran Says It Will Only Reopen The Strait of Hormuz if Trump Replaces JD Vance with Bad Bunny