Took a quick peak at my prop bets and I didn't realize Tyree Wilson has better odds to be the first defensive player taken over Will Anderson. Interesting odds on ACC players (o/u at 3.5 at good odds) and the number of TE's (o/u 2.5 at good odds).

Spent my lunch hour reading up on the latest mocks and everyone is all over the place. It seems like everyone feels Bryce Young will be the first overall. I've mostly seen CJ Stroud at 2 ... but some think the Texans may go defense or trade. I mean, who knows?

Q1: Who is your team and who do you want your team to draft?

Me: Falcons - I see Bijan Robinson trending ... but I personally want Will Anderson to get better in the edge, or an OT like Skoronski.

Q2: How many Tigers will get drafted in the first?

Myles seems like a first round pick ... where in the first seems to be varied. I've seen him as early at 12 and as late as 29. Trenton? Brian?

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Per ESPN's Adam Shefter

This marks the second time in 14 years that the Packers have traded a legendary quarterback to the Jets. In 2009, the Packers sent Brett Favre to the New York Jets in exchange for a conditional fourth-round pick.

With Aaron Rodgers now traded to New York, the Jets are expected to become prime-time darlings when the NFL schedule is released next month and could play up to six prime-time games, per sources. They had one last year, a Thursday nighter vs. the Jaguars.

Beaver fans want to see how their QB's perform at Saturday's Spring game.

I'm pretty curious too.

The latest on the 2024 five-stars as it stands today:

these people need the J6 treatment...

I know it's going to be fluid but who are we expecting so far? Other than the commits, where do we stand right now?

Looking back at MMI, looks like most Olineman are still not locked in yet. The names I see that look like they are set are M. Uini OT, M Matthews ATH, TJ Moore WR, and the DB's Gipson, Jones, Hampton and Agard.

Haven't seen if guys like Sammy Brown, Beamon, Jackson, Bolden, etc. have locked in. May have missed them. @Paul Strelow do you anticipate we know closer to the end of the month where most all are headed or could it be a last min. deal on some? Am I missing any?

Over/under we sign 8, not already committed, from this weekend? Not right away but after all is said or done, I'd take the over!

Prediction time

At different positions. Swipe picture to the left.

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Anyone have a list of current DL in the NFL?

I'll update as we go...

1. Lou Dobbs
2. Dan Bogeenus
3. Tucker Carlson


I suggest friendly predictions on who's next. My money is on Bartiromo.

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From Rivals.com national recruiting director Adam Gorney this morning:

Way OT but I have a buddy getting married. His best man is not the most organized so I am trying to help with the bachelor party. The groom wants to go to some land or a plantation with all the guys and shoot , fish, etc. we would need housing too…preferably onsite with some type of all inclusive

would love to stay in south carolina but not sure if that is an option

any recs to look into would be very appreciated. I would say 80% of attendees would be coming from Charleston area

They honored Kyler Murray in Norman this past weekend, and Brent Venables said he was pulling for Alabama in the 2018 Orange Bowl CFP semifinal game between Alabama and Oklahoma (Alabama won 45-34).

“And I'm not going to lie, several years ago, when I was at Clemson -- we're watching the Oklahoma-Alabama matchup,” Venables said. “I was like, of all the teams to hope for, I was hoping to play Alabama and not Kyler Murray as a defensive coach.

“I literally was like, 'I'm pulling for Alabama, I'm pulling for Alabama.' Pick your poison, but honestly, I was like, 'I do not want to face that guy.' So anyway, amazing player, man. It's a real joy to have him here this week and celebrate him.”

To summarize, Uiagalelei felt Clemson's offensive scheme was way too "basic" and the coaching staff didn't structure their scheme to him. He also added the Tigers were calling plays "scared" when he was under center.

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What are Yall using nowadays?

“I heard a comment from somebody in a developing country who said, ‘Look, I like your values better than I like China’s. But the truth is, when we’re engaged with the Chinese, we get an airport. And when we’re engaged with you guys, we get a lecture.'”

former Clemson recruit…big time speed / shifty slot guy. Any shot we get involved or is he seeking a big pay day?

Its getting very real. I still say this is all being done on purpose. We are currently at the mercy of true evil.


"What we are looking at is a Greek-style debt crisis at some point, meaning decades of lost economic growth," warned Heritage Foundation's Richard Stern.

By Nick Givas
Updated: April 24, 2023 - 11:20pm
If House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) can't cut a deal to cut spending in exchange for raising the debt limit, it could trigger a Greece-like financial collapse, potentially even sparking violence and unrest of a kind not seen in modern America, warns a federal budget expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
"What we are looking at is a Greek-style debt crisis at some point, meaning decades of lost economic growth," Richard Stern told Just The News this week.
The Greek debt crisis began at the start of the Great Recession and dragged on for years, severely shaking confidence in the nation's economy and resulting in Greece's default on a debt of €1.6 billion to the International Monetary Fund in 2015.
"We'll have a lack of flourishing and a dimming of the American dream," said Stern, a former staff member with the Republican Study Group, an influential House GOP conservative caucus. "If you look at the 10-year trajectories of the [Congressional Budget Office], what you see is an economy headed for oblivion. And it's not because of anything the American people are doing. It's because of the government. It's taxation, it's regulation. It's taking the things that people produce to hand back to corporations."
Stern warned of the potential for violent protests breaking out if government leaders don't act wisely and quickly.
"Sadly, I think [violence] is possible," he lamented. "They are hell-bent on destroying the economy and destroying people's livelihoods and pushing the American people and American families into the ground. So, honestly, God knows what that turns into. But I'm sure it's nothing good."
Stern theorized it could be an intentional Democrat strategy to crash the current economic system to clear the way for a digital dollar and the centralization of financial control in Washington that it would facilitate.
"It's only been the last 14 or 15 years that the dollar has been kind of intentionally managed in such a poor fashion," he stated. "Eighty-five percent of all of the dollars in circulation have been created in the last 15 years. And it's purely to fund federal deficits, effectively pouring water into the wine of everybody's life savings, diluting it to the point where there's nothing left in terms of purchasing power in an attempt to steal their purchasing power from people who already have savings and give it to the federal government.
"What they're saying now is that they're seeing the end of the line for that. They're saying, 'Oh, well, we're just going to create this new digital currency.' This is a currency that the government fully controls and not just has all of the data on what your transactions are and where it is, what's being held, but they have the control over it. So they could say, 'Look, there's some company that's no longer woke enough. You simply can't transact currency with them.' Or that their assets are frozen and the government can flip a switch on the computer coding, and it's done. So it gives them that tremendous control. And it gives them a way to bail out the dollar."
Despite his sense of foreboding, Stern remains hopeful McCarthy can reach a deal with Democrats that would cool inflation and avert currency collapse.
"You know the analogy of the frog boiling in the pot?" he said. "The frog is boiled. And so the inflation tax that you're seeing, the destruction of the U.S. dollar, of people's savings, the Fed's inability to control both of inflation and interest rates — all of these things are connected. And so for the first time, the burden of this is so large that it is unavoidable. And so, out of that, you're seeing the push of McCarthy's package and some of these other things. That all gives me hope. It all gives me optimism that we can actually get past just poorly managing the disease."
Just The News reached out to The White House for a rebuttal to Stern's comments and to ask if they expect to cut deal with McCarthy, but did not receive a reply.
You can follow Nick on Twitter @NGivasDC

BY JACK MONTGOMERY

APRIL 24, 2023


Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then a top member of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, “set in motion” a letter signed by dozens of former security state dismissing the Hunter Biden “Laptop from Hell” story as having “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation”.Yet deeper questions around how the letter was placed with the media remain largely unexplored.

Fake ‘Intel’.​

Mike Morrell, a two-time Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), told the House Judiciary Committee that he put together the letter, signed by 51 former intelligence officials including the likes of ex-communist John Brennan. The move came after a call with Blinken, with Biden heavily relying on it to blunt then-President Donald Trump’s criticism of his family’s dodgy dealings during a head-to-head debate.
“Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election,” accused Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Michael Turner, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, in a letter to Secretary Blinken.
“This concerted effort to minimize and suppress public dissemination of the serious allegations about the Biden family was a grave disservice to all American citizens’ informed participation in our democracy,” they complained.
But while the fact that Antony Blinken may have rustled up a gaggle of security state alumni to suppress the laptop story is disturbing, it is in some ways less interesting than the question of how their letter was planted in the media and inserted into the wider narrative around the Biden family and supposed Russian disinformation in the first place.

Enter Natasha Bertrand.​

The House Judiciary Committee says Morrell “explained that the Biden campaign helped to strategize about the public release of the statement” smearing the laptop story as a Russian conspiracy. Who was the ultimate vehicle for that public release? Natasha Bertrand, who only just turned 30, who was then a national security correspondent (in her mid-twenties) for POLITICO.
The question of why the Biden campaign and its allies in the security state community chose German-owned POLITICO seems an obvious one. It lives mainly online, with little traction among the general public and even news junkies often unaware that its low-circulation print edition exists. But POLITICO has a great deal of traction among political insiders, and relies on “anonymous sources” among them for much of its reporting.
Bertrand is the archetypal DC insider, having cut her teeth at Business Insider, followed by the Atlantic, NBC News, POLITICO, and now CNN. Her role appears to be that of official information launderer on behalf of America’s ruling class. Hardly a Walter Cronkite figure, she was only in her mid-twenties when she was tasked with hamstringing the laptop story — but had more experience with such hatchet jobs than one might expect.
She was a key figure in the promotion of the bogus Steele Dossier, originally published by the now officially dead BuzzFeed News, and related, equally flawed CNN reporting on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort being wiretapped by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Indeed, Bertrand was so involved in the dossier hoax that The Washington Post — hardly an outlet known for being sympathetic to Trump — published a lengthy article by media critic Erik Wemple on how she “bootstrapped her punditry [on the dossier] into a contributor’s role on MSNBC.”
Why would the security state turn to someone tied so closely to the discredited Steele Dossier to run the letter undermining the Laptop from Hell? Wouldn’t it make more sense to someone whose credibility wasn’t in tatters? Perhaps not if, like Greg Gutfeld, you believe she was given the letter precisely because she had pushed the dossier so enthusiastically.
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Indeed, that Bertrand had fallen upwards from Business Insider to The Atlantic to POLITICO — with side gigs as a talking head for MSNBC and NBC — suggests the Steele Dossier coming apart at the seams was no bar to her career advancing.
The laptop story now being fully substantiated — and the anti-laptop letter fully discredited — has had no discernible impact on her either: she now covers national security for CNN, the self-styled “most trusted name in news”.
And her contacts in the security state? These remain alive and well. As recently as a few months ago she was selected to conduct a simpering semi-interview with Frank Figliuzzi, a former top FBI official, promoting his “amazing” book The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence — a title that reads like a punchline post-Peter Strzok.
The job did little for her public profile, garnering fewer than 400 views. But did it further enhance her good standing among security officials for the next time they need someone to place a story for them.

There has been an ongoing debate about the Daniel players and the amount of them on this team. There are currently 14 players on the roster from Daniel. That number is absurdly high but can anyone that actually knows provide the accurate number of scholarships between these players?

They are.....

Tyler Venables
Clay Swinney
Jackson Smith
Trent Pearman
Matthew Maloney
Jackson Smith
Mason Johnstone
Hampton Earle
Brody Conn
Griffin Batt
Boston Miller
Misun Kelly
Jaheim Lawson
Bubba Mcatee

Hi everyone,

Our au pair got caught speeding in Athens with some of her friends. Trying to find a good traffic attorney to help reduce the ticket if anyone has any recommendations. Thanks and go tigers!

Matt