The Jets appear to be good against the pass. We're going to have to have some success with the run such that we can pass when WE want to pass and not constantly being in need of passing. They're also plus 3 in turnovers. That's pretty good for a 1-3 team. With a 3-1 record our goal has to be making the playoffs. We're not overmatched in this game. This is a conference game and we want to accumulate as many tiebreakers as possible. Monken gave the team Friday thru Monday off. That's cool. Everyone earned it. But there can be no Let Down Week here. We've gotta leave NY with a win. Go Browns!

I’m going to start doing a thing featuring lesser known current Browns players and sharing hopefully fun and interesting information about them. What better guy to start with than Rex Sunahara, Browns long snapper since 2024.He’s a local guy! Born in Toledo, but raised in Bay Village, just west of Cleveland. At Bay high school he played baseball, basketball, and football, primarily as a WR and DB.In college, he decided to go to Rhode Island to play football and basketball. It was there that he focused on the fine art of chucking a ball between his cheeks, aka long snapping.A year later in 2016, Rex bet on himself. He walked on at West Virginia to chuck balls between his cheeks for the Mountaineers.He was the backup for a couple years, but by 2018 he was starting. Rex long snapped his ass off for the Mountaineers for a couple years, and even won the Patrick Mannelly Award, whatever that is. His pro career started off rocky. It’s a 4 year tale of being signed and cut by NFL and XFL teams without ever playing in a game.Then in August of 2024, he got his break. Charley Hughlett went down and the Browns needed a replacement. Let’s call the guy down the road.And the rest is history. Rex has been starting ever since and doing a fine job. I don’t recall ever cursing his name. He led all NFL long snappers in tackles last year with 7. Rex was interviewed in October of 2024, and he’s apparently a big music guy. At the time, “Easy Lover” by Phil Collins was his jam and what he listened to before taking the field. Easy Lover? Really? I could see Sussudio, or In the Air Tonight if you like a slow burn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Sunaharahttps://www.news5cleveland.com/sports/next-man-up/next-man-up-neo-native-rex-sunahara-went-from-working-at-house-of-blues-to-browns-starting-long-snapper

This was a recent date night flick l watched with my gal. Yes, it’s pretty much a chick flick, but it’s a chick flick with a twist, and it’s on Netflix.The main character is Jill, played by Zoey Deutch, and she has a sister named Isabelle who is Jill’s best friend and most favorite person in the world. The first 15 minutes of the movie does a helluva job showing how close they are and how strong their bond is as they were growing up together.Isabelle has cystic fibrosis and is mostly bedridden, so she largely lives her life vicariously through Jill. In the meantime, Jill is out in the world trying her level best to date guys and carve out a career as a pastry chef, in part so she can have fun stories to tell Isabelle. Since Isabelle didn’t get out much, their mutual happy place was the kitchen where they fancied themselves as mad scientists trying to create the next culinary big thing.And after the first 15 minutes of the film, Isabelle kicks it, and Jill spends the next several months trying to trudge forward with life while mourning, and she keeps calling Isabelle’s phone and leaving long winded heartfelt and sometimes funny voicemails on Isabelle’s old number.And of course she doesn’t realize that Isabelle’s old number is now the new number for Wes, a young high powered real estate sales guy, played by Nick Robinson.At one point the flick totally makes fun of itself for being a reboot of “You’ve Got Mail.” The film is quirky and funny at times, but it has big feels moments too. At first you’re not totally sure if this Wes guy is a good guy or a douchebag. It’s less of a traditional love story and more a story about the bond between two siblings. But there is a love story in there, and it’s really well done.I was impressed. It’s an atypical trajectory for a chick flick, but it also had plenty of the hallmarks of a good chick flick. I give it a solid A.

In the pioneer days/civil war days, dried and roasted dandelion and chicory roots were used to make coffee.Check it out. If we ever have a national problem with food for whatever calamity might happen, there is food all around us -growing wild. Chicory is a very easy to identify plant. I've harvested a bag of curly dock seeds to make flour. Haven't tried that one yet. lolbut if coffee goes very high for whatever reasons, or the democrats cause inflation to explode, the ability to save money will be important.I've posted elsewhere about dandelion tea, dandelion blossom fritters, as for any plant, having a definite proof of the identify of plants is important, some of themhave poisonous lookalikes. Many are easy and safe to find if you know what you are doing.You can download "Picture This" and "Seek" on your phones - a cross reference and ALSO knowing what to look for will help greatly.(btw, Picture This - has a subscription, if you don't want to try opening it twice before it opens the third time)).This is just a small example.https://www.wikihow.life/Make-Chicory-Coffee

It’s a brand spanking new show on HBO Max, based on the DC superhero Green Lantern. Only one episode out so far, but so far so good.The OG Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, is played by Kyle Chandler, who l’m a big fan of from his days of playing coach Taylor in Friday Night Lights. He’s great in the role. Cocky, fearless, and a bit of an asshole.He’s in the latter stages of his tenure as Green Lantern when the show begins, and he has an apprentice, John Stewart, played by Aaron Pierre.As mentioned before, only one episode so far, but l think the second drops tonight and l’m in to it. Grade to be released after the season concludes.

I never got around to posting some pics of our trip out west with friends.This is just a facebook video - but it's real.and they are not "buffalo" - they are BISON.we have video of them walking right past our car. A bison can jump about six feet in the air,run about 32-35 mph from a bolt, and can weigh about 2000 lbs.Dangerously powerful. I'll start posting some of our pictures/videos in the next few days.Male bison (bulls) can weigh up to 2,000 pounds, and females (called cows) can weigh up to 1,000 pounds. Bison calves weigh 30–70 pounds at birth. National Park Service Department of the Interiorhttps://www.facebook.com/reel/1301027065304028

I saw the latest Spider-Man flick at the theater yesterday, and l liked it a lot. I declare it the best Spider-Man movie ever made.I was a voracious comic book reader when l was a kid, but honestly Spider-Man was never one of my favorite characters. Nonetheless, l read my fair share of his stuff so l’m hip to what he’s all about. Young, idealistic, and a New Yorker through and through.Every Spider-Man movie ever made did their level best to capture what it must be like to swing through the streets on NYC and cling to buildings snd scamper across rooftops, but l’m telling you this flick took the cake capturing that, and it’s worth seeing on the big screen for that alone. The cinematography is outstanding.It will be helpful to watch the prior Spider-Man flick so that you’re up to speed, Spider-Man: No Way Home. I don’t want to spoil anything if you haven’t seen it, but it’s a “multi-verse” centric flick and at the end Spider-Man sort of loses his support system. It was a good flick, but l have to admit l was already worn out with all the multi-verse stuff by the time it came out.Brand New Day gets back to Spider-Man’s roots where he’s largely a solo act fighting crime in the streets of New York, and the city loves him, but the whole solo act thing starts to take a toll on him. Things come to a head when he has to confront a villain who seemingly has the ability to possess other people. There are some notable appearances from other Marvel characters. Mark Ruffalo is back as Bruce Banner/Hulk, Florence Pugh reprises her role as the new Black Widow (l know, l miss Scarlett too…), and Jon Bernthal is back as Frank Castle/Punisher.I love Bernthal as the Punisher. Hands down the best portrayal of that character. He is as good as the Punisher as Hugh Jackman is as Wolverine, and anyone who plays those parts after them will be compared to those guys. The Spider-Man/Punisher Bromance is definitely the thing we didn’t know we needed until we had it, and now we have it. This is a long-ish flick clocking in at almost 2.5 hours, but it breezes by pretty fast and you won’t be disappointed. I give it an A+.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-lifeguard-speaks-heartstopping-ocean-rescue-love-what-doLifeguards save young boy, 5 years old, as he's pulled unconscious from oceanTwo lifeguards began CPR on child as soon as they found him unconscious Being WSI qualified as I was back in the day, I am in awe of the courage and dedication of first responders like this.16 yrs old, watch the video - that surf is not to be taken lightly. In the service, we had church retreats and I was elected the lifeguard so we could swim in the lake. It's a ton of responsibility - Thank God for heroes like this. Wow.