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Good morning, Cleveland Browns fans!
Either I've got technology issues to go with my mental health ones, or people took yesterday off to watch the NCAA tournament and figured writing about the Browns could wait until another day. My feed reader was practically empty as I blundered up to it this morning, running late.
I spent a while debugging some issues of my creation and fixed those, but the end result is still less than impressive. I POINT MY FINGER OF SHAME AT THE MAINSTREAM SPORTS MEDIA, WHO SELFISHLY REFUSE TO WRITE EMPTY ARTICLES FOR ME TO POKE FUN AT FOR BEING EMPTY.
To be sure, it was mostly the local media who focused instead on basketball yesterday. The national press was still churning out articles filled with speculation and no new information about the quarterback position. I can put all these words in that section together, smash them into a giant meatball, run it through a strainer looking for actual new information, and literally nothing would come out.
(Alright, it's not the best metaphor, but the wife and I have been watching a lot of Chopped on the Food Network lately).
But the ensuing section mostly consists of people talking about the quarterback position and possible candidates who know nothing more than you or I do but are compensated for their opinions. I don't read much into most of these articles.
Shedeur Sanders at the Combine
Shedeur Sanders at the Combine (Photo: Getty)
For example, we've already watched Shedeur Sanders rise and fall among the draft cognoscenti, and now we're starting to get Shedeur Sanders reconsideration articles. This whole re-evaluation of the player, the hype and the anti-hype, was primarily based on Draft Combine rumors of less-than-awesome interviews. As far as we know, the opinions of people that matter haven't budged a centimeter since January, all these words border on meaningless.
But now we've hit an inflection point of silliness in the draft analysis season, and we've got about four more weeks of it. We're at the point of tracking who follows who on social media as if the players and their agents know any better than we do who will be selected by which team in the draft.
But I'll stick to my raison d'etre and keep sifting through it each morning, looking for gold nuggets in the onrushing, tumbling current of news. Good luck, me.
Have a good one! GO BROWNS!
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