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CLEVELAND, Ohio (TheOBR.com<\/a>) Good morning, Cleveland Browns fans!<\/p>\n

THE DAILY BLOVIATION<\/p>\n

The typical depiction of a nerdy person comes complete with thick glasses (often held together with tape), a pocket protector, and a general obliviousness to the world around them. In popular fiction, the nerd is often regarded as a bit of a pest and a nuisance until the hero (who does not wear glasses) needs the nerd\u2019s help to defeat the villain by designing, I don\u2019t know, a remote-controlled trashcan-turned-robot. As a nerd myself, I dispute the details of this stereotype. While I did wear glasses (often held together with tape) as a youth, I\u2019ve never had a pocket protector and refuse to wear one. Also, slow-moving and ineptly humorous robots are not my thing, unless they\u2019re named \u201cTom\u201d or \u201cCrow\u201d. <\/p>\n

As for general obliviousness? Well, a meteor disintegrated in the sky over Cleveland yesterday, releasing a sound that was described as \u201clike a bomb going off\u201d. While space-related events are of natural interest to the prototypical nerd, I was wearing headphones or engaged in something at the time, and don\u2019t have the slightest recollection of it happening. A big-ass rock fell out of the sky<\/a> literally right over my head, and I completely missed it.<\/p>\n

Score one for the stereotype. <\/p>\n

Relevant to the subject of this bloviation, no Cleveland Browns player or team facility was damaged by the meteor. In fact, based on what I can surmise, the meteor may have actually been aimed at Pittsburgh, which is something I generally support.<\/p>\n

Closer to home, the Athletic has a story this morning about Shedeur Sanders being the early favorite<\/a> to win the Browns\u2019 starting quarterback job, a hypothesis that is intuitively obvious to anyone who remembers what happened when Dillon Gabriel and Deshaun Watson got their shots at being the starting quarterback. Sanders, the hyper-famous fifth-round pick from Colorado, has shown enough in his first batch of starts and over the course of the off-season that he\u2019s considered the leader in the clubhouse. While this would certainly excite the large contingent of Shedeur fans circling the Browns mediasphere, the response from Browns fans is more tepid, reflecting both their experience last year down the stretch with Sanders and the Browns\u2019 historical inability to develop quarterbacks.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Wyatt Teller officially has a new home<\/a>, signing a two-year deal with the Houston Texans. Teller reuniting with Tytus Howard\u2019s old team in Houston has a certain poetic irony. The Texans appear pleased with the acquisition, which fits better with the Texans\u2019 readiness to compete now, rather than the situation in Cleveland, which appears to be looking forward to an opportunity to pick a franchise quarterback in 2027<\/p>\n

And speaking of moving on, David Njoku visited the Ravens. Let that sink in and marinate in your brain for a second. The guy played all those years in Cleveland and seems to love the city, visiting our rival for what is presumably a potential signing. Whatever, David. Good luck. (We don\u2019t mean that. We absolutely mean that.)<\/p>\n

In bigger-picture NFL news, JC Tretter \u2014 the former Browns center and longtime NFLPA rep \u2014 has been elected as the NFLPA\u2019s next executive director,<\/a> in a move that is not free of controversy given Tretter\u2019s past entanglements. One of the challenges that Tretter will need to wrestle with the NFL\u2019s desire to expand the regular season to 18 games, which is apparently part of very complex plan to ensure that every major quarterback in the league is injured by the time the playoffs roll around, thereby ensuring that Progressive Insurance will have plenty of \u201cbackup quarterback\u201d commercials<\/a> to film moving forward. The campaign, featuring ex-Browns starting quarterbacks who played backup for normal teams, bemoans the absence of personal assistants in all our lives, who will eventually take the form of slow-moving trashcan robots designed by nerds. The future awaits. <\/p>\n

The Browns also re-signed cornerback D\u2019Angelo Ross, adding depth to a secondary that will need all the bodies it can get. And on the WR front, the Broncos landed Jaylen Waddle in a trade with the Dolphins \u2014 which has ripple effects on the draft board as Miami now seems to be in the mix for the No. 1 overall pick (and potentially Arch Manning<\/a>) in 2027. You can start hating the Dolphins now, if you like, and be a trendsetter in your neighborhood<\/p>\n

Have a good one! GO BROWNS!<\/p>\n

Newswire Bloviation Archive<\/a><\/p>\n

OBR GOODIES<\/p>\n

OBR VIDEO<\/p>\n

– Pete and Joe: 3\/17\/26<\/a><\/p>\n

– Report: Wyatt Teller signs with Texans<\/a><\/p>\n

OBR ARTICLES<\/p>\n

– Cleveland Browns Film Room: What the Browns are Getting in Elgton Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n

– Cleveland Browns News and Rumors 03\/17\/26: The Endless Road<\/a><\/p>\n

FROM THE FORUMS<\/p>\n

ASK THE INSIDERS (VI<\/a>P)<\/p>\n

–<\/a> Jameis Winston<\/a><\/p>\n

– Marvin Mims?<\/a><\/p>\n

– Pete- First 3<\/a><\/p>\n

– Pete Follow Up on Lemon-<\/a><\/p>\n

– Question for Pete and Lane- Browns affinity for Ty?<\/a><\/p>\n

– We jujuan jennings<\/a><\/p>\n

– Done?<\/a><\/p>\n

INSIDER DISCUSSION (VI<\/a>P)<\/p>\n

–<\/a> Ty Simpson<\/a><\/p>\n

THE WATERCOOLER<\/a><\/p>\n

– <\/a>Happy Birthday, Tyson Campbell!<\/a><\/p>\n

– Reinhard Summary of NFL Cuts So Far<\/a><\/p>\n

– Schefter: Colts Sign College Fwd to Convert to TE<\/a><\/p>\n

– Browns QBs getting paid, and new OCs across the league…<\/a><\/p>\n

– MKC: Teller Signs with Texans<\/a><\/p>\n

– Rap: Broncos Trade with Dolphins for WR Waddle<\/a><\/p>\n

– OT: Northeast Ohio Explosion – Meteor Hit<\/a><\/p>\n

– Food for Thought on WRs in \u201926 Draft<\/a><\/p>\n

– LiveWire Thread for 3\/17 – Twitter, Video, Articles<\/a><\/p>\n

THE LIFT<\/p>\n

Positive news from the world of sports and beyond…<\/p>\n

Here are the things I found interesting today while surfing my science feeds. Aliens who don\u2019t want to talk to us will take heart in the stab-happy trailer for Dune 3, which doesn\u2019t paint a great picture of our species\u2019 ability to live in harmony with nature and each other. In other news, scientists have found ways to turn useless stuff into useful stuff. As a nerd, I approve of scientists doing things. <\/p>\n

– Where are all the aliens? Maybe they just don\u2019t want to talk to us<\/a><\/p>\n

– Dune: Part Three teaser: Five talking points from Denis Villeneuve\u2019s return to Arrakis<\/a><\/p>\n

– Discarded Plastic Can Be Converted Into Parkinson\u2019s Drug<\/a><\/p>\n

– Scientists discover how to turn plastic waste into vinegar: \u2018We were inspired by mushrooms\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

WRAPPING UP<\/p>\n

When not basing his worldview on the movie \u201cRevenge of the Nerds\u201d, Barry McBride is the Publisher and Founder of the OBR and bloviates this nonsense every morning. You can follow him on Twitter @barrymcbride<\/a> or write him at barry@theobr.com<\/a> if you are so compelled.<\/p>\n

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