What California can learn from Florida about the darker side of human nature
Amid the many acts of courage in kindness we have witnessed during the Los Angeles infernos, a darker side of human nature has also emerged as cases of looting rise. Unfortunately, in virulently anti-gun California, homeowners are left with few self-defense options.
Police have already charged more than 20 people with looting. One pernicious pair went so far as to dress up as firefighters to help themselves to the valuables of victims whose homes were abandoned or destroyed.
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Obviously, with the winds still whipping the deadly fires around Tinseltown, all resources, including police, are stretched to the breaking point, providing hard-hearted thieves with a target-rich environment for their crimes.
One thing that these thugs in Los Angeles can count on is that if they encounter a homeowner amid their looting, there is little chance that person will be pointing a gun at them.
In the free state of Florida, where the Second Amendment protecting gun rights is revered, not reviled, potential looters, after hurricanes for example, know that stealing from the wrong house could be a death sentence.
They know because Gov. Ron DeSantis told them so after the damage done to thousands of homes by Hurricane Milton last year.
“If you go into somebody’s house after the storm passes, think that you’re going to be able to commit crimes, you’re going to get in really serious trouble.” DeSantis promised, adding, “And quite frankly, you don’t know what’s behind that door in a Second Amendment state.”
Hear, hear.
There are really two ways in which the unarmed people of Los Angeles are put at risk by the Draconian anti-gun laws in the Golden State. The first is that individuals are unable to protect themselves and their property, but the second, and it might be worse, is that criminals are very well aware of this.
When we think about the reasons why we have the Second Amendment, it is often noted that it is for self-defense, and also a check on the power of the government. But in California, we are seeing a third reason, which is exactly this kind of emergency.
Angelenos don’t need guns to overthrow their government, not yet anyway, but they do need them to hold down the fort, or the house, so to speak, while the government pours all of its resources into disaster management.
In fact, when you look at rates of gun ownership by state, it is rural states such as Montana that have the most guns per capita. This is precisely because, while in a city, government protection in the form of police is always minutes away, in rural areas, it often is not.
This is precisely where Los Angeles residents find themselves today. The city and state governments are overwhelmed, people need to protect themselves and short-sighted, anti-gun policies are preventing them from doing that.
This is why we see reports of some of the wealthy in LA paying for private security to protect their homes, which I guess is great if you are a millionaire, but if not, it leaves you even more vulnerable.
Frankly, in many cases, all it would take to dissuade would-be looters from rolling the dice with their lives is a handful of openly armed men in a neighborhood watch patrolling their neighborhood.
But the progressive leadership of California, who, by the way, also have armed protection at taxpayer expense, will not allow the average Joe to protect his family with a gun of his own.
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Progressive gun policies such as those in California, like so many other progressive policies, are intended to make citizens weaker, more vulnerable, and more dependent on the state. That is on open and clear display in LA today.
Hopefully, once this emergency passes, Californians will realize how essential their gun rights really are and demand their restoration. In the meantime, thousands and thousands are simply helpless.
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Los Angeles District Attorney Nate Hochman was elected to get tough on crime. Here is his first chance. If the city does not allow its citizens to protect themselves, then the penalty for looting must be massive, as in years in prison.
But honestly, that is not and never will be an adequate replacement for an armed population, which is precisely what the founding fathers understood when they enshrined our God-given right to gun ownership.
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How Dems’ new tax is forcing working-class Americans into death tunnels
As more workers return to offices after the coronavirus pandemic, New York Democrats are pushing them into the Big Apple’s subway system with policies like the new congestion fee on cars and trucks that enter busy parts of Manhattan.
The new fee, criticized as a driving tax on the middle class and businesses, is meant to encourage people to take the subway, cutting down on exhaust fumes and raising money for the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
It costs drivers $9 if they want to travel south of Central Park or enter downtown Manhattan from Brooklyn or New Jersey.
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Scott LoBaido, a Staten Island artist and frequent critic of New York’s Democratic leaders, protested the move this week with a demonstration at 61st Street and Broadway, the same intersection where supporters of the new fees celebrated when they went into effect earlier this week.
He said a passerby approached him and expressed support for the new fees because they would be good for the environment.
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“I just said, ‘Excuse me, son. I don’t feel like going on fire. I don’t feel like getting stabbed in the back of the head,” LoBaido told Fox News Digital Friday.
LoBaido was referring to a string of recent subway attacks.
In one, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala is accused of lighting a sleeping woman on fire, fanning the flames and watching her burn.
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Sebastian Zapeta was later arrested and allegedly told detectives he didn’t remember what happened because he routinely gets blackout drunk and rides the subway, according to court documents.
In another case, the NYPD arrested a man accused of knifing two strangers from behind within the subway system. On Christmas Eve, another man was arrested for an alleged unprovoked stabbing at the subway platform in Grand Central, a major hub for tourists and commuters.
“It’s insane. You listen to somebody like Gov. Hochul, who says the subways are safe. … The guy who runs the MTA says it’s all in our heads,” LoBaido said.
Mayor Eric Adams vowed this week to send more police officers to patrol the subway system, and Hochul sent in the National Guard last year.
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But while authorities insist crime is down, violence and the fear of violence continue to rise.
Felony assaults increased slightly in the transit system in 2024, and subway homicides doubled to 10 last year from the five that happened in 2023. Overall subway crime was down by 5.4%, according to the NYPD.
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Janno Lieber, the MTA chairman, told Bloomberg News earlier this week the idea of crime has “gotten in people’s heads” but claimed the trains are safe.
“The overall stats are positive,” he told the outlet. “Last year, we were actually 12.5% less crime than 2019, the last year before COVID. But there’s no question that some of these high-profile incidents, you know, terrible attacks, have gotten in people’s heads and made the whole system feel less safe.”
On top of the arson murder and the random slashings, straphangers are still dealing with shoving attacks, many of which have been fatal as victims fall in front of moving trains, and the trial of Daniel Penny, who was arrested and charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after he intervened in a man’s violent rant of death threats.
Penny was acquitted of the lesser charge, and prosecutors asked the court to dismiss the more serious one after jurors deadlocked.
“The Boston Tea Party started the greatest revolution in the history of civilization over a 2% tax,” LoBaido said. “And this, what is happening here is pure r—.”
Canadian leader offers his take on Trump’s idea of making country part of US
OTTAWA-After President-elect Trump mused about using “economic force” to acquire Canada as the 51st state during his Mar-a-Lago news conference on Tuesday, outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded on social media that “there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.”
However, as Trudeau announced on Monday his plan to resign as prime minister once the Liberal Party that he leads chooses his successor, the biggest pushback to Trump’s pitch to annex Canada – and his planned 25% tariffs on exports from the country – has come from the premier of Canada’s most populous province, Ontario.
Doug Ford, a former businessman and conservative like Trump who has served as Ontario’s 26th premier since 2018, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the president-elect’s targeting Canada is both “crazy” and “ridiculous.”
He said the bilateral focus should be on “strengthening” what the Canadian government calls a nearly trillion-dollar two-way trade relationship to “make the U.S. and Canada the richest and most prosperous jurisdiction in the world.”
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At a Toronto news conference on Monday following Trudeau’s resignation announcement, Ford chided Trump with a “counteroffer” to his Canada-as-a-51st state idea.
“How about if we buy Alaska and throw in Minnesota?” the premier said at Queen’s Park, Ontario’s legislature.
Ford jokingly told Fox News Digital that he heard from Canadians after making those remarks that he should have chosen “somewhere warmer, like Florida or California.”
“California never votes for him anyway,” he added.
At his Monday news conference, Ontario’s premier said that “under my watch,” annexing Canada “will never, ever happen.”
Ford is also taking Trump’s tariff threat seriously.
Last month, his Progressive Conservative government launched a multimillion-dollar U.S. ad campaign on television and streaming apps touting Ontario as an “ally” to generate “more workers, more trade, more prosperity, more security.”
“You can rely on Ontario for energy to power your growing economy, and for the critical minerals crucial to new technologies,” says the 60-second ad.
Ford said the 25% tariff against Canada, which Trump plans to implement on his first day in office on Jan. 20, would hurt millions of American and Canadian workers.
“Nine million Americans produce products for Ontario alone every single day,” he said. “The problem is China shipping goods into Mexico and Mexico slapping a made-in-Mexico sticker.”
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Ontario is ready to take retaliatory measures “that will really send a message to the U.S.” in response to the imposition of U.S. tariffs, said Ford, who was involved in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement during the first Trump administration, but would now like Canada to have separate deals with the U.S. and Mexico.
“It’s unfortunate because retaliation is not good for either country,” he offered, noting that Ontario is the top exporter to 17 states and the second largest to 11 others.
“The last thing I want to do is hurt those people,” said Ford. “I want to create more jobs in the U.S., more jobs in Canada. And we can do that by making sure that we toughen up and put tariffs on places like China.”
By way of example, he said that “someone in Texas who purchased a GM pickup truck made in Oshawa, [Ontario] might have paid between $50,000 and $60,000,” and with a tariff, “would be paying 70 some-odd thousand.”
“It just doesn’t make sense whatsoever,” Ford said.
He would like to have a face-to-face meeting with Trump and said he has reached out to U.S. senators and governors to make that happen. A sit-down with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk – whom Trump appointed to co-lead, with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, the proposed “Department of Government Efficiency” – is also on Ford’s wish-list.
Ford said Trump “doesn’t realize” that Ontario is the U.S.’s third-largest trading partner, amounting to about US$344 billion in 2023, “split equally down the center.”
Ontario’s premier said he wants to ship more electricity and critical minerals to the U.S., which “needs us like we need them.”
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In 2012, the premier and his late brother, Rob, who was mayor of Toronto at the time, met Trump, along with his daughter, Ivanka, when they were in the city to open the former Trump International Hotel and Tower, now unaffiliated with The Trump Organization and known as The St. Regis Toronto.
Ford, who ran a Toronto-based family business, Deco Labels & Flexible Packaging, before entering municipal politics as a city councilor in 2010, considers Trump “a shrewd operator” and “a smart businessperson.”
The incoming president “knows about Ontario,” the premier said.
“Not one senator, not one governor, not one congressperson or businessperson, has said that Canada is a problem,” said Ford, who opened a Deco branch in Chicago in 1999.
He said Trump has not set his sights on such other U.S. allies as the United Kingdom and France, but “wants to target” the U.S.’s “closest friend,” Canada.
“I’m not too sure if it’s personal against Trudeau, but Trudeau is on his way out, so hopefully we’ll have a better conversation,” said Ontario’s premier, who added that he would consider taking a run at federal politics in the future.
On Monday, Trump posted on Truth Social that “the United States can no longer suffer the massive Trade Deficits and Subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat.”
“Justin Trudeau knows this, and resigned,” said the next, and 47th, U.S. president.
But Trudeau is still the prime minister, and Ford and the premiers of the other nine provinces and three territories will meet with him next Wednesday in Ottawa to address the Trump tariff issue.
Despite his departure as prime minister sometime over the next two months when the next Liberal leader is expected to be chosen, Trudeau should not think “he’s off the hook” and Canadian premiers “will hold his feet to the fire” in ensuring that Canada is ready to respond to the Trump administration’s imminent and punitive trade measure, said Ford.
He chairs the Council of the Federation – a gathering of Canada’s premiers, which has kept Canada-U.S. relations top of mind and has made avoiding U.S. tariffs “a priority,” according to a statement issued last month.
“Canada and the U.S. form one of the largest integrated markets in the world, with more than C$3.5 billion [about US$2.4 billion] worth of goods and services crossing the border each day. The U.S. sells more goods and services to Canada than it sells to China, Japan and Germany combined.”
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To help assuage Trump’s concerns over border security, Ford’s government launched on Tuesday “Operation Deterrence,” to crack down on illegal crossings, and drugs and guns – 90% of which are entering Ontario from the U.S., the premier told Fox News Digital.
On drugs, he said his government is also collaborating with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to identify the source of fentanyl ingredients – and whether they originated in “China or Mexico or the U.S.”
Last month, the Trudeau government announced its own border-security plan.
ESPN host who turned on Democrats discovers the ‘ultimate power’
ESPN commentator and “First Take” host Stephen A. Smith explained a valuable lesson he learned from his pastor shortly before giving a eulogy at his father’s funeral.
Smith said in an interview with Sean Hannity on the new two-part Fox Nation special, “Sean,” that while he wasn’t able to repair his relationship with his father when he was alive, “the reconciliation came the day of his funeral” in 2018. Even though it “wasn’t the plan,” according to Smith, the sports media star announced to members of his family that he wanted to give a eulogy.
“I got these things on my mind… I’ve been holding it in for years,” Smith recalled telling his pastor before his speech. He told long-time friend Hannity that he disagreed with the way his father treated his mother, explaining in the interview “what he felt, how he acted, what he said, is nothing compared to what he did to her.”
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His pastor, however, advised him not to talk about his grievances at his father’s funeral.
“He took me to scripture in the book of Matthew about forgiveness,” Smith said. “It was about making sure that you understand that the power of forgiveness is the ultimate power.”
Smith proceeded to eulogize his father, heeding his pastor’s advice and choosing to be more forgiving in his language. He recalls ending the speech with, “I know there is a lot to complain about. But he was my dad. And I loved him.”
“I thank my pastor every day for talking to me that morning, because had I not had the conversation with him, the person that my sister Carmen heard on the phone an hour earlier would not have given that eulogy.”
Smith also elaborated on the love he had for his mother, calling her “the greatest mother I’ve ever known.” He said he and his sister saw his mother starving “just to make sure we weren’t hungry.”
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Christian basketball team responds to trans player’s ‘abuse’ allegations
As OutKick reported on Thursday, Vancouver Island University’s women’s basketball team refused to play against PACWEST conference opponent Columbia Bible College, alleging that the Christian school created an unsafe environment because VIU has a transgender player.
Vancouver Island released a statement saying that its players don’t feel safe playing at Columbia Bible College.
“Intimidation, harassment, and discrimination have no place in athletics,” the statement read, according to Fox News. “VIU stands in full support of our student-athletes and affirms the right of all athletes to compete in an environment that prioritizes their safety and well-being.”
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CBC immediately denied the allegations that they created an unsafe environment, and countered by saying that they had put measures in place for additional security for the games against VIU.
The “intimidation, harassment and discrimination” allegations stem from multiple incidents in late October when the two teams first played one another this season.
Vancouver Island transgender player, Harriette Mackenzie, said in an Instagram video that the CBC coach, Taylor Clagett, went on a “tirade” to a VIU staffer complaining about the team having a male on its women’s basketball team.
Mackenzie, who leads VIU in points, rebounds and blocks and is the tallest player on the team, further said that CBC players attempted to injure the transgender athlete with purposeful flagrant fouls.
Players from Columbia Bible College wrote a letter denying accusations against their team and head coach.
The players from the Christian school released a statement of their own, signed by every player, defending their head coach and denying the accusations made by Mackenzie and VIU.
“Coach Claggett has repeatedly shown respect for all athletes from many backgrounds throughout her career as a youth and college coach. We have the privilege of interacting with Coach Claggett on a daily basis and know that the concerns she has voiced are rooted in a care for the safety of her team,” the statement, which was sent to OutKick, said.
“The attack on Coach Claggett’s character, and the character of our team, over the past three months has been based on misinformation and one side of a complicated scenario.”
Normally, in this situation, those games would count as forfeit losses for Vancouver Island, the #5 team in the CCAA. However, the PACWEST decided to simply postpone those games for the time being, something that Columbia Bible College said represented a double-standard.
“In the past, when a team has refused to participate and travel to a scheduled game, they have received 0 points in the classification. By postponing the games this weekend, PacWest has contradicted the standard operating procedure. There has been no clear rationale provided to our team to justify this departure from normal procedures,” the statement said.
It seems clear that Coach Claggett doesn’t believe that biological men, like Mackenzie, should be competing in women’s sports. That’s the majority opinion of most American citizens, although Canada tends to lean more left than the United States, so perhaps there are fewer citizens who hold that common-sense belief in the neighboring country.
But the picture painted by the CBC players isn’t unlike the one often seen in American sports when women stand up for themselves and their sports and demand that biological males compete against other males and not against females. They’re faced with harassment and calls of “bigotry” for simply wanting fair competition.
It’s unfortunate that the players and the coach have faced “derogatory messages” for their stance, but that’s the reality. And, as CBC pointed out, the PACWEST appeared to show favoritism towards VIU, likely because the conference fears backlash from the trans mafia if they don’t comply with their demands.
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That’s how these people often get their way. They use bullying tactics to force opponents into silence. But the players for Columbia Bible College decided not to be quiet. Good for them.
TikTok could be gone in a week — unless Mr Wonderful gets his way to save the platform
“Mr. Wonderful” Kevin O’Leary is partnering up with another investor in a bid to save TikTok and hopes China and the Supreme Court will allow them to make it “wonderful again.”
The “Shark Tank” star is teaming up with Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt to purchase the platform’s U.S. assets from its parent company, ByteDance, and “rebuild the platform in a way that prioritizes the privacy of its 170 million American users.”
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TikTok is facing a potential ban due to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a law signed by President Biden that passed in Congress last April with bipartisan approval. By midnight on January 19, the app could be removed from U.S. based app stores unless it is divested from its parent company.
“I want to work with him [McCourt] because he’s done far more work on the algorithm, and he lets me be part of this deal so that we can buy TikTok without buying the Chinese spyware” O’Leary told “The Big Money Show” Tuesday.
TikTok has faced controversy over it being a China-based company and for allegedly being used as spyware software for the Chinese Communist Party. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have warned about the potential national security threat TikTok allegedly poses via U.S. phones.
“The reason TikTok is about to get canceled in the United States is because of algorithms that let you spy,” O’Leary said, explaining how he and McCourt would restructure the platform so that users could decide whether to share their data with TikTok or not. Under their ownership, O’Leary argued, users that elected to share their data would get paid.
“If they do share it, and they want to monetize it, they get a piece of the advertising action. I think that’s fantastic,” he said. “We’re going to make this thing work the way the market wants it to work, and then we’re going to take it all around the world.”
If their bid to acquire the social media platform is successful, O’Leary explained how they would change the platform to better align with U.S. interests.
Besides giving users ownership of their data and stripping out the “Chinese spyware”, the investor emphasized TikTok has the potential to grow from its current 170 million users to “past 200 million” by regaining user trust.
“We’ve got to get everybody back that doesn’t trust it, that wouldn’t put it on their phone. And the way to do that is to democratize it, allow people to invest beside us,” O’Leary said Friday on “Varney & Co,” on FOX Business.
“The third thing I think everybody’s going to find attractive, including Trump, is we’re going to open it so that it’s inter-operative. So if you’re posting on Truth Social or on X, click here to populate TikTok. Everybody would want to do that. And we would ask others, like Instagram and Meta, let’s do the same thing. Let’s share two ways,” he added.
The investor also said how he would look to get countries like India, Switzerland, France, Canada and Germany onto the platform after these changes were instituted.
“This thing will become the world’s largest television network in a matter of two years,” O’Leary said about TikTok’s growth potential.
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O’Leary and McCourt’s bid will be impacted by the Supreme Court’s much anticipated ruling on the law to ban the platform unless it is divested and then ByteDance’s willingness to do so if their hand is forced before the deadline. The high court heard oral arguments on Friday in a fast-tracked case ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House. A final decision is expected before Inauguration Day.
O’Leary explained how a Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban would be “good news” for their bid.
“What that means is that the company goes into a binary decision as to whether to let it be shut down midnight on the 19th or engage with a buyer,” he told “America Reports” Friday on Fox News. “Now, you may be aware that we have put an offer – I think we’re the only syndicate formed that gave a viable offer last night – to ByteDance, and they may want to start considering it because there’s $30 to $40 billion worth of American shareholder’s value tied up there. And if the Supreme leader [Chinese President Xi Jinping] wishes to, we can just shut it off as they did in India and that capital gets erased. And of course, that’s not good for future capital raising.”
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O’Leary argued his and McCourt’s ambitious plans for TikTok heavily rely on Xi Jinping.
“I think the only person that matters in this deal is the Supreme leader, who’s got to decide. All Chinese companies are controlled by him,” he said.
O’Leary went on to explain how China wants to be considered a “destination” for capital, explaining that every country needs it to grow their economy, even those in adversarial positions with the U.S. like China.
“They’re competing for the largest economy status. So if you want to be a big boy and you want to play in international markets, you don’t wipe out shareholder money. It’s not just U.S. shareholders. Every sovereign wealth fund around the world, many of them have huge investments in ByteDance,” he said.
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“But it won’t be my decision or Frank McCourt’s decision. The two of us have put our syndicate out there. We’ve made the offer. Every single American shareholder has our offer. They know it. And this is really up for ByteDance to decide.”
O’Leary stressed that he thinks ByteDance should give their offer serious consideration after their free speech argument in court “fell on deaf ears.”
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“We’ll make it very free speech. We’ll make it way better and we’ll make sure we abide by the order of the courts. This is the right path,” he said.
Former Super Bowl champion reportedly set to take over as head coach in New England
Mike Vrabel is reportedly returning to Foxborough to lead the New England Patriots on the sidelines instead of on the defense.
Vrabel agreed to become the Patriots’ next head coach on Sunday one week after the team fired Jerod Mayo following a win over the Buffalo Bills in Week 18, according to multiple reports. He reportedly agreed to a multi-year contract to lead the team.
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Mayo had only one season at the helm in New England after being tapped to replace the legendary Bill Belichick. Now, another former Patriots player is set to lead the charge.
Vrabel had been the favorite to land the job once New England announced Mayo’s dismissal. New England interviewed several candidates for the job, including Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, longtime NFL assistant coach Pep Hamilton and Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich.
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Vrabel was the head coach of the Tennessee Titans from 2017 to 2023, leading them to three playoff appearances and an AFC Championship Game appearance in 2019. He was 54-45 with the team before departing the organization after a 6-11 season in 2023.
He spent last season as an assistant with the Cleveland Browns.
As a player, the linebacker was with the Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs. He won three rings with the Patriots during his career playing for Belichick.
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New England will have the No. 4 pick of the NFL Draft after going 4-13 in 2024.