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Jamie_B

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  1. 11 minutes ago, T-Dub said:

    They got an OT from Louisville but not a single IOL.. Hard for me to understand given the two starting guards are bad and marginal with no one capable of challenging them on the depth chart.  How many sacks will it take before they admit Volson should be a serviceable backup at best? Why are they drafting a longshot 4th TE instead of a guard that could almost certainly challenge the starting lineup? 

     

    How many seasons of JB's career are they going to waste playing him behind a subpar OL?  Right now I'd have to put the O/U at "all of them".  One of the worst-performing OL's in the NFL and they draft a single OT meant to replace a one-year FA that can't stay on the field & then a 7th round center (who may yet be better than Volson, if they gave him a chance). It's frustrating.

     

     

    Guessing they play him at G? Alot of Ts get moved inside like that 

  2. 2 hours ago, dex said:

    I hope you are right, but extending him will mean they have to do something they have never done before in their history.

     

    Are they willing to set a new precedent in terms of guaranteed money for a non-QB? I hope so. Because that is what it will take.

     

    They've already optioned Chase so we have him for 2 more years regardless. 

     

    Chase also said he wants a large upfront bonus so they may just do what they did for Orlando and give him a big signing bonus without changing how the structure guarantees. 

  3. 25 minutes ago, High School Harry said:

    Seriously?

    yahoo.com.sports
     
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    13. Cincinnati Bengals

    The Bengals needed defensive line help, and Kris Jenkins and McKinnley Jackson can help right away. The ranking hinges on what you think of the two big swings Cincinnati took: Georgia OT Amarius Mims, who barely played in college but has an impressive athletic profile, and Alabama WR Jermaine Burton, who might be a great Tee Higgins replacement but had some off-field issues. We believe in Mims and Burton, so the Bengals look good coming out of the draft.

     

     

    This is saying we had the 13th best draft. 

  4. 10 hours ago, alleycat said:

    What a bunch of virtue-signaling horseshit. 

     

    How many of you have watched the grainy video of him running to the locker room after that Tennessee game? Actually watched it?

     

    How many of you watched Joe Mixon knock out a woman in a fast food restaurant, was it? How many of you wretched about Joe Mixon joining this team, and then became his fans and defenders once he was a Bengal and (mostly) kept himself out of trouble (despite the odd backyard shootout)? No, that wasn't you? You hated Joe Mixon outwardly, vocally, verbally this last many years no matter how many touchdowns he scored, no matter how many games he helped us win?

     

    Child please. 

     

    In one video, a KID who just lost a game is running through a mob back to his locker room and some overzealous fan (a female), runs in front of him, stops, squats in his face, and clearly says some shit as she passes, and the throws out an arm as she passes. Slap is probably the right word. Swipe might work. Punch? Are you fucking kidding me? Want to see a punch? Watch what Joe Mixon did to some young woman in a fast food restaurant. That's a punch. 

     

    Neither are commendable. Both are objectionable . One is clearly different than the other, and I would argue that one is reprehensible, the other simply condemnable. 

     

    But are we in the place in the world now where, because of one grainy God's-eye camera angle (that would never have existed previously), some brush up with someone in an extremely heightened moment when someone did in fact aggressively put herself in the face of another human being, and that person reacts, however inappropriately, is now cause for all of this high and mighty moral bullshit? Really? 

     

    We have had hotheads on this team who have cost us in big games. You know the last hot-headed play that cost us a major game, even a birth to the Super Bowl? It was Joseph Ossai, arguably one of the most high-character, level-headed players on the team, who, in a highly emotional moment made a bad decision. So yeah, don't talk to me about Vontaze Burfict.

     

    Football is a violent game full of highly competitive MF's who put their health and well-being on the line every play for our gratification. It's a brutal sport that results in MANY of these guys having jello for brains - and turning into socio/psychopaths as s result = for YOUR enjoyment. And you want to sit around and moralize about how they should be model citizens and reflect back onto you some kind of picture of how you want to see yourselves? 

     

    Child please. 

     

    Especially for the 80th pick in the draft, count me in with Zac, who, in the few words he said to this kid when he called to draft him, said "we believe in you." Maybe I'm old fashioned. Maybe I'm so Old fashioned you can lump me in with the Browns who believe in second chances. But I'm definitely old enough that I cannot support this idea of writing someone off forever because of some dumb shit they did as a kid. When you create a team, it's not all angels. It can't be. You need redemption songs. You need the old and washed out guys who weren't given a chance but found new life here. You need other players who were never given a chance, respect...whatever.  It's called a family. 

     

    And it's what Zac has created here. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Yeah I kept watching that video thinking this is really not that bad, he didn't really full on swing at anyone.

     

    I'm still trying to understand what the "off the field" stuff is, because this it really tame.

     

    Does he have a hard time being coachable?

  5. 17 minutes ago, High School Harry said:

    Maybe just me but I'm not 100% buying this red shirt year stuff.

    I think he will be starting sooner or later (sooner?) and won't

    look back for a decade.

    I like this guy.

     

    I'm thinking he is going to give both Tackles rest and watch his snap count go up as the season goes on. They will give him the Myles Murphy treatment, unless Brown gets hurt and he is forced to start. I would not be entirely shocked if Brown gets hurt and this kid takes the job away from him all together.

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