HavePityPlease

Who's on the side of the FO? It's a dick a move to the coaches and the team he's a part of. We can't know how slighted he might feel about the business side of it, but as talking heads pointed out he chose to sign that one year deal when he could have just bet on himself instead - that's on him. If he believed some vague future promise from the Bengals FO then he wasn't paying attention.

Aaaand suddenly the DE's are in play in round 1? It does seem like a serious dick move if this was only communicated to the team in the past couple of days... but definitely something an agent would do as a power play.

They weren't allowed to contact him in any way, shape or form, including players. It was Goodell's first suspension and he treated like a banishment. It changed not long after.

This reminds me once again of Odell, specifically how we were fully prevented from helping him in any way once suspended. It's a different era now, but that will always bother me when I think about it.

This isn't necessarily the case, remember that we're now into the "covid kids", the ones who likely stayed another year to recover the one they lost. It might just be that there's so many of those it wasn't expedient to come out early this year unless you are *really* confident.

It seems as though the problem of not being able to hear the questions being asked is even worse now? A real failure of Bengals pressers.

HavePityPlease - Jer'Zhan Newton - 80

This is one of the most heartening things I've heard all offseason. 💖

Personally I'm becoming increasingly convinced that this kind of player, especially if they're highly ranked, is the kind of player we should be looking for. The reality I can sometimes forget when evaluating these players is that the Bengals want to win now, and their top picks should be players that contribute to that immediately. Some OT's we all like are inarguably projects despite their talent and physical traits and thus they're less likely to contribute. If at the same time they're locked to one position (in this case, RT), and say Trent Brown is somehow healthy all year, this player then likely doesn't contribute at all. Getting a guy like Fautanu who can fill in anywhere means he's potentially first off the bench everywhere, and that's making me like him more and more as we get closer to draft day.

Ok, you can file me under "no more John Ross's please"

As I said in my mock draft post, this guy is just a hard-ass football player who brings it on every down. IMO you can never have enough of these, especially on defense.

Sorry if this was posted already but did anyone see this mock? https://www.profootballnetwork.com/ian-cummings-7-round-2024-nfl-mock-draft-march-16/ Not really worth anyone's time, he has us take THREE offensive lineman and TWO WR's (including a first rounder) but of note: I get a lot of these "experts" have no love or interest in the Bengals, but I always cringe at these high-profile trades they propose that make no sense at all for one of (or both) the teams. Why would the Bengals trade away Tee and a LOT of capital just to move to six and take his replacement (Odunze in this case)? Why would the Giants not just stay put and take Odunze if Higgins is "not a stable long-term asset"? Clearly in this scenario it's way better for the Bengals to either keep Tee or take whatever trade doesn't have them giving up extra picks. Would the Bengals love it if they pick some WR who turns out to be a worthy (or even better?) replacement for Higgins as well as a cheaper long-term asset? Sure. Trading away picks to make that river-boat gamble is pretty dumb IMO but it's also simply not the way the Bengals do business.

I think this was likely the plan last offseason when the Bengals/Anarumo came out and admitted they had expected Bell was coming back. I'd suspect it's possible they told Bell this and he scoffed/walked... or of course it could have been money, I never heard either way. Regardless, I'm sure this was the idea last year with a certainty they'd take a strong safety in the draft. Now they can let Bell teach them what that's all about. FWIW I won't be surprised if Lou switches Dax back to outside CB, but if they take a first rounder he might even switch to being the designated heir apparent to Hilton... ? I'm just gratified that what I brought up during the season as our key "loss" on D (secondary communication went to shit/no QB in the back) has been confirmed not just by talking heads but again, Lou himself in his combine interviews. It seemed pretty obvious to me.

Well the question was, is near-Evans money hypothetically "worth it" for Tee, not so much what will the Bengals do. I gave my thought what I think it should mean to them, but if you ask me what I think they'll do - I think it will likely be Jessie all over again. Tag at least once, maybe twice, the player is unhappy and they let him walk after. Best case scenario we win a Super Bowl, worst case we as fans are disappointed the team didn't do something else with him from the beginning. The wildcard is if Tee/the agent holds out or tries to force something. I'm happy for us to have Tee but I'm wary of an unhappy Tee. Edit: I should add, if the question is considered more generic i.e. is Tee worth near-top-of-the-league money for *any* team... I'd say no. He hasn't proven it long enough and he gets hurt too often.