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It's the spinal fusion as much as the recurring knee injuries that make me nervous. That's a pretty crazy procedure for someone to then go play NFL ball where head & neck injuries are inevitable

Good thoughts agree with most you had to say My thing is regardless of All, the offense has the weapons to be explosive without him. Hopefully he can stay healthy and produce but it's not a game changer if he doesn't.

Right now I think it is better than a 50-50 chance that All is good to go this season. He certainly isn’t the first athlete to require a 2nd knee surgery soon after an initial one. The Atlanta Braves have a great relief pitcher who has lost 2 years to knee surgeries and has yet to be cleared. He may never pitch again. All already passed all of the medical protocols several months ago, and has been fully cleared to return to the team for OTAs. All missed all of OTAs and most of training camp before the doctors finally cleared him. Admittedly All was part of a weak draft class, but he was the most impressive rookie on the team. Even over the 1sr rounder Mims. And now All is many months ahead of where he was at this point in 2024. We will find out much more about All in the coming weeks as camp activities ramp up. But if someone wanted to list the top ten players that will determine how well the new season might go, Erick All definitely makes my list. He could be a game changer.

Screw them. I am very pleased we ended up with Cashius Howell and Tacario Davis.

a few google sheets masters in here.. sorry for the off topic post again.... Im making a agenda for my production team to not lose shit and make errors and the paper nightmare they are doing now.. essentially anyone who takes in an order can add it to the list, and boom its on the list.. Here is what i have... and below what i want thats different. Changes/upgrades: Under brand, id like the brand thats chosen, to then generate a new dropdown under Flavor, so if i drop down Brand 1, its makes column C the flavors for brand 1. if i choose brand 2, i want column C to be the flavors for column C In Column G, instead of a dropdown, id sort of like those to be buttons, even if they take up several columns, click Complete, Missing Incgredient, Pending would be the default status.. so maybeG is just a status column and buttons are H/I/J or something? Lastly, when the status is changed to complete, is like it to filter up above any pending or missing ingredient status lines, so once its marked complete, its above the rest (or below, whatever works) so the working sheet is always primarily focused on what needs to be done still, BUT we can go back and see the last time something was made in case someone fucked up something. Also i guess, id like column A to default to todays date, anything something is added, so if anyone drops down column b/c/d/e/f, auto input that days date on column And if it can get fancy, maybe add a date completed column so when its marked complete, it auto inputs THAT day as well. i did some googling and youtube watching. enough to think its all possible, i just didnt want to do triple the work if anyone has some shortcuts or knew how to function this quicker.. oh and idf it can be locked so old ass mofos i work with cant fuck it up... that would be keen.

We don't need to get too far into the weeds here but let's not pretend being a white NCAA QB with a millionaire father doesn't factor into things. Ain't no way random Joe Schmoe is going from 5 felony CP charges to double disorderly conduct. That's preferential treatment.

Sure js he's not exempt from the expectation of anyone on offense to throw at least a half-ass block downfield when called upon. Think everyone has the same hopes for All but with his injury history that may be doubtful.

If All is healthy and can go a full season good.. Im thinking he can't with the injuries.

Burrow seems ok with Gesicki. That's all that matters regardless of fan beefs.

"We" know who he is...because of the visceral hatred "we" have for his father. If Gainesville, FL prosecutors knew who his dad was, the best recollection would be some former mid-tier NFL QB, which even then would be fading...as he hasn't played any meaningful snaps since 2008. Welcome to the world of "criminal justice". If they didn't have the goods well-enough to prove beyond reasonable doubt...he is acquitted (and no, not "innocent"). Lots of people walk due to plea deals--with a "no contest" entry on the case. It isn't a perfect system..but beats the hell out of the Volkgerichtshof, circa 1944 Germany.

That 20% of the time inside doesn’t mean anything and you know it. He’s getting a paycheck here to catch tds and convert first downs, plain and simple. He’s pretty good at that and Burrow seems to like having him out there so I’ll give him a pass on his inability to block. That said, would love to see a guy develop into a do-it-all type for them… Erik All perhaps. In the meantime, I have no issues with the position group or how they’re used currently.

Gesicki is supposed to be considered a flex TE, not just a slot receiver or a WR. This is all about size. Higgins is the Bengals heaviest WR at 220 lbs. Even the 2 types of TEs are sort of divided by weight. "Y" TEs (inline) - Sample 6-5, 260; Grandy 6-5, 253; All 6-5, 255 (all in the 250s) "F" TEs - Gesicki 6-6, 245; Hudson 6-5, 241; Endries 6-5 245 (all in the 240s) Like most NFL teams Cincinnati almost always plays with one inline TE. That's one reason why Sample got almost twice as many snaps per game than Gesicki. Fant was often the inline TE if Sample was out of the game. The 2 games where Gesicki received the highest scrimmage snap % in 2025 came @Denver and against Baltimore as they were forced to pass the ball constantly due to large deficits. The Bengals eventually lost those games by a combined 52-3 score. Cincinnati's biggest TE issue is that Sample/Grandy are not receiving threats while Gesicki/Hudson are ineffective blockers. I have said it often before, but we should all be crossing our fingers that Erick All's knee is structurally sound now. Because there is no TE more valuable than a strong blocking inline "Y" that can easily become an effective "F" receiver depending on the play call. Those rare guys can transform an offense. Without any real training camp in 2024, All came out of nowhere to be a bruising run blocker who also caught 91% of his targets. You never have to take him off the field and the defense gets no "tells" as to what Cincinnati wants to do on a particular play. Defensive coordinators hate having to prepare for those versatile types of TEs.

This sure didn't happen. He didn't even meet with the Stealers https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-aaron-rodgers-did-not-meet-with-the-Stealers-over-the-weekend

He didn't get slapped with 5 felony charges for "accidentally" (🙄) uploading one photo. The charges were dropped because he was offered a plea deal for 2 counts of "disorderly conduct", which says a lot about our legal system but absolutely nothing about his claims of innocence. He got a slap on the wrist because of who he is... Crazy that we're so desensitized to pedos that this isn't even a story.

According to Geoff Hobson. entering the 2nd round the Bengals top rated player was CB Colton Hood and Howell just behind him. Cincinnati did try to move up to the NYGiants slot who rejected all trade offers in order to take Hood. The New York Giants “had a few options” to move back from No. 37 in the 2026 NFL Draft, and were willing to move down had Tennessee cornerback Colton Hood not been available to them, GM Joe Schoen said in Part 2 of the ‘Giants Life’ draft video on the team’s website. According to Schoen’s discussion with head coach John Harbaugh, the Giants had offers to move back from the Cincinnati Bengals (pick No. 41) and New Orleans Saints (pick No. 42) and could have gotten two fourth-round picks and a fifth-round pick to drop a few spots in the draft. Schoen also references the possibility of getting “118, 128, 157” in a trade. That would have been the Detroit Lions, who had pick No. 50 in Round 2 along with the three aforementioned picks. The Lions eventually traded 128 to move up with the New York Jets.

1k rushing yrds this year? 1.5k total?

Except for the 20% of the time he was lined up inside as a TE? Also, everyone but the QB is asked to block when someone else has the ball. Even Chase & Higgins are expected to tie up a DB, if only with a shove or by getting in their way. 3 broken tackles in 8 years? He's stepping out of bounds to avoid contact. He's 6'6 and 245lbs of pudding & that's kind of funny. He's a good WR, but he is also clearly soft.

Right. And perhaps just “dislike” towards the Bengals for passing on him the other 6 times?

I don’t know why it’s so hard for some people to understand that Gesicki is NOT a TE…he’s just an oversized WR, nothing more. He’s asked to make touchdowns and first downs, not blocks.

Gesicki has been in the league for 8 seasons now. He is credited with breaking a whopping 3 tackles over his entire career, with 0 broken tackles while playing for Cincinnati. Iosivas probably laughs at Gesicki’s broken tackle ineptitude, having been credited with his very first one just last year. One category where Gesicki easily clears Iosivas is on drop % rate, at less than 3 %. The drop % for Iosivas is 3 times that. They are both essentially slot WRs as Gesicki only was attached inline about 20% of the time last season. Iosivas gets quite a few snaps outside when they move Chase inside or when Chase/Higgins are unavailable due to suspension or injury. For the last 2 seasons Iosivas has performed considerably below NFL starter average, no matter where he lines up in formations.

So.... every team then?