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Enough bullshit, it's game week and the practices matter. Not amused. This team has bigger goals than Ja'Marr Chase getting his signing bonus a year early.

^ We all just need to Who Dey and makeup here ... We're all Bengals fans and I'm sure all of us will celebrate Chase when he signs and dominates in stripes for years to come. 🧡 🖤 Contract holdouts create stress in fan bases, presumably because we feel emotionally connected to the players who bring us so much joy on Sundays. I know I get defensive about Bengals players like I know them personally. I would totally fight a Squeeler fan to protect Burrow's honor. 😆

Don’t be silly… …he’s using his abacus.

Blast from the past: Smells Like Tiger

I put in a few threads how i didnt expect a ton from Iosivas, last year he seemed slow, big bodies, strong, but not a Boyd level talent, i been rewatching him on the field in preseason and i was a bit off for sure. He is a lot faster than he played last year, he could, COULD be special, with Joe at QB and Tee and Chase alongside this is the best opportunity of his life. So i am excited to see what he can do.

I'm really starting to not GAF about this stuff anymore. Play, don't play, go fuck yourself, while regular schmucks can't afford groceries.

I'll never get used to the disappointment of games where it just looks like the whole team just doesn't come to play. Early season is always like that now. Something needs to change in the way we use preseason to prep.

The only way Andy Reid is running down the field toward the ref is if the ref has a cheeseburger in his pocket.

Thanks, Griever. This is exactly why I'm rooting for Ja'Marr Chase...it will be the best possible outcome for the future of the franchise. Let Chase set the non-QB precedent. Push the Cincinnati front office into the current NFL contract structure. They can't stop what's happening around the NFL. No need for Cincinnati to fall on their own sword any longer. Get with the rest of the NFL or prepare to get left behind.

Getting a little tired of sports douche bags calling the Bengals cheap and incompetent because we haven’t signed Chase yet. Jefferson, who was drafted a year before Chase, just signed his deal in June of THIS year. I don’t remember anyone saying the Vikings were cheap or incompetent. Lamb was chosen in the same draft as Jefferson. Nobody was screaming for the Cowboys to sign him to a new deal LAST year. BTW, I don’t remember anyone saying the Chiefs were incompetent for letting Tyrek Hill walk. Not saying I want Chase to go but the love affair talking heads have for WRs and bashing the Bengals is pretty annoying. Calling out Mike Brown when he has pretty much taken a back seat years ago is another stupid take these assholes have. Surround a GREAT QB with good talent and a very good O line and you can win Super Bowls.

i have a hard time understanding how any fan would be in favor. the FLorio's of the world make a living making the nfl happy and reporting on them, and arent in a place(or just are too stupid) to see how this can ONLY be bad.. if the league were suffering and having a hard time making profits or funding player care or something.. MAYBE you do this as a last straw. this is terrible. billionaires throwing away everything the nfl has built for a little bit more cash is pretty fucking gross.

I will continue to talk shit about adomitis as i am convinced me saying i dont trust him is the only thing keeping him on track. yea surface level he is a fun palyer but he is palying against UFL bench players out there. i fear thats TJ Housh in his ear coaching him what to say. time will tell. i am nervous about this pick. Burton is the only #2 WR talent level guy in the room, everyone else is a 5 or lower. for a Scheme that would pit the #1 corner against the #2 and double the #1 WR, Iosivas isnt beating anyone thats a top corner. neither isa nyone else in that room aside from Burton. Situationally maybe, red zone, short tardage possession first down plays, etc. there arent enough oline to field even 15 teams of good O-lines, has nothing to do with the front office, there arent 160 good linemen in existence, teamsa re paying for them more than drafting them all. that is about all he can do is run a deep route straight, and catch timing routes against 3rd stringers. and the QB is publicly saying he needs to get his head in his palybook. if joe cant count on him knowing everything from plays to audibles, to whatever else, he wont get much field time. i never get the preseason hate, well i do hate getting charges full price for it, like why not make them price $20 for those and raise the regular season games prices? at least make us feel better.. but the games, espeically with younger kids, are phenomical, i just got messages from my in laws from the game they went to, move down to front row, got players gloves and autographs, cool videos og guys running back touchdowns, nothing but smiles throughout the stadium. tons of fan value in preseason. lots of young men playing uot their dreams on a field they wanted to step on since they were a kid. i may be a big soft parent sucker, and maybe casue i watched my kids basketball journey for years now, but in a few months my kid is gonna step on a college basketball court and play college basketball, it may be the lowest level of college basketball that exists, teams and games people have never heard of and the general public would giggle at.. but im probably gonna be crying like a bitch in the stands, and i imagine there is a lot of that going on with the 30+ guys whose journey ends this week. im super happy for those dudes. not a ton of super fan value, nothing at stake. but lots of dreams coming true no matter how exciting the game is or isnt.

The fact that our third string made Anthony Richardson look terrible is a win

Other... getting my aging body back into good enough shape so I can go to the games again with my son.

This is two games in a row now where Chase has taken an "attitude" foul. Too many men against the Pats as he moseyed off the field slowly being the other. Neither one specifically lost us the game, but neither one helped either. Contracts are what they are. The greats don't let it be a black mark on what they accomplish on the field. Without playing who's right and who's wrong, IF they ever talk about this guy for Canton, why let a contract dispute hurt your legacy? I mean, for a guy who talks a lot about being a professional, it's not very professional. It's not the attitude you want to see from your leaders. He's pouting like a spoiled child, and it's unbecoming a full grown man. He's letting his dime store ego hold back his million dollar talent. And to be sure, he has generational talent... But football is a team game. If he wants to be a cornerstone of the team, he should start by showing he's solid. I'm all about the players.... And this team is starting to get Chad/Carson/TO difficult to watch this year. Hendrickson, Higgins, Chase... They all have gotten big egos, and nothing is less hot than a hot girl overselling just how hot she is with broccoli in her teeth. Frankly, Burrow's a little too "Hollywood" for a guy who needs to prove he can finish a season. They're just not that fun to root for. And watching them squander one of our best chances to have a great season in a while... It's just... Ugh. Right now you're not playing well enough for your ego sh*t to be cute. Knock it off, buckle down and win some games, and then you can talk about GD glizzy's 'til the f***ing cows come home. After watching "The Little Hands of Concrete" Yoshi drop balls all day... I'm not saying letting Chase go is even an option. But frankly, the fact that he's not too bright and quite immature were red flags in his draft process. I mean, nothing malicious, but he's basically functioning at the level of an Adam Sandler character. He loses arguments with parrots. I'd like a team that's not only fun to watch, which they were today, but that's fun to root for. And there was a point today when I gladly would have given Chase's reps to any a-hole who actually wanted to play a football game. WR's not getting off the snap on run plays... This effin' team is acting like they already won the divisional playoff game, and they're 0-2. I've seen more effort in exhibition games. Props to Lou Anarumo for putting PCP in the Defense's Gatorade. They woke up after the 1st quarter. Speaking of which... May Zac Taylor smoke a turd in hell for every 1st quarter preseason snap not played by a starter. Let's hope this movie has a 2nd act redemption arc. The Ghost of Paul Brown comes down and give Chase a brain, Burrow a heart, and Zac Taylor some courage. They realized the deep ball was inside them the whole time or something.

Bengals busts in Canton ...

Day after and man what a buzz kill still ... we waited 9 months to be served up that fucking steaming hot pile of shit. 💩 The entire calculation now changes. This team was supposed to be on a Super Bowl journey. But now you have a loss to a shitty team and QB, KC coming up, no Ja'Marr extension, Tee with a sore hammy, suspect run defense, bad tackling, the potential of going 0-2 to start the year, Burrow rubbing his hand near the end of yesterday's game as I think he tweaked something ... Sports really can turn on a dime. 😕

You can save the snarky remarks, but the Browns radio color announcer just remarked, “If you are playing the ‘Illegal Formation Drinking Game’, please do not drive home.” 😂 That even drew a laugh from my son.

Maybe focus on football than what hair style to wear??

Looks like Kraft gets another happy ending 😡

Props to Zac for punting on that last possession. He's playing to the strengths of the team.

What? Chase not practicing caused the offensive line to get manhandled and dime store TEs to drop touchdowns?

Man no shit. Fucking crazy talk.

put down the crack pipe...

Exactly, so long as it's a strongly worded request they're golden, they're not physically restraining anyone. All they have to do is freeze out anyone not complying - and whatever organization they represent - & everyone will play nice. If a player got hit by a bus in the crosswalk I'm sure this arrangement would fall apart but otherwise who cares? Weird hill to die on, go film the police or something. I will add though that for all their supposed media savvy with the nepo-baby takeover they should be aware of the Streisand Effect of trying to hide this. It's very urban, Midwest blue collar, they should lean into it. Make it a photo op with the players carrying lunch pails & or do an Abbey Road knock-off with the team captains. It's only embarrassing if they act embarrassed by it.

Andy Dullton is best on primetime when he's sitting on his ass in the crowd watching others not choke instead of him.

Everything bad is Mike's fault because otherwise the new regime have faults of their own. Convenient scapegoat. Why is Chase "standing for his principles" but "Old man Brown (would) get all pissed off and dig in his heels"? I'm pretty critical of the Bengals FO at times but I'm 100% with them on this one. Let him sit.

I'll kick in the penny.

So instead of sending these rapacious parasites to the guillotine live on pay-per-view like they deserve, we are going to let them ruin the only reason to wake up on Sunday. 😡 They already destroyed childhood nostalgia with what they did to Toys-R-Us ... Now these vultures want to sacrifice the 'golden calf' that is the NFL.

This is making me want to switch to watching college FB where $ hasn't ruined the purity of the game yet. Oh wait lol

If you are going to quote an article, please use quotation marks. Keeps the plagiarism down. I presume you mean Florio. And yes, he is wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. Doubt it'll be the last. From my perspective, I am just as proud of this vote cast by Blackburn as I am of the times the Bengals went to the Super Bowl. She gets it. I bet she could give us an earful on the difficulties introducing private equity funds into the finances of the NFL. I'm loving the nod to the old school here. Of course, I'm still the same guy who stirred up a lot of shit back in 1990, when I characterized Michael Milken's behavior at his sentencing as "Blubbering." Fun Days then. Sadly we are so far up the neoliberal river without a paddle that most people can't even put two and two together anymore. Just my two bits. A little more: NFL wants a cut of private equity investment profits

Already been too much of a distraction through the entire training camp for a guy who is under contract for another 2 years. We should be talking about Burrow finally working through an entire camp but instead the story is Ja'Marr mad because someone else got a bigger slice of cake & now he doesn't want to wait his turn. Boo fuckin hoo.

The point of the season for fans should be to win the Super Bowl, not to make the Brown Family bank account balance sheet look as good as possible. The way some fans fret about these contacts you would assume they are the ones paying them out. 🤔 The Bengals organization can easily afford to pay Ja'Marr Chase. Just like they paid Burrow the largest contract for a QB ever. Playing "Hard Ball" with the second most important pillar of your franchise is not wise and forgoing his services in your best window for a SB win is even dumber.

The resemblance to my mother-in-law is striking.

Of his own choosing.

I have questioned Mixon, but agree he is a good back. On the other hand he was making $12M and Moss is playing for a third of that I believe. Throw in Mixon’s legal issues and I understand why the Bengals did what they did. I don’t think Moss is much of a drop off for a lot less money.

Disagree but whatever ..

They didn't lose because of the lines? Only gained 70 yards rushing and gave up 3 sacks. Burrow only had 164 yards passing and was running for his life. Got gouged in the run game for 170 yards and gave up an average of close to 5 yards a carry. Yeah, the OL and DL didn't have anything to do with any of that!? lol

Which is why I specified WR. Essentially, who is WR3 for most of the season.

Good get this insanity over with

Come now, BJ. Watching rapacious parasites get what they deserve ought to be free. After all, the US is chock full of communists and socialists and that's what they would want. Hehe. I'm talking about two things really. The first is the long history of the behavior of PE firms. A leopard cannot change its spots. The second is more broad and has to do with the financialization of the economy. Also a long term trend. How many millions of families have been fucked by this, now condoned, behavior over the past fifty years? You are right about one thing. It takes two to tango. The de-industrialization of America can be considered as one great asset stripping operation. And the shortsightedness and greed that brought that about is not to be only laid at the feet of PE firms. Corporate boards all over this land have made the looting possible. First they came for your "Bread" and we didn't do anything about it. Now they are coming for the "Circuses," too.

^ Private Equity will have a corrupting influence on the league in my view, plus it's just terrible optics. So now when you get evicted by BlackRock or Vanguard from your house you can look at your favorite NFL team wearing their chest logo patch, because they're 10% owners. I would love to see the approved list? Are the Saudis, Qatar, or Emirates money on it? Any dictators from various countries and their funds? What happens when X owns 10% and that team asks Elon Musk to kill an unpopular story involving their QB which is trending on his app?

... Such a terrible idea. Inviting in the soul-less blood-sucking leeches will not benefit the game at all.

Hopefully he doesn’t get released or fired. It would be so horrible for the young man who has made $28,794,559 in 4 years being one of the worst at his job to be humiliated like that. I would be sad.

If Carman's financial discipline is anything like his professional and personal discipline (likely), he'll be broke by 30.

A human being was fired from their job today, nothing to celebrate. Did he deserve it, absolutely...should it be celebrated, I would say no.

Missed having you here my man, just wanted to uphold the "one stop shop" mantra for our members that you started.

The browns will sorely miss bill Callahan