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With Duke Tobin out with his Dad's recent passing, Mike Potts held the pre-draft press conference earlier today. He handled himself really well, I thought. Interesting to me that he mentioned on the analytics side that Elizabeth Blackburn has also created some reports that they use in scouting/draft prep. I know there's that Sam Francis guy and some others on the staff who do that analytics work full-time, but the fact that she's doing that, in addition to her other work - really impressive. I know she's really bright, and in addition to working on fan engagement, she's very hands-on regarding a lot of team things. But I didn't know she was involved at that level re: the on-field football operations piece too. But her Mom has been, between contracts and being on an NFL committee or two, so I shouldn't have been surprised. Anyway, it's posted on Bengals.com.

paid by the word.

Given the absolute thieves the bengals have become trying to steal my tickets, games i cannot make, i will have for sale at face value or REALLY close, at minimum way cheaper than market value. So if you need a pair or two pairs, let me know, I am in section 111 and 106, behind the bengals sideline/bench. figured id post it so its on peoples minds when the season hits. Ill post week by week or as I know my travel plans as they arrive.

JC Latham.

Barton is rated as a plug and play guard...a good one.. Id be disappointed if he was our 1st pick though.. .

I am sick of every NFL team relying on dark navy blue. Brighter colors look better on helmets and jerseys. The dark navy and greens / grays reminds me of something that came out of a soulless, boring corporate focus group. Also bring back colored facemasks. Every helmet on the right is FAR BETTER than than the ones on the left.

Jake Frosty ❄️ deserved his own thread ...

Come on, Mike, at least proofread it once before posting. 🤨

I thought they got it from The History Channel.

However unlikely it is, I'd love to snag Murphy @ #18 and miraculously find one of the RT's ranked above Morgan fall into our laps at #49. Another goal would be to come out of the draft with a RT and a IOL that could both be ready to be solid starters by 2025. If they keep all 10 picks (unlikely?) I'd be fine with an RT, a G/T and a C/G at some point. I'm not fond at all of our OL depth.

1. Fuaga 2. Murphy 3. Bowers 4, Latham 5. Mims Need to protect Joe and really have to have a DT that is respectable vs. the run. Doubt Bowers id there (they all could be history by #18), but too good to pass up.

Anyone check 7-11s beer cooler? That has to be where they got that from.

Using pick 18 on a guy who will be a backup or starting at LG is poor value. Volson isn't our biggest problem at the moment. We should draft a center as Karras and Hill are the only ones signed currently. But it can wait until day 2 or 3.

Pollack on Graham Barton

I would be ok with Barton actually (especially if Mims is gone), as he could play all 3 inside spots (C/G) if there was an injury, so basically insurance on 3 OL positions.

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.

Nope... To move up we'd lose.#18 and possibly our first 3rd rounder if not more.. Hell no..

The "Texans" name has nothing to do with a Longhorn steer. Indeed, many self-respecting fans in the Houston area would likely be insulted to have reference to anything from UT. Of course, if they were to have something referencing "Aggie", that would look strange too.

Maybe anti-Jerry from a "staying in your lane" standpoint, but there's no doubt Jerry is a very astute businessman. He's made tons of of $, not only in football, but in real estate investments, oil and gas, other franchises (e.g pizza)... And he's made the other NFL owners a lot of money, too, especially early on with re-vamped licensing agreements, etc..

- Considered an expert on the salary cap (see how Bengals always have cap space). - First woman in the NFL to ever be chief negotiator on contracts. - Went to Dartmouth (Ivy League) then got Law degree. - The Bengals are in good hands when Katie takes over all operations. She's the anti Jerry Jones.

The team signed Browning to a 2 year deal. Good move, probably means he got a signing bonus that he likely wouldn't have on the usual 1 year deals that EFRAs get.

Classic.. And he was right!

The blue 'H' Texans' helmets are lame but I like the red ones.

Happy for Jake. He was impressive and a guy that could actually play to win games, not just be a lame game manager. And you could do worse than having a guy like Woodside as your #3.

One of my all-time favorite QB’s.

Yeah I'm not a "only the old school unis look good" kind of person and like some of the newer designs but those are ugly

Holy shit those Texans highschool notebook doodle H helmets were real! 😂 Embarrassing to the league.

Bengals had all the leverage and still did Jake a solid by signing him to a new deal that gives him more security. Mike Brown's old school "honor code" has it's advantages.

Here, here ☺️

It does make you…uh…wonder. 😎

Yup, smart move and good for him. He battled to be on PS's etc until he got a shot.

People had a habit of “bookending” people’s tie breaker guess. Usually it was Oldschooler. Someone would pick, say, 132 as their tie breaker and then 2 people would pick 131 and 133. To prevent this, I added a rule that if someone picked 131 to a 132 no one could guess closer than 143.

20 years and people still can't follow the same directions we've had for all 20 years

We weren't allowed to help? I know Mike was upset he lied to him, but I didn't know we were prevented from getting him help. The Rams just did that for Stetson Bennett who spent last year getting treatment for his alcoholism.

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.

Well..... Its the Broncos..😎

yea im so grumpy i pay the little extra to skip the commercials, they almost seem worse placed than regular commercial breaks, its not quite like they interupt a sentence in a show for the ad but sometimes it feels like it, same with youtube, pay for the premium to not have ads. youre paying with your time or with your wallet, either way your paying. I am glad hulu is a solid product, they were all so sketchy 3-4 years ago, but most seems good now. I onder if we ever get to an a la carte style or if everything keeps bundling to mimic the cable packages we escaped to begin with. sounds like the sports leagues realized they were CARRYING some cable network packages and can get a GIANT increase in cut revenue per customer to the pennies they got for cable packages. which im all for it. MLB.tv is like $100/year for reds, like a dollar a game. NBA is $15/mo, so about a dollar a game, NFL is like $20/game, but whose not gonna pay it? so few games so important each, people can miss a month of baseball and be fine, missing a week of NBA games and be fine.. missing a weekly football game can change a season..

Suarez had a hell of a night for them

Is he calling the 2024 class the best in recent memory? If so, he sounds "business drunk". Most years the first round is dominated by early entry players. This year there were only 58 early entries, less than half as many as in recent years. So the draft pool is thin, down more than 60 top prospects. That's why a piece I saw in The Athletic this morning quoted some NFL guy as saying this draft was only 150 players deep by regular standards. Though all 257 picks will be used, the last hundred or so are players who may well have gone undrafted in an average year.

Yes, that was the "lose slow" tactic that had Lael Collins taking an unusually wide split. But Latham isn't quick enough to engage and push the rusher outside when facing a top rusher. See the Texas and Michigan games. Vs Texas the freshman LT had a nightmare so Latham got overlooked for criticism but he wasn't good. Vs Michigan, they got inside and around him several times, including on the critical 4th down in OT.

Two recent mocks going Murphy

I agree with having some flexibility and taking a holistic approach. But our draft isn't Sweat or bust. We can probably get him at 80, maybe at 97 or 115. If we like him a lot more than the alternatives, then go ahead and take him at 80. If we like Boyd or Jackson or Taylor or Anderson or Rogers nearly as much, then take the risk Sweat drops and if he doesn't, move on to plan B.

Ding Ding Ding. If Sweat has a problem, get him some help and draft his ass.

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