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I'd like to see a better running game. It would make the offense more versatile and harder to stop. 3rd and 2 is usually a passing down for the Bengals but if we could run better, we'd convert at a higher rate. But we couldn't run because our interior offensive line are bad at run blocking. Karras at least was good at pass blocking, Volson and Cappa not so much. If we had a good running game, as our 80s Super Bowl teams did, we'd have an elite offense. We could close out games with a 4th quarter lead. We could play in windy or wet conditions. We'd be less predictable and put more stress on opposing defenses. Ken Anderson and Boomer Esiason were NFL MVPs on teams with good running games. Maybe that would work for Joe Burrow too.

It would be less frustrating if it wasn't a pattern of behavior on the part of Katie and Co. Every year it's some camp holdout. Every year we're one of the last to get our rookies signed. I mean - Is the agent the problem? Sure, that's his job. But it's not like other agents aren't problems for other teams. Tee changed agents to find someone more compatible with the Bengals and there was still some teeth pulling. Is Trey just greedy? Then so is Chase, Higgins... The NFL pays out a lot in salary because it makes a lot of money off these guys. Meh. Should Stewart just roll over and accept new language because other teams do it? Sure, maybe, but Mims was the last to sign... Hill didn't go down smooth either. All of the names change in these very similar stories except those of the Blackburn clan. I mean.... Damn. What a run of bad luck, hunh? I guess nice guys really do finish last. What are the odds that both of our RDE's have idiot agents and would rather talk to the media than play football. Why us? Life is unfair. Everyone's judged by their mistakes divided by how much money they make.

2 years into an NFL career and he's learned he needs to be in good shape. Who knows what's next? Paying attention in meetings? Watching film? The sky's the limit!

Bengals offseason blueprint: 1. Sign Jamar & hopefully Tee - Check 2. Extend Trey 3. Draft a young Edge 4. Sign a veteran interior OL 5. Super Bowl Easy Peasy Wrong. I stupidly had come to think that Mikey boy had failed to pass the Douche Baggery gene on to the grandkids. WRONG. Give Henderson the $30-32M/yr. you're gonna end up giving him anyway, sign Stewart to a fair 17th pick slot deal and sign either Risner or Scherff as insurance at guard to protect - you know - the FUCKING FRACHISE! Tired of the bullshit dick-swinging games!

New Yoshi logo just dropped

Ja'Marr and Burton came to Knoxville, Tennessee for Tee's celebrity basketball game.

Ja'Marr's first ever Bengals TD is cinematic art 🎥 o0lX-hXBdycwNTF0.mp4

This never gets old.

Cordell Vollson hasn't allowed a sack in five months.

"Look at me, I'm the league MVP now."

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Chase is on the cover of all the fantasy football magazines and projected to go #1 in most drafts ...

The Athletic - What we learned from each team in offseason workouts. Cincinnati BengalsThe Bengals found exactly what they were looking for in second-round pick Demetrius Knight Jr. The linebacker was slotted into the starting spot alongside Logan Wilson immediately and brought stability despite this being his first time on an NFL practice field. He’s older (24) with more experience, which made his addition look and feel more like a free-agent signing than draft pick. Players view him as a future leader of the defense already and with all captains gone from last year’s group, defensive coordinator Al Golden is on the hunt for exactly that. — Paul Dehner Jr.

Gettin' a little antsy myself, I admit. Hey! Only 6 more weeks! 🥹

Marvin didn't have a Joe Burrow at QB. Joe's the one and only reason anyone else in the organization might feel some pressure to perform.

No more Cinnamon Toast Crunch for this guy! I mean, how could he have possibly known that wasn't a healthy choice for a pro athlete?

The other teams in the division are beefing up on CBs, in part to slow down Burrow. Meanwhile, the Bengals are sitting on plenty of salary cap space but seem interested in doing very little to improve themselves through trade or free agents still available. From The Athletic: Cincinnati BengalsCould the Bengals add another veteran at guard? The battle at both guard spots runs deep. Veterans Cody Ford and Lucas Patrick were competing on the right side during OTAs, with rookie Dylan Fairchild and Cordell Volson largely in the mix on the left. New offensive line coach Scott Peters sounds content with those battles, and there hasn’t been a clamoring to add another body to the mix. However, with veterans such as Brandon Scherff, Dalton Risner and Will Hernandez all still available and the Bengals owning an abundance of cap space, would they add a more proven starter to the mix and let the others compete for the remaining spot? I’d say it’s unlikely, but a move they should be considering. — Paul Dehner Jr.

That's part of the problem and an indicator of bad management. The constant drama and will-they-or-won't-they action undermine the platonic ideal of team harmony. Unless it's a brilliant scheme to get the whole roster hating ownership, ala the movie Major League. It's not that hard to get deals done, other teams don't find it to be hard and the Bengals aren't actually saving money for other players by squeezing the rookies and vets into coughing back money for the family ski vacations. It just needlessly creates ill will.

That argument would probably hold more weight if they'd shown the same determination to keep pace with the rest of the NFL in any other sense. Now it's "everybody does it?" Sure, about that though... Will he be receiving all the same perks and benefits those other teams offer, or are they still an "old school" small family business when it comes to that side of things?

You complain just like the rest of us during the season. Some of us just understand that the moves we make in May have a lot to do with us losing to the Patriots in September. Call it "butt hurt" if you must... But I'm not turning on the players I supposedly root for on the weekends, and I'm sure not rooting for our front office to squander what has been the best chance in 50 years of finally winning a super bowl despite ourselves. You've your own lil' "butt hurt" you've been peddling for 30 pages too. So... Pot, meet kettle. Kinda weird to come to a message board and be upset people are talking about things. But you do you.

Fantastic pic in SOOOO many ways... The look on his face... Wondering where her hand is and it it has anything to do withg the look on his face... Eat your ❤️ out, Trvis Felch... Will we see her in the owners' box with Musty, Pumpkin🥰 and the Pumpkinettes🥰🥰? wearing an 89 jersey? Hope so! Who's. the blond? Hubba! Hubba! FAR better pic than Olivia Ponton and the so-five-minutes-ago Hip Hop Hamster

And fun fact: Cousin DeAngelo Hall was an All-American DB at Virginia Tech and played for 14 years in the NFL (3-time Pro Bowler). Distant cousin of R&B singers Gladys Knight and Aretha Franklin. Also love that he is a former quarterback. He knows the offensive side of the ball well.

If I was the Bengals I would go ahead and guarantee Knight's contract for several reasons. Because it's fairly cheap anyway for a likely starter and Knight looks like the best rookie in camp. It will help push back against the growing media narrative that the front office are cheap fucks. It will screw over the other 14 players ahead of them in Rd 2 and force them into possible holdouts. The story in future years will be that it was the Bengals who opened up all of Rd 2 to guaranteed contracts. Great PR. All of Rd 2 will eventually become guaranteed anyway at some point. Followed by Rd 3 etc in successive years. So why not get credit for it?

Hell yeah!

Well it's July bitches! Training camp is THIS month!!!!!!! LFG

A few years ago most of the fanbase wanted Howie fired.

Cleveland Browns get their $600M for new stadium from the state and the Modell Law changed to be able to leave Cuyahoga county (while making it harder to leave the state). https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/politics/ohio-politics/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-signs-budget-giving-600m-to-cleveland-browns-and-tax-cut-to-wealthy

The Seahawks need to burn their current unis and go back to these.

The Bengals—and Cincinnati—were the beneficiaries of a gap in the space/time continuum, never to be repeated. And even that gap, was so favorable that Marty and Doc would never find it again. A bit of history that few remember is that—back in those AFL-NFL merger discussion years—the AFL was deciding the city for its 1968 expansion. It came down to Seattle (with its well-funded group and plans for the eventual Kingdome), and Cincinnati. Because of PB’s involvement—and his connection to the old-timers group at the top of the AFL pyramid (plus some “input” from the NFL old timer moguls), Cincinnati was granted the franchise. That Riverfront plans were further along didn’t hurt either. The AFL wasn’t guaranteed in the earlier mid-60’s negotiations that all of its franchises would be granted inclusion in the merger. The Bengals would have been last-in-first-out in that case. Riverfront was still 3-4 years away. But, the final agreement was for all-in as to the AFL teams (along with the “gift” of receiving the real Browns and Stealers in realignment) Lose the Bengals now…and this luck would never come to pass again. Ever.

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Those are some pretty nice bike paths but IIRC are just "rails to trails" conversions of old train lines. I like those, & make a point of checking them out when I get the opportunity. Planning a trip up to Truckee to hike the decommissioned tunnels from the Transcontinental Railroad. Blasted out of the mountain by mostly Chinese engineers. Check out this washed out old bridge I hiked out to:

Not just getting there...they have to LOSE for you to win the bet...if you make the +2000 bet and they WIN the Super Bowl you get nothing...big difference.

man its so wild to me how the media behaves. the lack of any real effort, and what they think effort is. this is a random stat, the take is 100% legit and accurate, but all of the things that would make the bengals automatically improve as a team for things that lost us games, this is the one we get an ESPN/MSN/whatever level article for? not the kicking was off due to holder and snapper timing issues? not the defense having key players miss 70+ games? but.... we prolly will fumble less....

they already have this. 100% do have this. Seen it. Its possible some players are confused, and since they asked for 10 family passes, they just get to ALL wait in the general postgame area not in the room with food and snacks. Been to it. its smaller than most. but even the newest of arenas have "levels" of postgame accommodations, ive sat in the nba backrooms, ive had locker room access as a media member, and seem nfl finals level nba teams have a curtained area in the parking garage area for families to wait after the game, part of this is to discourage large entourages, there can be fights between family members, blaming players after a loss, bitching about not getting the ball even in a win. families and friends are sometimes emotional people. Keeping those groups small and not around is a very good idea. but every team and stadium or arena has place for legit close family after games.

good story, I always wonder if other teams fanbases are as bizzare as many of the Bengals fans i have met. Cincinnati is an odd split, you have the frontrunner fans of the steelers as they were winning when some were growing up, you have all the browns fans who were browns fans before the bengals existed, most random fans my age who ARENT from cincinnati, liked their helmets/uniforms when they were young and latched on. My dad was a bengals fan, he was frugal and wasnt going to spend his time and money on a team that wasnt winning when i grew up. The older I got the more I found he was a bigger fan than he let on, but as a result i never went to a bengals game until i was 22 years old and went on my own. bought tickets on the corner, marvin lewis season opener, and i was fucking hooked. I have posted it before, but thats my dad in the brown pants in between #67/#72 storming the field. He was a badass and he was awesome. When my friends all moved away or stopped going to games he went in on my season tickets and went to all the games with me for a few years, it was great, we would hit Frischs on mason montgomery rd by my apartment, and go to the game, when my son and I fly back I do the same, we hit either Frischs by the stadium(just west) or larosas, and the opposite after the game. It just feels right. I almost dont care how the games go, a win is always way better, but the time with my oldest is invaluable. The love of sports is deep with him and I, I have earned hours and hours and hours of time with him that he wouldnt have been off playing video games or fucking around on his phone if it were for sports. Here we are after seeing the Nuggets win their first championship (3 years ago), our season ticket seats, 8 rows off the court. endless hours spending time together. and this morning, he went for his morning workout, only other person in the gym was Derrick White from the Celtics, he lives up the street, is from Parker as well, went to my kids rival High School (well before him ) and he sent me the video of him dunking, something he has been working on for the last year, being able to dunk in a game is easily the difference between getting onto a D3 or D2 hoops team and the lower levels where he is now. And the difference in me paying for half his schooling and none of it.

"and I said, what's the matter? Don't you like ping-pong?"

After getting Zac's call