Jamie_B

Harbaugh to the Giants

Oh I'm fully on board with trying to sign our own guys earlier than we do, it is ultimately cheaper to sign Jamar and Tee two years ago than it was this year. Instead the Bengals want to squeeze every last drop of blood they can from the rookie contracts and it ends up costing them more in the long run anyway. It's frustrating. I also wish we would consider at least guaranteeing players other than the QB and Jamar past the first year. Shit at least do two years, there is no reason not to. You aren't going to cut a guy you just gave a big contract to after one year if he had a down year that year, you will keep him to see if he turns it around, so just guarantee that 2nd year at the start since your going to keep him anyway. It's maddening. Like do we think Jessie Bates might have stayed if you gave him 2 years of the contract guaranteed?

Yeah that's dope, looks to be a few metro stops away from Navy Yard where the Nationals play. Super not looking forward to the traffic its gonna cause while its being built. I go down to Navy Yard twice a month, and parking is close to impossible to find when the Nationals are playing, hopefully this is far enough away from where I am so I dont have to deal with trying to find parking year round.

You will get no argument from me that they are not good enough or that this is a championship roster. When Duke pointed out the number of 1 score losses, Im like you do realize there were a few games that we got our asses handed to us. That's loser mentality, to hope you can win more of the one score games. Winners want to win every game and not ignore the ass beatings. Duke is a loser. But sadly we're stuck with him.

They can do this whenever they want, but its pretty rare that they wont wait till closer to when FA opens

Front-loading the contract is actually better for the players; they are less likely to see the money in backloaded contracts, where you just cut them once the guarantees are met.

Im not sure his contract makes it easy to move on. I think he is a good QB who just hasnt had top end weapons to throw to imo. Mark Andrews is washed imo, Zay Flowers is a very good WR2, but not a 1. Find him a WR1

-0-? would be the dream wouldnt it?

If I'm reading right then they went from 12 per to 8 per Still not good, but an improvement. Be pretty dope if we could drop that 8 per down to 4 per by the start of next season.

From what I have read the most misses came from both of our safeties. The question for me is were they missing because the rookie linebackers in front of them were not where they were supposed to be causing Battle and Stone to have to adjust? So much we really don't know, we just know the results.

Right and what I am trying to get at is are most of these missed tackles before or after the bye? I think by the eye test, they got better after the bye, what I am looking for is the actual data to see this.

No, they went from historically bad, to still not good enough.

Well something did change, they changed their defensive scheme. It took half a season before players started to understand it well enough to play fast. Which happened right around the bye week. What I would be curious about is the rate in missed tackles before and after the bye week.

Ravens have the best job, good franchise, franchise that has the structure in place for success, and a top 5 QB in Lamar. Steelers have all that but they are an old team and don't have a QB.