sparky151

Huh? Harbaugh was a pretty good coach and will certainly be hired by another team this offseason. The Bengals would be an example of a team that isn't willing to spend. It's why they frontload contracts, it makes it look like they are spending when they aren't doing as much as they can to improve the roster. Contrast them with the Eagles who have a lot of deferred money due in 2028. The Browns paid out a lot in recent years but most of their over the cap spending went to Watson. Bisciotti said a couple days ago that he wasn't worried about the cap or Jackson's cap hits. You'll never hear Mike Brown or Duke Tobin say things like that.

They're waiting for the market to come to them. We'll go to war with what we have. Bengals are slow to make decisions and slow to strike when opportunity presents itself. The only time I can think of them acting quickly was when OBj said he wanted to be a Bengal. With their terribly inefficient contract structures, they will underwhelm again in free agency even though they could massively upgrade the team. But winning is definitely not a top consideration for the Bengals. The least accomplished HC in the division is back while the other 3 coaches are gone despite winning Super Bowls or coach of the year.

But when they are inactive in free agency, it will be the draft that will save us, as our defensive rookies picked the last 4 years have done so well. And they can't spend to the cap in free agency because they have to save money for Turner, Hill, Brown, and Murphy extensions..

They won't be able to draft a good QB this year so they'll likely sign Malik Willis or trade for someone like Mac Jones.

Simpson should definitely take the 6.5 mil and stay in school. He'll be a better prospect next year with another full year of starting under his belt. Overwhelmingly, if a team wants to sign a player, he'll sign provided they offer him the most money. Bengals will have at least 80 mil in cap space to spend this offseason. They'll extend some of the current bottom of the roster guys but unless they tag Hendrickson, they'll be able to afford a bunch of new defensive starters. And not the dregs either.

I'd say the Ravens easily. They have a good front office and infrastructure, a franchise QB, and an owner willing to spend.

EPA (expected points added) is a plus/minus number which can be judged per game, per drive, or per play. Suppose a team has 1st and goal from the 1 yard line. There's a high probability they'll score a touchdown and kick an extra point. But suppose the QB throws a pick in the endzone. That's a negative result for him of almost 7 points he cost his team (since the touchdown and xp aren't guaranteed). If the endzone pick is returned for a pick six and xp, then it's almost negative 14 points for him.

I'm preparing myself for Keldric Faulk. I won the draft contest last year by asking what was the biggest plausible mistake the Bengals could make and settled on Shemar Stewart as the answer. Lo and behold...

Yeah, the former Penn State running back who became a safety in the NFL and only lasted a season with the Bengals.

Love is one of the top 3 or 4 best players in this draft. Taking him wouldn't be a bad pick at all, it would be similar to when the Ravens added Derrick Henry and were harder to stop in 2024. The main drawback is the opportunity cost of not improving the defense.

Let someone else take Peter Woods. He's a Clemson D-lineman and his 2025 season was worse than his 2024 season which was worse than his 2023 season. Seems like a trend.

Are you making a scarecrow with all that straw? I think Brown should be extended and his value is probably around 10 mil per year, ie higher than Risner. But the Bengals will have about 80 mil at the start of the league year (unless they extend people before then) and can easily have more than 100 mil to spend. The bigger money extensions for Brown, Turner, and Hill can wait until summer time before camp opens. Extending Brown doesn't prevent them from signing anyone else.

If we fix our defense in free agency, I could accept using pick 10 on Jeremyah Love. But I don't think the Bengals will manage to have all the defensive needs covered before the draft and expect a defender at 10.

EPA does the things you are asking for. It's situationally based. And the Bengals were historically bad at covering TEs in 2025.

Chip Kelly was said to be the highest paid OC in the league at $6 mil annually. I thought ZT made more than that. Andy Reid makes 20 mil per.

How does one get the images to appear? I don't have any issues viewing embedded tweets but picture sometimes appear and sometimes don't.

We should never draft a guy to be a backup QB. He'll never get enough snaps to become competent. Fallen former starters is the way to go at that position.

Yet another reason for a change at HC. We could get someone who is a better game manager, leader of men, and oversees both sides of the ball. Plus a better play caller as OC.

He was plan B to replace Bates after plan A got moved to another position. And no, he wasn't memorable apart from missing a lot of tackles. Stone was brought in to replace him in that department and continued the tradition.

It was largely pretend. We've seen this movie before, all through the 90s. Team wins a few games after being eliminated and suddenly everything looks rosy for the following year. At least that's the spiel from the team. Then the next season starts and the team starts slowly and not much carries over. Whether they will add useful pieces in free agency or the draft is up to Duke and whoever else makes decisions. Based on all the top 100 draft picks they've blown so far attempting to build a defense, the evidence says no, they probably won't get everything done this offseason either.

They should extend Brown but don't need to worry about it until July. They shouldn't sign a vet RB, it's a young man's position and they can draft a guy on day 3 if they want to add.

He's getting HC interviews this cycle. Lots of teams would want him as the OC, Lions might be the leaders for him.

More like he wasn't under contract with Cincinnati and signed with Detroit as they need a starting center and backup one after Ragnow retired and Glasgow struggled.

It was a couple months ago but was on a billboard next to I-71. It was for mustard but I don't think he was wiping it on himself.

I saw a billboard with Yoshi featured on it.