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  1. They are doing a mock draft on NFL Network (Have Bengals selecting JC Latham).  
     

    For the Dolphins at 21 they have them selecting Graham Barton…as a center (has been playing LT at Duke) and said that he can play ANY position on the offensive line.  I wonder now that we have signed Trent Brown at RT if Barton’s versatility might make him more attractive to the Bengals.  
     

    Thoughts?

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  2. 6 hours ago, claptonrocks said:

    That's a long article for a probable free agent.

    He hasn't a place with the Bengals

     

    Hell Chris Lewis is probably on the PS..


    He could also be the next Isiah Pacheco, the running back selected by the KC Chiefs in the 7th round.  Who knows?

     

    I would hope that the Bengals have spent some time looking at past drafts to try to determine what player traits or signs might have been missed that allowed players to drop in the draft…Tom Brady (6th round) and Brock Purdy (last pick of the draft) being the most widely known ones, and Rams WR Puka Nacua (5th round) from just last year.  

     

    Will Tracy be another such player?  :shrug:   None of us know.  
     

    Sounds like he would at least be a good special teams player, and I’d be okay using a 6th-round pick on him, assuming we will have already heavily addressed our holes on the offensive and defensive lines…but I’m a Purdue guy, so I am admittedly biased toward Boilermakers. 😎

     

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  3. 58 minutes ago, texbengal said:


    So far, I’ve liked the moves they’ve made and I suspect that there are a few more coming in the trenches. So I’d give them a high B/low A for what they’ve done to address specific spots, but they have to address the OL and DL… they know that, and I believe that’s coming.


    Sounds like the grade should be: Incomplete

     

    …which makes sense at this point in time.  At least one of OL and DT (and preferably both) HAS to be addressed before the draft.  
     

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, PatternMaster said:

    According to Forbes, the Cincinnati Bengals' revenue in 2023 is $498 million and based on the increase in the salary cap the 2024 revenue will be even higher, so $22 million is %4 of the annual revenue...or crumbs. 

     

    The Bengals don't have to pay him, but that doesn't mean he should not get what he deserves, which is a long-term deal at market value, which is around $22 million a year. 


    There are people in the world starving, or nearly so, and many more struggling to put food on the table. “Fighting for crumbs” was a poor choice of words to describe someone in a worse-case position to make $21.8 million. That’s my opinion, and I will stand by that opinion.   🦗

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  5. 1 hour ago, PatternMaster said:

     

    So yeah, continue to call Tee Higgins and his agent greedy pieces of shit because they are fighting for crumbs while the players sacrifice their bodies for your entertainment and make billionaires more money. 


    IMO, you diminish the power of your whole post by characterizing trying to get more than $22 million as “fighting for crumbs”.  

     

    But maybe that’s just me. :shrug: 


     

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  6. 3 minutes ago, BlackJesus said:

    * Bengals basically traded Bates for a 3rd Rd pick. 

     

    I can live with that. 


    The “problem” is that those picks come a year later.  
     

    I know at least one of the value charts also listed values for “next year’s draft” and they were greatly reduced.  I don’t know that teams view it that way, but I always thought that during the draft, we should trade perhaps our 4th-rounder (for a team looking to move up for a specific player) for next years 2nd-rounder…and then do that every year.  You take the hit (lose the 4th-round pick) in the first year, but after that you have turned your 4th-rounder into a 2nd-rounder in each year’s draft.  [Of course, this assumes you can find the needed trade partner each year…which is not a given.  Those “next year” (or even the year after that) draft picks can also be accumulated through trades of draft picks and/or players.]. 

     

    We should try to get our trade partners to throw in a pick in a future draft.  Say, instead of a 2nd and a 5th this year for Tee, make it a 2nd this year and a 3rd next year.  It would hurt a bit for this year, but pay off next year.  
     

    New England Cheatriots recently went through a string of drafts where they seemed to always have one or two extra picks in early rounds that were “earned” by trade a year or two before.  
     

    Let’s take advantage of the lower value associated with future year draft picks.  

     

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