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Just stop with the Whitworth nonsense. The guy was a unicorn. For every Whitworth there are 10 older players that never live up to their last big contract. The Bengals were 6-9-1 the last year Whit was here. Dalton was trash. Why over spend on an aging O lineman when your team is trash?

St Louis I could see, no way anyone goes to Memphis on purpose.

3 good players at $10 mil a piece plus a rookie or two are better than 1 - $30 mil guy who gets sacks. Of course, who these 3 good players are is the problematic question.

Every team is better, until they get punched in the face.

But didn’t those beans grow up to the sky and Jack ended up getting a goose that laid golden eggs? Seems like a good trade to me.

Are we supposed to pretend we didn’t miss the playoffs in 2023 either? It’s been 2 years since we made the playoffs and the same issues exist, maybe worst.

Not sure why but I can’t see anything Griever posts. Ever. Just white space on both Chrome and Safari. I can see the emoji but that is it. Only poster I have this problem with.

So how does this deal make us better than the non playoff team last year.

It’s March, hardly the last minute. And whatever they did somehow they would be considered cheap or incompetent. It’s done, nobody will give a shit in a week. Who is playing Qb for the Stealers and Browns this year???!

And how did they do in the playoffs last year? Your question is stupid. How many teams with a QB from Texas Tech want Tee Higgins and Justin Jefferson as the receivers? 1. Kansas City 2.????? Derp.

Too late for that.

Like this is only a Bengals problem. I can name 31 other teams that have this same issue.

So the strategy is to pay even more money to players that didn’t get us to the playoffs? What $70 mil per year on 2 WRs??

A 3 year year $33.7 mil contract, only $15 mil was guaranteed and there was an out the 3rd year is hardly going all in. No reason to pay a 36 year old tackle when you don’t have a QB or are close to a title.

I am sorry but a competent NFL GM can not make decisions based on the Unicorn theory. Whitworth was a Unicorn. Acting as if every 35/36 year old tackle typically plays at a high level for an additional 4 is laughable. In fact, I can’t name another one not named Andrew Whitworth. The Rams were a few players away from competing for a title, they went all in. The Bengals were 6-9-1 and still had Andy Dalton as our QB. There was zero reason to invest in a 35 year old OT, ZERO.

Banable offense!!

Well, I originally signed in with my yahoo email address on my TRS-80’computer. I still have it but only use it to sign up for stuff I fear might be a scam like penis enlargement pills.

The Bengals knew exactly what they were doing and what his issues were. They were trying to find a decent replacement for Higgins cheap so they could spend the money somewhere else. It hasn’t worked out.

I know that keeping all 4 happy and signed is what any emotionally attached fan would want to include me. I, unfortunately, have the added perspective of being a casual fan of the Saints as well. If you operate an NFL team in that manner you may end up like New Orleans. It’s a team in a horrible cap situation, without a franchise QB, with literally no way out for the 2025 season. Cleveland, in a move that can only be seen as desperate, did the same. Obviously, we don’t have the QB situation either team has although Carr, when healthy, is actually OK. You only need to look at moves like your third highest cap hit being a player not considered a critical need ie Taysom Hill to see what went wrong there. The Saints fans love Hill but in no world should he be your 3rd highest paid player. QB, Edge and having one difference maker on offense are critical needs to me. Having a great WR2 is not a critical need, it is a cherry on top and I love Tee Higgins. The problem is that the cherry can’t fix a marginal cake, or rarely does. And one cherry is cheap, putting an expensive cherry on a cake lacking sugar won’t fix it.

Almost every move carries risk. Joe Mixon certainly was a risk that was captured live on video but he panned out for us. Signing Adam “PAC MAN” Jones was a huge risk in many ways (and I admit I was totally against it) but he gave us some great years. Hero worship of young boys at an early age by grown adults, to include looking the other way at any improper conduct, has different effects on different people. Chris Carter is a perfect case study of how it sometimes works out for the good eventually.

99% of them are keyboard warriors and would piss themselves if confronted by Andrew’s or any top TE in the game.

I can respect that. Like my hatred of the 49ers and Falcons.

Don’t worry about that one. We will just lose.

Technically, the schools don’t pay any NIL money yet. That is about to change The NCAA, in attempt to fend off the next lawsuit, is trying to put together a revenue sharing program with the athletes with NIL being the reason. They have lost every lawsuit so this will probably happen in some form. The only problem is now the Title IX types are getting involved demanding equal pay for all athletes. Its going to be a mess.