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JC

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  1. Unless Joe goes on IR during the season - there is 0% chance they trade him after April 26th.
  2. This offseason they have demonstrated they really don’t care about trying to impose their will like the other north teams. Got smaller at tailback, aren’t willing to trade Tee, signed a tight end that lines up almost exclusively in the slot, signed a right tackle who excels at pass blocking, lost their best run defender, spent money on a split safety who doesn’t tackle well. Add it up and tell me if they’re gunning for the Ravens or the Chiefs. Im not saying I don’t want them to get pieces to match up better. I hate losing to those three teams and not even being competitive in half of them. But at the end of the day - they play well against teams outside of the AFCN, so its not like it isn’t working.
  3. I’m not sure why that would stir anyone up. The Bengals do not match up well with the teams in the North. The teams in the north haven’t had the success in the playoffs the Bengals have had because they can’t throw the football and turn into mush when they get down two scores. The Bengals are content to try and go 3-3 or even 2-4 in the north and dog walk the rest of the league. Might cost them a bye/home field but they’ve beat the Chiefs and Bills on the road so I’m not sure that phases them at all. The moves they’ve made have been to stop explosive pass plays and run their offense out of 11. They are gearing up to beat the Chiefs/Bills/Texans not the Browns/Stealers/Ravens
  4. I can’t find the final ADOT but he was not pushing the ball down the field. I can’t imagine the ADOT got much better post Vikings game. Probably hovered right around that 6.2 mark. Could he be a dollar store Purdy? Maybe. But at the same time - there aren’t many teams in the NFL set up like the 9ers or Bengals offensively for that matter.
  5. Dan Jeremiah newest mock has us passing on Murphy and taking Latham. Really tough to know what teams are going to value in different tackles IE: Bears taking Wright at 10 last year. I imagine Murphy/Latham have to be the odds on favorite at this point. Think Murphy would be the clubhouse leader if Brown deal gets done. G/T combo day two.
  6. How about this - Byron Murphy lined up more in the A gap than he did B gap the last two years. That very well could be your Reader replacement. I have my doubts he’s going to make it though.
  7. They don’t necessarily have to get another big guy to hold up against the run. They just need guys who can shoot gaps and less Zach Carter honestly. He was on the field for some absurd amount of their long runs given up. There was a graphic floating around today showing quite a few teams in the NFL don’t have a guy over 310 and were in the top 10 in stopping the run. They just need two more decent to good bodies to get a good rotation going.
  8. Really no need to worry about Becton. Could very well be waiting for the draft to play out to make sure he’s not going to get drafted over. This next deal is going to be a prove it deal and he can only prove it if he isn’t on the bench and there’s a greater possibility than not they’re going T at 18.
  9. If they franchise him again next year I think I’ll rip my hair out. If you are going to guarantee two years in full - why not do it now and get an extra two years of control. I think it’s certainly possible. But it will be frustrating and probably a signal that things are changing as much as we would hope or they’re cash poor.
  10. 3.14 is steak and blowjob day. Hopefully Pollack is ready to seal the deal..
  11. Sheldon is another 3T. DJ is still in play. Might just mean Murphy/Newton are no longer in play. Probably takes us out of play for Fuller but maybe in play for Q.Mitchell in the draft.
  12. if so, interesting he wouldn’t land back here. However he’s not a good fit for gap scheme. Chips are probably going to be in for Trent Brown?
  13. This should be expected and it’s going to suck. I think I’d rather see the Bengals overpay just on principle.
  14. And that is fair, and I think that’s the next progression in the offense. The Chiefs run 12, the Bills run 12, and the Ravens run a ton of 12. The NFL is starting to see that shift and the Bengals are lagging behind, but they are still looking at the tight ends that could give them the edge to run 12. 12 gives you seven guys on the line and the ability to double up both interior and edge as well as getting big athletic guys to the second level. Problem right now is they signed a tight end that has played 90% of his snaps split out and another tight end who doesn’t pose much of a receiving threat. It looks like another year of 11. They’ve done well enough with it, but you’re absolutely right. ADOT has fallen each year since they’ve signed Jamarr. They either get a slot who can burn that middle seam of T2 or they start running it more efficiently.
  15. Dax is cooked. He’s nothing more than Tre Flowers at this point and they got reluctant to play Tre because it showed their hand.
  16. Sure. But until they run the ball down the field better than they can throw the ball in chunks to Ja’Marr and Tee, they are going to see all kinds of T2 variations. It’s not going to happen overnight and signing a tight end like G shows they still do not care about getting bigger guys on the field to block. And really until they can get some athletic lineman to run outside zone, they’re going to be running into the teeth of the biggest guys on the field. You want to have the ability to run away from those guys and at light edges, corners, and safeties. If they draft Bowers or Sinnot, it would signal a shift in philosophy. I think they’re content to run 11 and nickel and dime teams down the field and throw the ball to their new big slot receiver.
  17. Armstead 10th last year in pass-rush win rate. Not sure it would fix the atrocious run defense but would certainly help fix the explosives problem.
  18. Chew on this for a second. The Bengals don’t give a shit about running the ball. They have the most accurate quarterback in the league. They would probably throw it 100% of the time if they could. Until they dedicate the appropriate resources to it, they are going to be running their offense out of 11 personnel and letting the short passing game and RPOs be their primary run game.
  19. Bengals are taking on $2m in dead cap to not have Joe Mixon play for them all while trading him to a team that should be in the playoffs. I think that should tell you to know. They didn’t need the additional cap either.
  20. Guessing Brock still hasn’t hit the time he wants to in his training. Can’t see a scenario where he doesn’t test at all before the draft. If he doesn’t - he’s going to be in the realm of possibilities.
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