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I thought the Cleveland handshake would be hard to pass up.

wow! What a change of events!

Again there’s more to football than PFF which is Hopkins claim to average. He got to follow nightmares in Bodine and Price. Not to any way stick up for Turner but is it any shock the turnover in the OL room? They simply didn’t have high caliber players.

Collins or TB guard?

A one/two year $6m a year Collins deal would be perfect. By the way that’s around the amount he was guaranteed on 3/20.

For those reading Tea leaves….Hopkins released into the wild. Creating cap room?

Eh, no team is willing to trade for a top 10 player? Twice? PFF isn’t gospel. Never been pro bowl or all pro. This is the same crap Bengals fans ran with Andre Smith when some stat service threw out “top five RT” Now he could be an upgrade to Prince. Maybe RR. Effort and love for football seems to be a concern. At one time Cordy Glenn was rated above Whitworth by those services.

The rumor with Collins is they tried to trade him twice. Obviously no team bit. The bengals need is driving this fish story that some how lucky Bengals just some found an All-Pro at a big need. Reality is he's been a decent player but that's a couple seasons ago.

"a lot of teams". Just like the number of teams going to trade for him? Free Agent money drys up fast. I doubt there is a major deal for this guy. Teams could have avoided major deals with up front money by just doing a trade and no team saw the value in that.

Larry O. back on the market; couldn't pass physical from Bears.

Bengals have had the "Welcome to Paul Brown Stadium" up on the scoreboards all morning. Could be anything but I've been keeping a close eye on the stadium waiting for a signal.

Its layers deep. They do have a player they like better. It's my speculation that Collins is in the elevated drug program meaning he could be 1 strike away from a big suspension. Local media and fans say things that are concerning from a football perspective. I was not in favor of trading for him because you take on his contract and $10m cap hit with his baggage and simply isn't the player PFF says he is in 2021. We'll see if they get a deal and how much it is. I hope its a short term prove it deal.

World Cup would be awesome

From Twitter Right from the source! @TheRealJeffRuby Tells me Burrow, the 2 new o-linemen, Zac and wives are at his restaurant. No La'el Collins tonight. Jeff doesn't think he's in town yet. In another room, World Cup talk with Berding and former Prez of Argentina, hoping to land games here.

The entire AFC West schedule is prime time worthy.

Exactly. He’s a proven athlete that can catch playing with superior athletes and a top QB; he will put up numbers.

What exactly? I’m trying follow bball too and celebrate St. P day

Or everyone loves a free steak

Cowboys zone says Collins visiting. Any bets on where they go? With who? I’ll have the Steak Burrow!

Good for Apple.

He's going to be more than just a body. He can match and probably surpass what CJ did with Burrow.

Pleased. I love adding former top 150 picks. He has 1 less career TD than CJ and still caught more TDs last year than Kyle Pitts despite playing 4 less games. Probably a better athlete than CJ. Will fit nicely in his role as more of "move" TE. Blocking will still fall on Sample. I think he could match CJ's production and could be more than that with Burrow at the helm. Burrow really elevated CJ's game.

Hayden Hurst to the Bengals. Former Raven and first round pick out of the 2018 draft class.

He's free and clear to sign as FA.

Collins being cut by Cowboys so we'll get to see how serious they are about RT and Collins.