HoosierCat Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 So I visit nfl.com today (I know,first mistake) and end up reading this double-reach-around for Baltimore and Pitt: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000498409/article/pittsburgh-steelers-triplets-get-spotlight-on-allafc-north-team By my count, seven combined Bengals and Browns, 18 Steelers and Ravens. Dunlap gets ignored (conveniently, Damesuck does the D as a 3-4) as does Iloka and he openly fuks Pacman for the return job because reasons. And then there's: Wide receiver: A.J. Green, Cincinnati BengalsAs it is, he's perennially among the top producers at his position. Imagine what he'd do if he played with a QB who could deliver him the ball downfield. ​Gratuitous shot at Dalton? Check. Gonna be a long year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregcook68 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 So I visit nfl.com today (I know,first mistake) and end up reading this double-reach-around for Baltimore and Pitt: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000498409/article/pittsburgh-steelers-triplets-get-spotlight-on-allafc-north-team By my count, seven combined Bengals and Browns, 18 Steelers and Ravens. Dunlap gets ignored (conveniently, Damesuck does the D as a 3-4) as does Iloka and he openly fuks Pacman for the return job because reasons. And then there's: Wide receiver: A.J. Green, Cincinnati BengalsAs it is, he's perennially among the top producers at his position. Imagine what he'd do if he played with a QB who could deliver him the ball downfield. ​Gratuitous shot at Dalton? Check. Gonna be a long year.That's why I stay away from the talking head foolishness. It amazes me that they actually get paid for that!So many of them are just like my mother used to say, "They are talking to hear their heads roar!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith Posted June 24, 2015 Report Share Posted June 24, 2015 Not to mention Burfict, who when healthy is the best linebacker in the division. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishbengal Posted June 24, 2015 Report Share Posted June 24, 2015 Can't wait til the season starts then we can rub their noses in our arses !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Bengal Posted June 24, 2015 Report Share Posted June 24, 2015 I don't know what's worse housh's this years team is only slightly better than the 05 team or this pile of bs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierCat Posted June 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 CBS's LaCanfora says the window is closing. Forgive me if I don't buy what he's selling.Bengals: Another playoff failure and you have to wonder, deeply, about the staying power of the Marvin Lewis/Andy Dalton Bengals. Both need to take a stand this season, or owner Mike Brown will have to wonder if expanding his budget and spending much bigger for players and infrastructure was worth it.Mike will? Really? Based on what? Where is this alleged bigger spending on players? I didn't see any big-bucks free agents arrive in March. And infrastructure? What, the new scoreboard?Yeah, he ponied up for that, after extracting concessions from the county.Attendance remains a concern and the postseason stumbles have become epic. Pressure is mounting on this team to make the next step, with Lewis essentially going year-to-year with extensions and Dalton's deal very much pay-as-you-go. A.J. Green's long-term future has yet to be defined, as well, and Geno Atkins likely needs a big-time bounceback season to continue on his big-money contract in Cincy. And Leon Hall, Andrew Whitworth and Andre Smith are pending free agents in 2016.PBS was almost 93% full last season. I don't think Lewis going year-to-year indicates anything; Marvin will get a new deal every year as long as he wants one. Green will be franchised, Dennard and Dre are waiting in the wings for Hall to go and they just spent their two top picks on two tackles.Regardless, the Brown family will have ample flexibility to go in a new direction if they decide drastic moves are warranted, from coach to quarterback on down. You have to wonder how many of this team's emerging young receivers end up getting long-term deals there -- especially if Green breaks the bank.BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! "Brown family" and "drastic moves" should never be in the same sentence unless separated by words like "would never in a million years make any". As for the rest of the WRs it remains to be seen, really, if any deserve a new deal. Marvin Jones has had one good season and Sanu is OK but hardly irreplaceable.Considering the fact that Baltimore and Pittsburgh figure to put up their annual stiff opposition within the AFC North, the Bengals don't figure to have an easy ride back to the postseason. To their credit, they have loaded up in recent drafts to plan for potentially having to overhaul the offensive line and they have done a much better job of infusing young talent via the draft in general in recent years.Wait, I thought the window was closing? Make up your mind, Jason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierCat Posted June 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Prisco weighs in with two articles on the most over-rated and under-rated players on each team (here's the over-rated article, there's a link to the other one in it). His Bengals picks: Over-rated:Wide receiver A.J Green: I think he's a good receiver who has been great at times, but he sometimes doesn't make the big play in key times, like his fumble in the Pittsburgh game last year and his drop in the playoff loss to the Chargers after the 2013 season. He missed time with injuries last year, which hurt his numbers some, but I just think he should be better. He's damn good, but is he great? Under-rated:Left tackle Andrew Whitworth: Year in and year out, he's consistently one of the best of the left tackles in the game, and rarely gets noticed. Andy Dalton notices. I can't really disagree about Green, seeing as I've made similar observations myself. But I don't know about Whit. It seems to me that he has been getting his due the last couple years. Can you really be under-rated if basically every article talking about under-rated players includes you? If I had to choose I think I'd put Carlos Dunlap well ahead of Whit. Look back at the 2010 draft and compare him to the DEs that went in front of him: Tyson Alualu (10th overall): 194 tackles, 13 sacks,1 FFJPP (15th): 286 tackles,42 sacks, 2 INT (both returned for TDs), 8 FFDerrick Morgan (16th): 191 tackles, 23 sacks, 4 FFDunlap (54th): 211 tackles, 35.5 sacks, 1 INT (returned for a TD), 10 FF Basically, Dunlap = JPP, who's considered one of the top defensive players in the game and who was franchised this year by the Giants. But I never, ever see him mentioned anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierCat Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 Apropos of nothing, it appears that Dunlap has one definite advantage over JPP: he managed to make it through last weekend with almost blowing off his hand.http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000500185/article/new-york-giants-pull-60m-offer-to-jason-pierrepaul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierCat Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Wow...JPP has his right index finger amputated... http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/13223902/new-york-giants-jason-pierre-paul-right-index-finger-amputated Some reserve Bucs corner also blew two of his fingers off in a fireworks accident over the Fourth of July weekend. Memo to NFL teams: time to add a "JPP Clause" (no fireworks) to player contracts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalszoneBilly Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Wow...JPP has his right index finger amputated... http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/13223902/new-york-giants-jason-pierre-paul-right-index-finger-amputated Some reserve Bucs corner also blew two of his fingers off in a fireworks accident over the Fourth of July weekend. Memo to NFL teams: time to add a "JPP Clause" (no fireworks) to player contracts... That had to hurt like a mother******! You know copious amounts of alcohol were involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COB Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 I just mailed Dalton a $1,000 gift certificate to One Eyed Fred's Homemade Fireworks Emporium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalszoneBilly Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 I just mailed Dalton a $1,000 gift certificate to One Eyed Fred's Homemade Fireworks Emporium. Good one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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