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I think the Bengals move slow. I believe they were proven correct in some of those 31-1 votes as well. Pod Cast need content. That's it. Rookies have held out of ACTUAL TRAINING camp practices under the rookie slot system. They don't happen often and don't last long. Thus aren't very memorable. As a whole TC isn't as important as it was either contributing to that. There's been plenty of rookies miss May practices due to a graduation rule. Its just something not to worry about until July but you aren't going to get clicks, views stating that.

Switching gears for a minute. I was thinking about the 2nd year guys and really hoping to see how an offseason in a pro weight room and their approach to the game impacts the team this year. Many in that draft class got snaps during their rookie year, which should go a long way in their development. Amarius Mims opens the season as the RT starter and I am still excited about him as he was inexperienced coming in. Both Kris Jenkins and McKinnley Jackson should be good in the DT rotation with Hill and Slayton starting, which I like. Burton luckily finds himself in a position to make an impact this season, but he's such a dumbass that it's hard to say. It's a shame that Erick All will miss this season because he looked solid when getting snaps last season. From all accounts it sounds like Josh Newton is going to get first crack at the slot CB position vacated by Hilton leaving. I'm hoping to see Tanner McLachlan get more opportunities at the TE spot with All going down for the season. I think Cedric Johnson is just lost in the DE mix and will be lucky to see many snaps unless Trey holds out. Daijahn Johnson is the back up to battle at the strong safety position and will get snaps for sure. Matt Lee might have some competition at the backup center spot with the UDFA addition of Seth McLaughlin. By and large, the 2024 draft class looks at least solid with many looking to get a good share of snaps in 2025. Here's to hoping they got some good guidance and took advantage of the NFL strength training program.

Fitting that the first object I see advertised is a belt folded to look just like a penis.

My sources say they will be using it here.

They'd better do something with it.

Any money saved from contracts being reworked has got to be earmarked for Trey as opposed to any new FA signing I would guess.

That about sums it up. Mike also enjoys being an iconoclast.

Interesting, I hadn't seen that, or if I had I've already forgotten because I'm old and my mind is cheese. OTC and sportrac haven't caught up with it yet, still listed as a $3.8 million hit, all but $164k of which was salary. I'll keep an eye out.

I don't think the FO (meaning the Browns/Blackburns) has ever really bought into the idea that the NFL has developed over time into a mega-corporation with 32 subsidiaries. They still view the Bengals as family business, and no one is gonna tell them how to run their shop, dagnabit! You see the same dynamic at work in how they vote against almost everything in league meetings, even when that means a 31-1 vote. They've had to be dragged kicking and screaming into modernizing, and even after a couple decades it's still a work in progress.

Bengals FO seems to like these sort of squabbles. They do it over and over.

Volson's salary was renegotiated per Bengals.com transactions page Probable salary cut I am going to be really, really pissed if the Brown family simply pockets the money from these 3 or 4 recent pay cuts Use the savings to get me Risner and I am fine

Yep, here we are. Hey Bengals... don't do that.

And they basically are. Been that way ever since they instituted the rookie salary system. You could say it was the main point of it all. But every once in a while some agent feels like he has to justify his princely fee -- or some front office lawyer decides that they just have to change something that no one else thinks needs to be changed -- and we end up here in the Land of Avoidable Picayune Disputes.

I'd rather not hear anything about contracts to be honest. To start, I have no idea one way or another how an NFL contract is structured. Next, if there was a team to fuck up something simple like a first round contract, I would believe it would be us. These things should almost be copy and paste, with a percentage higher, from last year. Maybe they never heard the saying, "Work smarter, not harder". Fucking UGH !! Get this done Bengals.

So the Stewart holdout is apparently due to the FO trying to pull something with the standard contract language. I think I've been pretty forgiving of the front office this offseason, but not here. Quit ****ing with shit that ain't broken, Katie. Let's get the first round pick on the practice field.

I still can't get over the lopsided deal of Billy Price for BJ Hill.

Could be. BJ Hill has logged over 700 snaps the past 3 seasons. One season was over 800. There wasn't much a rotation under Lou. So eventually those amount of snap counts could catch up to him AND I think you get the best out of Hill with him playing under 500/600 snaps. That's kinda the issue with Trey. Sure any of these guys can pull a Whitworth. They also could decline fast like Geno or Hubbard. It would be wise to get Trey off the field slightly more to try to limit his run defense snaps. There's some comments from Al about wanting to do a better job defending the run with 6 man boxes. Is that 4 run focused DL 2 LBs? or 3 run stuff DL, 3 LBs?

I'd go with Lap but would do his a special induction by himself. Then go with 2 other players. But if limited to 2, Parrish has always been identified as the better CB by Bengal historians and then I'd go with Lap.

Love Lap and I agree it would be nice to honor these guys before they are gone. That’s on the FO tho who took FORVER to do something like this. Ought to have been done long ago.

Can they please get Lapham in there before he dies? That dude has meant a shit ton to this team as both a player and advocate. Agree it’s tough to pick. Parrish belongs in the hall of fame so I’m going with him as well.

The choice has never been tougher. They should probably expand the list at this point. If I still had a vote, I'd probably go with... Lemar Parrish Reggie Williams at least if I spent no more than five minutes thinking about it

2025 Ring o' Honor candidates: Jim Breech James Brooks Cris Collinworth David Fulcher Max Montoya Dave Lapham Lemar Parrish Bob Trumpy Reggie Williams (my picks in bold)

Yep, agreed. It’s amazing to have a very competitive team every year.

Funny, I was just wondering what interesting free agents were still out there. Not any position specifically, just in general. Seems like they add some random player every year.

From bookface: Just spitballing but might reflect some concern about Hill’s availability.