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Jack Sawyer is throwing out the first pitch at the Guardians home opener on Tuesday. Winning a national championship at Ohio State gets you a lot in this state.

The tribe had a great young team last year. So of course we got rid of the heart of the team, Josh Naylor, and our all star second baseman, Andres Giminez. Now we can’t do shit.

You’ve got a lot of nerve talking about a player other than Trey Hendrickson. You must not have heard about the crime against humanity that occurred - bengals front office people “disappointed” him by not giving in to all his guaranteed money, no incentives, 4 year contract demands. Luckily, Trey found a sympathetic ear in Steeler Homer Pat McAfee. McAfee was appropriately horrified, and reacted to Trey’s story of being “disappointed” with a somber seriousness that made it look like investigators from The Hague War Crimes division are looking into this assault on Trey. Trey said he and his wife can’t have kids yet because that disappointing 21 million dollar contract just ain’t getting it!! So stop acting like there are any players in football other than center of the universe, swallower of planets, Trey Hendrickson.

Can you imagine if they moved to Columbus? I’d buy season tickets. I still see the entrenchment of the Brown family as a major obstacle to moving. Is Mike really going to relocate at this point in his life? And would he sign off on moving the team but he stays here and gets fruit thrown at him every time he’s trying to redeem 78 separate coupons at the Kroger checkout?

Let’s check it out. I looked it up and UFL cities are: Arlington, Birmingham, DC, Houston, Memphis, Michigan, San Antonio, and St. Louis. Arlington - Never. Jerra would block it. Birmingham - they’ve had a lot of minor league football. No other major sports are present, just like Cincy. Sorry Reds fans, little dig there. A real possibility. DC - no way. Houston - no. Memphis - I guess the Titans and the Saints could try to block this. But could they? If you haven’t been to Memphis, you are missing nothing. Michigan - Lions block it, rightfully so. San Antonio - Jerry and the Texans probably block this but they shouldn’t. Texas could likely support all 3 teams. St Louis - this city desperately wants an nfl franchise again and probably sends Mike a Christmas card every year. Very real threat. Summary: Birmingham and St Louis are potential landing spots for the bengals. I don’t see it happening as the various branches of the Brown family are firmly rooted in the tri-state area and you can’t give tons of jobs to the 4th and 5th generation if they all live 4 states away.

They’ll have to re-up. Hard to picture them finding a new home by Sept of ‘26. I hope Katie enjoyed Palm Beach.

Trey: “the bengals won’t negotiate with me, wahh! Also, I refuse to negotiate.”

I can see them doing this. They’re putting a ton of pressure on Golden.

Dude went on known Steeler homer Pat McAfee and complained. Said there are aspects he won’t budge on mainly length of deal and guarantees. Does not want incentives. Says he and his wife want to be as humble as possible as Christ-loving people.

Trey wants to be compensated like an undrafted free agent. Which is exactly what he would be if he had played out the 4 year 60 million dollar deal he signed before the ‘21 season.

Kind of off topic, but Chris Henry’s son announced he’s chosen to play college football at ohio state.

I’m really surprised guard is suddenly in play in the top 3. Defense seemed to have earned the premium picks this year with their shit show performance last fall.

Absolutely shocking quote from Dehner’s piece in The Athletic today: “The last time the Bengals gave one of their offensive line draft picks a second contract was 2011 fourth-rounder Clint Boling. They have drafted 20 offensive linemen since.”

It’s not looking good for Scherff. Bengals sending signals they are set until after the draft. If they were going to sign him I assume they’d have done so by now. Replacing their two guards with something better provided the Brown family with a very low bar. Just what the doctor ordered. Hopefully that doctor has some time available in the fall if this underwhelming performance by the front office results in Burrow getting hurt.

Jesus might actually show back up here before we get Trey extended. Shit’s taking forever.

/ref throws flag, turns on mic/ “For the fifth play in a row, too many men on the field. No, Jesus, you do not get to have 12, we play football with 11. Repeat the down, first and 35.”

Jesus would have been lucky to even be a kicker. Do you even lift, bro?

I know what you mean. Myles has a certain look about him. Looks can be deceiving though. Let’s hope this is his breakout year. It pretty much has to be his breakout year.

LOL, in your face, Bobcats!

Dude the disrespect I receive from the drive-thru teenager at the heath Arby’s is no laughing matter. Chasing some teenagers off my lawn right now.

Damn. Playing guard in the NFL. There is a hierarchy to these positions. Raise your kids to be QBs or edge rushers.

My dad used to say this country is great at making veterans, not all that great at taking care of them.

Trey complained two years ago, “give me a raise and an extension.” We did it. The next year, again he said “give me a raise and an extension,” again we did it. Dude never wants to play on his existing deal.

I read two different sources say the following while we were waiting for the chase and Higgins deals: I’m paraphrasing, but it was essentially “of course the bengals are going to pay these guys, they have no one else they can throw this kind of money at, and they need to get up to the cap.” Which begs the question, why save all this cap room for down the road when this family of farmers trying to run this thing won’t keep their good players to even pay up on a second or third deal? The hopeful answer to my rhetorical question is that by then there will be guys worthy of good deals, we’ve just whiffed on a bunch of draft picks lately. I’m glad we kept our skill players together. When you think about qb, our receivers, and our (very underrated) young RB, we might have the best set of skill players in the league. BUT - we’ve done very little personnel-wise to fix our nearly league worst defense, and our o-line still looks a lot like it did last year. It almost feels like the team is putting all the responsibility on the coaches they replaced, and putting a ton of pressure on new guys Golden and Peters. I hope it works, but we should have done more.

Just saw a thing Rapien and another guy put on YouTube. They’re completely pissed about the Dark Triad putting Chase’s and Higgins’ bonus money this year in the form of roster bonus instead of signing bonus. They said it cost us a shitload in cap room this year. And they kept saying, “the money’s the same, it makes no sense, why did they do this?” I suspect if there were 11 million more in cap space they’d feel compelled to sign some more good vets. That’s 11 million more out of the brown coffers this year. This way, they’ve spent up to the cap, end of story.