COB

The cupboard’s pretty bare on guys who can clean these gutters, which are in dire need. Never mind, I just got a text from Jonah Williams.

Also, that 12 million salary is viewed as a great deal by potential trade partners. That CBA and it’s price controlled first contracts is a huge factor in roster management these days, can’t overstate it.

Holy shit, Ian Rapaport, a very reliable source, says in regards to Jonah trade: “There’s definitely some interest and I could see a deal happening very soon.” I DEMAND a second round pick and a player. Tackles are very hard to come by these days, even marginally competent guys (55th in ESPN’s pass block win rate last season, I think that qualifies as marginally competent.)

Fournette - carried the load for 3 seasons at LSU, then got worked for 6 seasons via the Jags and Bucs. So 9 straight seasons as the man. Has struggled some with injuries. He’s 28, and the dude’s got some serious miles on him. He sure doesn’t seem to fit the prototype the Bengals have been favoring lately. I would pass but maybe the team likes him, we’ll see. Looks to me like a guy looking for one last contract.

Let’s hear your predictions on Jonah. Mine - he stays here, wins the RT job and plays well, gets a good contract after next season from the Panthers.

That’d work. Then if he revives his career at least he’s in the NFC. Pollack has a better opinion than we do regarding Jonah’s ability to switch to the right side. If he’s pessimistic, trade him! What would his value be?

Reds suck. The tribe rules (until Francona retires, then we’ll suck too).

Rapaport on twitter: “Williams becomes the top tackle available if Cincy is willing to move on.” He thinks there is a market for this dude? Let the offers start rolling in! We’ve got a guy here who will walk into your building and lock down your RT spot for 7 or 8 years. Bring it!

First offer just came in, the Anderson Township High School nerf wars team is down a man, and they’ve offered the broken Gatorade refrigerator that’s been sitting in the baseball equipment shed for 3 years, and some steel shelving they pulled out when they remodeled the library.

You want a trade, Jonah Williams? Do you have the name of an NFL team that wants to give any value for one of the worst starting left tackles in the league last year, who is coming off knee surgery, who is prohibitively expensive, who will only be contractually bound for one year? What a bargain. Hey NFL team GMs, come quick. We’re willing to trade Jonah Williams, please ignore the fact that his poor play cost us both a Super Bowl and an AFC championship game, and also please ignore the fact that our top priority this offseason was upgrading from him.

Value only, that’s about what we expected. When they let guys walk for the affordable deals offered elsewhere, the only conclusion is we’re going to sign a lesser, cheaper, option. It’s going to put pressure on the coaches, hopefully they can coach these new guys up and scheme to dampen the effects of any deficiencies they might have. They had to get better on the o-line and they did.

If it isn’t signed yet, yes I assume we’re getting played.

That’s the funny thing about these depth signings - if you make a deep playoff run these guys end up playing in those games. 20 or so NFL games tend to put some of your starters on the injured list.

Hopefully they’re talking to Devin Singletary from the Bills. I think he’s still available.

Yea it is really difficult to predict tackle success. Brown is like a mid level success, and he was a 4th rounder. Meanwhile if you could get his level of success out of a first rounder you’d take it any day. One thing of note - I saw a stat that said Brown had like the 18th grade last year in the league on pass blocking. And the salary the bengals gave him ranks him like about 18th, right in there. Which is a huge win.

Guard Cody Ford at the facility. Still looking to sign OL.

The chiefs gave up a 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th for Orlando Brown? And now he walks and they get nothing? That is astounding. That GM has some explaining to do.

They truly are an organization transformed. No one in the league has adapted/changed like the Bengals. No one is even close.

How’d the island of misfit prove-it deals do in this Orlando Brown contract? Well, a few days ago the Athletic rated Brown as the 4th best available free agent, and meandered about regarding what his new deal would look like. Behold! “The expectation is Brown will want an extension with more guaranteed money than the offer he declined last summer: six years, $139 million, $30.25 million signing bonus, and $91 million in the first five years.”

He’s not asleep. He’s writing a 10 page Unabomber manifesto on why Joe Mixon MUST not be cut before we draft some kid in the fifth round from Texas Tech.

TJ, look on the bright side, we got a lot better on the left side. That’ll make addressing the right side all the easier.

TWet JBlanket.

Ok left tackle. Outstanding. Good luck Jonah Williams, I hope your knee heals up and you have a great rest of your career, whether it is here or elsewhere. Played last season hobbled, let’s not forget that.

Will he play right tackle?

Absolutely brilliant. Fills the biggest need on our team, and creates a gaping hole on the roster of our chief AFC rival.