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This makes me think: 1. They have an agreement in principle with a decent FA tight end. 2. They believe they’ll be able to sign Hurst.

She’s been threatening to wreck his career with “evidence” since he was at LSU. Just an ongoing drama thing that he’s had to live with.

I look at it as an investment in your ability to attract top level talent/free agents.

Yep, we’re not competing with reality or common sense, we’re competing with other nfl teams. It’s such a small, insular, world in the nfl. I don’t see much sense in paying a guy ten million dollars a year, but we do it because other teams do it.

That does seem the more plausible sequence of events. Seems like they’re sick of him, but it’s hard to see them accepting only two firsts for him walking.

Non exclusive tag for Lamar, which means other teams can offer him a contract and they can either match it and keep him or not match and they get draft pick compensated if he signs with someone else. My guess - he signs, ravens don’t match and collect a couple first round picks.

I wondered what happened. Went over to go-bengals and caught up on free agent linemen we might sign. There’s basically a spreadsheet.

That’s actually funny TJ. It is a complement to the Brown and Blackburn families that the very thought of one of them dating Pete Davidson is comical.

The scene: Day 1 of the next collective bargaining negotiations between the owners and the players union. The time: 8 am. The speaker: the owners lead negotiator, Alibaster Vanderbilt Rockefeller VI. Action!!!! ”Gentlemen, first on our list, we’re willing to make a small concession to assure that the results of any further players polls are kept in strictest confidence and become immediate intellectual property of the owners.” Players Union Negotiator, Malcolm Quadruple X: “We want a billion dollars.” Alibaster Vanderbilt Rockefeller VI: “Sounds fair, done.”

Holy shit. Current and former players openly and directly cracking on team and front office people. One dude saying the Ravens ruined his career, another accusing front office types of lying about players. As the kids say, Let’s Fucking Go!

Taking a nursing baby to an NFL game? No.

Agreed. I just read Pollack saying they are good with all 5 starters coming back next year, and starting. Said Collins likely won’t be ready so it’s Adeniji or Carman. Two years in a row the o-line has cost us the Super Bowl. Fucking go out in FA and get us another tackle, that’s all I ask.

If they tag him, he might have to play a few games then that hamstring comes along. He may have conveyed that to them in some way, shape, or form. They would do well to either sign him or trade him. Some guys, you just don’t tag.

2021 draft, our 7th round pick was Wyatt Hubert, a DE. He retired before the ‘22 season due to injuries. He just announced he’s un-retiring. I assume we still have his rights, we may still have him under his rookie deal. edit- just looked it up, he missed his whole rookie year with a torn pectoral muscle. That’s a classic PED injury. We’ll see what kind of shape he’s in after 6 months of “retirement”, aka 6 months of no testing whatsoever.

Did you hear about the boardinghouse that exploded? Roomers were flying. specifically, rumors that the falcons cut Mariota to open the starting job for none other than Lamar Jackson. Putting him in the NFC South - good. Balt getting a shitload of high picks we’ll have to deal with - bad.

They need to hurry up and sign Burrow, that’ll let them plan for free agency and the draft with clarity and certainty. Now how does one go about compensating the Swallower of Planets?

Has entered the phase of his career where he gets injured every season.

I’ve got Wagner fever.

Bobby Wagner is a free agent, wants to play for a contender. The Rams are shedding salary due to their very non Mike Brown way of assembling that SB team that beat us. Wagner is a model citizen, a leader, a tackling robot from hell. He’s an inside linebacker, would help in the physical world of the AFC North. Doubtful the Bengals see his position as a spot in need to the extent that they’d pay this dude. I’d love to see it though. Woody said you win with people. That’s what Wagner would bring. We kind of need to find the Bobby Wagner of offensive tackles, if such a player is out there.

Also, Vance Joseph hired as the Broncos DC, and I don’t pay close attention but it seems like he gets hired as someone’s DC like every year.

Or our QB likes to hang onto the ball longer than most.

Jonah basically says if I’m getting beaten, I’m getting beaten badly.

Just read an article on the Athletic ranking the linebacker units on all 42 teams for both how good they are and how stable. I was surprised to see Cincinnati ranked 9th out of 32 teams. They talked about Wilson being good, though extension not likely until after next year. They blamed Pratt’s probable departure on his desire to be a 3 down back, and said based on that the bengals are unlikely to match any offer he might get.

Ok if we’re being honest with what they’ll do, it to me looks obvious that they’ll re-sign Von Bell and Hayden Hurst, and Jessie Bates and Pratt are gone. I think that means we can stop thinking about the Notre Dame tight end.

It’s not the coaching. It’s the players. We just don’t have very good o linemen. There is plenty of evidence that our o linemen are just not good enough. All year. There is no evidence that repeated reps in pre season will transform our mid-level players into top level players. It won’t. Not to pick on him, but as an example, I watched Jonah Williams all year and it was infuriating. Dude got bull rushed right into the pocket repeatedly. Good pass rushing ends beat him all season. If putting him through Bear Bryant tough guy camp would make him better, I’d be all for it. It won’t. He’ll be fully healthy this fall so if he still has his job we’ll find out how much difference that made. I know no one here is saying all Jonah needs is to play in pre season games and he’ll suddenly be all pro. But man, seeing him at the end of the year when the tank was empty was not a pretty sight. Throw 2 or 3 more games on him and forget it.