HoosierCat

He was in the same pool as Kenny so maybe it’s a good sign…?

Right now I’m leaning toward OT or DB at 10. Don’t trust any of the DL or edge guys likely to be there. LB is ok (Styles probably) but would rather address that in FA if possible. Already too much youth at that spot. Downs still on top of my wish list, after that CB or OT.

Shrine Bowl tonight. Standouts from practices:

I got 2-3 inches now, probably 2-3 more coming. Cold is the big problem. Poor pooch has had one walk this week and the cat is going stir crazy.

I'm guessing it will be a Hags/Pats Super Bowl, so meh. Kind of funny tho -- I can remember long stretches of years when both those teams' fortunes were as forlorn as the Bengals'. That they are now good teams still strikes me as off somehow.

Yeah everyone likes money. But really it’s probably a good idea for us since most seasons the bengals 1. Need most/all of September to figure out how to play football again and 2. Can count on Burrow missing half the year because some DT breathed on him too hard. Every extra Dec/Jan game helps!

18-game season talk bubbling up again. Players are basically like, yeah, fine as long as you pay us more.

ChatGPT for the win!

It's what happens when there's zero accountability in an organization. No one who matters in the Bengals' FO is in any danger of being fired since they're all ownership, family of ownership or long-time friends/cronies of ownership. So why work hard -- or at all? Sign a good FA or a bum? Doesn't matter, you keep your job. Draft a good player or a bust? Doesn't matter, you keep your job. Get players signed early or wait until the last minute? Doesn't matter, you keep your job. Communicate with players you are offering contracts to, or ignore their calls? Doesn't matter, you keep your job. Do any single thing in your job description, or lock your office door and let Troy smash that wrinkly pumpkin all day long? Doesn't matter, you keep your job. Great for them, sucks for us. Pass the rusty fork.

Same Army, same.

Zac's stranglehold on play calling is aggravating, but let's face it, we all know who decides what play to run, and he's not standing on the sidelines.

Well folks, it's official: draft season has begun. Mel Kiper's first mock is out. And The Hair thinks we will get the player we are all hoping for. From Mel's lips to Mike's ears. Mel has Cleveland taking an OT (Fano) at 6, then the Ravens, Steelers and Browns (who have Jacksonville's pick at 24) all going WR with Makai Lemon, Denzel Boston and Zachariah Branch, respectively.

My bigger concern with Risner is that they piss him off with a lowball offer now that he said he wants to stay (as was already suggested earlier in this thread). Karras has been a rock but he’s clearly declining and they have been stashing C prospects for a couple years now. I fully expect them to draft an OT in the first two rounds this year.

A tip of the hat to Dehner for this lead sentence in his latest Athletic story. The "bunker of continuity." LMAO. There's a whole Hitler "Downfall" parody in those three words.