HoosierCat

Oh he’s no help. Fuckers in the back casting stones at Pharisees. Owes me 20 dinars for shots last night.

Note: in stripes’ defense beers are like $2 here.

I would just like it noted that I am currently trapped in a southern Indiana bar listening to 70+ yo people singing folk songs on open mic night. I blame stripes.

Oh joy another joint practice with da bears. Wonder how many season ending injuries we get this time… https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/bengals-bears-to-hold-joint-practice-before-their-preseason-game/ar-AA24FBZ8

Not the main focus here but Turner confirms he’s in talks for an extension. https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/onsi/bengals-cb-dj-turner-ii-rates-confidence-level-for-new-contract-explains-why-he-showed-up-for-voluntary-workouts-01kt53hnty1f

Dehner with the Erick All update: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7328218/2026/06/02/erick-all-bengals-acl-recovery/ tl;dr he looks and feels 100%.

Well, this is the final real year of Watson’s contract; 2027-30 are all void years (yes, 4 void years!). So while he’s headed to FA, he’ll still be on the Browns’ books for 35, 26, 17 and 9 million through 2030. So yeah, worst contract ever.

In all seriousness I don’t think it was a horrible trade. The Browns are hosed until they finish passing that fully guaranteed kidney stone named Deshaun Watson, so trading a DE who will turn 31 this year for a rising young player and multiple picks including a first is a reasonable move. It’s more or less what we were arguing the Bengals ought to have done with Trey before last season. You can say that they didn’t get enough for Garrett, and you would be right, but this is probably the best they were going to do. Still great news for Burrow, Lamar and the geriatric in Pitt tho.

BREAKING: Jared Verse phone hack reveals search history following trade announcement: ”how to fake traumatic brain injury” ”recovery time two broken legs” “What did Sheldon Rankins have in Cincy snd how do I catch it?” ”jobs in Antarctica”

Wow, can’t complain about that!

And if he does it again in a few years he might be visiting Hammond, Indiana: the “megaprojects” bill the Bears say they need to stay in Illinois died in the Illinois Senate last night. Today is the last day of the session and they still have to pass the budget. So it looks like we are going to find out if the Bears are serious about moving to Indiana. .https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/30/illinois-lawmakers-race-to-finalize-55b-budget-as-bears-stadium-talks-take-back-seat-on-final-day-of-session/

Yeah he did this before a few years back, raised over a million for St. Jude IIRC. Tom’s a good one.

Meanwhile, in news that only concerns me, will I soon have new ursine neighbors? Could be… https://www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/05/28/24185/what-the-hell-is-up-with-the-bears-stadium-bill-updating-maybe/

Bad news Army: Cody Ford took a $1.6 million haircut so his chances of sticking just went up.

Ring o’ Honor time again. Apparently they are expanding the ballot to 12 this year to, as far as I can tell, appeal to folks under age, say, 50. Still just 2 inductees. At least one has to be from the original group: Breech, Brooks, Collinsworth, Fulcher, Montoya, Trumpy and Reggie Williams. The expansion group is Atkins, Dunlap, Green, Whit and Leon Hall. I’ll guess it will be Collinsworth and Green this year. Meh. Oh, and after this year it goes down to one inductee annually.

Bucs may not have Bucky Irving for week 1. https://stripehype.com/bengals-may-get-massive-break-for-week-1-bucs-game-after-bucky-irving-update

Andy was here for a long time. 133 games. Only Kenny and Boomer played more and in Norman’s case it was just 1 more game. (And if you just count games started, Dalton is second behind Anderson.)

It sucks for conversation here, but I’m enjoying this mostly competent, boring, drama-free offseason right now. Theres a few things I’d like to see, like Dax and Turner extensions, but even then I’m thinking, no, not now, they’ll just screw up talks and stir up negative vibes ahead of the season. Get Howell signed, maybe snag a vet ‘backer toward the end of August as camp cuts hit, that’s about the extent of my personnel issues. Guess this is what it’s like being a fan of a normal team.

It’s really four of the last five since one is in Indy. That’s about as close as you can get without actually playing at paycor, and if the Bengals look playoff-bound, Lucas oil stadium will be flooded with Cincy fans. Aside from the Madrid game travel is really manageable. The longest trip is what, Houston? The early bye sucks but one possible silver lining is that it means they only play six games in September and October combined. So if they start slow, at least they’ll be relatively rested for the part of the season where they remember how to play football, and will have 11 games to get back in it.

Graziano is boarding the bandwagon. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48758666/2026-nfl-schedule-release-overreactions-takeaways-best-games-opponents-matchups

14-3

Rumor has it as a late game in like week 15. We’ll know in a few minutes.

Sked leaks so far: Week 1 vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Week 9 at Atlanta Falcons (Madrid) Week 10 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (SNF) Week 11 at Washington Commanders (MNF) Week 17 vs. Baltimore Ravens (Thursday Night Football) first seven games are 1 pm kickoffs, per reports (Jordan Schultz). Bye is week 6 if you believe Eight Five.

For reference: 39 Denzel Boston 4/$12.385m fully guaranteed 40 R Mason Thomas unsigned 41 Cashius Howell unsigned 42 Christen Miller 4/$11.795m fully guaranteed So Howell should get around 11.9. Get it done, Pumpkie, don’t spoil the good vibes.