HoosierCat

Nice block joe

Well that’s still better than their play which is 0/10

Team is trash

Can’t cover either

Can’t tackle can’t rush qb not good

Well at least we will find out what we got at 18

And Trent is hurt. Looks like Mims is up

Nice Gesicki

All almost dropped that

Good work by Chase brown this drive

Don’t worry I’m sure Joseph “Superman” Ossai will save us

Lmao we suck

Safety tripped over his own two feet

Well he got paid so it’s time to go to crap…

Lou Overratedrumo

JFC

I see the missed tackles are back

Ok good start

Run game working so zac will quit running now

Yup, Hill out. Rankins, Irwin, Hudson, Kirkland and McLaughlin also inactive. Mims and Jenkins are go.

DT Dominique Davis bumped up to the active roster. I suspect that means Hill is a definite scratch. https://www.bengals.com/news/bengals-roster-move-domenique-davis-elevated-to-active-roster

Yeah, I didn't specify Hamilton County, but the greater Cincinnati area. That said, given that HamCo alone accounts for more than a third of the MSA's population, I would not be surprised if the majority of regular PBS-goers are HamCo residents. As for the "material just lying around," well, things like steel and concrete are commodities. I can assure you U.S. Steel isn't waiting around for Mike Brown to call in an order before they fire up the blast furnace. I'm sure there were items that were custom orders (I doubt that you can just buy one of those big-assed stadium video screen at Wal Mart) so someone(s) got paid to do that. Probably not local tho. Workers just sitting around? Well, that's kind of my point: outside of a major economic downturn there are usually construction projects going on, so it's unlikely that any given worker's ability to draw a wage and pay taxes will be impacted by a stadium project. Might they make more or less on project X versus project Stadium? Sure, but now again we are getting into a discussion of goals/needs/level of support etc. Is "increasing the average hourly wage for construction workers" a goal for the public entity financing a project? If so then providing public funding with the "string" of a prevailing wage requirement attached might be worthwhile.

The materials produced would have still been produced; whether or not PBS was built had no impact on the production of steel, concrete, plastic resin, etc. It just would have been used on something else. Same for the construction workers. They just would have been working on some other jobsite. As for the economic activity on the riverfront, sure, lots of people go there and spend lots of money. But the vast majority of those people live in the greater Cincinnati market. If they didn't spend the money on the riverfront, they'd just spend it somewhere else in the market. At best it's a wealth transfer within the area.

It's not a point of view or political issue, it's just math. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/sports-jobs-taxes-are-new-stadiums-worth-the-cost/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pam.22534 https://econofact.org/stadiums-as-public-investments https://journalistsresource.org/economics/sports-stadium-public-financing/ The bottom line is that the economic benefits of an NFL stadium to anyone other than the owner and players is highly overblown. Now, can you make an argument that, fine, stadiums are a public money pit, but cities are still smart to spend on them anyhow? Sure. Government routinely spends on things that don't make money; that's one of the whole points of government. Should stadiums be one of them? Maybe. Depends on what the municipality's goals are, what other needs there are the money might be spent on, what level of support is being discussed, etc.

Bell gets the boot. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41390092/cincinnati-reds-fire-manager-david-bell