HoosierCat

Great report from the Eat West practices here: https://www.giants.com/news/practice-report-notes-from-east-west-shrine-bowl-nfl-draft-2024 Let me put down a marker on NC DT Myles Murphy just for the name…

FWIW scouts were at the East West Shrine Bowl practices over the weekend, per Hobs. Also their assistant QB coach is there coaching the quarterbacks. Game is this Thursday. https://www.bengals.com/news/bengals-assistant-coach-kragthorpe-makes-room-at-east-west-game

Well that was trash. Crap Bowl ahead, then we can flush to the draft.

And the lions revert to form

All is well at the half

St Brown is pretty damn good

So wanted Gibbs. Ah well doing good with Detroit.

lol eat it ravens.

And then unnecessary roughness lololol

12 men on the field lol

Ravens got robbed on that no call but I don’t care

Way to throw into triple coverage in the end zone Lamar lol.

Wow Balti self destructing

Chiefs look terrifying.

Sigh…must be nice to have a punter.

Oh look it’s Stabby.

Chiefs v Ravens, I’m rooting for the meteor.

Dont know how much I’ll be around, but in case anyone want to talk about the games.

Counterpoint: whether you attribute it to the coaches or the QB, the Bengals’ preferences on offense are exactly what defenses now are built to stop.

Lol https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2024/01/deshaun-watson-makes-a-strong-pitch-for-bengals-wr-tee-higgins-cmon-to-the-land.html

Nope. https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/news/bengals-head-coach-zac-taylor-considered-giving-up-play-calling-to-brian-callahan

Yeah, I initially had no interest but everyone who has seen it loves it, so I might have to break down and check it out. It’s back in my local theater along with a bunch of other Oscar nominees. I am so far behind on movies right now, this not having a car thing sucks.

Good ol' Wicky Wacky. Those were the days. I'd still take Hue back as OC. He might not be much good at being a head coach but he had more rabbits in his OC hat than a magician's convention.

They say it takes three years to grade a draft, so here we are again, back in April 2021 and a draft whose talent level was heavily impacted by covid, and which for Bengals fans featured The Big Debate: Chase or Sewell? Good times, good times. So, how'd they do? Round 1/pick 5: WR Ja'Marr Chase. Yeah, that one worked out okay, didn't it? A+ here. 2/14: OT Jackson Carman. Insert sad trombone sound here. Complete bust. F 3/5: DE Joseph Ossai. Ossai has shown flashes but is constantly hurt. Not sure how many more chances he's going to get. Gentleman's C I guess. 4/6: DE Cam Sample. Turned out to be a great find in the fourth round. Solid rotational contributor in the d-line. B+ 4/17: DT Tyler Shelvin. Covid had stripped the DT class and the Bengals took a shot on the big guy, but it didn't pan out. Last seen getting released by Tennessee last September. Will give this one a D just because it was a longshot from the start. 4/34: OT D'Ante Smith. Career backup/teams guy. Maybe a C? 5/5: K Evan McPherson. And it's good! That's an easy A. 6/6: C Trey Hill. Teams guy mainly. But it's round 6, what do you expect? B? C? I dunno. At least he contributes. 6/18: RB Chris Evans. He's made some plays, but we've seen so little of him and he keeps getting buried behind new arrivals like Chase Brown. Again no idea really what grade to give, maybe an incomplete. 7/7: DE Wyatt Hubert. Tore a pec and missed his whole rookie season, retired the next year, unretired the year after that and tried to make a comeback with KC, now apparently a medical sales rep per linkedin. Grade: who cares. Overall: three years later, this feels like a B-/C+ draft. Chase is a golden god, but they faceplanted in round 2, 3 is looking iffy, and they went 1/3 on three fourths. Might bump it up to a solid B since they did get some value after, particularly McPherson, and as noted above the talent pool was shallow due to covid.

PFWA names Jordan Battle to their 2023 all-rookie team. https://sports.yahoo.com/2023-pfwa-rookie-team-rookies-050933735.html