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lol. When I say "troll" this is it. If your season boils down to right guard then your season was never shit to begin with.

I think there is a little bullshit going on. A lot of teams are holding joint practices right before the preseason game. The main players participate in those for a decent amount of snaps reps. Teams are now giving access to these practices to season tickets etc. Then the actual preseason game TV networks and fans pay for its...."nah can't risk injury". Seems kinda bullshit. Pay for ticket, park, beer only to watch a back ups and the coaching staff basically declaring these games are just something to get over with and survive. NFL needs to go do one or the other. Get rid of preseason game OR disallow joint practices. Given the revenue sources it seems these preseason games could be handled with scrimmage rules. It obvious coaches want the reps vs. different teams. They don't want it under normal game conditions for 4 quarters.

As Marvin would say the last 3 draft classes are going to get plenty of opportunity to put skins on the wall.

Local media fanboi'd Volson and Robbins for sure. They'd have all their clips on twitter. I think/hope Stewart isn't a case of that but we'll see.

60% of the time Bobby Hart blocked everytime.

Level of competition is fair to question. Mims dominated him early. Mims has been dominate the whole camp. Then Mims has been out a couple times and Stewart gets alot of reps vs. 2nd team. However, Cochran is included among that group and he played decent and quite frankly the league is filled with Cochran level players starting at tackle.

I think there's something there with Rivers. However, I would envision Cochran or Ford being 3rd tackle over him in regular season despite him "starting" while Mims is out in TC.

Myles will have to show something. I think he will, but IMO, he's just going to top out as rotation DE. Shemar coming for those snaps. TC/Preseason predictions are what they are but I fully expect for the lid to be blown off the Shemar draft pick. I think he'll Margus Hunt some future UPS driver tomorrow and the hype train will leave the station. Myles won't be shut out because the plan for Shemar doesn't appear to be to play 1 spot. I think they are planning on moving him around in the defense. Kris Jenkins is one I want to see Year 2. I think he's having a good camp and flown under the radar. Be nice to get a couple pressures from him. We'll see.

Joe don't want to run the ball. They don't put enough physical reps into the run game. The offense identity is Joe and his ability to read the defense pre snap and get them into handful of plays at his disposal. That's were the majority of reps and prep time will go. There's a lot more to it than just deciding week 1 they are going to be running team. Plus that gameplan if it fails would get shit on by Chase and Joe. Its ride or die with them every week,IMO.

2nd week the past 3 years. They catch tough games and played much better. 2022 - On the road v Cowboys. Game down to the last drive. Slow start for sure and playing a back up QB. 2023 - Ravens - Geno Stone Int in Red Zone was big. Slow start. Defense couldn't get the ball back and there were big questions IF Joe could come out because he tweaked his calf throwing a TD. Overall Ravens games are going to be tight. 2024 - On the road Chiefs. I think they got screwed in playing a good game. Week 2 games haven't been should have won easy type games.

Bengals in openers the past 3 years typically lose the turnover battle. Struggle with O-line play and Burrow has his worse game of the year. All that played into the hands of 3 not good offenses led by not good QBs to play stall ball. The defense in all 3 openers got the ball back for the offense and it was squandered. The Defense actually won the TO Battle in Cleveland in 2023. OL needs preseason snaps for sure. There simply isn't enough contact in TC. Front 7 same thing. I don't need to see Chase/Higgins etc. I need Burrow out there with 2nd WRs so he can check the ball down. Because week 1 they are going to see 2 High safeties and there's going to be plays underneath. Fuck it Chase is down there somewhere might work but the TEs and RBs are YAC players. So is Chase underneath.

Have no clue. I mean Fat Randy pulled both calves missing a tie chip shot after Burrow/Green won the game but got a BS Offensive PI. He would 0-12 if not for a Vikings OT fumble. I don't know what the magic bullet is but 0-2 starts are a major buzz kill for the season. You don't beat the Jags at home. Someone needs firing.

There's was one time. Bengals had a 3-way QB competition going. All of them faced shoulder fatigue similar to what the Browns are going through now. Kenny Anderson was QB coach. He came in an ran 7 v 7. It was the best 7v7 of camp, ball didn't hit the ground. 3 things you knew right there: 1. Ken Anderson - Hall of Fame 2. QBs sucked 3. Secondary sucked

Just really interested in the Watson Saga. He's on the PUP carries $167m dead cap hit if he's removed. I guess they can IR him at somepoint. Now there's some insurance policy teams have for the big money QBs. So I think any money paid back to the Browns via Insurance helps cap wise. If I was that insurance company I would be sending adjusters in to evaluate the health of Watson. Be hilarious if they got nailed for insurance fraud. Just going to be interesting seeing how they get out of it. Only so much can kicking can be done. That homer fanbase and their homer local media groups talked so much shit about the Bengals and not being able to keep Burrow and company. Hilarious.

I don't really need to see a whole lot of Joe. He has started slow for several different reasons. I have no idea what several series is going to do for him or not do for him. Would like the starting O-line and Front Seven to get more reps/snaps because they simply do not get full contact in the TC practices as much. Also 2 road preseason games is perfect time for OL communication to be tested starting off in Cleveland.