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IMO, Eagles depth looks good within the NFL reality. They have guys like Pyor and Kinnard running in their 3rd team (2nd Team?) that have starts and were draft picks vs no start UDFAs which is common throughout the league. Rolling out AJ Dillon as your 3rd Rb is solid. Johnny Wilson was a draft steal but fell because of injury. Kenyon Green was a first rounder(?). Think he got hurt in 2nd half. Ty Robinson the dude Fairchild was blocking mostly was a top 150 pick and was a standout in the Senior Bowl. I would guess multiple teams will review their cuts. Not saying whoever they cut would walk into a starters job. Good thing is Duke's son works in the Eagles front office. Going through the Eagles depth chart reminds of when Zimmer/Tobin had an entire DB room of first rounders one year. Marvin/Dalton squandered loaded rosters those years.

I'd be real concerned IF the Bengals started shopping for re tread DBs at this point without an injury as causation. That'd be a WTF moment for me. Your plan all offseason was this and 1 quarter of preseason football has you scrapping it? That would say they didn't have faith in their plan to begin with. I don't think that's the case. Even IF the defense threw up a Goose egg last night, nobody is going to believe in them until regular season bullets start to fly and wins are stacked with the defense not being the sole reason for a win but a contributor and not fucking it up.

Replay coming up on NFL Network at 12.

Oh. Field Goal operation was very good to see.

Agree - Burrow hasn't shoulder enough blame for the slow starts. Whether it be injury, recovery, or whatever he hasn't not played well. His best plays, IMO, were checking it down to Chase Brown. He will see a ton 2 safety looks and that's the mental game he's got to come to terms with. In the past he has fought it early in the season. Disagree - Ivey, Newton, and Turner weren't good. You have got to go 6/7 deep. Its shown up in every deep playoff run. A cast away like Apple making key plays. Apple was never signed here to be a starter. Injury got him snaps. That collection of DBs has to play better and they're going to have to not be in their prime spot. Now its preseason. It was clear Eagle back up QB likes Wilson and Golden were content to see if one of our DBs could stop him vs. trying to scheme. The result was getting beat over the head with him. Which happens unless you have Jake Browning Qbing and can't figure out were to go with the football.

Defense was horrible. Gives me heartburn. I'm just telling myself it was preseason and 1st game and all the other typical preseason excuses. Starting OL - good. However, its preseason. Joe did stand in there a couple times but most of the time ball was out quick. Burrow - probably the best thing I saw last night was on 2nd drive. Burrow checking it downs twice (?) to RB. That is the mentality he's going to have to have vs. Cleveland. Grind it out. If he's looking for back shoulder, down the field throws vs. them week 1 early. He'll have a horrible day. Browning - Is just bad. I think he caught a hot streak subbing in for Burrow back in 2023. Can't deliver the football on time in preseason is a huge red flag. Jenkins - I think got 1 pressure. Played decent I guess. Better than none. Stewart a couple flashes but not the HULK moment I was looking for. Murphy ?. Yeah I just don't know about him. Eagles - Are a crazy deep team. Just clicking through some of the names that were tearing us up. AJ Dillon, lol 3rd RB? Kinnard and Pyor on the line? Johnny Wilson dude from Florida State. Solid.

I think Bengals are favored by 6.5.

I hope Browining can out duel the Eagle back up QBs. The depth along the Eagles O-line is something to look out for because its considered good and there have been a few articles from other teams contemplating picking up or trading for some of players that won't make final cut. Have not heard IF Eagles are playing starters. If they play some on defense. Mims and Fairchild could bang heads with some former college teammates Of course Chase Brown's twin bro plays safety for Eagles. Then Vic Fangio vs. Burrow got some play last regular season match up. Not sure how important it becomes in preseason game 1. But most of all I want Jenkins to look good. I want to get on the Shemar Stewart hype train so hopefully he bulldozes somebody.

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.

There's upside with the OTs. Durability is the big concern but Mims looks dominate out there. Keep in mind its Training Camp. Brown was healthy prior to Bengals and hasn't had a healthy season with the Bengals. Durability is the biggest concern of course which has been a repeating factor almost every year with Burrow. Might have another AFC Championship with better OT health.

They could add guard but my guess its somebody yet to be cut IF they add at all. 4 Tackles are going to be Brown Jr., Mims, Rivers, Cochran. 2 Centers will be Karras, Lee (?). Guards will be Fairchild, Patrick, Volson, and Ford. That's 10. IF they keep 10. I don't know they'll add anybody without a significant injury. Volson would be the only name at risk and he'd probably get picked up faster than the typical names the pod casters keep throwing out there. Just got to question the quality of "guard talk" from pod caster land at this point. First Cappa got signed quick off a bad season. Max Scharping has a job, lol. If the Bengals would have signed Jenkins the day he visited that group would be proclaiming the position "fixed" prior to the draft. Well he just started practicing and is hanging on to back up job right now. You just got to wonder why the league isn't signing sure fire starting upgrades or solid back ups with the 3 names that keep getting thrown around Risner, Hernandez, and Schreff. Their health and film probably don't line up to the PFF grades. If Max Scharping still has any job in the NFL then there's something going on below the surface and I doubt any of the 3 are starting upgrades at this point. Cappa has been getting starting reps in Raiders nation. Don't add up; quit listening to these pod casters that harp on guard the entire off season.