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I thought Carman played good in the first half and the holding call was suspect. I think he's the final tackle on the roster of now. We'll see. 1. Starting O-line played very well. Great pocket on that first and only drive. 2. Murphy had some nice rushes. The TB QB was getting the ball out and looked comfortable finding holes in the coverage. 3. Need to see better from the IDL depth. Wasn't impressed. Wasn't impressed with Battle either in run support still takes bad angles. 4. Jake Browning had a horrible horrible game. Considering how much starting experience he has now. I don't know why the ball gets stuck in his hand going up against back ups with what I assume not a very complicated game plan. He just struggles to the deliver the ball. The INT he threw was completely on him that ball should have been out a full second or 2 and its a TD. Very poor showing, IMO. If you compare to how easily the Tampa Bay backup QB was getting the ball vs. vanilla game plan and back ups to Browning, not good. Just don't get why he didn't have at least 2 scoring drives. His decision to scramble at the end of the half was bad. Expect a lot more from a player that has won regular season games.

Charlie Jones just isn't that big. I hope he can stay healthy but if he's the main return guy it could be something to be concerned about.

The reason why I say "way too early" . Sometimes these media boyzzzz act like fan boi This time last year they were hyping Robbin's booming punts. Sucked his rookie year. They went over drive hype on Volson and he's been one of the worse starting guards in the league. Just relax media fan boi.

Dehner's Rookie Grades so far. IMO, way too early for this but here you go.

Depth Charts are what they are this time of the year. But the first release has Trent Brown as the starter. So it is very unlikely he'll go from starter to cut during the month of August. Mims or Brown kicking inside would (I guess) put Volson on the outs? I don't think they'd go that route but we'll see.

Myles Murphy got a couple good call outs in Dan Hoard's daily camp observations. That was good to read. However, it sounds like Mims is hard to beat in the one on one pass rush drills. It will be interesting to see what happens if Trent Brown gets back to top form because the reviews on Mims have been very good so far.

I can't wait for sports betting to die off. So tired of listening to people's prop bets and other shit on normal programming. There's a million other sources of quality handicapping to seek out if you should dabble in sports wagering.

I would guess X, but there are some good youtube shows detailing TC happenings. They all can get a little overkill because they are all watching the same thing and generally the takes are about the same.

Hopefully Myles and Ossai log some first quarter snaps in the first preseason game. Quality DE depth is needed. I'll really start to worry if Murphy is logging some late 3rd or 4th quarter preseason snaps. Playing that late in Preseason game 1 screams Margus Hunt role. Which they need a lot more than that from him.

Looks awesome. Can't wait for the post game balls after about 13 wins this year.

I'll just fly this warning flag up. Today is first day of pads so keep that in mind. However, from what I observed from my visits to TC. Myles Murphy is running with the scrubs. We'll see if anything changes once the pads come on, but this is one situation that caught my eye and I'll be interested to see when his snaps come in preseason. Also Mims is very mobile for his size. They have him pulling and he can get out in front of screens. Kick off coverage, looked very good from what I observed. Most of the time the guy returner would have been contacted before the 20. Again a lot can change once pads come on.

I would like for it to get done. I would hold out if I were him. But I'm risk adverse. Take the huge up front money now! Assuming it has been offered. However, the cap is already projected to grow to $273M. Another $18m jump. JJ has been over 1,600 yards twice. Chase never. Cap growth plus a 1,600 year puts him in a spot to beat the JJ deal. With what he's already proved in the league he probably doesn't have much risk falling out of top 10 deal status. I don't know. Its not worth lobbying a bunch of blame at the front office or digging up the old "hold out" takes until Chase packs his bags and heads back to the Bayou and proclaims see you in November. I don't think he's "holding in". It be awesome if that were the case because that means a new deal is looming. Its probably a Zac club med camp approach.

The J'mar Chase stuff is 100% media boredom. The media folk have fear mongered and trolled Bengal fans for nearly 2 years with gloom and doom over a Burrow extension. 1. IF there was any serious risk of Chase being mad about not having a new deal. He wouldn't be there at all and there would be serious threat already lobbied stating he's not coming until week 11 or whatever is the last possible date to accrue the season. Until that happens it should be a non story. Just more fear mongering and trolling Bengal fans. 2. IF he is actually "hold in". Well that means they've kept a new deal a secret and its looming. Which greatly destroys the Burrow "new deal" fear mongering and its actually great fucking news. He'll probably practice next week or something as these aren't really the hard core training camps of yester year. The lack of a Chase extension could easily be explained that his camp reasonably thinks they can beat the JJ deal with a JJ like top season and another year of massive cap growth. Cap tracking sites are already putting it at $273m which would be another $20m growth. I would think Chase would at least have to put up 1,600 yards or more.

Early reports have Higgins looking good to go. Burrow says big season coming.

The playing of starters in preseason meaningless practice games will grab headlines. I don't think you need to grind them like they did back Marvin years. I do question the thought process of how you are protecting Joe by avoiding preseason games but at the same time rolling out a line Weeks 1-4 that is clearly not ready to play. The o-line protection stats for an entire season are not good and haven't been that way since they got rid of Alexander. Draw your own conclusions. But as bad as their entire regular season performance is the first 4 weeks are even worse which is amazing considering they are lucky to go through a game giving up less than 3 sacks. The 3 sack game and I don't even know how many pressures has become the gold standard post Alexander for any line they have rolled out on to that field. Its amazingly bad. Then you factor in carries for loss, no gain, or even 1 yard its even worse. Games like the Titans last year. Steelers year before simply put Joe at risk and its an unprepared lazy pass protecting group. I think you got to get that group out there for a quarter or two. Haven't tried in a long time. Might as well if they aren't going to fire a OL coach and OL scouts.

There still blurbs and what not that the Chase camp is waiting on other deals. If it were me, I'd be holding out and forcing the Bengals hand.

Mims done. Scheffty reporting

"Run on your own gas" was the best.

With a Punter battle and new kick off rule change there will be quite a bit to watch. Although the punter job could also be influenced with holding duties for FGs, place kicking.

If Trent Brown can't answer the bell in Zac's camp practices. They should go ahead and start looking elsewhere for an early season starter at RT,IMO. They can't repeat what they did with La'el letting that guy practice once or twice then walk into a starter spot. I hope Trent Brown is in good shape and participate in team reps. Sure give him vet days when needed.

He's a Vikings OT fumble from being 0-5 week 1. Then 0-10 first two weeks. The past 2 years its been "must win" week 3 on prime time. Thankfully they've gotten the win, but its such a buzz kill to start the season. It'd be nice to get an early season win vs. the Chiefs Week 2 But Patriots opening week 1 seems like the classic let down then they could end up going into Week 3 needing a must win on prime time again.

I would love for Burrow to get camp reps this year obviously. I don't really need to see him on field in preseason games. Same with Higgins/Chase. I do think they need to revert back to the old days for the Front 7 and O-line for preseason games and give them reps in preseason games. Probably the secondary too considering the amount of communication required. They give up a high number of pressures/sacks anyway but the amount they give in the first two games is even worse. Which is amazing considering how poorly they've protected a QB in recent years.

Biggest healthy team questions I have: 1. Right Tackle - Its been a thorn for Burrow's career with Jonah Williams giving them best but an average season. 2. Overall OL - led by the interior spots. Just an under whelming group overall even with fan favorite Karras. 3. Mixon, Boyd switched out for who????? A lot of veteran snaps gone; not impossible to replace hopefully it doesn't prove as difficult as the lost secondary players a year before 4. Speaking of Secondary. Easily the biggest concern for me entering the season while simultaneously being the biggest area of upside. I would say if everything comes up good it would not be a shock to the secondary among the leagues best. I've got zero concern about Chase, Higgins, and Burrow putting up numbers. The only concern would be injury which no body can control.

Certainly going to grab a couple tickets in August/September. Its a great stadium with no bad seats and they are playing great futbol.

Yeah last season sucked and the defense was horrible. I don't blame anyone not willing to extend the defense any props coming into 2024. I do think it has a very good chance to rebound up into the top 15 this year. I think Wilson, Pratt, and Hendrickson are underrated nationally. Logan Wilson has tied for the league lead in INT by LB two out of last 3 seasons. Trey tied league leader in sacks. Pratts has a ton of key turnovers. These three factors having top seasons could vault the defense back into the top half of the league. Then the secondary has a ton of potential and Lou has gotten the best out of a group of relative spare parts before (except Bates) Now he has legit players that are also athletes. D-line outside of Henderickson has something to prove but has guys you reasonable can hope for improvement.