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Great Scott! I like the speculation of multi year deal. Again start ticking off those 2024 spots. This is a trust in Lou signing. They are down 2 safeties so there is roster room to add 1 more if they want to. Not a whole lot of Ram fan message boards on the topic, what little I did find was disappointment he wouldn't be back. Also they think Rapp is crapp to put it nicely.

Bengals are signing former 2019 2nd rounders for depth on the cheap. Chiefs are giving them 3 years and $60m and starting them at LT. Advantage Bengals. If Ford can send some one to the wavier wire in August so be it. Scharping proved to be a nice late add in the Wild Card and Divisional round. Got ate up in the AFC Champ game.

KC threw for 5,000 yards. KC has a great play extender at QB. They run all kinds of formations and route concepts. I don't think rankings of tackles without these considerations are worth a damn. Teams can protect an average QB and their overall production will suffer but the individual lineman grades can go up. We saw this with Brian Finley experiment. They inserted him in the line up. Called the game to protect him. They would struggle to put more than 1 TD on the board, yet the O-line grades improved. With these rankings that have him 17th. What would it look like if you threw out any tackle on a team that didn't have 4,000 yards passing? Overall production has to be considered in deciding who's is the best. Or I guess what's best for the Bengals because they are going to put the game on Joe's shoulders. Brown is probably the best left tackle in the league for that. How can you compare him to a Left Tackle that's been blocking for Lamar Jackson? Block for an offense that relies on Henry? Different worlds.

I'm probably going to move my No. 1 wish list item to one of the 6 ft+' corner backs.

One of the local media guys before Free Agency started suggested that Line coaches around the league openly admit they have trouble projecting college tackles into the NFL. So he said the Bengals could dip their toe in Free Agency Tackle pool and use the first round pick on different position group just because of the confidence level of lack of one in projecting tackles. I thought there was no way in hell Bengals would be throwing major cap dollars at free agent tackles available below Brown. Never would have thought they'd go top shelf.

Maybe a Scharping replacement for depth? Maybe a kick the tires and see down the road type thing.

The story I remember is they attempted to trade up for him the draft and couldn't. Ended up drafting Micheal Jordan. He was up and down with the Buffalo Bills.

Clearly Chief fans have the most accurate take on Orlando, no emotion at all. Ignore the fact they trade a 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th round picks. Ignore the fact that very same front office tried to extend him and couldn't so they tagged him. Ignore the fact that he massively improved their Left Tackle position. But yeah Brown clearly isn't very good. I'd be willing to trade them Jonah Williams for just a 3rd and 4th if they feel like Brown is a downgrade. The only take they should be giving right now is they once identified an elite talent at LT and they can do it again with Taylor. Although I think that move is critical for them and not a given its improved at all. Then they also lost the RT.

I don't really know but you can't look past the power Carman has put on film and he's done it at several spots. Yet, something has kept him on the bench. I would say even with Brown on the roster the largest upside still resides with Carman. Can he put it all together and become a reliable starter? Super excited about Brown. Not real excited about another shuffling of the line but there will be change again. Hopefully they gel faster than last year whatever spots they end up in.

Is Jonah more valuable in trade or position move? It would be hard to think a team trades anything of significance for a LT coming off a knee surgery that counts $12m against your cap. Also is there a possibility the shock move with Brown is in response to that surgery? If they are only getting a 5th, 6th, 7th rounder, I would almost like to see if he could transition somewhere. But a trade removes that $12m cap hit. Collins might save them a roster spot for a while with PUP list. Someone eventually will have to switch positions and bump a guard or be cut.

yeah that's the best part. Everyone of those clowns would love him if the Cheifs paid him more last year. Now they are taking a sub par RT moving to LT and paying more to do it. Just a huge fucking win for this arms race in the AFC. Plus it makes 2024 off season so much easier on offense.

Scratch all this dumb shit. They just signed Orlando Brown.

Uh, did they sign Orlando Brown! I went to bed looking for Eli Apple confirmation and wake up to that. NO FUCKING WAY! Biggest shock of my Free Agent following life. Its up on NFL.com. 4 years. 64m. $16m a year average. Huh? We are paying less than the Cheifs per year than they did for Jawan Taylor? I'm going to get the biggest pile of wings and just watch the shit out of NCAA today with the biggest smile on my face. That's what Jessie Bates signed for. This is just unfucking believable.

Solid numbers for him given TE FA pool and draft class. Wish they could have worked it out here, but I don't think the Bengals are down with 6/7m per year TEs at that level. At least they haven't been two years in a row.

I have no idea. I just saw it. I have not seen terms or anything as of yet. Personally, I would like to break the streak of 1 year deals for him and try to get 2 at least. He's been hard to remove from the field and I'd just rather have that in their back pocket next year. Still wouldn't mind drafting one of the tall corners either.

Eli Apple returns! Positive move.

Bates is really the only high level player that was at risk to be lost. Everyone accepted that reality a long time ago. The rest of them gave us solid year or years and now you have to wait to see what and how its replaced. I'm guessing there will be some of the $29m cap room spent to do so. Overall I hope they get replacements for this year but also start ticking off some of the potential openings after this year.

Running back store will feature a Cowboy special soon Zeke Elliot. It seems his glory days are behind him but a big name for sure.

No one is demanding they honor Mixon's contract. You don't need to cut him until you need the money or you have his replacement. Losing Perine proves the point. If another RB doesn't appear soon. It might not be stupid to pay Mixon. You act like this guy can't make a NFL roster or thinking walking into draft day with Williams/Evans as your backs is the best thing to do. Its not. I'm not to overly concerned with Mike Brown's wallet. Simple point is teams defend Burrow by rushing 4 and park two deep safeties. Perine could catch and run he's gone. Mixon can too, he can't be gone until they have someone that can replace. To suggest cutting Mixon at this point is saying goodbye to 600+ reception yards with just Evan and Williams bourbon brothers to replace.

I don't think any of these FA losses are surprises to the Bengals. The Ekeler report is just fun. I doubt the Chargers who I assume want to win the AFC don't think the best way to do that is sending him to the AFC Champs and Runner up the past two years. As a whole none of the Bengals FAs were must keeps but they are must replace. No way Bengals walk into draft with $29m in cap room having this many holes.

I like that he's back but its ????? if he's going to be the only replacement for Perine.

Hurst to Panthers. Another counter move to 2 deep coverage gone. This one sucks too.

Perine is a loss. Teams can get pressure with 4 and park 2 deep safeties. Perine can be replaced but its not as easy to not be concerned at all. They dumped it off to Mixon and Perine a bunch and let them get YAC. Not every back in the running back store is good at that.

Nah. That's not real smart. You don't cut Mixon until you've secured his replacement and/or need his cap room. Then even if they secured his replacement there is a stance you don't cut him til after the draft because its likely the Bengals won't need his cap room til summer. That would be a dick move but certainly a strategic one. I have no idea why Bengal fans get emotional over certain players but any suggestion that its smart roster management having just Chris Evans at RB when the team goal is to win the AFC and Superbowl before the draft just isn't smart. Perine unexpectedly jumping ship proves the point.

Also CJ Gardner-Johnson is having fun on twitter, but its favorable Bengals and has the coconut telegraph buzzing.