CantStop85 Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Bengals | Hamby agrees to termsSun, 30 Apr 2006 17:11:09 -0700The Cincinnati Bengals have agreed to terms with undrafted rookie free agent TE Ryan Hamby (Ohio State). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.http://www.kffl.com/hotw/nfl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DontPushMe Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Exactly the type of TE we need -- a blocker with limited receiving skills. This must be why they didn't sweat a TE in the first few rounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
membengal Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Were the Bengals in the market for a TE who would reach for his throat and squeeze when pressure hits? Because, if so, they got their man... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markymark69 Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Bengals | Hamby agrees to termsSun, 30 Apr 2006 17:11:09 -0700The Cincinnati Bengals have agreed to terms with undrafted rookie free agent TE Ryan Hamby (Ohio State). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.http://www.kffl.com/hotw/nflNot quite what I was looking for. Hamby was fairly reliable at Ohio State, except for the Texas game (which still stings) and is certainly a quality kid. I have to figure the Bengals felt that the TE they wanted wasn't available, so why waste a pick and they were fairly confident that Hamby would be available as an FA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spor_tees Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Maybe he can drop a TD pass in an important Bengal's game and break the heart of a second Ohio city...then we can trade him to Cleveland to make the entire Ohio Circut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripes Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 I hope he blocks as well as they think. I doubt he's an improvement over Schobel... But it's starting to look like they weren't even after an upgrade, just a replacement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazkal Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 He can replace tony stewert still need a threatBengals | Hamby agrees to termsSun, 30 Apr 2006 17:11:09 -0700The Cincinnati Bengals have agreed to terms with undrafted rookie free agent TE Ryan Hamby (Ohio State). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.http://www.kffl.com/hotw/nflwell we have 15 other UDFA's so he may not even be the oneNot quite what I was looking for. Hamby was fairly reliable at Ohio State, except for the Texas game (which still stings) and is certainly a quality kid. I have to figure the Bengals felt that the TE they wanted wasn't available, so why waste a pick and they were fairly confident that Hamby would be available as an FA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jungleman85 Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 He is responsible for both Ohio State losses last year. The bobble against Texas, and the missed block against Tamba Hali and Penn State. As long as he never has to play for the Bengals, I'm fine with the pickup! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGrizzlyBaer Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 wa wa thats like apurdue fan blaiming kyle orton for the losses last year, the team has all its chances to win or lose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazkal Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 9 catches 85 yards !!!! omfg he is reggie kelly 2x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekshank Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 I can't say he is completely to blame for the Texas game. He wasn't playing defense, and he dropped only one pass. The main reason OSU lost to Texas was Troy Smith hadn't taken over as the starter yet... and that was why the failed to get it into the endzone time after time after time.Regardless of that inconsequencial fact... Hamby isn't an upgrade over Kelly, so I'm underwhelmed. I'd rather have the undrafted Day or Mix, but Hamby will do. That is 2 TE's on the roster (not including St. Louis the long-snapper). Will we get another? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlainThePain Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Looks like a temporary fill untill we finally find the complete TE that will never come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC_Bengals_Fan Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Maybe he can drop a TD pass in an important Bengal's game and break the heart of a second Ohio city...then we can trade him to Cleveland to make the entire Ohio Circut. So you're saying he's a replacement for Schobel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Next_Big_Thing Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 So, after falling for the smoke screen of Pope and all the other tight ends, and being thankful to the other teams who selected tight ends like crazy ahead of us in each round, I'll gladly relax now and take my Odell Thurman jersey in a Youth size....I TOLD you all we weren't going to take a tight end on day 1. I had no idea we wouldn't be able to take one at all on day 2..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC_Bengals_Fan Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 So, after falling for the smoke screen of Pope and all the other tight ends, and being thankful to the other teams who selected tight ends like crazy ahead of us in each round, I'll gladly relax now and take my Odell Thurman jersey in a Youth size....I TOLD you all we weren't going to take a tight end on day 1. I had no idea we wouldn't be able to take one at all on day 2.....Yeah. The lack of a TE didn't reflect the Bengals' intent. Considering they were evidently planning on taking a TE in round 2, I'd say you got lucky. Unless you were betting on the Bengals screwing it up, at which point, good job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Next_Big_Thing Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 So, after falling for the smoke screen of Pope and all the other tight ends, and being thankful to the other teams who selected tight ends like crazy ahead of us in each round, I'll gladly relax now and take my Odell Thurman jersey in a Youth size.... my little buddy's 8th birthday is at the end of the month....I TOLD you all we weren't going to take a tight end on day 1. I had no idea we wouldn't be able to take one at all on day 2.....Yeah. The lack of a TE didn't reflect the Bengals' intent. Considering they were evidently planning on taking a TE in round 2, I'd say you got lucky. Unless you were betting on the Bengals screwing it up, at which point, good job.Actually I read the tight end situation in the draft the same way our team did. It's not a real position of NEED but of WANT, AND there were so many good tight ends in the draft this year that I expected one of the good ones to be there in round 4. Instead, at no fault to our staff, the tight ends flew off the board early and often despite the number and quality, and teams were taking multiple tight ends this year. It was odd.We'll live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 So, after falling for the smoke screen of Pope and all the other tight ends, and being thankful to the other teams who selected tight ends like crazy ahead of us in each round, I'll gladly relax now and take my Odell Thurman jersey in a Youth size.... my little buddy's 8th birthday is at the end of the month....I TOLD you all we weren't going to take a tight end on day 1. I had no idea we wouldn't be able to take one at all on day 2.....Yeah. The lack of a TE didn't reflect the Bengals' intent. Considering they were evidently planning on taking a TE in round 2, I'd say you got lucky. Unless you were betting on the Bengals screwing it up, at which point, good job.Actually I read the tight end situation in the draft the same way our team did. It's not a real position of NEED but of WANT, AND there were so many good tight ends in the draft this year that I expected one of the good ones to be there in round 4. Instead, at no fault to our staff, the tight ends flew off the board early and often despite the number and quality, and teams were taking multiple tight ends this year. It was odd.We'll live.A good sign in this regard. Even though it was a target in this draft, Marvin was NOT going to deviate from his philosophy and reach from his and the staff's initial player ratings. Year to year that makes for a stronger team talent-wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjakq27 Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 For what it's worth, Hamby is also a local that attended Moeller HS. I was surprised at all of the TE activity, especially from teams that already had established players at that position (Dallas, NE). At some point some of these guys will get cut or released and maybe the Bengals believe they can get someone better going that route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC_Bengals_Fan Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 So, after falling for the smoke screen of Pope and all the other tight ends, and being thankful to the other teams who selected tight ends like crazy ahead of us in each round, I'll gladly relax now and take my Odell Thurman jersey in a Youth size.... my little buddy's 8th birthday is at the end of the month....I TOLD you all we weren't going to take a tight end on day 1. I had no idea we wouldn't be able to take one at all on day 2.....Yeah. The lack of a TE didn't reflect the Bengals' intent. Considering they were evidently planning on taking a TE in round 2, I'd say you got lucky. Unless you were betting on the Bengals screwing it up, at which point, good job.Actually I read the tight end situation in the draft the same way our team did. It's not a real position of NEED but of WANT, AND there were so many good tight ends in the draft this year that I expected one of the good ones to be there in round 4. Instead, at no fault to our staff, the tight ends flew off the board early and often despite the number and quality, and teams were taking multiple tight ends this year. It was odd.We'll live.Right, but to claim credit for this, you'd have to have successfully predict that the Cowboys would inexplicably take a TE there, which I don't think anyone outside of Dallas saw coming. Otherwise, we have a TE in round 2, probably, and you lose your bet.As to how good an idea it was to not take any TE, I suppose we will indeed live. We were left with 3 bad options: 1) take a 5th round TE who has all-around skills, but probably sucks much more than Schobel, 2) take a "TE" who can catch a few passes, but can't block, and completely gives away our play selection (gee, that sounds familiar), or 3) Hope our current widebody TEs can learn to run routes well enough to get by.I guess they took the best option, given how other teams apparantly panicked. In retrospect, given how popular TEs have become, this probably wasn't the year to go into the draft without one, but you can't blame them for not seeing it coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Next_Big_Thing Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 So, after falling for the smoke screen of Pope and all the other tight ends, and being thankful to the other teams who selected tight ends like crazy ahead of us in each round, I'll gladly relax now and take my Odell Thurman jersey in a Youth size.... my little buddy's 8th birthday is at the end of the month....I TOLD you all we weren't going to take a tight end on day 1. I had no idea we wouldn't be able to take one at all on day 2.....Yeah. The lack of a TE didn't reflect the Bengals' intent. Considering they were evidently planning on taking a TE in round 2, I'd say you got lucky. Unless you were betting on the Bengals screwing it up, at which point, good job.Actually I read the tight end situation in the draft the same way our team did. It's not a real position of NEED but of WANT, AND there were so many good tight ends in the draft this year that I expected one of the good ones to be there in round 4. Instead, at no fault to our staff, the tight ends flew off the board early and often despite the number and quality, and teams were taking multiple tight ends this year. It was odd.We'll live.Right, but to claim credit for this, you'd have to have successfully predict that the Cowboys would inexplicably take a TE there, which I don't think anyone outside of Dallas saw coming. Otherwise, we have a TE in round 2, probably, and you lose your bet.As to how good an idea it was to not take any TE, I suppose we will indeed live. We were left with 3 bad options: 1) take a 5th round TE who has all-around skills, but probably sucks much more than Schobel, 2) take a "TE" who can catch a few passes, but can't block, and completely gives away our play selection (gee, that sounds familiar), or 3) Hope our current widebody TEs can learn to run routes well enough to get by.I guess they took the best option, given how other teams apparantly panicked. In retrospect, given how popular TEs have become, this probably wasn't the year to go into the draft without one, but you can't blame them for not seeing it coming.To claim credit for predicting that we wouldn't take a tight end on day one because our tight end isn't used enough to catch passes to make it a NEED position (which I did), I somehow have to also predict who else will pick a tight end? I don't think so. My prediction that we would not pick a tight end on day one was based on the number of quality tight ends available and the likelyhood that there would be one there for us in round 4 or 5 that would be good enough to do what we wanted him to do. It was based on the FACT that it may have appeared as a priority position but wasn't. It assumed others would pick guys like Pope, Lewis, etc. I was right. I won my bet because I understood that we weren't going to reach for a position of it would be nice instead of taking a guy at another position more worthy of the pick. (Ok, so I'm surprised we took the Whitworth), not because Dallas picked a tight end. Besides, my bet wasn't with you, so don't make excuses for why my reasoning wasn't correct for the guy who lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekshank Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Any Capologists out there? St. Louis drafted Klopfenstein in the 2nd and the Byrd in the 3rd. That's right... two first day TE's when they had already re-signed Manumalena... the TE I really wanted out of FA this year.So here's my question. Are there serious cap implications if they cut Manumalena since they just re-signed him? I don't know why they would want him with two impact rookies on the squad.(in case you're wondering about the relevance to the Bengals... I'm still hopeful that we manage to get him... but Graham would be even better out of NE). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobengals19 Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 So here's my question. Are there serious cap implications if they cut Manumalena since they just re-signed him? I don't know why they would want him with two impact rookies on the squad.Not answering your cap question but I thought I heard on the radio late Sat that they traded him to someone, cant remember who though. Will research it. <<<< Found it, they traded him to the Chargers on Sat for the #113 pick.I truly didnt understand St Louis' drafting 2 TEs on the first day. I know know they want to shift to a more power offense but I dont think you have to spend 2 first day picks on it, especially when they had some serious flaws on DEF last year and depth problems on the OL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekshank Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 So here's my question. Are there serious cap implications if they cut Manumalena since they just re-signed him? I don't know why they would want him with two impact rookies on the squad.Not answering your cap question but I thought I heard on the radio late Sat that they traded him to someone, cant remember who though. Will research it. <<<< Found it, they traded him to the Chargers on Sat for the #113 pick.I truly didnt understand St Louis' drafting 2 TEs on the first day. I know know they want to shift to a more power offense but I dont think you have to spend 2 first day picks on it, especially when they had some serious flaws on DEF last year and depth problems on the OL.Bummer. Oh well... hey think about this... We're shopping Kelly Washington, NE's shopping Daniel Graham... straight up trade? They got Chad Jackson... and have Deion Branch, but Kelley is a better pure reciever than the aging Troy Brown. Just a thought that will never come to fruition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlainThePain Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 So, after falling for the smoke screen of Pope and all the other tight ends, and being thankful to the other teams who selected tight ends like crazy ahead of us in each round, I'll gladly relax now and take my Odell Thurman jersey in a Youth size.... my little buddy's 8th birthday is at the end of the month....I TOLD you all we weren't going to take a tight end on day 1. I had no idea we wouldn't be able to take one at all on day 2.....Yeah. The lack of a TE didn't reflect the Bengals' intent. Considering they were evidently planning on taking a TE in round 2, I'd say you got lucky. Unless you were betting on the Bengals screwing it up, at which point, good job.Actually I read the tight end situation in the draft the same way our team did. It's not a real position of NEED but of WANT, AND there were so many good tight ends in the draft this year that I expected one of the good ones to be there in round 4. Instead, at no fault to our staff, the tight ends flew off the board early and often despite the number and quality, and teams were taking multiple tight ends this year. It was odd.We'll live.Right, but to claim credit for this, you'd have to have successfully predict that the Cowboys would inexplicably take a TE there, which I don't think anyone outside of Dallas saw coming. Otherwise, we have a TE in round 2, probably, and you lose your bet.As to how good an idea it was to not take any TE, I suppose we will indeed live. We were left with 3 bad options: 1) take a 5th round TE who has all-around skills, but probably sucks much more than Schobel, 2) take a "TE" who can catch a few passes, but can't block, and completely gives away our play selection (gee, that sounds familiar), or 3) Hope our current widebody TEs can learn to run routes well enough to get by.I guess they took the best option, given how other teams apparantly panicked. In retrospect, given how popular TEs have become, this probably wasn't the year to go into the draft without one, but you can't blame them for not seeing it coming.We wouldn't have taken Fasano over Whitworth. On Bengals.com, one of the coaches, I think it was Marvin, said that the Bengals had Whitworth rated as a first rounder and he was leaps and bounds ahead of anyone they had rated around that time. I can't even imagine how pissed everybody would have been if we had traded down in the first because there is a good chance our first pick would have been Whitworth. They also said he can play guard, so I look for him to take Bobbie Williams spot if we somehow resign Stein, Jones, and Anderson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJJackson Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Not sure if anyone mentioned this, but Tim Day went to Chicago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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