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Defensive Free Agents in '07


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That's all we need is one big stud on Defense, mostly a LB'er. Our team would be so good if we had a bigtime LB'r. Hopefully Odell will get his s**t together and hopefully he's been keeping himself in shape...

There's too many possibilities to list for structuring our D. If we don't resign Justin, then you have to assume that we'll be drafting a DE with our first pick, but then again we may use that pick somewhere else and pick up a FA DE. I say keep Justin. If we do keep Jus, then you would have to assume that we'll draft a CB or a LB.

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The history shows the Bengals have relied on free agents for the D-line. There's been some infusion of draft picks in Jumpy Jr. and Peko but other than that it's been free agents, a waiver wire claim and Justin. My guess would be they'll shoot 1st for a 2nd tier free agent DE with upside like Chris Kelsay rather than a lighter weight edge rusher or a high-priced all downs DE.

Acquiring free agents at LB to start has been far less prioritized and hasn't worked. Besides, the LB corps seeems to be the one positional group that the Bengals want to draft. How RFA's Caleb and Landon fare with offer sheets from other teams could make them lean more toward free agentcy for LB but the bumper crop of college LBs with starting potential all the way into Day 2 should probably lure another LB draft pick out of the Bengals -- most likely in Day 2 IMO.

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Cut Simmons, Sign Briggs. Perfecto!

Simmons will be a situational guy next year, just watch.

Briggs would be a pretty good signing, but I doubt he leaves ChiTown.

It will be very interesting to see how 2 years winning will increase FA interest in coming into Cincinnati for a visit by the very top echelon of FAs.

There should be a lot of excitement, especially from the defensive players out there, since (with their egos) they should think they can walk in and immediately make a huge difference.

:bengal:

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