2025 Opponents Set/Offseason Notes

[HoosierCat]

Yup. Sucks. Sounds like the reports that his first surgery was not done correctly were accurate.

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#Bengals' rookie TE Erick All Jr. is expected to miss the 2025 season due to his ACL injury suffered Nov. 3. All's injury exposed a complicated fix from a previous ACL tear and requires two surgeries.

https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/news/report-cincinnati-erick-all-tight-end-to-miss-2025-season-due-to-injury-01jjq1wd82bj

[ArmyBengal]

Aaaaaaand there's the risk with All, which was noted heavily.

Better make sure that Gesicki is a priority.  He just got more valuable.

[Stripes]

Pretty “funny” that we’re getting the absolute worst-case outcomes from the risky Erick All and Jermaine Burton selections.

Sometimes risks backfire, so I’m not necessarily even hurling blame. Just sucks.

[AMPHAR]

Hate to say it, but solid TE draft class this year.   All looked like a player and it sucks his knee gave out again.   The recovery/rehab of those is tiresome.

 

[COB]

On one hand it’s amazing the tight end injuries we’ve had to deal with through the years.  But on the other hand it’s most teams.  Tight end is a brutal position, these dudes basically get their bodies destroyed.

[HoosierCat]

7 hours ago, ArmyBengal said:

Aaaaaaand there's the risk with All, which was noted heavily.

Better make sure that Gesicki is a priority.  He just got more valuable.

Let me preface this by saying I’d like Gesicki back, but they were very much different models. Gesicki is the more modern TE/WR type. All could catch too but was more the old school TE/FB guy. And I really liked how the offense looked with him in there. I haven’t looked at TEs much so far in the draft but I’d love to find a guy like him.

[AMPHAR]

Getting carried away with all the influx of draft info.   My early take is there will be a good DL prospect in the 1st and 2nd round.      Which leads them to tagging/extending Tee for 2025. 

[ArmyBengal]

All looked great when he was healthy this year and agree with the comments. That being said, the knee were noted in college and they knew it was a risk. It bit them. Such is life.

Honestly, I’m intrigued by what McLachlan might be. He was solid in college.

[HoosierCat]

County bringing in a “stadium expert” to boost negotiations.

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The county is retaining David Abrams, a banker and consultant with New York-based Inner Circle Sports, to work with other lawyers on the county’s team.

Abrams has spent 30 years as a lead investment banker and financing adviser for public and private facilities, including stadiums, arenas and other sports facilities. He has advised on six NFL stadium projects in Atlanta; Houston; Miami; Tampa, Fla.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Nashville, Tenn.

https://archive.ph/BKXBb

Can’t hurt, we’ll see if it helps.

[ArmyBengal]

Nope, can't hurt at all. 
However, it takes people being both willing to listen and move from their current stance.
How much they move is the story.  Should be interesting.

[HoosierCat]

59 minutes ago, ArmyBengal said:

Nope, can't hurt at all. 
However, it takes people being both willing to listen and move from their current stance.
How much they move is the story.  Should be interesting.

Some years ago I had an acquaintance who worked as a consultant, primarily in the food industry. He once described his job to me as walking back and forth between two conference rooms when the relationship between a manufacturer and a retailer had gotten to the “Fuck you! No fuck YOU!” level, which seems to be about where the Bengals and the county are. He would basically just let one side vent at him, then take the usable parts of whatever they wanted and present them calmly to the other group. They’d vent right back, but he would make a little progress and then the cycle repeats until the two sides have calmed down and gotten to some common ground. I suspect that’s what needs to happen here.