2025 Opponents Set/Offseason Notes

[AMPHAR]

Brown family doesn't want to move.    As the story goes they were gone in 1993.  Then a last minute deal to turn the "yellow" riverfront section into a stadium club was reached.   Then Marge blocked it.   Which put on them on path of Baltimore which people mocked, then Cleveland took it.   This all started even before they were in Superbowl 23. 

When the salary cap grows based on league wide revenue and your stadium can't match what other league team's produce they aren't going to stay in Cincinnati and lose millions in revenue while their expense grows.    Its best the County looks forward instead of resisting.   Put forth the plan now to get them to sign the extension and don't default on the promises. 

Give another city or county in this case an opportunity to start throwing around new stadia ideas then all of sudden Hamilton County is in a worse situation than 1995 because they have way more debt invested in the riverfront today and the only way that is managed is by having more patrons visit the Riverfront.

[HoosierCat]

Clearly the answer is to fund the new stadium with tariffs on visiting teams.

[HoosierCat]

Katie was asked about playing this year in Spain vs. the Fins, said she doesn’t know. Did note that the Bengals will be the home team for an overseas game in 2027, where/when tbd.

[ArmyBengal]

Katie looks like Boomhauer from Over the Hill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHjnuWkYT68

 

[HoosierCat]

Per Breech over at cbs sports, the sked will be announced somewhere around the 13-15th of next month. 

[HoosierCat]

The Bengals and Hamilton County finally agree on something: the state needs to pony up $350 million for the stadium.

https://www.fox19.com/2025/04/10/bengals-hamilton-county-seeking-350-million-ohio-stadium-renovations/ 

Man, 350 for Mike, 600 for Jimmy up in Clown Town, if you ever wondered how billionaire nfl owners stay billionaires, there’s your sign!

[TJJackson]

"you have no idea how hard this business is"

[COB]

I don’t mind helping to pay for a business’ overhead, of course I’ll be getting some of the profits in return.  

[AMPHAR]

Politicians are never going to turn down a chance to play "city planner".   Its a pile of money they get to play power broker with.  Create or expand some Stadium Authority department etc. 

Its foolish for fans to think these gov entities would ever get tired of the stadium game.   They get billions of dollars to play with/manage/mismanage/lose/pocket whatever.

 

 

[ArmyBengal]

Nothing says "Steward of taxpayer dollars" like giving more to billionaires. 

[COB]

Browns pull Joe Flacco off the embalming table and sign him to play qb in 2025.  
 

In Columbus, House republicans immediately introduce bill to provide public funds to pay Flacco’s contract.  

[HoosierCat]

  14 hours ago, COB said:

Browns pull Joe Flacco off the embalming table and sign him to play qb in 2025. 

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Sad thing is he might be the best QB on their roster right now...

[COB]

  14 hours ago, HoosierCat said:

Sad thing is he might be the best QB on their roster right now...

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Yep, I think they plan on playing him.  He ran their offense way better than the Massage Bandit ever did.

[COB]

Flacco’s agent was just on the tube, he said Joe will be moving into a nice quiet assisted living facility in the Cleveland area.  It’s really happening, Flacco to the Browns.

[HoosierCat]

DJ Turner says he's 100% so a bit of good news on the injury front.

https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/news/cincinnati-bengals-dj-turner-health-update-offseason-workouts-looming

[ArmyBengal]

Speaking of good news, apparently Myles Murphy stopped eating Cap'n Crunch cereal for breakfast.

He's in the best shape of his life.  The Cap'n will steal your soul if you aren't careful.  We've battled quite a bit.
I heard he was related to.... dare I say his name ??? 

(Rookie Pool)

[ArmyBengal]

  15 hours ago, ArmyBengal said:

Nothing says "Steward of taxpayer dollars" like giving more to billionaires. 

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I have multiple pot holes I'd liked fixed on the road close to my house.
I'm pretty sure I saw a Wal Mart semi truck fall in there, along with a family of 5 in a Chrysler mini van.

Then again, a man was driving the mini van, so that might have been intentional.  Disregard.
Poor Wal Mart truck.