(03-19-2024, 08:34 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: I’ve tried and tried to make sure everybody knows without the least bit shadow of doubt. Sheldon Rankins is now the fifth highest paid Bengal and B J Hill is sixth. They are your starting tackles. End of story. So they aren’t looking at a starter there. Doesn’t mean they don’t pick up a rotational player still in FA or the draft. Now that they have Trent Brown they can go with the BPA which was their goal ( and always heading into the draft) I wouldn’t rule out an OT, WR, DT, or CB.

(03-19-2024, 05:06 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Your fellow posters feel the Bengals would whiff at OT with #18 pick. To them, they have no faith with an OL pick in round 1 regardless of when that pick is. Unless, it is their guy, then the FO is smart and make a great pick. 

(03-20-2024, 08:09 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: can you imagine if we draft our future RT and have him with both browns on a 6 man heavy package... Put both browns on the same side and run behind it.

(03-20-2024, 08:38 AM)Essex Johnson Wrote: I see it as more the Brown move does not change  the most pressing issue for the best sustainability of the team that is a fixture at right tackle but no don't it would add to heavy package but not so much since at this time we have no true power back on the team.

(03-19-2024, 08:34 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: I’ve tried and tried to make sure everybody knows without the least bit shadow of doubt. Sheldon Rankins is now the fifth highest paid Bengal and B J Hill is sixth. They are your starting tackles. End of story. So they aren’t looking at a starter there. Doesn’t mean they don’t pick up a rotational player still in FA or the draft. Now that they have Trent Brown they can go with the BPA which was their goal ( and always heading into the draft) I wouldn’t rule out an OT, WR, DT, or CB.

(03-20-2024, 08:37 AM)JoeyB2023 Wrote: Disagree. They look at the history and just make an educated assessment. The bengals can’t hit on or man to save their lives man. Ur too drunk on the kool aid if u can’t see that. However that doesn’t mean u stop drafting em. They just need to hit. Take Fuaga and or Latham and that should give them the bast chance at hitting. They blow these picks themselves. Carman fisher ogbuehi I mean even Whitt sure they drafted him and he played for years here at a top level but the FO thought he was gonna be done and over the hill and evaluated him completely wrong and left got a super bow ring and 3 more pro bowls. They can’t evaluate and or develop at the position consistently at all whatsoever ever. So there’s Merritt to them thinking they’ll whiff at 18. Cuz they religiously do when talking about olineman

(03-20-2024, 08:38 AM)Essex Johnson Wrote: I see it as more the Brown move does not change  the most pressing issue for the best sustainability of the team that is a fixture at right tackle but yes it would add to heavy package but at this time we have no true power back on the team that would make heavy more appealing

(03-20-2024, 08:37 AM)JoeyB2023 Wrote: Disagree.  They look at the history and just make an educated assessment.  The bengals can’t hit on or man to save their lives man.  Ur too drunk on the kool aid if u can’t see that.  However that doesn’t mean u stop drafting em.  They just need to hit.  Take Fuaga and or Latham and that should give them the bast chance at hitting.  They blow these picks themselves.  Carman fisher ogbuehi I mean even Whitt sure they drafted him and he played for years here at a top level but the FO thought he was gonna be done and over the hill and evaluated him completely wrong and left got a super bow ring and 3 more pro bowls.  They can’t evaluate and or develop at the position consistently at all whatsoever ever.  So there’s Merritt to them thinking they’ll whiff at 18.  Cuz they religiously do when talking about olineman

(03-20-2024, 08:45 AM)JoeyB2023 Wrote: Then why bring in tart for a visit after? Of tart wasn’t asking for a stupid price due to leverage we sign him. Would tart not be a starter? I get what ur saying but I don’t think it’s sustainable. If sweats there guy and they take him I’d bet the hope and plan is for him to be a space filler and a starter in a rotation. I see rankins as the starter being spelled by hill. Hill was much better in an off the bench role. I think the plan was actually to sign tartt and rankins have this be the starters and spell rankins with hill. Soo idk about what u say. It’s cute when u mention the contracts but money doesn’t always force the hand. Performance will force the hand too.

(03-20-2024, 09:15 AM)Soonerpeace Wrote: Cute lol. It’s common sense. The Bengals money decisions rule this franchise. Surely you agree? Sure Hill could get beat out. My point is at 13 million they plan to start Rankins. Hill I don’t see being demoted. Possible. Tart is not being looked at anymore here. He was being looked at as a situational player. Your DT starters are Rankins and Hill.

(03-20-2024, 09:02 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I'm pretty sure that the Whitworth decision was a financial one, as the team could not afford to keep paying him top level money with all of the other players having contracts coming up the following year.

(03-20-2024, 10:40 AM)JoeyB2023 Wrote: No they thought he was done therefor they didn’t pay him his worth.  We had no left tackle option at a premium position and you have an all pro and u let him walk cuz u don’t wanna pay him lol no it’s cuz u thought his age and wear and tear didn’t match the value THEY had for him.  Well THEY were wrong and he’s got a ring to prove it ironically against the team that said he ain’t worth it.  Another poor judgment call by our staff in regards to the offensive line

(03-20-2024, 10:40 AM)JoeyB2023 Wrote: No they thought he was done therefor they didn’t pay him his worth.  We had no left tackle option at a premium position and you have an all pro and u let him walk cuz u don’t wanna pay him lol no it’s cuz u thought his age and wear and tear didn’t match the value THEY had for him.  Well THEY were wrong and he’s got a ring to prove it ironically against the team that said he ain’t worth it.  Another poor judgment call by our staff in regards to the offensive line

(03-20-2024, 08:39 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: True but there is also the Wave of releases that always come after the draft as well if we dont find a back in the draft.

(03-20-2024, 10:38 AM)JoeyB2023 Wrote: Hill has always been a better situation rotational piece which is why I believe they brought Rankins in. To fill the starter role putting hill back to his relieve role where he was much better spelling the starter. Tartt with his run stopping ability wouldve been surely to take Readers spot/Role. If McKinnley Jackson were to brought in it would be to eventually fill Readers role. Ur calling hill the starter right now cuz of contracts when that’s not the case at all right now hill the starter do to lack of personnel. If tartt were to be brought in or they select sweat or Jackson it would be to fill Readers role/spot.

(03-20-2024, 01:54 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Damn 2 inches taller but 17lbs lighter than Zay Flowers

(03-20-2024, 12:34 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 1" taller but nearly 25lbs lighter than John Ross. He is so thin.

Same 8.75" hands as Ross.

(03-20-2024, 11:25 AM)Stewy Wrote: Wow - how quickly we forget.  Whit was mid-thirties and had an injury history.  At the time a LT playing past that age was UNHEARDOF, and the Rams OVERPAID him by every measure and judgement on the market.  At the time, on these very forums, the fans almost universally were positive toward our FO to not sign Whit to that deal and almost universally no one here blamed them for not doing so.  It was so over the top for the, then, market conditions, that the FO would have been blasted for making that deal.

Using hindsight to make your arguments is not compelling or attractive.