Why the Bengals have embraced the lightest offseason schedule in the NFL

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(05-26-2023, 10:04 AM)casear2727 Wrote: Bengals play the Rams in Week 3
Bengals play the Titans in Week 4

Bengals play the Cardinals in Week 5

All still NFL teams with NFL draft picks and NFL money, and 2 of those 3 games are on the road.

Louisiana-Monroe can play at Alabama 100 times and they'll probably lose 100 times. The last time a player from Louisiana-Monroe started even 1 game in the NFL was 2011 (a player drafted in 2005). I don't think they have ever even had a 4 star recruit before. Since 2010 they've had multiple years where they didn't even have a single 3 star recruit that year. 

Alabama football alone has almost 6 times more revenue (~$98m in 2019) than Louisiana-Monroe's entire university ($16.8m in 2021). In their 2021 recruit class, they had SEVEN 5 star recruits enroll and another 3 in 2022. 4 stars are ho-hum there.

Your list is not even slightly on the same level of disparity.