All had good games today.
We got silch from our backup RBs and we got silch from our TEs.
Hill did have an INT but Bates had 2 plus a forced fumble.

Point being maybe we shouldn't have taken these players for granted.

This?

Wish people would stop comparing this year to last year.

The Bengals could actually find the end-zone last year.

I think Joe is still hurt. Something to continue monitoring as the season goes on.

That’s right! Zac Taylor is 7-10-1 in the month of September since 2019. This is absolutely abysmal and places undue pressure on the team to play catch up all season. The 2022 season began 0-2 and I can easily see the 2023 season beginning in similar fashion.

However, there’s a difference between 2022 and 2023; neither loss in 2022 was a blowout; losses to Pittsburgh and Dallas were close. Today against the Turds the Bengals were not close and were never in the game.

What I see is a lack of preparation from the coaches with the exception of Lou Anarumo. I’m not saying the defense was perfect because it wasn’t but forcing two turnovers usually leads to a win. The offense was anemic and inept and I place the blame for lethargic play on Zac Taylor and Brian Callahan; Frank Pollack too. That was a 1990s-era offensive effort.

Most teams in the league come roaring out of the starting gate but not Cincinnati. No, no.

Have at it. 

This morning my 12 year old grandson's Cincinnati traveling soccer team played the Pittsburgh team, in Pittsburgh.

First, he wore his Chase jersey during warmups.

Then he drilled the first goal of a 3-0 victory and screamed "WHO DEY!!!"

Damn I love that kid.

RB Chase Brown
CB DJ Ivey
DE Joseph Ossai
IOL Trey Hill
OL Jackson Carman

D'Ante Smith won the back up tackle job for both sides
Max Scharping backing up both guard and center

Kept all 5 DTs active to deal with the running game

WHODEY!!!

Joe's extension likely increases our current cap space to 20M or more this season, which is more than enough for any potential signing bonus for Tee.

Joe & Tee's extensions could potentially be very affordable next season making it easy to sign Chase.

Joe's 7 yr deal allows for extreme flexibility to sign both these WRs.

2 things to understand: proration and large cap increases.

Proration: Providing a large signing bonus usually results in the 1st two season's being very affordable salary wise. (2023 & 2024)
Joe's 29M salary this season could be lowered to 1M, and potentially less than 40M next season. If he receives a singing bonus of 100M in cash this year it is prorated at 20M over the next 5 seasons. Thus his cap hit this season would only be 21M instead of the previous 29M, freeing up 8M for a total of 20M available cap.

Tee could receive a 3 year/80M deal with a 40M signing bonus.
His current salary cap hit is 4M that likely stays the same, but add the 10M signing bonus and it increases to 14M. Which would could potentially still leave 6M in cap space this season.

Both of these scenarios involve Tee and Joe's annual salaries increasing well above their AAV numbers in 3 years. But that is ok. The salary cap this year is 224M, but based upon the new TV contracts the cap is expected to be over 300M in 2026. The gambling money will begin increasing the cap as well.

There is room for the Big 3.

This could go a million different ways, but it is doable.

So if the Bengals trade Tee (in the offseason) what would you expect for trade Value?

For me it would at least take a First Rd pick and a 3rd rd pick or Significant player.