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| Too many excuses???????? |
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Posted by: uticabengalfan - 01-08-2025, 10:52 AM - Forum: JUNGLE NOISE
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Life long bengal fan here in central ohio. Been through all the highs and lows since 1988. Anyway I keep consistently hearing how the FO is too blame for Lou, Pollack and others failures as coaches. I agree with everyone else that our FO has huge room for improvement from spending money to roster management, but at what point is it on the coaches to teach and develop these players??? I see all these other teams in the league with same or less talent than us on the defensive side and O line but are consistently competitive. Im not one for excuses of these coaches and im more than happy to see the coaching changes. Tired of seeing Joe beat to death and tired of db's playing 10 yds off the ball on 3rd and 1 and the lack of blitzing when you have no pass rush. Im all for these changes and heres to greener pastures in the future. If not im all for Zac being shown the door next!
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| Pollack, Carman, Humphrey, OUCH. |
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Posted by: samhain - 01-07-2025, 10:56 PM - Forum: JUNGLE NOISE
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No idea how valid this rumor is, but James Rapien, I believe casually dropped this tidbit yesterday: Pollack wanted the team to draft Creed Humphrey over Carman. It was on the Locked on Bengals podcast during a discussion of the firings yesterday.
Also, don't recall of it was on that show or on Malik Wright's pod yesterday, but apparently Zac and Pollack never saw eye to eye, particularly with the run game coordination. Zac was more or less forced to fire his homeboy in Turner, and Pollack was in the position of being the guy that ownership was familiar with. We know how the fam loves familiarity.
Why does this matter? As to the Carman/Humphrey alleged overruling, you have wonder who made the call to take Carman. Was it Zac? Seems unlikely that it was. Seems generally unlikely that it was a decision made by an actual current football person. I'd say Piano Man blessing and a local background pulled on Mikey's heartstrings. He loves local guys. Alexander is gone, but far from forgotten in the organization.
The Carman impact was brutal. Imagine having arguably the best center in the league to pair with the top QB in this offense. We got a guy that started 6 games and stayed in the doghouse.
Both tidbits should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt (If you really have no understanding of how the family historically operates). IMO these occurrences should temper expectations in the current hiring processes. As Big Willie once said, these guys want to hire their friends first and foremost. Dudes they know and have worked with. It's also unlikely that Zac wants an in-house threat to his job as a DC. When they don't get to hire their guys, things can get dicey. Then again, Willie also vouched for Carman......
Also, it doesn't matter what a new DC or OL coach may have as a personal vision if there's always a possibility of them being overruled by non football people up in the suites.
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| Should Bengals get creative with cap to win now |
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Posted by: Luvnit2 - 01-07-2025, 09:18 PM - Forum: JUNGLE NOISE
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Many teams are getting creative manipulating the cap to sign high priced players. Many ask how we can afford Tee, extend Chase, extend Trey, resign guys like Hill, Gesicki and add a high-priced guard in FA.
This is a good read and gives an idea how teams now are manipulating the cap so they can still pay good contracts but kick the burden down the road. It is like putting debt on a credit card, get what you want now someday the CC will need to be paid back and with heavy interest. Signing bonuses are used over the life of a contract. Some reams convert base salary into a signing bonus later in a contract. The other way is voidable year(s). Adding void year(s) to a contract has to be accounted for sooner than later.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/22/how-nfl-teams-use-voidable-years-in-contracts-to-beat-cap/
Should of front office get creative in 2025 as we do pro rate signing bonuses, but I don't think I have ever seen them use voidable years or convert a huge base salary into a signing bonus and spread over the duration of an existing contract.
If you think about it, teams lie the Ravens who have very little cap dollars in 2025 will figure out a way to bring on key free agents and/or sign guys like their starting 2 OT's currently not under contract.
It says we have 59 million in cap space in 2025, but with cuts and contract structures and restructures that number could balloon to over 100 million easily. Is the risk worth the reward? I say yes as I see the NFL adding revenue sooner than later with the international market and popularity continues to rise.
Thoughts?
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| Peter Schrager Most Surprising Losses |
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Posted by: BFritz21 - 01-07-2025, 07:06 PM - Forum: JUNGLE NOISE
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On Good Morning Football, Peter Schrager listed our loss to the Patriots in week 1 as the most confusing games of the season.
He explains how it made no sense to him.
It starts at about 3:47, and he says how we'd be in the playoffs.
He says how big of a joke it is that we lost to a Mayo-coached team with Jacoby Brisset at quarterback, who's now starring in insurance commercials.
Sucks because, if Hudson doesn't fumble going in for the touchdown, we win that game.
Who knows because the rest of the season obviously doesn't go the same way, but it could also have gone better.
If all things were equal, that fumble cost us our season.
(There's a link where it says where it is in the video but it's tough to see on my computer.)
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| Paychex Stadium? |
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Posted by: QueenCity - 01-06-2025, 03:03 PM - Forum: JUNGLE NOISE
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Evidently Paycor is in advanced talks to be purchased by a company called Paychex....
Be curious of what happens to our stadium name.
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