Bengalholic hasn't started a game day thread yet, so I figured we can talk about the game here until he does

New York Times recent post has Mike Brown saying now may not be the time to do Chase contract. My thought is, how many decades and years must we put up with Mike Brown ? For those that say Mike Brown no longer runs things, his comments in the press sound as if Mike Brown is still very much in charge.

What good was it to pay Joe Burrow and then make this Chase contract so hard. The chemistry Burrow to Chase that goes back to LSU Championship team, is automatic. Burrow knows where Chase is going to be, their timing is perfect, which is a rare thing.

Isn't it enough we lost Boyd and Mixon and the franchise tag slapped on free agent Higgins. They have to add making it difficult on Chase also. This indeed smacks of Mike Brown, and the word is CHEAP.

Given the choice of which one should go, I think Mike Brown should go, not Chase. Of course Mike Brown never goes. We get good players, but when they find out how cheap Mike Brown is, they are glad to leave. It's sad, this team was in The Super Bowl, but Mike Brown destroyed the 1988 Super Bowl Bengals, and could very well destroy the 2021 Super Bowl Bengals.

I hope Bengals get contract with Chase done any day now. It was pointless to pay Burrow huge contract and then play hard ball on contract to his top WR for LSU to Now. It's not just Burrow, it is Burrow to Chase. We saw that. Burrow improved greatly when his LSU WR Chase was drafted. They have the Timing that is rare.

I'm for keeping Burrow to Chase and if need be, the kids do a power move and put Pops Mike Brown into retirement.

Money Mac. Literally. ?

The #Bengals agreed to terms on a three-year, $16.5 million extension with K Evan McPherson, per his agents at @SPORTSTARSNYC.

McPherson will earn $10 million in new money in the first year of the deal, highest ever for a three-year kicker extension. pic.twitter.com/6OMpDepxwO

— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) August 16, 2024

https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/news/cincinnati-bengals-defensive-end-jeff-gunter-is-retiring-01j598jmwgtf

My predictions…
1. 12-5
2. Joey B has an MVP type of year. Not predicting one but certainly in the discussion
3. Tee Higgins has his best year
4. Jamar Chase has a solid year
5. Orlando Brown has his best year
6. The OL is top 15 in PFF
7. Mike Gesicki after a slow start comes on strong the last half of the season.
8. The offense has its best yards per play number in Taylor’s career
9. Our linebackers carry the defense.
10. Myles Murphy emerges.
11. Baltimore and Cincy play in the AFC Championship (Cincy wins KC injury luck runs out)
12. SF vs Cincy in SB
13. Isovias, Irwin, and Burton have a fierce battle as #3 receiver.
14. The right side of the line finally elevates us to success in goal line and short yardage.
15. The defense is average but opportunistic with turnovers and we lead the league in TO margin.

REALLY good stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJKwSS2sHNU

Ryan Clark may have a bad take or two here and there and he is a former Stooler, but he seems like such an anti-Stooler, post career and he is so good at media stuff.

While randomly scanning through the Bengals all time draft picks, i get to 1968 and after being shocked at the total number of picks...17 rounds   i see a couple things. 

1. Something i didn't realize or had forgotten. Bob Trumpy was a 12th rd draft pick. That's not the obscure part. This is...

2. In the 13th rd (2nd pick), the Bengals took a guy named Teddy Washington. RB out of San Diego St. 

For his entire NFL career, which spanned all of, and only, the 1968 season, his stat line was 1 carry for 4 yards. That's his entire NFL statline. Anyone remember this guy. Know what his story was? Anything?



Now tell me who you got.


EDIT: Found an interesting bit of information about ole Teddy. He changed his name to Sultan Salaam and quite interestingly, fathered a son who would become a 1st rd pick by the Chicago Bears named Rashaan Salaam. 
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/06/18/sons-follow-in-fathers-footsteps/

If true,  I kind of like the orange pants...very tigerish

Source? ? https://t.co/jXZ2tvVDrV

— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) August 12, 2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/bengals-53-man-roster-prediction-following-preseason-week-1/ar-AA1oEGWs?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=ASTS&cvid=59db5438b10d423ba68b89c2e59cdb91&ei=7

He sounds to me like he's pretty close.

and I hear the collected screams of "of course"


strained pec, non surgical, will miss several weeks

Zac describe it as minor. Mims complained after the game.  He defined "several" as more than a couple and less than many.


Brown returns to team drills this week

Zac: Amarius Mims has a strained pec. Non surgical.
Will miss several weeks

— Jay Morrison (@ByJayMorrison) August 12, 2024