(03-10-2023, 01:37 PM)kevin Wrote: The Bengals main goal is to reign Burrow and next year probably Chase, because you want both long time. The LSU Connection. So they are making money moves to keep both.

So it would be easy to panic over Free Agency and The Draft as a Fan after all the bad years of this franchise. However going to the Super Bowl and AFC Championship last 2 years tells me Coach Taylor has his system working, and even Semi-GM Tobin and Front Office of Brown Family are doing better.

I assume Bengals will lose some fan favorites, but most of the team will be back. Think of the Patriots dynasty years. The salary cap forced Patriots to keep changing some players, but for years they kept Brady and Gronk and most of the team together for many Super Bowl runs. They had to give up big name fan favorites and try to replace them, but The System stayed in place. So the Coach Taylor System will stay in place, and most of the key players.

I do not know how Bengals will look after Free Agency losses and Cuts, and any Veterans added and of course new players out of college. I know anybody added will be who they think fits Coach Taylors System, a system that is working and winning, So Bengals should be just fine in September for another Play-Off run.

Don't worry too much, Bengals will be fine. GO BENGALS

(03-10-2023, 01:37 PM)kevin Wrote: The Bengals main goal is to reign Burrow and next year probably Chase, because you want both long time.  The LSU Connection. So they are making money moves to keep both.

So it would be easy to panic over Free Agency and The Draft as a Fan after all the bad years of this franchise.  However going to the Super Bowl and AFC Championship last 2 years tells me Coach Taylor has his system working, and even Semi-GM Tobin and Front Office of Brown Family are doing better.

I assume Bengals will lose some fan favorites, but most of the team will be back.  Think of the Patriots dynasty years.  The salary cap forced Patriots to keep changing some players, but for years they kept Brady and Gronk and most of the team together for many Super Bowl runs.  They had to give up big name fan favorites and try to replace them, but The System stayed in place.  So the Coach Taylor System will stay in place, and most of the key players.  

I do not know how Bengals will look after Free Agency losses and Cuts, and any Veterans added and of course new players out of college.  I know anybody added will be who they think fits Coach Taylors System, a system that is working and winning,  So Bengals should be just fine in September for another Play-Off run.

Don't worry too much, Bengals will be fine.  GO BENGALS

 

(03-10-2023, 07:59 PM)BengalFanInNJ Wrote: We need a f*****g Right Tackle like nobody’s business. Then we are going to be fine.

(03-10-2023, 09:22 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: We also need a left tackle.  I mean, Jonah Williams?  NFL leader in sacks allowed.  We are going to act like he is not a problem and just roll with him protecting Burrow's blind side?

(03-10-2023, 09:22 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: We also need a left tackle.  I mean, Jonah Williams?  NFL leader in sacks allowed.  We are going to act like he is not a problem and just roll with him protecting Burrow's blind side?

(03-10-2023, 09:22 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: We also need a left tackle.  I mean, Jonah Williams?  NFL leader in sacks allowed.  We are going to act like he is not a problem and just roll with him protecting Burrow's blind side?

(03-10-2023, 07:59 PM)BengalFanInNJ Wrote: We need a f*****g Right Tackle like nobody’s business. Then we are going to be fine.

(03-11-2023, 10:33 AM)NUGDUKWE Wrote: Not gonna lie. The cap confuses me and it's not something I've really paid a lot of attention to. But the Bengals do seem to be behind the curve when it comes to some of the tools that are at there disposal. I've just been seeing things like the Bengals were 3rd in most cap space and now are 16th after all the restructuring teams have done. Also saw that the Packers created more space than the Bengals have by restructuring 3 contracts. I just think with all the talk of paying Bates or not handcuffing ourselves was irrelevant if we could've worked it out to negate his cap hit if needed. I'm just worried about losing a big piece of our good secondary and saw a tweet about a potential browns free agency that include Bates ( please please don't have a free agency where bates goes to Cleveland ).

(03-11-2023, 11:19 AM)Sled21 Wrote: I think Carman put Williams on notice he's coming after the position. Williams better get it together this off season and put on some more weight and strength, or he will be relegated to the swing backup tackle position and Carman will start at LT. That can't help but make them both better, so let's see who puts in the work this off season.

(03-11-2023, 11:19 AM)Sled21 Wrote: I think Carman put Williams on notice he's coming after the position. Williams better get it together this off season and put on some more weight and strength, or he will be relegated to the swing backup tackle position and Carman will start at LT. That can't help but make them both better, so let's see who puts in the work this off season.

(03-11-2023, 11:33 AM)Soonerpeace Wrote: I’m rarely critical of the staff but I sure think they baby the OL. Callahan on Jonah to right tackle not being likely wasn’t encouraging. I’m not a big supporter of sending messages to players via the press but sometimes it’s needed. Zac praises the OL every chance he gets. They’ve not drafted well. It’s a fact.

(03-11-2023, 11:52 AM)samhain Wrote: The Carman situation is frustrating.

He did everything you could ask of him at the most critical time of year.  

This occurred in a season where he was a healthy scratch more than once.  It really calls the OL coach and his ability to evaluate talent into question.  The guy not only held his own, but was extremely physical and a willing mauler in the run game.  Did not fit the narrative of a lazy fat guy that didn't like football that hung around his neck since the minute he got here.  This dude rode the bench behind Adeniji.  I just don't get it.

I get that it's 2 games, but this team is starving for capable young OL.  Failing to find a place for him is discouraging.  What's also discouraging is that he's going into year 3 and will be extension-eligible as Higgins is right now.  How are they supposed to evaluate Carman when he's on the bench?  

How pissed would you be if this guy sits behind Jonah, the anointed starter for another season, due to size of contract only?  How pissed would you be if he walks after his rookie deal only to sign with another team and look like he did in the playoffs while the Bengals continue to toil trying to find homegrown OL talent?

People clamor for McGlinchey as a RT candidate. MicGlinchey is basically a rich man's Jonah Williams. Jonah has played the right side. I feel like the team is missing an opportunity to maximize the in-house talent by leaving Jonah at LT. That move makes the biggest offseason need a non-need.

(03-11-2023, 12:02 PM)samhain Wrote: I get that Jonah is playing for a contract, but this team is trying to win a title.  They're as close as they've been in their history.  That's a bit more important to me than Jonah's next contract and whether or not he gets paid like a left tackle.

On the upside, though, if Williams doesn't play his ass off this year, he's going to find himself in the same position as Isaiah Wynn.  He'll be a "capable" but not great tackle that has injury history.  If things don't improve from last season, he won't get close to the deal he's playing on now.  

Jonah is the luckiest player in Cincinnati.  He can be the most average to below average tackle in the league, and he still looks like gold after the Ogbuehi/Fisher nightmare.  The Bengals have been so bad at drafting tackles that they're petrified to lose a guy of Jonah's caliber.  Bad place to be when you're main focus is protecting a guy that will likely be the best player in the history of your franchise.

(03-11-2023, 12:30 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: I still feel Pollack needs to go.