(03-24-2020, 01:37 AM)JerseyDD09 Wrote: why wouldn't this be a thread???

Paul Dehner covers the Bengals and even he threw out the notion.
And, supposedly Price has already been a player the Bengals have been trying to shop.
So, this may seem like a perfect scenerio for that.
He's not the starter at Center; and, we can all see that he's best suited at Center as opposed to either Guard position.
The Bengals are looking for draft picks so here's an opportunity.

(03-23-2020, 08:59 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Dallas ain’t going after an unproven Price. Mike Brown don’t own the Cowboys. They would try their chances in the draft before risking anything on Billy.

(03-23-2020, 07:40 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: That's a dumb trade anyway. Trading Price still costs us 3.3 million in cap space and doesn't take any money off the books.

We lose depth on the inside (albeit, likely bad depth) and won't see any benefit until next off season (conditional pick implies it is based on his 2020 performance)

I'd rather we keep Price and see if he does anything in his third year than trade him for 2021 peanuts. If we're going to trade him, it needs to be in the 2020 draft and needs to be higher than a 6th round pick, to compensate for the cost of his contract.

That likely won't be offered, so we have no reason to trade him (or cut him).

(03-24-2020, 10:15 AM)BenZoo2 Wrote: Wasn’t price starting to play fairly good at guard down the stretch last year? Maybe the light bulb finally came on or he got fully healthy. I’d give him one more year to prove it.

If the coaches aren’t sold on him then take what you can and move on


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(03-23-2020, 11:06 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: And we needed a Center terribly bad, no one could see him playing this bad after his tape IMO.

I watched Price just doze D-lineman at OSU and he is very smart. Thought he could be a very good Center or Guard in the NFL.

Just goes to show you that players never end up like you think they would.

Still hoping he can turn it around.

(03-24-2020, 12:19 PM)bengals67 Wrote: someone who knows football better than me please comment.

I see al the statements on Price having short arms.

But when I watched him, his reaction time seemed to be incredibly slow. Defenders just blowing by him.

I not an expert but he looks like one of the worse lineman we have ever had and that is saying something.

The center we all dumped on who went to the Bills seemed to me to be a better than Price- and my memory of him was him getting picked up and literally thrown into Andy's face by the bigger nose tackles.

I don't know how they could miss so badly on Price and the two tackles we took in the same year. Truly three major setbacks.

(03-24-2020, 12:48 PM)Whatever Wrote: Price has said in interviews that OSU runs a simple offense and he's had trouble learning the Bengals offense.  Guys who aren't sure of their assignments tend to play tentatively and look slow on the field. 

He had a lot of other issues coming out of college.  His technique is absolutely atrocious and scouts were concerned about fixing it due to his bad habits being ingrained in his muscle memory for too long.  He's also apparently a difficult personality to deal with, so there were concerns about how coachable he is.

He had great power in college, but that's basically it.  To use a baseball term, he's a one tool player.  Now he's in the NFL against guys with years in NFL weight rooms and he can't just overpower guys anymore.

(03-24-2020, 01:30 PM)McC Wrote: Didn't know about the difficult  personality issue.   Does that mean he's a doosh or a weird bird?

(03-24-2020, 02:29 PM)Whatever Wrote: "Can be a challenging personality to deal with according to scouts"is the blurb from his combine profile.  Hard to say what the actual rub is, but when scouts are saying he's tough to deal with and the guy has lousey technique, it seems like he's a guy that just doesn't want to listen.  That's speculation, though.

(03-24-2020, 12:48 PM)Whatever Wrote: Price has said in interviews that OSU runs a simple offense and he's had trouble learning the Bengals offense.  Guys who aren't sure of their assignments tend to play tentatively and look slow on the field. 

He had a lot of other issues coming out of college.  His technique is absolutely atrocious and scouts were concerned about fixing it due to his bad habits being ingrained in his muscle memory for too long.  He's also apparently a difficult personality to deal with, so there were concerns about how coachable he is.

He had great power in college, but that's basically it.  To use a baseball term, he's a one tool player.  Now he's in the NFL against guys with years in NFL weight rooms and he can't just overpower guys anymore.