(02-08-2021, 02:12 PM)Okeana Wrote: if you draft well and utilize free agency correctly then you win superbowls.

Oh and don't backflip and throw up peace signs in a regular-season game vs a team you could see in the Superbowl.

(02-08-2021, 02:59 PM)BrownAssClown Wrote: When I saw Mahomes taking snaps and instantly running for his life I was like,"Hmmm, where have I seen this before?" Mahomes is one of the best QB's in the NFL, yet looked horrible behind that line with 2 backups starting. That Tampa Bay Dline would kill Burrow with our current Oline, let's hope we address that weakness in FA and the draft.

(02-08-2021, 05:14 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Which makes what Burrow accomplished with 5 backups starting even more amazing.

(02-08-2021, 09:54 AM)Bengalitis Wrote: Andy Reid's sons have been a mess since they've played with drugs & alcohol. This last incident with the children hurt probably affected the team more than Brady and Co. probably did.

"A Kansas City Police Department officer said Reid's eyes were bloodshot and that the officer smelled "a moderate odor of alcoholic beverages," according to a police officer statement obtained by ESPN. The statement went on to say Reid told the officer that he had two to three drinks and that he also took prescription Adderall."

(02-08-2021, 12:57 PM)TJHoushmandzadeh Wrote: Using Pro Football Reference
Tampa Bay's O starters*

TB 1st round picks 2
TB 2nd round picks 3
TB 3rd round picks 2
Other teams' 2nd round picks 1
Other teams' 6th round picks 2

Tampa Bay's D starters
TB 1st round picks 1
TB 2nd round picks 4
TB 4th round picks 2
Other team's UDFA 1
Other team's 1st round picks 2
Other team's 6th round picks 1



Buc's 1st round picks 3 - 2014, 2019, 2020
Buc's 2nd round picks 7 -  2012, 2015, 2015, 2018, 2018, 2019, 2020
Buc's 3rd round picks 2 - 2017, 2018
Buc's 4th round picks 2 - 2013, 2018

Seems a vindication of building through the draft - those 7 second round picks in particular.

How does that compare to the Bengals? We're likely to have 3 starters who we drafted in the first round next season (at least before our first round pick's season is ended early by injury). Higgins, Boyd, Mixon, Bates, the 2021 2nd round pick and maybe Sample are all 2nd round picks. Dunlap would have been the 7th if he hadn't have been traded.
Hubbard and Logan Wilson are 3rd round starters.
Geno and Lawson (if both are still here) would be 4th round starters. If they don't maybe two of Wren/Davis-Gaither and Jordan start.

The Bucs had two former first round picks of other teams - the Bengals have one in Trae Waynes - and two other teams' second round picks - the Bengals have Vonn Bell and XSF (Mackensie Alexander was a third last year).

So sign a former first rounder (Scherff?), re-sign Lawson, keep Geno, sign some former 6th rounders in free agency then draft starters in the first and second including trade back into the second round for a second second rounder and the Bengals should be good to go all the way....

*Yes it was impressive that they won a SB with only 10

(02-08-2021, 05:14 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Which makes what Burrow accomplished with 5 backups starting even more amazing.

(02-08-2021, 02:23 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Yeah, then again a gameplan of Mahommes throwing the ball all over the place to guys like Kelce and Hill usually pays off, too.  

The craziest thing is that the Bucs won a SB 5 years after busting on a #1 overall QB pick...that's impressive. 

(02-08-2021, 09:54 AM)Bengalitis Wrote: Andy Reid's sons have been a mess since they've played with drugs & alcohol. This last incident with the children hurt probably affected the team more than Brady and Co. probably did.

(02-08-2021, 12:32 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote:

congrats to anyone curious what Mahomes would look like playing for the Bengals

— Gregg Rosenthal (@greggrosenthal) February 8, 2021

Some well deserved shade thrown our way, but the first thing I think is that should tell everyone just how good Burrow is...

(02-08-2021, 12:26 AM)Joelist Wrote: Tampa just throttled the Chiefs and it was built on both lines. Yes Brady was Brady but Tampa's OL dominated KCs DL and Tampas DL embarrassed the Chiefs OL. Brady had time to throw and the Bucs ran effectively while Mahomes was running for his life all night and the Chiefs while getting a couple of splash run plays overall were not running effectively.

You also saw what a good Defensive Coordinator can do as the Bucs defensive game plan was superb. They took away the big explosive plays and made the Chiefs play methodically, which with the dominant Tampa DL was suicide.

Will the Bengals take any notes from this?

ehhhhh.......

(02-09-2021, 01:37 AM)BengalChris Wrote: Mike Brown ...  Learn ... Lesson ...

Those are words that just don't go together.

And now Mike and family and friends have a head coach that's just like them. Knows everything, yet fails utterly, only to return to knows everything, nothing to learn here.

 

(02-08-2021, 12:26 AM)Joelist Wrote: Tampa just throttled the Chiefs and it was built on both lines. Yes Brady was Brady but Tampa's OL dominated KCs DL and Tampas DL embarrassed the Chiefs OL. Brady had time to throw and the Bucs ran effectively while Mahomes was running for his life all night and the Chiefs while getting a couple of splash run plays overall were not running effectively.

You also saw what a good Defensive Coordinator can do as the Bucs defensive game plan was superb. They took away the big explosive plays and made the Chiefs play methodically, which with the dominant Tampa DL was suicide.

Will the Bengals take any notes from this?

ehhhhh.......

(02-10-2021, 11:06 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: well its not Mike brown

Its the blackburns and paul brown running things with a little tobin on the side