(01-03-2024, 11:07 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Man, how absence makes the heart grow fonder. Everybody missing Bates, Bell, Perine and Apple.
When Jesse Bates was here all we heard was he was overpaid and missed too many tackles. During his "head funk" period people were lining up to pull the gallows lever.
Bell will always have a place in my heart for his hit on Shit Schuster that set the tone and put the league on notice that this wasn't your daddy's Bengals. I really wanted him re-signed, but I clearly remember a lot of "He's getting too old" comments.
And Apple, despite his high level of play, more people wanted him gone than Covid.
Perine? Another of my favorites, but there were clearly people after his head for not making a diving catch during the Super Bowl.  
But now the team is a bunch of idiots for letting them go.
Of the bunch, if it were up to me and I had to let one go, it would have been Bates, because he did not always play up to his ability. Playoff Jesse and Regular Season Jesse weren't even close to the same player. And that tells me he wasn't giving 100% during the regular season.

Dax Hill will be better than Bates IMO. Give the kid some time, it's just his 2nd year and he was playing numerous positions his first year. Battle will come on strong I think. Chase Brown appears to be the real deal and can break a long run at any given moment he is given the ball. CTB and Awuzie > Apple and Awuzie.

The future is bright.

(12-31-2023, 11:56 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: Just wait for the Browns to make the superbowl and lose, they will know pain. Otherwise the Ravens are going to eat them alive, NFL won't let a healthy lamar lose to a flacco led Browns team IMO.

(01-03-2024, 11:07 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Man, how absence makes the heart grow fonder. Everybody missing Bates, Bell, Perine and Apple.
When Jesse Bates was here all we heard was he was overpaid and missed too many tackles. During his "head funk" period people were lining up to pull the gallows lever.
Bell will always have a place in my heart for his hit on Shit Schuster that set the tone and put the league on notice that this wasn't your daddy's Bengals. I really wanted him re-signed, but I clearly remember a lot of "He's getting too old" comments.
And Apple, despite his high level of play, more people wanted him gone than Covid.
Perine? Another of my favorites, but there were clearly people after his head for not making a diving catch during the Super Bowl.  
But now the team is a bunch of idiots for letting them go.
Of the bunch, if it were up to me and I had to let one go, it would have been Bates, because he did not always play up to his ability. Playoff Jesse and Regular Season Jesse weren't even close to the same player. And that tells me he wasn't giving 100% during the regular season.

Dax Hill will be better than Bates IMO. Give the kid some time, it's just his 2nd year and he was playing numerous positions his first year. Battle will come on strong I think. Chase Brown appears to be the real deal and can break a long run at any given moment he is given the ball. CTB and Awuzie > Apple and Awuzie.

The future is bright.

(01-03-2024, 01:32 PM)BengalYankee Wrote: Are you insunuating the NFL is rigged? 

If so see ... 

The NFL is rigged (thebengalsboard.com)

(12-31-2023, 11:56 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: Just wait for the Browns to make the superbowl and lose, they will know pain. Otherwise the Ravens are going to eat them alive, NFL won't let a healthy lamar lose to a flacco led Browns team IMO.

(12-31-2023, 10:52 PM)Emphasis Wrote: Does anyone actually think he's a viable candidate to be head coach for another team?

I'm not calling for him to get purged, but this defense overall did not have a good showing this season.

(12-31-2023, 11:33 PM)Synric Wrote: You know... Ive been wondering for a year or so now are you GMDino? You post like Dino lol. It might be the Budweiser but I would put a couple Benjamin's on it lol. 

(01-03-2024, 10:35 AM)Wyche Wrote: Wow, lol. Thanks for the numbers. 3.4 is really bad, not that ours is great, but damn.



That makes a ton of sense. Agree on guys like Nick Scott. If you're going to sign someone to fill that vet role, they need to at least be decent. Just speculating, but I don't think they thought Bell would leave, and got caught with their pants down there. They had to scramble to find someone.

(01-03-2024, 11:58 PM)Bengal Dude Wrote: Apparently they offered Bell a 2 year deal, but no idea on the money. Of all the free agents, I thought Bell was the guaranteed lock to return to the team. I wouldn't be surprised if the Bengals go a little harder in the safety market this offseason.

(01-03-2024, 11:24 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I don't think we scored a single point in the 2nd half after scoring what 17 1st half points? That's the reason we lost.

Had we moved the ball better, the defense looks better too.

(01-04-2024, 12:51 AM)007BengalsFan Wrote: Thats been part of the problem most of the year especially early in the season.  Offense struggles and people expect the defense to work miracles and blame the defense.  The offense laid an egg in the second half against K.C.  The offense scored just 11 points the week before against Pittsburgh. The Bengals scoring offense is currently ranked #20.  The scoring defense is ranked #21.  People are crazy to keep blaming the defense when the offense isnt any better and is part of the reason for the struggles on defense.  If you are going to weaken the defense by getting rid of talent like Apple, Bell, Bates so you can keep dumping money into the offense, the offense needs to step up and get their act together. 

(01-04-2024, 12:57 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: The offense struggled some with Burrow healthy too.

People will blame missing playoffs on his injury, but the slow start to the season killed us equally.

(01-04-2024, 01:21 AM)007BengalsFan Wrote: Yes it did.  I dont know why people blame the defense when Bengals management let Apple, Bell and Bates walk and they dropped to the #21 scoring defense.   The defense at least has an excuse.  On Offense they add even more talent with Orlando Brown Jr. now part of the tremendous talent they already have on offense and the offense drops to #20 in scoring yet people want to blame the defense.  You cant keep expecting Lou and the defense to bail out the offense when the Bengals have made the decision to let talent leave from the defense so they can spend the money on offense

(01-04-2024, 12:57 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: The offense struggled some with Burrow healthy too.

People will blame missing playoffs on his injury, but the slow start to the season killed us equally.

(01-04-2024, 09:41 AM)Sled21 Wrote: You mean when he was playing injured??? Face it, without Burrow's calf injury hindering him at the beginning of the season, or losing him altogether on the back end of the season, we would be right in the playoff mix. Shit happens, reload and come back stronger next year.

(01-04-2024, 12:06 AM)The D.O.Z. Wrote: I'm not so sure they sign a FA safety this off-season. Maybe if they cut Nick Scott. But they have Tycen coming back from injury, Dax, and Battle. Maybe a late-ish draft pick?

Hopefully Hill and Battle show improvement come OTAs and eventually TC. Would also not be opposed to Dax moving to nickel / dime CB and signing a true FS that can play single-high without all the brain farts and bad angles.

(01-04-2024, 01:21 AM)007BengalsFan Wrote: Yes it did.  I dont know why people blame the defense when Bengals management let Apple, Bell and Bates walk and they dropped to the #21 scoring defense.   The defense at least has an excuse.  On Offense they add even more talent with Orlando Brown Jr. now part of the tremendous talent they already have on offense and the offense drops to #20 in scoring yet people want to blame the defense.  You cant keep expecting Lou and the defense to bail out the offense when the Bengals have made the decision to let talent leave from the defense so they can spend the money on offense

(01-04-2024, 01:00 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: which brings up the question why was he starting those early games.

(01-04-2024, 01:29 PM)casear2727 Wrote: No way they trust Tycen as a FS yet.  Im sure Dax would excel at NCB, but very likely wont be in 2024, Hilton is too valuable, but in 2025 I can definitely see it.