(07-18-2025, 03:40 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: It is a step in the right direction. Hopefully she is given enough of a budget to make changes to keep the players better fed and thus, happier.

(08-03-2025, 02:11 PM)pally Wrote: from Ben Baby

When the NFLPA's annual team report cards were released in February, the Bengals were given an F- for treatment of families. Well, after Saturday's practice inside Paycor Stadium, a team cookout is scheduled for the team's players and their families. Whether teams will admit it, it appears the report cards are having their intended impact.

(06-24-2025, 10:49 AM)TJHoushmandzadeh Wrote: You’ll be crying when they decide to leave to a franchise who values them though.

The disappointing thing here is that this should be the low hanging fruit.

Enabling your players at eat heathily and at the right time seems like a win for the team. Making sure your players are focused on the game and not what some drunk Steeler fan is doing around their young kids or DeShaun Watson around their wife seems obvious.

Fixing the locker room was a much harder thing to organize.

All in all it smacks of the Bengals again lacking the bandwidth to tackle multiple issues simultaneously.

(08-04-2025, 10:47 AM)Sled21 Wrote: These NFL players, and I'm talking across the league, are never going to be happy and will always want more and more free, while fans keep getting screwed with ticket prices, NFL Sunday Ticket prices, and everything else that keeps going up. The Ravens just added a huge swimming pool to their training facility for the players to use. Their response? They complained half of them can't swim and want the team to bring in Olympic Legend Michael Phelps to come in and give them swimming lessons.  You could give them the moon, and they's complain it's not Mars.

(08-04-2025, 10:47 AM)Sled21 Wrote: These NFL players, and I'm talking across the league, are never going to be happy and will always want more and more free, while fans keep getting screwed with ticket prices, NFL Sunday Ticket prices, and everything else that keeps going up. The Ravens just added a huge swimming pool to their training facility for the players to use. Their response? They complained half of them can't swim and want the team to bring in Olympic Legend Michael Phelps to come in and give them swimming lessons.  You could give them the moon, and they's complain it's not Mars.

(08-04-2025, 02:07 PM)Tomkat Wrote: Keep in mind that even if every team was fairly equal in these categories... one team would still come in #1, and one team would still come in #32

(08-04-2025, 01:44 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: I responded to this in your other thread on the topic but no they didn't. They made a fun video saying 1 in 3 of them could not swim and even mentioned at the end of the video that it was a beautiful aquatic center.

https://swimswam.com/the-baltimore-ravens-ask-michael-phelps-for-a-swim-lesson-and-he-says-yes/

The part about wanting Phelps to help them learn appears to be true.  That makes sense as he is not only an amazing swimmer but from Baltimore.  :)


More references including NFL.com:
https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-players-seek-swimming-lessons-from-olympian-baltimore-native-michael-phelps
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45864313/ravens-employ-olympian-michael-phelps-teach-swim
https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/ravens-michael-phelps-teach-to-swim-olympian-2025

I'm not sure why you keep posting this misinformation. 

(08-04-2025, 01:44 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: I responded to this in your other thread on the topic but no they didn't. They made a fun video saying 1 in 3 of them could not swim and even mentioned at the end of the video that it was a beautiful aquatic center.

https://swimswam.com/the-baltimore-ravens-ask-michael-phelps-for-a-swim-lesson-and-he-says-yes/

The part about wanting Phelps to help them learn appears to be true.  That makes sense as he is not only an amazing swimmer but from Baltimore.  :)


More references including NFL.com:
https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-players-seek-swimming-lessons-from-olympian-baltimore-native-michael-phelps
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45864313/ravens-employ-olympian-michael-phelps-teach-swim
https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/ravens-michael-phelps-teach-to-swim-olympian-2025

I'm not sure why you keep posting this misinformation. 

(08-04-2025, 02:41 PM)J24 Wrote: Why are you mad at the players and not the owners? 

The owners are the one who fought tooth and nail for the Sunday Ticket too be so expensive,(youtube wanted it a lot cheaper) the owners are the ones that sell tickets at an extreme price, as well as team merchandise.

(08-04-2025, 03:58 PM)Sled2 Wrote: This was talked about on NFL radio. The FO took it in the direction of making it fun, but initially the players were complaining.

(08-04-2025, 04:00 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Which goes hand in hand with the salary cap increasing every year to the point player's salaries are totally ridiculous. And, fwiw, I'm not "mad" about Sunday Ticket prices because I never buy it.

(08-04-2025, 04:03 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: Do you have a single legitimate source to back that up?  When I did searches for things like "Ravens players complain about swimming pool," I can't find an article that confirms this.  Rather odd that a major source like NFL radio would have mentioned that and not one other news source picked up on it.  It seems like the exact thing places like NBC with Florio and others that love to spin drama for clicks and views would have chimed in on. 

I don't know but like mentioned in the other thread maybe you just misinterpreted what you heard or recalled it wrong?  Or out of fairness I'm completely wrong and just can't find sources confirming it. In that case I'll apologize for questioning your posts about this. 

(08-04-2025, 06:40 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: If the owners today decided they were happy with $20 tickets, $2 beers, $50 Sunday Ticket, 16 games a year, etc... the salary cap wouldn't increase and would actually shrink and you'd find player salaries also coming back down. 

Player salaries are only increasing because the owners keep finding and implementing ways to make more and more money from us and other companies (which is ultimately also from us). The players don't control how much money the NFL charges us, that's the owners. The players just get their negotiated share of whatever that number is, regardless if it's $1b or $20b.

(Yesterday, 08:19 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Nope, I just know that I have been listening to Jim Miller and Pat Kirwin for years, and they are rarely wrong when it comes to NFL happening.

(Yesterday, 08:20 AM)Sled21 Wrote: That's what I said... and the more they get, the more they want.

(Yesterday, 10:01 AM)George Cantstandya Wrote: Thanks. So we just have to take your word for it.    :)

(Yesterday, 10:05 AM)George Cantstandya Wrote: So you would prefer the billions the NFL earns to go almost entirely to the owners and let the players get paid say a few hundred thousand a year?