(03-11-2025, 10:41 AM)CJD Wrote: Any time a fan base of a team mourns a player leaving in free agency to join our team, it makes me feel like the signing was good.

The worst is when you go look and they are celebrating someone finally taking a player off their hands. That's a horrible sign haha.

(03-12-2025, 01:46 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Nick Scott.

Yeah. Eagles fans are sad to lose Burks and Packers fans the same with Slaton. Good signs..

Now lets get 2 guards: Jenkins + Zeitler/Scherff/Becton.

(03-12-2025, 10:39 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Freakin Zeitler is 35 years old. He played in leather helmets for crying out loud....  Now Becton, on the other hand, is only 25

(03-12-2025, 10:41 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: There was this guy named Andrew Whittworth who played extremely well at 35 years old. Have you heard of him?

I am not saying he is my 1st choice, but at 35 still better than Cappa, Ford and Volson.

(03-12-2025, 10:45 AM)Sled21 Wrote: And what pray tell makes Andrew Whitworth playing as well as he did at 35 a thing? Hint: It's how rare that is. I wasn't big on giving a long contract to Whit due to his age, and the same goes for Zeitler. Father time is unbeaten. Whit pushed it back about as well as anyone, but even he gave it up. Guard is a much more violent position to play than Tackle as well. 

(03-12-2025, 10:39 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Freakin Zeitler is 35 years old. He played in leather helmets for crying out loud....  Now Becton, on the other hand, is only 25

(03-12-2025, 01:53 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Absent big 3 deals and/or a Burrow reatructure, we cannot go big at both G spots. We could go big at one spot and moderate at the other. If we go big on Becton, who is LG? 

On the other hand, if we go big at LG (Jenkins), we can sign a moderately priced vet at RG who is still a Cappa upgrade. 

I'll take Jenkins + Zeitler/Scherff over Becton + ???.

Ideally, Jenkins + Becton would be my preference. But Zeitler/Scherff buys us a year or two to draft a good/young/cheap RG for the future. I don't see us investing big money at both G spits long term.

PFF grades: 

Player, Snaps, Overall, Pass Pro, Run block
Zeitler: 1,047; 86.8, 71.8, 87.2 
Becton: 903, 75.2, 63.6, 74.7 
Jenkins: 738, 75.4, 75.8, 74.3 
Scherff: 1,013; 64.7, 74.5, 57.3

If we fix both G spots, we don't have any pressing needs on O. Though I would not be upset with a stud TE (Warren, Loveland), a decent one (Ferguson), a stud/good RB (Jeanty, Hampton, Skattebo, Simpson), a good WR3 (Tez Johnson, Nash, the kid for Iowa State or TCU), or some OL depth, we do not NEED it. 

DT who can rush the passer, DE, a S and we go from there.

(03-12-2025, 10:39 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Freakin Zeitler is 35 years old. He played in leather helmets for crying out loud....  Now Becton, on the other hand, is only 25

(03-12-2025, 11:08 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Tackle is different than Guard. But yes...Zeitler will have risk of decline soon. Prefer Becton or Jenkins.

(03-12-2025, 03:53 PM)Housh Wrote: Slayton is so bad at everything else but run defense it’s basically gonna be a dead giveaway when he’s in


If i were a team id pass every play Slayton was in. Hes almost horrible at everything else a DT does

(03-12-2025, 03:52 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: As I said, Zeitler is not my first choice. However if he would sign for say 1 year at 3 miilion or less with no guaranteed money, we could still go after Jenkins or Becton. Then draft Zeitler's replacement in round of the draft. The rookie could learn and compete against a very good vet.

(03-12-2025, 03:57 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: PFF ranked him bad at run defense too.

He had a lot of missed tackles.

(03-13-2025, 05:13 PM)pally Wrote: When asked what he thinks his role will be here in Cincinnati, he responded that he was pretty sure it was to stop the run.  At least he got that memo