Jeremy Hill retires

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(05-25-2023, 09:21 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Well as long as you're looking at it with an open mind...

Perhaps it's just me, but:

I don't hate Billups for dropping the int

I don't hate Burfict for the blow on AB

I don't hate Ossai for the late hit 

I'll never hate a player for trying to make a play. Shit is going 1,000 miles an hour out there and nobody sitting behind a keyboard has any idea. 

It's my hope that now that he's officially retired after tearing up his knee and ankle for us, we invite him to be Ruler of the Jungle on game

LOL, OK.

I don't hate Billups and I've mostly forgiven him. I watched our second baseman drop an easy popup right in front of me which would have secured us a State High School/American Legion Championship and a flight to play in the US Western regionals. Instead it led to a rally and our season ended. I never really got along with him, but I never hated him. It did take me awhile to forgive him, though.

Burfict's hit should have never happened. He had just intercepted the ball and almost secured a win if Jeremy Hill has two hands on the ball, which, after re-watching the play, he never had two hands on the ball during the entire run until it was just slipping out of his grip.

I didn't like the Ossai pick the moment he was drafted. They spent a high third round draft pick on a backup DE when they needed o-line BADLY(Signed Hendrickson and then extended Hubbard shortly after the draft). All that they had secured in the off-season up to that point was Reilly Rieff and Jackson Carman a few hours earlier. Then he misses his entire rookie year and still misses time in his second year before making a very stupid play at the worst time. Meanwhile, lack of o-line depth hurt the Bengals. All Ossai is at this point is a poor man's Carl Lawson, who was drafted in the 4th round. Hate? No. Just another Bengals mistake pick that I just don't care too much about kind of like how most people feel about Drew Sample. Myles Murphy wouldn't have been drafted if they had more faith in their Ossai and Cam Sample mistakes.

And perhaps it's just me, but I never want to see Hill again and definitely not as Ruler Of The Jungle. As far as ex-players, there's 100's of them that I would pick before him for ROTJ. Seeing his childish tantrum on the sidelines on Inside The NFL three days after the fumble told me that I didn't want to see him anywhere near another Bengals player.
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