Let the cuts begin

[007BengalsFan]

(08-27-2023, 08:11 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Collins won't make the 53, he will be PUP. 

Carman (LT) & Scharping (G/C) will be the primary backups. Then it is: 

1. Do you keep 9 or 10? 

I go with 9. There are more deserving players who can actually help us at other spots: RB, WR, DE, DT, & S. Maybe CB & TE, too. 

2. Whom do you pick for the last IOL spit? Hill or Ford? 

3. Whom do you pick for the last OT spot? Smith, Adeniji, or Ford?  

4. If Ford is the answer on both, we could try to carry 8 until Collins is ready.   

I just think all those choices are mediocre/PS level guys. If we lose one, I am mot THAT upset. 

Ford is a vested vet and will not have to clear waivers. An handshake deal for him to make the PS & get called up if someone (Ossai, Smith) gets IR'd eould make a ton of sense. 

1)  I would say 9 and keep some O-line guys like Ben Brown on the practice squad in case.

2)  Ford is the worst lineman we have so he needs to go.  With Scharping showing he can play Center as well as Guard, Hill is expendable filling the same role as Scharping but worse.  Also, when you look at Hill's PFF grade this preseason, it's horrible.  He had a worse PFF grade than Kirkland.  Time to move on from Hill.  

3)  Adeniji as backup RT, Carman as backup LT.  Smith can look good at times, bad at times and then gets hurt.  I would cut Smith & maybe sign him to the PS.

4)  Ford is horrible.  We can find someone better on the waiver wire.

Right now I would go with Brown, Volson, Karras, Cappa and Williams with Carman, Adeniji and Scharping as backups.  Pickup 1 or 2 guys from the waiver wire or just roll with Ben Brown as your 9th O lineman.