02-14-2025, 05:37 PM
(02-14-2025, 07:23 AM)Go Cards Wrote: It was a popular belief among many including myself that the last two season was when the SB window was wide open. You know before Tee and Chase are signed and take up a lot of cap space which made it the perfect time for the Bengals to go all in.
Joe is the one that quieted that talk by saying that the window is always going to be open as long as he is here. I agree with that per Joe is elite but it does not change the fact that the last couple years the chance was afforded to go all in while Tee, Chase, and Joe were all together. Don't see that working now unless Joe and Chase take less than market value to help pay Tee, or trade Tee and move on.
Tough decisions have to be made from this juncture forward because of salary cap imho. Still doable but much more of a chess game now
Well last season Joe got hurt so that window was closed as soon as that happened even if Browning was a pleasant surprise.
In the end coaching I believe was the biggest reason we didn't make a run the last couple of years, last year we made some bonehead moves
as well letting Reader go to the Lions, bringing in Rankins and Stone etc.
(02-14-2025, 02:53 PM)jason Wrote: Yep... people have been screaming trenches, trenches, trenches for years now. They address it every year and there haven't been great returns on investment. I can only conclude that they don't know how to fix it.
Scott Peters and Montgomery could help fix the trenches while we bring in some players...
(02-14-2025, 03:02 PM)puddycat Wrote: The Eagles will be paying Saquon 22 of the 37 million of his contract after his playing days are over. No thanks.
My frustration with the Bengals is the "if only" thinking. If only we had a great QB, of only we had a great WR, if only we had an elite pass rusher. Well they have all those things and they still aren't succeeding like they should. Well we would win "if only" our underperforming players played up to their potential, and "if only" no one gets injured, and "if only" the refs like us that day.
The Eagles thinking is "what and who puts us in the best position to win." We don't care who's getting paid, or who the 'best' players are. No one owes us, we don't need the refs to like us, and some of our players will get injured. We come up with a game plan every week to win.
A lot of these if only's could be on coaching. It just seemed only the elite talents were the ones that showed up in Joe, Ja'Marr and Trey.
If we can get some coaches that can coach up some players these if only's could come to fruition. Would be nice to have a game plan on Defense
other than get a 3 and out once late in a game or get a turnover which is what Lou seemed to rely on. From what I am hearing we will be seeing a
much more aggressive Defense under Al Golden.
