Free agent predictions

[Essex Johnson]

(03-10-2025, 10:26 AM)Ell Prez Wrote: Does anyone see a realistic path to being a Super Bowl  contender next year? As someone else said, at best our offense is the exact same just 3x more expensive. Which means we don’t have money to fix the defense. So many holes. We need better LB, 2-3 DE depending on Hendrickson, DT, better CB, better S maybe even 2 S.

I fully expect the bengals to sit on their hands and sign a B level player, 1 C and 2D. I mean this by timing, like the first guys signed are A. We’ll jump in at the second wave and third, and then the last wave of players we’ll grab a couple. It won’t push the team forward, we’ll all get hyped over the draft, and come game opener when we can’t stop the run or pass again, it won’t matter.

I hate being so pessimistic but this team does it to me

The trend has been different, we have signed players last three years on 1st and 2nd days... like any team not all signing works out and we dont always agree with the signings but this Free agency we had under Marvin Lewis... times have changed with bengals and free agency.  Go back and find a 3 year period where we have been this active in FA.