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MeatHeadbengal wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:32 am

stripesincarolina wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:52 pm

Twitter is ablaze tonight with fears we just screwed up RT, NT and soon to be WR if Higgins decides to sit. Not feeling to good about this myself honestly. Need to resolve one of these three issues before the draft. If Tart doesnt sign I really think the Bengals go fishing with draft picks for a top tier run stopper. Seeing Derrick Brown from the Panthers being thrown around a lot.

We'll see, but if Tart isnt at Jeff Rubys pounding a couple ribeyes right now we're in trouble.

You answered your self with the first word "twitter". Twitter isn't reality, Higgins isn't going to sit so stop worrying about that, see Le,veon Bell. Secondly neither of those guys that visited yesterday were long term answers at NT or RT. The Bengals have been making really good decisions in FA over the past years, there's an entire thread on it. We need to have a little faith and not get wrapped up in the emotion of the moment!

In business and making deals the person that wants it the most losses..

stripesincarolina wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:36 pm

MeatHeadbengal wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:32 am

stripesincarolina wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:52 pm

Twitter is ablaze tonight with fears we just screwed up RT, NT and soon to be WR if Higgins decides to sit. Not feeling to good about this myself honestly. Need to resolve one of these three issues before the draft. If Tart doesnt sign I really think the Bengals go fishing with draft picks for a top tier run stopper. Seeing Derrick Brown from the Panthers being thrown around a lot.

We'll see, but if Tart isnt at Jeff Rubys pounding a couple ribeyes right now we're in trouble.

You answered your self with the first word "twitter". Twitter isn't reality, Higgins isn't going to sit so stop worrying about that, see Le,veon Bell. Secondly neither of those guys that visited yesterday were long term answers at NT or RT. The Bengals have been making really good decisions in FA over the past years, there's an entire thread on it. We need to have a little faith and not get wrapped up in the emotion of the moment!

In business and making deals the person that wants it the most losses..

Meat, you are probably looking at $20mm-$30mm in guaranteed money if he plays under the tag and gets a career ending injury. He'll sit. Bank on it. He gets paid to sit and not get injured. 31 teams in the NFL would love to have him. He'll sit. Let me say that again from his agents perspective.....HE'LL SIT. Do you think Burrow would be playing right now without his guaranteed money?? No freaking way!! I vehemently disagree with these games, tactics, whatever you want to call them. But the bottom line is you sit for $20-$30mm and dont get injured. Its the world we live in.

Steelers acquired QB Justin Fields from the Bears in exchange for a conditional 2025 sixth-round pick.

The 2025 sixth-round pick can become a fourth-round pick if Fields hits certain playing time marks. The former first-round pick struggled to find much of a market during the first week of free agency but now has a chance to backup Russell Wilson in Pittsburgh following the trade of Kenny Pickett. According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, Wilson is the Steelers’ starter, but it wouldn’t be surprising to see Fields get a crack at the starting gig at some point in the year. As far as their long-term futures as starting quarterbacks are concerned, both Wilson and Fields have something to prove in this upcoming season, and the Steelers, who often play themselves out of a top draft pick for a quarterback, are desperately in need of a long-term solution at the position. We are a long way from drawing any definite conclusions on how this situation could shape up, but Fields now gets a chance to turn things around with a new team, while the Bears have all but guaranteed they will take Caleb Williams with the 1.01 in next month’s draft.

Transaction 16m ago
Source: Ian Rapoport

stripesincarolina wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:36 pm

MeatHeadbengal wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:32 am

stripesincarolina wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:52 pm

Twitter is ablaze tonight with fears we just screwed up RT, NT and soon to be WR if Higgins decides to sit. Not feeling to good about this myself honestly. Need to resolve one of these three issues before the draft. If Tart doesnt sign I really think the Bengals go fishing with draft picks for a top tier run stopper. Seeing Derrick Brown from the Panthers being thrown around a lot.

We'll see, but if Tart isnt at Jeff Rubys pounding a couple ribeyes right now we're in trouble.

You answered your self with the first word "twitter". Twitter isn't reality, Higgins isn't going to sit so stop worrying about that, see Le,veon Bell. Secondly neither of those guys that visited yesterday were long term answers at NT or RT. The Bengals have been making really good decisions in FA over the past years, there's an entire thread on it. We need to have a little faith and not get wrapped up in the emotion of the moment!

In business and making deals the person that wants it the most losses..

Meat, you are probably looking at $20mm-$30mm in guaranteed money if he plays under the tag and gets a career ending injury. He'll sit. Bank on it. He gets paid to sit and not get injured. 31 teams in the NFL would love to have him. He'll sit. Let me say that again from his agents perspective.....HE'LL SIT. Do you think Burrow would be playing right now without his guaranteed money?? No freaking way!! I vehemently disagree with these games, tactics, whatever you want to call them. But the bottom line is you sit for $20-$30mm and dont get injured. Its the world we live in.

Bengals1 wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:10 pm

Teth-Adam@DCRezz
My bona fides when it comes to criticizing the Bengals organization for failing to leverage cash spending relative to other organizations is unimpeachable I think, so you know I’m not carrying water for folks when I say this, but there have been some preposterous overreactions to this off-season on this site lol. They’ve lost precisely one player that anyone on here should’ve wanted to retain (Reader), and even that loss was directly mitigated by the Rankins acquisition (not in terms of role of course, but in terms of accretive value).

There’s still more work to be done of course and I reserve the right to downgrade the off-season if they don’t do things like sign Tart, a competent tackle option and if they don’t bring the Higgins situation to a positive conclusion, but we aren’t there yet. They’re still well positioned.

MeatHeadbengal wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:07 pm

Bengals1 wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:10 pm

Teth-Adam@DCRezz
My bona fides when it comes to criticizing the Bengals organization for failing to leverage cash spending relative to other organizations is unimpeachable I think, so you know I’m not carrying water for folks when I say this, but there have been some preposterous overreactions to this off-season on this site lol. They’ve lost precisely one player that anyone on here should’ve wanted to retain (Reader), and even that loss was directly mitigated by the Rankins acquisition (not in terms of role of course, but in terms of accretive value).

There’s still more work to be done of course and I reserve the right to downgrade the off-season if they don’t do things like sign Tart, a competent tackle option and if they don’t bring the Higgins situation to a positive conclusion, but we aren’t there yet. They’re still well positioned.

I agree with this, it seems some fans have put way too much emotion into this FA period and are extremely over reacting. As the article said in a different post the Bengals are almost batting 1.000 in recent past we have to just take a step back and let things play out.

Joe Bananas wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:14 pm

MeatHeadbengal wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:07 pm

Bengals1 wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:10 pm

Teth-Adam@DCRezz
My bona fides when it comes to criticizing the Bengals organization for failing to leverage cash spending relative to other organizations is unimpeachable I think, so you know I’m not carrying water for folks when I say this, but there have been some preposterous overreactions to this off-season on this site lol. They’ve lost precisely one player that anyone on here should’ve wanted to retain (Reader), and even that loss was directly mitigated by the Rankins acquisition (not in terms of role of course, but in terms of accretive value).

There’s still more work to be done of course and I reserve the right to downgrade the off-season if they don’t do things like sign Tart, a competent tackle option and if they don’t bring the Higgins situation to a positive conclusion, but we aren’t there yet. They’re still well positioned.

I agree with this, it seems some fans have put way too much emotion into this FA period and are extremely over reacting. As the article said in a different post the Bengals are almost batting 1.000 in recent past we have to just take a step back and let things play out.

But again, they had the money and so far, let me repeat, SO FAR....no one can sit here and say this team is any better than it was 2 months ago. Worse, not necessarily, depends on how you rank the players we've lost. For me, we're still a 9 or 10 win season team. But 2 months ago we were also a 9 or 10 win season team.