Bengals Related News & Notes

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Dont be surprised when Bates shows up inactive this week. He got popped, almost knocked out on that last play.

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Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet)
The #Bengals are signing RB Elijah Holyfield, son of Evander, to their practice squad, source said.

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Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals)
Roster Update: We've cleared DE Khalid Kareem to return to practice by designating him for return from the Reserve/Injured list.

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Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals)
Roster Update: We've cleared DE Khalid Kareem to return to practice by designating him for return from the Reserve/Injured list.

That’s huge news for our pass rush

[Joe Bananas]

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Roster Update: We've acquired CB Tre Flowers on waivers from the Seattle Seahawks.

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Roster Update: We've acquired CB Tre Flowers on waivers from the Seattle Seahawks.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals)
Roster Update: We've returned G Jackson Carman to the active roster from the Reserve/COVID-19 list.

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Roster Update: We've acquired CB Tre Flowers on waivers from the Seattle Seahawks.

I mean, he's got to be better than Eli Apple right?

Looking at PFF, his scores aren't very impressive.

His rookie season was his high with 62.9. Since then he had a 53.9 (with two sacks and three interceptions) and a 54.4 (with no sacks and no interceptions) He's never had a pass coverage grade higher than 56.5.

He wasn't well liked in Seattle. Hopefully a change of scenery is what he needs. I'm glad we grabbed him. You're not going to get All pro players off of waivers in October. Like I said, he can't be worse than Eli Apple.

Here's a little take from Seattle with the headline "Seahawks releasing Tre Flowers solves absolutely nothing"

The Seahawks released cornerback Tre Flowers per his request on Tuesday. Flowers was not good but he wasn’t the only issue in Seattle. 12s seemingly loved to dislike Flowers more and more since his rookie year and maybe rightfully so, but while Flowers didn’t cover well, he was also coached poorly.

Let’s remember how much hope we had after his rookie year of 2018. This was when Flowers played opposite Shaquill Griffin (we miss you, Shaq!) and as the season wore on Flowers was better and better. For someone who had not played cornerback since forever – Flowers was a safety in college and the Seahawks thought wise, because of Flowers’ size, to make him a corner in the NFL – Flowers was really good in his rookie year.

After 2018, Flowers wasn’t good. But he also had Ken Norton, Jr. as coach of the defense and a revolving door of defensive backs coaching. Deshawn Shead is the DB coach in 2021 but he is also in his first year of coaching. This isn’t like when Kris Richard was the DBs coach (and a great one) before becoming the defensive coordinator for Seattle.

Norton, Jr. doesn’t know how to coach the defense overall and really doesn’t know anything about cornerbacks. Maybe Shead does but he is learning his way as a coach. Before Shead, Nick Sorensen was Flowers DB coach. Before becoming a DB coach, Sorensen coached Seattle’s special teams. Not exactly a step one should take special teams to DBs.

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BENGALS TALK 🗣 (@BengalsTalk)
#Bengals to Place D'Ante Smith on Injured Reserve With Knee Injury.

[Joe Bananas]

This past weekend was officially Burrows 16th game as a Bengals. A full season if you will, in my opinion.

Here are is stats

Yards - 4228
Tds - 27
Ints - 12
Rating- 95.3
Percentage- 67


Not bad for a "rookie"

Knowing Burrow and his work ethic and smarts he's only going to get better and better.