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Chrit

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Bengals need to blow things up.

There is no future when your offense needs to put up 35+ a game to even be in position to win.

Can't pay Burrow, Higgins, Chase, and Hendrickson and improve the defense at the same time.
 

Chrit

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OBJ isn't a top 20 left tackle. LMAO @ #5. Dude is absolute trash.
It was masked in Baltimore due to Lamar. You generally dont want to speed rush and possibly over-pursue. So OBJ rarely got exposed for having zero agility.

He was able to pretty much just anchor in and use his power... and then the run game was tailor made for a powerful linemen.
 

Rambo John J

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Bengals need to blow things up.

There is no future when your offense needs to put up 35+ a game to even be in position to win.

Can't pay Burrow, Higgins, Chase, and Hendrickson and improve the defense at the same time.
I didn't realize they were that bad on Defense
 

Hauler

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Yeah, watched the 40 yard Chase Brown TD highlight. He came out of that hole with some terrific burst!
He's a decent back. There just aren't usually many holes with that line.
 

Hauler

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How the fuck don't you have someone spying Fields when he ONLY comes in to run?
Bengals had a rookie out there.
I put that on the coaches. They should have told him "just keep him contained - don't even look at the RB"

But he bit the fake and Fields ran right around him. He looked like an absolute fool.
Same DB that got burned badly on the 4th down play for a TD. He played it as an out. WR ran right past him for the easiest TD of his life.
 

BruteDion

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The vibes are fine. The beginning of the season was fucked because of Chase being a bitch.

Literally every game but 1 has come down to a single play that would have turned an L to a W.
Their O-Line is suspect at best. But I knew that going into the season.
I had no idea their defense was going to be this fucking bad.

But you are correct. Lose this game and the season is over. And it certainly looks like they are heading for another loss.
Wilson might throw for 500 yards today. LOL. Pathetic.
You are being a homer here. It's far more that Chase.

It's their mistreatment of Higgins and Hendrickson. They were staight up disrespect to Higgins.

Add that to years of letting top talent walk because you cant pay them aint helping.
 

BruteDion

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What the Bengals need to do is to sell off part ownership to other people.

They are the mom&pop shop of the NFL. They just don't have to capital to compete with the other teams around the NFL.

They have the smallest FO and Scouting department in the NFL. They can't pay their talent and thats why they let players walk.
 

Hauler

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Bengals need to blow things up.

There is no future when your offense needs to put up 35+ a game to even be in position to win.

Can't pay Burrow, Higgins, Chase, and Hendrickson and improve the defense at the same time.
I don't know about blowing it up. Their DBs are very young - just need to decide if they'll get better. I'd definitely be firing some coaches because I saw ZERO improvement on the year.

You are correct that they can't pay them all. I've been saying that since Chase started all his shit at the beginning of this season.
Burrow is your only untouchable player. My assumption is they will sign Chase this off-season. They *could* tag Higgins for another year - but he won't like that one bit and I'd honestly like to see them spend some money elsewhere.

Hendrickson is technically signed through next year - but if he doesn't get anything long term I can see him make some "trade me" noise again.

The fact is they whiffed HUGE on Orlando Brown Jr.
That fat fuck is signed through 2026. But he's so bad you can't leave him out there. Maybe move his worthless ass to guard. I don't know. Unlike a younger player, fOBJ isn't going to get better and that's what's scary.
 

Hauler

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Holy shit at Andrews.
The rumors of his demise have been greatly exagerrated.

Tucker on the other hand...
WTF?
 

Chrit

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This is the first season where Lamar is throwing passes in positions for his receivers to make a play.

In the past, he'd have tucked that and ran... this season he's trusting his weapons to outplay defenders.
 

Hauler

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You are being a homer here. It's far more that Chase.

It's their mistreatment of Higgins and Hendrickson. They were staight up disrespect to Higgins.

Add that to years of letting top talent walk because you cant pay them aint helping.
What the fuck are you even talking about?

They tagged Higgins. How is that disrespectful? It's not an unheard of thing. He got his money. With Chase coming up on an expected long-term deal it was the smart move for the organization.

Hendrickson signed a 1 year extension. He wanted something longer - which I get. But you can't just fucking pay everyone everything they want all the time every season.

Not sure who you are talking about letting walk because they didn't want to pay them.
The only one I can think of was Whitworth. I was pissed about that one. Dude was a stud and played for like 10 additional years.
I was fine letting Mixon go. RBs have a short shelf life.

I fucking hate the Browns ownership so it feels weird defending their decisions - but your "disrespectful" comment is a bit weird.
 

Hauler

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What the Bengals need to do is to sell off part ownership to other people.

They are the mom&pop shop of the NFL. They just don't have to capital to compete with the other teams around the NFL.

They have the smallest FO and Scouting department in the NFL. They can't pay their talent and thats why they let players walk.
I think it was 2 years ago they were literally right at the salary cap.

I do agree with the front office and scouting departments. Mike Brown is a cheap ass. I can't wait for him to relinquish all control. By all accounts, the people waiting to take over are much, much better.
 

Rambo John J

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Browns at Broncos tomorrow night

43f degrees at kickoff

Broncos favored by 6 points

Over Under is set at 42 points


Thoughts? Predictions?
 

Hauler

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Browns at Broncos tomorrow night

43f degrees at kickoff

Broncos favored by 6 points

Over Under is set at 42 points


Thoughts? Predictions?
Jameis is such a wildcard it's really hard to predict anything.
He can play like the best QB in the league one week, then the next week it's like he never picked up a football before.
 

Rambo John J

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Jameis is such a wildcard it's really hard to predict anything.
He can play like the best QB in the league one week, then the next week it's like he never picked up a football before.
So true

He might be just trying to survive back there with crowd noise and Denver blitzing with great man coverage in back, gonna have to just sling it and chuck it up(which he is pretty good at).

Bo Nix is going against The Beast Mylers Garrett which is sketchy, hoping the broncos scheme the offense to success and keep MG to a minimum.
 

Hauler

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View: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1h4bcun/highlight_the_bengals_get_called_for_a_false/



Ya Hauler @Hauler
Got fucked on that one, steeler clearly moves first and had broken the LOS
Where is the replay system not stepping in, saw them step in real quick in all types of games this year
I don't think that one is reviewable.
Although I think ALL plays should be reviewable.

Shit call. And it was a turning point in the game for sure. Called it out on here when it happened.

Doesn't matter. Didn't play well enough to win. Worst defense I've ever seen.