Bengals tidbits

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Cincy

Quick huddle for T.J., Lewis
Scouting combine notebook
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

INDIANAPOLIS - Bengals coach Marvin Lewis, as a member of the NFL Competition Committee, had a meeting upstairs at the Westin Hotel.
So did Bengals wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh, as one of the players on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's player advisory committee.
On a bench outside of the meeting rooms sat Kennard McGuire, Houshmandzadeh's agent.

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Cincy

More contract talks on team's offseason agenda
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

INDIANAPOLIS - Formal contract talks with agents for Bengals free agents Madieu Williams and Landon Johnson are likely to take place tonight and Saturday.
Bengals negotiators met Thursday with agent Kennard McGuire, who represents T.J. Houshmandzadeh. The Pro Bowl wide receiver has one season remaining on a four-year contract, and the sides would like to extend his deal before it expires.
"Nothing to report," McGuire wrote in an e-mail.

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Cincy

Draft's D-line offers depth
Pick may tip Bengals' defensive plan
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

INDIANAPOLIS - Depending on whom they select with the ninth pick in the draft, the Bengals could tip their hand about their defensive plans for the next few seasons.
Upgrading the defensive line is the top priority of the offseason, coach Marvin Lewis said, and if they don't re-sign defensive end Justin Smith in free agency, the Bengals almost assuredly will take a tackle or end. Lewis and Smith say Smith will give the Bengals every opportunity to re-sign him.
Lewis wants to improve the pass rush. The Bengals' 22 sacks in 2007 gave them the NFL's worst sack-per-play rate.

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Cincy

Free agency looms Friday
Bengals likely will take usual slow approach
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

The draft is still widely considered as the best way to build an NFL team.
Some clubs, such as Washington, Dallas and Denver, and last year, New England, pursue free agency more aggressively than others.
The free agency period will begin Friday, and, as the case has been in recent years, the Bengals are more likely to go slow at the start - concentrating their efforts on retaining their own free agents and avoiding the first few days of action when prices are largely inflated.

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[BUCKYLE]

I know he'll be gone, but I'd love for us to pick up Vern. *sigh*

 

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Cincy

Bengals notebook
Tender offers are due today
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]


The Bengals will announce their tender offers to their three remaining restricted free agents today, the league deadline.
Restricted free agents are players who have completed three seasons and whose contracts have expired.
The Bengals' restricted free agents and their draft levels are quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (seventh), offensive lineman Adam Kieft (fifth) and wide receiver Tab Perry (sixth).

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cincy

Bengals make offer to QB
BY MARK CURNUTTE | [email protected]

The Bengals today have made contract offers to four players.
Late this morning, they announced a one-year tender to restricted free agent quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
But the club did not offer tender contracts to wide receiver Tab Perry and offensive tackle Adam Kieft, releasing them to free agency, though the Bengals would like to re-sign Perry at a lower salary.

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espn.com

Former Bengal Williams agrees to sign with Vikings for $33 million

By John Clayton
ESPN.com
(Archive)

Updated: February 29, 2008, 12:30 PM ET

An all-night negotiations session with the Minnesota Vikings produced a deal that has made Madieu Williams a formal Bengal and now one of the highest-paid safeties in the NFL.
Williams, 26, agreed to a six-year, $33 million contract Friday morning after his agent, Ken Zuckerman, and Minnesota officials worked through the night to get a deal done. As both sides spelled out the final language of the contract, Williams headed to the airport Friday morning for a flight to Minneapolis to sign the deal.


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espn.com

Bengals trade for Rogers, to sign Dhani Jones

By John Clayton
ESPN.com
(Archive)

Updated: February 29, 2008, 4:03 PM ET

The Cincinnati Bengals, who acquired defensive tackle Shaun Rogers in a trade with the Detroit Lions on Friday afternoon, reached a three-year agreement with linebacker Dhani Jones.
The Bengals traded third-round and fifth-round draft picks to Detroit to acquire Rogers.

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[buckeyefool]

here is the link to the bengals website. I like this move, rodgers could be the run stopped that they have been looking for.

News - Big deal for big man - Cincinnati Bengals
An NFL source confirmed Friday the Bengals have swung one of their biggest deals in history by acquiring Lions defensive tackle Shaun Rogers for third- and fifth-round picks.
The 6-4 Rogers, listed at 340 pounds, turns 29 in two weeks and has three years left on his contract but the Bengals are open to renegotiating it. A two-time Pro Bowler who led all NFL tackles in sacks this past season with 7.5, Rogers has been the subject of heated trade rumors ever since he left the locker room last season saying he wanted a change of scenery from a Detroit club that is 50 games under .500 since it took him in the second round of the 2001 draft

 

[tibor75]

Good riddance to Mastoopid Williams. How a mediocre safety on the worst D in the league can get 30 mil is beyond me.

I agree..Shaun Rogers is a good move. Better than the 3rd and 5th round picks ever would be.

 

[tibor75]

Rumors that the deal is off. Please soP, leave soon...however possible.

 

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Dispatch

Bengals re-sign Jones, seek other defensive help

Saturday, March 1, 2008 2:57 AM


The Cincinnati Bengals left no doubt where their priority lies when free agency began yesterday: They retained one of their starting linebackers, made a pitch to two defensive free agents and appeared on the verge of trading for a Pro Bowl defensive tackle.
At the end of the day, though, they had nothing to announce.
Multiple outlets reported that the Bengals agreed to terms with linebacker Dhani Jones on a new three-year contract, but the deal was not completed at press time.

A Bengals source indicated the deal was nearly complete in late afternoon, but last night a league source told The Dispatch that the Lions had instead traded Rogers to the Cleveland Browns.

 

[buckeyefool]

Rumors that the deal is off. Please soP, leave soon...however possible.

Read somewhere it was the lanuage in the deal that made it fall apart. So I will be interested to see if anything more comes out about it. I did notice a few times yesterday wrong information came out on espn or other places, so seems like some people may have been jumping the gun on a few deal rumors.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Rogers has been traded to Cleveland according to ESPN....