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Cincinnati Bengals (Same Ole Bengals)

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Love the two OL upgrades. The BJ Hill contract is reasonable after year one, so long as he continues to perform. Bummed to say goodbye to Uzomah, but I think his production is replaceable with relative ease. Just hope his locker room presence is passed on to someone on the offensive side of the ball. Hoping we can pay Lael Collins whatever he wants when Dallas releases him. Then really hope Linderbaum from Iowa drops to 31 in the draft. If all of that happens, that’s one hell of an OL overhaul.
 
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CMic said:
Not sure who’s making personnel and payroll decisions for the past couple of years. But …. Bravo!
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Been Mike Brown’s daughter Katie Blackburn. As far as I’ve seen it, she’s been running the show the last two full seasons, including the off-seasons prior to those seasons, hence all of the moves in Free Agency. It took fresh eyes to change Mike Brown’s same boring approach to assembling a team. She’s done an outstanding job thus far.
 
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TooTall said:
Been Mike Brown’s daughter Katie Blackburn. As far as I’ve seen it, she’s been running the show the last two full seasons, including the off-seasons prior to those seasons, hence all of the moves in Free Agency. It took fresh eyes to change Mike Brown’s same boring approach to assembling a team. She’s done an outstanding job thus far.
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I guess football IQ skipped just one generation.
 
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TooTall said:
Love the two OL upgrades. The BJ Hill contract is reasonable after year one, so long as he continues to perform. Bummed to say goodbye to Uzomah, but I think his production is replaceable with relative ease. Just hope his locker room presence is passed on to someone on the offensive side of the ball. Hoping we can pay Lael Collins whatever he wants when Dallas releases him. Then really hope Linderbaum from Iowa drops to 31 in the draft. If all of that happens, that’s one hell of an OL overhaul.
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I think with Karras and Cappa, we thankfully are most of the way there on OL imo for next year. Bravo to the staff (and Katie Blackburn especially) for being ready to pounce on an obvious problem with proven talent and veteran leadership. Now that said, yes...landing someone of the ilk of Collins would be incredible and would turn a weakness into a major strength. And we do need at least 2 of our first 4 picks to likely be OL, particularly if it is a tackle or Linderbaum in the 1st. If Linderbaum drops down to 31, hell to the yeah you take him, especially when Karras has played plenty of guard. I also am not totally out on Carman even with my vocal displeasure stated, it wasn't all bad in his rookie season and I will give it at least one more year before I write him off. Either way, I am breathing a sigh of relief already because we will figure out the last piece or two for this season. Things worked out beautifully on OL.

Hill was a must with Ogunjobi leaving (that one stings even though I think we can make up for it, but we couldn't pay him what Chicago did), I don't think that was a bad price tag either with how well he played here. Might need to go FA or an earlier pick at DT in the Draft than we thought, but we made the better deal with Hill. And you nailed it on Uzomah, love that dude to death and worried about the possible locker room void, but no way in hell we can justify paying him what the Jets did. Good for him to get paid, but no way I can blame him for jumping on that. Production can be replaced I think and Burrow, Boyd, Chase, etc. can make up for some of the locker room energy he brought.

TooTall said:
Been Mike Brown’s daughter Katie Blackburn. As far as I’ve seen it, she’s been running the show the last two full seasons, including the off-seasons prior to those seasons, hence all of the moves in Free Agency. It took fresh eyes to change Mike Brown’s same boring approach to assembling a team. She’s done an outstanding job thus far.
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She is the boss, no doubt. Everything has been lightyears better under her leadership. Not only in personnel and off-season moves, but fan experience. It matters that fans want to show up and not get gouged (relatively) for nothing in return.
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
Eli Apple signed a 1 year extension too right? Thought he was getting better and better as the year went on. An offseason and continuity might actually have him in his best form
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PFF had him rated as one of the best corners in the league after joining the Bengals. I think he dipped a little, but was still good. Too bad he made the comments in the playoffs. He got beat a couple times in the super bowl and people loved it.

Would like to see him stick in Cinci. He signed a one year deal like you said. $4 mill. Pretty reasonable.
 
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PFF had him rated as one of the best corners in the league after joining the Bengals. I think he dipped a little, but was still good. Too bad he made the comments in the playoffs. He got beat a couple times in the super bowl and people loved it.

Would like to see him stick in Cinci. He signed a one year deal like you said. $4 mill. Pretty reasonable.
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He was definitely getting better as the season went on. I'm not completely sold on him as the #1 guy, but I absolutely wanted him back because he did play well in the later part of the season. Ideally we get a young CB in the second round or so that can rotate in some and become "the guy". Or get Stephon Gilmore in FA, not sure if there is any conversation there. If we could get a veteran, we could patch that up for a year and draft young next year.

On FA, I am hoping the talks with Collins go well but I am also curious on Armstead at tackle...not aware of talks going on but he would be a homerun if we could make it happen.
 
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Looks like we are finalizing a deal with Collins at RT. Sign him up and I've got zero worries about this team next year. There are areas we can still improve on, but landing Collins puts our OL on steady ground. This team will be much improved now, just hope we capitalize on it.
 
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Looks like we are finalizing a deal with Collins at RT. Sign him up and I've got zero worries about this team next year. There are areas we can still improve on, but landing Collins puts our OL on steady ground. This team will be much improved now, just hope we capitalize on it.
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That's 3 new offensive linemen; Collins sure had some past baggage: not play in 2020 because of hip surgery, a five-game suspension last year for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy, and saw him go from a potential first-round selection to not selected at all after his name was connected to a murder investigation.

Former Dallas Cowboys lineman La'el Collins agrees to three-year contract with Cincinnati Bengals

The text message that flashed across La'el Collins' phone on Sunday was the question Cincinnati Bengals fans kept asking throughout the weekend. And it was from the most prominent person in the city.

"Deal done?" Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow asked Collins, the inquiry posed with multiple questions marks. Collins had a simple answer.

"I was like, 'Yeah, your new bodyguard is in town,'" Collins said in a video statement released by the Bengals on Sunday. "Nobody is touching you."

The Bengals on Sunday signed Collins, a former Dallas Cowboys tackle, to a three-year contract.

Cincinnati, fresh off its first Super Bowl appearance in 33 years, has now added offensive linemen Ted Karras, Alex Cappa and Collins during the NFL free-agency signing period to help protect Burrow, something the Bengals had issues with, especially in the postseason. Cincinnati ranked 30th in pass block win rate last year, according to NFL Next Gen Stats and ESPN Stats & Information research.
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Collins caps a busy start to the Bengals free agency that could help the Bengals have as many as four new starting offensive linemen for the season opener in 2022.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...agrees-three-year-contract-cincinnati-bengals

Anyway, if the 3 new guys can stay on the field (and they are breathing); the OL has to be an improvement over last year's OL.
 
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Absolutely massive by the FO to stay aggressive and secure La’el Collins. As of right now, our starting OL for 2022 will be:

LT Williams
LG Carman
C Karras
RG Cappa
RT Collins

I don’t think Carman struggles as much with the quality of guys surrounding him like he did last year. And Cincy’s most glaring weakness in the SB was at RG and RT, and they’ve addressed those issues about as well as you could’ve hoped.

On the extremely unlikely chance that Linderbaum falls to us at 31, there’s no way we pass on a guy like that. I don’t think he’ll be there, in which case I think you address your CB need if there’s a decent guy available.
 
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