Let's talk about the Bengals (week 2)

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni

The only thing I fear is Jumpball Joe completes like 90% of those garbage 50 50 hero balls against us. It's so lame.

Higgins and Chase are spectacularly complementary.

Higgins is a boss at those 50/50 balls, Chase is spectacular out of his cuts and into space for YAC, etc...

I said in the other Bengals thread, but Cincy really screwed the pooch here. They had those 2, Burrow and Hendrickson on steal contracts and managed very little. Those are MASSIVE assets on a cap sheet that have essentially amortized out.

Now they'll never be in a situation like that again.

Maybe they'll find their way through it. But the only real way to do that is to pay a LOT of cash and keep kicking the can for 5-6 years the way Jerrah does in Dallas. And then you hope you draft a Parsons and get some breakout performances from someone like Bland.

And so while your QB and WRs cost real money, you've supplemented them and you can survive it.

But Mike Brown isn't gonna do that. He's not Jerry. He's going to try to do it on the cheap and things are just going to spiral on them.

The '21 loss in the SB and '22 loss in the AFCCG are likely gonna haunt these fellas for a real long time. '22 would be the worst for me because they seemed ready to take the next step after the '21 loss to LA. The injury to Burrow in '23 (probably because of the hammy) was also pretty brutal and is likely to still be impacting them this season.

That's a 4 year wide-open championship window and it's extremely unlikely that they'll end up with much in the trophy case to show for it.