kungfoodude

So....about that.....

The difference is that Owens always produced on the field. That will get you a long ways, even if you are a nutcase.

There are likely to be former starting QB's, veteran backup QB's, broken toy QB's and draft QB's available. We aren't going to be bereft of options. Perhaps lacking in a ton of quality options but lacking in quality options is also the current state of our QB roster at the moment. I never thought these words would leave me mouth(fingers?) but, fug it, trade a 3rd or something similar to the 49ers for Mac Jones. He'll never be a franchise caliber QB but if people want a game managing QB, that's a far better option on the table than Bryce Young.

I like Coker a lot but the offseason conditioning stuff has me somewhat worried about his commitment to his craft. I genuinely hope they start focusing more on getting him developed and perhaps invest significantly less time in trying to develop whatever next roadkill/XL themed stadium sandwich.

There might be one or two positional coaches in the NFL that think that about Bryce Young and that's probably after doing a heroic amount of cocaine.

Tyler Boyd and shell of AJ Green. Recall that was Boyd coming off back to back 1k seasons with the Red Rocket, so I would say that is still a significantly better WR Corps that our current one. Now, a few years from that now may not be the case but that's putting a lot in the basket of TMac really becoming elite and Coker developing into an exceptional possession WR. The rest of the gang is basically hopes and prayers. We hope and pray that Horn or Tremayne or even XL eventually becomes more than a 4th-6th WR but that's asking for a LOT of development.

Rozebum has great range but being out of position all the time hasn't been much help. I would rather have kept Shaq in hindsight, knowing that Jewell was not going to work out as a replacement. Now, we couldn't have known that was going to transpire and Shaq was coming off a very serious injury. Still, it would have been nice to have one competent LB in the mix rather than Dumb & Dumber in Rozebum and Wallace.

He would also be completely missing elite WR's here. Yes it is possible TMac could eventually be one but Burrow has never(even in college) played with a WR Corps as bad as ours would be. It might take some luster off of his otherwordly performances, TBQH. Not to mention the draft capital losses and cap room taken would likely cripple our defense to being as bad as it currently is for several years. So, essentially he would be trading a good offensive line for good offensive weapons while still being hamstrung with a bad defense. I'm down to see elite QB play again but I wouldn't expect a ton of success for the first few seasons, anyway. I would have a lot less issue being patient with that kind of weapon, though. Not sure he would have the same patience with our franchise.

When you get all these "generational" flags flying around, you better look like Andrew Luck in college. Andrew Luck wouldn't be toting Ewers jock around for two seasons. I was on that bandwagon of sounding the alarm pretty early on in the Manning Texass tenure. Ewers is a fine college QB but there should be no doubt that a true "generational" QB wouldn't be losing a job to that guy.

I'm being partially facetious. At this point, Gipson has actually flashed a little so I would rather get an extended look at him to see if perhaps he can be an adequate backup EDGE replacement for Jones or Wonnum this offseason.

Or what about the fact that Shaq has 4 missed tackles this season and a 7.4% missed tackle percentage versus the 16 and 14.2% that Rozebum is rocking? In fact, Shaq would have the lowest missed tackle percentage of any ILB that has a minimum of 1 start on our roster.

I think they like pedigrees when the output also matches. I get the idea of liking a pedigree because you should expect the preparation for the NFL should be exceptional. To date, I have seen very little of that with Manning. If anything, he looks like he has been very protected from having to actually play at a high level until this past season. And the results were not good. I think grandpa let the cat out of the bag when he spoke out of turn. My guess is that the Manning clan also internally is very aware that he isn't anywhere near being ready for the NFL.

Sign him up. I doubt he has any interest here but he can't be that much worse than some of the bums we keep trotting out there.

Sign me up. Better than this limp dick BS that Canales is doing.

This is actually not true. Reference the following stats from NFL NGS for 20+ yard throws. 2023: 9 of 38 for 312 Yds, 0 TD, 0 INT. 61.29 QB Rating. 2.375 20+ attempts per Game. 2024: 16 of 43 for 493 Yds, 5 TD, 2 INT. 100.24 QB Rating. 3.58 20+ attempts per Game. 2025: 13 of 30 for 397 Yds, 6 TD, 3 INT. 90.28 QB Rating. 2.30 20+ attempt per Game. He is actually at career lows on shots downfield(20+ yards) per game. He has been less productive in that regard than in 2024, even with 1 less game played(so far).

It's funny but Old Man Rivers was a sidearm thrower. It's an outlier but I don't think it will keep him out of the NFL.....IF he actually develops. The fact he is this far behind in his development while being given every advantage possible is maybe one of the biggest red flags I have ever seen for a prospect. All I can say is that he better look like Mendoza in 2026.

It depends on what the 2027 Draft looks like, I suppose. There are some potentially good younger QB's in the mix(kid from Washington comes to mind) so I think it will depend on what the 2026 Browns look like and what that 2027 Draft Class looks like.

I mean, truthfully their non-revenue sports have always been substantially better than their revenue sports. By a massive margin if you really look at it closely.

Manning improved a lot over the course of the season but he has probably dropped to a Day 3 NFL prospect, in truth.

fug that. Do it like some of the other teams in the NFL do, put the rock in Derrick Brown's hands.

That's hilarious. I wonder if it was a "mutual parting of ways" given they had Arch Manning and they knew he wouldn't be able to beat out Ewers again.

Did he have eligibility left???

We would just be a substantially less talented Bengals. It's fun to dream but you would probably be looking at this roster being the at peak of its greatness right now, and it's easily a bottom 5 roster in the history of the franchise. I would imagine the draft capital we would have to give up would put us in a 3-5 year hole almost immediately. Plus, if I were Burrow, I would immediately retire if the idea of being traded here was on the table.

Ewers also has very little NFL ability at all. He's likely even less suited to the NFL than the absolutely atrocious Dillon Gabriel.

It's hard to know how much of that is accurate or still true. One would hope they wouldn't sign him to that mega deal if it were still really bad, but dumber things have happened before. I think you will see what the league's opinion is when he is on the block and/or released. Will he get Justin Fields 1.0 treatment or will he have a lot of suitors lined up to talk?