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The Bengals can kick rocks if the demand is both 2nd picks bit if they just wanna take the picks we got for Burns then I'm all in.

Deion Sanders would be a worse HC than Matt Rhule at the NFL level.

Give me Damien Lewis and Evan Brown from the seahawks as our new LG and C. Both guys are young, and scheme fits with the added benefit of having already established chemistry with each other.

Bring back D'onta foreman and go ahead and cut Sanders to start cleaning up all the bad contracts Fitt left us with.

Ian Thomas is the new Brenton Bersin in that he somehow manages to stay on the team year after year of being terrible. If Dan doesn't cut him to save $6 million in cap, then I'll fully believe that Ian has dirt on either Dave or Nicole. Just let it sink in that Ian had 56 TOTAL YARDS RECEIVING YARDS LAST YEAR.

With all the cleaning up of Fitterer's bad moves it seems that Dan really was the only guy who spoke reason in the front office and that maybe he and Fitterer disagreed on a lot of things that were just never reported or leaked.

I would like the pick but regardless of if we pick him or not, we definitely need a WR who can go get the 50/50 ball. My pro comp for Coleman is Tee Higgins. I'm a little concerned about the 40 time but I'm sure he'll have the typical pro day improvement that everyone has when they run a bad 40 at the combine.

F it lets hire Nicole for GM and have Matt Rhule's wife be assistant GM.

We all know that Bryce doesn't have the strongest NFL arm but to blame the lack of a downfield passing game solely on him is laughable. We had the worst WR's in the NFL at creating separation and a scheme that did little on getting guys open. Also, the O line couldn't block a strong gust of wind for more than 2 seconds so it's no surprise that defenses played within 20 years of the LOS because they knew that.

I bet one of those is not running by the QB and only grabbing them with 1 arm and missing the sack. I like Burns but he has so many miss sacks.

https://www.sbnation.com/2023/2/21/23608375/nfl-franchise-tag-transition-exclusive-rules-salary-lamar-jackson-daniel-jones I'm defiantly a fan of the Non-exclusive franchise tag. If Burns thinks he's worth $30 million a season, then allow him to test the market to see if another team will offer it. If he does, then we can match the offer sheet or let him go but get 2 1st from the team that signs him. Burns is a good player, and I would love to have him back on a fair deal but his lack of a take over a game skill set makes him not worth $30 million a year. During the 1st half against ATL in week 1 Burns flashed the ability to take over a game like other $30 million a year pass rushers do but that was the only time he's ever shown the ability to do that.

Frankie Luvu is the type of guy you wanna reward with a good payday. Dude came over as an unknown reserve player from the Jets and worked his way up to being a starter and has turned into a really good player.

If not for Keith Taylor blowing 3 coverages against Mike Evans and getting cooked the entire game against the Steelers, then Wilks is probably our HC right now. Wilks took over a dead team from Rhule and put his heart and soul into this team and for a short time brought back the culture of this franchise.

If Ben Johnson wants to stay in Detroit and not be a HC then that's fine no one's got an issue with that, but he needs to stop taking all the Head coaching interviews with teams and scheduling 2nd interviews with them only to pull out the day before the interview. If he only just did it once to us last year, then his story is believable, but he's now done it in back-to-back years with Washington and Seattle. The whole thing just seems sketchy and little bit snaky to me. Just my opinion but I think that Ben Johnson knows that he doesn't have the personality or the leadership ability to be a HC which is why he keeps pulling out of jobs where he's the obvious Number 1 choice for that team. He knows that despite that red flag teams are so desperate for a young offensive HC that they ignore any and all red flags and offer him the job.

Yeah, if he doesn't wanna be here then I'm ok with him going now because it's clear he probably won't resign with us or would get a HC job soon so might as well rip the band aid off now and move on but I'm not letting him leave this year to go to a contender in conference for no compensation.

Owners and front office people talk too. Just think if you a GM or an owner of another team are you gonna wanna hire a guy who quit on his team in the middle of his contract just because he didn't wanna be there. That's not a good look for someone who's looking to be a HC.

If Evero truly doesn't wanna be here then I'm ok with allowing him to seek out a trade for himself but I'm not letting him out of his contract to go to a contending team in conference for free. I don't think it's holding him hostage it's just the nature of the business. Evero is a talented young DC who's gonna be a head coach soon so if the Rams or Packers really want him then I'm asking for a 3rd or at least a 4th round pick in this year's draft to let Evero leave. Him leaving would also mean we'd have to hire an almost new defensive staff and our players would have to do another year of learning a new scheme.

I think it speaks volumes for how well Dave Canales was thought of in Tampa by seeing him be able to bring some of these solid veteran coaches with him. They must know that without Canales Todd Bowles will go back to being on the hot seat like he was before the start of last season.

Great point Last year we had too many assistant coaches who all had HC aspirations and each wanted to be given the credit for fixing the Panthers and developing Byce Young.

I really hope Dave Canales can be our version of Dan Campbell. Dude has completely changed the culture and perception of the Lions in only 3 years.

That fair he's gotta prove it more when the games truly do matter. Burrow to me seems like the only QB who doesn't fear or get intimidated by the Mahomes and chiefs aura.

Burrow just needs to stay healthy and he'd be a threat to Mahomes every year. Dude just has that it factor in big time games. I still think that he would've beaten Mahomes this year if he was healthy and probably last year too if the Bengals D-lineman didn't shove Mahomes to the ground while he was going out of bounds.

The only QB who can consistently win vs Mahomes has been Joe Burrow who currently holds a 3-1 record against him. Joe Burrow vs. Patrick Mahomes: Head-to-Head Stats Comparison | Stathead.com

The concerning part is that Burns truly did look dominant the 1st game of the year against the Falcons then just went through the motions the rest of the year. So, the question I'd ask him is why can't you play like that consistently? Are you just gonna mail it in once you get your big pay day?

I like Frank Reich as a person, but he does not have the ability to command a locker room or a coaching staff. The all-star coaching staff looked good on paper but the second it looked like it wasn't gonna work everyone went into self-preservation mode trying to save their own jobs.