bonethug0180

Of those, the Ravens and Falcons can still be a bitch to play. I think the rest haven't had a solid footing outside an odd year for quite some time.

This one is a bit more shocking. fricking kicker cost him his job.

He had at least 52 snaps in 12 games. Let's not play dumb here.

Shough only has 8 games with at least 53 snaps. Then 2 with high 30s (which add to about 1 game's worth).

At best you can say Shough played a starter's amount of snaps in 9 1/2 games. Dart clearly has 12.

It accelerates to the current season as soon as it voids. Yes perspective means everything, but so does understanding how the cap works.

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Tough call. It’s not that he isn’t worth it; it’s that we have needs at other positions which that money will be required to allocate to fill.

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Here's the catch: if we let him walk we get hit for $18.76 mil next year. If we structure like we always do we get hit for only $12.52 mil tips.

Saving $6.5 mil on cap, paying Jordan like he deserves to be paid, and letting him retire as a Saint like he should can and should be done, even if it costs us an extra $6-10 mil down the line over 5 year vs not keeping him. I'd love to keep Jordan for such a low cost.

We can also have as much as $76+ mil next year on the cap, with extending Jordan, Davis. And Olave plus the restructures and carryover. It isn't like we need to penny pinch.

Right
-Better team than most gave us credit for.
-How good Shough could be after I started looking more into him right before and after the draft.
-Oline depth would hurt us (even though we did shore it up, it somehow still got us).
-McCoy getting hurt again (more a fear that came true).
-Shough was the guy to start all along.
-Defense would be mostly good, but could use a surefire corner on the outside (Riley did better than expected for where he was drafted, and Kool-aid showed he could be a good corner but still has some growing to do).
-We were good enough to win the division (finished 2 games out after a horrid start).
-Rattler never was and never will be the guy. His limitations are too obvious and extremely hard to overcome.

Wrong
-We could win at least 8 games (which I think would have been possible with Shough, but as soon as the announced Rattler I knew we'd be fricked and stick with him too long).
-We would win the division.
-The corners would struggle pretty bad (not totally wrong as Yiadom did struggle pretty bad and Riley and Kool-aid had growing pains, but both came along further than I thought).
-We couldn't possibly have as many injuries as last year (I think we somehow had even more xD).

Other than that I wasn't too gung-ho on anything that I could recall. Had Shough been the guy from jump I think I would have had even fewer wrongs. Johnson did about what I thought. Olave did about what I thought. I had faith in Cam and Demario still being able to play well (those guys are 100% committed to the process every year and have incredible conditioning). But I wouldn't say I was right on those because I don't think I ever talked about them much, and they did as expected from me, not really better or worse.

Not directed at anyone, but tbh I think given the lack of depth in FA at most positions, and the only one really being loaded being HB, I'd rather spend the FA money at that position (especially since none of the guys will be top money HBs contract wise) and go elsewhere in the draft.

There is a noticeable lack of receivers, interior Oline, and DBs, as well as mostly aging pass rushers. Outside of HB, TE and interior Dline may be the deepest positions in free agency, so I would try to fill the first group in the draft and the latter in FA (though a double guard dip would be fine as well).

All of the signing bonus would stick with Cincy, and the base salary can be moved around. Not sure when guarantees for his base kick in (guys like him usually get it guaranteed a year ahead for the first 3 on a 5, for instance).

The bigger question would be could the Bengals absorb his dead money as it would immediately accelerate and it might not make sense to trade him at all, even if he sits out.

This isn't to advocate getting him, just saying it's very plausible someone would do it.

I'm not a Kamara hater, but honestly for long term purposes it might make sense to cut him and go with a guy like Walker who is 5 years younger.

I don't disagree about the deer in headlights thing and have said he looked like a rookie at times, but what you did see, and what I said in those preseason posts (and even in threads after the draft) was you could see his ability to read the field quickly and the arm talent to make the plays anywhere on the field.

All he needed was time to learn the system and the game to slow down for him, which he would have gotten from live play as well (each preseason game you could see improvement, as well as each regular season game, so starting from jump would not have hurt him). He's not a guy that would have given up from a few bad plays, and you could tell that from back in college to even during preseason. He makes a mistake, even a bad one, and comes back and makes amazing plays.