Welcome Shamar Stewart

[kevin]

(Today, 01:21 AM)Clark W Griswold Wrote: I get you…just being sarcastic because of how bad the rush was aside from Trey.

Sure hoping they can get Stewarts production to match his talent.

and that falls on Golden from Notre Dame as new D Coach and his Staff. 

[Frank Booth]

(Today, 01:25 AM)kevin Wrote: and that falls on Golden from Notre Dame as new D Coach and his Staff. 

it falls on duke. The drafting starts and ends with duke. I already see you guys finding scapegoats lol

[Bengalitis]

I dont follow college football, reading on most articles about this pick, it doesnt look good...

[J24]

(Today, 01:26 AM)Frank Booth Wrote: it falls on duke. The drafting starts and ends with duke. I already see you guys finding scapegoats lol

Yep!

[Bilbo Saggins]

I love it when guys really make me eat my words when I underestimate them.  I do.  I love it when they outperform and make my negative opinions look foolish.  Some of these comments about his intelligence and how he carries himself, they are too much.  He doesn't sound dumb at all.  I get the impression that he tries very hard.  I just don't get certain things about it.  I didn't get why the coaches at Georgia didn't get Mims on the field more often as well.  That was a case where it didn't have to make sense to people on the outside.  Mims has done pretty well so far and is trending upward.  

I don't even want to share my grade on the pick.

Here's to pulling for the young man.  He has a whole career ahead of him.  He can make everyone eat their words.  He is quite wealthy by most peoples' standards and can become quite a bit more wealthy if he plays his cards right.  He has an entire lifetime ahead of him to grow, to build relationships, to actualize his dreams.  May his actions and his dreams coalesce with his fellow man in perfect harmony.  May the small part of the Greater Whole that we refer to as "Shemar Stewart" syncronize with the universe.  May he in past and future become perfectly attuned to the ebbs and the flows of the ways of reality.  As his and our individuality begins to fade, blur, spark, and melt away - only then can we truly begin to appreciate the magnificence of the eternal fabric.  The delineations that may have once been so clear cannot remain so, for we are all but a part of a Greater One.  I am become one with the Dao, and the Dao has become one with me.  As it always has.  As it always will.  Shemar Stewart.  Bengals fans.  Football enthusiasts the world over.  Majestic, magnificent, awe-inspiring, yet so benign and mundane - such is the way of our universe.  May we all transcend, ascend, become sagely, glide, dive, become as flat as a limitless plane, and actualize the magnificence that we as sentient beings were meant for all along.  

[Truck_1_0_1_]

(Today, 01:39 AM)Bengalitis Wrote: I dont follow college football, reading on most articles about this pick, it doesnt look good...

You don't follow the Bengals either, so no surprise there... 

[Frank Booth]

(Today, 02:02 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: You don't follow the Bengals either, so no surprise there... 

I like how you and nate, the 2 optimists, have been reduced to insulting people for not being positive

[NotBigzo]

(Today, 02:06 AM)Frank Booth Wrote: I like how you and nate, the 2 optimists, have been reduced to insulting people for not being positive

I’m convinced that they simp for shit decisions because they take pleasure in the Bengals failing.

No other explanation.

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

I don't like Ratledge or Savaiinaea nearly as much as Zabel or Jackson. And I also think there is a huge gulf from Harmon doen to the next best pass rushing DT.

Watts (FS) and Winston (SS) are both good S options. Watts more so.

There likely will be some decent CB options in the board. Morrison. Revel. Porter. Johnson is still there now.

There will be a ton of sensible DEs available at #49 that won't make a lick of sense for us now that we already picked Stewart. Unless we want to play more 34 and take some OLB types.

TE, RB, WR, OT (not a G conversion), C, and LB shouod be off the table at #49.

[NotBigzo]

(Today, 12:57 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I've said it before: Stewart has the same number of sacks in his first 3 years in college football as Aiden Hutchinson did.

Many experts had Stewart going before our pick

I don’t give two shits what other assclowns insist or what a few exceptions to the rule there are.

In a draft where we have as many glaring needs on defense as we’ve ever had, we got Somoneone that won’t contribute meaningfully until next season at best.

Even if he pans outs, it’s a shit pick.

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

(Today, 02:12 AM)NotBigzo Wrote: I don’t give two shits what other assclowns insist or what a few exceptions to the rule there are.

In a draft where we have as many glaring needs on defense as we’ve ever had, we got Somoneone that won’t contribute meaningfully until next season at best.

Even if he pans outs, it’s a shit pick.

Amen. 

But he is here now. 

[wanga]

Welcome aboard big man, hopefully you can turn those athletic traits into good football for us.

[puddycat]

I would put the over/under at about 250 snaps if the Bengals could be trusted to base playing time on the ability to actually play football.

[NotBigzo]

(Today, 02:15 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Amen. 

But he is here now. 

And I’ll be here to write him off preemptively only to be mocked but vindicated 1-2 seasons later, as per usual.

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

So, can we call Murphy a bust now?

[NotBigzo]

(Today, 02:50 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: So, can we call Murphy a bust now?

I've been doing it for two seasons now. 

Glad to see you guys coming along, two seasons late; as per usual though

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

Trying to end on a positive.

5th best run stop grade amongst DEs per PFF.

https://www.bengals.com/news/intense-bengals-first-round-pick-shemar-stewart-brings-the-heat-it-s-going-to-be-a-scary-sight

Time to first pressure of 2 43 seconds is best in FBS.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2025/04/20/2025-nfl-draft-5-prospects-fit-detroit-lions-no-28-predictions/83169621007/

Only logged 104 true pass sets (74th), which does explain some of the low production. Barely 21.

Let's hope he booms. The physical talent is enormous. He seems to play hard. And, as otgers have pointed out, the scheme as A&M had him inside the tackle quite a bit.

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

(Today, 03:15 AM)NotBigzo Wrote: I've been doing it for two seasons now. 

Glad to see you guys coming along, two seasons late; as per usual though

Well  you gotta give them a chance to play, first. 

[NATI BENGALS]

(Today, 02:12 AM)NotBigzo Wrote: I don’t give two shits what other assclowns insist or what a few exceptions to the rule there are.

In a draft where we have as many glaring needs on defense as we’ve ever had, we got Somoneone that won’t contribute meaningfully until next season at best.

Even if he pans outs, it’s a shit pick.

He's already in the lineup for obvious pass rushing downs. 

[NATI BENGALS]

(Today, 02:50 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: So, can we call Murphy a bust now?

Why would you do that? One starting DE retired. And the other one threatened to sit out last year and asked to be traded this year which is the last year of his deal. And we re-signed two DEs to one year contracts.

Murphy and Shemar will be our starting DEs if Trey pulls some shenanigans and misses time. Hopefully not. 

SS and MM are the future.