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(08-07-2025, 10:01 PM)CottonHill Wrote: Guys, this is what you signed up for when you all were crying to pay Jamarr and Tee outrageous money. Joe and the offense is going to have to be perfect nearly every Sunday or it’s a loss.
There was zero reason to think this defense was going to be any better this year than last.
Well one player at Tees salary would not make this D even mediocre so might as well sign those guys and try to out score them.
Also, that’s why good teams are able to draft the players around their high paid stars. Dax, Murphy etc have not been impactful 1st rounders and Stewart has a long way to go but hopefully will get there.
BTW - Are you saying you would not have paid Chase? That’s crazy talk.
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(08-07-2025, 10:03 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Joe's look heading into the locker room: Oh, F! It looks like it's all on the offense again this year.
He has known that. Any time you are paying your qb $50 plus million, then completely reset the #1 and #2 receiver market, you can’t expect to be good anywhere else.
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Lou had one of the worst defensive personnel to work with. You can’t work miracles when you’ve got no talent.
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(08-07-2025, 10:04 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: The team they’re playing paid their QB, 2 WR’s, their RB, and several stud OL. Yet they won’t miss a beat. You can either draft or you can’t. It’s that simple.
Probably shouldve paid Trey pre draft and than added talent somewhere else on defense.
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Someone pip a few Adderall in Ole man Mike and get him on the phone with Treys agent right now.
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(08-07-2025, 10:04 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: it kinda is until you realize that their backups play way better than our backups...
So what?
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(08-07-2025, 10:01 PM)CottonHill Wrote: Guys, this is what you signed up for when you all were crying to pay Jamarr and Tee outrageous money. Joe and the offense is going to have to be perfect nearly every Sunday or it’s a loss.
There was zero reason to think this defense was going to be any better this year than last.
It’s about time someone placed the blame where it belongs.
The message board fans.
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(08-07-2025, 10:04 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: The team they’re playing paid their QB, 2 WR’s, their RB, and several stud OL. Yet they won’t miss a beat. You can either draft or you can’t. It’s that simple.
When you keep whiffing on Defensive players and O line, you can’t catch up
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(08-07-2025, 10:01 PM)BoomerFan Wrote: How do you guys feel about the execution of the defense?
It sounds like a good idea.
OK, we know Burrow to Chase is great. Blocking and Offense looked good 1st Half. The Defense still stinks, but it is early in preseason. Hopefully they can improve. As for tonight, what I saw was what I saw last season of Good Offense, Bad Defense.
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(08-07-2025, 10:04 PM)RunKijanaRun Wrote: If this year is anything like last year, he’s going to pull a Carson Palmer and no one would blame him.
But plenty still would.
How people feel about Carson all these years later is a good litmus test for Bengals fans.
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Honestly there are alot of new faces on defense. It was probably always gonna take some games before they become whatever they are gonna be.
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(08-07-2025, 10:07 PM)NUGDUKWE Wrote: Honestly there are alot of new faces on defense. It was probably always gonna take some games before they become whatever they are gonna be.
Bro they suck... They're gonna suck, everyone knew this coming in.
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I get we were missing BJ Hill, CTB and Dax but still that was embarrassing - the Eagles were playing their 2s. Golden should be absolutely embarrassed.
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(08-07-2025, 10:05 PM)Clark W Griswold Wrote: Well one player at Tees salary would not make this D even mediocre so might as well sign those guys and try to out score them.
Also, that’s why good teams are able to draft the players around their high paid stars. Dax, Murphy etc have not been impactful 1st rounders and Stewart has a long way to go but hopefully will get there.
BTW - Are you saying you would not have paid Chase? That’s crazy talk.
That’s what you got out of my post? You have to pay Jamarr, but you don’t have to pay him $5 million more than the next highest paid receiver. If it takes that much make him play the year out, you get ZERO discount extending him now.
What I would not have done is pay Tee $30 million. Love the guy, but he will get hurt and miss crucial time. And even if he didn’t, this team doesn’t have the roster or scouting to allocate that much to a #2 receiver.
I’ve made it known I hate how we draft. Stewart was a complete waste of a pick and we reached for every player we took outside of a few backend guys.
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(08-07-2025, 10:05 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: Friendly reminder all this is the 1st preseason game of the season. Often a bit sloppy. A lot to be learned of course and that is the point. What happens tonight isn't necessarily indicative of what might happen in the regular season. :)
Yep.
Bengals backups are never good, since forever (which is honestly a problem--but i digress). If the starting CBs and Trey get on the field and the defense can just be near average, it should play out well. It's just a real pain watching anything other than the legit 1st string with this team and it's been like that for a loooong time.
You'd hope they'd be competitive but it is what it is. 1st string needs to be ironmen.
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(08-07-2025, 10:07 PM)NUGDUKWE Wrote: Honestly there are alot of new faces on defense. It was probably always gonna take some games before they become whatever they are gonna be.
The only way this defense will work, is if we play keep away and hold onto time of possession.
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The Bengals DL is stunting alot and it looks so slow.
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(08-07-2025, 10:10 PM)Tony Wrote: Bro they suck... They're gonna suck, everyone knew this coming in.
Everyone should know they aren't going to be elite. But they may be a middle of the road defense. One half of a preseason game isn't going to tell us what they are.
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Can't believe some of you are getting this worked up over backups in a preseason game. I get it but i won't start to panic until we see what happens week 1.
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