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Do you consider Icky a better OT than Moton? I don’t think anyone does. Our roster is not depleted everywhere but OL. Our WR room has nice young pieces. Our RB room is sufficient for years. Our interior DL is in nice shape and now we have promising young EDGE players. We’re certainly operating like QB is set as well. The only thing I’ll concede is the timing doesn’t make great sense unless there are some moves in the pipeline that require current cap space.

Well wallow in your misery together, I guess. I think Dan has made some nice moves since taking over and we seem headed in the right direction. Rebuilt OL/WR rooms and now DL seems on the uptick. I’ll just let y’all go on pretending the extension $ would magically net us a Penei Sewell-caliber RT this offseason.

He missed one game late in the year when it didn’t matter due to his knee(s). If you don’t think the Panthers considered his overall physical health before signing this extension, then you should probably give up following them, because you consider them less capable than many DIII programs.

Your truth. Mine would look something like this… ”Panthers just extended their RT. He’s been a steady presence for years. This helps solidify our OL and secure it will remain a strength. Hopefully, he’ll be a career Panther.” Your intelligent NFL friend likely would’ve responded with something like, “Nice signing. Helps Bryce continue to grow with good support from his OL.”

Nice framing of the extension by you. I wonder why your friend didn’t respond positively.

You have to pay for a player of that caliber

That’s textbook every team in the NFL. Why else would any team reduce the current year’s cap other than to sign or trade for a player?

I answered this question already

He’s saying they’re not going to stack large amounts of money into void years. Not that they’ll never extend a player.

Trades are a possibility, Eeyore

Do you think the cap space required for a top RT just disappears if we don’t extend Moton? You have to pay the RT either way. I’m satisfied with the money going to Moton vs some random or a dice roll with a draft pick.

Unsure, but that’s the exciting part. You can be excited, you know?

To free up cap space for this year

So you anticipate him not being a top 15 RT the next two years? Because that’ll be the going rate for one.

Who is hyping Demani? I think it’s more a situation where some think a relatively unknown player may contribute in a depth role.

Pretty sure all 32 GMs would give a similar answer at this point of the preseason.

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell ya.

Then teams would be paying for a 1/2 year rental, knowing that Hendrickson, by that point, would be willing to play it out to free agency and see what the market would pay him. I don’t think the Bengals would risk plummeting his price by waiting. With them putting the trade info out there, they’re ready to make a move.

What the Bengals want is ~1/3 of the equation, and that is shrinking by the day. What Hendrickson and the team they would trade him to wants is quickly acquiring leverage.

Exactly what I was thinking, and if we’re down to our backup QBs, tanking probably will be the reality anyway.

Would yall do it for Princely and our 2026 3rd?

Everyone focused on Stover’s block on DB, and it was a good block, but did y’all see how quickly DB beat the center? Man, we missed that guy last year.

Similar to the Diontae Johnson situation, we’re better off without the locker room havoc having him would create. Now, I do wish we had found a way to draft Lampkins as IOL depth.

I didn’t view him as the top 10 pick everyone else did. Watch Derrick Brown or Jalen Carter’s college highlights. Those are top 10 worthy interior DLmen. Graham isn’t that imo

Graham isn’t going to win in the NFL by quickness and speed, imo