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It's not accurate because he wasn't paid in one lump sum and it's most likely set up for weekly buys since players are paid game checks. He has lost some money for sure, but nothing like what this makes it out to seem.

When considered alongside the assistants that have left for lateral moves and that both Tepper and Rhule have been radio silent all off-season (to avoid questions and save pride) yes, I think this is exactly what has happened.

On the road? We're already there.

Nothing, unfortunately, and that's due to a complete lack of faith in the leadership and Matt Rhule. Certain moves may start swing the needle back from apathy/cynicism, but it's going to take steady and sustained improvement to begin the thaw. Not even significant increase in wins per se, but just looking like an actual NFL team with competent NFL-level leadership and doing it week in and week out.

Only 2011 Chud though. 2012 Chud drank way too much of his own Kool-Aid. I'd probably take 2011 Chud by a hair over Henning, but I'd be fine with Henning. I feel like Fox often hampered him.

I've learned something today.

Ironhead Heyward... there's a name I haven't heard in a lonnnng time.

Sure it isn't.

Source?

Yeah. The bigger thing IMO was that it was then 4th down, AND they had to use the TO. Just a big hit overall.

Yeah. Yhe bigger thing IMO was that it was then 4th down, AND they had to use the TO. Just a big hit overall.

Cam never had a competent offense around him either though, certainly not anywhere near the quality that the Bengals currently have.

I can't take him seriously with how dirty he plays. Great player though when he's not being a baby.

I had just gotten done telling my son that the Bengals won't run the ball because of the timeout and down loss risk if they got stopped. Lo and behold.

Oh?

But I was told the NFL was propping Burrow. 3 awful calls against Cincy in a row now.

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I feel like it's tougher to do that in the daylight they have there this year. Limitation that isn't typically a thing when the game is on the east coast and/or fully indoors.

No one is giving up a high 2nd without next year's first, a la Everette Brown and the trade Hurney made for him just to get to 43. There used to be more stories about it but they've been lost to time. And they didn't fully dump him - he was on the roster until 2014. Dude never should have been drafted in the first place and the team moved on when the new coach came in, like Rosen and the Cardinals.

That's real, or at least Hurney trying to move up and the 1st rounder being on the line. "Carolina Panthers general manager Marty Hurney spent much of Friday trying to move up in the draft to take Jimmy Clausen, a day after the Notre Dame quarterback was a surprising first-round snub. Hurney couldn’t strike a deal, however, and when Arizona traded up to the 47th slot — one pick ahead of the Panthers — Hurney acknowledged he was crushed, sure the Cardinals were going to take him. “I could lie, but I won’t,” Hurney said. Only the Cardinals passed on Clausen, too. It didn’t take Hurney long to pounce — shaking up Carolina’s newly shuffled quarterback depth chart." https://greensboro.com/sports/clausen-falls-into-panthers-open-arms/article_878dff94-ff02-58c2-90ac-6a583358df58.html

Not exclusive to Rhule. Any coach that comes in and is as ineffective, if not disastrous, as he has been ends up in the same position.

The issue is that Rhule managing personnel is within his bounds, or at least was based on the initial agreement (contractual or otherwise). Unless something changed there, and perhaps it has given the radio silence across the board from everyone except Fitterer, all roads seem to (inexplicably, even without the benefit of hindsight) run through Rhule. The change in tone and lack of public presence from those guys is a departure from how things went last offseason and, to some degree, post-hire in 2020. I'm just speculating but perhaps the status quo has changed a bit over there. God knows what was was happening before sure wasn't a winning formula.

We don't know about the new coaches but we know they are NFL-proven and we know what happened with the former coaches here (shudder...) so yeah, I'll take a shuffling of coaching as a starting point.