After seeing a Steelers thread for the upcoming season, decided this was a good time to make a thread for the more local NFL team.
Draft day pick 17, the player a majority was hoping would slide was picked one spot ahead, and the Bengals responded by picking the player most fans were hoping to stay away from. Shemar Stewart had 4.5 sacks total during his college career, and the Bengals will be hoping he provides them with an immediate boost to their pass rush. A high ceiling, low floor type of player when I feel like the team just needed some solid but not spectacular players to fill spots. To make matters worse, the player most people wanted after Nolen was scooped up ended up going to the Steelers.
As an aside, I wish there was a draft day prop bet about ESPN going to commercial while the Bengals are on the clock.
I think the Bengals still need Hendricks long term. Yeah, he’s 30. Leading the league in sacks on a horrible/injured defensive side of the ball was amazing. He can teach the new kid how to play better.
New D coordinator from Notre Dame. We’ll see how he schemes and teaches these guys this off season
I think everything I was seeing was Shemar will be used on the left side so more Hubbard rush defense and Myles Murphy could move back to the right behind Hendrickson focused on pass rushing. I would be happier with that but this isn’t enough to feel comfortable trading Trey.
Until they trade Trey, he’s coming back or sitting out. The salary cap moves north of $300 million next year or the year after. Mike Brown and the Blackburns need to spend the money on the team. Easier said than done.
Now that the draft has come and gone it’s a virtual lock that Trey is not getting traded. His agent has put him in this situation and has not delivered on getting him out of it as promised. I would expect a soft hold out through training camp but he would dig himself an even deeper hole if he sat out any games that count. He’s simply too old to really have much negotiation leverage.