Cam Hayward for Tinsley?
So I just read an article, and the gist of it is: The Bengals new DC has a whole new scheme that he is planning on implementing once the season starts. He doesn’t want teams to be able to prepare for it, so in the preseason they are just playing base defense with very few plays. They are not having meetings nor making any changes based on which team they have gone up against. So when the real games start, we may may be in for a positive surprise. I still have my doubts, but at least knowing they did no game planning and aren’t playing their usual defense lends credence to the fact they will at least not be as bad as they have been in the games thus far.
Conversely, the offenses they have been playing weren’t game planning, either.
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Sounds very 2013 Treadwell-esq.
I agree. This better not be Al Golden showering us with expectations only to get covered in piss.
I think I’d prefer if they practiced the scheme in the pre-season before rolling it out for reals. If you have to have that level of element of surprise is the scheme all that good. After a couple of weeks tape and tendencies will be out so what then?
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I can only surmise that it’s because they start with a division opponent, because yeah, not gonna take an NFL staff long to understand their schemes.
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In the same article they claim that the new defense is having success against the first team offense, and because of that success they didn’t feel the need to employ it against other teams to get the tape out. As with multiple other responses, I have trouble relying on a biased source and having blind faith from it, just thought it was an interesting topic while we wait the final two weeks before the season.
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Bengals don’t have their players lift weights?
Only if they pay to use the weight room.
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In unsurprising news the Bengals and Hendrickson agree to a new deal for 2025. Hendrickson gets a raise for this season but none of the long term guarantees he sought.
He will be a free agent for 2026 unless they choose to franchise tag him.
A little late to the party, but I think it’s a good deal. Trey gets an extra $16 million to play this year, the Bengals don’t have to give guaranteed money in future seasons (which they hate doing. Is it because the owners don’t have much money and the NFL requires all future contract amounts to be put into an escrow account?). It also gives the Bengals the option of using the franchise tag on him next year if he continues to play as well as he has recently. So in effect, it became a 2-year $66 million dollar contract with an out-clause for the team. In said scenario, Trey would be paid above his yearly rate, albeit with less guaranteed.
The guarantee vs liquidity may be a valid point. Can owners borrow the amount needed for the guarantee?
In Trey’s case his age is of primary concern.
I assume they can borrow it from the bank and pay interest on it. The putting money aside to make sure you can meet payroll obligations is a rule from back in the early days of the NFL when teams would still go bankrupt sometimes. The Bengals are the most affected by it because most of the family’s money is from owning the team, and they don’t have $500 million they can put into an account when they give these huge contracts out. I doubt they would want to take a huge loan for that money either. Trey’s case is age, but the Bengals are always loathe to give contracts to older all older players. Not needing to cut those players and eat dead money is one of the reasons they can afford to pay their top 4 players such a huge % of their overall salary. If you do teams top 4 players + dead cap hits, the Bengals are very much in the middle of the pack.
Fannin is getting the ball a lot…I’m having flashbacks
Zac Taylor is grossly incompetent. How do you “focus on a faster start” and then drop Burrow into the high school shotgun RPO? He’s better under center.
Better than losing but not by a lot.
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The lines both looked much improved in the game, especially the D-line. If this game is a harbinger of things to come, teams will pass 50 times a game every game against them.
That said, there were a lot of strange games and results, and I feel like the first week doesn’t always represent what will happen over the course of the season. And the Bengals always struggle against the Browns, and in the first week, and in divisional road games. So to win even with all three of those factors that usual cause problems, I am plenty happy with the result.
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Mike Brown’s Chevy Lumina notwithstanding, I have to imagine the lack of a guarantee is more about Trey’s age than it is liquidity.
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Jake Browning revenge game part 2 coming up next week. The Vikings didn’t look too good tonight either
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