Safety Marlon McCree to visit Cincinnati

by Kirkendall on Mar 1, 2008 1:50 PM EST in Free Agency Visits

As pointed out by B double-E double-R U N, the Bengals will host veteran safety Marlon McCree on Sunday. McCree was one of three players released Thursday by the San Diego Charger with visits also planned in Carolina and Miami this weekend. McCree has 16 career interceptions averaging 63 tackles the past two seasons with San Diego.

The move, in all likelihood will replace the departing Madieu Williams. Another theory is that the team has long planned to ditch Dexter Jackson. McCree would replace Jackson, in terms of veteran secondary, while the team drafts another cornerback/safety hybrid to replace Williams.

The Bengals have eight safeties signed for 2008.

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Usually I'd be excited...

...to hear names like McCree and Odom and (per Hobson's latest) TE Ben Utecht as visitors and/or possible visitors. But the whole Rogers affair has been so deflating to me as a fan, I'm just numb.

by BeerRun on Mar 1, 2008 3:18 PM EST 0 recs

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It's not really about Rogers though, is it JC? It's another chapter of the Bengals front office.. though it would have been nice to have Rogers too.

by Kirkendall on Mar 1, 2008 3:24 PM EST 0 recs

If it were the FO...

...I'd be on my usual warpath. No one loves a good Mikey-whacking more than me. But it's far from clear that the Rogers mess involved any incompetence on the part of the Bengals at all. In a column posted just a bit ago, Hobson takes a not-so-veiled shot at the league front office, saying they stepped in on an "obscure technicality" to nix the deal. That strikes me as just a little too convenient, especially when Cleveland is suddenly there holding a new deal.

I think if anyone's FO was screwing around, it was Detroit's. All the talk about the deal was coming out of Motown, from both the Detroit News, Free Press and the Lions' own spokesperson. Reminds me a lot of the usual games players and agents play with the Bengals: let out word that they are going to sign -- really, no kidding, the pen is moving closer to the paper as we speak -- with Cincy, at which point some other team ponies up a bullcrap 7th year with a billion-dollar salary and the guy is gone.

Maybe Matt Millen isn't as stupid as we all think. Rogers' trade value was pretty low thanks to all the DTs on the block, but he sucessfully used the Bengals to get the best possible deal elsewhere.

by BeerRun on Mar 1, 2008 3:40 PM EST 0 recs