Friday Open Thread: The Offseason Is Picking Up

They upgraded everywhere while retaining Gruden and Zimmer.

Do not go for Wallace or any other free agent who’s team will require our first round pick. We need 2 guards, possibly 2 DB’s, Possibly 2 safeties, multiple WR’s, a DT and a running back. Keep the picks.Pick men with minds for the game. Versatile, hardnosed winners.

Huge fan guys, I’m on this site everyday and it seems like everyone here is football smart for the most part. I had to move to Michigan but kept my season tickets. Who Dey.
Love all the moves so far but please do the following:
Resign nugent, sims, Rucker, fanane, and Nelson.
Sign one stud guard and Williams (for team leading support at a minimum, but might have another year left)
Sign at least one stud safety or corner. I’m sorry but Crocker might be a decent player but he is not what we need to win back there. The playoff game made me sick.
Sign one great receiver, I like the Wallace deal but which receiver will work best in our system with being second to green??
If we can trade up to get Richardson, please do it, if not, corner, guard and wait until second round to get a top 5 running back (depending on what happens in free agency)
Who Dey!!!!

He is not a great running back. He is good but his huge o line in college against week slow competition made him look better. If he falls to us take him. But by no means dont reach. Look at the giants. They always have a good rb but never draft one bc u can find one anywhere in the draft or fa. Richardson is slow and not ellusive.

Away from pitt and baltimore. It would make our team better before we even hit the draft and weaken our divisional opponents. The we draft a safety and o line.

…Enough said!

Q: Do the team prayers, Bible studies, and all that jazz ever get awkward? As far as I know, the NFL is comprised largely of god-fearing men, and you’re the only nonbelieving NFL player I know of (RIP Pat Tillman). Are you out of the “closet” in regards to your beliefs, and your teammates are totally cool with it, or do you basically not bring it up or shove it in people’s beliefs (a la Tebow allegedly telling Wesley Woodyard God was going to win them the game and always bringing it up)? What do you think about the Tebow story and “Tebowmania” in light of your own beliefs, for that matter?
P.S., as a tortured Cincy fan concerned about our guard situation, is there any chance you’d come back to the Bengals or is that bridge burned? Please!? I still don’t know why we didn’t try to hang on to you, although I don’t blame you for leaving. Mike Brown is getting better, I swear!
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[–]EvanMathisThrowaway[S] 35 points 2 hours ago
I am a loyal Pastafarian. During team prayers I just look around and see if anyone else is doing what I’m doing. Usually everybody’s praying. I don’t shove my beliefs in anybody’s face. I came from Alabama, I used to be a god-fearing Southern Baptist myself. I’ve been there, I know what it’s like. I used to be afraid of being blacklisted based on my beliefs but I don’t really care now. Anybody that has a problem with my beliefs does not want to talk about the Bible with me. I don’t give a damn who believes what though, I’m here to kick ass on the field. I’m not answering any Tebow questions because he could end up as a teammate one day and I don’t want to piss God off and lose the team’s favor. PS: There’s no bridges burned.
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[–]sidekicksuicide 4 points 2 hours ago
PS: There’s no bridges burned.
Then I hope Mike Brown offers you some serious cash this offseason.
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Do you guys pull any pranks on eachother in the locker rooms/ meetings? If so, what are some of the best ones? I know we used to have a blast back in high school messing with people.
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[–]EvanMathisThrowaway[S] 24 points 1 hour ago
Last April Fool’s Day I sent spoof texts to multiple teammates phone’s from Marvin Lewis’ number informing them they had been cut.
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[–]cptcliche 3 points 1 hour ago
This is cruelly awesome.
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[–]RScannix 1 point 1 hour ago
Fantastic.
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[–]secretlypooping 1 point 17 minutes ago
are you the one who has been sending me cat facts daily?

–]ElegantBachelor 53 points 5 hours ago*
I feel like you mentioned you were an atheist, agnostic, Pastafarian or the like one time. At least that’s the vibe I get from your rather entertaining twitter feed if you didn’t.
Q: Do the team prayers, Bible studies, and all that jazz ever get awkward? As far as I know, the NFL is comprised largely of god-fearing men, and you’re the only nonbelieving NFL player I know of (RIP Pat Tillman). Are you out of the “closet” in regards to your beliefs, and your teammates are totally cool with it, or do you basically not bring it up or shove it in people’s beliefs (a la Tebow allegedly telling Wesley Woodyard God was going to win them the game and always bringing it up)? What do you think about the Tebow story and “Tebowmania” in light of your own beliefs, for that matter?
P.S., as a tortured Cincy fan concerned about our guard situation, is there any chance you’d come back to the Bengals or is that bridge burned? Please!? I still don’t know why we didn’t try to hang on to you, although I don’t blame you for leaving. Mike Brown is getting better, I swear!
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[–]EvanMathisThrowaway[S] 35 points 2 hours ago
I am a loyal Pastafarian. During team prayers I just look around and see if anyone else is doing what I’m doing. Usually everybody’s praying. I don’t shove my beliefs in anybody’s face. I came from Alabama, I used to be a god-fearing Southern Baptist myself. I’ve been there, I know what it’s like. I used to be afraid of being blacklisted based on my beliefs but I don’t really care now. Anybody that has a problem with my beliefs does not want to talk about the Bible with me. I don’t give a damn who believes what though, I’m here to kick ass on the field. I’m not answering any Tebow questions because he could end up as a teammate one day and I don’t want to piss God off and lose the team’s favor. PS: There’s no bridges burned.
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[–]sidekicksuicide 4 points 2 hours ago
PS: There’s no bridges burned.
Then I hope Mike Brown offers you some serious cash this offseason.

he obviously is a big play reciever but he is also very consistent. wuld be a major upgrae at the number two spot and with gresham as our tight end teams ould struggle to gamepan against our offense and even without a toptier running back a pasing game like that always opens lanesfor the run because the defense is less apt to take that firstt step forward if we dont stick it to the steelers while we have the chance id b pissed

Having two top tier WRs would be awesome sure and is Wallace worth a first rounder when you have two duh, but our wrs are not whats holding us back. Now if in FA we can get help at corner and OL then fire away, I hate talking about the draft already but damn I miss my bengals football WHO DEY

If we wud have had a consisitent #2 threat green wud not havebeen constantly doubled nd even then wallace couldve made them pay for it the inconsistency of jerome simpson and lack of greshams involvment in the offense thereof really hurt our offense