1 hour ago, Iggles_Phan said:

With the potential knee injury to Burrow, the asking price for Dillard just went up.   Dillard for Higgins and their 4th.

Dillard for Burrow and Logan Wilson.  

2 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

Believe he still gets one anyway?

I think it’s up to the team to decide. 

7 hours ago, Dwide Schrude said:

Have no idea why you’re still engaged with him lol

Congrats on the engagement @LeanMeanGM!

48 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

Looks like going all in on Stafford was the thing to do . Build the team and then get your QB .

it helps when you have alot of cap space.

3rd most cap space, good young QB with a couple years left on the rookie deal, nice group of wideouts and a competent defense. The Bungles are well positioned.  They just need to raid the Saints for T.Armstead, draft some quality OL, maybe grab a ring chasing pass rusher and then win some coin flips against BUF/KC.

I was happy the Rams won, for all the good guys they have on that team starting with Matt Stafford, Aaron Donald, Kupp, Whitworth etc.  Was rooting for them. 

 

7 hours ago, 315Eagles said:

I don't think the LB Wilson holding call was right.  Looked like clean coverage and pass breakup to me.

Looking at a couple replays of the Von Bell hit on Kupp that ended up being penalties on both teams, I don't think Bell's hit was worthy of a flag, unless I didn't see it clear enough.

Bengals definitely got screwed a little on calls once the Rams got in the redzone.

I thought the play before the Wilson holding call they missed PI on the pass to the RB. SO the very next play, when they called it on WIlson, I thought, that was a make up call. 

 

The hit on Kupp looked helmet to helmet to me. 

 

Just now, Ipiggles said:

I thought the play before the Wilson holding call they missed PI on the pass to the RB. SO the very next play, when they called it on WIlson, I thought, that was a make up call. 

 

The hit on Kupp looked helmet to helmet to me. 

 

Yup - saw they same thing. Once the seal was broken…

Watching the playoffs and Super Bowl made it clearer than ever.  Until we have a QB, we are going nowhere fast.  Run around guy may be exciting, but his style and this offense is ridiculously unsustainable.  I may be able to stand one more throw away year, but it's going to suck.

Someone is over thinking things

 

5 minutes ago, E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles said:

Watching the playoffs and Super Bowl made it clearer than ever.  Until we have a QB, we are going nowhere fast.  Run around guy may be exciting, but his style and this offense is ridiculously unsustainable.  I may be able to stand one more throw away year, but it's going to suck.

Even though I knew what to expect, I watched 30s of Corral highlights and had to stop... PTSD, one-read RPOs that breakdown into immediate scramble drill.  Hard to watch...

1 minute ago, Original Sin said:

Someone is over thinking things

I thought I was watching a checkdown competition most of the night... but ooookay.

2 hours ago, bpac55 said:

Yep, Burrow had to be sacked a record number of times this post season.  Howie needs to do everything in his power to send them Dillard.

Dillard for Sam Hubbard straight up?

Dillard for Logan Wilson and a pick?

I think all week everyone was saying the Bengals o line would have trouble with the rams d line and it would come down to that matchup and it did, and in most games in the NFL the team that wins the trenches wins the game 

Surprisingly the Bengals d line played well also, they shut down the rams run game and got some pressure but the rams d line was just too much 

Not sure what Dillard would fetch in a trade but I think its a no brainer for the Bengals to improve o line

Mailata for Burrow

13 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

Even though I knew what to expect, I watched 30s of Corral highlights and had to stop... PTSD, one-read RPOs that breakdown into immediate scramble drill.  Hard to watch...

So the eagles offense with hurts?

1 hour ago, UK Eagle said:

Not at the moment. She is with Rona.

But I wouldn't be surprised if she released the hounds on Meghan once she becomes the Queen.  I can't wait too see how that kicks off

There is historical precedent for how it ends:

 

20 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

Someone is over thinking things

 

Agreed. The Bengals lost because they were too conservative for most of the second half.

7 minutes ago, Utebird said:

I think all week everyone was saying the Bengals o line would have trouble with the rams d line and it would come down to that matchup and it did, and in most games in the NFL the team that wins the trenches wins the game 

Surprisingly the Bengals d line played well also, they shut down the rams run game and got some pressure but the rams d line was just too much 

Not sure what Dillard would fetch in a trade but I think its a no brainer for the Bengals to improve o line

The only problem with people keep saying bengals should deal for dillard is, joneh Williams their left tackle was actually good this year. He had a 78 grade by pff and isn’t the issue. Their issue is everyone else on that line. The fact still remains that dillard is strictly a LT who hasn’t shown he can play RT at a high level. So you’d either have to move Williams to RT who might be a better LT than dillard. If the bengals want to move Williams to RT then smarter move for the bengals is likely signing Armstead of the saints who’s a free agent and keep their picks to fix the interior oline.  

21 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

Someone is over thinking things

 

What?  No idea what he's talking about here. 

3 minutes ago, Desertbirds said:

Agreed. The Bengals lost because they were too conservative for most of the second half.

What does that have to do with arm talent? 

30 minutes ago, E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles said:

Watching the playoffs and Super Bowl made it clearer than ever.  Until we have a QB, we are going nowhere fast.  Run around guy may be exciting, but his style and this offense is ridiculously unsustainable.  I may be able to stand one more throw away year, but it's going to suck.

Where I differ from you is the bolded- I cant watch another year of Hurts- it will be very detrimental to the development of our young WR's to keep having Hurts as QB1.  I am ok with a stop gap QB, but it has to be a QB who can atleast throw the ball. 

2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

The only problem with people keep saying bengals should deal for dillard is, joneh Williams their left tackle was actually good this year. He had a 78 grade by pff and isn’t the issue. Their issue is everyone else on that line. The fact still remains that dillard is strictly a LT who hasn’t shown he can play RT at a high level. So you’d either have to move Williams to RT who might be a better LT than dillard. If the bengals want to move Williams to RT then smarter move for the bengals is likely signing Armstead of the saints who’s a free agent and keep their picks to fix the interior oline.  

Bang on. People don't care about this, they just think its Madden where you can change the guy's position in the editor and it's fine. No chance Dillard goes to Cincy, they have their LT. 

9 hours ago, BigEFly said:

Well, that was a boring Super Bowl.  Proved that the game is won in the trenches. Best play of the game may have been the stunt with Von. Miller and Donald. Man do our DTs need better than Barnett DEs and better LBs.  Interesting that the key defense for both teams matched Gannon’s approach.  Maybe he is better than given credit for.  Hopefully Howie gives a lot of the draft to him plus better free agents.

Fitting that a possession receiver who doesn’t have elite speed but runs great routes, has great hands and great body control won the game on offense and MVP.  Hope @eagle45 was watching that.  Speed at WR can be so overrated.

How many watched the speed of pulling the trigger of Burrows and thought "Hurts can’t do that ".

Glad I stuck around for the women’s monobob.  Man, I would love to take a ride in those sleds. USA USA   Of course, then we got PBS ballroom dancing on ice and I had to check out.

 

Gannon seems to have zone coverages that cover zones of grass on the field whereas the Rams and Bengals have zone coverages that understand getting in passing lanes, disrupting routes and making reads difficult.  

2 minutes ago, TorontoEagle said:

Bang on. People don't care about this, they just think its Madden where you can change the guy's position in the editor and it's fine. No chance Dillard goes to Cincy, they have their LT. 

Agree with this. They also passed on Dillard in the draft to take Williams.

Besides, they should just throw money at Ryan Jensen and/or Brandon Scherff. Get that elite presence on the interior, and use the draft for other positions. 

8 minutes ago, Desertbirds said:

Agreed. The Bengals lost because they were too conservative for most of the second half.

I mean Burrow got sacked like 4 times in the second half.  Mixon also helped them in the running game. 

26 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

I thought I was watching a checkdown competition most of the night... but ooookay.

How was Stafford's arm strength on that horrible INT he threw in the end zone?  "3rd and 14; it was like a punt".  No, it wasn't.  All they needed was a 6-8 yard completion to set up a FG.  Stafford tried for too much against a defense set up not to allow the big play, and his poor decision making got him burned.

The turning point of the game for me was when CIN didn't get 7 points right after his 2nd INT.  That was their chance to go up 24-13 and things might have snowballed.  Instead, the Rams D-Line stonewalled them and they settled for 3.  20-13 was still easy to come back from.