We talked about we would do if we were running things for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Let's talk about what we think they will do in this year's free agency
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let's start with what we think the Bengals are going to do in free agency.
We have an endea. Yeah, well of course we do, right,
We've spent weeks months talking about it, thinking about it, and the
Bengals. First things first, I do think they're going to be aggressive.
I think Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube and
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because they just have a lot of holes to fill. Jake and I expect
them to address defensive tackle, and address right tackle, and sign a tight
end or multiple, address the weird safety market and take advantage of that by
getting someone in that room a veteran and is that a twenty four year old,
is that a thirty two year old? I think that element is interesting
at both defensive tackle and in mid twenties at least and safety. But I
expect the Bengals to be aggressive. I expect them to spend money. It's
really a matter of who do they spend it on. I think a big
priority, and probably their biggest priority, is in the tackle rooms. At
defensive tackle. I think they'll bring out an outside body in at least one,
and I expect them to sign a veteran right tackle that they think can
start if need be. Yeah, And it's challenging to find and we've talked
about this over the last week, where they're going to have a bigger contract
hit. It's challenging to get through all of their cap space. When you
go through some of the players, you expect them to sign for some of
the contracts that are projected. And by the way, Brad Spielberger has been
pretty on it for some of the bigger deals that have happened so far,
and it looks like he's wrong at first because the initial reports for contracts are
like, yeah, Ezra Cleveland three years thirty million, and then it turns
out as three years twenty four million, And Brad got the guarantees correct to
the dollar for Ezra Cleveland, for example. So that's happening but when you
look at his contract projections and the players we think the Bengals might go after,
and you put all that into what it would cost the Bengals from a
cap perspective, it's legitimately hard for me to find a way to spend all
their money. And they'll maybe do some extensions that'll bite into that as well,
like maybe we'll see an Evan McPherson extension this offseason. Maybe we will
see the Jamar Chase extension come a year earlier than it needs to come,
where they can do a fifth year after they have two more years of control.
But he's extension eligible the way they did with Burl last year, and
they are sent ofvized to do so, but Jamar Chase is incentivized to wait.
By the way, But outside of some bigger money extensions for guys on
the team, which could be what they're carving out money for James, it's
hard to figure out where they're spending money in free agency and where they're making
a splash if we're excluding guys like Christian Wilkins and Chris Jones, which we
more or less are. Yeah, I agree, and so I don't want
to completely exclude Wilkins. I think it's like we made that mistake last year,
right zo point zero three percent. I think it's very low. There's
a chance, and it's the Jim carry this, So you tell me there's
a chance. There's a chance, and so never say never, because we
know he's hitting the market. And so if he's hitting the market, could
they go that route? Yeah? They could. And yet I look at
this defensive line arena and to me, what do I think they want to
keep? I think that keeping him doesn't it doesn't satisfy my question marks about
that defensive tackle room because I just don't know what he's going to be post
injury. I get there aren't many concerns, Like it just feels like everyone
thinks he's going to bounce back again and be fine, and he very well
could be. Can the Bengals bank on that? I don't think that they're
as high on this draft class a defensive tackle as some and so this idea
that they're taking a defensive tackle at eighteen and that's how they suck, I
don't think that's super realistic either, and so I want to see a lot
of the money go towards defensive tackle and if it's not Christian Wilkins. To
your point, are they going Tier Tart plus Sheldon Rankins plus DJ Reader.
I don't think they do that either, even though that's kind of what I
would do, is I would be prioritizing it to that level and getting multiple
bodies in that mid tier, not just one, and not just Reader and
a piece. That's what I would do. To me, I think they
try to bring back Reader and then add one and I'm going to be here
two three weeks from now, like, all right, well that's probably not
enough, even if you do add a defensive tackle in the draft. But
what do we think they're going to do. So, say they're prioritizing DJ
Reader, they really would like him back. Say we take them at their
word for what they said at the combine where they're trying to find a way
to bring him back. They find a way to bring Reader back. They
presumably know more about his injury and recovery than we do. He's been in
the building every day, as Luen and Reumo pointed out at the Combine,
doing his rehab, which will stop perhaps by the time you listen to this
episode when the new league year, will probably not by the time you've listened
to this episode. But when the new league year hits in his contract officially
expires, he can, I think technically because legal tampering isn't the new league
year? Yeah, I think Monday he could be working out there, yes,
And so you know how awkward that would be if it's like, hey,
the insert whatever team is willing to offer you this, all right,
let's go there, and he's like, all right, let me finish up
working out. I don't know if we'll be there on money. You probably
stay home from school that day. And I wonder, right, so,
if we're talking about defensive tackle, they're one hundred signing a nose tackle?
Is that DJ Reader? Is that Grover Stewart? Is that Tier Tart?
Is that a lower dollar player like Raykwon Davis, Ashan Robinson, Poona Ford
going down the list? Right, that's what we need to determine. I
think their Plan A is DJ Reader. I think their Plan B is Tier
Tart, And perhaps both of those things are actually Plan A. But I
think that they probably only want to spend big money on one nose tackle,
and then you need a Josh Chupo replacement, and that's where you start to
talk about some of those lower dollar guys like the Puna Foord the World,
and I think that's kind of where they're starting. And I think you're also
looking for a depth piece at three Tech, and that's where I really wonder
how much money they'll spend if it is just the two million dollar Maurice Hirst
flyer or if it's something a little bit more substantial. I know that Javon
Kinlaw has been talked about quite a bit with all the potential he had coming
out of the draft, or if they go for the veteran the solid piece,
and we talked about and now what will we do the Shelby Harris.
Still hard to project them doing the one year deals for the thirty plus year
olds because they haven't done it. But if I were handicapping it, I
would think dj veaders plan A tier Tart's Plan B. And also in addition
to that, they're looking for a three Tech rotational piece. Yeah, I
agree, and they need to. They have to find something there. And
Kim Law fits the age profile. But is that do they think he can
produce at that level? I do wonder that I'm just looking here. Maybe
it is Maurice Hurst you know, maybe they go because to me, he's
he's the guy that could actually make the impact that you're looking for. I
will say this, they it feels like they're going to address it, thinking
that DJ Reader is going to be ready to go early in twenty twenty four,
early in the season, and I just I think that that's that scares
me a little because I just don't know, and I don't think they know,
and they're banking and there would be a little blind faith there. But
what do I expect them to do. I think they will sign Reader and
maybe you're right, miss out on a tart level guy, and then I
think they'll get in on one of these one of these guys. You know,
is it Rankins? Could they go Reader? Rankins? I think that's
that's thirty five million dollars on that's starter level money for three defensive tackles.
I don't think the Bengals do it. I mean, we've talked about this.
I don't think the Bengals like to play pay starter level money for aational
pieces. They haven't done it. We'll see that. And that's the dilemma
because I would be willing to in this class. It doesn't feel like it.
You're right, and so where do they spend it? Let's continue.
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profile, yep, twenty seven. But let's talk tackle. We've we've talked
defensive tackle to death. We think nose tackle for sure. I think DJ
Vaders plan a Grover Stewart might be one of their plans, if it's like
a two year deal. But just because of the age, I like it.
I like Grover Stewart, I do. And you're right, the age,
that's what's really tough. And I've seen some of the YouTube comments.
We're basing it. We're not agis against thirty year olds. The Bengals just
haven't targeted those guys in free agency. They immightly averse to it. They
they do it, they might have to a defensive tackle. They might have
to this year. Might yeah, because because like the class on the whole,
the texture of the free agency class on the whole is a little bit
older and not very top heavy and so like previous years where they've signed a
bunch of our tier three guys and our free agency list is out there.
You've got it on all Bengals dot Com, we've tweeted it, we sent
it out to our Lockdown Bengals insiders one day early joined subjects dot com slash
Locktown Bengals if you want to join that crew. But they've gone for these
tier three guys, these mid mid level money guys, and they've they've hit
They've been really really good there. They've been one of the best teams in
free agency in recent years. So they need to get back to that this
year and find those guys that were not anticipating being big difference makers and be
smarter than us again. Can it? Let me run a scenario bite if
they signed Tier Tart, What would you be okay with tartan Stewart even though
they're both kind of in the same realm with bj Hill like you think that
fits? Would I be okay? To? What do I think the Bengals
would do that? You you this is I know, this is what would
they do? But say Reader signs elsewhere they already have Tart under contract,
and then they pivot to Stewart and we're talking about those three and then who
knows that at that three tech roll, I think you still could go get
a Hurst for low end money. But how would you feel about that trio.
I think that it's solid, like you don't have a you don't have
a donkey to use, you know, the Paul Danner terminology there, like
the no donkeys theory on the interior defensive line. You could go that way.
Yep, No, I agree, And I think that's got to be
their mindset, especially if the big dog DJ gets away and there is a
chance he gets away, there's a chance they resign him. I think they
want him. I think we've seen it work out before them. We've seen
it not work out before. So we'll see their right tackle is going to
be an outside higher, that is mister outside higher. And who will it
be? This screams to me, Jake Mack i Becton. I think what
will they do? I think they may target him. He may be the
guy because he's almost twenty five, he's in mid twenties going into his prime.
Frank Pollack I assume believes in him since he was there with the Jets
when they picked him eleventh overall, and I think Beckton will look at it
as all right, I can go start there and I can go build my
NFL resume a bit with a guy that believed in me four years ago.
So to me, I think they signed Makai Beckton. I know we've talked
about Illuminaor and on WNU and Trent Brown. I think Beckton is high on
their list, and that's who I think they end up with. That's the
one that seems to make a lot of sense if they don't go that route,
they don't go for one of those topic guys. Because I wouldn't rule
out Trent Brown, I wouldn't rule out Makai Beckson. I think Makai Beckton
is threading the needle of some of the things they've talked about. You know
that the guy to rebuild his career, young, ascending pedigree, familiarity with
the offense of line coach. But maybe they look at their history and they
say, you know what, we've tried stuff like that before, and we
want somebody who has shown that he can do it for a longer period of
time. I do agree with you that I think becked in if we had
to pick a name out of a hat is the name that we would pick.
I don't know why there's not more thought about, like, what's the
difference if you're looking for a one year bridge option to your pick at eighteen,
which seems like a very likely potential plan A between Beckton for a year
with his injury history and the level of play he showed last year and a
guy like Cam Fleming who is very unexciting but has been a good pass protector
in the league for a long time. And if you're doing a one year
bridge option, how different is Cam Fleming from Riley Reef. I mean,
there's the difference. Riley Reef had a much higher peak, but at the
point in the career where you got Riley Reef. I mean, if you're
upset that they missed out on Chukuoma ocor for who went to New England,
you know, I see those guys as pretty similar pass protectors, and you
can look at other athletic younger guys coming off their first yeals of yosh Nijman
from from Green Bay as well. But it's really hard to find a right
tackle that checks all the boxes, which is why we keep coming back to
these short term solutions. Yeah, I was surprised they weren't in on a
core of four. The moment he got released, I thought, oh,
well, you could just try to get him and do it because the Patriots
have the need there and now it just it clears them to potentially address it
with their thirty fifth pick or whatever they have in the draft, and it
just gives them somebody right as they lose Trent Brown and potentially Mike and Wanu
two. So yeah, I was surprised that they're just there aren't a ton
of options. And I think they'll look at the age the profile of Bectin
and that will sway them to your point, if it's just one year anyway,
why And I think their answer would be, well, there's potential with
Bectin, and who knows, maybe he is good and then maybe he does
become part of the long term solution. I think it's a small percentage,
but I do think it's why he would have the edge over at cam Fleming,
where it's guaranteed it would be a one and done type scenario like Riley
Reef, which I think everyone knew going into it. It's a bit different
with Becton. If he does play well next year, say for them at
right tackle. I just want to really quickly check before we move on to
where Beckton has played lately. So he did play a little bit at right
tackle to start the year in twenty twenty three, but then was a left
tackle, and then you go back to his rookie year, I think he
was a left tackle all year. So he did play two games at right
tackle in the NFL and one of those was against Dallas. One of them
was against Buffalo early in the year. At least he's done it, so
there's that. Yeah. I really don't mind the upside swing there either.
It's just that's because the free agency group at right tackle doesn't offer terribly compelling
solutions and you're probably setting up to pick a guy in the draft, right
Yeah. Yeah, And that's really with any of these guys, even if
they signed Mike and Leno. I'd feel that way where you do it and
it's not preventing you. Now they might say it would prevent them, but
it's not preventing you. You do not want to prevent yourself from being able
to take a tackle and feel great about it at pick eighteen. That is
a good point. The money thing does not lie with the Bengals. If
they're paying you guys, starter level money, he's going to start for them,
probably the position they signed him to start. Look at teight Carris.
Yes, we talked about, Oh they can move Ted Harris to guard every
He's going to start at center for them next year. Man, I'm just
glad. I'm not glad he ended up with the Ravens, but I was
in on Lenarbaum that year. You know, we shouted from the mountaintops.
They weren't. I'm just glad they couldn't pass on him because if they would
have passed on him, I'd have been like, oh no, because he's
obviously really good. Let's get to all of the other positions. We spend
a lot of time on trenches. Look, it's a trench appropriately trench focused
free agency period for the Bengals. We expect them to be in and examining
it and as of now, we'll see. But let's get to safety and
running back and all of these other positions that we need to get to them.
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tight end, we got to hit safety, We got to hit running back.
Let's go let's start with tight end, but we could speed this up.
We know what they're gonna do. Let's go ty. I think they're
going to do. They are going to sign Hayden Hurst for the league minimum
because he's getting paid by the Panthers in twenty twenty four and he will be
free virtually for the Bengals this year. They're going to bring back Drew Sample,
They're going to bring back Tanner Hudson unless he gets a better offer than
they're willing to pay. I don't think they're willing to pay any of those
guys very much. They're going to go cheap with the position. Again.
I don't think they're in on Noah Fan who's now at the top, the
very top of the market, with Hunter Henry and Dalton Schultz signing deals before
free agency hits. You know, maybe they kick the tires on one of
the lower end guys like Kobe Parkinson Adam Troutman. Maybe they talk to Mike
Gaseki as well. They've passed on that up opportunity of the last few years
when maybe the price tag is more appealing to them this year. But there
is a pretty clear path that's tight yep, Hayden Hurst. I agree with
you on Kobe Parkets, and I think they could be in on him,
Tanner Huts and drews Hample. That's what I expect. Again, I never
expected them to break the bank for Noah Fan anyways, and now that I
expect him to get ten plus million per year because he's really the only guy,
so I think his projection is going to go up and it's not a
great class. I agree with you on tight end. Safety is interesting because
safety is something we've talked a ton about. I would be in on Jordan
Poyer for like two million bucks. I would try to steal him. And
yet I think they're going to go bigger than that and find someone in that
six set. We've talked about it and it frustrates me, but I just
think it's going to happen. That six to nine million dollar range is the
number you've thrown out to me like when we've messaged, and I feel like
that's accurate. I think that they're going to be in there. Will that
be enough to get as Javier McKinnie, Probably not, but I think you
could get a tier below that in a quality safety that they like. And
I don't love it, but I think that's what they're going to do.
And the NFL is going cheap at safety safety very much so at this point
seems to be the running back of the defensive position where the market just isn't
there, although the marketed positions that aren't tackles, quarterbacks or wide receivers in
the NFL is also just not exploding the way those positions are. But you
start to get to the Geno Stone Jordan Whitehead, I think that's who it
is. The group of guys. Sure, I think that maybe that's Plan
A right, and then one of those other guys could be Planned B.
Genostone, a guy they're familiar with, a guy that does the free safety
things. They want a guy that played in a complicated defense, the Mike
McDonald defense, which we talked about. You need to be a pretty smart
player to play in that defense the way that they disguise. They also will
have competition for Mike McDonald, who has no safeties in Seattle for Ginostone services.
Ginostone playing a thousand snaps for the Ravens last year. So one of
those guys start with Genostone sounds good to me. And then we can talk
running back, but there are a lot of options of safety. They're going
to sign a starting free safety to starting level money. They'll probably cut Nick
Scott as soon as that deal is done, and then we can talk about
running back. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with you. Running back is
interesting. I think they get cheaper there as well. I don't know exactly
who they like. I think Zach Moss makes sense, but I just think
the Clyde Edwards a layer thing. I've been on it, and maybe I'm
dead wrong, maybe they're not in I think that's someone that they could target
and sign really really cheap and open up their draft board and it would be
enough to get cheaper in that room and save money and use that elsewhere.
So that would be a guy to mention. But I do think Zach Moss
makes a ton of sense. But they also could like steal a DeAndre Swift
or someone of that tier because it's such a flooded market. It would not
shock me at all if they're able to stumble in kind of like safety to
someone like that. Yeah, I think they're trying to get cheaper at running
back is going to be the great thing. I do expect that they will
move on from Joe Mixon. I wouldn't say that's in stone. I think
the family might want to keep mixing around, but they want to get cheaper
the position. Mixon, I think, to his credit, does want to
stay in Cincinnati, but they've got that three million dollar roster bonus to negotiate.
Gus Edwards and Zach Moss are pretty similar tiers of player to me,
and both are projected to get the same two year, three point seventy five
million a year kind of contract. Danta Foreman, Dante Foreman, the Antonio
Gibson, clydevers A Layer, some other names. So if they wanted to
double dip and go like Zach Moss, clydevers a Layer and those guys combined
to cost probably a little bit less than mixing, you can see it.
And then they might draft a guy too, or maybe they go one drafted
guy and then bring somebody else in later. If their goal is to get
cheaper, I don't know why they wouldn't just go Chase Clyde and then draft,
you know. I think I think they just they want somebody with experience
like that, that guts. I'd where Zach Moskat a player too, sure,
and we'll see there. And I do wonder if those projections are too
high. I really do, because there's just so many last year, right,
Like it's weird. It is weird because I get it. I also
think somaj would be lost in this year's class because there's just so there's so
many. And also it maybe just means there's that tier doesn't get impacted,
but the high tier just comes down some that that could be what it is
too. From a crunching standpoint, do you think I'm trying to think here
cornerback? You've been in on corner a little bit. Do you think they
had a veteran I think I think so. I think a three million dollar
or so corner. That's the Christian Fulton s Dane Jackson's a Meek Robertson's of
the world, Rock Your Sin like that tier of corner. One of those
guys I don't have name. I don't have a specific target there. Fulton
is the guy that I keep coming back to. He's actually a second round
pick, not a first round pick like I thought he was. But Cheeto,
Cheeto, what about Cheeto? I think he comes back Okay, cheap,
cheap. I don't think he's going to have a big market. I
really don't. The way he has a big market is at the top of
this cornerback free agency group is just non existent. And I just I don't
think he's that. And maybe I'm wrong, you know, maybe there's a
team that says, let's go get him. But I would be a bit
surprised. Have we hit on all of them? Are there any dark horse
positions that you think we could be? Like, where are they going to
surprise us? I don't think they're signing a wide receiver Harrison, Butker,
I'm serious surprised. I think that there is a I don't think it's out
of the realm. We've talked about Kicker a punter. You said Butcker.
No, No, sorry, JEEZL, I did say Butker. Sorry wrong,
Kansas City. Good Look, why would I say Butker? Tommy Townsend,
Tommy Townsend, all right, Okay, my bad, Sorry money Mack.
You got your money mack nickname from this pod? All right, So
I'm sorry. I did not mean that. No, I think Tommy Townsend.
I think we've talked about where are they going to spend their money?
It would not shock me if they look up and they're like, can we
just solve this and be done? If anything, for McPherson, it would
be the kicker move the kicker. Well yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry,
but that would be surprising to me. It would, but it would
not shock me. But maybe that's where they spend money because we can't find
a place for them to spend this money. That's right. Maybe they're like,
hey, we have money to put them down. What will they do?
We'll put Tommy Townsend down. I will say this, it was the
door wasn't shut on it at the combine. Yeah, so if it's not
shut on punter, there's at least a chance. And he held for Evan
McPherson a Florida, So there's Oh, there's that. There you go.
Let's talk about this compensatory pick stuff real quick before we get out of here
real quick. So we have summarize what we think they will do. Yeah,
we have them signing Geno Stone or someone of that level, bringing back
DJ Reader, signing to your Tart Hayden Hurst, Mackay Beckton, a Zach
Moss level running back. Moving on from Joe Mixon and signing Tommy Townsend and
moving on from Mixon is not in Stone. We also have them moving on
from Nick Scott as well, and I don't miss anything. I don't think
Tyler Boyd is back. I don't think they have extended an offer. I
think you will go elsewhere in free agency and that that has run its course
in Cincinnati. Yeah, we've feeling about Tyler Boyd so quickly. On the
compensatory pick subject, the Cincinnati Bengals were awarded two sixth round compensatory picks by
the NFL Management Council, who manages all of the cop pick stuff every year,
and that was a bit of a surprise. We were expecting a fifth
for von Bell and a sixth I believe for samaj p Ryan or whatever other
free agent that would were. There were a couple of six round guys that
could have been the sixth round pick. Instead they get two six But Nick
Cordyo overthcap dot com, who tracks the compensatory projections every year with a now
public formula. By the way, this is not the black box it once
was. The new CBA publicized this formula. We know exactly how it works,
and he thinks that there might have been a mistake and the reason that
there might have been a mistake is the way that they figure out where the
cutoffs are for each round. Is this based on the percent of value compared
to the rest of the NFL in the top five percent of the NFL in
their formula, which is money, playtime, honors, give you some bonus
points for playtime and honors kind of tiebreakers. You get a list of eighteen
hundred or so players that go into the list, and according to that list,
there are some teams that maybe should have gotten more than they did.
And the reason for that is that, for whatever reason, this year there
were only sixty four players in the pool, or sixty two players in the
pool that would have qualified for third round picks. And you look at previous
years, and the lowest number of players that it's been to qualify for a
third round pick in the last ten years is ninety five. This year is
sixty two. It's typically ninety five to one hundred and five in that range,
right around one hundred players. This year, for some reason, it
was only sixty two, which leads us all to think. After Nick Cordy's
analysis and he points us out for the first time that something looks weird.
Something is off. This year probably primarily affects the forty nine ers and the
and the bills for Tremaine Edmans and Mike McGlinchey, but also could impact the
Bengals, where Jesse Bates is player number sixty three, and if the cutoff
is at sixty two, well that's just bad luck for the Bengals. However,
it's not quite so simple, because, like I said, usually there's
ninety five or more players in that top group that third round group. Orlando
Brown will be ninety one, so it's possible that both Orlando Brown and Jesse
Bates would be third rounders, still canceling each other out. It's also possible
that there's fewer players than ever in that third round cutoff, and that Jesse
Bates is a third rounder and Orlando Brown will remain a fourth rounder in the
formula, and the Bengals should have a third round cop pick. We'll see
if there are appeals made, but it does look like there's a potential error
this year because that third round cutoff at sixty two is a massive outlier compared
to the last ten years. Doesn't make any sense at all, and I
think there's a slim but not non exist chance. So the Bengals are actually
owed a third round. Cop pick, give me the third round, or
you know what that could be. That could be the running back everyone was
talking about. That could be the defensive tackle that we've talked about. Oh,
that could be so many different things. That could be the interior alignment.
Christian Haynes, come on down, I'm not good. I'll take the
third round. Or baby will be great. There you go, there's my
celebration. It would be. It would be a game changer. Honestly,
and by the time you listen to this, the NFL might have said something
about it. That's why we threw it at the end of the episode.
Hopefully that explanation made sense. I've tweeted about it as well. If you
want to read the explanation. I've got a bunch of tweets on the topic
that you can go check out on Twitter. But that's it. We'll be
back when the Bengals make a move or don't make a move. Well,
we'll talk about what's going on in day one of let's just call it free
agency. I know it's not the new league year, but it's legal tampering
periods of mouthful it starts. I don't know why they don't start it on
the eleventh. Who cares? Just make it free agency? That it doesn't
because because reasons I don't know. Anyway, the next time you hear from
us will be either recapping what the Bengals have done to start the free agency
period or what they haven't done and what players have left the field and are
no longer available for the Bengals to pick from. Hopefully we're talking about some
moves. We will have you covered here on a Lockdown Bengals as quickly as
possible for each of those moves. Until next time, Bengals fans enjoy the
last bit of calumn before free agency. Thanks for listening, who day,
and have a good one.