Sources: Four-time Pro Bowl tackle and Super Bowl champ Orlando Brown Jr. is finalizing a four-year, $64.092 million front-loaded deal with the #Bengals that includes an over $31M signing bonus — largest ever for an o-lineman.
Originally Posted by kccrow:
Veach is studying all the speed rushers in the draft again tonight. He gonna blow this dope's doors off if we meet again in the playoffs because Cincy doesn't like to give help either.
These cats looking reallllly good right about now:
Derick Hall
Will McDonald
Felix Anudike-Uzomah
Adetomiwa Adebawore
Man I want Adetomiwa Adebawore but will probably have to trade up from the end of the 2nd to at least mid 2nd to get him. [Reply]
The Bengals contracts often don't look as good up front as other teams. They rarely have any guarantees beyond year 1. But the difference is the player will actually see all the money in the contract. Bengals are known as a very loyal franchise with regard to coaches and players & they don't get into the game of huge backloaded deals & dummy years etc just to impress people. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
Orlando had a 30% pressure rate against the Bengos last year?!?!?! :-)
WTF are they thinking.
There's gotta be an espionage aspect to this deal. They saw their DL give Orlando plenty of trouble. But maybe they are hoping to gain knowledge of KC's playbook and such. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Balto:
Didn’t Pats and his kid have playdates? Maybe his kid pushed Pats princess down and Pat said your gone!!!!
It was just him and Patrick that took their kids out on Halloween. He was at the big party in Vegas and the power and light SB celebration with Patrick and Kelce.
I’m sure Patrick has adapted that it’s not in his interests to let personal feelings on a player get in the way of winning. Having a player on the practice squad for 4 years is one thing, not this level. [Reply]
Originally Posted by B_Ambuehl:
The Bengals contracts often don't look as good up front as other teams. They rarely have any guarantees beyond year 1. But the difference is the player will actually see all the money in the contract. Bengals are known as a very loyal franchise with regard to coaches and players & they don't get into the game of huge backloaded deals & dummy years etc just to impress people.
They also don't have any Lombardi trophies [Reply]
The real question is how does this affect their ability to retain players moving forward. Assuming they ain't bullshitting and keep Higgins, and they'll certainly keep Chase and Burrow...the rest of that roster is gonna be paper thin. [Reply]
I think I would've slightly preferred OBJ at that price point to Williams given continuity, etc, but Veach may have pivoted earlier and OBJ's demands may have only dropped as the last couple days evolved.
Regardless, it's a close call and it'll be fun having new blood on the OL that we think has a higher ceiling. [Reply]
Originally Posted by TwistedChief:
I think I would've slightly preferred OBJ at that price point to Williams given continuity, etc, but Veach may have pivoted earlier and OBJ's demands may have only dropped as the last couple days evolved.
Regardless, it's a close call and it'll be fun having new blood on the OL that we think has a higher ceiling.
im positive that we would have given him that same contract. So why didn’t we? Did Brown take it personal when we didn’t make his a top 5 paid LT? [Reply]
