Cedric Benson is acting childish. The NFL Combine is kicking off. Mock drafts are in full charge. This must be the offseason. But only in name. The truth is that there is no offseason. There is no period in which writers like us at Cincy Jungle get time off. There is no time for Bengals fans to sit back because there's too much to speculate on, too much conjecture or fantasy forecasting. Wait until free agency kicks off, the visits, the rumors, the false reports launching a conveyor-belt of updates. And let's not forget the hours after the NFL Draft when teams sign undrafted free agents, often reported from obscure sources. It's the NFL offseason and we wouldn't have it any other way.
0 recs | 34 comments
any word if we have been talking to other FA?
AMAS85 - February 22, 2012
RE:
Can’t, unless they are not signed with another team. Players that will become free agents are still signed to their team and if the Bengals talked to those players, it would amount to tampering.
Josh Kirkendall - February 22, 2012
ahhh ... well it looks like im getting ahead of my self lol
at least we still have the combine to look forward too
AMAS85 - February 22, 2012
RE:
Don’t worry. I’m antsy too. If for anything, to be done with the NFL draft. It drives me nuts. LOL.
Josh Kirkendall - February 22, 2012
thats what I'm saying
to much speculating going on around this time, makes my head spin. I think any fan can relate to thinking their team is definately going to do one thing, but their team always seems to do another.
Can’t wait to see what direction we are going in as far as the draft and FA, but by the way we are solidifying our coaching staff, the sky is the limit.
AMAS85 - February 22, 2012
+1
whodeycommish14 - February 22, 2012 via mobile
You know what we need?
Someone to do a mock draft! I haven’t seen any of those around here and those typically put any speculation to rest.
n8dogg - February 22, 2012
+1,000,000,000,000,000 and 1
lol jk. they are fun to look at, and no way could I find all these different mock drafts by myself. It’s also going to be cool to see how our own Joe stacks up vs actual draft positions and the other “respected” mockers.
keithster - February 23, 2012
one of us should start a site called "mocking the mock" as well.
wait thats been done already
palewook - February 23, 2012
lol thats funny you should say that because I just completed my first one a few days ago
I would have done it sooner but I was trying to wait a little for the mocks to die down lol. Never really happened.
AMAS85 - February 23, 2012
everyone of us here at this time of year
is ill, we have it bad. sometimes for life too.
(things get slow enough, i’ll post a picture my mom gave me the other day. short story of it, 35+ year old image of me sledding with group of friends, of course i’m the kid in the bengals hat – even back then.)
palewook - February 23, 2012
Heres My List of Sleeper at the DB Position
Trumaine Johnson DB Montana
Asa “Ace” Jackson CB Cal Poly
Janzen Jackson S McNeese State
Josh Robinson CB UCF
DeQuan Menzie DB Alabama
Josh Norman CB Coastal Carolina
Casey Hayward CB Vanderbilt
Micah Pellerin CB Hampton
Touhue Cha - February 22, 2012
Trumaine Johnson would be better at safety.imo
Bengal4ever - February 22, 2012
True thats why he is a DB because he can play almost anywhere in the back 4
Touhue Cha - February 22, 2012
I really like Robinson.
sexsalad - February 22, 2012
Hayward
Out of Vandy is a good football player. Watched him a couple times this season. I see him as a Nickel in the League. Anxious to see what he times out at. They’re saying he’s around a 4.5.
whodeycommish14 - February 22, 2012 via mobile
Loving Josh Norman
More and more
biggie22 - February 22, 2012
Ladarius Webb
I keep hearing people says we should go after Mike Wallace because it will fill a position of need and hurt a divional oppenent is the process. Couldn’t the same thing be said about Ladarius Webb of the Ravens.
I’m not neccessarily a proponent of going after either one just wanted to see what’s everyones thoughts are because Baltimore appears to be having cap issues as well
biggie22 - February 22, 2012
i guess it all depends on how much they are going to have to pay Rice.
Hope the bengals are prepared to resign Geno, Andy and AJ early because I would be pulling my hair out if one our core players was this close to becoming available to the open market.
I really think the bengals learned their lesson with JJO.
AMAS85 - February 22, 2012
from my gathering
by the time andy and a.j.an be re-signed there should be a jump of the salary cap by 20-30mill, been keeping an eye BTSC, and they are trying to explain why they keep backloading contracts because they were hoping that jump was gonna be this year.
joeb69 - February 22, 2012
*can be re-signed
joeb69 - February 22, 2012
well the steelers are going to be sh*t of luck no matter what because they keep pushing their overages on the next's cap
and they keep doing it, eventually it will catch up with them and they are going to be in big trouble.
But as far as the cap increase, i haven’t heard anything about it, but that would be awesome if does go up that much. AJ’s contract is going to be riduculas. Lol
AMAS85 - February 22, 2012
thats a huge jump
They can be signed after 2 more season right.
JCompton41 - February 22, 2012 via mobile
yep
a minimum of 3 years NFL experience before being re-signed
joeb69 - February 22, 2012
I think the other aspect of this is analyzing contracts down the road.
Yes, we will have to resign important players but we shouldn’t cripple ourselves now because of it.
Doc Scratch - February 23, 2012
I agree
Webb didn’t even give up a td last year. I would much rather spend money and a pick on a player that we actually need. Don’t know if I would go after either one but if I did I would go after Webb.
EPK1979 - February 22, 2012
i'd absolutely talk to webb
on day 1 of FA, and probably call his agent daily until he either signed with another team or came to cincy for a visit.
palewook - February 23, 2012
Ladarius Webb
i wouldn’t mind securing him, he’s young and it would hurt the ravens. not sure of his free agency value, if you pay him based off of last season, he’s probably getting top 15 corner money, prior to last season, then you’re paying him starter’s money but not top 15 money.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/12747/lardarius-webb
maybe he’d take something splitting the difference? 5 million a year for 5 years with a base bump of 500k per season in season 2-5. including a chance at 2.5 million per season in incentives.
i’m still fearing he’s a system guy or a 1 year wonder. probably not the case, would hate to cripple the team long term signing him to a 10+ million dollar a year deal and he scores 1 int for his entire career in cincy while becoming toast with almost not pass defends.
palewook - February 23, 2012
Well then...
That being said… Its time to get busy and build a team of good quality players around these two guys. Their rookie contract will be up before we know it….
Makebelieve - February 22, 2012 via mobile
I was talking to a friend today
and we were talking a little football (he’s a Pats fan). I told him I was excited for the combine to start and he said dude you have an addiction…lol….It was the nicest thing he ever said to me.
Helmsy - February 22, 2012
Oh I hear ya Helmsy.
Football is life in my family and with my friends. Sure I have Kentucky and the Reds but football is year round with me. You know what though? Not a damn thing wrong with it haha. Who dey?!
whodeycommish14 - February 22, 2012 via mobile
Not one thing
Who Dey
Helmsy - February 23, 2012
When does the combine start?
i thought it was today but NFL.com had last years combine to watch “live”. Needless to say, I was confused
AZBengal18 - February 22, 2012
who dey =)
palewook - February 23, 2012
You must Login with your SB Nation account and be a member of Cincy Jungle to post a comment.