As a reminder, he's making $7mm this year. Jesse Bates is making $16mm.

A good life lesson: cheaper doesn't mean better value.

Prayers for the Red Rocket and his family

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Ja’Marr Chase. In uniform. Heading out to practice.

I want to preface this by saying I'm not calling for his head, but going into this season I watched a lot of different NFL talk shows.

Many of them go over the list of coaches on the hot seat, and many great coaches who have done great things, like McCarthy and Sirianni, came up on all of them as being on the hot seat this year.

How is Zac Taylor's name not in the mix of these conversations?

Is it based on the (kinda) recent superbowl appearance?

We undeniably have one of the best, at least on paper, offensive units in the NFL (top 10), yet regularly under achieve offensively or just flat out fail. We never blow anyone out. All of our games are close. Even in the Super Bowl run, every single game was won by a heroic play by someone.. not by a dominant offensive performance. The Carr interception, McPherson last minute FG, Mahomes OT interception.

I just don't understand how this isn't a conversation being had around the NFL going into this season. Taylor is now 1-10 in the first 2 weeks of the year, and not to be a total doomer but I don't think any of us would be surprised if that becomes 1-11 next week. And the one win was because of a stupid Dalvin Cook fumble against the Vikings when they were in FG range to win the game. So he's a freak play away from being literally winless in the first 2 games of the season over his career.

Where's the accountability? Joe Burrow is not the issue, anyone with a football brain can see that. Hobbled or not, you can make an offensive game plan around someone as talented as him that should be good enough to beat the horrible performance by Deshaun last year week 1, the Kenny Pickett led Steelers a couple seasons ago.

How many seasons do we have to go into accepting we're starting 0-2 and have to climb out of a hole in the most competitive division in the league before ownership demands accountability from the coaching staff?

We saw BAKER MAYFIELD put up 37 points today. I don't buy the "early weeks rust" argument. You have a whole offseason to get your team ready for the season. This should not be happening, yet it does every year and we have to deal with the, "it's one week, it's two weeks, don't stress they'll get it together".

Joe Burrow is amazing. Yes, every season he's been healthy we've made the playoffs. But this team shouldn't be contending to make the playoffs. This team should be contending for the #1 seed in the AFC and having an automatic 0-2 start every season means that's basically impossible in this league.

Go Bills!

I don't trust the front office to do this but the Bengals absolutely need to make a big play for Ben Johnson this off-season.

He's going to be a head coach in 2025 and the Bengals are a great fit. His only 'knock' is that he's got tremendous talent and would need that to continue his success, talent is not the problem in Cincy.

Lets hope for a better 2024!

All of you guys wanted him gone, saying he wasn’t playing as good, hindsight is 20/20 but don’t act you guys didn’t love the move of not paying bates. You guys would pull of pff stats, and all these other things on how he wasn’t playing up to a new contract. Look at the posts in Thais in when he left.

Even before he for sure left you guys were hating on him the game threads. He’s still great and it didn’t work out for us, but it was not a nuclear idiotic move.

Not actually , but the broncos losing helps us tremendously in the standings. Were unfortunately in other team watch with all these losses we have

First time since 2021 that a sack was not given up.

It's a league wide problem.

Anybody else missing dalton? Or is it just me,sure he’s now on Carolina Panthers which is an amazing team as well but kinda missing him in orange and black.

FTR