NFL Talks: Bengals' Defense and Contractual Issues

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00:00this once again we are going to talk some nfl football and getting ready for it's otas it's

00:04not mandatory they're mandatory now but if you don't want to show up you don't have to but you

00:09can get fined and some guys trying to get contracts out here which we're going to bring up which

00:13includes the same division a couple of high-priced veteran outside slash defensive end pass rushers

00:20here want their money ben and if they ain't getting their money they're holding out for that

00:24money yeah drs that is the story right now as we begin as we told you in the opening hour big news

00:32yesterday out of cincinnati the day prior to the bangles all reporting for mandatory minicamp but

00:38just to make that distinction mandatory minicamp with an excuse absence you are fine or you could

00:45be fine for missing out different than voluntary otas but again if you're not there there's

00:51generally a reason for it well a guy who will not be there as he is no longer a part of the

00:57organization jermaine pratt released by cincy yesterday one of their defensive captains you

01:04see the c on his chest right under that right shoulder pad he was also the bangles leading

01:10tackler 143 total tackles a season ago that was top 10 around the national football league for an

01:18atrocious defensive unit drs why in the world would you want to get rid of your leading tackler

01:24who like a guy we will discuss in just a moment trey hendrickson also requested a trade earlier this

01:31offseason no trade partner was found jermaine pratt cut yesterday by the bangles i don't know if

01:39anybody's left on that defensive side of the football which includes the defensive coordinator

01:43luana ramo who many people liked here until it said look man i don't have much you know toys to

01:48work with over here on my defensive side so maybe he winds up in indianapolis and follows him along

01:52with that path but having said that about the bangles it's basically what wilson as your one

01:56linebacker that's back and a lot of people we don't know how they can perform and maybe this is

02:01by design but i don't know what design is like hey man let's just load up on offense and give

02:05nothing to our defense because understand this most of the players that they brought back for high

02:09price right correctly if i'm wrong like joe burrow played last year jamar chase played last year t higgins

02:13played last year and a lot more players in that defense played last year now the defense is gone

02:16and ben they still didn't make the playoffs last year so what do we expect this year for them to

02:20throw for 5500 yards with their quarterback and multiple 1500 yard receivers in their uh you know

02:26wide receiver room and then say our defense just keep us close and under 30 points for the other team

02:32i don't know what's going on that defense yeah neither do idrs new defensive coordinator in

02:37cincinnati is al golden who was the defensive coordinator last year at notre dame of course

02:43with the 17th pick in that opening round the bangles did draft shamar stewart the talented

02:48ed rusher out of texas a&m is he at mandatory minicamp no he hasn't signed his rookie deal yet

02:55because of some weird contingencies in terms of guaranteed money for the bangles and new this

03:02morning drs from nfl network's tom pellicero trey hendrickson as we could have expected but not

03:08expected to report to minicamp for the bangles as hendrickson and his reps have not made any progress

03:16on a new deal with cincinnati and the bangles have not really seemed all that interested in honoring

03:22hendrickson's trade request to move him somewhere else this is a guy in trey hendrickson who has stacked

03:28up 17 and a half sacks in back-to-back seasons last year led the nfl in sacks finished runner up in

03:36defensive player of the year and the bangles are like yeah buddy we're not so sure if you're a part

03:41of our future again this is why donnie and i have bemoaned the bangles atrocious atrocious front office

03:50for the last year plus you can pay jamar chase you can pay t higgins you can make them the highest paid

03:57non-quarterbacks in nfl history that's chase or the highest paid secondary wide receiver we have

04:03ever seen in the nfl that's fine had you done that last year you have financial freedom and flexibility

04:10to also pay trey hendrickson and jermaine pratt and improve on the worst defense or one of the worst

04:18defenses we saw in the nfl a season ago and even if they were mediocre at the tail end of last season

04:26drs they were not nearly good enough to at least allow the bangles to become a playoff team which

04:32is why there are so many questions on cincy's outlook entering 2025 yeah and we always like to

04:39poke fun at the front office because that's what it leads to and i always look at teams like that and

04:42say boy it's just a shame that you have a family ownership group in here that's just about the bottom

04:47line and we'll see what happens on the football field generally do they want to win they probably do

04:52but it's a bigger win to see that bank account absolutely inflated as opposed to deflated when

04:56you have to sign your better players and understand this like the devious part of me is like you know

05:00what they love this on the bangles you're telling me i have a high price veteran that's going to sit

05:05out in this this weekend and i can find him a hundred thousand dollars for this they're popping champagne

05:09bottles and say like everybody they hope they hope like jamar chase sits out even though he just signed

05:13the contract boy you know how much money the hundred thousand dollars into my back pocket here because

05:17this guy wants to hold out of course i'm going to make these guys lives as miserable as possible

05:22in hoping they don't show up at this point this should have been taken care before the draft you

05:26want to pay him you don't want to pay him but if you don't want to pay him you can trade him and you

05:31can use that trade draft capital here on draft night here and get yourself another defensive end to sort

05:36of replace him so now you're heading into camp and if you move them now let's just say for a second

05:40round pick you can't use it this year you got to wait till next year's draft it doesn't help your

05:44football team so they better be operating on the premises and we are going to sign him we just want

05:48a better deal or the one i always like is now how much does he make next year let's just say 17

05:53million well if he holds out we can take a million dollars a week from i could put him in my back

05:57pocket that's what the brown family's thinking instead of saying how do i get this guy on the

06:01football field so we can actually have a semblance of a defense yeah an assemblance of a defense might

06:08even be a stretch at this moment drs for cincinnati by the way tj watt is not reporting

06:16the mandatory minicamp for the pittsburgh steelers the guy that led the nfl and sacks the year prior

06:22in 2023 with 19 and finished defensive player of the year runner up as he is looking for a new contract

06:29extension as well here's the bangles outlook for 2025 drs nine and a half the win total on cincinnati

06:36they are favored to make the playoffs at minus 176 second best price to win the afc north fourth

06:43best number behind that big three of baltimore buffalo and kc to win the afc championship and an

06:4918 to 1 price on cincinnati to win a super bowl there should be some buy-in prices on the bangles

06:56but not if you don't have a defense we'll discuss the bangles a little bit further on the other side

07:02of the break before we turn our attention to the association up next

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