Ya Digg?

You’re joking about your trade offer right? It’s important to me to know that you’re joking…Epenesa and a 2nd aren’t enticing in any trade, let alone for arguably the 3rd best pass rusher in the league

The only concern for me is Bass because it’s a leg injury. Even then, they could pick up a kicker that can give them a lot of what Bass does. There’s still over a month until the first game, so while the list is long if there was a game probably 95% of those guys would be practicing and playing

Because you’re clearly confused to what’s happening here since the situations aren’t even remotely the same. If you’re gonna go the extreme route, at least make an attempt to reference a similar situation

Come on you know that’s not how it works around here-we don’t celebrate players coming back from injury, we only complain about players being injured! Get your head out of your ass man!! 😬

Wait, he’s doing everything people wanted him to do. He showed up, he has practiced, he has been quiet…literally everything people have demanded of him. What do you now want him to do?!?!

This is really small minded thinking

Oh god, can you imagine the complaining people would’ve done around here during that time? Can’t pay them both, Bruce is a diva….so many opportunities missed!!

Seems weak to me, especially the Jackson comment. But you do you. Hope he changes your mind Go Bills!

Yeah but you’re bashing him for mistakes, but ignoring when he makes a play…seems like hate to me

That would be AWESOME! Both things!!!

What color helmet does Josh come out in? I think he throws on the red helmet again…or perhaps the rivals helmet!

MAYBE Epenesa?!?! What are we doing here?? Be realistic

FIFY

You will, and deservedly so

That’s not how things work around here, you know that! Look at how many “experts” we have now from a video! Doom and gloom!!!!! They should just cut off the leg!

Also, what’s the over/under on pages before people start blaming Beane and the strength staff for the injuries…my initial thought is 1.5 pages

Yeah but it sounds more doomy and gloomy if you just throw out a random draft round, makes it seem like they know what they’re talking about

Relax, not every thread needs to turn into a “the Super Bowl is the only thing, everything else sucks” It’s like always getting vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles, try to enjoy life once in a while

One bad practice on the first day means his role should now be punt returns? man, this is a tough crowd

The kid would be signed by now if the Bengals weren’t pulling this crap. He was ready and excited to sign with them but they messed it up. It was the teams/owners that wanted the rookie contracts to slot guys and essentially be idiot proof, but they didn’t count on the bengals being this big of idiots

Perhaps, but will it still be in a year or two when Chris Jones is a little older, perhaps not as dominating, or might even be off the team?

You know that guys are allowed to be good players even without a Super Bowl win, right?

Not an expert, but from what I have read/heard the difference between what the Bengals are doing and what other teams have done is the vagueness in the contract that the Bengals are using and the extremeness in terms of money. Essentially even trying to take back “guaranteed” money if they release him before the end of the contract

Football is such a weird sport/business because it seems to be the only sport where fans OVERWHELMINGLY side with the billionaire owners. If he signs the current contract it does in fact potentially screw over future players. From what I understand the Bengals have made the wording intentionally vague. It does not say legal trouble makes it so they can void the entirety of the remaining contract, it just says trouble. So they could conceivably look at “trouble” as he showed up late to a couple of meetings, got fined, and now they can use that against him. its an unnecessary thing they are trying to put into the contract. If no other player has ever had this in their contract, why should Stewart accept it in his?

Don’t seems like you’re trying to paint these rookies inaccurate a bad light, but in both cases it’s the team. It’s the team that “overdrafted” the QB, it’s the teams at the top of the second round that gave unprecedented fully guaranteed deals to those guys, it’s the Bengals trying to slide something completely unheard of into their first round pick’s contract. it’s rarely ever a rookie’s fault when these things don’t get signed now (not saying it doesn’t happen) it is almost always the teams trying to put something over on these guys