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Devonta Smith has been extended. They just added 4 void years to kick the can down the road. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/72390/devonta-smith

I agree with all of this, but I do think that Dorsey is a good QB coach. That's his best role.

Remember that time Scott Mitchell dressed up as Wayne Fonts for Halloween?

You joke, but I think the Bengals take questionable guys every draft because when a player from a big school drops due to character concerns, it's the only guy left on the board that they know. They also only draft guys from big programs. You could say that is a good strategy, but in this case, I think it's because their primary college scouting is Mike Brown and Duke Tobin watching college football games on Saturdays in Mike's man cave. And they're not watching Alcorn State.

Free Agency? That's just lazy GMing!

I think Wahley and Isiaah McKenzie should start a podcast with Dunne. Instead of Locked on Bills, they could call it Bash on Bills. It's not like they've got anything better to do.

The reason that we have to hear from these guys all the time is that Tyler Dunne's best friend in the whole world is Doug Whaley. The subtext of everything Dunne writes is that the Bills would be better off if his best bud was still GM.

Let's fire everyone and rehire the drought-era guys. They really seem to know what they are doing.

Marvin Lewis coached in Cincinnati for 15 seasons without winning a playoff game.

What, you're telling me I'm spelling Burroughs and Mae wrong?

Also true. I don't know about Pellisero, but Schefter's sources are agents and Rappaport's are front office personnel.

Also possible. But I am always skeptical of offseason news. Agents, teams, and players use leaks to manipulate narratives.

Pittsburgh calls Jacksonville about the possibility of a trade. Jacksonville leaks the call because they have no GM so no leadership in the office. Pittsburgh doesn't like that, so they called Pelissero and gives them that info. They won two games without scoring a TD.

That's how they make free-agent decisions.

Why hire scouts when you can use Mel Kipers Big Board?

He's almost Bengals material now. A couple of road rage incidents involving firearms ought to do it.

It's not. It's just that the Jets made it public today. But the actual story last week was that the Jets wanted him back, but only if he attended all off-season activities like OTA and minicamp. He refused.

Adams is going wherever Rodgers goes. I think back to the Raiders.

Raiders.

Next thing you're going to tell me is that rubbing crystals on my nuts and tripping on Ayahuasca won't make me an NFL QB!

Nobody is denying his talent at QB in his prime. He's a first-ballot HoFer. He is just really prickly from a personality standpoint and is no longer worth the headache. He's also not "all-in" on football any longer. Last year, he skipped mandatory minicamp to go on a trip to Egypt with friends. He then got Salah fired, dividing the locker room on a team that was still in the playoff mix. He also forced the Jets to bring in his Packers buddies, creating a rift between Aaron's guys (Nate Hackett, Lazard, Cobb, and then Adams) and the rest of the Jets offense, including young stars like Breece Hall and Garret Wilson. He did all this stuff in GB, but he was worth the trouble then. Now he's not.

It probably happened because the Jags don't have a GM.

I was in the process of typing out a long version of this when you posted. Cincinnati can't complete in MLB due to market size, and our Metro area + Dayton's metro has over 3 million people. Being a fan of a small-market baseball team sucks. You're essentially a developmental team for the big market clubs. In Cincinnati, we're all just enjoying Elly De La Cruz and anticipating his eventual trade to the Dodgers. NBA players won't play in cold-weather small markets.

I don't think that the Bills should consider acquiring him. But the Bengals bleed talent on D every offseason. It hit a critical mass this year and is the reason they didn't make the playoffs despite record offensive performance. This would be another hit, and it happening at a time when their franchise QB is demanding more and more investment in keeping his offensive weapons together because he's afraid of playing without an all-pro team around him.