Hopefully Jones has cleaned his act up and can help the Bengals at a position they need help at.
Hopefully Jones has cleaned his act up and can help the Bengals at a position they need help at.
Mike Brown spends to the salary cap because he doesn't know how to manipulate it like the rest of the league does. If a different team in the league had the contracts Brown did, they would've done maneuvers to make room under the cap and obtain more expensive, talented players.
True, Brown's certainly conservative on that front. He's stated his desire to avoid having the contracts build up over the years, though he's shown more creativity on that front recently with the contracts that Chad and Carson signed specifically. Eventually the cap comes back to bite everyone but I wish he'd be more creative about it.
I will start to rethink my position of Mike Brown being cheap once the team has a practice bubble and an adequate scouting department.
I'm not sure how I feel about buying tickets & merchandise for the Bengals that help make Mike Brown rich, while he continues to field a traditionally mediocre to poor team, with a roster of guys that have well-documented police blotters.
According to the police report an officer witnessed him cutting up some coke in the car. He wasn't some innocent bystander on this one.
http://static.katv.com/news/jones2.pdf
Personally, I don't buy Matt Jones' story one bit, but I just mean to say he's not a violent offender or someone who is constantly in the spotlight for his misbehavior. His second arrest was for testing positive for alcohol. Sure, it was dumb and inconsiderate of him, but is that really such a big sign that he's going to constantly be in trouble for his ways?
I read they signed kicker Dave Rayner to replace Graham.
Matt Jones' only problem is he has to quit doing the Coke. And, it has to be for a while. After that "while" happens, he has to work his tail off and get into shape mentally and physically. If all of that happens, he'd be an asset to the team.
"....the two players I liked watching the most were Barry Larkin and Eric Davis. I was suitably entertained by their effortless skill that I didn't need them crashing into walls like a squirrel on a coke binge." - dsmith421
WKRC Cincinnati confirms that the Bengals have no plans to retain free agent K Shayne Graham.
The Bengals are dumping Graham, their 2009 franchise player, after one bad season out of the last several. Someone's going to get a pretty good kicker in free agency. Graham is only 32 and offers lots of leg strength.
Graham may be accurate but his leg strength leaves a lot to be desired especially on kick offs.Graham is only 32 and offers lots of leg strength.
If you have a losing record at Reds games, please stop going.
Rotoworld's comments are inaccurate about his leg strength. He's not horrible, but they imply that he's worth the risk of making very many 50+ attempts on a season. That's just not true, especially with the new rules where the other team gets the ball back from the point where the kick was made from and not the line of scrimmage.
Someone will get a good kicker, but you just can't keep a guy who choked so badly for you.
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