https://x.com/underdog/status/2088316939777069364?s=46
With a Batman and Robin of Hutch and a resurgent Alim and then waves of disrupters of all shapes and sizes could we finally be looking at the sort of pass rush that can cover up some back end warts?
Flip side, it’s just week 1 of the preseason. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and Preseason NFL football.
Good optimism
The flip side is the bengals are the bengals and still getting Joe Burrow killed even in preseason against backups
The Bengals are indeed the Bengals. And their OL has been problematic. Though they have invested quite a bit and I would imagine their baseline objective for the game was to keep Burrow clean. That they couldn’t do so against our backups is an intriguing case for some optimism IMO.
Hey their OL was pretty good down the stretch last year. Mims was popping off at least.
They’ve gotten better for sure. And it’s not like SGH and AH didn’t pass the eye test. They looked legitimately spry even by regular season NFL standards. IMO of course.
I have decided to take the approach with the defense that I once took with the whole org.
You suck until you prove otherwise. It does not stop me from rooting for them but I keep in mind that they seem to always fall short overall.
Now the org is solid and the only area of concern is defense
Seen former players mention it best.
Pre-season.
Most of em dont really try too hard to avoid injury.
Then you have the try hard guys going 120% to make the roster.
And the play calling and schemes are so vanilla
Ill see the potential but holding my optimism
Williams also lost a lot of weight, a la McNeil. Hoping he will be more than a space eater
I would typically agree but we’re talking about one of the most QB dependent teams trying to protect the league’s most fragile QB. As an OL are you really going to half ass it in that situation?
Yep, I’m cautiously optomistic with the current regime/team, but ultimately it’s all never ending hopium until there’a at least an NFC champ banner hanging, and preferably a SB trophy in that dusty ass, cobweb ridden trophy case.
Runner up banners?
I mean, it’s not my first choice…but seeing as how this team has never even been to a SB, I’m like a starving bumb fighting over a piece of moldy cheese
My fear is that we’ll become the dolphins of the 90’s. By the time they build a championship defense their offense had degraded to what the defense used to be.
He lost a lot of weight bc he apparently put on a lot of weight in the offseason… Guess he was around 375 
Maybe he’s just big boned.
