Significant text for this sub's speculation: "The draft will obviously bring help, and a handful of small signings can still fill out depth. There’s always potential for this year’s Dalton Risner or Noah Fant to arrive over the summer. Yet, the Bengals are largely done with significant veteran additions for this offseason."

For those "it's only March" people, the team is seemingly not interested in vets, regardless of where we are now in the offseason and FA period.

For those "what's next" people, apparently nothing.

For those "Dehner is a hack" people, move along, you won't believe this anyway.

Anyway, sounds like we can put a cap on FA for now. There is no help coming.

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  1. Oh, and it was all about the comp picks, all the time. Make of it what you will.

  2. If we don’t make the playoffs this season, you can go ahead and pencil in using our first round pick in 2027 on Joe’s replacement 🥲

    It’s like he’s already planning on it with how much time he’s spent in LA this offseason

  3. It’s never a good feeling when a team puts itself in such a position that they can’t select BPA in the draft, and the Bengals certainly can’t. They have to draft for the holes and cross their fingers. Still, I have to believe the defense will be better than it was last year.

  4. The little decisions on the cap which limits the players we can bring in is really getting me to the end of my rope.

  5. Love the team. Hate the ownership. No clue how you can pay Burrow/Chase/Higgins and not be willing to go hard to help them win. I will say the 2027 draft is supposed to be very good so maybe there is some tactic there but this was a a disappointing showing from Katie/Duke. I like all 3 signings and if they nail some of the early picks in the draft for defense it should be a much improved unit to balance out with the offense more. It sucks but the 3 additions are at least very solid and positions if need.

  6. Dehner also said some days ago: “a move at linebacker will be coming.how aggressive that ends up could make the entire League sit up and pay attention.”

  7. If you want an answer to how the Front Office operates, here’s your article. They are uncompromising on future flexibility.

  8. draft will obviously bring help….it might bring starters but that doesn’t mean they’re going to help

  10. This team is done. Burrow era is about over. Many fans will be leaving with it.

  11. So weird how similar the Lakers & Bengals front office have been ran into the ground “to preserve flexible cap space this summer” forever.

  12. Honestly it’s just sad that their conservatism is so deeply rooted that they still can’t go “all-in” despite saying they want to go “all-in” in during the core’s prime years.

    If they’re still this conservative during Burrow, Chase, and Tee’s core years, they’ll never change. It holds them back, everyone sees it, but they don’t care. They’d rather do it their way than change things up for the sake of changing things up.

    At this stage, they shouldn’t give a flying fuck about stocking draft picks and instead use them to acquire players they would’ve never previously acquired. Game changing, X-factor players. They’re just a stubborn organization that prefers to die by their sword.

  13. The way the Bengals approach roster management is similar to college programs like Clemson who refuse to fully commit to NIL. The results are uncannily similar.

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