NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport appeared on NFL Gameday on Sunday morning to talk about some offseason topics concerning Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n
Stating the obvious, Rapoport first said, \u201cI do not expect Joe Burrow to be traded, but I do expect teams to call the Cincinnati Bengals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rapoport went on to say, \u201cI do expect them to take his words to kind of spur them on a bit, to really spend this offseason.\u201d He expects that spending will primarily occur on the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expect them to enhance and support everything Joe Burrow does, to spend probably more on the defense than anything else,\u201d said Rapoport.<\/p>\n
That is the expectation of the Bengals fan base as well. They could look to upgrade at every level of the defense this offseason. Adding proven veteran talent will open up things for the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
Rapoport didn\u2019t elaborate on positions or players that may interest the Bengals, but who do you feel are prime targets for the Bengals to attempt to acquire in order to upgrade the defensive side of the ball?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s to hoping we\u2019re in for a busy offseason that sees the Bengals make the kind of upgrades that will get them back into Super Bowl contention!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport appeared on NFL Gameday on Sunday morning to talk about some offseason topics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,1561,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-739405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116038687623965361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}