Joe Burrow

Plus if Ram's win Superbowl, my guess is Stafford retires. Where there's smoke
there's fire.

 

After enjoying Jamar Chase to start his career, i'm sure his first choice, if he forces a trade, would be to reunite with Justin Jefferson in Minnesota

 

That + a really good coach will get you some success. Just two years ago,they were thought to be looking at a lengthy rebuild process and they'll probably win it all again this year.

If this happens we could be looking at another Chiefs level run.

 

You mean your not counting on JJ Mcarthy to be a savior in Minny? Just kidding.

 

The whole thing with Burrow is the injury deal.
Joe is a long, long, long way from being "injury prone" unless your talking about the offensive line sucking... that is the crux of that conversation.

I'd take Joe Burrow so fast it would challenge the speed of light.

But then comes the question of our idiot front office.. (here we go again)
If you commit to a QB, you CANNOT sit on your friggin thumbs and not get the WR's that allow Joe to be Joe.
You also have to make sure your OC is a good fit.
So, some homework has to done and a clear path would need to be understood.

On the other hand, Cincinnati would be literally and figuratively and probably certifiable, be insane to let him go.
I would fire the entire front Office and Coaching staff if they do not agree.
As a matter of fact, as an owner, I'm in the GM and Coaches face right now: "WTF are you guys doing?!" and if there is not an instant come to Jesus' moment, they leave my office with a security guard escort to get their crap and leave Cincinnati.

 

The only way he'd end up here is if he made it to UFA and chose to come here.

And that would never happen because they'd trade him before doing that. And there is no way they'd trade him to us.

Also, he's been hurt a lot over the last 3 seasons (missed 7 games in 23, and only has 4 starts this year). So while I'd support trading basically anything to get a marquee QB like Burrow, it would be scary because he can't seem to stay healthy.

ETA: With the way Flacco looked on offense when he was there, maybe there is an argument for them trading him and opting to field good players on the other side of the ball too (not keeping Flacco, but kind of "anyone can do it with these WRs). I'm sure the package they'd get would be massive. I get that you want to acquire and keep very good to elite players. But paying that much to WRs when you have an elite QB is such a roster building fail for the Bengals.

 

There is truth to that.
The Bengals probably should have let 1 or both of those guys walk or better yet traded for picks.
You save some salary cap and find young WR's in the draft and throw to them for the next 4 years.
Spend the cap savings on your defense.

In today's NFL, you can't allocate a ton of money to be loyal to players.. there comes a time when it's too costly to keep them.

 

I’d be willing to guess there are 50,000,000 reasons why he will not leave Cincinnati.

 

It won't happen.
If it does, the owner is a complete idiot and deserves to return to the days of 1 win seasons with Akili Smith or whomever....

 

Ram's/ Eagles seem to be able to find money to sign players. Maybe because their GM's/owners want to win?

 

Slight difference.
Those teams can make moves like those because they are built to win now....
We aren't there.

 

I agree. If burrow is traded, DOZENS of people would show up the the bengals home games.

 

good point. but eagles have a bill coming due soon by overpaying their stars. they will be in salary cap hell for a few years like the 2000 Ravens were.
And the Rams had to purge players after the super bowl because of overpaying to make a single season run...that worked.
Rams are back because they hit home runs on some later round picks. got lucky.

 

Eagles have made them for years. Their GM/owner want to win improve their team.

 

Just like Miles Garret in cleveland, If you have generational wealth like these 2 have, wouldn't you want
to play for a competent/superbowl contender, that these2 team do not have.

 

Players are not going to play nearly as long as people think. QBs are no different. That said, I doubt Joe is going to retire anytime soon. I can however forsee him forcing himself out of Cincy given their ineptitude.


Minnesota and the Los Angeles Rams would be the top two places that I'd bet on Joe going to. The former can reunite him with Justin Jefferson while having a more stable FO while the latter has Sean McVay and a young but still ascending Offense that will need their own QB questions answered. Considering that Les Snead has said eff them picks before, who's to say he won't do it again?!


Wildcard pick would be the New York Jets. That said, New York is ran worse than Cincinnati is. However, New York does have some young Offensive Pieces of their own; their tackle tandem in Olu Fashanu and Armand Membou being top of the tree.



Regarding Pittsburghs chances of landing Joe Burrow?! Better off playing the lottery and hoping to win.

 

Never say never when it comes to the Bengals.

Mike Brown did it with Carson Palmer.

Given today's socioeconomic climate within the NFL regarding SuperStar Level Players?! The Bengals have even less leverage.

 

Yep.

And when you have an elite QB, you just can't spend cap room on elite to above average WRs give the salaries they are commanding.

WR salaries weren't as high when Ben was at his prime, but we were still (smartly) churning WRs to avoid paying them big money on 2nd contracts.

And I think since Ben's retired, we've got all the confirmation we need that we weren't really "good at drafting WRs". It's that having a very good to elite QB elevated the WRs we had. And that we hit the lottery with the Brown pick (and pulled the chute when he was just crazy instead of bat **** crazy).

I get that it would suck for CIN fans to see Chase leave for nothing but comp picks. Or even Higgins. And maybe you can make some kind of case for Chase because he's an elite talent. But you absolutely can't keep both of them.

Although if Burrow is going public with displeasure now, maybe he was saying similar things internally when they were deciding whether or not to keep Higgins.

We'll never get confirmation, but I will always wonder how much of the Freiermuth pick (maybe the Najee pick too) was about telling Ben that we'd draft him skill players if he took that pay cut.

 

I could certainly see them trading him.

But never to us.

 

Offer the Bengals ALL of our 2026 draft picks. It's not quite as good as say offering 3 1sts or whatever the going rate would be, but they might bite, getting like 2+picks in every round during the NEXT draft, so they could rebuild quickly everywhere (probably draft 10 defensive players). We'd benefit because we'd have NO obligations beyond the draft next April. We'd have Burrow, his giant contract, no picks in April to need to spend money on and we'd have all of our picks in 2027. Heck, maybe con the Bengals GM into giving us their 3rd and 5th in 2028 for our 4th and 6th in same draft.

 

That is one way to get a new "Nine" lol

 

I'm not saying that Burrow is made by his WR's (he's not), but he'd have a lot less fun throwing it to a bunch of dudes who wouldn't even be PS players elsewhere as our WR2.

 

I don't disagree, but he is a great QB and we need one, one that isn't 35+.

We'd HAVE to figure out the WR situation in the off-season, and with no draft picks in 2026, that would be...dicey. If enough cap room, could sign a solid WR2, but then we'd be the Bengals all over again, half the cap tied up in QB/WR1/WR2.

It may not work, or maybe we do just offer two 1sts, two 2nds and two 3rds (but not all three in 2026 draft, maybe keep the 3rd this year and the second next year).

It's a dream, Burrow is a top 8 QB, maybe top 5.

We'd need a new WR2 and more importantly, a new HC that isn't afraid to throw the ball deep, over the middle and have lots of slants, posts and in routes. A new OC that can make a passing game function.

If we just trade for Burrow, but keep Tomlin and Smith, we'll just have an ultra-expensive game-managing QB in Burrow. If it means winning a bunch of 17-13 games, Burrow might be okay, but he'll be demanding a trade by February 2027.

 

He is a moron....