AFC North time and one of the big questions is in Cincinnati
where the offensive line, good enough to get them to the Super
Bowl or maybe they got there despite the offensive line
offensive line not good enough to
deliver a victory. Let's begin their
grab bag AFC North fill in the blank with a revamped offensive
line. Expect the Bangles offense to what Chris,
I think be, you know,
top five ish in football. That's that's where I go or
Unstoppable.
I just do Burrows, the Superstar, those three
receivers. I it's the best receiving Corps and football.
They got pretty good tight end plan. We know that the running
backs real,
the only thing that's holding them back is the damn
the The Bangles is their offensive line last year
and the fact that they got to the super wall which I will Suz
the worst offensive line to ever get to the Super Bowl that
I can remember unless somebody else wants to
point one out. Healers. Yeah. Cylinders you're right warty
that might have been one to exactly right that Rivals that
exactly right. And on and More pliers, you know slippery
quarterbacks who can move around the pocket and make some
great throws that way.
But yeah I'm expecting it to be big time.
Yeah, I
we don't know that they're going to be dramatically better
but they can't be worse. So I agree with you. Look how good
the offense was last year with an offensive line that didn't
really hold up so it doesn't take much to make it better and
it
will make for a great offense for the Bengals. Take your
pick, who will be the Steelers starting quarterback Week 1.
The first depth chart, the officially unofficial
non-binding preseason depth chart goes mr. Biscay one Mason
Rudolph to Kenny picot
Who's the week one start. I'm gone Mitchell. True Biscay all
the way. Here I am, you know, again,
if he fails Kenny pick, it will come in. At some point, I would
imagine. But I just think true Biscay pretty talented.
I think the team
is, you know, not in a rebuild type of mode here or anything
like that and I expect him to be the guy and they bring Kenny
Pickett along slowly and find the right time to,
you know, inject him into the equation.
Yeah, I agree with you. It's always easier to go from
the veteran to the rookie than the rookie to the veteran wants.
You give the job to the first rounder. You pretty much have
to stick with him.
Ben Roethlisberger, wasn't the week. One starter in 2004
an injury to Tommy Maddox opened the door for him, and I think
it is going to be true Biscay who gets a bad rap. He's been
better in the NFL
than then. I think advertised took the Bears to the playoffs
twice. Wasn't a good fit for the mat. Nagy offense.
I remember four years ago
when he got that job. How
Where You Are by some of Maggie's public comments about
true. Biscay just never embraced him, never built
the offense around. True Biscay expected. True Biscay to fit
the offense and I think that'll be different in Pittsburgh and
they'll Embrace his talents
and I think he will be the starter scale of 1 to 10 in
Cleveland. For however, long DeShaun Watson is out whether
it's six games, 12 games are 17 games, what's your confidence
level in
the guy who presumably will take his place Jacoby per set?
Six somewhere in there. Yeah, it's,
it's it's six with the caveat of like, you know, I expect
them to play a style of football that we talked about
at the start of the, the start of the show where it's not just
like, hey Jacoby, we're going to drop back 42 times and, you
know, we're going to play through you.
It's 6 and okay, they're going to play a style of football,
run the ball
and I'll be smart. Defense has got a lot of talented football
players on it that way. And hey, we need you.
Occasionally make a big 3rd and 7th row and something like
that. So I think he can manage a game. You know, he can make
all the throws in the field using to stand in the pocket
and be tough. No doubt about it.
But yeah, six is as high as I'm going to go. As of right now,
I was a little surprised they didn't keep Case Keenum around
because he knew the offense. But you know what? When you
bring into Shawn Watson, you throw away the offense
and you develop a new one and that's what's going to be
interesting to me, is this Jacoby Brissette, right?
Running the offense they've concocted for Deshaun Watson or
is it some remnant? And yeah, Kevin stefanski is an offensive
guy. He'll figure out a way to get the most out of
your Cobra. Said it may be a Jacoby per set offense. He
that's why this is so difficult right now for the Browns you
got to get to Sean Watson ready
for week when I don't know, 7:13 never
like, if they know he's not playing at all this year,
they're limiting the ability to get her set. Ready
what what plays are you going to use?
Watson what plays you can use with per set. It gets very
complicated very quickly. And then if Watson's going to be
out for the whole year Chris are you in the Jimmy Garoppolo
sweepstakes? I know I know the Browns have said they're not
but that's operating under the glass half-full idea that
they're not going to be without Watson for most of the year.
Yeah. So last week Kevin stefanski said they've got
multiple plans and
it'll be very interesting to see if Watson's gone for the year
if the legal challenges go nowhere.
What will they do with a trade for him? Would they wait for
him to be cut? I,
so, anyway, to answer the question, I'm going about
a five with Brissette. Yeah,
especially if he's going to be the guy for, as long as I think
he's going to be, it's one thing if it's a short term. But
if you're talking about 12 games or longer,
I've got less confidence.
Yeah, I hear you there. Well, they got to play a certain
style of football. I think that's that's the biggest thing
we're talking about and you're right, it's not going to be if
it's DeShaun Watson, I think it would be more
past heavy play through the pain.
Scare you that way.
Oh, we're getting a lot of Too Deep because Watson's killing
them of them re Cooper and you know,
and Schwartz down the field.
Alright, I'll now we can run the ball because they're trying
to stop the Deep pass play. Now I think you're going to see,
run the ball. Oh wait, there's there's there's pie in the run
and I run it again.
Let's do that. Okay, now we got a now it's you know, we got to
throw here. We're going to do a play action pass. There's
definitely going to be a different flow to the offense.
I would imagine. Would you
Kobe per set? Now,
I don't, I doubt they've gotten
To the port part of training camp where
you know like we talked about a little earlier it's
it's still Basics. We're still just putting down the
the basics of the offense the foundation and all that. We
haven't got into specific game planning and whoa this guy can
do this and I'm going to unveil these 10 or 12 plays here
that he can do and make this a part of the offense. I doubt
they're there yet.
So you know we'll see where it goes but I do think it will be
a certain style of football under Jacoby percent
Buy or sell Lamar Jackson will play the weak, one game for
the Baltimore Ravens, with a brand new contract, buying
for our yourself. I'm selling, I mean, I don't know. I mean,
I just feel like
I'm clueless here and the fact that have one hasn't gotten
done yet, doesn't make me feel any better than it's gonna get
done some time here in the next five weeks. I just,
I'm just gonna go with what we've seen to this point that
is not going to happen, and it's going to continue to be
the weirdest contract negotiation dance that I've
ever seen in the history. History of the NFL.
I don't think he's signing a contract before the season or
during the season or even after the season. I think the only
way he ever does another contract with the Ravens is if
they apply the not exclusive franchise tag another team,
signs him to an offer sheet if they're even able to do that.
And then the Ravens match it. That's the only way I think
they're going to get another contract with Lamar Jackson,
barring some sort of dramatic change, like Jackson, doing
what he should have done long ago
and hiring an agent. I also don't think he's going to
Defect week one either because you'd be giving up one point
two seven million each and every week, if he doesn't play,
and he's wired to play,
he's wired to play. Yes.
And he's taken the risk,
the physical risk,
and he should have a deal done,
and he doesn't, and I don't think he will.