Cincinnati Bengals

Hello all, this is my first post on Cincy Jungle, glad to be on board. I've been thinking for a while what the true differences are between us and the reigning super bowl champions, its been pondering position by position and a few things become evident to me, as to why we aren't in their spot. I figured i'd break it down position by position to see others view points compared to mine. There will be a separate post for defense. (For most of this I will be mainly focusing on starting positions on each teams roster for the PREVIOUS season) Quarterback Flacco vs Dalton (Flacco) - As much as we hate to admit it, Flacco is easily the choice in this. By no means do I personally consider Flacco elite, but he is ahead of Dalton in many aspects. Flacco has been in the league longer, allowing him to harness his abilities and what he needs to do for a win. There are two main differences between the two. 1.) Flacco is more calm than Dalton in pressure situations, I still think Dalton gets a little too excited, and is yet unable to be completely relied on to run the two minute in a real situation. Flacco shines in this aspect somewhat, and is ahead of Dalton. 2.) The deep ball. Yes, this is the biggest difference between the two. Fans have constantly ridiculed Dalton for his poor accuracy on his deep ball throws, whilst AJ Green, sometimes picks up the slack with some amazing plays. If Dalton could throw the deep ball aswell as Flacco, his numbers, and confidence I believe would increase dramatically. Easily a 4000+ yard season. Running Back Rice vs Green-Ellis (Rice) - This is basically a no brainer, in some ways they are completely different types of runners. Rice is 100x more electric than Green-Ellis. Green-Ellis is a between the tackles and short yardage back, which occasionally will make a burst for a 20+ yard run, yet to get caught by most defensive backs. Rice can make sharp burst for long touchdowns, and is by far one of the best at what he does catching out of the backfield. I have faith, and we could only hope that Bernard turns into the next Ray Rice. Fullback This is a clear winner in favor of Leach, as he is far better than any of our fullbacks. Whilst the traditional fullback is a dying breed in the NFL, Leach adds into the passing game at times. My hopes for this, is that Orson Charles commits to fullback, and takes a James Casey type of approach. Tight End Pitta vs Gresham (Gresham) - This can be a tough matchup, both are great tight ends in their own aspects. Both are similiar in targets, and receptions. Gresham had more yards, and YPC in the 2012 season, 11.5 compared to Pittas 11 pc. Based off this, it would show Gresham would be the better TE, but on the other hand Gresham had 2 fumbles on the season, compared to Pitta's 0, and Greshman became a problem with dropped passes (exposed mainly in the playoff loss to HOU.) Pitta is the more reliable option, but I believe Gresham has the highest ceiling, aslong as he reduces the drops, if not he may lose the starting gig to Eifert this upcoming season. Wide Receivers A.j Green vs Torrey Smith (Green) - These two men are two of the best at what they do, getting open down the field. This matchup goes to Green due to the fact that he is just more of a better overall player then Smith, don't get me wrong, in no way is Smith not an amazing player, just Green is better. Green had more targets, catches, and another 495 yards more than Smith (1350, 855). Smith had a much higher YPC, but this is inflated due to the amount of deep balls. Boldin vs Sanu - This is a hard one to do, the winner is Boldin, due to the fact we saw limited action of Sanu due to a stress fracture in his foot. Sanu is basically a younger version of Boldin, and he has a higher ceiling in my opinion. Hello all, this is my first post on Cincy Jungle, glad to be on board. I've been thinking for a while what the true differences are between us and the reigning super bowl champio

Comparing the elite Quaterbacks Finally someone explaining what I have been trying to say on these boards forever. I know. I know. Us Dalton supporters will love this article and the Dalton haters will somehow find yet another way to totally dismiss the statistiics and claim that he has a weak arm, a dead arm, are brings no fear. The reality is simple, before any of our elite quarterbacks of today became elite, they had a year one and then a year two of their career. Please just look at this for what it is, a comparison of the elite quarteracks in their first two years with Dalton's first two years. Obviously, none of us can predict what will happen in years 3 - 10, but I believe he has tremendous upside! Comparing the elite Quaterbacks Finally someone explaining what I have been trying to say on these boards forever. I know. I know. Us Dalton supporters will love this article and the Dalton haters will somehow find yet another way to totally dismiss the statistiics and claim that he has a weak arm, a dead arm, are brings no fear. The reality is simple, before any of our elite quarterbacks of today became elite, they had a year one and then a year two of their career. Please just look at this for what it is, a comparison of the elite quarteracks in their first two years with Dalton's first two years. Obviously, none of us can predict what will happen in years 3 - 10, but I believe he has tremendous upside!

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2013 Cincinnati Bengals Trailer HD- "Play To Win" (via nfl391) I've embedded the video here but I'd recommend clicking on the title within the video and watching it in large player or full screen in HD. This is definitely the best work I've done so far in terms of syncing the audio and video together. It has a lot of footage that is not seen in the 5-part 2012 Bengals season recap series (see here: http://www.cincyjungle.com/2013/3/6/4070632/2012-2013-bengals-highlights-hd-nfl-films-video) so I'd highly recommend watching both. The song titles are in the video description. I broke this trailer up into four different acts. Act I: A nice pump-up intro, followed by the splash play of Mohamed Sanu to AJ Green, then a montage of Bengals sacks. Comedic relief by Michael Johnson, Marvin Lewis and Andy Dalton. Act 2: Another nice intro, followed by a bunch of big plays, mostly offensive plays. Again, comedic relief from Michael Johnson. Act 3: A brief showing of some of the struggles the Bengals have had, followed by some encouragement from the coaches, then a montage of Bengals highlights both offensive and defensive. Followed by a Marvin locker room speech. Act 4: The game at the Steelers, both the initial struggles and the later successes. Followed by another Marvin locker room speech. Enjoy! 2013 Cincinnati Bengals Trailer HD- "Play To Win" (via nfl391) I've embedded the video here but I'd recommend clicking on the title within the video and watching it in large player or full screen in HD. This is definitely the best work I've done so far in terms of syncing the audio and video together. It has a lot of footage that is not seen in the 5-part 2012 Bengals season recap series (see here: http://www.cincyjungle.com/2013/3/6/4070632/2012-2013-bengals-highlights-hd-nfl-films-video) so I'd highly recommend watching both. The song titles are in the video description. I broke this trailer up into four different acts. Act I: A nice pump-up intro, followed by the splash play of Mohamed Sanu to AJ Green, then a montage of Bengals sacks. Comedic relief by Michael Johnson, Marvin Lewis and Andy Dalton. Act 2: Another nice intro, followed by a bunch of big plays, mostly offensive plays. Again, comedic relief from Michael Johnson. Act 3: A brief showing of some of the struggles the Bengals have had, followed by some encouragement from the coaches, then a montage of Bengals highlights both offensive and defensive. Followed by a Marvin locker room speech. Act 4: The game at the Steelers, both the initial struggles and the later successes. Followed by another Marvin locker room speech. Enjoy!

2013 Cincinnati Bengals Trailer HD- "Play To Win" (via nfl391) I've embedded the video here but I'd recommend clicking on the title within the video and watching it in large player or full screen in HD. This is definitely the best work I've done so far in terms of syncing the audio and video together. It has a lot of footage that is not seen in the 5-part 2012 Bengals season recap series (see here: http://www.cincyjungle.com/2013/3/6/4070632/2012-2013-bengals-highlights-hd-nfl-films-video) so I'd highly recommend watching both. The song titles are in the video description. I broke this trailer up into four different acts. Act I: A nice pump-up intro, followed by the splash play of Mohamed Sanu to AJ Green, then a montage of Bengals sacks. Comedic relief by Michael Johnson, Marvin Lewis and Andy Dalton. Act 2: Another nice intro, followed by a bunch of big plays, mostly offensive plays. Again, comedic relief from Michael Johnson. Act 3: A brief showing of some of the struggles the Bengals have had, followed by some encouragement from the coaches, then a montage of Bengals highlights both offensive and defensive. Followed by a Marvin locker room speech. Act 4: The game at the Steelers, both the initial struggles and the later successes. Followed by another Marvin locker room speech. Enjoy! 2013 Cincinnati Bengals Trailer HD- "Play To Win" (via nfl391) I've embedded the video here but I'd recommend clicking on the title within the video and watching it in large player or full screen in HD. This is definitely the best work I've done so far in terms of syncing the audio and video together. It has a lot of footage that is not seen in the 5-part 2012 Bengals season recap series (see here: http://www.cincyjungle.com/2013/3/6/4070632/2012-2013-bengals-highlights-hd-nfl-films-video) so I'd highly recommend watching both. The song titles are in the video description. I broke this trailer up into four different acts. Act I: A nice pump-up intro, followed by the splash play of Mohamed Sanu to AJ Green, then a montage of Bengals sacks. Comedic relief by Michael Johnson, Marvin Lewis and Andy Dalton. Act 2: Another nice intro, followed by a bunch of big plays, mostly offensive plays. Again, comedic relief from Michael Johnson. Act 3: A brief showing of some of the struggles the Bengals have had, followed by some encouragement from the coaches, then a montage of Bengals highlights both offensive and defensive. Followed by a Marvin locker room speech. Act 4: The game at the Steelers, both the initial struggles and the later successes. Followed by another Marvin locker room speech. Enjoy!

Feb. 2, 2013; New Orleans, LA, USA: The NFL logo on display near the red carpet prior to the Super Bowl XLVII NFL Honors award show at Mahalia Jackson Theater. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The NFL is proposing a completely revamped offseason that is expected to be applied to the next three offseasons at the very least. This means that for the next three years, the offseason will look like this: * NFL free agency would happen in late February or early March * The NFL Scouting Combine would come sometime after that, likely in mid-March * The NFL Draft would be pushed anywhere between 1-3 weeks. Free agency has previously started around the first week of March, so there wouldn’t be any change there, but that almost wasn’t the case. The NFL had previously proposed an offseason plan that would move the Combine to March, and push the launch of free agency to April, and finally move the draft to May.  The NFLPA wouldn’t agree to this though, so it appears as though It also looks like the dates for the 2014-16 NFL Drafts have been set: Looks like 2014 NFL draft will be held May 15-17. In 2015 and 2016, league year would start early March, combine mid-March. — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 20, 2013 Tentative dates for NFL Draft in 2015 would be May 7-9 and in 2016 it would be May 5-7. — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 20, 2013 Want more Bengals news? Like Stripe Hype on Facebook, or grab our RSS feed. Follow @StripeHype Follow @UK_Fans

Marvin Lewis’ worst time of the year is almost over – so long to speculative football (for the most part) and welcome to the process of beginning to see where all the pieces begin. The Bengals have their first on-field session Tuesday otherwise known to most as OTAs (organized team activities). Coaches have been able ...

The Bengals get to move the pieces on that $40 million chessboard folded out by Mike Brown and Marvin Lewis in the offseason for the first time Tuesday when they hold the first of nine voluntary practices at Paul Brown Stadium.

Apr 25, 2013; New York, NY, USA; A general view of the NFL shield logo and main stage before the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall. Mandatory Credit: Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports NFL and NFLPA are close to enacting these calendar changes for the next three years. — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 20, 2013   NFL is legitimately looking at moving the @nfl draft. Date I hear as likely target is May 15. Everything else would probably stay same — Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) May 20, 2013 There’s been rumblings and whispers of this being in the works for awhile now, but it became a national story when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made an appearance on the Rich Eisen Podcast and said the NFL may be forced to move the 2014 NFL Draft date to May because of a potential scheduling conflict with Radio City Music Hall that appear to be on the horizon. The NFL has held the draft at Radio City Music Hall since 2006, but an Easter event could make the venue unavailable during the last weekend of April. After watching the NFL force the Baltimore Ravens to play their season-opener on the road this year, despite the tradition of having Super Bowl Champions host the first game of the ensuing season, it’s clear the NFL is willing to adjust it’s schedule to help satisfy other’s interests. Want more Bengals news? Like Stripe Hype on Facebook, or grab our RSS feed. Follow @StripeHype Follow @UK_Fans

Nov 27, 2011; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Andrew Hawkins (16) during the first half against the Cleveland Browns at Paul Brown Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Frank Victores-USA TODAY Sports In case you missed it this morning, we wrote how the Cincinnati Bengals have become a team making headlines for all the right reasons. Well, we missed a story about Bengals receiver Andrew Hawkins going home to raise some money for the Wounded Warrior Foundation. Hawkins returned to his hometown of Johnston, Pennsylvania, where he participated in a Charity Flag Football Tournament held at Scalp Level Trinity United Methodist Church:  Obviously, as a professional football player you can’t take every request that you get, but this is such a special cause with the wounded warriors and I’ve done other things with the Wounded Warrior Project in Ohio,” Hawkins said. “And especially with it being back here near my home town, it was a no-brainer. As soon as the Bengals contacted me in March, I?agreed to it. It was one of those things that I’m happy to come home and I’m happy to help out especially for such a great cause. “It’s great to be back here. I attribute a lot of where I?am now to what I?obviously learned here in Johnstown. The people are so special, especially when you’ve been all over the country and out of the country. There’s nothing like the people from around here. It really is special and I get excited every time I?get to do it. Hawkins re-signed with the Bengals after becoming a restricted free agent this offseason, and unless a contract extension is reached, the 27-year-old will enter the 2014 offseason as an unrestricted free agent. He enters the 2013 NFL Season as the Bengals’ primary slot-receiver after registering 51 receptions for 533 yards and four TDs last year, all of which were the third-most on the team. Want more Bengals news? Like Stripe Hype on Facebook, or grab our RSS feed. Follow @StripeHype Follow @UK_Fans