Booyah! We signed Orlando Brown

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Jake Liscow
@JakeLiscow
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27s
Pollack said the Orlando Brown deal came out nowhere a couple of times. Bengals pounced again on a value that became available, patience appears to have paid off.

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Jake Liscow
@JakeLiscow
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6m
Pollack confirms Brown will play LT, as expected.

On RT: "Competition brings out the best in everybody... LC rehabbing, we'll move Jonah over there... we're excited for that [competition] to develop and bring out the best of what we've got in the room on the offensive line."

[dautcom8]

Brown/Collins/Karras/Cappa/Williams looks great to me on paper. Collins has played LG at both Dallas and LSU.

Sounds like they're bringing in Cody Ford for a look too. Brown/Ford/Mixon all played together at Oklahoma.

[dex]

Brown/Collins/Karras/Cappa/Williams looks great to me on paper. Collins has played LG at both Dallas and LSU.

Sounds like they're bringing in Cody Ford for a look too. Brown/Ford/Mixon all played together at Oklahoma.

Hard for me to believe both Collins and Williams will be on the team next year. That would be a lot of cap space taken up, plus whichever one of them became the backup would surely be disgruntled. They have always been starters in the league.

[Jason_NC]

Hard for me to believe both Collins and Williams will be on the team next year. That would be a lot of cap space taken up, plus whichever one of them became the backup would surely be disgruntled. They have always been starters in the league.

In that situation neither is a backup. And I can live with an expensive line for 1 year while Burrow is cheap to keep him upright for a Super Bowl run.

[dex]

In that situation neither is a backup. And I can live with an expensive line for 1 year while Burrow is cheap to keep him upright for a Super Bowl run.

In that scenario then one of them is a disgruntled guard. I just when the dust settles one stays and one goes.

I sometimes wonder if Cincinnati could possibly trade Williams to the Jets for a late round draft choice. They need an experienced LT (tried to get Brown themselves) but Rodgers salary really pushes their salary cap.

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Albert Breer
@AlbertBreer
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4m
Bengals' plan with Orlando Brown Jr. coming in is to move Jonah Williams (in a contract year) to RT, make a decision on La'El Collins down the line. They saw a shot to get an OT like Brown at that price ($16M) as rare.

Overall idea = Get 5 best you can in front of Joe Burrow.

[membengal]

The Eagles just went to the Super Bowl with a former #1 LT playing backup at G (Andre Dillard) - if Jonah doesn't win the job at RT - depth is NEVER bad...

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Jake Liscow
@JakeLiscow
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5m
Based on the cashflow reported by Ian Rapaport, the Orlando Brown contract could look like this. We don't know exactly how the salary is split between years 1-2, but as @andreperrotta13
points out, the massive signing bonus suggests vet min is in play.

[texbengal]

Was just thinking out loud….

Zeus is actually the 2nd biggest FA signing ever. The first? Sam Adams (who had him by 50 pounds or so).

Worth mentioning.