NFL Week 1 previews.

Week 1 Previews—

So, Where Do These Things Start? With the days of looking back on the old season and the time for putting together the pieces of a new season closing, we put Away Our precognitive Hats and witness The Results Of Team Building.

Bears Vs Vikings— All Eyes on Caleb Williams As The Bears Look To Start Fresh As A Tumultuous First Year, Chicago Marred By Coaching Fires, Sacks, And Damning Wavers Of Discipline Cost The Bears A Promising Start To Last Season. Chicago Now Turns The Keys Over To First-Time Head Coach Ben Johnson, Whom The Team Hopes Can Deliver The Franchise Its First Playoff Appearance Of The Decade. In Chicago, the Minnesota Vikings face Several Plot Points Of Their Own To Resolve. Last Season, The Vikings Passed The Torch From Kirk Cousins With Intentions To Roll out the 10th Overall Pick, Michigan’s JJ McCarthy, Who Got Injured, and Install Sam Darnold as The Back. All Signs Pointed To A Down Year. Instead, Minnesota Made A Surprise Run To The playoffs And Even Flirted With The Division Crown Before A Surprise Clamping BY The Rams, But An End To An Otherwise Successful Season. Ben Johnson's Plans For The Bears’ offense remain unseen; he'll Have To Involve Scheming to Open A lot Of The Bears’ Receivers Who Struggled To Create Separation Last Season And Open Windows For Caleb Williams. Not Too Much Has Changed As Far As Outside Options. DJ Moore Remains The Only Established Option, with Rose Odunze Entering Just His Second and Lacking A True Elite Deep Threat. The Bears Will Hope That New Additions Like Luther Burden II and Tight end Colston Loveland

Add Another Dimension To The Offense That Didn’t Really Excite Fans As Anticipated. The Bears' New Offensive Line Will Get Tested Out Of The Gate by a Vikings Defense Still Led by Brian Flores and His Pressure Merchants, Eager To Blitz and Right Jonah Jackson, Still needing to Prove He’s the Guy After Injuries Hampered His Career. Speaking of Pressure, Where Will It Come From For The Bears? The Bears didn’t Exactly Excel at Pass Rusher, Which Held The Talented Defense From Maintaining A Top Ten ranking. The Addition Of Dayo Odeyingbo Should Add To The Attack, But He and Montez Sweat Both Operate More Like Second pass rushers. The Bears' Talented Secondary, With Jaylon Johnson, A Five-Corner, Will Have Their Hands Full With A Familiar Foe, Justin Jefferson. An Injury Dampened Some Of Jefferson’s Numbers Last Season, But His Name Has Never Left The Top Three Of Receivers In The League Since He Entered In 2020. A few first-year starting Quarterbacks Fall Into The Arms Of Justin Jefferson, As The Eyes Of Millions Fall On Quarterback JJ McCarthy, Taking Over From One Of The Greatest Passing Seasons In Vikings History, With How Darnold Performed in 2024. He’s Not Performing After MiCheal Jackson, More Like Justin Timberlake, But This Team Made The Playoffs Mostly As Constructed With What Looked Like A Talented Career Backup. Fans Hope McCarthy Plays Close To That Performance This Season. McCarthy Will Play Behind One Of The Best Offensive Lines In Football, Even With Christian Darrisaw Recovering From Knee Surgery, But This Offensive Line Should Keep McCarthy Upright And Protected. The Viking Play Without Number Two Receiver Jordan Addison, Who Will Miss The First Three Weeks of The Season Due To Suspension. The Vikings Still Have Tight End TJ Hockenson, Who Could Face A Plethora Of Bodies From The Bears’ defense. The Vikings welcome back Wide Receiver Adam Thielen, Whose Only One Season Removed From A 1000-yard Season, but How Much Football Does the 35-year-old have In His Body? Neither Team’s Run Game Will Draw Parallels To The Ravens Or Eagles, But I’m far More Confident In Ben Johnson To Revive The Career Of A 26-Year-Old D’andre Swift Than A 30-Year-Old Aaron Jones In Minnesota. The Vikings Have The Stronger Defense, No Question, which includes What Looks Like One Of The Best Defensive Lines In Football, but the lack Of Elite lockdown corners Raises Some Concern. The Vikings Will Roll Out The Experienced Quarterback In JJ McCarthy, but The Far More Accomplished Team will win. The Bears don’t Have The Strongest Front Four, the Vikes Offense Could Get Away With Rushing Aaron Jones and Breaking In JJ McCarthy In With deliberate Patience.

Rams Vs. Texans

Last Season, The Rams Flirted With Trading Matthew Stafford—The Vikings Briefly Showed Up On The Radar—Before Stafford Found Some Magic Elixir, Got Healthy, And The Rams Rode His Hot Hand To The NFC Divisional Round. The Rams Gave Stafford a New Contract And a New Commitment, But His Ailing Health Has Sprung Up Once Again This Offseason, Leaving The Rams' Offense and The Team’s Start To The Season In Jeopardy. The Rams need a Healthy Stafford To Make Sean McVay’s Play calling and Design On Offense Work With The wizard-like passing Talent of Stafford. The Rams Added Devante Adams In The Offseason To Complement Puka Nacua. Both Wide Receivers Reached 1,000 Yards Last Season Amidst Tumultuous Seasons With Injuries and Trades. The Rams Also Extended Left Tackle Alaric Jackson And Running Back Kyren Williams, and This Unit Projects To Play Like A Top Ten Offense Considering Stafford Stirs The Drink. The Rams Offense will Get Test defenses Out Of The Gate, Facing The Houston Texans and A Defense That Has earned preseason Projection Acclaim For The Near Completeness Of the Unit. The Rams’ Passing Offense Looks Elite On Paper, But They’ll Have To Prove Themselves Against What Looks Like The Best Corner Tandem In The League. Derek Stingley and Kamari Lassiter Both Gave Quarterbacks Fits Last Season, and They Usually Keep The Outside Trouble Free. The Texans Won’t Have Safety Jimmie Ward, But Chauncey Gardner-Johnson and Jalen Pitre Also Bracket The Offense Like The Best At The Position. The Texans' Pass Rush The Stuff Of Nightmares Will Anderson Jr delivered a Strong Second season despite struggling With Injury, Still Ranked top 25 In Pressures. Danielle Hunter Hasn’t Slowed Down Despite Passing Age 30. He Finished 7th in Pressures. Healthy Or Otherwise, Stafford And The Rams' Okay-Ish Offensive Line Could Find Problems Early in the Season. On Offense for the Texans, All Eyes rest On The O-Line, who Will Have Their Hands Full With This Rams Defensive Front. The Texans Revamped The Line with Experience, But Not Elite. Cam Robinson starting at Left tackle, and Rookie Aireontae Ersery Starting At Right Tackle, and this Rams Defensive Line led by Jared Verse, Byron Young, and Kobie Turner. The Tans Piled On Sacks In The Playoffs and Look To Continue Their Hot Streak into The 2025 Season. The Rams finished 26th in DVOa Last Season, Despite Their Scorching Pass Rush. The defense struggles to stop The Run, Showcasing The Limits Of Investing In One Position Group. The Rest Of The Rams' Defense Looks Serviceable Behind The Elite Defensive Line, But They Need Someone To Step Up As a Difference Maker. The Texans Also Have A lot Of New Skill Set pieces to install. Behind Nico Collins, The Texans Restructured The Wide Receiver Depth. No More Stefon Diggs, John Metchie, Or Tank Dell, Who Will Miss The Season With Reconstructive Knee Surgery. Instead, Christian Kirk From The Jags and Rookie Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel Will Attempt To Fill The Void. This Far Into Any Thing About The Texans and Not MentionIng CJ Stroud Feels Criminal, But He’s The Force That Will Make The Texans Either a Contender Or A Disappointment. Stroud Suffered A “Sophomore” Slump Or Some Form Of Regression Last Season, But Still Came Away With A Playoff Win. The Texans Look Like The Better Team, But The Trenches, Not The Talent, Will Determine This Matchup. The Texans Have Fielded Young, Talented Playoff Teams In The Past, like the Ones led by Deshaun Watson and Matt Schaub that Both Collapsed Before Realizing True Glory.

Windows to Compete Close Fast In The NFL, And The Texans Have Thrived In The AFC South, But The Division Remains In Disrepair With The Jags, Colts, and Titans All Struggling for Extended Years. The Texans Have To Make The Leap Into The Next Tier Of the AFC Hierarchy And Escape The Middle Ground Because Few Divisions In Football Remain non-competitive for Long.

Lions Vs Packers

The Stakes Of This Gargantuan Matchup Between Two NFC North Foes Lifted Overnight After The Packers Made A Decade-Defining Move by Acquiring Micah Parsons From The Cowboys. The Packers Inch Closer To The Division Favorite Lions, But Green Bay’s Roster Still Lacks Overall Persuasion And Conviction. Jordan Love Has Made The Playoffs In His First Two Years As A starter, Taking Over For Aaron Rodgers. The Packers Continued Their Trail Of regular-season Success, followed By Playoff Shortcomings. Jordan Love Didn’t Exactly Morph Into An Elite Passer In His Second Full Season As A Starter, In Terms Of EPA and ESPN’s Passing Efficiency. Love Dropped Outside The Top Of Quarterbacks From His Introductory Season In 2023. After two seasons, the Packers Have A Baseline quarterback With Some above-average traits. Part Of The Problem For The Packers And Jordan Love’s Just-Good-Enough-Ness Starts With the Outside Threats. If you’re Not A Packers or A Football Aficionado, Name One Of The Bevy Of Packers Wide receivers? Right, You Can’t because Green Bay’s Skill Position Players Represent A Group Of The Most Serviceable Players In The League. Sometimes Romeo Doubs Or Jayden Reed Show Signs Of Explosion, But The Packers Haven’t Had A Thousand Yard Receiver Since Davante Adams In 2021. The Packers Hope the New Addition, Rookie Matthew Golden, Could Fill That Need Of An Elite Wide Receiver. Tight End, like Wide Receivers, won’t shatter a defensive game plan, but Tucker Kraft Has Looked Respectable In Matt Lafleur’s Offense, But Generally He’s Unspectacular. Packers’ Coach Matt Lafleur Balances His Offense With Run—Pass Ratio With Feature Back Josh Jacobs Excelling On The Catch and On The Ground. Football’s Laws Of Attrition Dictate That Running Backs, Unlike Quarterbacks and Wide Receivers, Become Less Dependable From Season To Season, So Until Jacobs Repeats His Output From Last Season, At Ground Zero. The Packers' offensive Line, A Top Ten Unit, No Complaints Up Front For The Pack Protecting Jordan Love. Facing This Resurgent Lions Front, which welcomes back Aidan Hutchinson, is Sure To Put His Name Back among Defensive Player Of The Year Candidates After He popped as The Top Candidate Before A Knee Injury Truncated His Second Season. The Lions Finished Within The Top Ten In Defensive Efficiency Last Season, But With Defensive Coordinator Aaron Glenn off to New York, the Lions’ defense needs some Key Members To step up, Mostly In The Secondary. The Lions Picked Up DJ Reed in The Offseason, Generally A Slot Guy Who Can Kick Outside. He’s Not A “Lockdown” Corner, But Close Enough. The Lions Will Look At Terrion Arnold and Amik Robertson for improvement. They Stand Out As The Weak Links In A Secondary That Features The Elite Safety Combination Of Brian Branch and Jerry Joseph. Compared To The Rest Of The Lions, Second Arnold and Robertson stick Out As The “Weakest Link”. The Lions' Linebackers Jack Campbell and Alex Anzalone Present strong Opposition To Offenses In Both coverage and When Attacking The Offensive Backfield. The Packers Entered The Season With A Strong, Top 10 Defense, Fourth Best EPA Per Drive, Thanks To The Present Of Safety Xavier McKinney, Edge Rashaan Gary, and Linebacker Edgerrin Cooper. Throw Micah Parsons In The Mix, and the Packers Become Trouble operating a Passing Offense. The Packers Forced A Lot Of Turnovers Last Season, But Turnovers Have A High Variance From Season To Season And Can't Truly Act As Signifiers Of Defensive Success. Concerns Of Parsons’s Limitation Defensively Could Get Exposed Against Detroit Even Without Ben Johnson Call Plays. The Lions Still Feature The Best Backfield In Football With Their Pair Of Jahmyr Gibbs, who racked up 1410 Yards Last Season, and David Montgomery, Who Missed A Chunk of Games and finished with 775 Yards Rushing. The Lions Swept The Packers Last Season, The Second Lost a Close Overtime Affair. The Lions Picked An Interesting Time To Shuffle Their Offensive Line, But The Two Tackles, Penei Sewell and Taylor Decker, Remain Strong. The Lions’ interior has a lot To Prove. The Lions' Pass Catchers Also Leave Some convincing as Well. Beneath Amon-ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams Just Finished His First Season With 1000 Yards, But He’s Far From A Complete Product As A Route Runner. He’s Still Just The Uber Athlete He Displayed Coming Out Of Alabama. The Lions Only Kept Five Receivers, Kalif Raymond At Third, Promising Rookie Isaac Teslaa. The Lions Have Sam Laporta, The Best Tight End. If He Weren’t Playing In a Generation Of Some Of The Best Players At The Position. He’s At Least Top Five Any Season, and The Lions Rely On Him As A Matchup Nightmare For Corners and Linebackers. In Terms Of This, Green Bay’s Wide Receivers Group Looks Better Than the Lions, Even If Green Bay lacks a True standout Out Talent. Last time We Saw Jared Goff, He Played Well Enough Against The Commanders, But Suffered Some Devastating Turnovers That Doomed The Lions' NFC Contention Hopes, and His Track Record For Folding Up A Bit In Big Moments Earned Another ledger. Even he’s still A Top Ten Quarterback. I Still Trust Goff in Big Games and Big Moment Over Jordan Love.

A Hotly Contested Division, The NFC South Gets Off The Ground As The Bucs Face The Falcons in What Looks Like A Two-Team Race In The Division. Last Season, The Falcons Swept The Bucs In The Season Series, And Atlanta Looked Poised To Take Off With The Division Before A Late Season Collapse Propelled The Bucs To Their Fifth Straight Division Win. The Falcons Usher In The Michael Penix Jr. era After The Rookie Took Over Late In The Season and Showed Enough Development To Earn Coach Raheem Morris’s Vote As The Starter. Most Of The Football World Recognizes Penix’s Proficiency With Handling Deep Balls, But The Rest Of His Game, Intermediate Throws, And Pocket Presence Need To Get Fleshed Out. As A More Statuesque type, Penix Will Benefit From A Top Ten Offensive Line In Front Of Him, Better Known For Their Run Blocking. The Offensive Line, The Pass Blocking, Will Build on the Continuity Developed Last Season. The Falcons' Offense Features A Potent Run Game, Starting With Bijan Robinson, Entering His Third Season, Coming Off A Standout Year In Which He’s The Best Back In The League If Derrick Henry Or Saquon Barkley Didn’t Decide To Defy Age and Attrition Last Season. Robinson Looks Poised To Build On His 1943 Total Yards From Scrimmage. He’s a complete Offensive Weapon. Behind In The Back Field, Tyler Allgeier, Another Top 25 running back and A Starter On Any Other Team, Allgeier averaged 4.7 Yards Per Carry Last Season. Facing A Tampa Bay Defense That Allowed 4.3 A Carry But Held the Team below 100 Yards Per contest. Tampa has Played The Run Strong For Several Years Now. Opponents Often Opt To Attack Through The Air, Where Tampa Has Proven Susceptible In The Past Few Seasons. Tampa Gave Up The Fourth Most Passing Yards Last Season(244 Yards Per Contest), Finished Fourth In Interception Percentage(1.1%). The Bucs Need To Improve On those lowly Figures To Furnish Themselves As contenders in the NFC They Added Two Rookie Corners, Jacob Parrish and Robert Morrison, To Join Jamel Dean and Antoine Winfield Jr, who the Bucs Hope to Get A bounce-back season in 2025 In The Secondary, and Adding Former Sack Stud Haason Reddick To The Pass Rush. They Tag Along With Nose Tackle Vita Vea Upfront. Lavonte David Returned As a linebacker. Michael Penix's Breakout Season Will Start With Drake London, The Falcons' Top Target, Who Finished Top Ten In Target Share, First Read Target Share, EPA, And Prove A Touchdown Machine For Any Quarterback Who Targeted Him. Darnell Mooney, As A Change of Pace Speed Receiver Compliments The Possession Receiver that Drake London Presents. The X-Factor Of The Offense Tight End Kyle Pitts, How Long Will The Falcons Resist The Urge To Trade the Talented But “Useless” Skillset Of Pitts? Can Another Team Get The Best Out Of Pitts? Especially with Atlanta Needing Defensive Help. The Bucs Offense Looks Like A Juggernaut On Paper, Even With Some Early Changes To Have Ironed Out as The Season Progresses. Tampa Bay Change Offensive Coordinators For The Second Straight Year, But Track Record And Talent Level Suggest Little Should Change Even With Two Landmark players, Left Tackle Tristan Wirfs and Receiver Chris Godwin, Out To Start The Season. Neither Serve As Easily Replaceable, Wirfs Especially Protecting

Baker Mayfield’s Blind Side. Mayfield Has Proven After Two Seasons As The Bucs Starter That He’s Got A Handle On This Starting, Winning Quarterback Game. The Next step is Winning Deep Into The Playoffs Run. He’ll Have Mike Evans Back For another 1000 Receiving Yards As The Lead Receiving Go Getter, But Tampa’s Passing Attack Doesn’t Fall Off From Evans Without Godwin. Rookie Emeka Egbuka Enters The Offense Highly Touted For His Route Running. We’ll See If He’s The Second Option Or if Second Year Receiver Jalen McMillan Build Off Of His Stellar Second Half Last Season. McMillan Racked Up 8 Touchdowns, 0.216 touchdowns per reception, and 12.5 Yards Per Reception, Filling In For Godwin Last season. You can’t mention Tampa’s Offense, mentioning Bucky Irving, the Oregon Product Who Took The League By Storm In 2024 As A Rookie, Racking Up 1122 Yards On The Ground, 5.4 Yards Per Carry, yards after contact per attempt at 4.03, 27 Explosive Runs, adding 392 Through The Air, and 77 Missed Tackles In Total. Irving, Like Robinson, Could Have Earned respect as The Best In The Game If Not For Two Behemoths Of Running backs, but the Buccaneers Expect Much from Irving To Follow Up on His Big Debut. Tampa Will Face An Atlanta Defense Hoping To Improve From One Of The League’s Worst Marks In Pass Defense. The Falcon Landed Close To The Worst In Pass Defense in Many Categories In Completion Percentage Allowed(Worst), Touchdown Percentage Allowed( Second Worst), and Passer Rating Allowed( fourth Worst). The Secondary Still Features Jessie Bates, Regarded as A Top Ten Safety, But The Corners Lack Character. AJ Terrell Had That One Breakout Year In 2021, But He’s Regressed To Just A Average Corner Since. Rookie Xavier Watts Plays Opposite Jessie Bates At Safety, and Mike Hughes Tags Along With Terrell. The Falcons' Pass Rush Could Stand to Improve. After just moving From Last Place In Pressure Rate To A Modest 8th Worst, the Falcons Hope The Addition Of first-rounders Jalon Walker and James Pearce Jr, both (Or At Least One), Will Make A Difference. The Rushers Will Face A Weakened But Formidable Tampa Offensive Line Without Tristan Wirfs, But Tampa Possesses A Lot Of Talent On This Top Five Offensive Line. The Bucs Have The Edge In This Matchup Simply Because The Team Has More Proven Commodities At Key positions, even If Pass Rusher Remains A Question, and Tight End With Cade Otten Begs For an Upgrade After These Past Few Seasons.

The Bills And The Ravens Face Each Other As The First Steps On The Road To AFC Supremacy. If this Truly Stands The Year The Chiefs descend from AFC Immortality, One Of These Two Teams and These Two MVPS Stand At The Door Like Death Waiting To Remove The corpse Of The Chiefs’ dynasty, With The Ravens holding A Slight Edge On The Bills based On Preseason Acclaim. Most Football Fans Know Where To Start with The Ravens' Lamar Jackson, He’s Too Good At His Job, A Perennial MVP Candidate. With The Arguments Against His ability To Pass The Football Completely debunked, He’s Now Moved To Prove He Can Win Big Games And Lead This Ravens Roster To A Super Bowl. He’ll Square Off With The Most Recent MVP Winner And The Quarterback Who Knocked The Ravens Out Of The Playoffs Last Season, Josh Allen and The Buffalo Bills. Beyond The Two MVPS at Passer, this two-team Matchup is quite even. Lamar Jackson Posted The Best Numbers Of His Career As A Passer Last season But the Ravens Offense Still Runs Through The Ground—No Not Literally— Derrick Henry Proved Age Thirty Isn’t The Death Null Football Examiners Claimed, Henry Posted Ridiculous Efficiencies 1921 Total Rushing, 5.9 Per Rush But Can He Defy The Odds Again Or Will Father Time Start To Make His Presence Known To Henry This Season. The Ravens' Offensive Line Played Above Expectation Last Season Due To Talent Lost. The Unit Lead The League In Yards Before Contact For Running Back Generated By Celebrated Center Tyler Linderbaum. Ronnie Stanley Returned In Free Agency To Protect Lamar Jackson’s Blind Side. A Bills Defensive Line Known More For Depth and Their Pass Rusher Rather Than Standout Talent And Run Defense. Led by Defensive Tackle Ed Oliver and Edge Greg Rousseau, Top 15 Pass Rushers But Below Average Run Defenders, The Ravens Have The Edge On The Bills In That Category. Have the Bills Improve Their Secondary Enough To Sacrifice Bodies To The Run? Can They Afford To? The Ravens Receiving Room lacks Brand Names At Receiver Outside Of a pass His Prime De’Andre Hopkins, but Rashod Batemon Has Elite Deep Threat Ability, Zay Flowers Lacks Size, But He’s Shifty, Great Out Of The Slot and In The Short Game, and Down The Field With His Ability To Force Miss Tackles. The Ravens' True Targeting Threats Come In The Form Of Their Tight Ends, Isaiah Likely and Mark Andrews. Two Standouts At The Position, But Likely Has Moved Above Andrews As a Proven Target Down The Field. While Not Complete Receivers, This Ravens Unit Demands A Full Commitment From Defense. Christian Benford returns, But The Secondary Continues To Reshuffle Itself. The Ravens' Defense Struggled Early Last Season Before Bouncing Back In The Second Half Of The season, But Couldn’t Save Themselves From Finishing Last In Passing Defense. The Ravens Signed Jaire Alexander, a Former Packers Pro Bowl Cornerback, To Join the Cornerbacks Marlon Humphrey, Nate Wiggins, And A Newly Extended Safety, Kyle Hamilton. The Linebacking Group Looks Like One Of The Better Units In Football, Led By Raquon Smith. The Ravens pass Rush Has Questions. Odafe Oweh Had Ten Sacks Last Season, but He’s Not An Elite Disruptor Off The Edge. Linebacker Kyle Van Noy had 12.5 Last Season At 33 Years Old In His Second Season with The Team. His 21.5 Sacks In Two Seasons As A Raven account for 39% Of His Total Career Sack Total. Can The Ravens Count On Van Noy To Play Above Expectations As He Enters Age 34? The Pass Rush Will Determine The Effectiveness Of The Overall Defense. The Bills' Offensive Line is Top Five By Most Boards, Few Top Of The Line Starters, But No Weak Points. Buffalo Worked Out a Deal To Keep James Cook Long Term Collected 16 Rushing Touchdowns Last Season. Cooks Will Never Play The every-down Back Role In The NFL, but he shifts and gets the Field Quickly. The Bills Manage To Put Together a Contending Offense Without Level Receiving Threats. Can They Replicate Such Success? Projecting Who Breaks Out At Receiver For The Bills Brings A Certain “Iffy-Ness”, So The Bills' Receiving Group Doesn’t Look Any Better Than Last Year's. The Tight End Combo Of Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox Remain Consistently Serviceable. Josh Allen Makes The Offense Work For The Bills. If He’s On His Mark, One Else Falls Into Place. A Lost Here For Either Team Wouldn’t Denote A Death Note For On The Path To Contention, But A Win Could Spark Team Morale And Ignite A Run Through The AFC.

Cincy vs Browns

With Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, and Josh Allen Out Of The Way As Far As MVP Trophies Go, Joe Burrow Stands Next In Line, Especially After The Season He Produced last Season. Burrow Has To Lead The Bengals Back To The Postseason. The Bengals Have Missed The Past two postseasons after Crashing The AFC championship Twice In A Row After Burrow's Shortened Rookie Season. The bengals Spent Mightily To Retain Their Core Players This Off Season With Four Players, Leading Receivers Jamar Chase, Tee Higgins, Edge Rusher Trey Hendrickson and Tight End Mike Gisecki All Signing New Deals An Audacious But Irresponsible Move By The Bengals. the Bengals should’ve Traded One Or Two Of The above Mentioned Players For Assets That Help Reconstruct Cincy’s Awful Offensive Line and Defense That Have Actually Coat The Bengals More Game Than A Burrow Or tee Higgins Injury. Speaking Of Players That Teams should’ve traded, the Browns should’ve moved Myles Garrett Instead Of Giving The 30-year-old a market-setting contract. The Browns Don’t Want To Return To Their Status As The League Punch Line, The Browns Have To Count On A lot Of Players and Units “Bouncing” Back To Have any Competitive Hope, Namely Players Not Named Jerry Jeudy and Myles Garrett. The Offensive Line Has Aged Poorly, The Receiver Core Thinned Out, and Joe Flacco at Quarterback Does Give the Browns the Best Chance to Win, and That’s A problem With This Roster. The Bengals shouldn’t Have Too Much Trouble Taking Care Of Business Against The Browns, But Any Injuries Could Tip This Roster overboard.