eesti Wrote:
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> Ray Lewis losing a step still makes him better
> than the next best ILB'ers with the exception of
> maybe Pat Willis. So he went from ridiculous to
> excellent.
>
> He still had 134 tackles last year, 3 sacks, 7 PD,
> 3 FF and 1 FR AND played all 16 games and went to
> the Pro Bowl. He was still the second ranked ILB
> in the league.
>
> Flacco had 3,613 21/12 ints with a 63.3%
> completion rate. All that with basically one above
> average WR. Boldin makes the entire WR group
> better.
>
> And how is Cincy past their time? They seem to be
> ascending to me as they won the division and added
> more weapons this off season. THEIR rookie TE is
> going to be a monster and they replaced Housh to
> compliment Ocho. This should get Palmer back to
> the top of the QB rankings. He had a pretty good
> year in 09 without many weapons.


Solid post eesti. Bringing up some good facts to shoot down some of the nonsense about Lewis and Flacco!!!

I'm not a big Cincy guy though. Their #2 WR is 6ft under and Im not sure they have replaced him at WR, Palmer doesn't impress me in big spots, Benson's back with off the field problems. Cincy's defense is legit but I don't like their head coach or QB in big games.

RB could be an issue but some think he won't face much of a suspension if anything at all...(Joe Reedy of the Cincinnati Enquirer).

Chris Henry was all potential and no production. His best season came 4 years ago and he barely topped 600 yards. His replacement has done more and still has potential to be better..(Bryant)

Palmer will still have receiving options...

1 Ocho Cinco
2 Antonio Bryant
3 Andre Caldwell
4 Matt Jones

They also picked up a couple rookies that could make an impact in some way in Dezmond Briscoe and Jordan Shipley.

Add to that TE's Jermaine Gresham, Chase Coffman and Reggie Kelly.

Just Bryant and Gresham could pay big dividends for Palmer...throw Shipley in the slot and wala.

Bryant had over 1200 yards season b4 last but was lost with a rookie QB last year in TB.

It will be a tough division.

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Wow they got Matt Jones, and Shipley hole Shnikes!!!!

Didn't know that, ok then they got a pretty impressive core of wr's.

With antonio Bryant.

I think Cincy's group of WR's are highly overrated. Ochocinco is good but on the downside of his career. Bryant is decent. After that they got nothing.

That offense doesn't scare me at all. Their defense is top notch, but their offense really is just blah

Cedric Benson is a solid RB, I agree with Chad Johnson, and Bryant, but Shipley will be a solid wr, and Matt Jones is very underated, because of his off the field issues, if he turned around his work ethic, he can be dominate, he has 4.4 speed, and is what 6'6?