Josh Butts

I have been hypercritical of the Cincinnati Bengals over the last 14 months, but must give them their deserved praise for what they have been willing and able to do the past two off-seasons collectively. They were able to lock up Tee Higgins and Mike Gesicki (along with Burrow and Chase), bring back the entire starting OL (1 year deal for Risner and ext for Brown Jr.). They gave Trey Hendrickson an increase (as painful as it was and I was one asking for a long term deal). They traded for one of the very best DTs in football and extended him to ensure they have him for 3 years (basically swapping Hendrickson for Lawrence), and upgrading the interior of the line in the process with Allen (and obviously Lawrence). They brought in young players to hopefully bolster the Edge in Mafe and Howell. They signed a high end safety to upper market money. The defensive makeover is impressive. In all, this was a very solid offseason for Cincinnati. Hopefully there is no contract drama (looking at pick 41 and the desire to continue the trend of fully guaranteed contracts for 2nd round picks).

@NASCAR needs to market the crap out of Carson Hocevar. He makes it so easy, I love seeing Ross Chastain in Wendy's ads (yes I have a bias for these 2 drivers.) But put these drivers with personalities in front of people's faces.

Hurricane Hocevar getting his 1st win at Talladega is absolutely perfect. Great points day for Ross as well! Good race today!

Ross Chastain now is your time to shine.

The more I read about Cashius Howell the more excited I get. I didn't do a lot of work on him because I truly thought #Bengals would go LB or CB in R2 (hence my livestream reaction on draft night.) However, I'm very excited to watch more of his tape.

Last night was so much fun, it's always great to see new names in the chat and interact with you guys! Come hang out with us tonight as well! youtube.com/live/RJVY2wdy-…

Oh shoot. We gonna be reacting tonight boys and girls, but first Dwight Yoakam. youtube.com/live/4rByy6YQO…

Guys hindsight is 20/20 stop freaking out that Downs and Bain were there at 10. Nothing guaranteed that before the night, also team's 100% changed how they planned to draft after the #Bengals - #Giants trade and Dexter Lawrence is an awesome player.

Chus joined the show to tell us about how the city of Pittsburgh is handling the #NFLdraft crowds! youtu.be/akD_b_JIgb4?si…

Come hang with us today ahead of tomorrow' #NFLdraft youtube.com/live/eKyZF_Vv-…

To celebrate Dexter Lawrence being traded to the #Bengals I made a limited "Screw That Pick" Sticker! You can buy it in the store right now! no-butts-about-it-shop.fourthwall.com/products/screw…

RT and ❤️ for a chance to win a signed Dexter Lawrence II Bengals helmet!

Alright. So I know it's not Maxx but I'm pretty excited Sexy Dexy is a Bengal. So, I will make a deal with y'all. IF we hit 1K subs on YouTube by July 1st I will give away a Dexter Lawrence jersey. If we hit it by June 1st, I will give away a Dexter Lawrence jersey and another of the 2nd winner's choice. Deal?

@Bengals LET'S GO!!!!

We have acquired DT Dexter Lawrence II in a trade with the N.Y. Giants.   🔗: go.bengals.com/3QaEAmK

@Bwagz you see what's going on in Cincinnati? Just making sure you've been paying attention...

How this whole sequence of events got me feeling.

You know I'm going to a concert Thursday night and I knew I was gonna be checking my phone all night for the #Bengals pick...well no more.

BOOM! WHAT DID I SAY?

Everybody owes @BJHill5 an apology...

@BryceEisnaugle @Gehrke @AdamSchefter We still don't technically know if Dex is fully back to himself, but yes this is also a factor.

@Josh_Butts_2001 @Gehrke @AdamSchefter Add in the fact that Trey is coming off of a major core muscle surgery too 👌🏼

A Bengals trade for Dexter Lawrence is unprecedented: This is the first time in the common draft era that dates back to 1966 in which the Bengals ever have traded a Top-10 pick for a player, per ESPN research.