Scarlet Stache

@BenchwarmerBran Imagine thinking he was treated poorly.

Curious what you guys think, does this Dex trade make any sense with the context that they could’ve just not treated Trey Hendrickson like shit, extended him, and kept the 10th pick? I know he and Dex do some different things but is their net impact not about the same?

@BannedJoke Super out on Hill at that spot. But I wouldn’t be unhappy with the rest of it, although Height isn’t their kind of EDGE player the Bengals usually take. I hope they deviate for speed rusher-types, but we’ll see.

First Mock after Dex trade

@danorlovsky7 @PaulHembo You didn’t watch last year.

Most sacks since 2020:   Myles Garrett (95.0)
T.J. Watt (80.5)
Trey Hendrickson (74.5) The Cincy defensive improvements will be lipstick on a pig if they can’t block those guys. @PaulHembo

@Churrrow ZIM and Blake have a real hard time.

There are two accounts in Bengals twitter who actually never can be happy and they know who they are

@Peter_Bukowski @lorenzosorice Hasn’t happened yet, strangely.

@lorenzosorice I stay right about the Bengals

Joe Burrow has missed 16 games over the last 3 seasons, the Bengals are 19-16 when Burrow DOES play over that time, but sure, they're a 29-year-old NT (even an awesome one) away from contending.

@CoachMinich @benga1scentre You don’t have to, it’s just true.

@benga1scentre I don’t buy that narrative

For the record , I stand by my statement that #10 is an overpay Very happy Dex is here, but I think they lost the deal Having said that, this is the type of aggressive move other teams are praised for

@blaiden There’s just so much here that is incorrect.

If you’re a Bengals fan: don’t expect this to change your defense overnight. The linebackers and secondary are still terrible + no more Hendrickson Very proud of the Giants for getting a top 10 pick for Dex. I was not sure if he was going to go for that much so major win!

@wingoz There’s just… so much wrong with every part of that statement.

So let me get this straight: it’s a deep defensive draft… so you trade away a top 10 pick where you could lock up a younger player for up to 5 years…. for an older ( but very good) player…who can walk in 2 years as a free agent?

@DianteLeeFB @ItsYeyo95 And he got paid.

Trading for a player who wants to get paid directly after losing a player they don’t want to pay 👍🏾👍🏾

@PlutoCooked Yeah, that’s a no.

Give me any of the top 5 receivers, Keldric Faulk, EMW, and any top Offensive lineman over Thieneman for the Bengals at 10

@PlutoCooked Not even remotely close.

Would be just as bad if not worse than the Shemar Stewart pick👍

@GrantTRoosevelt @BannedJoke @JoeGoodberry To provide an evaluation of production while considering both age and risk factors. Downs was downgraded in his grading because he didn’t do athletic testing, which is always a concern. Thieneman did, and tested off the charts. Joe went over all of this in this video and others.

@scarletstache @BannedJoke @JoeGoodberry I watched it. He has DT as his highest graded player. I get that he cautions at the very end "I'm not saying he's better than Downs" but then what's the purpose of your grading?

Do we not have tape of Caleb downs at 18 years old showing great range in the SEC ?

@GrantTRoosevelt @BannedJoke @JoeGoodberry Go ahead and actually watch the video, just give it a try.

@BannedJoke This is where @JoeGoodberry is a joke. He's comparing Thieneman to Downs. Downs has tape at 18 starting game 1 as a true freshman in Saban's defense. Not Purdue. That means he replaced a stud. And no safety played more positions on the field than Downs. DT is great but c'mon!

@LisaFitsU3 @awfulannouncing @McShay13 I’m not sure it’s humanly possible to misinterpret comments in worse fashion than you just accomplished. Congratulations.

@awfulannouncing Yeah, Todd is pathetic. A dead girl is irrelevant to him. Meaningless. Zero to report on her folks, no story here, move on like I did ... What a punk @McShay13 is. Dead girl = meh to him.

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@NoFilm_Analysis The “holier than thou” is unreal with this. There is no draft analyst who watches 20+ games of every single prospect. That person doesn’t exist. And getting this upset because you didn’t like a response to a tweet is ridiculous. NFL TEAMS don’t watch 20+ games of these dudes.

Good thing I don't use spreadsheets to tell me if a player is good or not. I agree that blending film and analytics is the key in proper prospect evaluations. That's what NFL teams and actual decision-makers do. Saying you can learn a lot about a player in 4 games is bullshit. It's a lie people tell themselves because they just started scouting prospects 3 months before the NFL draft and there isn't enough time to actually watch an adequate amount of film for a prospect before the draft. It's disrespectful to the players and discredits the amount of work they've put in on and off the field. And it's disrespectful to the actual draft analysts who put in an enormous amount of time, effort, and resources into proper film evaluation. Watching film on prospects is fun. But let's not act like watching a 4-game cut-up puts someone on the same level as film analysts who actually put in the work year-round. Watching film and evaluating prospects is a skill. It's an art. It requires experience, knowledge, expertise, and familiarity, not just as a whole, but for every position. You want me to put any kind of trust or value in the opinion of someone who's telling me how good a player is for someone they had no idea existed the week prior? People who actually put in the work can smell the bullshit. A vast majority of draft opinions by self-proclaimed film analysts are so shallow that they cave the second they receive any pushback. The NFL is doing it right because they have actual investment in prospect evaluation. If most NFL draft analysts were actually held to ANY kind of standard and required ANY kind of credibility in their prospect evaluation, the quality of draft content would increase exponentially. But they're not. No, you cannot evaluate the value of a player in 4 games. Or 6 games. Or 10 games. If you want your opinion to actually mean something then put in the work and watch the damn film. Otherwise, you're a content creator first and not an actual draft analyst.

@JoeGoodberry @JakeLiscow @bengals_sans @maxtoscano1 @ParkerBlake60 @nangleberger @Andy_Hafenbrack Always appreciate the incredible amount of work you guys do for this. Definitely a fantastic resource for those of us who love digging into the draft.

Our 2026 Draft Sheet is available for everyone! This is a group effort with player evaluations from @bengals_sans, @maxtoscano1 and @ParkerBlake60, data collection from @nangleberger and pre-draft contract and mock draft info collected by @Andy_Hafenbrack Then you've got @JakeLiscow, @DDMeritt and @kjacobson helping to make it look pretty and keep things coordinated. Give them a follow while you're here. If you have questions after looking around, feel free to ask. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

@CrackeyTheBear It’s also just flatly not happening. No WR and no OL in the top 10 is not a scenario that we’ll see.

This would be an absolute nightmare scenario for the bengals as every single one of their guys are gone This would most likely be the situation where they pick up the phone and trade back

@twizms @PmtStats That’s how all tax brackets work.

@PmtStats well your right and wrong on this one. california has a tax that kicks in at a million dollars but it only effects the money you make after a million so $1 less didn't change anything.

I think when I die it’ll because I couldn’t take reading any more comments about people who don’t understand taxes. Too many people believe you make more money by earning less wages.

@TheoAshNFL Yeah, no.

CJ Allen 🧘‍♂️

@JoeGoodberry Joe where is the wandering Chris Johnson tape hiding, it eludes me

I'm at 194 players watched this draft season. Trying to hit 200 before releasing the Draft Sheet.