I don’t think you guys understand exactly how good and how dominant Trent Brown can be. If he had played for us last year he would have been the gutsy graded lineman on the team. Last year Trent Brown had a 80.6 run blocking grade. He had a pass blocking grade of 79.2 and an overall grade of 80.2. The highest on our line last year was Ted Karras with a 76. And in 2022 Trent Brown played 1038 snaps. Last year he played 579. So he can play a whole season. He has done it before lots of times. Someone like Terron Armstead has never played an entire season ever. Tyron Smith hasn’t played an entire season since 2016. Trenton has played over 1000 snaps 3 times in his career.

Good question about corner. But one thing im 1000% certain on is we will have much better corner play, regardless of how the position battle goes

I can’t wait to see Cam Taylor Britt on hard knocks!! Get your popcorn ready,it’s going to be Cam Rated TV!!

i agree with Dax being a better fit over DJ for the fact that he’s tougher, thicker etc for the type of football that AFC North has to play,Dax can be a less liability for those games and have good solid safeties over the top that shouldn’t concern you and Dax is fast af also.. just think he does fit the build but believe they’ll both be playing significant snaps at corner positions. i’m ready to see it and what Lou schemes up with the depth and Veteran smarts he has again!!! 🐅

If they resign Hilton at 30 years old then you wasted either a 1st round pick (Dax) or a 2nd round pick (DJ). With a Hilton extension either Dax or DJ will be on the bench period.

Despite whatever I or you guys or the coaches think of Jordan Battle the fact remains that he was the highest graded rookie safety since Derwin James in 2018. Graded by PFF. That’s not one persons opinion of Jordan Battle. That is the grading scale that they use to grade ALL players. It’s ALL of PFF’s opinion. Battle was also a top 5 graded safety in the whole NFL last year. He only started 8 games and he made the All Rookie team in the strength of 8 games. Jordan Battle is that dude. He is what will soon be a rare commodity. What do I mean? He is a defensive back trained by Nick Saban. That’s what I mean. And let’s be clear the ONLY REASON Vonn Bell is back is because they got him at league minimum for a year. That’s it. I like Vonn Bell i think he is a good player and I agree with bringing him in. I don’t think they should have let Bell leave in the first place. I’m glad he is here for another year bevause he can train these young guys how to communicate with each other out there. I just hope they haven’t ruined Dax Hill. They need to make Dax the backup nickel because that’s what he does best. DJ Turner is 6 foot 185. Dax Hill is 6’ 192. Not a big differance.

IF the o-line is A TOP 10.Joe Burrow is the MVP he is going off

the bengals will probably start vonn bell in the first weeks of the season, but I hope jordan battle gets as much playing time as possible. I truly believe that he can become a pro-bowl caliber safety and maybe an all-pro caliber safety. I'm just glad that vonn bell is on the team to help the players know Lou's system, but battle is the better/more talented player.

Who Dey baby!!!

Who Dey!

Mike Hilton is in my opinion possibly the Bengals best FA signing in team history

Smile while we talk Bengals!!

Jiggy James and AFM I always look forward to Tuesday when Enter the Jungle comes on,,,I absolutely love this show and the 2 of you guys doing it,,couldn’t see any other 2 doing this. WHO DEY BABY!!!!

I don’t think they should resign Hilton. Not because he isn’t good he is great and will command a hell of a lot more than 6 mil a year. He was one of the best CB’s not just nickel CB’s but CB’s period last year. I think they should let him walk after this year and move Dax or DJ to nickel. I mean that’s why you draft CBs in the top 2 rounds isn’t it? To play.

If I were the Bengals front office I would extend Mike Hilton even if he was 75 and only got one leg left. This guy is the walking talking good feeling of the team. Not just the defense. And if one day he should decide that that one leg might itch too much. Make him a coach on the defense. Mike Hilton from Georgia is NOT to be touched. A true role model, prankster. Smiling good feelings. He‘s the soul of the team. Full stop.

If the Bengals resign Mike Hilton then they might as well trade either Dax or DJ. Because that is giving up on 1 of them. Dax Hill can play the nickel just as good as Hilton can and he is bigger and a far superior athlete. For real though if they bring Hilton back then that mean either Dax or DJ will have the bench to look forward to. If I were them I would ask to be traded. If I’m Jordan Battle after the year I just had and I’m getting benched then I’m asking to be traded. Hilton is already 30 years old too.

Happy Saturday, Dax has the size, speed, and athleticism to be a factor in the backfield. He may be the player that could minimize better TE production. If the Bengals O-line has top 15 or better stats, then it's gonna be a FUN year. CHEERS to ALL

Dax was mismanaged! No excuse for what's happened here. Always said Dax played in the slot when he was at Michigan why put him as Jesse Bate's replacement as Safety? Why?

Why does James not like battle?

I've been saying players such as Joe borrow should've took more of a team friendly deal so the team could retain certain players if they choose now what will chase want

Rapien spitting nothing but facts. As usual

I sure as hell hope the 2ndary o line is as good as the starting.

if Jordan battle had a better year than Dax last year, I don’t understand why he should go behind him on the depth chart at safety? Maybe he shouldn’t be the starter but he needs some reps lol

In my opinion ctb is our best corner by far

I believe ZAC Taylor has helped changed this franchise but I also believe he could've done a better job helping borrow with play ▶ calling & game-planning 2 help keep yo franchise QB healthier ZAC & management needs to do a better job of protecting Joe since we all see each yr the o line rankings

I think Ravens lost too many players. They could be favorites, but Bengals at least should be neck and neck.😊

No idea why James hates Battle so much

The Bengals have to get over that Browns hump and play better against the Ravens win Lamar is healthy. But definitely have to get over the Browns hump.

Woh day

I'm buying the O line in the top 10 ALL DAY LONG

Bengals 10-7 - Burrow will start 13 games

Jordan Battle was so much better than Dax Hill last year. Not in the opinion of "one person", in the opinion of most people with eyes 😂

And yeah Duke has brought in new lineman but since drafting borrow its not gotten much better an ZAC game-plan against the brown's in a rain storm with Joe already with a Calf strain first game of the season having borrow trying too throw the ball that many times makes you scratch yo head an think what the hell R U doing

Andrew started to say it and chose his words carefully. I will say it. If Joe Burrow can’t play under center and if the Bengals can’t run the ball downhill every few downs then this team is going to look the same. Playing out of shotgun and taking sacks and poor run game, blaming the line for what is really a bad scheme because Zac caters to Joe.

James, why are you so negative on Jordan Battle while most others are fairly high on him. It takes more than athleticism to play this game. And Battle is a great example of that. He’s not the athlete Dax is, yet he seemed to make less mistakes as a 3rd round rookie than Hill did as a first round talent from the previous year. Battle was arguably the most impressive rookie from the 2023 draft class. I don’t hate Dax and don’t want to give up on him. I think it’s been well documented that the Bengals have mismanaged his development. But I think this is one of those things where you’re so stuck on an opinion/pick that you’re blinding yourself to the possibility to other options. I get thinking he could win the corner job, but I think he’s clearly lost the safety job and Battle will be the 3rd safety behind Bell/Stone. And I do think he will play some significant snaps. Please get off the Battle hate train.