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Left tackle Jonah Williams is eligible for a new contract for the first time. Right tackle Riley Reiff, who ended the season on IR, is a free agent. Right guard is question mark, too, depending on where the team stands on second-round pick Jackson Carman’s development. And the free-agent landscape is barren at those positions. It seems likely, then, that Cincinnati will sink some draft capital into fixing what’s in front of Joe Burrow.
• Along those lines, he does think last year gave the Texans something to build on, and he’s going to work off of that foundation, even with David Culley gone. “Two years ago, we had a big lead, looked like we were getting ready to go deep in the playoffs. Things can happen quickly,” Smith said. “When I mention the Cincinnati Bengals, that should give all of us hope of how there’s parity in the NFL and things can change quickly. You lay your foundation and then you go to work.
And not just because Miami was the one team giving the Niners’ offensive coordinator an interview—it was more about what he heard, and then saw, once he got into the building itself. “It hit me right before I went in for the interview, because I got the tour of the building, they took me through everything,” McDaniel told me.
• The really cool thing is that McDaniel wasn’t just Shanahan’s right-hand man with the Niners, he was also that guy in Shanahan’s four previous NFL stops, so he worked with him from position coach to coordinator to head coach, and got to see not just that it unfolded as it did, but why. “It literally put me through reps of stuff that I’ll do today, stuff that I’ll do next week, stuff that I’ll do next month. ‘Hey, what do you think we should put on this calendar?’” McDaniel said.
“The foundation is there,” he told me Saturday. “The blueprint for how to do it is there. Now, I just gotta be me and put our own little spin on it. But I don’t see it as,The core of what we do is who we are, and it’s been successful. And so you want to try to keep that in place as much as you can.” In other words, when you hear Allen wants to keep Michael Thomas in the fold, don’t be surprised.
And the great thing for Allen is the Saints know exactly who he is, since he’s worked for the team for 12 seasons. Bottom line, he knows what’s worked, and how GM Mickey Loomis and assistant GM Jeff Ireland work—and the idea here is that’ll go a long way.Their stance hasn’t changed since last year.
McDaniels said this in last week’s MMQB: “Would I like to have an opportunity to build the team the way that I feel like is the right way to do it? Sure. But I also know I don’t want to do every other role. I want to be good in the role that I’m good at, and that I’m supposed to be good at. And to have somebody that you trust and that you can lean on and count on in all those other areas, that’s really important.
Really, to me, this boils down to a couple of things. One, Murray’s eligible for a second contract for the first time, and that means the honeymoon is over and nine-figure decisions are coming for the team. Two, my sense is people in that building want to see more leadership from Murray. Now, in his defense, he did host passing camps last spring and summer, like so many franchise quarterbacks do.
• Tee Higgins really looks like he’s a few lapses in concentration away from becoming a top-shelf receiver. He’s tall, long, rangy … there’s a lot to like about his future. • I do wonder if the Bengals will kick themselves over the play call on the second-and-1 with less than a minute left. Burrow had started rolling a little, and Samaje Perine’s one-yard plunge effectively killed the momentumfelt even though he wasn’t even in uniform.
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