Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals - Duke Tobin On Dalton Risner's Future, Trey and the Franchise Tag, and "Resources to Attack the Offseason in a Big Way"

Starting point is 00:00:00 Duke Tobin said in Indianapolis that the Cincinnati Bengals have a lot of resources to attack the offseason in a big way. Are we buying it? Let's break it down. You are Locked-on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day and the number one sports podcast. Network in the land. He's James Rapine. I'm Jake Lusco. We have you covered every day here on lockdown Bengals with everything going on with your favorite team today. Diving into

Starting point is 00:00:44 mostly Duke Tobin's podium comments in Indianapolis. He also met with Cincinnati Media off podium. Today we're going to focus on what he said on the podium and we'll get to everything that we learned from various Bengals coaches, Bengals leadership, and general buzz around the combine. Over the next few days here on lockdown Bengals and probably even into the weekend when we might finally get around to reacting to some of the player testing and those sorts of things after we get through everything that we've learned from the Bengals leadership and Bengals coaches over the course of the week. Welcome back, by the way, to all the everydayers and everyone who makes Locked on Bengals their first listen. And we're going to

Starting point is 00:01:25 dive into some topics that we've been talking about for the last few weeks as we've been gearing up for this event, which really kicks off and kicks into gear the entire NFL offseason. and Kyle Pitts franchise tag today. My condolences, James. I know you're really excited about the potential of bringing Kyle Pitts to Cincinnati and adding him to the Bengals Trench Unit, really fitting in with your trench man persona that obviously goes back to decades, really, if we're being honest.

Starting point is 00:01:53 But Duke Tobin's sound bite this year might be this idea that the Bengals have all these resources to attack the offseason in a big way. And this comes on the heels of 2025. Indianapolis podium session where he said he didn't want to pay more for the same team and largely was accused of paying more for the same team. What do you think this year about the, I think, soundbite of the podium compared to last year? Look, I was asked about that today before he talked, the pay for the same team thing. And I was like, ah, ownership might have screwed him there a little bit.

Starting point is 00:02:32 might have put him in a tough spot where he he didn't want to and who knows maybe not maybe it's the other way I think this message is very very simple and it's exactly what they should be saying it's exactly how they should be saying it's exactly what we should here now their actions have to back it up but guess what do there do they not have the seventh most cap space or eighth most cap space in the league depending on where you look 50 plus million dollars in cap space they do do they do they or do they Do they not have the ability to create 30 plus million dollars in cap space and restructures? They do. They have resources.

Starting point is 00:03:11 And so absolutely this is the start of it. They can't sign anyone today. We know that. They know that. But do they have the resources? They do. Do they have the cash? They do.

Starting point is 00:03:23 We've maintained that. That's been my stance year in and year out. They probably hate how loud I am about that in some ways because they, it's still unforgivable what they did last offseason, even though he mentioned it, $400 million in contract. Do not care. You signed T.J. Slayton and a backup linebacker in Ornbergs,

Starting point is 00:03:46 and a backup running back in Samadhii right on the minimum. Like, don't you dare try to pretend like you added all these outside guys and spent all this, but like you spent money on guys you needed to keep. And so this needs to be the offseason of spending money on new additions, on key additions, on additions that make this team, helps them go from a 6 and 11 team to an 11 and 6 team. And then if you have Joe Burroughs health in there,

Starting point is 00:04:11 then suddenly you're one of the best teams in the NFL. But they have to find a way to upgrade their roster in a significant way. And they do, Jake, have the resources to do it. So guess what, Duke, you better do it. You got to deliver. Duke needs to deliver. Yeah, this is another season where we will, of course, be tracking the Bengals cash resources and projecting their cash spend. We're going to look at the historic trends of

Starting point is 00:04:35 how much cash over cap because the Bengals have spent a little bit more cash than cap in most of the Joe Burrow era. I think there's one or two years where maybe they were like at 99% instead of over 100%. But typically they spend a little bit more cash than their salary cap every year. This year, that puts them in the neighborhood of $75 million to spend this offseason. That includes a big projected signing bonus for the 10th overall pick. That would cost the Bengals about $20 million in cash. So you're going to have bigger expenses for rookies this year because you're picking a little bit earlier. So your first round pick costs twice as much.

Starting point is 00:05:14 And that's part of what the Bengals are probably putting together when they're thinking about their budget for this off season. And maybe they're also thinking about spending a little bit more cash than they had the last couple of years. Last year they were something like three and a half percent cash over cap the year before that. it was closer to 10% cash overcap. This year, the way I got to that $75 million number, James, talking about the resources they have available, the cash resources that we could roughly project, and I'll refine this number over the course of the next week,

Starting point is 00:05:43 around $75 million is kind of trying to figure out where the trend is and where the average is. And then it'll be a slight adjustment from there year to year, a percent to 3% probably, based on how they feel some of the, those decisions on the margins go. Last year, their cash expenditure was bumped up late with adding Dalton Reisner pretty late in the process. It's not a huge amount of money, but that bumped up their cash spend a little bit. Trading for Joe Flacco midseason bumped up their cash spend a little bit.

Starting point is 00:06:13 So that's a lot of money that they can spend on external free agents. Last year, a lot of those resources went to T. Hendricks, T. Higgins, and Jamar Chase. And this year, if they're looking at extensions, that might eat into some of this budget. But even if it does, say they do a couple of even $10, $15 million signing bonuses for Dax Hill, DJ Turner, maybe even Chase Brown, and there's some combination of those guys, is somewhere between $20 and $30 million in signing bonuses that eats into their cash to spend on external guys. That's still probably $40 million plus, $40 to $50 million in 2026 cash

Starting point is 00:06:50 so they can spend on external guys. So it is true that the Bengals have resources to attack the offseason in a big way. Do they create more cap space? that will be a very clear indicator that they're planning to spend more cash in 2026. Because right now I'm not convinced that they have to create more cap space to spend all their cash. But if they do restructure, that's a very clear early indicator that we might get, James. If they take a look at creating space by adjusting Joe Burroughs contract in terms of accounting, not in terms of cash, just changing where that money is accounted for.

Starting point is 00:07:24 We've talked about that in a previous episode. that'll be a really key early indicator that they're really going to push this thing more than I would say I currently expect because currently I've adjusted down my estimates for cash spend based on what they've done in recent years. We can hit this. Duke was asked. So he did an 18 minute on camera podium thing that a lot of people hopefully saw. If not, I tweeted out a link to it and posted it. And he also did audio, an audio session, which we'll tackle or react to.

Starting point is 00:07:56 on tomorrow's show. And this came up. The restructure part came up. It's an easy tease because it's certainly something that all of us are thinking about. All of us are wondering about. But regardless, you are right, Jake. They have resources. They have some cash.

Starting point is 00:08:10 They got to spend it. They got to spend it on the right guys. They need less Gino Stones and more of the Chittobay-A-Wusier, Mike Hilton. Think about all those guys that were part of the two AFC championship run. So we'll continue. you the conversation and there's a key guy whose future is up in the air that a lot of people are wondering about and they want him to protect Joe Burrow. We'll get the latest on Dalton Reisner as well coming up next. Today's show is brought to you by five-hour energy. Five-hour

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Starting point is 00:09:28 One of the big questions, James, is how will they spend all of this cash? And we've alluded to a couple of ways they can spend that money. External free agents, obviously. I've already accounted for rookies, so don't worry about that. And extensions. And one of the guys that are going to be looking to resign in terms of one of their own free agents is going to be Dalton Risner. And beyond Dalton Reisner, I kind of wonder how much they'll do on the offensive side of the ball. This might be another tease, James.

Starting point is 00:09:56 But listening to Zach Taylor on the podium didn't sound. like there's a whole lot of urgency on the offensive side of the ball. And so that's probably a conversation for another day. Obviously, they have to spend this money in the right way. They have to find the right players. They need to make sure they're not overpaying guys that aren't going to help them win games, all those things. I think Dalton Reisner is a guy that Duke Tobin sounded interested in bringing back.

Starting point is 00:10:20 And Duke is never going to stand up on the podium and outright say, we're going to do everything in our power to bring back player XYZ. unless it's a guy like Jamar Chase or Joe Burr, we're going to resign Joe. You know, you won't get that kind of declarative statement unless it's really that caliber of player. So you didn't quite get that as Duke was talking about Dalton Reisner James. But the very clear gist of it was that they're in communication with Dalton Reisner's camp.

Starting point is 00:10:48 They really value him. They would like him back. They're going to try to get something done. But it wasn't so declarative as to say like that's our top priority. for free agency. Nothing like that. You're not going to get that kind of language from Duke Tobin, right? But what were your thoughts as to how Duke Tobin discussed Dalton Riser, the language he used and what you think is coming next as the Bengals are thinking about their future with Riser? Yeah, I think they want them. I think they are curious what it's going to cost. And they'll talk

Starting point is 00:11:22 with him and engage with him probably this week and his people this week. And then going into next week, which is really when you want to get it done. You want to get it done before the legal tampering period before all of this stuff kicks off on March 9th. And so it doesn't matter if it's March 8th. You take it. You take it and run with it. I remember back when the Bengals signed Alex Kappa, there was all of that speculation that they were going to sign the Tampa Center. Yeah. Jensen. Ryan Jensen. Jensen and Ryan Jensen that Sunday night before Monday inked an extension with Tampa and unfortunately he had a knee issue and was quickly out of the league because of treatment and all there's a bunch of

Starting point is 00:12:05 stuff there but the Bengals either pivoted or was always they were always targeting Alex Kappa I'm not sure but then they go get Kappa at 1201 you don't want Risener to be that 1201 you want to get him done and Mike Kesecki's what I keep coming back to they found a way to make that work I don't know why. I think most, at least the social media side of it, Jake, that I see. A lot of fans are pessimistic about it. Here's why I'm optimistic. I think the Bengals think he's a good player.

Starting point is 00:12:35 I think they believe in him and believe he fits what they do. He wants to be here. They want him here. And usually, usually that's enough. Not always. Like with Jesse Bates, I get it. It wasn't enough. This isn't Jesse Bates.

Starting point is 00:12:50 Like, if you got off from $6 million per year, year and you're at four and he's at seven or eight well i'm sure there's common ground there like there should be right so how out of it it could be like i was thinking about this today like the path that dalton risiner not returning well everyone's going to say well the bengals lowball him well maybe it's here this week and a team kind of letting his agent know like hey just so you know that uh that risner guy we got three for 21 three for 21 sitting there you know like something like that because outside of that. Some just cold tampering

Starting point is 00:13:24 right down behind you. It does happen. Like that happens. Definitely. The Bengals almost certainly did it when they signed Alex Kappa at 12.01. You better do it. You better do it if you want to survive in this game. Yes.

Starting point is 00:13:37 Absolutely. Not meaning to throw accusations out there. I don't think they were ever sanctioned for it or anything, but it was like, it was 12.01. It happens all the time. There's going to be a 1201 deal. There's going to be a 1201 deal this year. Watch, 1203.

Starting point is 00:13:49 Yeah. It happens frequently. Those conversations happen in Indianapolis. That's what we've been talking about these conversations happening in Indianapolis for weeks now. And why we've been saying for weeks now, like, I wouldn't really expect anything to happen until after the combine. And there's a lot of angs because who was it? Andrew Wiley signed a deal this week. Is that right?

Starting point is 00:14:09 Offensive tackle signed like a two-year, $10 million deal, I think, this week. Yep, he did. Two for seven and a half up to ten. Up to 10. Every time there's a medium-sized signing, it's like, okay, Bengals, get a dumb adult. I think it's a little bit different. It'll be interesting if he gets to the open market, though. And that's what you would probably like to avoid because you could potentially get a bidding war there.

Starting point is 00:14:38 I think I go back to Zach's comments thinking about the offense and kind of talking about the offense is pretty set. And maybe this is reading way too much into that comment. and we're going to expand on this, I think on another episode. But if they're pretty set on offense, they don't have a starting right guard unless it's Dalton Reisner. Right?

Starting point is 00:14:58 Right? Like there's no way he's counting on Jalen Rivers to do that job, right? Like just using logic here. Zach's, for all the criticisms out there, he's not dumb. Like, he knows, everybody knows what this team needs to do this offseason.

Starting point is 00:15:12 There's a reason there's so much focus on the defense side of the ball. I think there's probably a decent amount of confidence that they can find common ground with Dalton Risenor. Because like you said, there's a lot, a lot pointing in that direction now. They have to get it over the finish line. But I'm not panicking about it, honestly, until like day two of the legal tampering, legal negotiating window. I think it would be far from ideal if it goes into that window at all.

Starting point is 00:15:38 But unless he like signs with another team right away, I don't know. Maybe the concern starts when that window opens. I think it's concerning if it opens because if it opens, it means. I talk myself. Yeah. Because let's be honest. It means that someone, maybe he's thinking three years. And maybe that's all it is, is executive calls and, hey, we're calling about this player, by the way, or they're at dinner meeting about this player.

Starting point is 00:16:05 By the way, three years for DR. Like, you just never know, like, tampering. Well, it's real easy to pass information back and forth, you know, and do it that way without breaking any rules. technically, you know? So it's tough. It's tough. And by the way, I'm not giving the Bengals an excuse here. No. I'm saying I think that they'll offer two years. I don't think they're going to go to three years with Dalton Reisner. That's my assumption. It doesn't mean it's true. I still believe, because some even looked into the Kansas City thing. I know for a fact that has no bearing on what he wants to do, where he wants to be. He still wants to be in Cincinnati. That hasn't changed because he bought a house

Starting point is 00:16:44 in the Kansas City area. That's completely separate, just so you know. there's people that saw it on social media and we're like, oh, well, does he don't want to be it? No, he still does. No, I know that for a fact. So it's just about finding common ground and what that common ground is. And two for 10 in my head, I've had it for months. Maybe that's two for 12 now, or the two for 14 that the athletic proposed. But if it's two for 14, then maybe there's a team that says three for 21.

Starting point is 00:17:11 And that's what's tough about free agency. I think the trend that we're seeing, though, is that teams are just keeping the guys they want to keep for the most part. And if the Bengals are the only team that's not keeping the guys they want to keep, then I mean, what are we doing here? And we've talked about all the cash they have to spend the limited amount of guys that they're going to want to bring back this offseason, not including the extension candidates, but like guys they want to resign pending free agents. There's not a ton. We have talked about a handful of them. We've done episodes on it, but Dalton Rise are very clearly the top of the list. And I think, I'm pretty sure Duke said that they

Starting point is 00:17:46 had talked and they'd been in conversation, that's about as declarative as a statement from Duke Tobin that you'll get on a player that is not your face of the franchise player. Like, it's not a Jamar Chase. It's not a Joe Burrow. It's about as indicative of the Bengals interest in bringing Dalton Reisner back as you were going to get from Duke Tobin today in Indianapolis, right? Like, that's my overall feeling, my overall takeaway there. And I don't think I wrote this.

Starting point is 00:18:14 I might not have even said it on the pot, but when he did his hour-long session, last month, Duke in Cincinnati, he mentioned, like, we have our offensive line set. It was some kind of implication. And I took note of it in the moment, and it just, I just had flashbacks because that, to me. And with what Zach said today. Yeah. And that's it. When you were talking about the Zach stuff, I was like, yeah, Duke kind of referenced that too.

Starting point is 00:18:39 So look, maybe this is strictly Mike Gassicki. By the way, they gave Mike Gassicki three years, ladies and gentlemen. So it's not like they're like it's this threshold. I just don't know if they want to give Dalton Reiser three years. I just don't know. I have no idea. Don't know what kind of guarantee demands are out there either. The Javonte Williams contract, very interesting.

Starting point is 00:19:00 Not going to talk about that now, but second year guarantees there. And how that plays into a potential Chase Brown extension that we talked about. What was that earlier this week? Was it last week? I guess it was last week now. Days are blurring together very quickly here, James. Let's make sure we talk. about what Trey-Hendrickson news we got or did not get from Duke Tobin, who is

Starting point is 00:19:22 cagey about it. But we have a nice little audio clip that we want you to hear as well from Duke Tobin when my esteemed co-host, James Rupin, asked about hypothetical tag-in-trade situations coming up next. This episode of Locktime Bengals was sponsored by Home Chef, who knows as a new year gets going, a lot of people are trying to simplify their routines. And dinner is a big one to simplify and streamline, busy work. work days, cold winter nights, pack schedules.

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Starting point is 00:22:13 Welcome back to the beats. first question to Duke on the podium, which was hilarious and got a couple of good laughs out of Duke Tovin when he was asked about the tag and trade ideas for Trey Hendrickson. Yeah. One, me and Jay rode together, and it was, it is, it's great to have him back in the mix, obviously, and we kind of speculated, well, Duke call on Jay. And I was like, you could just ask about Trey. And we literally speculated about this in the car, like, if this happens.

Starting point is 00:22:41 and I had forgot about it. And then Duke goes up to the podium, because it was hours prior, Duke goes up to the podium, and I'm scrambling to make sure my camera's on and doing all that stuff. And of course he does it. Jay responded quickly, goes with the flame thorough question. And then, yeah, I think Duke very clearly didn't love the idea of talking a lot about Trey on the podium.

Starting point is 00:23:04 I'm sure a lot of you saw, if not. I asked, I followed up, and I said, hey, one of those many resources that we talked about at the beginning of this show. could it be a tag tray? Could he be a resource? And, well, Duke said,

Starting point is 00:23:18 I'm not going to get into this and that and, you know, all these things. And then after his 18-minute session on camera, he did a 36-minute off-camera session that I'm posting on our audio channel on Cincinnati Bengals talk on the audio channel. So just so everybody knows. But we do have this clip.

Starting point is 00:23:36 And whether it's Apple, Spotify, wherever you're listening to us, you can listen to this. But a clip. I had to ask, because I've pushed this tag and trade pretty darn hard, Jake, more so than anyone else that was in the room, certainly, that the Bengals should do this. And so I had to ask him about it because, well, if I'm going to say they should do it, I need to ask about it. Here's the 42nd back and forth with Duke Tova.

Starting point is 00:24:01 How complicated complex would any tag and trade be. It doesn't have to be about a specific player. Obviously, you know who I'm asking about it. But how hard is it? How hard is it? If you're going to tag Tyson Anderson to get a tag. All traits are difficult. You've got to find a partner,

Starting point is 00:24:22 and you have to find somebody that, you have to have some cooperation with your players that you're talking about this with. Trades can be complicated, and that hypothetical scenario would be very complicated. It would be very complicated. I look, that to me says,

Starting point is 00:24:51 it's probably not going to happen, James. It's probably not going to happen. And I was in the room. You can read the body language. You can read all of those things. And obviously he said what he said on the podium was not committal to anything. Left the door open technically for a tag and trade, even there.

Starting point is 00:25:07 But it's pretty darn complicated. I think they're going to have the conversations. And if they're not blown away, they're not going to push the issue. That's kind of what I took away. I always thought it was a long shot. We talked about it a lot because it's something that they should be able to do. It's something that we were kind of watching and waiting to see like, well, they be able to do this thing that other teams have been able to do.

Starting point is 00:25:30 I know it's rare, but it's also rare for players like Trey Henderson to get to free agency. And maybe we're wrong. Maybe PFS one year, $21 million contract has wear. Tray Hendrickson ends up and we're just way off on what the league thinks about Trey Hendrickson. I think it was Greg Rosenthal from Annapel.com finally put up a free agent list. It didn't have Trey as the number one free agent. I think that's the first one I've seen that he wasn't the number one free agent.

Starting point is 00:25:54 So I guess he's no longer in consensus. Yeah. So kind of far down on that list. And there's some surprises on that list. I respect a lot of Greg Rosenthal's work. He's a really great guy. I've talked to him before. So I'm not trying to throw shade there.

Starting point is 00:26:08 is just a bit of a surprise. Maybe the NFL is lower and more concerned about the injury than we think they are. I doubt it. But we know also that the Bengals didn't get great offers last year. So I do think they would have to be blown away. I think it's interesting. The Duke specifically highlighted the difficulty of two elements, the complexity of two elements of the tag and trade.

Starting point is 00:26:34 One being you need the player to cooperate. That one really stood out. And two being you need a trade partner. That's any trade. You need to find a trade partner who's going to give you compensation that makes it worth your time. But if the the player element here, the player cooperation element here is the issue, how about we foster better relationships with our players in the future so that when you get to this point in the future you get to this crossroads and you don't want to commit the long term funds and you want to have this difficult conversation that could lead to a tag and trade that requires the players cooperation. you can do so if that's what the holdup is going to end up being. And again, that's big if statement there,

Starting point is 00:27:13 but that did really stand out to me in Duke's little sound bite there. Yeah, for sure. Look. That's why I would have told trade like two weeks ago. He'd had plenty of time to digest it. I have not been quiet about my opinion on what they should do, how they should do it. And that's why in those settings, I mean, I was sitting right next to him. I was like, I have to, I have to bring this up.

Starting point is 00:27:36 I've talked about it everywhere on everything that I've done. And, yeah, at the same time, you know it's a long shot. And you're right. The relationship part of it, like, Chuck could be like, no, I want to be a free agent. And that's it. And maybe they play hardball a little bit. But you know what I know? If you're like, oh, Trey, these three teams want to sign you to a long-term deal,

Starting point is 00:28:01 Trey's going to be open to at least listening, wouldn't he? versus facing a franchise tag with a team that has playing of cap space to tag him, with a team that has a quarterback that could just restructure his deal

Starting point is 00:28:10 and clear two thirds of the cap space that it takes the tag Trey Hendrickson. I'm just saying, I'm not rolling my eyes because I think you're wrong. I'm rolling my eyes

Starting point is 00:28:19 because I don't want to deal with that selfishly. No doubt. Yeah. But a lot of that doesn't have to be loud. It can be really like, you know, I'm in,

Starting point is 00:28:29 I'm like a building over from Duke right now. If they need assistance, Duke when you see this, just call me and we'll work it out. I'll talk to Trey's agent. Give me his number. I've never talked to him in my life, to be clear. But yeah, we'll work it out. I'm sure he'll be mad initially, and then we'll work through it and get him to Dallas

Starting point is 00:28:48 or wherever you want to send him. We'll see if it comes to pass. I don't think it's going to. I don't either. We'll see what the room. I think Tyson Anderson might be more likely to get traded after that. Look at me trying to get my guy, guy that tag. That's a hilarious example of a franchise tag candidate.

Starting point is 00:29:06 Yeah, Tyson Anderson, your special team's ace. You're going to franchise tag him, right? Hey, that was pretty good by me. You know, how come? It got a good laugh. That's great. Sometimes you take those. We'll dive into some of the rest of what we heard from Zach Taylor, from Duke Tobin,

Starting point is 00:29:23 on podium, off podium. We're going to hear from the coordinators from the Bengals. There was a comment from Zach Taylor about James Casey and the run game coordinator role. Hopefully, we learn a little bit more about that from Dan Pitcher, and we'll see if we dive into that in great depth or not. But certainly some stuff from Zach Taylor that we've alluded to today as far as a very, very clear picture of where this team's priorities are this offseason, what they know they need to do, how they may attack this thing.

Starting point is 00:29:55 And whatever we hear, of course, from the assistant coaches of coordinators, that'll be on what. Wednesday that we hear from them, we probably won't cover that until Thursday show, maybe even Sunday show, depending on what's going on. I'm not going on. Up to date over the next few episodes here on lockdown Bengals nonetheless. Plenty of Combine coverage coming your way here. So make sure you're not missing a day that every day is out there.

Starting point is 00:30:20 Know that we will continue to dig in and look for the messages between the lines in all of these conversations with coaches and keeping our eyes, of course, on rumors from folks on the ground in Indianapolis as well as it relates to the Cincinnati Bengals. But until next time, that's going to do it for this episode of the lockdown Bengals podcast. Thanks for listening. Ho-Day and have a good.

Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals - Duke Tobin On Dalton Risner's Future, Trey and the Franchise Tag, and "Resources to Attack the Offseason in a Big Way"

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