Bengals have waived center Matt Lee, the team's seventh-round draft pick in 2024.

Played in five games last season on special teams before ending the year on injured reserve.

I remember talking to someone a while back (probably 10+ years ago) and he pointed out that American golf is much different than golf in other parts of the world. Thought that was interesting.

What's wrong with golf?!?

Passing or rushing?

Thank you!!

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Absolutely love the revamped ESPN's Draft Simulator.

Highly, highly recommend playing around with it and running a few mock drafts. Best version ESPN has launched yet!

www.espnanalytics.com/draft-predic...

Trey Kaufman-Renn has been so underrated for Purdue this season.

Braden Smith with a great drive to the bucket. Kaufman-Renn with the deft clean-up to send Purdur to the Elite Eight.

Bengals' Joe Flacco says teams 'dumb' for not signing him to start Joe Flacco is back with the Bengals as Joe Burrow's backup, but he isn't shy about voicing his belief that teams made a mistake by passing on him to be their starting quarterback.

Joe Flacco had choice words for teams that didn't think he could compete for their starting jobs in 2026: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

This is correct!

Attack the sidelines with vertical routes so you can get middle of field open

Do you have any ggplot tutorials? Trying to really learn it instead of building off of others’ code

If you take an LB that early, it has to be an absolute gamewrecker who can play that role for a decade

I was recently on a flight, looked at all the ggplot options and figured I should branch out from scatterplots and bar graphs.

Posted this on Threads yesterday but wanted to share it here, too. Took a stab at seeing how NFL teams have valued different position groups in 2026.

Only a few true outliers. But some very interesting observations on here.

Some more details on new Bengals DE Boye Mafe, per source: On that deal that is 3 years/$60M, he is projected to get $29M in cash his first year and $43.3 million in his first two years.

Could have used Joe Root in the batting order imo

Happy Lights Out and Away We Go to all who observe

New project I’m excited about: a model that forecasts free agent contracts based primarily on media rankings.

The model utilizes rankings from ESPN (Matt Bowen), NFL.com (@greggrosenthal.bsky.social), the Athletic (Daniel Popper) and PFF.

Thank you for these recaps all season! Has been a joy of watching the show. Felt like when I used to go find Molly Lambert's Mad Men write-ups after each episode. Makes the show so much more enjoyable!

Trey Hendrickson says goodbye to Bengals as no tag used on DE The Bengals did not use the franchise tag on defensive end Trey Hendrickson ahead of Tuesday's 4 p.m. deadline, making the former All-Pro edge rusher available to the highest bidder when free agency o...

Trey Hendrickson says goodbye after the Bengals opt to let him hit free agency: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

I joked about this at the combine, but the new flex among NFL content creators is taking a screenshot of a TruMedia page.

Events @ Bridwell Each year, Bridwell hosts multiple events - for all students and community members of SMU Cox - to educate on economics.

Next week, I'll be at SMU moderating an awesome panel about how IndyCar and Major League Cricket have gained a foothold in a crowded sporting landscape in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

We still have a few spots open for this free event!

Info here: www.smu.edu/cox/centers-...

Bengals have re-signed OL Dalton Risner, his wife, Whitney, announced on Instagram.

Bengals bring back a right guard who performed incredibly well for them last season. And unlike last year, Risner doesn't have to wait long in the offseason to find his team for 2026.

Former Bengals safety Vonn Bell will coach safeties at Colorado this season, he announced on IG.

Feels like a matter of time until he’s on an NFL staff.

Interesting: Bengals exec Duke Tobin said he hasn’t had a real debrief with Joe Burrow after last season. The two sides have had conversations though, Tobin said.

Elon is awful in many ways, but it is also just good business as well

The less beat writers use X, the quicker and more rapidly it will dry up (which is rapidly happening among casual users, btw)

Making a very concerted effort not to post on X during the combine because that place is bad for business and the sooner everyone got off of there, the better.

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What an incredible way to put it haha. And thank you for this!!