coaches: i doubt marvin lewis gets fired since he did bring the team back to back playoff years for the 1st time in 30 years. of course his contract is up, so im gonna hope hes not back. mike zimmer gets promoted to head coach, pray that jay gruden doesnt leave the bengals, and go out and sign romeo crennel as there DC
Free agency:
use the franchise tag on either RT andre smith or DE michael johnson. i vote andre smith because hes big money somewhere. find a way to give michael johnson a big contract. resign WR andrew hawkins, i dont think they have to worry about losing him since hes a restricted free agent. also resign LB's manny lawson, rey maualuga, and CB adam jones to 1 year deals
the rest of the free agents
QB bruce gradkowski
RB's bernard scott, brian leonard, cedric peerman, john conner
WR brandon tate
TE's richard quinn, clark harris
OT dennis roland
DE's robert geathers, wallace gilberry
DT pat sims
LB's thomas howard, vincent rey, dan stuka
CB's terence newman, nate clements
S's chris crocker, jeromy miles
K's mike nugent, josh brown
P kevin huber
most of these free agents are not the biggest names, but half of them back would be nice
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NEW ADDITIONS (but realistic)
WR brian hartline MIA
OLB connor barwin HOU
and any other cowboy defense players that played for mike zimmer before, as well as tampa bay buc playes for jay gruden on offense
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NFL DRAFT PREDICTIONS
1.OLB Barkevious Mingo LSU
2a.RB Giovani Bernard North Carolina
2b.FS Kenny Vaccaro Texas
3.DE Dominique Easley Florida
4.ILB Shayne Skov Stanford
5.OT Xavier Nixon Florida
6a.CB Ryan Lacy Utah
6b.QB Brad Sorensen Southern Utah