NFL Player Movement Reactions - 7/28/11

Not going to waste your time or mine on a long introduction today, as the NFL player moves have been coming in all day even faster than they have been. I'm going through the list of important player moves the way they are listed chronologically over at footballoutsiders.com, so that is the order I'll be listing the players in.

Be sure to check out yesterday's player movement reactions here.

Just going to get right into it...

Free Agency Starts At Home: The Cincinnati Bengals' Five Biggest Player Decisions

Assuming they get a new collective bargaining agreement done, NFL Free Agency is scheduled to begin on March 3, 2011.  I'm going to go through every team between now and then and identify their top five free agents and try to determine what should be done with each player, be it resign them or let them walk.  I'm going team by team in draft order and currently am at the fourth pick in the draft, the Cincinnati Bengals.

The 2010 Bengals season was a huge disappointment.  The won the AFC North in 2009, going 10-6 while sweeping their divisional games.  In the off-season they added Terrell Owens and were expected to be in the playoff hunt again, but they never played to their potential.

The team would play good halves or quarters, but rarely put together a full strong game. A glance at their schedule shows that they were within a touchdown in most of their losses, but they were out of most of those games, only keeping the final scores close by scoring late.

Head coach Marvin Lewis will return, along with most of the members of a young underrated defense.  However their offense was their weak link last year and the organization has a decision to make with many of the offense's high profile names.