James Brooks

He said, no, I think he's as good as Chase Brown.

I'm like, do you? Why? Why? Why do you think that? I understand the similarities, but no, James Brown is better than Jalen Warren.

Not by a lot, but enough to where it's noticeable.

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Yeah, him and his crew got a bunch of former players and a few current players that came and signed autographs and shook hands, kissed babies, all that.

Well, they had different sessions throughout the event.

Well, one of the sessions had Icky Woods, Ira Hillary, Jim Breach, and anybody that grew up that watched the 88 team knows James Brooks.

James Brooks, especially for those of you that may or may not know, that is Will's childhood hero.

I'm just kidding.

James Brooks is three.

Joe Cribs is five.

I would have gotten that.

He came fairly close a few years ago.

James Brooks holds the all-time franchise record.

But no Bengals ever surpassed 2,000 scrimmage yards in a season.

I don't know if he's going to get there, but I do think he could get to, like, 1,800, and that would be a franchise record.

So let's say 318.

If he does that, he breaks James Brooks' record for most yards from scrimmage in a single season, 1773 and 1986.

When the Bengals had the top offense in the NFL, James Brooks goes into the ring of honor this year.

Chase Brown, we've talked a lot about under center, running it more effectively and more often.

I got to thinking about this last week when on my show, my guy Dan Klaskens gave my favorite player prop, which is Chase Brown over five and a half rushing touchdowns.

I think they recognize the way to be a more explosive offense is getting more explosives in the run game and giving that a real chance and not just being the processing, chase and tee, ball-winning offense and making Burrow go do it all the time.

And I think if they really lean into that, if they're serious about it, and if it takes early – But yeah, you certainly could see him set all kinds of marks.

I don't want to see him break the 86 James Brooks mark, though, because it's too special of a season.

Yeah, I was asked this by Dan Hoare on a podcast, along those lines, and I said Chase Brown, and I said, I know that's probably not right because Chase is coming off a good year, but I still think Chase Brown has the single season Bengals yards from scrimmage record in him.

It's James Brooks around 1,600 yards.

I really believe that he's going to do that this year.

But I'm not going to go there because...

Smith led the team in rushing for the fifth time in his career during the strike-shortened 1982 season, but his tenure in Seattle came to an end in 1983.

He was traded to San Diego, where he placed sparingly behind Chuck Muncy and James Brooks for one year before a knee injury effectively ended his career.

The Tank transitioned into coaching shortly thereafter, and began working his way up the ranks.

making stops at his alma mater in Oxford and Illinois before making the jump to the NFL.