Honestly most excited I've been since AD committed as I said even before he committed that he will be the best player to ever don the blue and white quite awhile before his commitment. I knew what was coming with him. And I'm very excited for this year. All I gotta say is thank god for the Bahamas trip (which couldn't have happened a better year) and good ol UK football for a season in which I believe is the year we kick the doors down and win 9-10 games (I haven't always been a stoops supporter and hardly optimistic when it comes to football just think this year is the year).
Also very excited for what the bengals have cooking for this coming season with the revamped OL, new DC and a healthy roster, I feel like we have no weaknesses this coming season and could be the most complete team in the league this year. Addition of Preston brown (leading tackler in NFL), to go with burrfict (also had recent season leading in tackles) and another year to Lawson who will be at LB (best defensive rookie in NFL last season) and that gives you arguably nastiest DL in NFL (top 3-5 at least), very filthy LB corpse and easily one of the top 5 CB trios in the NFL. New OL, left side is great, right side looks to be decent but with potential to be good as westerman finished last season playing great. If Ross steps up and Eifert stays healthy it's game over for the rest of the league IMO.
In the meantime gonna hope my middling reds keep the hot streak going and hopefully get in position to make a run at a wildcard. If Castillo could pick up the slack I'd have a lot more faith in that happening as the other 4 starters have been either stellar or decent of late and that's the reds only weakness is starting pitching (huge weakness to have though). If we are a team that's selling and giving away players I'll be very angry considering next season looks to be a huge year for us, we need to pay gennett considering we completely robbed Suarez of his prime and he needs to fire his agent this moment with the deal he got, and we need to pay Harvey as at the very least we should be a playoff team next year with World Series hopes at the worst.
Keep Harvey, keep gennett, keep the same lineup. Pay 1 maybe 2 starters to go with Mahle, Romano, Harvey and Desclafani. And that gives you arguably best offense in the NL (rn I believe it's the best), a great bp and a solid rotation. We have an awesome championship caliber offense and the best infield in baseball (peraza also looks to be a future star and is currently having a star type season, same with the rook winker) to go along with a very damn good outfield offensively and defensively. We can't waste another season of having an amazing offense with awful starting pitching as we did last year and possibly this year.
Needless to say I probably haven't been more excited for a sports year as a whole than I am for next year. UK title and FINALLY a bengals SB
plus a break-thru year for the gridiron cats.