01-27-2022, 09:34 AM
(01-27-2022, 01:43 AM)Whatever Wrote: This one is pretty rough. The Bengals FO would get murdered for that FA. That is basically a classic Marvin Lewis-era FA. We go into FA with the 4th most cap space in the league and overpay to keep a bunch of our own mediocre/bad starters(Bates, Spain) and quality backups(Hill) and then dumpster dive for replacement level starters(Ifedi) and other team's backups that we're going to try to sell as upgrades(Jewell). It's very difficult for the team to sell the fanbase on going all in for a SB after making it to(at least) the AFCCG with those moves. You only have two guys in that FA that have a chance to start, both would be in dogfights to win a starting job, and one(Ifedi) would be a downgrade from the guy he replaced (Reiff).You lost me at Bates is a mediocre/bad player. No he isn't. He's a very good 24 year old safely.
The focus on this off-season needs to be getting protection for Joe Burrow and the only real chance for any kind of improvement is an FCS T comes in and can immediately adjust to the pro game and play at a high level and allow our replacement level RT to move to RG.
You can't pay a $13 mil FT for a S who is having the worst year of his career and just hope he gets better.
If the difference between Ogunjobi and Hill is $2 mil, you keep Ogunjobi. If you can get Hill in the $3-5 mil range, then you may consider it.
Spain has been solid, but his play has slid since the beginning of the year and he's simply not worth $10 mil/year after one good season when he was begging for a prove it this year.
Jewell has been a backup 3 out of 4 years and he's going to unseat a 3 year starter going into a contract year?
Ifedi is a downgrade from Reiff. We're going to go into the draft worse on paper on the OL than this year?
Reynolds fell to #6 on the Titans depth chart and got cut at his request because he was convinced he could be a starter. He's not coming here to sit behind Chase, Tee, and Boyd. He will go to some team with absolute garbage at WR(likely resign with the Lions) where he can play.
Heyward-Between Bates and Heyward, that's $17 mil wrapped up in DB's on one year deals. That's over 1/4 of our available cap space tied up in DB's that will be FA's again next year. You can get a top tier OL(Brown, Scherff, Armstead) for that kind of '22 cap hit.
I like the draft, except for the idea that Penning can start year 1, but the FA is really tough to get around.
