02-15-2022, 06:21 AM
(02-15-2022, 05:42 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Pitts is making $8.2m/yr
Smith is making $5m/yr
You can say rookie salary, but they're both top-10 picks, so they're making money. Plus obviously the opportunity cost of not being able to use that top-10 1st round pick on another position to improve.
Jonah Williams graded out higher than Darrisaw, and Davis literally played 0 snaps on offense this season. I also don't know what Darrisaw and Davis have to do with Boyd and how he's more productive than you're trying to make him seem.
His pay has nothing to do with the OL. I keep telling you this. There's already more cap space than the Bengals can spend on a new OL. They could sign 3 guys and make each of them the highest paid offensive linemen in NFL history one after another and still have over $10m in cap space. Obviously they're not going to need to do that, but that just goes to show the superabundance of cap space they'll have.
A team shouldn't intentionally get worse at their strength if they have absolutely no need to... and they have absolutely no need to get rid of Boyd right now.
If the Bengals can't fix their OL problem with $72.6m in cap space, then the entire FO needs burned to the ground.
"They could sign 3 guys and make each of them the highest paid offensive linemen in NFL history one after another and still have over $10m in cap space."
This simply reveals that you are not taking into account the amount of players we need to sign and re-sign. There are several posts listing who we lose and what it would take to keep them. I'm not sure what else to tell you but it goes pretty quick.
In order for us to have sustained success - defined by me as being good enough to make a significant playoff run each year - we need players that produce at or above their salary.
I dont think we need any 3 personnel at 10M, wether it be WR3, DE3, DT3, CB3, etc. Especially when our oline is bad enough to threaten us losing Burrow each season.
